smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The London Lancet has some COM
ments on this topic which may be read
with as much profit in this section as in
London. II says: II man were 10
deliberately shu. himself up for some six
or eight hours daily in stuffy room.
with closei doors and windows (the
doors not being open even to exchange
the air during the period Of incarcera
tioo) aud were then 10 complain of
heaiche and debility. he would be
Justly told that his own want Of intel
Egent foresight Was the cause of his
suffering. Nevertheless, that is what
the great mass of the people do every
night Of their lives with no thought OF
their imprudeuce There are few bed
rooms in which it is perfectly safe TO
pass tho night without something IN ore
than ordinary precaution to secure an
inflow of fresh air. Every sleeping
apartment should. of course. have fire.
place with an open chimney, aud in
cold weather il 10 well it the crate con-
taips . small fire, at least small enough
TO create al upcast current, and carry
off the vitiated air Of the room. IN all
such cases. however, when fire is used +,
it is necessary to see that the air drawn
int the room comes from the Outsids of
the house. BY an easy mistake it is
possible to place the occupant of bed
room with fire in closed house iu q
direct current of foul air drawn from
all parts OF the establishment. Summer
and winter. with or without the use of
fires, it is we'll to have free ingress Of
pure air. This should be the ventils-
tors first concern. Foul air will find
an exit If pure air 10 admitted i'll suf-
ficient quantity. but it is not certain
pure air will be drawn in il the impure
air is drawn away. SO fur IS sleeping
rooms are concerned. it is wise to let In
air from without. The aim must be 10
accomplish the object without causing q
fall of temperature or draft. The
windows may be drawn down sn inch
or two at the top with advantage. and
fold of ,nu.lin|w will form a "vcntilstor'
to take of the feeling of draft. This.
with an open fire place, will generally
suffice, and produce no unpleasant con-
sequences even when the. weather Is
cold. II is. however, essential that the
air ontside should be pure. Little is
likely to b, gained by letting in fog
or even town mist.
Year: 1879

One of the Wealthiest settlers in New
Caledonia is a gentleman from Austria
ha-We will call him Mr.. Brown for
short-who went there some ten or
twelve years ago with but small capital,
and had become enormously rich by
raising cattle for the markets of Nou-
mea. Mr.. Brown was proceeding on his
way through the bush from one Of his
outlying cattle stations, to another. when
he lost his way entirely. He wandered
about till near nightfall, and then came
upon large native village. Hero no
was Hospitality entertained, well fed,
and most deferentially treated by the
great chief whose village it Was-the
Chief Atai, think, whom somo persons
regard as the chief mover and leader of
this years revolt against the French.
Atai was all courtesy to his whito guest,
and when night had fully come, con-
Quoted him himself to the hut set apart
for his nights repose.


Fortunately, Mr.. Brown was acduaint-
ed with the customs Of the country, and
among them, knew the common method
of putting an end to travellers prepara-
tory to feasting upon them. 1t IS as fol-
lows: The traveller is kindly received
nothing occurs to shake his confidence
in his host; he is allotted a cabin to
himself to sleep in. The native huts
usually have one opening, which serves
as door and window both. When the
traveller is supposed to be well settled in
his cabin. this one entrance is set on
fire. Being thatehed and made alto.
getheT Of light wood, it burns very read
lily, and the traveller is cooked as well
as killed. Then the feast begins.


Being acquainted with these details of
New Caledonia life, Mr.. Brown knew
the cabin to which the venerable Atai so
courteously led him might probably be-
come for him both tomb and a cooking
stove unless his wits could save him.
He entered the cabin of the chief, meet
ing courtesy with courtesy, till they were
both fairly within. Then Brown, in the
prime of life and athletic, Atai old and
infirm, the Englishman knew he was
more than a match for the savage. be
closed the door within the hut, planted
his back firmly against it, and sitting
thus with his hand on his revolver, and
his other weapons OstentatiOusly dis
plaved continued his conversation with
the chief The situation remained un-
changed throughout the night. A terri
bic night it was, no doubt, for the En-
glishman, and almost as bad for the
chief, who again and again requested
permission to withdraw. Mr.. Brown as
frequently declaring he could not part
with him-he should not feel safe except
in his company. When daylight was
fully come. Mr.. Brown felt assured that
Atai would not venture to allow his peo-
pie openly to attack an individual so
well known in the settlements as him
self, and both issuing forth together from
the hut, he gladly accepted the escort Of
a native guide, and was safely conducted
to the French settlements, where his ad-
ventures were the theme Of considerable
interest.
Year: 1879

