smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

Eds. Tel:-Another welcome visit from
the TELEGRAPH, reminds me of my prom
ise to send word now and then from Js-
pan.


The cholera still RACES more or less all
over the Island, but is not so fatal as at
first. Every possible preeautiOn has been
taken by the authorities to prevent she in
crease of the pestilenee. The streets are
kept scrupuously clean, and the odors OF
lime and carbolic acid greet US on every
hand. When there has been cholera IN
house, every article of furniture must De
carried away and burnt. Msttings are torn
up, and paper torn from the walls. In
short everything but the house Is destroyed
and nobody is allowed to go in or out of
it for fifteen days. To the Japanese
who have almost no furniture but the mats
they sleep on, this is not so great trial,
but it is very hard for foreigners. One
poor American lady who had lost her hus-
band and child within two days of each
other, and who had very little property
but had pretty furniture, most Of which
came from home, was obliged to have
everything destroyed.


If you should wish to speak to a police
man on the street, he must first pull out
his atoneizer and thoroughly sprinkle you,
before be deigns 70 listen to word. 1t is
often very amusing to watch tie natives,
who bear it with the most martyr like sub
mission, and carry on the conversation,
with the dlsinfectant streaming down their
faces.


We have had an unusual number Of ter
rible storms this season. In a few hours
the streets will be strewn with tiles, shin
giles, ETC., while nearly every house in the
settlement is left roofess OF nearly so.
Everybody expects his home to be blown to
pieces and keeps a carpenter whose duty 1t
is to put it together again as soon as posi-
bic after each storm.


The Japs. are prophecying a tidal wave,
sometime between the 18th and 20th Of
This month. No one seems able to give a
reason for the faith that is in him, but all
seem to feel a good deal of apprehension.
Strange noises are also heard around the
base OF Fugi Ysms the beautiful "gOd
mountain" Of Japan, and an eruption is an
ticipated. BELLE MARSH.


Yokohama, Nov. Bird, 1877.
Year: 1877

One bright. June day, more than
a hundred years ago, Parson Mile
champ, with his pretty daughter OH
a pillion behind him, rode down a
pleasant Shropshire road on their
way to Powyscourt. The latter had
been for some time deeply engrossed
in her own thoughts, while her faith
er seemed gravely cogitating as he
guided his handsome bay horse over
a highway which certainly owed
little or nothing to surveyors or
commissioners. 1t was almost over
grown with grass and plentifully
sprinkled with stones.


But it was not the less pretty or
picturesque for that. The high
hedges, with the spreading trees
growing from out them, were in the
fullness of their midsummer beauty,
and shaded the wayfarers from the
sun. The pale briar rose waved its
delicate branches over them, and the
honey suckle made the air luscious
with its sweetness. There was a
chirping of birds, bleating of lambs,
and a buzzing of bees. Now and
again the voice of haymakers were
heard in the distance, and a Whit
from the bayfield, almost overpow-
cred the scent of the honey-suckle.
1t was perfect June day, and yet
Henrietta sighed.


Her father heard it, and (penitent
for his long silencel turned to look
at her.


My dear, he said, we seem but
poor company this morning.


Well, father, was wondering
whether this going as companion to
Lady Powys is for the best. Mother
thought fought to see a little more
life-our place being so quiet; but
Year: 1877

The Kingston Freeman has this do
nestle incident TO relate: "a young
housekeeper up town was much sur
prised the other day upon answering
a ring at the door bell to receive from
a small boy Il package, which proved to
be a large red lobster, (it having been
cooked with note pinned around one
leg stating, Your husband would like
to have this broiled for his dinner She
knew her husband was partial to broiled
meats, but not having seen lobster,
she really couldn't conceive how such a
hard, horrid looking thing could be
cooked in any way much less broiled :;
but he must be pleased if il was pOssi-
BILE to do it, and so all the cook-books
(she had small library of them) were
taken down and examined, but no re-
ceipt could be found for broiling any
thing that resembled this. Finally, be-
ing at her wits end, she dressed il mp
in a dolls clothes and sat it ON her hus-
bands chair at the dinner table, where
that man found it when he came home,
the joke being completely turned upon
himself, though the woman was SEEM
ingly unconscious of it, only saying, as
she pointed to the ridiculous object.
You wished me to dress it for dinner,
and that is the only way knew of do
ing it,"
Year: 1877

Why do people write that they sac
cept with pleasure" an unpleasant in
vitation, when they really mean they
do SO with reluctancel I r.rE' a-a


Why do ladies bid their servant say
that they are not at home, when they
mean they are engaged or unwilling to
see visitorsl d..4 .a


Why doactors grumble that the drama
is going TO the dogs, when they mean
that they themselves are not in favor
with the public? -.. ..s


Why do men tell their wives that they
will be detained by business when they
really mean TO be detained by club
dinner?


