smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

"SaIly, what have you done with
the cream? These children cannot
eat skim milk for breakfast. Sure
ma am it ism t mesilf that would be
after giving the skum to yez. [ TUX
that and gave it to the cats.
Year: 1878

cheese-maker, teacher, and several good
singers. Each of these could entertain the
grange with dozen different speeches or
essays in his line. But who ever heard a
doctor make an uncalled for speech on "the
Jaws Of ,health," or a teacher branch of into
astronomy, in such place as the grange,
without being called OH to do so? What is
everybody's business is nobody's business.
All go TO be entertained but no one wishes
to intrude anything of an outside character
on the time of the grange, fearing it would
not be acceptable to all present.


But if each grange was organized with
the lecturer as executive to preside over a
certain amount Of time (say two 'hours), al
lowing neither business nor anything else to
interfere, we should all go to our meetings
feeling that there was something to be
learned Said lecturer would then be ex-
pected to lay out work for Others to do, Sc
lecting questions for discussion, appointing
two or perhaps four disputants; calling OH
this one to write an essay, that one to make
a speech, or select readings, andso forth; in
fact working up the material which he has
to the best advantage. And believe theEe
is in every grange talent enough, if rightly
used, to make the Order success. should
also be in favor, once year, of having a
rousing exhibition, allowing the children to
do at least their share, and cooperate
enough to pay double the expense, counting
time and dues both, and keeping an eye on
the sound principles which underlie the Or
der. l see no need of any more revivals.-
Patrons Helper.
Year: 1878

The undersigned desires to take in two partners
for the purpose of prospecting two or three months
for placer mines think can find diggings in one
cent gI1m boots anI tobacco wish to commence
by the 10th of May, and will probably spend three
weeks prospecting for quartz. We to be equal
partners in the mines Address me at Camp Baker
or or. call at my ranch ON Camas creek.


W ~ r. w WALTERS
Year: 1878

CHINESE WHEAT FIELDs.-Some Of
the Cinnamon who have been forced to
return to their native country learned
while here 10 prefer wheat to rice as
the staple article Of food, aud have for
some time paid considerable attention
TO its cultivation. II is now said that
their home production 10 increasing so
rapidly that there will soon be a sur.
plus for export. So careful and close
is Chinese agriculture that the wheaI
never yields less than forty bushels 10
the acre, and twenty Ave cents q bush.
81 pays well.
Year: 1878

More than a hundred years ago the
great country east of Germany, known
as Russia, was ruled by the Empress
Anne. 1t is very cold country and
the winter is very long. The capital is
ST. Petersburg, and through it the river
Neva runs. This river freezes in winter,
and the ice is frequently so solid that it
will bear an army of several thousand
men with all their heavy guns and
mortars, and these be discharged with
out so much as cracking the ice.


At the close OF the year 1879, during
an extremely cold winter, the empress
ordered one of her architects TO build
an ice palace. The great square in front
of the royal palace was chosen for its
site. Blocks of the ciearest ice were
selected, carefully measured, and even
ornamented with architectural designs.
They were raised with cranes and care
fully placed in position, and were
cemented together by the pouring OF
water over them. The water soon froze
anu m3ut the DlOchs Que sOilu wall VI
ice. The palace was fifty-six feet long,
seventeen and one-half feet wide, and
twenty-one feet high. Can you imagine
anything more beautiful than such a
building made of transparent ice and
sparkling in the sun!


1t was surrounded by balustrade,
behind which were placed six ice cannon
on carriages. These cannon were ex-
actly like real metal ones, and were so
hard and solid that powder could be
fired in them. The charge used was a
quarter of pound ofpowder and ball
of oakum. At the first trial Of the
cannon an iron ball was used. The
empress with all her court was present,
and the ball was fired. 1t pierced a
plank two inches thick at distance Of
sixty feet.


