smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

There seems to be no limit to the au-
dacity of swindling. A few days since
stranger went to Harrisburg, Pa, and
pretended to have patent for the man
ufacture of a superior quality of wool.
He professed to have chemicals by which
he could convert cotton into wool.
Strage to say, he found victims who made
arrangements to employ him at good
salary to put his invention into success
full operation. Under his supervision
the alleged necessary machinery was
erected in one of the shops and all was
in readiness, when they found that the
" wool "had been pulled over their eyes,
for after gathering together under various
pretenses, quite sum of money, the in
ventor was suddenly missing. The par
ties waited for days for his return, when
a suspicion flashed across their minds
that they might have been the victims
of an imposition. The stranger having
left behind several demijohns which he
had represented contained the magic
chemicals, they opened them to find
them filled with water.
Year: 1877

A LADY school teacher in a western
town resigned her position, because when
she undertook to correct the big boys
they would attempt TO kiss her-give her
a smack" for a blow. Fourteen hun
dred old girls have applied for the vacant
position
Year: 1877

SuSsmADKs with small sPyglass ai
the end OF the handle arc becoming
quite fashionable. aud the boys who dis
port themselves at the head Of tho dam
must either procure bathing suits or
move further up the creek. or else
somsbojy's modssty will receive shock
As big as an earthquake before long.
Me- IOrk Mau.
Year: 1877

ALlpr friend Of ours says that the
beautiful visits Of her soul.lifs become
blurred when she sends her husband to
the corner grocery with four bits for a
loaf OF bread. and he comes back chew
ing cloves and tells how he generously
gave away tho change To blind man
with only one hind leg.
Year: 1877

YouSo ladies' while playing croqusi
In the presence Of their beaux had bet
ter net the languid or feeble and tap the
balls In an exhausted sort Of way that
would indicate the probability of short
ly having to interview an undertaken.
Many o girl has scared OF first.class
lover by hitting the balls whack with
the mallst that nearly split them In half.
No man like 10 face the possibility that
even as they had done unto them so
would they do unto him.
Year: 1877

And now for the potato patch, rs
we call it. Plough your iheadcd
potato patch two or three times b.
fore setting out draws, leaving it in
rows. Plough and reve s., gettir G
the soil in fine tilth. Wnen tie
time is near for setting out, take a
single shovel plow, open our beds
to the depth of three inches, put n
little pure stable manure in the
trench, and await the rain. Ii the
rain does not come, set out with
water half pint to each hill-the
earth being pressed firmly around
the potato root, and n little dry
earth sprinked around the plant
Next is the setting out-some say
one foot, some two :eet apart
say four inches.


The bet cultivation is TO plough
t. your potatoes all the time, pull
ing the earth up around the little
pants with the hoe the first work
ing. Never bar of, thereby saving
tie small roots which make pota-
toes, and saving one half the piow-
iag. In 1876 l made $50 bushels
of sweet potatoes on one half acre
OF land by this mode-giving
one hocing, or pulling up with the
hoe, and two plonghings, to the
potatoes.
Year: 1877

Sidney Smith thought the follow
ing worth cutting from a newspaper.
and preserving as a guide to his
own life. Old though it be, it is
noble counsel: "When you rise in
the morning say that you will make
the day blessed to fcllow-creat-
ure. 1t is easily done. A left-off
garment to the man that needs it;
kind word to the sorrowful; an en-
couraging expire ssion TO the defect.
ed-trifles-th themselves as light as air
will do at least for the twenty
four hours. And if you are young,
depend upon it, it will tell when
you are old; and if you are old, rest
assured it will send you gently and
happily down the stream OF time to
eternity. BY the most simple ar
ithmetical sum look 1t the result.
If you send one person happily
through the day, that is three hum
dred and sixty five in the course of
year. And suppose you live for
ty years only after you commence
that course of medicine, you have
made fourteen thousand six hum
dred happy all events for a
time .
Year: 1877

