smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

signed or been expelled the club could have
sued him for his subscription on the ground
that he had not been properly expelled. His
opinion, then, was that this objection was
valid, and the meeting having been irreguiary
called had no power to expel Mr.. Labouchere
The rule of the club was to the effect that, IN
the event of q member refusing to resign, u
general meeting of the members should be
called, at which it should be competent
for twothirds of those present to expel him.
Now, Mr. Labouchere had stated that therewere
III persons present of whom 115 voted; that
he himself was present but did not vote; that
the number who voted for expulsion was ~.
present ~ were not two-thirds of the number.
The expulsion was therefore irregularly carried.
When the resolution was put to the meeting the
persons present might take one of three courses.


THE QUESTION OF VOTES.


They might vote for or against, or, not wishing
to express positive opinion on the question,
refrain from voting at all. This being so, those
who did not vote might turn the scale in favor
of the accused member. 1t was, therefore, the
first, how many persons were present when the
question was put secondly, how many Of those
present had voted for the resolution. But no
such course was adopted in this instance. 1t
appeared to him, then, that this was also fatal
objection He had had some experience of
clubs. He was aware that when committee
once expressed an opinion there was great ten
dency on the part of the club generally to sup
port that opinion, simply because it was the opin-
ion of the committee That was not unnatural,
because the committee were the governing body
of the club, usually the most active and prOmi-
nent members, and ut a general meeting the
members, assuming that they had made due
inquiry, would consider their opinion entitled
to great weight.


THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG WAY.


But the manner in which the question had
been put by the chairman was in itself
mistake. He ought to have put it thus -
Whether the meeting thought the conduct of
Mr.. Labouchere could properly be held by the
committee as injurious to the welfare and in
terests Of the club. But, unfortunately, he
had not put the question in the right way. He
ought not to have put it a personal mat
ter between themselves and Mr. Labouchere,
but between the club and Mr.. Labouchere,
as to whether, in the opinion Of the COM
mittee, it was well founded that the conduct
of Mr.. Lebouchere had been injurious to
the welfare and interests Of the club. But
being so, it appeared to him that he ought to
make an order, an interlocutory order


On the counsel for the club stating that their
clients were prepared to let the matter end here,
the Master of the Rolls said he would therefore
make a final order emitting Mr.. Labouchere to
judgment of the Court, to be restored to all
rights and privileges of the club, and the costs
of the proceedings. J
Year: 1879

A pooH knob with the Lords prayer
painted on 10 is In the market.-Er.
Well. such knob may work satisfac-
torily in the market. but on the front
door Of the residence OF the man who is
obliged 70 be "down at the office" al
lssst ave nights week. and who always
loses the ksy.hole when he goes home.
such knob would prove u miserable
failure.
Year: 1879

In the following playful manner the
New York Mercury gossips about the ie'
male ears;


The human ear, more than any other
protubcrance, links us with the animal
kingdom. People pay little attention to
the shape and dimensions OF this queer
organ OF sound, yet it is full of character.
Our female friends should look closely to
the ear before giving themselves away,
and males should study well its structure
when the feminine arrangements OF the
hair permits them to do so. The jackass
and the hound have the largest, longest
ears, in proportion to their size and
weight, OF all other animals Of their king.
dom. One is highly sensual. noisy and
combative, and the latter quality he has
transmitted to the mule, which has a
natural antipathy to mankind in Its heel,
while the other is a sneak and coward.
In a human being these qualities are all
combined in persons of long, large flap.
ping ears. There are ears which stand
out fiom the head like those of pointer
dog, and this arises from large or very
large destructiveness, an organ which lies
| lust back of and around them. The own
er of such appendages is always on the
alert for row, and will make things live
y in the domestic circle. The Sing Sing
convict style of young men who have
hair cut close to their craniums enable
sensible girls to investigate that kind of
ear. In the female the ear tells story Of
future bliss or misery in married life.
Sharp eyes denote sharp tempers and a
disposition to slaughter character. They
belong to the gossips of every neighbor.
hood Small ears evince sel6shness and
egotism. Oval ears indicate disposition
which is neither even or uneven, and
round ears corresponding roundness,
and consequent insipidity oftemperament.
The handsomest and most feminine of
ears is that which is slightly and delicate
" curved-pear-sh shaped and of medium
size. As the curved line is the line OF
beauty, that sort of beauty indicates a re-
fined and lovely organization. Perhaps
in the aitertime we may evolute out OF all
connection with the lower animals, just as
the little feathered songsters in a lady's
boudoir seems to have done, whose or
gans of hearing are hidden. As things
now are, it is not probable that the jack
ass entertains private and silent disdain
to our ears, because they are close to- the
head, just as we despise him for his long
appendages.
Year: 1879