Why do women bid their husbands
escort them, when they really mean to
make them pay for new bonnet?


Why do singers speak with diffidence
of the powers of their voice, when they
mean to swallow greedily all the COM
pliments you give them?


Why do ipviters often call their coun-
try house ''little place" when they
mean to show you a palatial residence?


Why does your friend tell you ''any
toggery will dc" when means him
self TO sport dress sdit and white
choker?


Why do china dealers name so pre-
posterous price when they mean TO
jump at less than half if they be offered
it?


'' Why do pianists complain that they
are sadly out Of practice when they are
asked to play, while in reality they
mean they want more pressing, and
then will gladly Weld TO il?
Year: 1877

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Three hundred men will cover and
cut a section of aboutthre square miles,
taking off over 60, 900 logs, which would
measure about 10000, 900 feet each sea-
son. Work begins at daylight and ends
at dark; and when the days lengthen
and the moon favors a longer twilight
or earlier morn, the men get the bene-
fit in longer working hours. On the
river, when the drive is started, work
begins at three O'Clock in the morning
and ends at nine in the evening, the
men having five meals; breakfast at six,
lunch at nine, dinner at twelve, supper
at five and tea at nine. The meals con-
sist of pork and beans, corn bread, mo-
lasses cake and tea or coffee.


No stint is given TO mans appetite
The fare, such As tits, is abundant, mo-
notonous, nutritious and cheap. A
cook is provided for every fifty men.
The beans are generally the large white
bush, parboiled in pots holding half a
bushel, then ten pounds OF pork are set
in the middle of the beans in the pot, a
quarter of pint of molasses Is poured
in, and then the pot is set in hole sur
rounded with hot ashes and burning
charcoal, the top covered with 4 stone,
over which heavy wood fire is built;
and here they stay from five to eight
hours, coming out most palatable dish.
All the baking is done in rudelv built
stone ovens, which are heated before
the dough is mixed, with a great wood
fire. The loaves of biscuit or cake are
set upon the hot stones, and are cooked
quickly and thoroughly.


a camp of three hundred men will
consume daily four barrels of beans,
one-half barrel of flour, half barrel
of meal, one quarter of a barrel of
sugar, and five gallons of molasses.
The men are encamped in tents, making
their beds of boughs, while their extra
clothing, pair of duck overalls, fan
mel shirt, and two pairs of woolen
socks, is kept in an old grain sack and
used as pillow at night.


The Sabbath in the woods is always a
day for sharpening axes, mending
sleds, repairing boots and clothes, set
ting out new tenting spot handler to
the cutting in the woods, and all the odd
chores which would grow out of the
congregation of so large body of men.
All well-regulated camps exclude liq-
uOr. The work being usually fifty to
two hundred miles from any settlement,
and the men not being paid until the
end of the season, there IL little induce
ment for any speculator to peddle rum
through the woods, or for the men to
straggle off in search of it.


The consumption of axes and handles
is enormous, an axe lasting a month
and handle about three weeks. The
axes are sharpened daily, some camps
having regular sharpeners, while others
require each man to keep his own axe
in order, The old axes are never col
lected for the junk dealer, the distance
to ship them being too great to make it
an economical measure. Woodsmen
general consider spruce harder on axes
than either birch or pine. The gum
which runs out of the spruce tree is Of
ten found hard enough to chip the edge
of the axe when striking through it
The styles of axes differ with national
tiles, a Canadian chopper preferring a
Year: 1877

Father fairly turned pale when told
him; but he cautioned me not to betray
that 1 suspected any one present, and
he took Steve's money under his spe-
cial charge. We all met at breakfast.
l should have said that Mr.. Fordyce had
made his appearance about the same
time as the rest of the family whom my
screams aroused, and in the most natu-
raj manner. He came down to break
fast now, smiling, and just interested
enough in my adventure.


