smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Kerosene will make teakettles as
bright as new.


-Beeswax and salt will make rusty
latirons as smooth as glass.


"A small piece of charcoal in the
pot with boiling cabbage removes the
smell.


Clean oil-cloth with milk and water /;
a brush and soap will ruin them.


---Tumblers that have had milk in
them should never be put in hot water.


"A tablespoonful of turPentine in
the boiling wafer will whiten the clothes.


"A little sperm, or gum-arabic, with
salt, should be put into boiled starch.


Fish may be scalded much easier
by dipping them in boiling water for a
minute.


Fresh milk, after beginning to sour,
will sweeten if placed out of doors in
the cool over night.


"A spoonful of stewed tomatoes IN
the gravy of either roasted or fried
uOdIo 10 e'u lihPiONOLnOhV'


Salt will surdle new milk; hence,
in preparing milk porridge, gravies,
ETC., that should not be added until the
dish is prepared.


Clear, boiling water will remove
tea stains and many fruit stains. Pour
the water through the stain and thus
prevent it from spreading over the
fabric.


Keep salt in a dry place; yeast in
wood or glass; fresh lard in tin vessels ;
vinegar in wood or glass; preserves and
jellies in glass; meal and flour in cool,
dry place.


Castor oil, besides being an excel
lent dressing for leather, renders it YER
min proof. 1t should be mixed say,
half and half, with tallow or other oil.
Neither rats nor other vermin will at
tack leather so prepared.


1t used to be the custom to soak
lard in cold water for "a hours before
"trying out" This was thought neces-
sary to remove the blood and make it
white and clean. More modern house
wives, some of them, have learned that
it is just as well to omit the soaking,
as the lard purifes itself during the
boiling process.


Never throw away lemon or orange
peel; cut the yellow outside off careful
ly, and put 1t into tightly corked bot
tie, with enough alcohol to cover it.
Let it stand until the alcohol is a bright
yellow, then pour it of, bottle it tight,
and use it for favoring when you make
rice pudding. Add lemon and alcohol
as often as you have it, and you will al
ways have nice havoring.


Most Aousekeepers throw away the
leaves and green tops of celery. There
is a better way than this. Dry them
thoroughly in the oven, then pulverize
to a fine powder, and they make a very
delicious seasoning for soup, the aroma
and strength of the celery being remark
ably well preserved. After being pul.
verized, the powder should be kept in
jar or closed bottle to preserve its
strength.
Year: 1879

he examines it few times he will not
fear any thing of the kind again. In
passing by hedges with a colt, throw in
stones, and stop him until he takes no
notice of the noise.


8. Before putting on any article of
harness, let your colt smell it, and then
rub it against his head, neck and body.


4. Always start horse with the voice ;
never with the cut of whip. In start
ing, turn a little to one side; and in
stopping, when going up a hill, do the
same.
Year: 1879

THERE is one thing, at least, in which
the despised red man excels. After
the medicine man has killed five of his
patients the Piute doctor is himself sent
to the happy hunting ground. If such
practice were to obtain with US, how
tenderly would the physician care for
his patients, especially where it had
been his misfortune to lose the pre-
scribed four!-BoSt0n Transcript.
Year: 1879

No use of having the chills, DO use OF
headache ,or any of the Ills that come from
a disordered or inactive liver. One bot
tie of this old and reliable family remedy
will cure the most stubboro case-wilI
relieve the system and make you feel like
q new person. Try il and be satisfied.
Year: 1879

Frank Miller's Harness Oil and Backing
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured. The grade OF
these goods is always standard aud their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere. The
firm is one of the Oldest in the country and
has the largest trade iu its line. diff
Year: 1879

RIVER ExcuRsIoSs.-The steamer Ariel,


Captain Clifford, with complete equipments,
and in every way suitable for the purpose,


is now prepared to make arrangements with
churches, organizations, and private par
ties for excursions down the river. There
is no more delightful manner OF spending
an afternoon or evening than sail down
orr beautiful river, and no better boat or
more accommodating officers can he found
on anv waters than the Ariel and those who
control her. She is already engaged for a
number of trips, and those contemplating
engaging her for this purpose should make
carly application.
Year: 1879

