smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

a HINT TO LADIEs.--It is dis.
tinguishing characteristic of cult
waited woman to adorn and beautify
her person. In proportion as she
becomes refined or debased, she pays
more or less regard to her personal
appearance. The love of admira.
ton is, as it ought TO be, strong in
every wOman'S nature, and hence it
is that the decoration of her person
is slways regarded as OF paramount
Importance. The three most beau
tiful things on earth are women,
children and fiowerS-each equally
by nature pure and attractive.
Woman knows she is beautiful, she
loves to be admired by man eEdeav
ors to render herself as attractive as
possible to mans ewes, ana therefore
it is that she avails herself of all the
benitits of dress and ornaments.
Woman is gifted By natnre with
great natural attractions. Her COM
pleXion is, if not ruined by paint
ane powder, fair and delicate, her
hair abundant and lustrous. and
her form the very perfection of grace
and loveliness. Woman's chief or
nament is her hair. Nomatter how
reg, lar the contour of the features
may be-how lustrous the eye
how sweet the voice or graceful the
form, if the hair be not soft, glossy
and beautiful, the chiefattraction is
wanting. \ lady rem arkable for
the beauty of her hair, remarked in
our hearing the other day, that she
owed to the moderate and constant
use of "Barrctt's Hair restorative
a deep obligation, for by it she had
become locally famous for the abun-
dance and lustre of her hair. Using
it constantly ourselves we can add
our testimony that as n dressing
and restorative combined Barrett's
is superior to any Hair Preparation
we have ever used. 1t is reasona-
bile in price, too, costing only one


dollar for a large bottle full of mix
ture.-CncindtH Sunday Globe.
Year: 1868

WHAT IT WOULD Do.-"Give me
the money that has been spent in
rum, and / will purchase every foot
of the ground on the globe. ] will
clothe every man woman and child
in an attire that kings and queens
might be proud OF, l will build
sckool-house upon every hillside and
in every valley over the whole earth.
J will supply that school house with
competent teacher. l will build
an academy in every town and en-
dow it college in every state,
and fill it with ablo professors. l
will crown every hill with a church
concsccrated to the gospel Of peace,
and support in its pulpit ar able
teacher Of rigbteouness so that on
every Sabbath morDig, the chime
on one hill shall answer to the
chime on another aronnd the earth's
broad circumference, and the voice
of prayer and the song of praise
shall ascend as one universal offer
ing to heaven"


This is no voice of enthusiasins
but simple utteranee Of what is
literally true and practicable, such as
any one can see who will consult
facts and history.


Pass it round, then, ye lovers of
temperance, and let the people see
where the money goes to that might
feed the hungry, clothe the naked,
and give to all nations the bread of
life. Pass it round, and let all see
that intemperance wastes more, by
untold millions, than ambition grasps
or avaricc coyets: and they that
find fault with our benovlence, or
our social organizations, let them
learn that the social disorganizations
crimes and miseries, which intemper-
ance produces are thousand fold
more extensive and grvieous to be
born.
Year: 1868

THE Register Of the Land Office received
telegram from Washington, am \ouncing
that even sections Of land along ths line Of
the Central Pacific and Western Pacific
Railroads have been restored, and ale now
open for pre'emption and homestead yet
tiers.
Year: 1868

To MAKE Ivory VERY SoFT AND TRANS.
rARENr.-Ivory may be rendered soft and
transparent as follows:


Small pieces of ivory are laid in strong
phosphoric acid until they become transpar-
ent, then rinsed in water and dried in pure
linen. When dry it is transparent and hard.
but softens as it is dipped in warm water or
milk. The time Of immersion in the acid
differs with different pieces Of ivory. II GER
tain parts are to retain their original char
acter, they are covered with varnish be.
fore immersion. The acid probably acts by
forming an acid phosphate which constitutes
three fourths of ivory. The process Of hard
ening ivory which has become friable by
age, so that it will be restored to its original
state OF hardness, consists in boiling it some
time in a solution of gelatin.
Year: 1868

EpIroR> SENTINEL: Gentleman I'll see
III y"nr paper, that YOU notice the fact that
a negro Masonic Lodge has been establish.
ed in this city. " undcr d.pensation from
The Grand Lodge oI New York"


In order that those who read your paper
may not be deceived, | beg leave 10 state
that the Grand Lodge ot New York does
not recognize negro Lodges and in the
second place, the Grand Lodge nor the
Grand Master OF New York would presume
TO srapt dispeusation 10 either white or
black MasOns TO organize lodges outside Of
that State.