Go through the town any evening, and
you will be surprised, if you have never
given tie matter any thought, at the
number of boys and young men who
make practice of squandering their
evenings, to say nothing about the days
spent IN the same manner. Squandering
time is the sin of the age. As a rule,
the idle, indolent boy goes to the bad.
He may have all the elements necessary
to make frst-class business or profes-
sional man, but if he is not instructed
and encouraged to form habits of indus
try, he will be failure, almost inevita-
bly,. There is one way this great evil of
squandering time can be remedied, if
not altogether obviated. Parents must
take the matter in hand-must them
selves set the example OF industry and
frugality, and must see that their chill
dren' initiate the example. Make the
home pleasant and attractive. If the
boys love the street or the loafng place
better than the home, you may rest as
sured that the home is wanting in some
important particular Provide the boys
with interesting reading matter, and en-
courage them to love it. Permit them
to employ their time in any harmless
way that will keep them from idleness
and prifigacy. When you see a boy or
a young man willing TO trifie away day,
a month, or a year in doing the work Of
a disgusting street loafer, you may set it
down that it would not take much to
persuade that boy or that young man to
become a full fedged scoundreL


Teach the boys that no success comes
from squandering time, and that the bet
ter class of people have about as high a
regard for real industrious thief as for
an ignorant, idle loafer. 1t is in the
power of parents to regulate this matter,
and we hope to see our army of trifing,
loafng young men and boys diminish.


Make the home what it should be,
and you have no need to fear the future
of our boys.
Year: 1879

How SHE ArrEARs.-A young lady
from Peru has recently arrived in Lon
don. She was discovered in a nitre
mine at Iquique, and issupposed to be
of very great antiquity. She must have
had very long and beautiful hair and
have, worn it in plaits hanging over her
shoulders and down the back. One of
the plaits still bears traces of a rude
ornament. The skin of the face is dried
up. and bears marks upon it as though it
had once been enveloped in a cloth.
The arms are laid by the side; one knee
is crossed over the other. The eyes are
staring wide open; the tongue clings to
the roof of the mouth, and her body is
covered with crystals that shine like
mica scales. Her age was about IA years
when she fell into the mine and died;
and that melancholy event may have
occurred hundreds Of years ago, for she
is now nothing but mummy,
Year: 1879

1t has been said with reason that the
present is nothing, that the future does
not depend on us, that our past alone
belongs to us; but the question would
seem to be whether we do not belong
to it,
Year: 1879

Publishers have agreed TO place these
books in the city and retail them at the
foregoing prices.


The schools have started out this year
with more than their usual yjgor and har.
mony. Step by step our public school
system has been perfected until It has
grown into the affections Of our people,
and they correctly regard the education Of
our youth as a great work. The great
purpose Of the common school system Is
TO train up our youth go as TO make good
citizens; to make them honest, industri.
Gus, faithful and successful In whatever
department Of labor circumstances or In.
clinatiOn may lead them. It Is therefore
with interest that we watch the working
Of our schools aud seek to keep the public
advised OF their progress. We rejoice to
know that they are growing in efficiency
as well as popularity.
Year: 1879