We want few private words
with the boys. The truth is we
have great idea of boys. We used
to think men were made of boys.
We begin to- think now that those
were old fashioned notions, that they
are all out of date. We look round
aud see great many persons
grown up, with mems clothes on,
who are called men. But they act
and behave so that we feel certain
that they were never made out of
boys. If they had been they would
have known how to behave better.
Where they como from we do not
know. But what we wish to put in
to the ears of the boys is this-be
gentlemen. In this country every
boy may grow up to be a gentleman
If he will. 1t is not necessary that
he should become rich.-and most
boys should think it is-nor is it
necessary that he should become a
great scholar, nor. that he should
become distinguished man


Butsome impatient ones are ask
ing: How can we become gentle
men? How can boy 60 about
making himself one? Can he work
for it? Yes, he can. And the
harder he works in the right way
the better. But he must study with
his eyes and ears. Reading books
and newspapers is not enough. He
must think and feel as well as speak
and act. Can he buy il? No. he
cannot. Money will buy a great
many things, but it will not buy
what makes q gentleman. If you
have money you can go to a shop
and buy clothes. But hat, coat,
pants and boots do not make gen
tleman. They make q fop, and
sometimes come near making a
fool. Money will buy dogs and
horses, but how many dogs and
horses do you think it would take
to make gentleman? Let no boy,
think he is TO he made gentleman
by the clothes he wears, the
horse he rides, the stick he carries,
the dog that trots after him, the
house he lives in, or the money he
spends. Not one nor all these things
10 it-and yet overy boy may be q
gentleman He may wear an old hat,
cheap clothes, have no horses, live
in a poor house, and spend but little
money, and still be q gentleman.
But how? by being true, manly, and
honorable. BY keeping himself
neat and respectable. By being
civil and courteous. BY respecting
himself and respecting others. BY
doing the best he knows how. And,
finally, and above all, by fearing
God and keeping his command
ments- Parish ViSaor.
Year: 1877

If your seat is hard to sit upon,
stand up. If a rock rises up be-
fore you, roll it away or climb over
it. 1t takes longer to skin an ele


plant than a mouse, but the skin is
worth something. If you want con


fidence prove yourself worthy of it.
Do not be content with doing what
another has done-surpass it. De-
serve success, and it will come. The
boy was not born a man. The sun
does not rise like rocket, or go
down like bullet fired from a gun
slowly and surely it makes its
round, and never tires. 1t is as
easy to be a leader as wheel horse.
II the job be long, the pay will be
greater; if the task be hard, the
more competent you must be to do
Year: 1877

When he invited her to marry
him she gazed into his face ard
tenderly inquired if he knew what
costly and valuable thing lie asked
fora woman's life, woman's
wondrous love. Four months after
the wedding he climbed through
the scuttle on the roof, and when 4
neighbor came with a ladder to
take him down, he put it to him as
fellow creature, whether il vast
Il mans duty to run when woman
rose up after him with a hot tea
kettle in her hand?
Year: 1877

Productive indnsfry will bring
more money into oar country. or
course. the farmer can get no mon
ey so long as he has no surplus of
products 10 sell. IL he had wheat at
the present time, hard as the times
are, he could find a ready purchaser
at about two dollars u bushel. IL
therefore we want more money let
US have more products. THIS viii
command it.-Ex.
Year: 1877


LESSONS FROM HISTORY FOR TROUBLED TINES
NEED OF HONEST MEN-CLEMENCY IN VICTORY
POLITICAL AND COMMON CRIMES.


Ex-Secrctnry J. ID. Cox addressed the Law School
of Yale University yesterday on Historical MaXHis
for Troubled Tines He spoke of the spirit in which
history should be studied in order to read its lessons
correctly The great need of troubled times honest
men, but history teaches that party leaders in periods
Of excitement less honest in action than IN pro
fosson. People are easily led by party cries. and
ARE careless in the scrutiny of the motives of those
whose professions are loud. The distinction be
tween political olenses and common crimes should
be clearly comprehended though the punishment OF
each under the law may be the same. CleInency
should be shown the vaBqushed, aud punishment,
If inflicted at all should reach only few leaders.
MI Cox spoke of the folly Of test oaths. and said
that there were many encouraging lessons to be
drawn from the moderation exercised by our Gov
crnnent at the close Of civil waT-a moderation
which would not have been possible EXCEPT IN a
republic.
Year: 1877

