smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

The discovery of IithOgraphic art has
been thus related by Sennefelder him
self:


Ihad just succeeded in my little lab
Oratory in finishing astone-plate which
INTENDED to cover with etching ground,
when my mother entered the room and
desired me TO write her a bill for the
washerwoman, who was waiting for
the linen. I happened not to have the
smallest bit of paper at hand, as my
little stock had been entirely exhausted
by taking proof impressions from the
stones, nor was there even a drop Of ink
in the inkstand. As the matter would
not admit Of delay, and We had 10 one
in the house to send for a supply Of the
deficient materials, I resolved to write
the list with my ink prepared with wax,
soap and lampbIack, on the stone which
1 had just polished, and from which l
could copy it at leisure.


Some time after this I was going to
wipe this writing from the stone, when
the idea, all at once, struck me to try
what would be the effect of such a
writing with my prepared ink if were
TO bite it in the stone with aquaforus;
and whether, perhaps, it might not be
possible to apply printing ink to it in
the same way as TO work engrayings,
and to take impressions from it. SEN
nefelder surrounded the stone with a
border Of wax and applied aquafOrlis,
by which, in a few minutes, the writing
was raised. Printing ink Was then ap-
piled with a common printers ball, i'm
pressions were taken off, and the prac-
ticability of the important art Of HthO-
graphy thus fully established.
Year: 1878

A New Hampshire man was going Oh
trip with the partner of his bosom re-
Gently, and the train started off very
suddenly while he was talking with his
friends. He grabbed hold Of a woman,
chucked her on the train, jumped after
her, and away they went, a thousand
miles an hour, with his wife shrieking
and tearing her hair on the platform,
and woman he never saw before 60
ing into high Mysteries in the car, CALL
ing him a monster, and yelling, Save
mel" By terrible mistake he had got
hold of the wrong woman, and the con-
ductOr, refusing to listen to his explain
atiOns, kicked him out of the car, the
brakeman chucked him into the ditch,
the sheriff met him before he got half
way back TO town and put handouts
on him, and when at last he got home,
he saw his business partner holding his
wife on his lap and telling her that
there were men in the world who loved
her much better than her faithIess hus-
band ever did.
Year: 1878

When proper, natural, simple food is
taken into the healthy stomach, no
more is felt of it. If it be Of the ma
ture Of soup or beef tea, it is absorbed,
as it were, by the coats and veins of the
stomach. If it be meat, it is by the
movements of the stomach carried
round and round its cavity, and mixed
up with the gastric juice, which oozes
into the stomach whenever food is put
into it. The gastric juice is a clear,
coIorless, acid iiuid, which flows free
ly into the stomach, as we have said,
whenever food is taken into it. The
free acid present in the gastric Juice
(of the dog) is Tactic acid. The gas
trio juice has very slight tendency to
putrefactiOn, and may be kept for an
infinite length of time in common
glass bottle without developing any pu-
crescent Odor. The peculiar property
of this fluid is that it dissolves meat,
boiled white of egg, and such sub
stances. 1t does so even outside the
body, but it does so best inside the
body, assisted by the high temperature
of the stomach and by its peculiar
movements. Gastric juice does not
dissolve fat, nor starch, nor oil. It's
proper duty is to dissolve meat, gluten
1.-THE most nutritious part of the bread),
caseine (Lhe most nutritious part of the
milk, albumen lwhite Of egg); etc.
Year: 1878

Draw with apenciI on paper any pat
tern to which you wish the glass to
conform; place she pattern under the
glass; holding both together with the
left hand, (fOr the glass must not rest
on any plain surface;} then take a spike
or piece of iron, heated, and pass It
slowly forward and the edge viii imme-
diateIy crack; continue moving THERON
slowly over the glass, tracing the pat
tern, and the clink in the glass will fol-
low at the distance Of abAut half an inch
in every direction, according to the
motion of the iron. 1t may sometimes
be found requisite, however, especially
in forming cor,.rrs, to apply wet fin
ger to the opposite side of the glass.
Tumblers or other glass may be cut or
divided very fancirully by similar
means. The iron must be re-heated az
often as the crevice in the glass ceases
to fOw.-Scientiic american.
Year: 1878

