smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

was described as one of perpetual snow
and almost, if not quite, unlnhabited.
In the time of Cesar the grape and other
fruits OF temperate climate were not
grown north of Italy, and even in the
land of the sun the winters were more
severe, the frosts more frequent, and the
snow more abundant This climatic
change has been attributed to the cult
vation of the soil, the drainage of the
lana, and the cutting down of the vast
forests. But it is still going on. as the
gradual recession and disappearance OF
the glaciers among the Alps show. Their
fresh moraines testify to time within q
few hundred years when they reached
down much further into the valleys. Just
as they are disappearing among the Alps
and other ranges of mountains in the
northern hemisphere, they are forming
among the higher Andes,-a phenomenon
in entire harmony with Mr.. Norton's
theory.


In the long and indefinite past these
successive changes in the temperature of
the northern and southern hemlspheres
have doubtless been many times repeated.
Continents have risen and subsidized, and
the confguration Of the earth's surface
under the vast changes. The work of
creation is never ended. Tie lost Atalan-
ia may again emerge from the. waters,
while parts of continents and hundreds
of islands familiar to US may disappear,
and the human race be driven before the
advancing wave and increasing cold to
new lands for their habitation. Still, as
there are some four or five thousand years
ahead for human activity on the nothern
continent before any great change will
have been worked, our people can still
afford to mend their fences and keep their
homesteads in repair. After us the food.
Year: 1879

Horses and cattle normally require, in
round numbers, four pounds of water for
each pound of dry substance in the food,
while sheep require but two pounds, or
half as much. This estimate, the result
of many careful experiments, includes
the water contained in the food as that
in the drink. The amount of water need
ed by pigs has not, l think, been ac-
curately determined.


With horses we find different diges
tive arrangement-one that changes the
conditions which were suitable for ru-
minants to very important extent.
Horses have but one stomach. and that
relatively small; it contains, when fully
distended, but fifteen to sixteen quarts,
and in this condition is too full for the
performance of its functions. Usually,
when dlgesting the food, the horse s
stomach does not contain more than ten
quarts, ana as more feod is eaten some OF
the contents pass onward into the in
testines to make room for it. In eating
full feed of hay, the stomach is flied
two or three times, so the part first eaten
can remain but a short time for digestion
Now, here is point of great importance
the albuminoids OF the food are digested
in the stomach, and stomachful of grain
contains tour to six times as much oi
these as stomachful of hay consequent.
ly, for sufficient quantity of gastric
Juice to be mixed with the grain and pro
duce its full effect requires much long
or time than with hay. If then we feeC
oats or corn, and Immediately afterwarC
hay, we may be very certain that tn,
grain will be forced from the stomach
before it is perfectly digested; but if VI
feed the hay first, and then the grain, i
is not difficult to understand that tn
latter can remain in the stomach a sufi
cient time.


There is one advantage in mixing oat
or ground feed of any kind with cut ha,
or straw, and that is the more perfec


nastication which the animal gives i
this case; but it is doubtful if this advan
tage holds good with cattle, as they dt
not chew their food perfectly when cal
en-, but rely on the rumlnation which fo


lows. In mixing feed for horses W
should not put great amount Of coari
Year: 1879

new product made from petroleum Is a
jelly called "Vaseline," which is of the greatest
utility in medicine, pharmacy and for toilet
use. lhysicians all over the world have dis
covered its great value in the treatment of
wounds, burns, skin diseases, rheumatism,
catarrh and every ailment where liniment is
needed, and in almost every hospital in Amer
lea and Europe this substance is now in
constant use, anG is acknowledged not only to
be the best treatment, but also one of the most
important recent additions to medicine 1t is
put up in bottles by the Chesebrough Manu-
featuring Co, of New York, and as family
remedy. 1t Is without doubt, the best in use.
Its healing and pain allaying qualities being
superior to those of any known substance,
while the speedy relief it affords for piles and
chilblains is almost magical. As an emollient,
Vaseline is way ahead of anything else, as it
renders the skin smooth, soft and clear, and
our lady friends will find it not only the best,
but perhaps the sole substance which will
really preserve and restore to the complexion
the hues Of youth, making the cheek like vel
vet and the skin like satin. The complexion
powders in common use, are, as q rule, inu-
rious to the skin and destructive of any COM
plexion, while Vaseline Is entirely healthful
and beneficial. There is also made "Pomade
Vase.ine," which is said to be of great benefit
to the hair, keeping it soft and glossy, pre-
venting and curing dandruf, and keeping the
scalp healthful and free from disease, and
from those Objectionable creatures which
sometimes find dwelling there. Numberless
instances are cited of how by the use of this
pomade thin and falling hair has resumed a
vigorous growth. Both the pure Vaseline
and the pOmade are put up in twenty-five
cent bottles and are to be found at all first
class druggists, and we advise our readers to
make trial of this wonderful substance, and
we think they will find its claims to merit not
in the least exaggerated.
Year: 1879