Father went away into town after
breakfast, and Mr.. Fordyce sat in the
garden and smoked. The officers who
came to arrest him stole upon him from
the back way, and secured him before
he thought OF resistance.


1t was plain case. They found proof
enough of robberies he had been at the
bottom of all along, hid away in his
trunks, and he owned them at last, with
smiling nOnchdldnce, turning back his
sleeve actually, when no one was look
ing, and showing me the prints my
teeth had made on his right arm, and
kissing them with the old gallant EN-
preSsmeRt. .-. .a-rf
OF course Steve made his payment,
and We were married at an early day.
Year: 1877




If man loves any one thing-say,
rare books, or pictures, or objects of art
of any kind, or music, or science-so
well that for the sake of one thing in
which he would be rich he is willing to
be poor in everything else, no matter
though his choice be an unwise one ac-
cording to the best standards of choice,
he will yet have a motive which will
help to keep him right. But for those
who love none of these things, but
simply desire them because it is the
habit of the time-because, like pam
pered children, they. must needs cry
for whatever they see just out of their
reach-for them is needle! the whole
some self-diseipline which shall teach
them to let alone whatever is not theirs.
And the beginning of this self-disci-
pline is in the home. Parents must
teach their boys and girls the great
lesson of doing without what cannot be
fitly theirs.
Year: 1877

A few months since. says the Jack
sonville (Florida) Union, a handsome
mocking- bird flew into the residence
of lady in this city and alighted at
her feet, exhibiting little or no fear OF
suspicion of her, and permitting her to
catch it in her hand. She placed it IL
a cage and it seemed happy and con-
tented, and it proved to be one of the
finest singers of its species, filling the
house with its varied and melOdiOus
strains, until after some four months of
captivity it was taken sick and died,
much to the sorrow and regret of its
mistress. A short time after the de-
cease the same lady was sitting in her
room when another beautiful bird of
the same family came in and took its
position near her, apparently inviting
her to capture it, which she did with
out difficulty. She placed it in the same
cage, and it seemed as cOntented as the
other had done, as if it knew and COW
eted a life with SO gentle mistress.
Year: 1877

This name is given by the natives of
Ceylon to the appearance of broad beams
apparently of blush light which some
times extend from the zenith down 10
the horizon, where they converge The
spaces between them have the ordinary
illumination of the sky. This effect is
supposed TO be due to the different tenn
peratures of the air at various levels.
The upper air is colder and denser, and
the rays of light are refracted down
ward. \ singular explanation is given
of a remarkable appearance seen at
Adams Peak, Ceylon. This mountain
rises abruptly from low country to the
height of I, 200 feet above the sea level


The phenomenon consists apparently
of an elevated shadow of the mountain
projecting westward to a distance of
about 20 miles. As the sun rises high
er it rapidly approaches the mountain,
and appears at the same time to rise be-
fore the observer in the form of gigan-
tic pyramid of shadow. Distant objects
may be seen through it, so that it i not
really shadow on the land, but a veil
of darkness between the peak and the
low country. 1t continues to rapidly
approach and rise, until it seems to fall
back on the observer, like a ladder
which has been reared upon the verti-
cal, and the next instance it Is gone.
In this the air of the mountain top is
colder and denser than that of the val
ley, but as the rays of the light are
above instead of below it, the refraction
is upward, producing reflect of dark
ness from the loss of rays which would
otherwise come to the Observers eyes.
Year: 1877

Your every day toilet is part of
your character. \ girl that looks like
''fury" or a sloven in the morning is
not to be trusted, however finely she
may look in the evening. No matter
how humble your room may be, there
are eight things it should contain
namely: a mirror, washstand, soap,
towel, comb, hair, nail, and tooth
brushes. These are just as essential as
your breakfast, before which you
should make good use of them. Parents
who fail to provide their children with
these appliances not only make great
mistake, but commit sin of omission.
Look tidy in the morning and after the
dinner work is over improve your toi-
let.