"When a stranger treats me with
want of respect" said poor philosO-
pher, II comfort myself with the re-
Election that it is not myself that he
sights, but my old and shabby hat and
cloak, which TO say the truth, have no
particular claim to alteration. So, if
my hat and coat choose to fret about it,
let them; but it Is nothing to me-"
Year: 1878

Twenty years have passed by and NO find tho
3Massaehusetts Democracy anxious to win power
principles and forsaking the solid Foundation
of truth and honor. IL rests With the South TO
compel the Northern Democracy TO observe the


lions OG the party
Year: 1878

! He Ia q mighty poor Democrat who is not to


be found In accord with his party eyre It just 80
long as he ss the recipient Of afcial faVors ag
the bands OF his party. Rs Is q mighty poor
soldier who wont fight on an. empty stomach


when necessity requires it. and who Is ready to-
desert unless 1iS belly is full.
Year: 1878

THE Liver is more frequently the seat
of disease than is generally supposed, for
upon its regular action depends, in a meas
ure. the power of the stomach, bowels,
brain, and the whole nervous system.
Regulate that important organ by taking
Simmons Liver Regulator, and prevent
most of the diseases that flesh is heir TO.
Year: 1878

Banting, "Undertaker to the queen
and royal family" recently died at the
age of eightysfve He invented a sys-
TEN of diet which becam, az famous in
our age as that of Cornaro was three
centuries ago. In a curious pamphlet
which he wrote, and which had a cos
mopolitan circulation some ten years ago,
Mr., Banting related his sufferings from
his enormous obeisity in terms as moving
as those OF "Falstaff." For years he
had not tied his shoes, and he was OBJ
liged TO walk down stairs backwards, lest
the protuberant weight of his trunk
should pitch him down head foremost
He adopted regimen by which he
gradually shrunk himself within such
bounds that he became quitea nimble
pedestrian. The fact that he lived
through this process to die at the age of
eighty. five, may be taken to show that
abstinence from fsrinaceous and saccha-
rire food worked as we'll in his case Is
living on an egg day did in the case Of
Cornsro. But others who have adopted
his system have fared worse. Still bis
work has borPe good fruit il only in
making people think about what they
eat snd drink in its relations to their
vitality as well as to their appetites; and
the mau cannot be said to have lived iE
vain who enriched his native language
with a new verb, "to bant."
Year: 1878

WHETHER merely foolish, or cunning
and avaricious, the men who are urging
the negroes TO leave this country and
cast themselves upon the savage coast of
Africa, are doing a cruel thing. There
is no good reason for any class of men
emigrating from this country, and none
have ever yet gone away in body who
did not heartily wish themselves back.
The Joppa colony, the settlers of Liberia
and the mechanics who went to England
last year are familiar illustrations in
point. Every negro who is entrapped
by this colonization scheme will make Il
grievous mistake, This country is wide.
1t stretches between two oceans, aud
from zone to zone; it presents every vas
riety Of climate and vegetation; its laws
are flexible, and its conditions adaptable
TO any race of men, however rich or poor,
high or humble. Every trampiselgible





to the governorship; every hod,carrier's
son is in the line OF the presidential sue
cession; any negro may aspire to be a
law maker in congress or the senate or
the founder of new state. Even two
hundred and fifty freedmen are too many
to be given over to the losses, suferings
aud disappointments which thisy visionary
scheme will be sure to entail. The Col.
onization society revealed its real animus
generation ago, when it stroye to exile
free negroes so that slavery might be
more firmly rooted, and it is high time
the nest of fraudulent philanthropists
was broken up Graphic.
Year: 1878

Of last month a French


|Inan, in passing along the
|IHawa. near its confluence
] Lawrence, discovered the
M seal close to the shore.
6ht of the water he found
i the seal was stuck fast


Of a large muskalonge,


Rye weighed about fifty
seal and fish, as 4 matter
ID dead, 1t is supposed
hltempted to capture the
ia WAS met with q fierce
Year: 1878

THE MINsTRELs Northumberland
Robinson's Minstrels will appear at the
Theatre, and will doubtless play to full
house. This is the way one Of the Lynch-
burg papers speaks of the company:


eve do not hesitate TO say that the enter
tainment by this troupe Saturday night was
one OF the very best OF the kind ever given
in Lynchburg. The music, wit, fun, and
comicalites were all good, and there was
nothing coarse or vulgar. The audience
were profuse in their signs OF enjoyment.
We are sure that none will be disappointed
who may go to see them."
Year: 1878

The latest yarn about fast time is to the
effect that on n certain railroad IL young man
put his head out of the car window to kiss
his girl goodbye, when the train went ahead
so rapidly that he kissed an old African te-
male at the next station.
Year: 1878


| Some of our most prominent saloon keep
ers formed themselves as q committee last
Saturday, and this morning left the city for
Milwaukee, their object being the settle
ment of the present beer question.