Besides these six cannon in front OF
the palace, there were two mortars
which carried iron balls weighing
eighty pounds with a charge Of one
quarter of pound of powder. Then,
Year: 1878

burning hoop. Another animal fires
off a pistol, from sack strapped at his
flank, and still another unties with its
teeth handkerchief tied alternately on
one of his fore and hind feet. But the
most difficult trick accomplished is the
act of ''see-sawing." A horse mounts
plank oscillating on fulcrum, and.
although the board is scarcely two feet
in width, balances himself in the centre
until it reaches horizontal position.
rest, he inclines toward one end, and
BY letting the other fall, enables a sec
Ond horse to mount. The equilibrium
is again established, and for some time
the two horses "see-saw' in the most
approved style. They then change
places without leaving the plank, and
ii:sally dismont separately.


The horse Flora rolls on barrel up
an inclined plane-a most difficult feat,
for tie hOofs of the animal are so con-
stituted as TO render impossible any
grip on the substance. But more ditii
cult still than this il the process OF roll
ing the barrel down the plank.


Nettie is the chief leaper of the Bron-
cho troupe, clearing four horses and a
fence at bound. All the horses arr
of great strength and grace of move
ment, and under most perfect training.


The attractions OF tue place are like
wise enhanced by a troop of educated
dogs. A dogs pantomime of the droll-
est description is enacted. One dog
steals brass collar from another;
third one goes in pursuit of the offender
and Overtakes him. Meanwhile, moose
has been slipped around his head Two
other dogs erect a gallows. The dog
who has hold of the end of the moose,
draws the thief after him, and by jump
ing over the cross-bar OF the gallows, is
enabled to pul! the rope taut and thus
raise the offender from the ground.
The thief is then let down, to all ap-
pearanee dead. Three dogs bring
wagon for hearse. The dead criminal
is deposited therein, and the funeral
cortege proceeds from the place OF exc
cution, while the brass collar is restored
TO its rightful owner. The intelligence
shown by these dogs is surprising.
Year: 1878

Oh, if the day should eyer rise
1t could not and it cannot be-


Yet if the sun should ever see,
Looking upon us from his skies,
A day that took thy heart from me;
If loving thee still more and more,
And still so willing to be blind,
should the bitter knowledge find,
That time had eaten out the core
Oflove, and left the empty rind;
If the poor. lifeless words, at last,
(The soul gone that was once SO sweet,)
Should cease my eager heart to cheat,
And crumble back into the past,
And show the whole a vain deceit;
If should see thee turn away,


And know that prayer, and time, and pail
Could no more thy lost love regain,
Than bid the hours of dying day


Clean in their midday noon again;
If should lose thy hand, and know
That henceforth we must dwell apart,
Since had seen thy love depart,
And only count the hours flow


By the dull throbbing of my heart;
I'll should gaze, and gaze in vain,
Into thine eyes so deep and clear,
And read the truth Of all my fear,
Half mixed with pity for my pain
And sorrow for the vanished year;
Ifnot to grieve thee overmuch


1 strove to counterfeit disdain,
And weave me q new life again
Which.thy life could not mar nor touch,
And SO smile down my hitter pain;
Fhe ghost OF my dead past would rise
And mock me, and could not dare
Look to future of despair.
Or even to the eternal skies,


For should still be lonely there.
All Truth. all Honor, then would seem
Vain clouds, which the first wind blew by
All Trust folly doomed to die;
All Life useless. empty dream;
All Love-since thine had failed-a lie.
Year: 1878

OLD FoIks.-Do the young people
ever think that they will be old, that
they will soon feel that the grasshopper
is burden and fear Is in the way? Only
q few short years ago that aged man
and feeble woman were young, strong
and full of life their loving hearts were
gushing with tenderness and care for
the little ones, who now stand in their
places. Dc not jostle that aged couple
out of your pathway, but rather lift
them with tender care ever the rough
declining road. You may have forgotten


how carefully they kept your tender
feet from stumbling. and with what
care they watched your advancings. But
/ they have not forgotten, and the time
will come when you will be forcibly re-


minded of it, by the love you have for
your little ones. Will they sver hand
you the same bitter cup to drink that
you pour out for that aged father and


strickea mother? Verify, "with what
measure We meet, it shalt be measured
| to you again. Think of the anxious


days aad nights your mother has watch
| ed by your sick bed :; remember her Low.


ing care; her patience and lonI sutfer-


Ing with your fretfulness. and then lei


the blush of shame dye your brow, that


you should be impatient or unkind te


her, now that she is old. Old folks ars


such trial; Yes, they know it they
feel it; and so you will be such s
trial to your children in the days tha


shall surely come; aye, and you wi!