Tue LAST Day OF GRACE.-To-day is the
last day on which persons required to do so
may pay their lcense-taX without being
subject to the penalty OF the law. 1t would be
well for those interested to look after their
lcerses this morning.
Year: 1879

Hastings CoMt.-Thc Hastings Court
was in session yesterday, and was engaged
in transaciiny civil business. The court
adjourned over for this term to meet again
tile third Monday in May.
Year: 1879

as it was light, there was the General hammer
ing at the cottage door, with basket of fowls
and fruit, carried in his own hand And then
and there, took this little chicken bone, and
vowed that I would keep it till the snuf:box
was found, and I myself was such man
among such men, that none would smile at
my poverty, or even despise my weakness"


Do not be too sure that there can be but
one sort of reason for secresy, and that bad
one. We should never think of evil while it
is possible for US to imagine good. Perhaps
it is because God knows of so much goodness,
which we never hear about, that He has pa
tience with the world.-Argosy
Year: 1879

longer than usual at liberty. This fact il


certainly an amusing instance of the force o


habit.


When the pappoose is put away in its cradle
the mother has little or no more concern with
it, other than to keep within sight or hearing
If she is engaged about the wigwam or in the
village, she stands it up in the lodge corner; OF
hangs it to some convenient tree, taking ii
down at irregular intervals to nurse When
she retires at night the baby is brought and
suspended at some point within easy reaching
if the baby is i'll it is kept at her side, or she
sits up all night with it in the most orthodox
fashion. When the women leave the village
on any errand, such as going to the mountains
for berries or to the river cannon for fish, the
cradles, with the babies therein, are slung
upon the mothers backs and carried, no mat
ter how far, how rough the road or how dis.
NAL the weather.


= Indian babies are born subject to all the illf
that baby flesh is heir to, but with this great
difference between them and ours-when
sick they are either killed or cured without
delay. This does. not happen, however, from
sinister motives; it is not done to avoid the
irksome care of sickly, puny child; it is not
the result of lack of natural love for offspring ;
not any of all these it is due to their wonder.
full medicine" their fearful system Of incan.
tation.


A pappoose becomes i'll; it refuses to eat or
to be comforted and after several days and
nights of anxious, tender. .endeavor to relieve
her child, the mother begins to fear the worst
and, growing thoroughly alarmed, she at last
sends for the "shaman," or doctress Of the
tribe, and surrenders her babe to his or her mer.
ciless hands This shaman at once sets up
over the wretched youngster steady bowling,
and then anon whispering conjuration,
shaking hideous rattle or burning wisps of
grass around the cradle. This is kept up
night and day until the baby rallies or dies,
one doctor relieving the other until the end is
attained and that result is death, nine times
out of ten.
Year: 1879

The love of an Indian mother for her child
is made plain to us by the care and labor
which she often expends upon the cradle; the
choicest production Of her skill in grass and
woolen weaving, the neatest needle-work, and
the richest bead embroidery that she can de-
wise and bestow, are lavished on the quaint
looking cribs which savage mothers nurse
and carry their little ones around in. This
cradle, though varying in minor details with
each tribe, is essentially the same thing, no
matter where it is found between the Indians
of Alaska and those far to the South in Mex.
leo. The Esquimaux are the exception, how
ever, for they use no cradle whatever, carry
ing their infants snugly enconsed in the hoods
of their darkies and otter.fur jumpers. The
governing principle of a papoose cradle is an
unyielding board, upon which the baby can
be firmly lashed, at full length on its back.


This board is usually covered by softly
dressed buckskin, with flaps and pouches in
which to envelop the baby other tribes, not
rich or fortunate enough to procure this ma.
terial, have recourse to neat combination OF
shrub wood poles, reed splints, grass mating,
and the soft and fragrant ribbons Of the bass
or lindentree bark. Sweet grass is used here
as bed for the youngsters tender back, or
else clean dry moss plucked from the blended
limbs of the swamp frs; then, with buckskin
thongs or cords Of plated grass, the baby is is
bound down tight and secure, for any and all
dispositions that its mother may see tit to
make of it for the next day or two.