They say that they are unable to sell
beer at cents per glass, at least their claim
is that they can not make respectable iiv-
ing by dishing out beer in the style at pres
ent in vogue.


Their object is to have Milwaukee brew
ers send beer here in order to discourage
Cincinnati firms from selling at the prices
now offered to the saloon-keepers of this
city.


They say that it is impossible to make 4
living under the present system, and that
the old price, 3 cents per glass, must be re-
sumed.


Milwaukee beer can be sold here cheaper
than Cincinnati beer, and the saloon keepers
interested in keeping up the old price pro-
pose to keep the foreign beverage here, until
our brewers get sick of The low prices, and
return to the old standard.


Their motto is: Cincinnati beer and 5
cents per glass"
Year: 1878

engaged for some time past in repairing the
basin of the dry dock at Red Hook Point.
Saturday afternoon the dock was free from
water and thirty men, in charge of Engineer
Emery, were busily at work at the bottom.
AS the engineer walked towards the large
gates which keep the water out, be observed
a slight bubbling at the lower extremity,
and, being convinced that an accident was
about to happen, lie shouted TO the men to
hurry out.


They had no sooner reached the land
and large volume of water together with
thousands of feet of lumber, rushed into the
dock. So great was the force that pieces OF
timber were thrown forty feet in the air.
Great damage was done as the dock is one
of the largest in the country,
Year: 1878

The Board met in regular session, all the
members present and President Bell in the
chair.


The contract for the masonry of the bridge
over Boldface Creek at Lodwick Creek was
awarded to VIM Lomas q Co. at their bid
of $3.50.


The Engineer was directed to prepare the
necessary papers to extend the improve
ment of Lane street to Locust street.


A bill of $50 for tubs for the market
houses was ordered paid.
Year: 1878

We publish a communication
on the second page of to-day's
paper from an intelligent gen.
tleman, resident of Eastern Or
egon. In common with the ma
jority of the people of that sec
tion he regards Puget Sound as
their only natural outlet. and
thinks our people slow in the
matter of tapping the eastern
side by rail. The construction
of a railroad through a noun,
famous region will necessarily
involve much labor, time and
capital, but the time IS approach
ing when all these obstacles will
be overcome and the people Of
that fertile region be supplied
with transportation and a mar
ket for their products.
Year: 1878

The most important matter


which at present engrosses the
political mind, is that Of the ap-
preaching county and district
conventions to nominate candi-
dates for Delegates to the Con-
stitutional Convention, which
will assemble at Walla Walla
on the second Tuesday IN June
next. The Office of delegate is
mot one of emolument, but is
one Of much responsibility, re-
quiring the services Of men of
experience and ability, pos
sessed Of q thorough knowledge
of the present resources and
needs of the Territory, and with
sagacity sufficient to make am
pie provision for the contingen-
cies of the future. While it
would be judicious to have the
various interests Of the Terri
tory represented in that conven-
ton, the fact that the constitu-
tion is purely legal instrument
should not be lost sight of;
hence a reasonable number of
men of acknowledged eminence
IN the legal profession shoald be
placed in nomination. Should
this suggestion be disregarded,
and men sent there with no
other qualification than that of
business experience, social stand
ing, ETC., the scenes Of the last
legislature will be re-enacted,
and an instrument presented to
the people for ratification with
out head, tail or connection Of
any kind, and it's inevitable re-
lection would give us Il back set,
the evils of which it is difficult
to conjecture. We have conf
dence to believe, however, that
the gentlemen composing these
nominating conventions will give
this matter due consideration
and govern themselves accord
ingly.
Year: 1878