Mr.. Christian presented the following:


Resolved, That the Committee on Light
and the chairman OF the Committee on Or
d;nuuces and Tho chairman o. tho Commit
tee on Finance be, and they are hereby, in
structed to report to this body some plan, II
in their judgment one is feasible, by which
the large body OF non-consumers of gas in
the city shall be pade to contribute to the
expense Of lighting the streets and public
buildings OF the city.


Referred.


Adjourned at 1890.
Year: 1879

The new Daily in this city is whining be-
cause the Associated Press got ahead of it in
the publication of the Reports of the Trustees
and other officers of the Insane Hospital, the
Report Of the State Treasurer, &C., and
blames the heads of the several departments
for not sending it advance copies of the sew
erai reports. If the new paper. that has
made such heavy promises, cannot keep up
with the zone man power" of the Associated
Press, it had better add another graceful
and polished writer" to its corps, or add to
its legs.
Year: 1879

The joint committee on library to day,
gave authority to Senator Howe and Repre-
sentative Cox of New York to prepare and
submit to the Senate and House respectively,
two bills, providing for the erection of Ma
tonal Library building in Washington, but
leaving the designation of the site, in each
bill, to their respective individual views.
Year: 1879

LOVE AND RELIGIox.-The most re-
markable love story of the summer is
told by the Port Jervis Union. Four
years ago q gentleman Of twenty.,hree
won the teart Of lady of nineteen.
She was the daughter of pious parents,
and. although she Was not connected
with any church. looked With q feeling
akia to horror on anything approaching
skepticism. But the time came when
she learned that her lover was q Deis.
that he had 10 venerstion for the Bible,
and took no interest in churches. She
was deeply panied By the reselstion.
She sebt for her lover and endeavored
to Convince him of his error, but he was
MT satisfied with her arguments. Sire
finally wrote TO him tear-stsined let
ter. bidding hiua good by forever. The
lady mourned. but tried to satisfy her.
self that she had acted correctly. Two
years made her more liberal than she
had been. The more she read. the
more she distrusted her former decision,
and che finally became quite rs liberal
as the lover she had discarded. The
lover, too, had undergone q change.
Last winter a revival Of religion took
place in the city in which he was en-
gagged in business. Suffice it to say
that he united with the church, and in
q short ii e became . Jealous member.
He thought Of the action of bis former
sweetheart in discarding him for his in
fidelity. and wrote her . brief note ask.
ing the privilege of once more calling
on her. When she timidly apologized
for her previous dismissal of him. he.
to her surprise, defended her conduct.
said she had been in the right, and in
h'r place he would do the same. Her
heart sank at these words. She con.
fessed the great change in her euti-
ments; from being q firm believer in
the Bible she had discarded it. and with
it her belief in any revealed religion
He pleaded With her. urging everything
he could think of to induce her to
change her mind. She could not and
told him So He felt that he must not
be yokcd with an unbelievcr. and gave
her up.
Year: 1879

Years ago some Welsh miners, in ex- ploring an old pit that had long been closed, found the body of young man dressed in fashion long out of date. The peculiar action of the air of the mine had been such as to preserve the body so perfectly that it appeared asleep rather than dead. The miners were puzzled at the circumstance no one in the district had been missed within their remembrance and ct last it was resolved to bring the oldest in- habitant-an old lady, long past her eightieth year, who had lived single in the village the whole of her life. On being brought into the presence of the body, strange scene occurred the old lady fell on the corpse, kissed and ad- dressed it by every term of loving en- dearment, couched in the quaint lan- guage of by-gone generation. "He was her only love she had waited for him during her long life {; she knew that he had not forsaken her."