Crazy people are constantly calling
at the White House on all sorts OF
errands with the president, but the
ushers generally find out then intirmity
and get them out of the building in
some way OF other, though some slip
past INTO the presidential presence, and
others have to be turned over to the
police. There are few who come
regularly, like the old man living out
near Bladensburg, who calls every two
months to claim the presidential chain
to which he has been elected. He
would have come sooner to enter upon
his duties, but work on his farm pre-
vented his leaving home. The last time
he called he was more persistent than
usual, and informed the usberS that he
would make no changes, except to turn
Secretary SchuIz out of the cabinet.
He was asked If he had il wife, and re-
plying III the negative, was told that
no unmarried man could be president.
whereupOn he started right home to
get Il wife. About five times in the
year Il neatly dressed man of 35 years
comes down from PENNSYLVANIA to take
possession of the White House and
treasury, which have been decided to
him. The man who ended the rebellion
wanted to see the president the other
morning and was told that he saw
callers at Ala 10th street, police sta
ton. The man went there promptly
and took a seat, but after time the
keeper wanted to know his business.
He had just called to see the president.
The keeper took in the situation, and
conducted the visitor to cell, promis-
ing to show the president right in when
he came. A few weeks ago an Ohio
astronomer was on hand with IA request
to be made superintendent of the naval
observatory, that he might avert the
earth's impending collision with the
other planets. A Maine woman walked
into the White House one day, and,
spreading a large Bible she carried
under her arm on window seat, began
to preach on the necessity of being born
again. She had come on a mission to
convert President Hayes and when she
was turned out, she repeated verse after
verse flom the Bible in loud voice.
and kept it up all the way down the
concrete walk to the gate.
Year: 1879

The chief argument against


hazing is that it often seriously affects


the nervous system. But | question If
there has been any hazing within the
last 70 years that can compare in bar


barity with the limitations of the very
sophomore society mentioned above.


Those who are unfortunate enough to
be elected into this society are made to
go through Il most thorough course of
tagging for several days. Some are
obliged to put on absurd costumes. and
exhibit themselves publicly, selling pa
perS, or passing hand bills on the
streets. Others are stationed on the
corner of the streets, and obliged to
salute every paSser-by. But there are
the milder and more generally known
forms. In the secresy of the club-room
matters take Il grave form. Each MEM
Der is branded on the arm so as to be
identified, and cases have occurred
where arms have been seriously burned
by the brander being in a beastly state
OF intoxicatien. Each member is oblig-
ed to take plunge into the Charles
river by night, and if he declines on
account of health he is dealt with
all the more severely in some other
way. Resistance is out of the question,
and case occurred not long since
where man was felled to the floor tor
refusing to obey orders. To conclude,
the new member is obliged TO drink an
exceedingly large bumper of liquor, and
as soon us this is done, he is pressed
upon from all sides to drink with
friends, who wish to congratulate him.
but whose real object is to intoxicate
him. During all these limitations the
members are masked. so that those who
commit the atrocities can never be de-
tected. AS Il general rule the most
hendlsh limitations of secret societies
are kept quiet, and as those mentioned
above are very generally known, it is
falr to infer there are some still muic
barbarOus. There are other societies
and clubs at Cambridge which have
their limitations. But those which are
known are not of kind suitable fer
publication. Speaking with meni-
Der who had lately been initiated
asked, elbow is it that society SO ,i-
rectly opposed to hazing can he so in
consistent as to put its members through
such tormeuts ?" His reply was, that
it was an ancient custom, and it WAS
kept up on that account, Many will 80
doubt think that these men are of The
lower social class of students, but n
general they are fellows of good soci..l
and pass themselves off fnr
thorough going gentlemen. The wn,At
phase of the matter is that those who
are initiated one year are only too ca
ger for revenge the next.