The masked repudiators in
Congress having circulated the
story that Secretary Sherman
in 1868 declared that the prinei-
pal Of the five-twenty bonds was
payable and ought to be paid in
legal tender, the Secretary has
written a letter at the request of
Senator Morrill,, explanatory of
his position then and now. The
government, he says, has the
technical legal right to redeem
the fve-twenties in legal tender,
but before it can legally or just
ly execute that right it must be
prepared to pay the legal tender
notes in coin in accordance with
the promise printed on their
face, or must restore the right
of the holder to convert them
into interest bearing govern
ment bonds. He regards the
act of 1862, which, under the
pressure of war and to promote
the sale of bonds made legal ten
ders inconvertible into interest
bearing bonds, as an unfortunate
measure. The right Of CONVEX
sion might have been suspended,
but should never have been re-
pealed. Secretary Sherman's
present positive position is that
we are under both legal and
moral obligations TO bring our
notes to par Ill coin before fore
ing them on the public creditor
in payment of his bonds, and as
that was the ground on which he
stood in 1868 he denies that he
has changed his views or is
amenable to the charge of in
consistently. Y. Herald.
Year: 1878

The Democratic Press comes to
US this week as lively as usual.
We always welcome this sheet,
as it contains a style of litera-
ture which we find in none other
of our exchanges. Horace Gree
ley said it was an easy matter
to edit a blackguard newspaper,
and evidently the editor Of the
Press has found by experience
the truth of his assertion. Men
achieve notoriety in various
ways, each following the drift
of his inclinations, and if the
editor of that paper keeps up
his lick his success as noteri-
Gus blackguard is assured.
Year: 1878

A teacher in a Boston school
was delighted to see every child's
hand go up in answer to
the question of how many had
ever heard of Mr.. Emerson, but
her soul sunk within her when
she discovered it was Billy En-
erson, the minstrel, whose show
bills had placarded the walls of
the Hub for several DAYS.
Year: 1878

A bill for the suppression of
tramps is before the Maryland
Legislature. It provides that
any wandering, INDECENT, and
unemployed person may be SEN
fenced by a Justice of the Peace
to six months imprisonment.
The tramp thus dealt with is to
be put to work; but before the
committal he can have if he de-
mands it, a trial by jury.
Year: 1878

There is a movement in Rock
castle, KY. against the Bust
head whlskey," brought in from
outside the State. The pledge
permits the signer to drink as
much as he wants of the pure
home made beverage.
Year: 1878

|
On the 29th of last month Mr..
Baker Rep, Ind moved in the
House to suspend the rules and
adopt a resolution declaring that
in the judgment of the House,
no subsidies in money, bonds,
public land, endorsements, or by
pledge of public credit should
be granted or renewed by Con-
gress to associations or corpo-
rations engaged in or proposing
to engage In public or private
enterprises, but that all appro-
priations ought to be limited to
such amount and purposes only
as shall be imperatively de-
manded by the public service.
The resolution was adopted by
ia against S5.


The passage of this resolu-
tion is equivalent to the state
ment Of ia members of the
House that they will oppose the
renewal of the Northern Pacific
Railroad grant. 1t is noticea-
bic that since the passage of this
resolution the officers of the
Company have been gradually
making concessions, until about
all the people of this Territory
and of Oregon required has been
promised, except a line of rail
road frcm the interior to tide
water. The Company now even
intimate that the road will be
built to Seattle, If the extension
of time is granted.


A letter from Hon. C. B..
Wright, President of the N. P.
Railroad Company, to the Off
cial organ of the Company in
this city, says that "the Gem
pany do not expect to be able to
build any road this year. In
the event Of the extension of
their time they will endeavor to
build two hundred miles next
year on the main line, which is
to be extended down the Co.
lumbia and via Kalama to the
waters of the Sound. He states
that he contemplates coming to
this coast during the present
year, and to Seattle. Relative
to terminus matters he says that
the reason of the location at
Tacoma in 1873 was that the
financial crisis compelled them
to stop at the nearest available
point on Puget Sound"


This is too transparent for our
people who know the history of
the bargain by which the mana
gers of the Company engaged
in tho Tacoma town lot specula-
ton. The letter is au evidence
that the Company are driven to
desperate measures by the efforts
of Hons. o. Jacobs and John J.
McGilvra to secure the interests
of our Territory, and are en-
deavoring to weaken the sup
port of these gentlemen by hold
ing up the terminus bait to Sc
attic, while they still refuse to
obligate themselves to build a
road from any point in Eastern
Washington or Oregon to tide
water on the Pacific. Our peo-
pie are too we'll informed to be
purchased by this seeming prom
ise which the Company make in
this mornings Lntelligencer.
Year: 1878

a MAN was scared to death at Berry.
vile. the other night. He was passing
a graveyard at midnight, when two men
sprang from behind monument and
shouted at him. lie ran home aud
went to bed, but was so nervous that
lac could not sleep, and before morning
he died in commissions.
Year: 1878