Indian babies, as rule, are not kept IN
their cradles more than twenty or twenty
four consecutive hours at any one time; they
are usually unlimbered for an hour or two
every day, and allowed to roll and tumble at
will on the blanket, or in the grass or sand if
the sun shines warm and bright. But this
liberty is always conditional on their good
behavior when free, for the moment baby
begins to fret or whimper, the mother claps it
back into its cradle where it rests with en-
phasis, for it can there move nothing save its
head; but, so far from disliking these rigid
couches, the babies actually sleep better in
them than when free, and positively cry to
be returned to them when neglected and left
Year: 1879

If we would but check the speaker


When he spoils his neighbours fame;
If we would but help the erring,
Ere we would utter words Of blame; (;
If we would, how many might we


Turn from paths OF sin and shame.
All! the wrongs that might be righted
If we would but see the way!
All! the pains that might be elightened


Every hour and every day,
If we would but hear the pleadings
OF the hearts that 60 astray!
Let us step outside the stronghold


OF our selfishness and pride;
Let us lift our fainting brothers;


Let us strengthen ere we chide;
Let us, ere we blame the fallen,


Hold light to cheer and guide.
All! how blessed--ah how blessed


Earth would be if we'd but try
Thus to aid and right the weaker,


Thus TO check each brothers sigh;
Thus to talk of duty's pathway


To our better life on high.
In each life, however lowly,


There are seeds of mighty good;
Still, we shrink from souls appealing
With timid ''if we could"
But God who judgeth all things


Knows the truth is, "if we would"
Year: 1879

ha- The eoldest timber in the world, which has
been used by man, is supposed to be that
found in the ancient temples of Egypt. 1t is
found as dowel.pins in connection with stone
work which is known to be at least 1000
years old. These dowels appear to be Of
tamarisk or shittim wood, Of which the ark
is said to have been constructed, a sacred tree
in ancient Egypt, and now rarely found in
the valley of the Nile,
Year: 1879

TIE NEWSPAPER BUsINEss.-Hear how a
brother journalist puts it: We suppose that.
many people think newspaper men are per
sistent duns. Let farmer place himself in
a similar business position and see if he
would not do the same. Suppose he raised
one thousand bushels of wheat, and a neigh
Dor should come and buy bushel, and the
price was only small matter Of two dollars
or less, and the neighbor says will hand
you the amount in few days. AS the far
mer did not want to be small about the mat
ter, he says all right. Another comes in the
same way, until the whole Of, the one thous-
and bushels Of wheat are trusted out to one
thousand different persons, and not one Of the
purchasers concerns himself about it, for it
is small amount that he owes the farmer,
and of course that would not help him any.
He does not realize that the farmer has frit-
tered away all his large crop of wheat, and
that its value is due him in thousand little
driblets, and that he is seriously embarrassed
in his business because his debtors treat it as
little matter. But if all would pay him
promptly, which they could do as we'll as
not, it would be very large amount to the
farmer, and enable him to carry on his busi-
ness without difficulty. The above compari-
SON is too true. of the difficulties that the
newspaper mans;to contend with.
Year: 1879

DAIN in the right side, under the l edge of the ribs, increases on pres sure; sometimes the pain is in the left side; the patient is rarely able to lie on the left side; sometimes the pain is felt under the shoulder blade, and 1t frequently extends to the top of the shoulder, and IS sometimes mistaken for rheumatism in the arm. The stomach is affected with loss of appe- tite and sickness; the bowels in gen eral are costive, sometimes alternative with lax; the head is troubled with pain, accompanied with a dull, heavy sensation in the back part. There is generally considerable loss of mem ory, accompanied with a painful sen- sation of having left undone some. thing which ought to have been done.

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Year: 1879

AA IA \ A OAAN A h''

 Small for it's eyes-a young owl.