What once, in fiery test Of war,


so proved itself, must ever stand,
To make the land worth living for,


Since others died to save the land!-
Take from their lips the parted breath!
Make Life as glorious as is Death


TO them that triumph when they fall:
Still bid the phantom squadrons throng;
Their purpose and their will prolong
To guard the Right, Iepel the Wrong,


And giving, gain, their all
Year: 1877

According to the apportionment lately
forwarded from Washington there do not
seem to be any very cogent reasons why
office-seekers should have anything to
hope from Senator Cameron giving the
President his hearty support. This sched-
ule shows that thirteen Pennsylvania
clerks sweat their brows in the office of
Secretary Thompson. which affords room
for only a single Buckeye. Of the as
sistant surgeons in the army Ohio has
furnished but Two. But Pennsylvania
has thirty. In the pay department of
the army-which is very soft place just
now-Pennsylvania has provided for sew
enteen of her sons, while Ohio squeezed
in only eight. But it is in the navy that
the great State of the interior is most
shamefully neglected. Only five engin-
eers claim residence in Ohio, while six
ty-one owe allegiance to the Keystone
State. This being the real condition of
affairs, every lover of fair play should re-
joice that Ohio has at last got President
and we are not all certain that he ought
not to make it his fist business to turn
out enough men to give Ohio its full
quota-1imes.
Year: 1877

The work has been begun after long and careful preliminary labor and with the most ample resources for carrying itOn toe successful Termination.

 None of the original stereotype plates have been used. but every page has been
Year: 1877

ONE MAN BLOWN IL AlOhnS AM n DAibb-


ING DEMOLISHED.


Yesterday afternoon, about 8 o'clock,
the people of this city, were startled by
hearing a loud noise and the shaking OF
their buildings.


The excitement was caused by another
one of those unaccountable explosion OF
one ofDuPont's, powder mills situated on
the Brandywine. The explosion occurred
in one of the grinding mills in the lower
yard, which contained about two thous-
and pounds of powder.


At the time of this explosion there was
only one man in the building, Mr.. John
Meninger, Frenchman by birth, and 70
years of age, and unmarried, who was
blown to atoms. A portion of his body
and his head was found on the opposite
side of the creek, while both of his arms
were either wrenched or torn from their
sockets. Two men who had been at work
in the mill, had just left it and made
very narrow escape.


The mill which was situated in the low
er yard, was completely demolished some
of the timber being blown several hund-
red feet. This same mill exploded in 1873,
killing Patrick Rowan. The people who
live in the vicinity say that the shock
was very heavy one, bursting open doors
and breaking window sashcs. The shock
was also distinctly felt in this city.
Year: 1877

HANGING WALL PAPER
as follows: Unglazed or blank paper rsdu-
ced from 1S to 10 cents per piece; glazed or
satin paper reduced from % to 20 cents per
piece; all other qualities reduced in proper
tion.


am thankful for your patronage during
the past twenty years, and trust that with
my practical knowledge and personal ST
peryision the busidess will be so conducLoA
that it will be mutual interest for you to
continue your patronage.


We have hopes that on or before March
25th we will be able to reduce prices in the
material department, as well as at present
in the work department.


Yours very truly,


JOHN r. HOLT
ian1-tf 223 Market street
Year: 1877

Work TO BE REsUMED.-On Monday
next work will be resumed on large
scale, in the boat yard of the Harlan q
Hollingsworth Company. For the past
three days this firm has been employing
men, and will continue TO do so until a
sufficient number are employed.
Year: 1877

