smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

CURIOUS If TRuE.-The most pow
erful telescopes present the moon so
far off that only the larger objects can
be seen. But photograph here gives
Us some assistance. Such picture
presents all the minutest details, and
these can be magnitied by powerful
microscope. The latter may magnify
many millions oftimes. Now placing
a minute section of such moon photo
graph under such a microscope. there
appears no obstacle to our penetrating
all the mysteries OF the moon, even
down to the smallest rabbit, init; were
il not for the unfortunate fact Chat
the smoothest surface known to science
becomes so rough under the micro
scope as to obliterate all Photographic
impressions there may he on it. Ma
ture must supply. or art be able to
furnish, some surface that will remain
smooth under the microscope. and that
material is the object now to be found.
A French scientist thinks lie has OBJ
tanned it 10 the silk like floss of the
common milkweed, reduced by a
chemical solvent to pulp, and then
manufactured into paper. 1t has
answered every purpose, and first
copy taken BY the camera afforded
undeniable proof that the moon is in
mhited by Il queer race, that need
neither air nor water to preserve life.
But owing to the fact that the photo
graph was taken when the moon was
full. the inhabitants presented an ap-
peaance of flies on the ceiling, so that
nothing could he seen Of them but the
crown OF their heads.
Year: 1874

The Professor of Natural Philosophy
in certain college recently gave the
class problem to think Of during the
night, and answered the next day.
Tie question was this; IF a hole
were bored through the center of the
earth. from side TO side, and a ball
dropped into it, what motions would
the ball pass through. and where
would it come to u state ofrcsts" The
next morning a student was called up
to solve the problem. "What answer
have YOU to give to the question:"
asked the professor. "Well. really"
replied the student, II have not
thought OF the main question, but ofa
preliminary one. How are you going
to get that hole bored through?"
Year: 1874

We hear a great deal about the
necessity for cheap labor, and we
are told that the prosperity Of ag.
ricultural and manufacturing inter
ests depend upon it. Cheap labor
is another name for poor and in.
efficient labor, and this can be ap-
piled only to coarse and cheap
products. What is really wanted
is skillul labor, and it may he
cheap even if it is called dear.
Merchants and business men uD-
drrstand this we'll enough, for they
can afford to pay a good salesman
or manager high wages, while they
cannot afford to have poor ones at
any price. Farmers, however;csm
little about skilled labor: all they
want is that it shall be cheap, and
when they run behind they demand
as remedy that labor shall be
cheaper still.
Year: 1874

A New Hampshire flrner's wife
fell into a well, and it was four days
before he missed her. and made search.
He said lie thought the house unusually
quiet, but he didn't know what made
II So
Year: 1874

The first parallel had been opened and
a preaching battery was IN position.
During night attack on the Union
works the rebels succeeded in driving
the men from their position. and Spik.
ing the guns in tie battery. This was
a Serious check, as the rebel sharp
shooters. in ritle-pits, etfectually stop
ped further progress by the engineer
inc corps. One Of the spiked guns, a
200 FOUNDER Parrot, completely raked
the rife. pits, and it was Of the utmost
importance that it should be brought
into action. In hisdiliiculty the Chief
OF Ordnance called tor orvolunteers to re-
store the piece to service 10 do this
it was necessary to mount the cannon
and drill ont the spike obstructing the
vent while the foe were diligently try
ing to pick off
Year: 1874

From his perch. As no one seemed
ambitious to undertake the venture,
Colonel Mordecai applied to Stray,
WHO, besides being a skilled machinist.
had given proof of unusual GOODNESS
and daring. At the request of the
Colonel he inspected the gun, but
the shower of bullets which greeted
his his appearance was not calculated to
encourage him, and he reported that
he did not think one could live long
enough en- aI; ION on thee the cannon to unspike It.
WITHOUT trying TO influence him
against his inclinations, the Colonel
replied that if he were willing to make
the attempt and should be killed he
(the Colonel would see that bis family
were provided for. This promise de-
cided Stray. At nightfall he went
forth
Year: 1874

She will be of some use in the world,
she will cook her own food, will earn
a living and will not die an old maid.
The coming girl will not wear the
Grecian bend, dance the German, ignore
all possibilities of knowing how to work,
will not endeavor to break the hearts OF
unsophisticated young men, will spell
correctly, understand English before she
affects French, will preside with equal
grace at the piano and the washboard,
will spin more va for the house than
the street, will not despisc her plainly
clad mother, her poor relations, or the
hand Of an honest worker, will wear a
bonnet, speak good plain English, will
darn her old stockings, will know how to
make doughnuts.