 The old woman and the young man had been betrothed sixty years before. The lover had disappeared mysteriously- and she had kept faithful during that long interval. Time had stood still with the dead man, but had left it's mark on the living woman. The miners who were present were rough set, but very gently, and with fearful eyes, they removed the old lady to her house, and the same night her faithful spirit re oined that of her long.lost lover.
Year: 1879

seen. He pasaed on into the kitchen, but she was not there. In the big pantry, however, was the stolen barrel ot Hour There was the brand, the slaves were oiled by contact with the ground, and there could be no mistake. The constable heard noise up stairs. The stair-door wss open and he crept up to ind his beloved overhauling some of her stolen property.

 "Then there was fainting scene" ;" suggested the reporter.

 "I really don't remember whether he tainted or not, was her soft reply.

 There are Spartan fathers and Spartan sons in Michigan. This constable was one of them. It was hard position to be placed in-love on the one hand and duly on the other, but duty triumphed. He gave her dead away, made the arrest, and was a with ess against her.

 The widow was not in want, nor did she stand in nsedof a single article she had stolen. The desire to steal seemed to possess her all of sudden, and but for her capture she might have turned housebreaker. Her courage and nerve carried her where plenty of men would have hesitated, and the fact that none of the farmers dogs ever attacked her was probably owing to her dress and sex. The night she stole the corn sheller she passed the heels of three colts, crowded in beside horse warranted to kick at every approach, and united and led him out without fear. There are some sharp, keen men in the cells up there, but the Widow Saunders can match the best of the Free Press.
Year: 1879

Made from a Fetter of Bonnivard, the Prison nr of Chiffon; the Handle of Wood from tn, Frigate Constitution" and bound with Cir clet of Gold, inset with three precious Stones from Siberia, Ceylon and Maine. thought this Pen would arise, From the casket where it lies

 Of itself ould arise, and write My thanks and my surprise.

 When you gave it me under the pines, dreamed these gems from the mines

 Of Siberia, Ceylon and Maine Would glimmer as thoughts in the lines; That this iron link from the chain Of Bonnivard might retain

 Some verse of the Poet who sang Of the prisoner and his pain; That this wood from the frigate's mast Might write me a rhyme at last,

 As it used to write on the sky The song of the sea and the blast. But motienless as I wait,

 Like Bishop lying in state Lies the Pen, with its mitre of gold, And its jewels inviolate.

 Then must I speak, and say That the light of that summer day

 In the garden under the pines Shall not fade and pass away? I shall see you standing there, Carcssed by the fragrant air,

 With the shadow on your face, And the sunshine on your hair. shall hear thesweet low tone Of voice before unknown,

 Saying, "This is from me to you From me, and to you alone."
Year: 1879

To WASH FLANNEL.-Avoid hard
water aud rcsinous soaps, wiring without
twisting with wringer Flannel is so
porous texture that it is easily cleanscd
in good suds without much rubbing.
Hard rubbing tends to "fulr' the cloth,
and to rinse in cold water flannel that has
been washed in warm water, is a sure way
to shrink aud harden it. From cold to
warm but never from warm to cold. The
clean, warm rinsing water is sure to be
soapy enough, if good suds have been used
in the washing. One or two suds may be
used, according to the degree to which
the fannels have been soiled. When they
have been rinsod, two should take them,
one at each end, and shake and snap them
well to make them more soft and fuzzy.
Year: 1879

