smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

FROM time immortal the pillow has


been favorite weapon Of Juvenile COM


bat. When held by the loose end of the


pillow-case-the latter very tightly twist
ed into the semblance of stout rope-it


becomes a weapon equally adapted for
the use of either sex. Who does not
recollect the pillow fights OF his boyhood,


and the carnage and broken glass which
accompanied them? There was the fiery
assault of the enemy from the next dor
mitory the fierce resistance with which
it was met; the turning of the tide of
battle; the panic-stricken flight of the
enemy through the midnight hall; and
the armed Intervention OF the school
teacher, who arbitrated on the spot and
sent the combatants back TO their beds
with beating hearts and tingling extrem.
tiles. Fierce as these battles we're, the
only serious wounds were those sustained
by crockery and other light articles et


furniture, and il boy occasionally wore


rather too much nose the morning after
fight, he could readily explain it by the
| theory that he rose up in the night il
order To study his catechism and acci


dentaily walked against tie stove.pipe
Year: 1878

Never cast aside your friends If by any
possibility you can retain them. We are
the weakest of spendthrifts if we let one
drop oil through inattention, or let one
push away another, or if we hold alOof
from one through petty jealousy or heed
less slight or roughness. Would you
threw away diamond beause it pricked
you? One good friend is not to be
weighed against the jewels of the earth.
IL there is GOODNESS or unkindness be-
tween us, let US come face to face and
have it out. Quick. before the love
grows cold Life is too short to quarrel
in, or to carry black thoughts of friends
1t is easy to lose friend, but a new one
will not come for calling, nor make up
for the old one.
Year: 1878

The use of long words which we get
rom other tongues not only makes our
thou hts and our speech dim and hazy,
out 1t has done somewhat to harm the
morals Of our people. Crime does not
sometimes look like crime when it is set
os'ore US in the many folds of long
word. When o man steals and we call
defalcation, we are at loss to know
ut ie blunder or crime. If he does
not tell the truth and we are told that it
~ y. case OF prevarication it takes us some
" Nme TO know what we should think of it


NO man will ever cheat himself into
;wlong-ooing, nor will he be at loss to
!aage OF others. il he thinks and speaks
9u ri ao.s IN clear, crisp English terms
Year: 1878

Let young gentleman and young lady
try the following scientific experim ent: A
galvanic battery is set in motion. and
while he takes one handle in one OF his
hands she takes the other in one OF hers.
Then let them softly kiss each other.
This brings out all the fireworks there
are in two moving souls.
Year: 1878

The Grand Duchess of Baden, the
only daughter of the Emeror of Germany,
is woman OF admirable good sense.
She has placed her young daughter in
the excellent girls school in the Schloss
at Carlsruhe, where she is proceeding
step by step with her young companions,
and teachers and playfellows have been
alike charged not to distinguish her by
any OF the high and exceptional titles
she may bear in after.Iife. She is to
work and play, run and wrestle, give and
take, on perfectly equal terms with all
her companions, and to receive exactly
the same punishments if she is remiss in
study, sewing, knitting, or any other
occupation OF an ordinary scholar. The
Grand Duchess is credited with expires.
ing a wish that the child may be made
as thorough q seamstress as if she were
expecting to earn livelihood by heI
needle.
Year: 1878

Anderson confesses that Weber
threw out 700 Democratic majority in
his parish and returned 500 Republican
majority, and that between Webber
and himself threw out $500 Democrat
ic votes, which saved louisiana for
Hayes. When he heard that Webber
was murdered he thought it safest to
leave. The frauds Anderson confesses
were done in the interest of the Re
turning Board. Anderson says further
that Webber's protest, on which the
whole vote of West Feliciana was
thrown out by the Returning Board was
not justified by the facts, there being
disturbance only in one locality-which
had nothing to do with politics-and
that he (Anderson) signed his name to
blank sheet of paper, which was sub
sequently filed in with sweeping pro
test against the vote of East Feliciana
that this was fraud, tho election being
entirely peaceful in this parish; that be
had made up his mind to denounce the
fraud, when the visiting statesmen
came on the ground; and that Sherman
wrote letter to Webber and himself,
on the strength of which they went
through their part of the work. An
derson says that the letter promised
that they should be cared for if they
did their duty; that it can be proved
that Sherman understood the whole
situation as to these two parishes when
he gave the letter; that the letter was
to operate as bribe. 1t is alleged by
a well informed person that the original
letter from Sherman is in secure posi-
tion aud can probably be produced.
Year: 1878

L never knew a second wife bat what
was boss of the situation.
. Whisky is hard thing to convince
therefore never quarrel with a drunken
man.