But what will be the moral effect of
Year: 1879

81 am reasonable, madam" the man
said 81 know your secret, but will
keep it if you will make it worth my
while"


Chow much do you require ?" the
lady asked, acquiring the power of
speech by a great effort


''Twenty pounds will satisfy me for
the present." the man said, "and more
at another time when | need it,"


The money was paid and within a
month the man returned and demanded
more. The lady evidently revealed
the story of her disgrace and crime to
her husband, for he paid the money,
and soon after resigned his living and
retired to England.
Year: 1879

New York, Oct. 1.-The supreme
court has issued orders for the police
commissioners to show cause why
mandamus should not issue compelling
them to appoint fourth inspector Of
elections in each election district, from
the list presented by Tammany hall.
The order is made returnable before
the extraordinary court Of general
term supreme tomorrow.
Year: 1879

The Enterprise of March 29, pays a handsome tribute to Prof. Sherman, Territorial Superintendent of Public Instruction, from which we quote the following:

 We desire here to state that after a long and intimate personal acquaint- ance, we are able to say advisedly that We do not think Governor Fremont could have made a better choice in filling the position than he did when he appointed NIT. Sherman. While we do not agree with MT. Sherman in every respect in his methods of in structiOn, yet our differences are such as arise more from training in different schools than from any real objections to his system. Having at one time in our life, and for a considerable period been teacher, we think we can speak knowingly on the subject, and we here desire to pay our tribute, both as a citizen and as editor, to Mir Sherman faithfulneSs through a course of teach ing in this Territory now extending over five years. During most of that period, as we stated above, we have been intimately acquainted with him, and have closely and carefully observ- ed his course. He is a teacher-over and above everything else he is devoted to his profession, and nobly and un- SelfiShly does he work to do his duty m this regard. That he has been sue ceSSful all know who have lived here for any length of time.
Year: 1879

i WOMAN in New York found her self in possession of lazy, good-for- nothing lOut of a husband, who couldn't earn much and never brought home anything he did earn. She found out that he could carve fowl in the top of the mode, and took to hiring the old man out, at so much a carve, to rich people who were giving dinners, always contracting that the money should be paid to her, only. One day a customer thoughtlessly gave the carving machine the money, and the thrifty wife never got a cent of it. She sued the nabob for. payment, and the court gave her judgment, holding that, under the circumstances she had a right to hire out her marital chattel and collect his earnings.

 IL is not lawful in this country to ex- pose a husband for sale, but the fact is now established that one may be kept for hire. The lesson is one which will carry comfort to many an embarrassed girl who, having blundered into mar riage, finds that she has on her hands a lOunging person who is of no parti- cular use. If she can discover even one talent, and turn that to account. she may set the otherwise unprofita- ble fellow to work by renting him out to do the only thing he understands. Thus is hope in store for many sor- rowing woman, and thus may affiu- ence await the thrift of the wife who is shrewd enough to utilize a shiftleSs and burdenSome husband.
Year: 1879

THE ore at Leadville is found for a distance of 17mileS between Leadville and Ten Mile. and seems to be all the same kind of rock. It is a flat deposit and not a true Assure. The ore comes right to the surface and the bottom has not been reached yet. The Pittsburg is down 200 feet in rich ore all the way. The assays run from $50 to $500 to the ton. There are now thirty mines producing and two hundred prospect ing. It is a poor mans camp. No machinery is required. There are twelve furnaces at work on custom rock, so that one man can dig ore out and another hoist it up and sell it. The ore is a carbonate of lead and sil- yer and the prospects are enormeus.- Reno Gazette
Year: 1879

X PIE-EATING match between two notoriously voracious men was con tested Tn St Louis. One had a wide mouth, ponderous jaws, an appetite sharpened by twenty-four hours of fasting, and was naturally the favorite before the start. The other was mani feStly dyspeptic, and his appearance was against him. Hot apple pies of d

 uniform size were used, and the man who ate most in half an hour was to be the winner The favorite led for twen- ty minutes, swallowing eight pies in that time, and leaving his competitor a pie and a half behind: but at that juncture he choked and was compeIl- ed to nest The dyspeptic kept steadi- ly at work, closed the gap, and then forged ahead. Al the conclusion Of the half hour he was half through his thirteenth pie, while the tavorite was in his cleventh-EN.
Year: 1879

see as it can do harm. | just want to AK
the honorable speaker II he has not give
himself dead away? Does it stand ter
reason that a bloke would feed upon corn
husks when there was hash factories in the
camp? Would anybody hev refused him
the price of square meal it he had
struck them fur it? Would any of the
dealers that beat him out of his coin see
him starve? AS remarked afore, do not
want ter make any disrespectable breaks,
but l must say that have got it put up
that the speaker has been trying to feed
us on cussed thin taffy, and no one but
gilly would take it in"


Bill glared upon the speaker and fairly
hssed-


DO you mean to say that am liar?