Two cases of hydrophobia are report
ed from Staten Island, and In both the
victims were bitten by Spitz dogs. ln
one case it is reported that the dog was
not rabid, and he appears to have been
only irritable in the other. Before the
great increase now noted in the fre-
9uency of these accidents it was thought
that society paid sufficiently for the ad-
vantage it derived from dogs by the
deaths they caused in communicating
rabies; yet that was when there were no
dogs about but the old accllmated
breeds, that did not go mad often, and SO
far as close observation could discover
did not cause hydrophobia save when
they had it themselves. 1t was bad
enough that way, and certainly it is IN
finitely worse to have in all our streets
and in many houses an animal which
seems to possess a virus capable OF
causing hydrophobia while the animal
himself is to all appearance In a normal
condition. Persons who care for the
lives of their little children should take
notice that the number of cases reported
is now large in which this dog, while
himself apparently pet mad, has caused
hydrophobia by his bite. They have
not, therefore, in regard to this species,
even that slight assurance OF safety
which, in-regard to other dogs, is derived
from the warning of evident sickness IN
the animal himsef.-Ne,o York Herald.
Year: 1877

front of the poles, surrounded by these
coils of wire, is diaphragm of iron. A
mouthpiece, whose function is to con-
verge the sound on this diaphragm, sub
stantially completes the arrangement. The
operation of the instrument is thus des-
cribed by Prof. Bell: The motion OF
steel or iron in front of the poles OF the
magnet creates current of electricity in
coils surrounding the poles of the mag


net, and the duration of this current OF
electricity comedies with the duration OF
the motion of the steel or iron moved or
vibrated in the proximity OF the magnet.


When the human voice causes the dla-
phragm to vibrate, electrical undula-
tions are induced in the coils around the
magnets precisely similar to the undula-
tions of the air produced by the voice.
The coils are connected with the line
wire, and the undulations induced in them
travel through the wire, and passing
through the coils of another instrument
of similar construction at the other end
of the line are again resolved into air in
dulations by the diaphragm of this un-
strument. The voltaic battery is entirely
dispensed with. The line wire may be
of any given length, provided the insu-
lation is good. Prof. Bell further says
that soft tones can be heard across the
wires even more distinctly than loud


utterances, even whisper being audible.
Year: 1877

There Is large amount OF counterfeit
coin in circulation, the New York Sun
says, Judging from the complaints OF
people engaged in all branches OF busl-
nesa. The counterfeits are Of all denom-
nations, beginning with a tive-cent
nickel and ending with the trade dollar:
Only few of the latter are in general
circulation. Half dollars, however, are
handled by everybody, and upon these
the counterfeiters have exerted Their
highest art. There are at present coun-
terfeits of four or five different substances
which closely resemble the genuine sill
yer half dollar. The most dangerous OF
these is conceded to be made of glass,
silvered over by some process, which
makes the counterfeit similar in appear
ance and feeling to the government coin.
Saloon keepers say that it is exceedingly
difficult to detect the fraud, particularly
as the ring is perfect. In an uptown
barroom one was taken from customer,
and the fact that it was counterfeit point
ed out to him. The barkeeper then gave
him change, saying "We get these glass
half dollars in every day, and they are
so good that with our customers we sell
dom say anything, as they pass ont with
out difficulty" The counterfeit quarters
are exceedingly numerous, and are well
calculated to deceive people who are not
used to handling coin. The stage lines
and the street cars without conductors
suffer considerably from the abundance
of counterfeit coin, as passengers can
slip bad money into the boxes in pay
ment of fares without discovery. The
losses in consequence are so serious that
the advisability of taking out the boxes
and employing conductors is under con-
sileration.
Year: 1877

Wien the evening lamps are lighted,
SAYS an exchange, the children now
gather with school books around the
table to con the morrow's lessons. To
many of them the tasks assigned seem
dreary and hopeless definitions are
hard to remember the geography les
son is difficult to comprehend and won't
stay fixed in the mind history is dull
and dead, arithmetic hopeless tangle
of figures, and gramma more puzzling
than any possible conundrum. The lit
tie folk need help ); they need cheer and
encouragement, and who should be so
ready, So willing, so able to give it as
the parent Even if the parents educa-
ton is imperfect, he will bring to the
comprehension of the lesson in hand a
wider range of knowledge and broader
manner of looking at things than the
child can do, and thus greatly aid in the
clear comprehension of the lesson to be
earned.
Year: 1877

SO ended the letter. Poor man! [
inquired of my father if nothing could be
done to trace him, and get him to return.
He replied that he would do what he
could. We succeeded in tracing him to
New York, and there the clue was lost.
We tried every means which occurred to
us for discovering his whereabouts, and
inserted advertisements in the New York
and the Canadian papers, begging him
to let us know at least that he was alive
and well; but all our endeavors were
yain-we never heard of him again.