The Grand Secretary Of the Grand Lodge
Of New York, with whom have the honor
Of personal acquaintance, in letter ad-
dressed to brother Mason in this State,
Year: 1868

Lightning, like light, furnishes another
wonderful succession Of marvels. How
delicate, how subtle 1t performs its work
sometimes with scarcely touch. 1t is a
most extravagant idea to compare the
causes of thunder and the effects of lightn-
ing to the noise and effects of cannon and
cannon ball we are face to face with an
essentially superior force. 1t mi ght be said
that it constitutes transition between this
one aud better one I; in fact, it is really
subject to transcendental laws which our
weak intelligence cannot grasp.


Bodies have been killed repeatedly by
lightning, and they have not given the
slightest trace of any wound or scar, no
slight touch of burn or a confusion, no
hint of the way by which the bird sprang
from its confinement. Delicate and most
subtle, we have said, has often been its work
Think of it melting bracelet from a
lady's wrist, yet leaving the wrist untouch-
ed /; think of it melting instantly air of
crystal goblets suddenly without breaking
them. Arago tells how the lightning one
day visited the shop of a Suabian cobbler,
did not touch the artizan, but magnetized
all his tools. One can we'll imagine the
immense dismay of the poor fellow his
hammer, pinccrs and awl attracted the
needles, pins, tacks and nails, and caused
them to adhere firmly to the tools The
amazed shoemaker thought that every
thing in the shop was suddenly bedevilled,
or else that he was dreaming.


And there are several well authentica-
ted cases like this, showing that iron can
be rendered magnetic by the electric cur
rent. We read of merchant of Wake
field, who had placed in corner Of his
room a box of knives and forks, and iron
tools, destined to be sent to the colonies !;
in came the lightning, struck open the
box, spread all the articles on the floor,
and it was found, when they were picked
up, that every one had acquired new por-
perties-that they had all been affected
by the subtle touch of the current Some
remained intact, others were melted, but
they had all been rendered more or less
magnetic, so that there was not a single
nail In the box but might have served the
purpose Of mariners compass.
Year: 1868

A correspondent ofthe Scientific Amer
icdn gives this advice to horsemen:-
Whenever they notice their horse direct
ing his cars to any point whatever, or
indicating the slightest disposition to be-
come afraid, let them, instead of pulling
the rein to bring the horse towards the
object causing its nervousness, pull it on
the other side. This will instantly divert
the attention of the horse from the object
which is exciting his suspiscons, and in
ninety-nine cases out of hundred the
horse will pay no more attention to the
object, from which he will fly away if
forcibly driven to it by pulling the wrong
rein.
Year: 1868

| The Printing Bureau of the Treasury


Department is now actively engaged in


printing the tax-paid stamps for distilled


spirits, IN accordance with the new rev.


enue law. The stamps are about five in


ches square, with handsome vignette


representing the reaping of grain, and are


made OF ten different denominations, from


twenty to one hundred and thirty. Each


denomination of stamps has nine coupons


attached, so that these ten stamps will an


sWer Tor any number of gauged gallons,


between those numbers. They are bound
In books, with stamps attached to each


stamp, like bankers checks, and being
charged for their full value to the collector


he gets credit for all unused coupons re-
naming in the book on its return and
thus operates as check upon the collec-
tor, preventing fraud either by collusion
or otherwise. The method by which re-
use, or the use second time, of the stamp
is prevented is new and ingenious. The
stamp is pierced with large hole in the
centre, which is covered by thinner pa
per before printing. After it is printed
and attached to the barrel it cannot be
soaked off and reused, as the beer stamps
have been, because the stamp will come
oft in two pieces, which, from their pecu-
liar construction, cannot again be united
on another barrel The stamp is perman-
emily dcfaccd by any attempt to remove
it. One popularity of the stamp is that
it cannot be printed except by what is
known as the dry process, by hydrostatic
power SO that the stamps cannot, in the
present state of the art, be printed any
where but in the Treasury Department
This effectually prevents countcrfeitiug.
The stamps, as well as the paper upon
which they are printed, were invented by
Mr.. S. Nj. Clark, Chief of the Prin ting
Bureau.
Year: 1868