The coming girl will walk five miles a
day, If need be, to keep her cheeks in
glow; will mind her health, her physical
development, and her mother; will
adopt costume both sensible and con-
ducive to comfort and health; will not
confound hypocrisy and politeness; will
not place lying to please instead OF
frankness; will have the courage to cut
an unwelcome acquaintance will not
think that refinement is French duplicity,
that assumed hospitality where hate
dwells in the heart is better than out
spoken condemnation; will not con-
found grace of movement with silly af
fectation; will not regard the end of her
very being to have beau.
Year: 1874

WATER drinking between meals should
be according to thirst. 1t is mistake
to load weak stomach with water on
the theory that it is tonic. AS a habit
it is well to take tumbler, or part OF
one, of pure soft water, after dressing in
the morning.


BUNIoNs may be checked in their
early development by binding the joint
with adhesive plaster, and keeping it on
as long as any uneasiness is felt. Iodine,
twelve grains; lard or spermaceti oint-
ment, half an ounce makes a capital
ointment for bunions.


WET the spots of iron rust on muslin
or white dress goods thoroughly with
lemon Juice, and then lay in the sun to
dry. Repeat the same if the color is not
removed by one application. When dry,
rinse in clear cold water. Lemon juice
can not be used on colored goods, as it
will take out printed colors as well as
stains. 1t will remove all kinds of stains
from white goods.


A VERY pleasant perfume, and also
preventive against moths, may be made
of the following ingredients: Take OF
cloves, carraway seed, nutmeg, mace,
cinnamon, and Tonquin beans, of each
one ounce; then add as much Florentine
orris-root as will equal the other ingre-
dients put together. Grind the whole
well to powder, and then put it in little
bags, among your clothes, etc.


Now is the time of year when everv
agricultural newspaper in the country
advises its readers to put away their tools
in good order. Every one of said read
ers admits the excellence of the advice,
and perhaps one in ten follows it. This
one will find his machinery and tools in
good order in the spring, while the 9th
ers will have accumulations of rust to
get rid of before much efficient work can
be accomplished.


BUSTING articles of steel after they
have been thoroughly cleaned with un-
Stacked lime will preserve them from
rust. The coils of piano wires thus
sprinkled will keep them from rust many
years. Table-knives which are not in
constant use ought to be put in case in
which sifted quicklime is placed, about
eight inches deep. They should be
plunged to the top of the blades, but the
lime should not touch the handles.
Year: 1874

1t is well known that plants sleep at
night; but their hours of sleeping are q
matter of habit, and may be disturbed
artifcially, just as cock may be woke
up and made to crow ut untimely hours
by the light of a lantern. De Candolle
subjected sensitive plant to an ex-
ceedingly trying course of discipline, by
completely changing its hours; exposing
it to a bright light all night, so as to pre-
vent sleep, and putting II in dark room
during the day. The plant appeared to
be much puzzled and disturbed at first |;
It opened and closed its leaves iiregularly,
sometimes nodding in spite of the
artificial sun that shed its beams at mid
night, and sometimes waking up from the
force of habit, to find the chamber dark
in spite of the time of day. Such are
the trammels of use and wont But
after an obvious struggle the plant sub
mitted to the change, and turned day
into night without any apparent i'll
effects
Year: 1874

SURE way to turn peoples heads-go
late into church.


The way of the transgressor is said to
be hard, but thieves take things easy.


THE most modest thing in the world is
a clock-it is always running itself down.


The best way for man to acquire a
fine flow of language is to stub his toe
against a raised brick.