We often think of him with pity and
regret, for, whatever were his faults,
there must have been some good in a
man who was capable of feeling such
profound and sincere contrition for "a
guilty intention.-Nlustrated Weekly.
Year: 1877

Cultivation of the Ounce.


evil you be kind enough to give me
some general information in regard to
growing and attending ounce trees p


Reply.-If it is desired to grow
ounces. the trees should be procured
from nurseryman and planted out now
or else early in the spring. The ground
in which the young trees are planted
should be deeply dug over and manured
with rotten stable manure. For fruit,
the orange ounce IS preferred. If it is
desired to propagate the young plants,
this may be done by procuring cuttings.
consisting of strong shoots taken on
from near the old wood and at least SIX
inches long. These are put out early in
the winter, or at the present time, IN
trenches two feet deep and secured from
frost by covering with dry soil. They
are planted out in the spring in rows
eighteen inches apart in the row and
kept free from weeds. The proper after
culture is to train the young trees to
stout stems two to four feet high and to
form we'll balanced head. The variety
mentioned is very hardy and productive
of fine favored and popular market
fr1Iit.
Year: 1877

This is TIE way to get to the north
pole. One man has been proposing rail
way over the ice. No such bad plan
after all; but nothing to the proposal OF
an other enthusiast who would set off in
n balloon from the ships quarters, and,
with favorable wind, try to cross the
pole. They might be carried right over
to inhabited regions on the other side; {;
the distance, not over one thousand
miles, seems quite within the compass of
balloon undertakings. Or, again set Off
in balloon from the ship with a favora-
BILE wind, and without rise far above the
ice, establish series of small provision
depots, say at twenty miles intervals,
marking the spots carefully by means OF
astronomical observations and flags, or
lights. The balloon would be furnished
with apparatus for laying hold of the ice
where it might be desired to disembark
for this purpose. Supposlng, after the
pole was reached, that the balloon was
incapacitated for return to the ship. the
party, lightly equipped, without sledge;s


might make their way back on foot by
the help of these dspots. Walking twen-
ty miles day, they could thus accom-
rli.h the journey back in say twenty
davsn This sounds absurd at the first
blush: but it really is not SC impossible
after all, especially 1t some simple effect
I'VE means could be found of generating q
lighter gas, and these means carried in
the balloon, which would never rise
above twenty feet above the ice, being
kept down by drag ropes trailing Ovel
the surface. e.-OHce Il Week.
Year: 1877

THERE can be no doubt that the re-
cent disastrous defeat Of the Russian
forces Of Plevna was serious enough
p derange the whole plan Of the cam
paign and to retard any further ad-
vance for an indefinite period. The
plan, as now explained, was to bring
the whole Russian army on line par
allel to the Balkans and then drive
the enemy southward. The annihila-
ton of the centre necessarily separates
the two wings and leaves them exposed
to an attack on both sides, without the
possibility of cooperation. Consolida-
ton is now the first thing to be done,
and the victorious Turks, who have
hitherto done nothing but retire before
the Russian advance, are quite likely
to make a little forward movement
themselves BY way Of variety. It
is really the first great victory Of the
war, and it has been won because the
Russians made the mistake which cost
Napoleon III. his throne: they under
estimated the enemy. The usual
charges Of Turkish barbarity are re-
peated, but fair-minded people, who





win give the devil his due, should re-
member that all our news is from the
Russian army, and that we get but one
side of the story. At any rate, the
Turkish war Office officially denies that
there was any violation Of the rule Of
civilized warfare.