Make it rule of your daily life to
"dress up" for the afternoon. Your
dress may, or need not be, anything
better than calico, but with ribbon OIL
flower, or some bit of ornament, you
can have an air of respect and satisfae-
ton that invariably comes with being
well-dressed. rr


A girl with fine sensibility cannot
help feeling embarrassed and awkward
in ragged, dirty dress, with her hair
unkempt, if a stranger or neighbor
comes in.


Moreover, your self-respect should
demand the decent apparelling of your
body. You should make it point to
look as well as you can, even If you
know nobody will see you but yourself.
Year: 1877

broad square blade with the weight more
in the blade than elsewhere, the handles
being short and thick. A down-East
logger, cne from Maine. selects long
narrow head, the blade in crescent
shape, the heaviest part in the head
above the eye. New York cutters Sc
lect broad, ereseent-shaped blade, the
whole head rather short. and the weight
balanced evenly and below the eyes,
that is, where the handle goes through.
A western backwoodsman selects long
blade, the corners only rounded off, and
the eye holding the weight of the axe
The American chopper as rule selects
long straight handle. The difference
in handling is that down-Easter takes
hold, with both hands. of the extreme
end, and throws his blows easily and
gracefully, with a long sweep, over the
left shoulder. \ canuck chops from
directly over his head, with the right
hand well down on the handle to serve
in jerking the blade out of the stick. A
NeSterner catches mold at the end OF his
handle, with the hands about three in
ches apart, and delivers his blows rather
direct from over the left shoulder.


In fact, an expert in the woods can
tell the nationality or State a man has
been reared in by seeing him hit one
blow with an axe. 1t is, however, an
interesting fact to know that a Yankee
chopper, with his fayOrite axe and
swinging cut, can, bodily strength be-
ing equal, do fifth more work in the
same time than any other cutter, and
be far less fatigued. This, in a very
large degree, will account for the great
er percentage Of Maine men who will
be found each year IN the woods of Nor
thern New England and New York.
Year: 1877

The autumn leaves are fallen


All withered &c the ground,
The summers golden light is past.


And all seems dark around:
Yet though the sunshine's faded,


And seasons quickly flee
Ill not forget the smile of her


Who's all the world to me-
Or like lovely poem


We long to hear once more,
Like the sound of moonlit waters,


Breaking on the shore
Though past and gone those happy hours
We never more shall see,
Fond mem'ry still recalls her voice


Who's all the world to me.
Though worldly forms divide us,


Though time and distance part,
I'll hold her wellloyed image


Deep treasured in my heart:
And wheresoe'r / wander,
Still thought and fancy free
I'll pray that Heaven may guard her steps,
Who's all the world to me!
Year: 1877

| The popular belief that the moons rays
will cause madness in any person who sleeps
exposed to them has long been felt to be
absurd, and yet it has appeared to have its
source in undoubted facts. Some ,deleter-
Gus influence is experienced by those who
rashly court slumber in full moonshine, and
probably there is no superstition to which
the well-to-do pay more attention. Win
dows are often carefully covered to keep the
moonbeams from entering sleeping rooms.
A gentleman living in India furnishes "Na-
ture" with an explanation of this phe-
nomenon which is at least plausible. He
says "It has often been observed that when
the moon is full, or near its full time, there
are rarely any clouds about and if there be
clouds before the full moon rises, they are
soon dissipated and therefore a perfectly
clear sky, with bright full moon, is fire.
quently observed. A clear sky admits of
rapid radiation of heat from the surface of
the earth, and any person who is exposed
to such radiation is sure to be chilled by
rapid loss of heat. There is reason to be-
| lieye that, under the circumstances, paraly
sis OF one side of the face is sometimes like
ly to occur when the sky is perfectly clear.
| have often slept in the open air in India
on clear summer night, when there was no
moon and although the first part of the
night may have been hot, yet toward two or
three o'clock in the morning, the chill has
been so great that 1 have often been awak-
ened by an ache in my forehead, which as
often have counteracted by wrapping a
handkerchief round my head, and drawing
the blanket over my face. As the chill is
likely to be greatest on very clear night,
and the clearest nights are likely to be those
on which there is bright moonshine. it is
very possible tina. neuralgia, paralysis, or
other similar injury caused by sleeping in
the open air, has been attributed to the
moon, when the proximate cause may really
have been the chill, and the moon only re-
mote cause acting by dissipating the clouds
and haze (if it do SOY, and leaving perfect
ly cle,r sky for the play of radiation into
space. Scientific miscellany in the Gald9y
for liorch.
Year: 1877