1T is proposed that the Senate meet
only once every two hundred years and
then remain in session only twenty.
four hours. Tho object Of this bill is
to give Senator Sharon u chance to
spend portion Of his time in the Sem
Sto Chamber.
Year: 1878

How 1T WILL GET INTO CIRCULATIoN.-Now
that the silver bill is sure to become . law, We
have been asked in what manner it will bo plac-
ed in circulation. We thought everybody knew
that; but it may be well to state the process.
As soon Is tho bill becomes . law, the mints will
be set at work, night and day, coming dollars.
A certain amount Is apportionsd to each County,
according to the population. A man is appoint
cd for each School District, aud is furnished
with horse, and stout sack, fashioned like
those the farmers used to have when they sowsd
wheat broadcast Then, on Q given day, these
mon ride through their respective School Dis
tricts, sowing the dollars right and left, as they
60, and every fellow grabs what he can get
They pass over some portions of the District
very early in the morning, and the early risers
will stand the best chance to get the dollars.


It is not known when the man will be around;
therefore, We would advise all persons not to
distract their attention by work, but to sit on
the fence and watch for him. As it will probs.
bly, be some weeks before he gets along, it wesld
be well to organize Greenback or silver Clubs in
every School District, and practice grabbing for
dollars. Pieces of tin or wood about the sire of
. dollar can be ueed. Select men to sow them
and the rest do the grabbing. In this way, if .
man ID apt and active, he may become % skill
fnl that he can amass IN independent fortune,
the first time the scatterer comes along He
will not 70 over the district oftensr than once
every three months.
Year: 1878

The poor, pusillauinous creature who occupies
the White House, and whom Republican State
Conventions arc imPorsuned to endorse, has Civ.
en- further evidence that be has not particle of
back bone, -but that he completely at thu
mercy Of the rebel element of the Democratic
party, who exercise absolute control over him
thpesgh the sessey u abjeet fear. When Ander-
sou, Of Louisiana, was convicted, il was an
nesneed that the President was indignant, and
that . radical chanse in his Southern policy
would be iussgurated. It vas ssid that be had
written . strong letter to the Attorney General
upon the subject, which would be published to
the world in few days. He did write letter,
which was submitted to the Cabinet, and approv-
ed but as day after day passed, and the letter
did not appear, members of the Cabinet demand
ed to know Why it Was withheld, and were in
formed by the President that the action Of the
Southern people had been SO modified as TO give
assurance Of better things, and that the publica-
tion of the letter was rendered unnecessary
As there had been not the slightest change in If
fairs at the South, il was marvel what the
President had seen to change his mind but an
Investigation left no room for doubt that be had
been bulldozed by the rebel leaders who have
complete control over him; and he has aimee ap-
pointed friends of those men to Office.


Here is the spectacle of Republican Presi-
dent SO completely under the control Of the most
ultra class of Democrats, that even his own Cab
met cannot counteract their influence. What
terror is it that they bold over him! About the
same time that Hayes was acting IN the manner
above described, q debate occurred in the House,
in which Hewitt, Democrat, Of New York,
threatened to expose a bargain and sale on the
part of Southern Democrats relative to the Pres
idency. A call came from all parts of the House
to tell it, and he commenced, when one of the
Southern Democratic leaders called him behind
a screen, aud when he returned to his place, not
another word could he got ont of him. Is there
not some man in Congress possessed of the tact
and stamina TO precipitate an investigation of
the whole business, and thus put the miserable
creature, Hayes, ont of his misery, and rid the
Executive chair of . disgrace that has never at
tached to it before fan occupant who reached
it through bargain and sale, and uses it to pre-
vent the exposure of his crme'
Year: 1878

~ 1t is now stated from Washington, As q
certainty that the President will either sign or
veto the silver bill. IL is n comfort to have
positive man in the White House, whose position
is known, beyond doubt.