Ffom The New York Graphic.


The finest specimen Of Brussels lace is
so complicated as to require the labor of
seven persons on one piece, and each op-
erative is employed at distinct features of
the work. The thread used is of exquls-
itc fneness, which is spun in dark under
ground rooms, where it is sufficiently
moist to keep the thread from separating.
1t is so delicate as scarcely to be seen, and
the room is so arranged that all the light
admitted shall fall upon the work. 1t is
such material that renders the genuine
Brussels lace so costly. On q piece of
Valenciennes, not two inches wide, from
two to three hundred bobbins are some
times used; and for large width as many
as eight hundred.
Year: 1879

TIE Cincinnati Commercial says:


"The fact that the Wabash when it is high is
of the color of gold does not seem to effect or
reflect the public sentiment on its banks"


That the Wabash is on "a high" is al.
ways evidence that spring has brought the
green back to its banks.
Year: 1879

The Wilmington team that went
down yesterday to Delaware City to
play the croquet team of that town for
the championship Of the State, met the
enemy and became theirs most beauti-
fully. Six games were played, all won
by the Delaware City team and the
Wilmington team was whitewashed
four times. The Wilmington players
did not bring the champion belt home
with them this time, but they expect
to play the Delaware City team series
of five games in this city, the time for
which has not yet been selected, but so
far as the championship of the State is
concerned that honor will remain with
the Delaware City team for the present,
they having already gained Elk out OF
the eleven games proposed to be played.
Year: 1879

John Bowers was arraigned before
Squire Hagany last evening, on the
charge of keeping tippling house and
selling liquor without license.


One witness testified that he had
bought beer in Bowers place, and
carried it home in a tin kettlo and
drank it.


This evidence the Squire decided
suflicientto prove violation of the
city ordinance against tippling houses
and he imposed fine of 800 and costs.


The defendant appealed from this
decision and will carry the case to
court to test the question as to what
constitutes a tippling house under the
ordinance which contemplates the
drinking of the liquor son or near the
premises.


On the charge of selling without Ii
cense Bowers was held in $500 bail for
court.
Year: 1879

The Shields Library Association
chartered a car and delegation of
about thirty, James F. Early, Marshall,
left this city therein for the purpose of
attending the funeral Of the third vic
tim of the recent railroad disaster, at
New Castle. High mass was celebrated
in St. Peters R. c. church at that place
at 10 o'clock. The delegation will re-
turn to this city at LIS. The society
will engross a set Of resolution and will
present this to the family of the deceas-
ed at an early date.
Year: 1879

The new telegraph company, the
Central Union which erected wires in
this city during the summer, has now
completed its connections with all the
principal cities Of the Union and will
probably open an Office in this city
about the 18th Of the present month.
Year: 1879

Gathering behind them. As for the al
legged front-gate exploit, it must have
been a large gate that held a King, q
Princess, and two Cabinet Ministers,
and in the circumstances we can but
regard the gate-swinging as prOsaic
failure. Nevertheless, Alfonso has had
a little experience of real courtship, and
in that respect he is far in advance of
any other King of modern times.