A MAN advertises in New York paper
for barkeeper, "who must be recon-
mended by his pastor"


IT makes big difference when lady
faints away whether you bathe her tenn
pies with camphor or molasses.


AN impertinent fellow wants to know
if you ever sat down to tea where
skinned milk was on the table without
being asked, "Do you take cream?"


A LENGTHY article is in circulation
telling how to make mustard plaster.
An article telling how to successfully
dodge one is what smitten people want.


AN editor says, awe never could un-
derstand why so much shot should be
wasted in killing birds while so many
young men part their hair in the middle"


"WoMAN is delusion, madam! ex-
claimed crusty old bachelor to a witty
young lady. "And man is always hug
ging some delusien or other" was the
quick retort.


WHEN an Italian youth has arrived at
the age of sixteen he is told to stand up
before his father and mother and say
whether he would like to join the clergy
or the brigands


A CONNECTICUT town boasts of
young man so rimid that he can not look
needle in the eye. Many young ladies
are troubled with similar fears when
ever they can get any one else to do their
sewing,


A WESTERN man set fire to the prairie
for fun, but after he had run seven miles
and climbed tree, with his pants about
all burned of, he concluded the sport
was little too violent exercise to be in
dulged in oftener than once in lifetime.


SAID Pennsylvania political orator,
warming up as he approached the climax
of his speech: Let us conduct this
campaign, fellow-citizens, upon the prin-
ciple enunciated by the immortal Lin
coin, with malice toward all, and
charity to none.'"


AN Ottumwa boy charged stump
with blasting powder, attached a fuse to
blow it by, and got on the fence to see
the fun. He isn't collected enough yet
to tell how funny it was, although, the
citizens are collecting him in different
parts of the suburbs.


A DAILY paper has the following
among its marine notices: "The schooner
Albatross was wrecked on the coast of
New Foundland, on the 18th inst, the
captain swimming ashore, and the female
cook also, she being insured for $4,000,
and heavily laden with iron."


"GIvE us" says the New Hampshire
Workingman's advocate, "the man with
brown hands smut on his nose and sweat
on his forehead" All right-sent him
by express last night; also a woman with
a long chin and wart on her nose, to
keep him happy.-Detro1 Free Press.
Year: 1874

1t has never been definitely settled to
the satisfaction of the public who the
Man in the Iron Mask was, but genera
tions to come will know all about Dick
Palmer, who got inside of something
worse than a Mask. His mother sent
him after brass kettle, which one of
the neighbors had borrowed, and OH the
way home the boy turned the kettle up
side down and put it on his head. An
other boy gave it blow and it shut
down over Dicks face as close as clam
in his shell; one of the ears digging into
his head behind and the other pressing
his nose. The victim jumped and
shouted and clawed at the kettle, but he
couldn't budget. A man came along
and lifted it, but Dicks nose began to
come out by the roots and he had to stop.
A crowd ran out of the corner grocery,
Dicks mother was sent for, and the boys
danced up and down and cried ooh,
gollyp without ceasing.


One boy said they would have to take
cold chiscl and drill Dick out of the
kettle, and another said they'd have to
melt the kettle of, while every one raped
on the kettle to see how solidly it was on.
Then they tried to lift it of but Dick
roared "murder p until they stopped.
Some said grease his head, some said
grease the kettle, while the boys mother
got down on the curbstone and sobbed
out, ooh, Richard why did you do
thisT The crowd took il coolly; it
wasn't their funeral, and boy with
brass kettle on his head isn't to be seen
every day. Tears fell from the kettle,
and hollow voice kept repeating, "Pll
never do it again." Finally they had
Richard on the walk, and while one
man sat on his legs and another on his
stomach, third compressed the kettle
between his hands, and the boy crawled
out, his nose all scratched and twisted
out of shape, hole in his head, and
bump on his forehead. His mother
wildly embraced him, all the boys cried,
"Hip lap and little Richard was led
home to loaf around on the lounge and
have toast and fried eggs for week.
Year: 1874