Philadelphia Times: Col. z. w.
Alexander, who as "P. w. A" was
the best known Of Southern cores
pondents, lately gave me a reminis
cence of General Longstreet. He
says that the night before the battle
of the Wilderness he slept in the
same room as the General. After
he had gone to bed General Long
street came in. He undressed
and then kneeled by the bedside
and engaged in a most devout
PRAYER. While his words were not
audible, it could be seen that he was
very much affected-was literally
"wrestling in prayer" He remained
on his knees for a full hour. Col.
Alexander watching him by the star
light that crept IN through an open
window. BY the way, it is notable
fact that the South, lavish, reckless
imperious in all her ways, sent her
armies to the field under the leader
ship of God praying and God-fear-
ing men, while the decorous and
straight-laced North did no such
thing. 1t may be said that the land
of sentiment believed in prayer,
while the land of cold reason put
its trust in artillery and preferred
that its leaders should look to the
condition of its troops rather than
ind alge in petitions to the divine
Arbiter, that after all, is said to give
victory to the side having the most
men and heaviest guns. Lee, Jack
son and Longstreet were men OF
prayer in the fullest sense of the
word. Bragg was baptized in the
presence of his army. Ewell became
a devout Christian. Albert Sidney
johnson never went into a battle
without going down on his knees to
the Lord of hosts. Gordon was a
devout and prayer loving man.
Neither General Grant, nor Sher-
man, nor Sheridan, nor Butler-but
then it is important to look after
the artillery.
Year: 1879

Providence Journals Pawtucket
Letter: The lights were out, the
streets were still, and all other pres
ences were silent in the presence of
the peaceful night. And at this
time the soft but slightly unsteady
tread of a man was heard ap-
preaching the station. He took a
chair near the door, dangled his
legs over the chairs arm, hung his
peaked hat on the toe of his boot,
and in q low voice addressed the
officer. 81 was here year ago and
listened to the song of your cricket
under the mat there, and / want to
hear it again. That cricket comes
into my life exactly. He sings and
all his green-coated comrades sing
of the dying summer. There are s
million of these little mourners un-
der the leaves tonight, and they all
have one song of pensive sadness.
There is a cricket in my heart.
There used to be summer there. 1
am a sort of an old cricket myself.
/ crawl into the natural formed
grape grottoes on the highway and
sing my own sad songs there.
Speaking of cool, wild graperies
reminds me that / am athirst. Say,
Sergeant, can't you send . sleuth
Year: 1879

An exchange says: A certain man
got mad at the editor and stopped
his paper. The next week he sold
all his corn at four cents below the
market price, then his property was
sold for taxes, because he didn't
read the sheriff's sales: he lost ten
dollars betting on Mollie McCarty
two days after Ten Brock had won
the race; he was arrested and fined
eight dollars for going hunting on
Sunday; and he paid three hundred
dollars for a lot of forged notes
that had been advertised two weeks
and the public cautioned not to ne
gotiate for them. He then paid a
big Irishman, with a leg like der
rick, to kick him all the way to the
newspaper office, when he paid four
years subscription in advance, and
made the editor sign an agreement
to knock him down and rob him il
he ever ordered his paper stopped
ags.n.
Year: 1879

st. Louis Times Journal: How
manifold are thy works, o, reporter,
and how dost thou compass the
people of the earth around about.


Thy name is legion, thou art
everywhere at once, thy fat is Joy
unto the printer and thy lean hang
eth upon the hook until it be dead.


In the day dost thou gird thyself
and travel into far countries and sit
with the lawgivers and money
changes ia the temple; thy hand is
against every man and every man
is against thee.


Thou clinbest the stairs at night,
yea, even seven flights of stairs
thou climbest up and maketh thy
self to sit in a chamber whereunto
the reaches and mosquitoes do ap-
pertain.


If so be the son of man prevail
eth upon thee to look upon the wine
when it is red, 1t being but the third
hour of the day, thou art full as q
tick and thy masters do dock thee
as to thy wages.


The foolish reporter saith in his
heart, My work albeit being done
will tarry awhile hereabouts, lest
happily there being a fire or a muir
der, the paper shall be scoped of an
item.


And as he tarrleth, 10, there
cometh fire and he hustled out on
the war path and they squirteth
water upon his raiment and entreat
him sore, but he writeth up anon
and sweateth much, for he is fool
ish reporter.


But the wise reporter, wbensoevey
his task Oe done, sKippeth for home
and ieth upon his couch and sleep
eth the sleep of a righteous man.


And when the fire cometh and the
murders descendeth, he laugheth
them to scorn and no man saith un
to him go and he goeth or come and
he cometh or scoop this and he
scoopeth it.