 Frailty, thy name is savings bank

 The fastest city in the world Electricity.

 Does q standing joke ever require q seat?

 The cicle that cuts down the green things-icicle.

 A duck of a lover makes a goose of D husband.

 Eighty-one Chicago tailors have recently formed base ball nine.

 You can see q young man raising q moustache as fuzz you can see him.

 Hive something sweet to tell thee, love, sad She honey-bee to his mate.

 Can You Support Me, Darling? is the prosaic title of new song.

 When q thing is once begun it is almost half fnished-a kiss for instance.

 A Jersey woman calls her hus- band Mueilage, because he's such a stick.

 During the deluge Mir. Noah was in the habit of calling his wife An ark angel.

 A popular ballad is called Apple are Ripe It IS said to have q fin core us.

 An Iowa justice the other day ad cepted two bushels of She pungel onion as marriage fee.

 An Erie girl calls her fellow, wh8 is member of the Michigan crew. her evenings tar. When you see young lady in dulging in archery, just observe het arch her-eye. Mrs. Burlington, we presumed would like to know whether Gray s Elegy was natural or artificial.

 It is evident that the earth is fem4 mine from the persistency with which she refuses to tell her age.

 A sociable man is orc who, when he has ten minutes to spare, goes and bothers somebody who hasn't A Syracuse man thinks his wife is. a righteous woman because she isl never forsaken--by her mother.

 A young man in this city describes taxidormist to bevy of young girls as one who sort O upholstered animals.

 Mamma, asked little girl, why is it they sing in church Well dine no more, and then go right home and dine2

 A young lady returned from the festival quite sick and her watchful parents said they nauseate too much iee-cream.

 There is little mss at Long Branch just two and half years old who has no less than six dresses which cost $50 apiece.

 It's no use, said the boy, us he saw the old man coming over the fence with the ox-whip, can telopc with that melon.

 The author of Dorothy Fox has written q new story called Adam and Eve. It is, of course, Q tale of the First Families.

 We have shrewd suspicion that half the planets recently discovered arc merely old fellows who have been off on starring tour.

 There is a boy in Detroit so eX- ceedingly bright that his mother is obliged to use piece of smoked glass when she looks at him.

 I don't want to do any blowing, but that's just the niftiest corpse saw," is the way Deadwood mourn CT expressed his sentiments. A Syracuse boy put his sisters switch into cannon for wadding on the fourthr He said that was the proper way to bang her hair.

 The sight of man wheeling a baby carriage in the street is q sign, not that the infant is weak, but that the mans wife is strong.

 Banks ought to be comfortable places Tn hot weather. You can al ways find a draft there, but do not check the precipitation too suddenly. The woman who canned bushel of cherries this year has a right
Year: 1879

John Wise, the father Of Henry A.
Wise, wrote in this stately fashion IN
May, 1907, to the father of Miss Cropper,
the young lady who had won his affec-
tions and possessed his heart: Having
conceived an affection for your daughter
CMiss Sally I beg leave to solicit your
permission to make my address to her,
and at the same time let me express the
hope that should I be so fortunate as to
succeed in gaining her affections, my first
wishes may not be frustrated by your
disapprobation. have thought proper
to make this application to. you on the
subject in this manner, rather than in
person, because my character Gf I have
acquired any my condition and my stu
alton in life are not altogether unknown


to you, and if objections are to be made
they can be more freely communicated in
this than any other way. / have hereto
fore proceeded no further with the lady
than merely obtain her permission to
make this application, and, sir, l now
pledge you the honor of gentleman, that
in case you have objections of an insu-
perable nature to the proposed union,
Year: 1879