remember, too!
Year: 1878

It Is we'll known that A. j. Clark,
editor of the Banner, was anxious to
be elected by the Democratic county
convention of Saturday last as a dele
gate to the legislative district couven>
ton One of the principal causes Of
this desire was to make it appear that
the Democrats of this county are dis
posed to indorse him as worthy mem>
Der of their party. But he could not
even get his name before the convention
as nobody Was willing to oppear as an
endorser Of him in any sense whatever.
After the close of the convention the
minutes Of the proceedings we're gwen
10 us for publication in the Transcript.
We asked permission to deliver the
minutes to the editor of the Banner
after we had finished using them Gas a
matter of courtesy toward him), hut
both the chairman and the secretary
refused to allow the minutes to come in
to his hands at all. And every dele
gate present, without an exception
that We could learn Of, viewed the
Banner and its editor the same as the
chairman and the secretary Of the con-
vention did.
Year: 1878

.1 Come, brother Clark, swallow your.
moss of billed crow like = man, and
don't make such outrageous faces
about it. It will be a good lesson for
you, and will learn you not to overesti-
mate your abilities hereafter. s It will
do you no good to go around to the.
leading Democrats, as you have been
doing, and declare that billed crow
makes :you. sick. But permit us to
call your attention to the fact that that
pestiferous little Banner of yours got
you into this trouble You started
that dirty little sheet for the purpose
of running the Transcript out and
controlling the Morrison county De-
uiocracy'' We determined TO make
the job. 3 decidedly interesting one for.
you, and we have succeeded ID eye,y
respect. The events Of the past week
prove beyond all question that you are
utterly repudiated by the Democrats
throughout the county. They know
that you have done greater injury to
the party in this county than any 9TH
er man eyer did. They know that the
tricks and mysterious performances
that you have been engaged in for the
past few months have had direct ten
dency to defeat the entire county tick
ct this fall, and they have done very
wisely in sitting down on you in such
an emphatic manner as to show that
they do not approve Of your tricks.
your Banner, or anything that per-
tains to you.
Year: 1878

OF THE
- Second Judicial District Of the state Of Nevada in
and for the County of Ornsby.-Leser Haskell plaintiff
Sarah NJ Haskell, defendant Action brought in the
District Court of the Second judicial Iistrct OF the
OF Nevada in and for the County Ormsby, and the
plant filed in said County of Osby in the office OF the
Clerk of said District Court The State of Nevada sends
greeting Sarah NJ Haskell defendant. You hereby
required appear action brought against you by the
above named plaintiff in the District Court Of the Second
Judicial District of the State of Nevada i'll and for the
County Of Ormsby, and to answer the complaint filed
therein "a copy of which accompanies this summons
within days exclusive Of the day Of servce) after the
service you Of this summOns-f served within this
county served of this county but in this District
within twenty days otherwise within forty days ug
ment by default will be taken against The said action
brought dissolve the bonds Of matrmOny existing be
you and said plaintiff, the ground of adultery,
am alleged against you by said plaintiff, all Of which
fully and specifically forth in the plaintiff
plant, file i'll my office. And you hereby
notified that you fail appear and the said
plant above required the said plaintiff will apply TO the
Court for the relief demanded in his said complaint.


-, Given under my hand and the Seal of the Dis
trict Court of the Second Judicial District Of the


AN State of Nevada in and for the County Of Or1nsby,
- this 18th day of November in the year Of
Lord, thousand eight hundred and seventy eight


ALFRED HELM, Clerk.
TREsAoR CoFFN Attorney for Plaintiff.


nOvl4-3Qd
Year: 1878

On the l1th of January, the little
colony of weather observers on Mount
Washington went through a terrible
experience. The morning of the 10th
was beautiful, but il began to grow cold
in the afternoon, and soon all around
was an ocean of frozen air. By noon
the next day the storm had become so
violent and the ice and sleet drifted so
frightfully that eight panes of glass
were broken, rendering the adjustment
of the storm shutters a work of unusual
danger and difficulty. The timbers
creaked and strained, and such was the
deafening roar of the tempest and the
rattling of the ice against the building
that it was impossible TO be heard when
calling at the top of the voice at yard s
distance. The record showed that dur
ing the night the wind blew thirty-five
miles more rapidly than ever expert
enced on Mount Washington and the
highest velocity in the world.