Maids marry 10 change their condi-
tion-widows to iSnprove it.


After a man gets to be So years old
he can't form habits much, the best he
can do is to steer clear Of his old ones.


Any man who can swap horses or
catch fish, and not lie about it, is just
as pious as men ever get to be in this
world.


An enthusiast is an individual who
believes about four times as much as
anybody else believes.


The dog that will follow anybody
isn't worth cuss.


Those people who are trying to get
to heaven on their creed will find out
at last that they didn't havo a through
ticket.


One quart of cheap whisky (the
cheaper the better) judiciously applied
will do more business for the devil than
the smartest deacon he has got.
Year: 1878

/


One day benevolent physician who
had read the boolx), having found a stray
poodle suffering from broken leg, con.
yeyed the poor creature to his home
and after setting and bandaging the
injured limb, gave the little outcsst its
liberty again, and thought no more
about the matter. But how great was
his surprise, upon opening his door one
morning some days later, to find the
grateful poodle patiently waiting there,
and IN its company another stray dog.
one of whose legs, by some accident.
had been broken. The kind pbysician
at once relieved the distressed animal.
nor did he forget to Admire the inseruta-
bic goodness and mercy of Cod. who
had been willing to use SO humble an
instrument as the poor outcast poodle
for the intoxicating Of, etc, etc, etc.


Sequel-The next morning the be-
neFolent physician found the two dogs.
beaming with gratitude, waiting at his
door, and with two other dogs -cripples.
The cripples were speedily healed, and
the four won't their way, leaving the
benevolent physician more overcome by
pious wonder than ever The day pass
ed, the morning came. There at the door
sat now the four reconstructed dogs and
with them four others requiring recon
struetion. This day also passed, and
another morning came; and sixteen dogs,
eight Of them newly crippled, occupied
the sidewalk, and the people were going
around. BY noon the broken legs were
all set, but the pious wonder in the
good physicians breast was beginning
to get mixed with involuntary profani-
ty. The sun rose once more, and ex-
hibited thirty-two dogs, sixteen of them
with broken legs, occupying the side.
walk and half the street; the human
spectators took up the rest of the healed
brutes, and the comments Of the on
looking citizens made great and inspir-
ing cheer; but traffic was interrupted in
that street. The good physician hired
a couple of assistant surgeons and got
through his benevolent work before
dark, frst taking the precaution to
cancel his church membership, so that
he might express himself Will, the Iati-
tude which the case required.


But some things have their limits.
When once more the morning dawned,
and the good physician looked out upon
a massed and far reaching multitude
of clamorous and beseeching dogs, he
said, AZ might as well acknowledge it,
| have been fooled by the %, IS they
only tell the pretty part OF Ike s orr,
and then stop. Fetch me The shotgun
This thing has gone along far enough. !"


He issued forth with bis weapon and
CHANGED to stei, on The tail of tie origi-
nal poodle, who promptlybit him in the
leg. Now the great and good work
which this poodle had baen engaged in
had engendered in him such mighty
and augmenting enthusiasm as to turn
his weak head and at last drive linn
mad. A month later, when the benev-
olent physician lay in the death throes
of hydrophobia, he called his weeping
friends about him, and said


Beware of the books. They tell but
half of the story. Whenever a poor
wretch asks you for help, and you feel
in doubt as to what result may flow,
from your 'benevolence, give yourself
the benefit of the doubt and kill the
applicant"


And SO saying he turned his face to
the wall and gave up the ghost.
Year: 1878

Age when white ned for the tomb, is
a worthy object Of reverence. The
passions have ceased-hopes Of self
have ceased. They linger with the
young, and pray for the young oh,
how careful should the young BE to re-
ward them With tender affection and
with the warmest love, to diminish the
chill of ebbing life /! The Spartans
looked on with reverential respect for
old age as beautiful trait of character.
Be kind to those who are in the Au.
tumn of life, for you know not what
sufferings they have endured, nor how
much of it may still be their portion.
Do they seem unreasonable to find
fault or murmurl Allow notyour anger
to kindle against them; rebuke them
not, for doubtless many have been the
crosses and trials of early years, and
perhaps their dispositions, while in the
Spring time Of life, were less flexible
than your own. Do they require add
Then render it cheerfally. Forget not
that the time may come when you may
desire the same assistance from others
that you render to them Do all that
is needful for the old, and de it with
alacrity, and think not hard if much is
required, for when age wrinkles YOU
brow, and fills your limbs with tremb
ling, others may wait unwillingly, and
feel relieved when the coffin coverd you
forever
Year: 1878