Wal, you kin take it jist as you choose.
Some folks would swaller it in that shape"


Bill pulled his revolver, and in an instant
the bright barrels of. numerous weapons
flashed in the air as the friends OF each
party prepared for active duty. The
brevet preacher was the first to fire, and
the rash doubter of scriptural truths fell
dead on the ground. Shot followed shot
in quick succession and when quiet was
again restored a score or moro of dead and
wounded men were carried from the tent
Having secured attention Bill said:


"Further proceedings is adjourned ful
the day. You will receive the doxology.'


The audience arose.


"May grace, mercy and peace be with
you, now and forever, Amen; and | want
it distinctly understood that am going
ter maintain proper respect for the Gospe
if have ter croak every dirty son 'of-a-gur
of a sinner in the mines. Meetin' is out.


The crowd filed out from the tent as coolly
as if nothing extraordinary had occurred
and as l gained the sidewalk heard I
man remark:


"Bill has got the sand TO make bang
up preacher, and l would not wonder if h
made big mark in the world vet"
i BoUEMIAN WANDERER.
Year: 1879

Mrs. Chisolm will not want for brave
champions in her heroic resolve to have
justice done her husbands murderers. AS
sistant District Attorney Ware pledges his
services to herin words which show that true
spirit of chivalry still exists even in Missis
sippi. There is little danger of violence
either to her or TO him, however, as the
eyes of the whole country will be concen
trated on Kemper County during the trial
with q gaze so stern that even the bull
dozer will be held in check.
Year: 1879

It looks more and moro as if Jefferson
Davis would again be elected to the United
States Senate without being candidate for
the office. The other candidates are volun-
tarily offering to stand aside for him, and
we are assured that when one of these
alluded to him in public speech as "Mis-
sissippi's great and peerless favorite," a
cloud and hearty cheer thrilled the open
heavens above" His election would send
very different kind of thrill through the
North.
Year: 1879

issue, so far as can be ascertained


to date. there remains in the Treasury
unexpended OF the amount allowed by


law, S6S7, ,Sl6. No favors have been
shown any OF the subscribing parties.
| have the honor to suggest that il the
Senate deem the matter OF sufficient inn
portance, a committee be authorized to
examine into the method employed by
the Treasurer in refunding the debt, to
the end that any existing methods not
deemed proper or expedient be aban-
doned and better schemes devised. l
shall also be pleased to consult with any
member of the Senate who may have
any suggestions to offer in the matter
and to open to his inspection all books
and records OF the Department, show
ing in detail the transactions in the
issue and redemption OF the public debt.
Year: 1879

Before you begin your heavy spring
work after winter OF relaxation, your
system needs cleansing and strengthen
ing To prevent an attack OF Ague, Bill.
lious or Spring Fever, or some other
Spring sickness that will unfit you for L
seasons work. You will save time,
much sickness and great expense il YOU
will use one bottle OF Hop Bitters in
your family this month. Don't wait
See other column.
Year: 1879

Of all the forces of nature, perhaps polar magnetism is the most intangible. The writer is not aware of it's having more than one me- dium through which it acts, which is iron in it's different states-such as steel, etc. It re- yeals one curious fact-that every piece of iron has north and south end. Cut bar of this metal into any number of pieces, and when magnetized one of their ends will be drawn to the north, while the other remains as true to the south, rendering it all impossi- ble to locate this mysterious power. The idea that the needle is true to the poles'' can hardly be considered true, yet there is always a locality somewhere upon the face of the globe where this is correct. But this line which encircles the earth is constantly chang ing, leaving science no clue for ascertaining it's variations but by comparing the magnet ic needle with the polar star when on it's meridian. SEARCH