The Philadelphia penitentiary being
an institution designed for separate or
solitary confinement, there are no large
machine or workshops, no factories, no
moving gangs Of workmen convicts. The
labor is all performed in the cells. Those
engaged in chair making, shoemaking
weaving, jobbing, or what not, work in
their own cells-eat there, drink there,
sleep there. They never move out of
them. Their days labor over, the dirt,
scraps and shayings are swept in barrels
or baskets, and removed by carriers. Of
the poor fellows themselves you see moth
ing. Outside workmen are employed to
do what ever is required about the place
The prisoners are sedulously secluded in
their rooms, and the visitor is not permit
ted even to view them. They are shut
off from the outside world as completely
as it dead. Their very names are obli-
terated they are known only by num-
bers. That is the extent of their in
dividuality. OF relatives or friends they
see but little. Once in a period of three
months an inspectors pass admits a wife
or mother to conference with her
criminal though loved one, and even then
such are the precautions of the prison
discipline, that they meet and talk only
through the bars of cell-door, and in
the presence of an officer of the institu-
ton. Poor satisfaction for the lips that
moisten for kiss, for the heart that
yearningly throbs for an embrace Eff
teen or twenty minutes also is the brief
time allowed for the meeting. There are
in the institution at the present time
somewhat over 600 couyicts.
Year: 1868

The Worcester Spy writes the follow
ing epitaph for headstone, which will
be wanted before the next snow falls:


Here Lies.
Without hope of Resurrection,


All that remains of


American Democracy


(falsely SO called).
Her appalling crime was to have sacrificed


x million Lives
And Many Thousand Millions of Treasure
In tiendish struggle to pcrpetuate
The accursed system of


American Slavery.
In the presence of this one enormity
1t would be mockery to utter


The name of any


Virtue.
Year: 1868

IT clouds are necessary to produce
rain, sunshine is an essential to tho
formation OF dow. A dewy morning
only follows day whose sun has well
warmed up tho Garth. II is necessary
that the hoat should readily radiute
into tho surrounding atmosphere by
night. When the surface of tho oartI
thus cools down moro rapidly than
tho incumbent air about it, and when
the air, is saturated with moisture
then, by the contact of temperatures
tho mir becomes unable TO retain its
moisture, and yields its sprays and
vapors TO 10 shaped by n natural law
the same which rounded the world
out of chaos and orbed the universe
and then what was invisible bccome es
visible in drops Of settling dow. So,
whenever dow is seen to fall, there
must first have been n flowing down
of sunshine in the day, and then q
responsive current Of warmth Uprising
in tho night, toward tho region
whence it oame. The earth receives
and yet returns the heat the heavens
gave, and MS if to reward such graft
tude, the dow desconds to refresh and
gladdcn its besecching and thankful
breast.


So, when peoples hearts ere hard
and dry, and desolato, it may bo be-
cause they lack responsiveness to
heavens gifts-for want of gratitude
for tho light and privilege which have
shone upon them all their days.
Teachers, if they would SEQ their
classes bright and happy, and parents,
if they would havo glowing summer
in their homes, and have young hearts
themselves, should be open.souIed and
thankful, and tca"h tho children how
to be grateful for daily blessings
Then would sun.warmth from tho
better world be taken in through the
gauze of form, and task, and habit,
and fashion then, because each heart
would be flower instead of flint, grass
instead of granite, fruit instead OF
fossil; then would the poarly dew
drops of glory glitter oil over a school
and oil through faulty, like an i'm
mortal morning.-Reu. Il. Clark.
Year: 1868