"To-night We shall all be together again!''
Fair little Marion merrily said:
She clapped her hands, and her eye grew bright
At thought of the one coming home tonight.
She little knew that the simple words
That burst from her lips in childish glee
Fell back on our hearts with pulse Of pain
On earth We can ne er be together again.
The shadow Of death has ne er fallen on her;
Her life is as brigh: as a midsummer's day;
She never can know Of the tears unshed
That tremble above her golden head;
She misses no form from the household band,
She misses no voice from the household song.
She has only heard the whispered name
The beautiful one, whose dancing feet
Grew strangely stll on an April day.
Though we call our children Der and Ger
There is one who never may enter our door.
Only in dreams do we hear his voice;
Only in Marion's laughing face,
With a feeling OF sadness, and yet Of JOY
Do We catch the smile of our angel boy!
Oh, sweet little Marion! Long may it be
Ere the shadow shall fall upon herl
In tenderness stroking her light-fowing hair,
We lift up our hearts in an unspoken prayer
That God, the kind Father, will watch DER on


home,


Will keep all our loved ones in pnrity's path
And then with joy that has nothing of pain
Inheaven we shall all be together again.
Hrs. Etten Ldrydbee Ldtim0rs, in Lddie,


ReDOsifOrU
Year: 1874

In Denver paper we find story
which amply indicates the meanness OF
which humanity is capable, under cir
cumstances which afford opportunity tor
the exhibition of that quality. A poor
widow who had been ward of the cltys
charitable institution went to work in
hotel as a laundress, taking with her
son aged fourteen years and llttie
daughter old enough to wash ana IRON
napkins After working some months
the woman quit the service OF the hotei
and asked for settlement. This was
not refused by the proprietors OF the
hotel (they never refused settlement),
hut an offset to the widows account was
presented in the shape of bill for board
of the children, at the rate OF SIX dollars
each per week; whereby the widow was
brought out in debt to her employers. In
vain the poor widow pleaded that the
boy and girl had fully paid their board
by their work, and on this basis settle
ment was denied. Suit was brought by
the poor woman to compel more equi-
table adjustment of the account. The
court decided that the work of the two
children should stand as an Offset to their
board and that the widow was entitled to
her wages. Tears of JOY came into the
eyes of the forlorn and destitute woman
at this upright decision, and the avari-
cious hotel.men lost some Of their good


name as we'll as the suit.
Year: 1874

whether, after what they have just
beard, they will indorse the views of the
defense-namely, that the accused was
not punished for criminal offense when
she was imprisoned for thirty days, but
that she was the victim of an injustice
II you do indorse this view of the case,
gentlemen, then you must bring in a
verdict of acquittal."


Without leaving their seats the jury
returned a verdict of Not guilty"


The satisfaction expressed by every
one present can easier be imagined than
described.-Translated from the German
for Appleton's Journal.
Year: 1874

UNCLE SAMMY HUNT had, until with
in very recent date, a beautiful speci-
men of the canine race, of the black-and-
tan breed At the age of six months it
weighed but fourteen and half ounces,
and was SO small in size that one could
easily carry it in his hat, wrap it in a
handkerchief, or even stow it away in his
dress coat pocket The little pet at
tracted much attention, and the owner
was offered as high as seventy y-five dol
lars for it, but refused to accept. He
fed it nothing but crackers and dry food,
giving it no meat, and it was as sound
as dog could be. Dog fanciers who ex-
amined it were unanimous in the opinion
that it was the smallest specimen OF the
age that ever existed. Not many days
ago Uncle Sammy, on reaching his store
one morning, noticed that the little pets
salute was rather weak, and commenced
upbraiding himself for keeping him tied,
he fearing that the cord had choked him.
This was not the case. Entering fur
ther into the establishment, he found
that during the preceding night the ILL
putian canine had been attacked by a
number of rats, three of which had been
killed. How many more he compelled to
retreat is not known. There were some
twelve or fifteen scars on his little head
and he seemed completely exhausted
The rats which he had killed were larger
and heavier than himself. He never raj
lied from his exhaustion, but died in two
weeks time His body was then handed
over to taxidermist, when 1t. was
found that one of the wounds had pene
trated the skull, and that the brain hae
been poisoned by the rats teeth, the
| poison working its way along the spina
column to its end, and ultimately caus
ing death. The little fellow had killet
| mice innumerable and also rats, but be


ing fastened by q cord it is supposed


that q number of rats surrounded ant


thus succeeded in injuring him.-Phstd


delphia Bulletin.
Year: 1874




Is it not parental duty to dissuade
children from the use Of tobacco by
precept and example? We take the
following from the London Lancet:


What Injuries or enieebles the blood
must, as matter of course affect the
health and activity of the brain. II,
then, we ascertain the physiological
effect of tobacco upon the life fluid,
We shall be in fair way Of deciding
the question, especially if we find in
dividual cases confirming the views
thus arrived at. There is nothing
stronger in medical evidence than the
agreement of physiology and patholo-
gy. DIR. Richardson has SO clearly
explained the influence Of smoking
upon the blood, that it will be best to
quote his graphic account. His scien-
titic eminence entities his evidence to
respect, and lovers of the weed must
recollect that it is smoker to whom
they are listening: "On the blood the
continued inhalation Of tobacco pro-
duces changes which are very marked
in character. The fluid is thinner
than is natural, and in extreme cases
paler. In such instances the deficient
color of the blood is communicated to
the body altogether, rendering its ex-
ternal surface yellowish. white and
puffy. The blood being thin, also cx-
udes freely, and cut surface bleeds
for long time, and may continue to
bleed inconyeniently, even in opposi-
tion to remedies. But the important
change is cxerted ON those little bod
les which float in myriads in the
blood, and are known as the red
| globules. These globules have natur-
| ally a double concave surface, and at
their edges perfectly smooth outline.
They are very soluble in alkalies, and
are subject to change of shape and
character when the quality of the
fluid in which they Aoat is modified
in respect to density. The absorp-
tion, therefore, of the fumes Of tobac.
CO necessarily leads to rapid changes
in them; they lose their round shapes,
they become oval and irregular at
their edges, and instead of having a
mutual attraction for each other and
running together, a good sign of phys
ical health, they lie loosely scattered
before the eye, and indicate to the
learned observer as clearly as though
they spoke to him and said the words,
that the man from whom they were
taken is physically depressed and de-
plorably deficient both in muscular
and mental power Tobacco modi-
fees the circulation in the brain, as in
other portions of the body. Hence it
would be remarkable indeed if it did
not exercise some influence upon the
mechanism Of thought.
Year: 1874

(Some of his gems of philosophy minus bad


orthography.)


Time is money, and many people
pay tleir debts with it.


Ignorance is the wet nurse of preju-
dice


Half the discomfort of life is the re-
suit of getting tired of ourselves.
Benevolence is the cream on the
milk Of human kindness.


People of good sense are those
whose opinions agree with ours.
Style is everything for sinner, and
a little of it will not hurt saint.
Men nowadays are divided into slow
Christians and wide-awake sinners.
There are people who expect to
escape hell because of the crowd going
there.


Most people are like eggs-too full
of themselves to hold anything else.
A mule is bad pun on horse.
Health is loan at call.


Necessity is the mother of inven-
tion, but Patent Right is the father of
it.


Beware of the man with half.shut
eyes. He's not dreaming.


Mice iatten slowly in church.
They can t live on religion any more
than ministers can.
Year: 1874

truly wise. humane, and courageous
policy made by those whose characters
interpret and illuminate every word,
and limbo lied in nominations Of men
whose names are their credentials, Of
course we should not admit any just
argument or appeal. We shouid not
fail to show that the chances Of peace.
prosperity, and progress are very much
greater under the ascendency of a
l,arty with the antecedents, impulse,
and character Of the Republican than
under that of its opponents. But we
should also wish to show that the word
and deed of the hour invited the surest
faith that change must necessarily be
loss. The Republican convention of
New York is called for the 23d of
September. Let it remember the
brethren who begin to think that a
little change would be useful, and act
accordingly.o