But, alasl the good young Queen Mer-
cedes died, and Alfonso had not even the
poor privilege of mourning her and re-
naming constant to her memory. His
advisers tell him that he must marry,
provided he intends to carry on the bust
ness of a reigning monarch, and he
neekly obeys them. There remain to
him only few days in which he can
smoke quietly in the front parlor, and
can 90 to bed with consoling pipe.
Before very long the Prime Minister will
say: Please your Majesty, the Arch
duchess has arrived, and you must bear
up and be married like a man. After
all, her nose isn't as bad as it might be,
and she has only two brothers" And
the poor young King viii meekly go to
the altar, envying the lackey that opens
his coach-doOr, and who can court the
third assistant chambermaid when,
where, and how it may please him.
Nel0 York Times.
Year: 1879

In an article on the Russian peasantrv
the MoEUG observes that the chief peas
ant in a village sometimes has more
power than any man in the Empire ex-
cept the Czar. He has the power, for
instance, of ordering a culprit to be
fiogged, right which is denied bv law
to any other public functionary or citi-
zen in the Empire. Further, a majority
of the peasants in a commune can SEN
tence one of their number to be beaten
with sticks, and there is no appeal
against the sentence, and the commune
can still sentence a man to banishment
to Siberia for life. This sentence has
been passed for such petty offenses as
stealing a handkerchief or a little honey,
or opening a brandy shop without the
permission of the commune. In the
Government of Samara a man was SEN
fenced to be banished, together with his
family. Shortly after, however, the
Senate, to whom the case was referred,
decided that the man should be per-
mitted to remain in his village, on the
ground that his health would not permit
of his going TO Siberia. The case of the
mans wife, however, was not consid-
cred; and the sentence was carried out,
so lar as she was concerned, though she
was innocent of any crime, and had been
directed to go to Siberia merely in or
der that she should not be separated
from her husband.
Year: 1879

A few days ago, says the Lockhaven
(Pa.) Democrat, while Mr.. w. II. Hig-
gins, living about two and half miles
from Remove, on the dividing ridge be-
tween Paddy's and Druid's Run, was
working in his field making hay, he saw
an animal in distant part of the field
making off with a hen. He thought it
fox, and called the attention of his
son George, a lad of fourteen, to it


George is fond of hunting, and, getting
his gun, he started off for the fox, ac-
companied by his five-year-old brother
and a hound. They had not been gone
long when Mr.. Higgins heard several
continuous yells of the most terrible
kind. The animal had been treed by
the dog, and its half-human shrieks rent
the air with terrible distinctness, like the
shrill, agonized voice of a woman in
dire distress. The excited father and
his field hands at once made for the
point whence came these foreboding
sounds, and ere they had reached the
spot they met George dragging huge
female panther, measuring five feet one
inch in length, and standing two feet
high. The boys had followed the dog
to big tree, up which the panther had
gone about siXty-five feet When the
eldest lad saw the animal, crouched and
glaring above, he felt that it was either to
be a dead panther or a death-struggle


between it and himself and little brother


He was good shot generally, but here
was to be the severest test his young eye
and nerves had ever been put to, and
one that might well have tried an older
and stouter hunter. He drew the bead
and fired, feeling, as he did so, he says,
as if he had been lifted clear off his feet


But there was the hungry brute yet,
crouching on the limb, its eyes fairly fit
to burst in there malignant glare. Bang
went the gun of our brave young hunter
just as the panther sprang. 1t seemed,
said the lad, as though the animal sprang
out from tho tree about % feet, then
came straight down, lighting on the dog
about 16 feet from the boys. The young
hunter again thought he had missed.
Clubbing his gun he advanced upon the
brute to strike it, but it rolled over dead
before he could do so. Examination
proved that his first shot had struck
about four inches back of the heart, the
last one in the heart. 1t was bravely and
well done, and but for the steady nerve
and true aim of the lad he and his little
brother would doubtless have fallen vic
Tins to the animals ravenOus hunger.
Year: 1879