New ORLEANS, July 30.-A commit
tee from the Shoemakers' Benevolent
Association called on the acting Mayor
and stated that when the association at
tempted TO hold a meeting yesterday,
they we're surprised to find in the hall q
number of policemen, who requested the
-ociety to suspend their deliberations.
The committee stated that they had
called to ascertain the cause of the inter-
ference by the police. The acting Mayor
replied that for several days many
rumors had prevailed of the meetings OF
= number of societies on the Sabbath,
and he observed that the shoemskers
we're to meet at the building whore the
bakers BY an advertisement had requested
five hundred men 70 assemble. Bellev-
ing, in view of what had occurred North,
that certain missionaries of Communism
might be here, and that until the crisis
had passed 1t were better not 10 agitste
the labor qvestion, he had directed the
chief of police to suppress All meetings
for the present in the interest OF the
whole people. Had the shoemakers
notified him of the proposed meeting
he would gladly have furnished n
police force to preserve order
and any interference from the ruffisn el-
ement. If at any future day they pro-
posed TO meet, and notify him of time
and place, he would take this precsution.
The committee expressed itself satisfied,
and gave assurance that the society is on
the side of law, and against anything
which would disturb the harmonious re-
latIons betH cen labor and capital.
Year: 1877

The railroad strikes have occurred at
the very worst time that could have been
selected by the strikers. They will prob
ably realize this when it is too late TO
remedy the evil. To say nothing about
the trade distur Dances attending the rail-
way strikes (which have really precIpi-
tsted the movements in the trades and
which will add greatly to the
depression resulting from the business
panic, If indeed they do not end
IN another business panic, worse than
that the country has already ex-
perienced, there is the folly OF interfering
with the very means the country has re-
lied upon as sffording some relief rom
our present difficulties. We have been
expecting much from the movement of
grain. But Just when the new crops are
most IN demand, tse railroad strike and


mob lsw combine to block the pros


pect This IS something the strikers
may not have considered when they
selected this as the proper time for
seton, but any lack of foresight
on their part will be recorded by the
producers and consumers. Both these
are brought face to face with lncon-
veniences, and compelled to endure
losses, which are not precisely cslcusted
70 promote sympathy with the strikers


When the sum total is footed up snd
placed to the account of the strikers, they
will discover that the draft is more than
they can hoLor. But there is no escsp-
ing this conclusion. When settlement
day comes, as come 1t must, and every
debit and credit is entered up, the bal
Anoe will be largely against the strikers.
Year: 1877

The Pittsburgh Telegraph in view o.
the manner in which the people of that
city behaved during the great riot, says:
"A Pittsburgh man found away from
home, Is an object of the most melancho-
ly interest, and is apt to be looked upon
either rs an incendiary in disguise or as
: species OF moral IDIOT
Year: 1877

down the hill or mountain side and campcd in Ouray
Yesterday we took survey of the city; climbed the
hills to see ont of the town; but the thing can't be
done, except north, through the canon. There has
been some trouble here between the old and the
city authorities strife about town lots, the title
of all the lots is held in trust by them sf the people
But "quiet reigns in Warsaw, at last The lots are
about all slain-as Poand's patriots were.


This place b famous for its usny and tsaid to bel
rich mines and hot springs. 0ns thing is bere end
at the door in ab;lndancc-tLat is coal-an indspcn-
sable article in the reduction Of ores This fact alone
would be enough to insure the 1hturs prosperity Of
this point, as mining camp. + shah visit sossc Of
the principal mines here, in few days, and compare
them with those about Svcrton. From the best in
formation obtain think the "San Miguel dis
trict will surpass all in rirAnsss ef 0ge and aeeessi
by, thus making this country famous for its miner
nj products. There is said to be a mountain of salt
sixty miles west of here, and if so, xiviation will be
the principal mode of reducing at this place
Coal, salt and all bere-all that is needed in
Ouray is the money to make the thing move lively
Ores being sent the range on pack animals,
and it must pay, the thing would soon eease-but
the cry is still, they CO."


Judge Hubbard is here and is the attorney for the
city and County, and is doing well-plenty of bust
ness, and quite successful He saved the new city
organization from going to the wall. B. OD