Good soup is the literal substance of
the ingredients from which it is made.
All the good of the meat, vegetables or
grain is found in the soup, nothing is
lost, nothing wasted: and for that reason
soups form the most economical and at
the same time the most nutritive of foods.
The pot liquor in which meat has been
boiled is frequently thrown away under
the misapprehension that it is useless.
That's great mistake, and if vegetables
or grains were added with seasoning of
sweet herbs it would be found that pa
latable and very good dish could be OBJ


tanned from it. In warm weather there
is an objection to soup on account of its
heating qualities. Another mode of pre-
paration of meat and vegetables which is
equally effective in economizing, all the
juice and substance of the material is to
put the vegetables and meat, together
with sufficient seasoning and as much wa
ter as may be sufficient to keep the whole
from becoming dry or burning, into an
earthen-ware pot with close cover, ce-
mented on with a flour paste, and to
bake in an oven three or four hours.
Year: 1879

A person who kept an inn by the road
side went to painter, who, for time,
had set up his easel in town not hum
dred miles from Lake Ontario, and in
quired for what sum the painter would
paint him bear for signboard. It was
to be ''real good one," that would at
tract customers.


'sFitteen dollars.'' replied the painter.


''That's too much," said the innkeeper
stTom Larkins will do it for ten.''


The painter cogitated for a moment.
He did not like that his rival should get
a commission in preference to himself,
although it was only for signboard.


s'Is it a wild one or tame one?" he
inquired.


"a wild one, to be sure"


ssWith chain or without one?" again
asked the painter.


''Without a chain,' was the reply.


"Well, I will paint you wild bear
without chain for ten dollars


The bargain was struck, the painter set
to work, and in due time sent home the
signboard. on which he had painted a
hugh brown bear of the most ferocious
aspect The signboard was the admira-
ton of all the neighborhood, and drew
plenty of customers to the inn; and the
innkeeper knew not whether to congratu-
late himself most upon beng in posses
sion of SO attractive sign, or on having
secured it for the small sum of ten dol
lars. Everything went on thrivingly for
three weeks, when one night there arose
one of those violent storms of rain and
wind, thunder a, d lightning, which are
so common in North America, and which
pass over with almost as much rapidity
as they rise. When the innkeeper awoke
the next morning, the sun was shining,
the birds singing, all traces of the storm
had passed away. He looked UP anx-
1cusly to ascertain that his sign was safe.
There it was sure enough, swinging to
and fro as usual, but the bear had disap-
peared The innkeeper could hardly be-
lieve his eyes; full of anger and surprise
he ran to the painter and related what
had happened. The painter looked up
coolly from his work.


ssWas it wild bear or a tame one?''
ga wild bear.''
ssWas it chained or not?"
II guess not"


ssThen," cried the painter, triumphant
" chow could you expect wild bear to
remain in such storm as that of last
night without chain?"


The innkeeper had nothing to- say
against SO conclusive an argument, and
finally agreed to give the painter ffteer
dollars to paint him wild bear, with q
chain, that would not take to the woods
in the next storm.


For the benefit Of our unprofessiona
readers, it may be necessary to metior
that the roguish painter had painted the
first bear in water colors, which had beer
washed away by the rain; the second
bear was painted in oil colors, and was
therefore able to withstand the weather
Year: 1879

Nigh to a grave that was newly made,
Leaned a sexton old, on his earth worn spade
His work was done, and he paused to wait
The funeral train through the open gate;
A relic of by-gone days was he,
And his locks were as white as the foamy sea
And these words came from his lips SO thin,
81 gather them in! I gather them in!" +
II gather them in! for man and boy,
Year after year Of grief and Joy,
I've builded the houses thatlie around
in every nook of this burial ground.
Mother and daughter, father and son,
Come to my solitude, one by one
But come they strangers: or come they kin.
gather them in! gather them in!


Manv are with me, but still Pm alone!
I am king of,the dead and make my throne
On monument slab Of marble cold,
And my scepter of rule is the spade hold.
Come they from cottage, or come they from


hall,


Mankind are my subjects-all, all, all!
Let them loiter in pleasure, or toilfully spin,
gather them in! I gather them in!


81 gather them in, and their final rest
Is here, down here, in,the Earth's dark breastn ?
And the sexton ceascd-for the funeral train
Wound mute1y over that solemn plain;


And said in my heart-When time is told,
A mightier voice than the seXton's old
Will sound DER the last trumps dreadful din
II gather them in! gather them in"