The Chicago Times says: Mr.. o. P.
Hathaway, of No. LOOP West Madison


Street, has connected his place of busi-
ness with his residence and two other
localities with a new kind of telephone
which for short distances has several
points of superiority over those of Gray
and Bell, the chief point being economy.
On Mr.. Hatheway's invitation, a Times
reporter inspected his telephones and
found that they were capable of being
very useful. A hole six inches in diam
eter is in piece of board, and a piece
of drum-head is well wetted and secure
ly fastened to the edges of this hole. An
old-fashiOned copper cent is laid on the
center of the drum-head and wire is
fastened to the cent, or metallic button,
or whatever it may be, and passed
through the parchment, which is then
allowed to dry with the board lying hori-
zontal, and heavy weight attached to
the wire. The weight draws the wet
parchment out into funnel shape,
which it retains when dry. The board
is then set up perpendicularly and the
line wire is. connected with the metallic
button. As the sound is conveyed not
by electric waves but by the vibration of
the wire, the line wire must be drawn as
tight rs possible, and the freer it is from
turns the better. 1t is supported by
loops of twine or wire through which it
is run. The signal is given by rapping
on the board. The speaker then stands
in front of the drum-head funnel, but
need not stand very close to it, and talks.
The air waves started by his voice are
taken up by the drum-head, transmitted
to the wire, and delivered at the other
end with great faithfulness. 1t isn't
necessary to put ones ear to an orifice
and listen attentiyely. Any one within
few feet of the receiver can hear, and
under favorable conditions Mr.. Hathe-
way has heard remarks coming over the
wire when standing dozen feet away.
The voice sounds as if coming out of a
long and large speaking tube. The
largest line Mr.. Hathaway has is 800
feet He is confident that these tele-
phones are good for mile, and are
available at a distance of two miles when
there is no wind. This device is not his
invention, and there is no patent on it.
1t has no battery or mechanism, and is
subject to no rent or royalty. tits capa-
BILE of doing good service between a
mans home and his store or Office when
not too far away, or between an office
and shop or yard, or between a drug
store and the residence of physicians,
and it possesses the great merit of being
quite inexpensive.
Year: 1879

Soft Soap; Twenty pounds of pure
grease to "A pounds of potash viii make
a clean fish-barrel full; dissolve it in
water in brass kettle over the fire; put
the grease in the barrel; first pour the
solution Of potash over the grease, and
stir it with a stick; let it stand q hours,
then pour a pail Of cold water in the
barrel and stir it thoroughly; let it
stand u hours, and as it thickens add a
pail of cold water and stir again, and
add water every u hours and stir until
the barrel is full. In cold weather we
use warm water. Be particular to have
the barrel tight, as lye will leak through
where water will not. A barrel viii not
answer more than twice, as the lye de-
strOys it.
Year: 1879

A FARMER has experimental with ma
nure taken from his barn-cellar under
cover and exactly the same kind of ma
nure dropped just outside the cellar and
of course exposed to the weather. The
crop from the former was just about
double that from the latter.-LOiCeH
No7gy5er
Year: 1879

PROF. GRANT ALLEN believes that
the food of birds has much to do with
the plainness or beauty of their plumage,
and recalls the fact that the dingy
crows who feed upon carriOn are first
cousins to the beautiful birds-Of-para-
disc who live upon highly colored and
delicious tropical fruits. 1t is equally
true, and has been more often re-
marked, that a persons complexion IS
made better or worse by their selection
of food.
Year: 1879

AS compared with 1877, there is an
increase in English pauperism Of s per
cent, and as compared with 1873 of 9
per cent. The increase has been gen
eral all over the country, and is likely to
be greater
Year: 1879

The statement is made that very sup
erior iron for steel rail manufacture has
for some time past been produced from
ores-chiefy magnetic-obtained from
Diilsburg, Pa, Staten Island and New
Jersey.