The drop was from 1s6 miles per
hour to ten in five hours. At . o'clock
the temperature was quite moderate,
and observations could be taken out
side. During the storm, which lasted
twenty hours, the barometer fell l.130
inches, the greatest change ever OBJ
served since the station was established
there. The narrator likened the storm
to gale at sea. There would be lull
for few seconds, then a terrific roar
and rush of ice and snow and sleet
against the building which threatened
its existence. While the gale was at
its highest point Of fury the men pre-
pared themselves for the worst. The
unusual severity of the storm led them
to believe that the little building in
which they were stationed would be
raised from its foundations and sent
spinning into Tuckerman's ravine or
the yawning gulf below. Each man
wrapped himself tightly in furs and
blankets. The ropes and chains were
made doubly secure and every pre-
caution taken to guard against accident.


The suppOsitiOn is that the velocity
of the wind at one time was greater
than that given, being, according to
the opinion of the officer, up TO 200
miles an hour. In exposing the ane-
mometer the danger was so great that
the exact figures could not be obtained.
The quantity of snow, sleet and hail
which fell during the twenty hours of
the storm equaled 2.S9 inches of water.
The cold was so intense that a basin OF
water, within two feet of the fire, was
frozen and the men had the utmost
difficulty in keeping themselves from
freezing to death. The officers speak
of their experiences with 2 shudder.
The violence of the storm is unparal-
leled in the history of the service. The
highest velocity ever reached before
was l5l miles in ISL.
Year: 1878

One hundred years ago not POUND
of coal, not a cubic foot of illuminating
gas had been burned in this country.
No iron stoves were used, and no con-
trivance for economizing heat was en-
ployed until DIR. Franklin invented the
iron-framed fireplace, which still bears
his name. All the cooking and warm
ing i'm town and country were done by
the aid of fire, kindled in the brick ov-
en- or on the hearth. Pine knots or tai
low candles furnished the lights for the
long winter nights, and sanded floors
supplied the place of rugs and carpets.
The water used for household purposes
was drawn from deep wells by the
creaking sweep. Noform Of pump was
used in this country, so far as We can
learn, until after the commencement
of the present century. There were no
friction matches in those early days,
by the aid of which fire could be easi-
ly kindled: and if the fire "went out
on the hearth" over night, and the
finder was damp SO that the sparks
would not catch, the alternative was
presented of wandering through the
snow mile or so to borrow brand of
a neighbor. Only one room in any
house was warm, unless some Of the
family were ill; in all the rest the tenn
perature was at zero many nights in the
winter. The men and women of a
hundred years ago Cndressed and went
to their beds in a temperature colder
than that of our modern barns and
wood-sheds and they never complained.
Year: 1878

In the month of July, 1777, the
American army was at Middlebrook.
y. j. Generel Howe, with the main
body of the British army, held New
York, and il was known that Burgoyne
was coming down the Hudson with
heavy force. An English fleet lay i'm
New York bay, and toward the middle
of the month DULY it was reported to
Washington that an unusual movement
was being made on the water. lie was
uneasy. Ii was a critical period. A
certain movement he much desired to
make. and in order TO make il success
fully not only must the utmost secresy
be preserved, but, if possible, the atten-
ton of the enemy must be drawn in
another direction Finally he prepar-
ed despatch of seemingly great i'm
portance, directed it to General Israel
Putnam, which he proposed to forward
by an honest Vermont soldier. The
soldier was directed 10 don the garb of
a common farm labOrer and to then re-
port to the headquarters of the Com
mander-in-chief, which he did. Admit
ted to Washington's presence, he was
directed to take off one of his heavy
shoes. A shoemaker was present with
his kit Of tools, who took the shoe in
hand, and very soon had the despatch
pegged up between the two soles.


When the soldier, who had witnessed
the operation, had put on his shoe again,
Washington told him what he was to
do. He was simply to deliver that shoe
to General Putnam at a certain canton
ment between Princeton and the Hud-
son, and he was tomake his way through
the RamapO Pass.