Tie whole success of farmor hin
gcs upon timoly attention to little
things. This, mainly, mukcs the diff
teret.ce between thrift and poverty.
Tho philosophy of SUCCESS it express
Cd in that old adagc, "For want of n
nail shoe was lost, for want of a
shooa horse was lost, for want of n
horse man was lost" 1t is n little
thing to keep accounts of pccuniary
transactions upon tho farm. A half
hour Saturday evening would enable
most farmers 10 know just how they
stand with tho world. Yet, wo sus.
poet, half of the men who cultivate
tue soil never make an entry in tho
book, and for tho want of this the
account runs up fearfully at the store
and many articles Of luxury arc pur.
chased for which they arc unable to
pay at tho end of the year. Debt
accun.uIatcs, tho farm is mortgaged,
and finally lost, for tho want of q
litllo paper and ink. 1t is a liltlo
thing TO put up tool in its place when
not it in use, Yet many have no tool
house or place of shelter FIR any i'm
pIcmcct or vehicle. Things are left
where last used, tho plow in tho fold
tho cart iL tho yard, tho chains IN
the stable, and harness IL tho wood
house, the ax at tho wood-pilo, and
the rukcs in tho corn.criL. Many do
not even house tho expensive implo-
mems they have bought, and roapcrs
and thrashols are treated like old
plows and harrows. The parts made
OF iron aud steel grow rusty, aud the
wood decays. A machine that is
good for thirty years with proper
care, is used up in fvo by abuse. 1t
is n very little thing to turn u nut
when it is loose. Yet for want of
tightening the nut is lost; tho bolt
comes out; and tho loaded wagon
breaks down on the road 10 market,
and.n wlo'o days time for man and
team is lost 1t is a little thing to
keep horse properly groomod; yet
for The want of clan fetlocks the
skin craks aud the horse is lame, and
the owner looses the nse of him for
months or weeks. Ventilation is a
small affair; yot for the want of it
the health OF stock in stables suffers
severely, and disease sets in. II is
small affair to provide good use at tho
beginning of the year; but the whole
success of tho season depends upon it


1t is an easy thing u deal fairly
with your neighbors, AMI make
name that is better than "precious
ointment" Many cheat on small oc-
casions; do not deliver what thoy
sell, and get reputation for moan
ness that stands in the way of their
success.
Year: 1868

The Hartford Cosfrdnt tells this story +:
" In 1851 lady in Hartford presented
her husband with cluster diamond pin,
which he wore until May last, when, on
New Haven steamboat, he either lost
it or 1t was stolen from him. A few
days since the lady, Wishing to replace
the loss by another, visited the store
where the former one was purchased, sud
was struck with the similarity between
one shown her and her former purchase.
A close examination convinced her of its
identity, and a search into its history
proved 1t to be in reality the same pin
lost seven years ago. 1t was found on
the boat by watehmsn, who sold 1t to
one of the employees Of the boat, who took
1t to diamond setter in New Haven to
haveit changed into ring. The jeweler
substituted another stone in its place,
sold the pin to a pswnbroker, and it
finally returned to the jeweler who sold
IL, and who has willingly surrendered 1t
to its true owner.
Year: 1868

pafishin the state bsing entitled to as least
one representative. A CENSUS Of the state
by state authority shall be taken in the year
eighteen hundred and seventy-fve, and
every ten years thereafter. In case Of in :
fOrmslity, omission, or error in the census
returns from any parish or election district,
the general assembly may order new cen
sus taken in such parish or election district;
but until the state census Of eighteen
hundred and seventy FIVE, the appOrtion-
ment of the state shall be made on the
basis of the census of the United States for
the year eighteen hundred and seventy.


ART. q. The general assembly, at the
first session after the making of each emu
meration, shall apportion the representation
amongst the several parishes and represen-
tative districts, on the basis Of the total
nopuiation, as aforesaid. A representative
humber shall be fixed, and each parish and
representative district shall have as many
representatives as the number of its total
population will entitle it to have; and an
additional representative for any fraction
exceeding one-half OF the representative
number. The number Of representatives
shall never exceed one hundred and twen-
ty, nor be less than ninety. .....


ART. %. Until an apportionment shall be
made in accordance with the provisions oi
article 20, the representation in the senate
and house of representatives shall be as
follows;
Year: 1868

FACTS ABovI CoLoRs.--There are
many little arts which may be used
about colored clothes when washing
them, which tend TO keep look OF
newness as long as they are worn. -
These are some Of them: A spoon.
full Of OK gall to a gallon of water will
settle the colors of almost any goods
soaked in IL previous to washing. A
teacup OF lye in pal. of water will
improve the color of black goods
Nankin should lay In lye before 1t Ii
washed, as IL sets the color. A strong
clean tea of common hay will pre-
serve the color of French linHens.--
Vinegar In the rinsing water, fol
pink or green calicoes. will brighten
them. Soda answers the same end
for both purple and blue. Na6
Year: 1868

Fashion Is going to put on extra
twist on the. wedding present nui-
sance. It's given out that ut all the
weddings next winter, the BRIDE
groom Will expect to be remembered
as well as the bride, At this rate
wGdaing Invitations will soon ba
dreaded as much as the plague,
Year: 1868