In carrying out this process large
pearshaped vessels called converter, is
employed, suspended on trunions similar
to gun on its carriage, and provided
with hydraulic machinery TO move it In
vetcal arc, or to turn it nearly upside
down, that the molten liquid can be
pourd out of its mouth when the process
is completed. After heating the converter
ltseif TO an intense heat, a charge of iron
about twelve thousand pounds, previously
metel In an ordinary cupola, and accur-
ately weighed, is run into it by cutters.
blast Of air is then force through The
mass, through tuyeres at pressure of
about fiji cen pounds to the squar inch.


The first action of the blast in the con-
weston of the silicium into silicic acid,
which unites with the oxide of iron for
med to produced Stag the graphic
carbon is then transformed into chemi-
cally combined carbon; very high
temperature is produce. chiefly by the
combustion Of silicium and iron; and,
in about ten minutes time, the carbon
becomes oxidized by the action of Il 9
blast, and she flames which is issuing,
I, ON the mouth Of the converter gives
the characteristic blush violet color of
carbonic oxide. When completed decar-
bonization has taken place the fame
suddenly drops, when the vessel is im-
mediately turned down and the blast
shut off.


After all the carbon and silicium have
been burnt out, malleable wrought iron
is the result. which is subsequently con-
verted into steel by the addition of
certain percentage Of spiegelelsen, which
removes all surplus oxygen and gives the
necessary hardness.
Year: 1879

In relation to the Mexican railroad


contract with which John NJ. Dunn is
connected, it is said that he is in hopes Of
getting other parties to take hold Of the


work, in place Of the Wilmington parties
who recently threw up the Job.
Year: 1879

This morning, a young man was ar
raigned before the Mayor, on the charge
of Stealing a watch from coal dealer OF
this city. The watch was returned 10 the
owner and the accused was held in the
sum of $500 bail for his appearance at the
next term of court.
Year: 1879

The czar and the czarovitch are reported
to be quarrelling The latter refused to
obey his fathers wish that he should accom-
pany him to the German golden wedding.
Alexander then conveyed second invita-
ton to his son in the form of an order given
through general. The messenger found
his persuasions in vain, and at last told the
czarovitch that his persistent refusal might
throw the suffering czar upon the sick bed
In his excitement the grand duke is said to
have exclaimed, 'sAfter all it would be better
if the czar were on the sick bed than that
Russia should be So" This was a
good time for the czar to have had the
czarovitch spanked and put to bed.
Year: 1879

THE editorial article from the Somerset
Reporter, given elsewhere, is the ablest and
clearest statement of the situation at the
State Prison that has been published. By
it the people will see that the Republican
administration of the Prison has at least
been as wise and frugal as the management
of the institution under Democratic control.
The outcry against Warden Rice is simply
dictated by partisan malignity, and is in no
way justified by the facts.
Year: 1879

THE Boston Herald pertinently suggests
that at is singular fact that some of the
Southern philanthropists who now express
grave doubts about the fitness of the Kansas
climate for negroes, believed twenty years
ago that it was very suitable for them. We
cannot understand it, unless freedom has
made the negro sensitive to the cold.'
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publica
ton but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used
Year: 1879

A Bangor correspondent of the Boston Sunday
Herald announces that Immediately after the Ring
nomination is made, the Belfast journal will go over
to the Ring, bag and baggage.-Bangor Commercial.


If our neighbor thinks that means the ring
which the Greenbackers have put into the
noses of many former Democrats, and by which
the Commercial is being led in strangely incon-
sistent ways, it is in error The ring which
the Journal believes in is the ring of honest
money, for circulation among the people. II
went over to that in 1874, and proposes to stick
to the principle and its logical results -Belfas
Journal
Year: 1879

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley I.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials OF every person claiming to represent
oil