But, General cried the man in
amaze, Il can reach General Putnam
just as quickly by an other route.
Think of the Cow Boys and the
Tories in that pass. l shall be surely
captured


My good man, said the Commander
in-chief, betraying not a particle of
anger, q do not require you to think,
but simply TO act and obey. IL you
fear to go by that route | will send
another in your place. | know the
danger


No, General, will CO.


And the man went; and was carl
tured as Washington had known he
must be; and the enemy, keenIy on the
alert, found the despatch, for the hid
ing place between the soles of the shoe
was an old device-found it, and the
contents of that despatch led General
Howe upon false trail long enough to
enable General Washington to accom-
plish the purpose he had in view.
Year: 1878

English servants are really what
Thackeray has pictured them-the very
caricatures, SO to speak, of their mas
ters. They have their social status
among themselves, and the servant Of
Duke would no more think of associst-
man than the Duke himself would
contemplate hObRobbing with the shop
keeper. The servants of these great
families are accustomed to have for
their own use a convenient and COM
Portable apartment called the servants
hall, )" a parlor, in fact, where they sit
and read, or perform light and clean
duties and wait in readiness to be rung
for; and they will not enter a service
where such a room is not provided for
them, rs they consider that such a
house cannot Dc occupied by a gentle-
man. To the American idea il seems
odd to know that these servants also re-
quire servants to wait upon them; but
how could it be otherwise? Take the
case of a footman who waits at table,
opens the front door, and answers my
lady's bell in the drawing-room. An
elegant looking tall fellow, fresh from
his daily morning bath, his linen speck-
less as baby's pOwder-puff, his silken
hose drawn as neatly as a ballet
dancers tights, his hair powdered, his
hands gloved, his livery mass of gold
lace and delicate-hued cloth or plush,
and which cost perhaps two or three
hundred dollars. how can such an ex-
quisite do dirty work, even for himselfi
Yet, that he should be an exquisite is
an imperative requirement in a house
hold where life is conducted on a scale
of sustained magnificence which never
flags, never swerve for an hour from
its high standard of princely splendOr.
Certainly, much might be written to
fiagellate this system and for the Fleet
street penny-a-l liner-or even the brill
liant but impecunious satirist, Thaeke-
ray-de- unciation, scorn and contempt
is always easy written.


From the moral standpoint of the
time equality, social and political, of
man and man, and the real wickedness
of caste superiority, the whole social
fabric of monarehical governments is
wrong yet, so far as the fluukyism and
sham sristocracy is concerned, 1 have
seen as much pretenston In that way in
America it was laughable, too, for there
the fiunky neither exhibits obsequiOus-
ness nor is animated by its spirit;
neither Is the employer an aristocrat
who feels he has inherited vast possess
sions by the direct intention and ar
rangement of the Divine power itself.
This lhe English nobleman believes,
ann In th at helief his seryant acnuiesces
Year: 1878

An explanation of the remarkable
speed of one of the newly discovered
moons of Mars is undoubtedly needed.
The trouble with this satellite is that it
goes around its primary about three
times as fast as the latter revolves on
its axis. Unless the circumstance can
be specifically explained, we must bid
adieu to the nebular hypothesis, which
very few astronomers would be willing
to do at present. Professor DoOlittle,
of the Coast Survey, has recently urg-
ed, as satisfactory explanation, the
ory to the effect that the little moon
has had its orbit shortened by the i'm
pact of meteerites. But no evidence
is brought forward to prove that the
meteors of the early ages of the solar
system were so strikinely numerous.
Ii they were, would they not have left
their mark in the most ancient strata of
our own planet? Possibly, however,
this new theory may strengthen an old
er one that latterly has been lost sight
,f, which explains the cup-like cavities
in the surface of the moon by suppos-
ing that they were made by great eor-
lites falling into our satellites while yet
it was of pasty cOnsistence.
Year: 1878

over by hand before being fired. The
great object appears to be to prevent
the leaf from breaking; hence, in the
commoner kinds and those intended for
home consumption, which do not re-
ceive the same care, the leaves are
found to be very much broken. In fact,
the preparation of this latter sort is
very simple; mere drying in the sun
after which it presents a dry, broken
appearance, like autumn leaves.