For he is a wise reporter and he
maketh merry within himself and
all his ways are ways of pleasant
ness and his paths are peace.
Year: 1879

Did you ever hear of drought,
A regular Texas stewl
Mol then l'll invoke my painting muse
And issue verse or two,
Thermometer ninety at nine,
One hundred degrees at four,
And ninety again at nine p. m.
For full month or more.
So hot that you fall asleep
Over the news by mail
That q COW can't low or a chicken crow
Or watch dog wag his tail.
So hot that men don't speak
In healthy, natural tone,
But greet as they meet in the dusty street
With scarcely an audible groan.
A staggering rooster reels


After a sunstruck hy,
And q hog ilst winks at an ear of corn
Which chances to lie near by.
Not a drop of dew by night,
Not drop of rain by day;
The wells and cisterns going dry
And the creeks have run away.


- Galveston (Texas) News.
Year: 1879

Arrayed in snow-white pants and vest
And other raiment fair to view,
! stood before my sweetheart Sue
The charming creature love best.
"Tell me, and does my costume suite
/ asked the apple Of my eye,
And then the charmer made reply
"Oh, yes, you do look awful cutel"
Although frequently had heard
My sweetheart vent her pleasure so,
l must confess l did not know
The meaning Of that favorite word.
But presently at window side
We stood and watched the passing throng
And soon donkey passed along
With ears like sails extending wide.
And gazing at the doleful brute
Ny sweetheart gave merry cry
! quote her language with q sigh
go Charlie, amt he awful cutegn


st. Louis Journal.
Year: 1879

Those new turned up hats that
the girls wear now are very handy,
as they hang down so far on one
side that the wearer can wink at a
fellow on the other side of the
street without the fellow who is
with her knowing anything about
it Cleveland Banner.
Year: 1879

A man may go fishing and catch
a handsome string of fish, and lose
them out of the back of the wagon
coming home, or have them grabbed
by the dog at the house where he
left his team, but he can never tell
the story and have it believed.
Year: 1879

The beauty of summer dressing
is its lightness and freshness, and
cottons are so exquisite that they
rival silk in appearance, and, when
made up after a good model, they
are as attractive as those that cost
double
Year: 1879

According to the London Lancet
it is, doubtless, in the first instance,
as the cause of a local skin disease
that paper collars prepared with ar
senic in some cuticle has been re-
moved the toxic effect may become
general, because the absorption then
is very likely to take place, and the
whole system may be poisoned. 1t
is impossible that arsenious acid
can be used unwilling ly. AS.
matter of fact, white paper is often
prepared with this poison, and if it
is brought into close contact with
any absorptive surface evil conse-
quently may terioare delebut when
form us; once the ensue. It's time
that the process of manufacture
should be placed under official in
spection, if, for the sake of cheap
ness or to give artificial luster to
their goods, makers will use danger
Gus dye and dressings, regardless of
every thing but their own CONNER
cial success.-[AlI the Patent Out
sides.


The Potent editor dou Dtless wrote
this before he left Memphis while
scared. It's mixed like hotel hash.
Year: 1879

The pencil marks you SEQ around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub-
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extendi1g
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to n strict eash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, and renew your su scripiion
without delay. We solicit your favor.


W- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance
Year: 1879

TtiE same spirit that throughout the
North last summer cxcrted itself to help
thousands of the cx-mnsters who were suf-
ftring from Il terrible scourge now excrs
itself in behalf of few hundred poor ex-
slaves, who are in search of II freedom that
has been persistcntly denied them ut
their old homes. What different commcnts Is
the two facts call forth; yet in what II
broad light they stand together, and what
comment will they receive as the ages roll
by and the spirit that prompted the giycr
predominatcs over the ioolishness and weak
ness of those who sought to cnslave their
weaker fellow-men, and who now seek topre-
vent them from advancing toward q higher
goal, whcre,they may truly become citizens of
the great Republic. The givcr of money
and freedom may well stand against the op-
prcssor of mankind and blush not for the
future. The future will see these things in
their true light, and u light that will exalt
liberty and cause the descendants of the
slave power to blush for their ancestors.
Year: 1879

are with us, the dead have left an example
which stimulates devotion to the right and
incites TO patriotic effort to perpetute the
estate of human freedom that its blessings
may be enjoyed by future generations.


1t is now left for us to commemorate the
heroic deeds of our patriotic dead. Let il
be done with heart and will which would
emulate their courage and, if needs be,
share their resting places for our country's
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