The mercantile houses whose cards compose
this column are carefully selected from the lead
ing firms in Chicago AZ those whese extensive
operations AM widespread reputation entitle
them to the first rank In commerce. The busi-
ness cards of these establishments in their several
trades have been classified in alphabetical order


forming q comprehensive synopsis of business
Year: 1868

CRoAREH.-Thero are some peo-
pie who are opposed to Radical rule,
with all It's undesirable horrors,
that will not lend their efforts TO pre-
vent it, on the ground that Il is in
evitablc. This is not true. No effort
has yet been made by the Conserva-
tives to carry the State. Their first
attempt Is to be made in the ap-
preaching election, which they can
carry II they will use proper efforts.
There Is no official report showing
that the freedmen have a registered
majority in the State; and IL they
have, there Is no reason TO believe
that q considerable number Of them
will not vote with the Conservatives
against the proposed constitution, if
proper means are taken to instruct
them in reference to is odious Ca
tures.-Cldrion.
Year: 1868




A gentleman from the neighborhood Of
Garbage, Tenn, gives us some particulars
connected with the recent discovery of 3
robbers cave on the river bank, few miles
distant from that place, which have not
hceu hitherto published. IIo says the dis
c very was fic,t made by a party Of small
boys, who we're bathing or fishing on the
bauS OF tho river opposite the cave. Their
attention was attracted by seeing baskets
lowered by means Of ropes from the rocks
above. When they observed this, the chill
drsn concealed themselves and patiently
watched for further developments. The
baskets continued to ascend aud descend,
and finally when hight was nearly come,
a suspicious looking man came out Of the
cave got into ono of tho baskets, and was
drawn to tho top Of tho precipice. That
night the boys impaired this information
to men in the neishborhood, and early the
next morning the place was besieged by
persons anxious to learn something further
about this most extraordinary place. Most
Of these persons were armed and ready for
any sort Of Wild al yonturg. Upon removing
pile Of old logs, large opening ia the
rocks was discovered, and into this place q
party of the men at once venturod to go,
while others remained outside on watch.
Those who went In found that tho opening
led into Oh immense cave, Of the existence
Of which nothing was previously known by
the honest people ia that locality. This
cavern the men explored but a short dis
tanco until they came 10 point which had
evidently been used as a human habitation,
aud, horrible us it may seem, was still the
home of human creature. After finding
few articles Of clothing, some washing
utensils, a couple Of fine bed-quilts, mat
tress, and three or four old guns, they were
startled by the groans Of human voice,
coming from a dark recess In the cavern.


The men determined upon sitting the
mystery to its very bottom, went with q
light in tho direction of the sound, aud
who can Imagine their horror upon finding
the emaciated and almost lifeless form of a
man stretched upon heap Of straw, aud
securely tied with ropes. lie was immedl
ately taken from his terrible prison-house,
and conveyed to the residence of Mr.. Owen
Loug, three miles distant from the cave,
where he was at once provided with medi-
cal attention, and the nourishments his
condition required As yet 1t has not been
possible to get from him the awful secret of
his grsve-like prison house. He speaks but
little, and appears to be either unable or
unwilling to give any further account than
Is above furnished. Other developments
are anxiously looked for, and when re eceived
shall be speedily laid before our rea1ers.--
NdShriHe GdEete, 25h uR.
Year: 1868

the national heart. But they will not be sup
pressed if Prince Hal does not forswear East
cheap and Jack Falstaff, and live very cleaEly
when he comes to the palace. They are the
inevitable questions of an epoch of photo
graphs and general suffrage and books by the
Year: 1868

sHREwD Southern editor says &c The pop
ularity of Seymour and Blair is something like
the fever and ague-it cannot be found in any
place where particular inquiry is made for it. In
the settlements where the shakes are supposed
to have Judgement. the people inform the in
quirers that they do have them there, but the
inhabitants of another place which they desig-
nate have them lawfully. So Eastern Demo-
Gratis declare that their ticket, though not strong
here, has great popularity in the West and the
Western Democrats, while confcssing to Demo-
cratic disappontments in that section, say that
their ticket will run well in the East
Year: 1868

IT is very plain that San Francisco Frenchmen
are not good Democrats this year. There are
about two thousand of them in that city, but to
a recent call TO organize a Democratic club only
thirteen responded