THE fact that there was no intinida-
tion in Louisiana is abundantly proved
by the fact that the Republican vote in
that State was larger in 1876 than in
any preceding year. And yet the
apologists for the monumental crime Of
the age say the election was not fres
They know better.
Year: 1878

NIPPLE MITCHELL, the hireling
of the Central Pacific Railroad corpor-
alton is sprung upon an unsuspecting
Portland public by the Custom House
orator as the peoples champion
against monopolies. What miserable
demagogism! We shall next hear of
Nipple laboring to have the penalty
against bigamy made severer.-Stan-
dord.
Year: 1878

The democratic papers are dissatis-
fed with General Buffers manage
ment of the Potter investigation, and
that there is too much Butler and not
enough Potter i'm the business. They
claim that bluff old Benjamin is a
mystery. He does not consult with
the democratic members, and they
don't know what he is driving at. He
is constantly springing surprises on
them, and papers like the Cincinnati
Enquirer express the fear that Butler
will drag the Democrats into all sorts
of serapes.


Butler was put on the committee
by the democrats. MIR. Potter was
yoked to the gentleman from Massa-
chusettS as a matter of choice. He
was keen to try the experiment, and,
now that he is being dragged along as
burly Ben wills, he finds it oflittle avail
to call a halt. The situation recalls a
little story told by the Rock Island
Press. When the town was small
village, and its people had lots of fun
all to themselves, one of the very So
ber, dignified citizens put his own
IItstu uliutI pHc eIlu Vi ,yOhc anu Il
little bulls under the other, to teach
the animal how to be useful and work.
When he found the bull was running
away with him down dirt road to-
ward a crowd around the country
store on Illinois street, he measured
sixteen feet at a jump, kept up with
the bull, and yelled at the top of his
voice: LOOK out! Here we come,
darn our fool souls. Head us, some
body;' and, when halted and the
yoke was being lifted from his neck,
he yelled, "Unyoke the bull; never
mind me. l will stand"


So with Mr.. Potter at this juncture.
He was going to show Mr.. Butler how
to conduct an investigation, but now
Butler is running away with him and
his committee, he is ready to shout:
"Stop Butler; never mind me; Pll
stand"
Year: 1878

Let every citizen know and ever
bear in mind that the republican Sem
ate passed the bill directing the Sec
.etary of the Treasury to receive
greenbacks in payment of customs on
and after October 1st next, and to at
once receive them in the purchase of
4 per cent. United States bonds, and
that the republicans of the House la
bored with all their might to get this
bill up in the House and pass it, but
were prevented by the democratic
House, and chief among those op-
posing was Tom Ewing, Of Ohio,
who, as leader Of the greenback
doctrines, saw in this move the death
of his pet soft money schema. The
republicans have, by their policy,
brought the paper of the country up
to within fraction of one per cent. of
specie and accumulated over hum
dred millions of specie in the Treasu-
ry for redemption purposes, and they
felt the time of practical redemption
had come so that they were ready to
place greenbacks on par with specie;
so they tried to do so and were defeat
ed by the democrats, chief among
whom were the noisy soft money men
who saw in this move the life blood
of their demagOguery ebbing away.
Year: 1878

THE news comes of complications
arising in the European Congress
which portend much trouble and a
possible disagreement. Lord Bea-
consfield is very firm and decisive in
his demands and the Turkish pleni-
potentiaries are very much dissatis-
fed at the disposition evinced by the
other powers demanding a kind Of
supervisory government over large
part Of her territory. England wants
to supervise in Turkish Asia and Aus
tria wants to control in the provinces
bordering upon that kingdom.


We are decidedly Of the opinion,
however, now that the powers are
face to face in congress, they will
effect a settlement of some kind how
ever much they may disagree at the
outset. The stern necessity that
stares them in the face, of making a
settlement, if they would avoid a
most terrible war sure to follow a dis
agreement, leads us to feel certain that
all differences will be compromised.
Year: 1878

q


Yesterdays Ottumwa Times says:


eve understand a conspiracy is on
foot, headed by the stalwart bourbon
element in the democratic party, to
postpone the congressional convention
beyond the time of the call, evident
ly for the mean underhanded purpose
of exasperating the greenbackers and
wearing out the democratic friends of
General Weaver. Wewill warn those
persons who are contemplating this
snide game that it will meet with the
humiliating defeat that such sharp
practice deserves. We hope the DEM
ocratic friends of Weaver and success
will put their feet squarely down on
such crafty schemes to cheat the vO-
ter5 out of their plainly expressed
opinions sentiments and preferences"


No doubt but the Times is trying to
sell the democratic party QUIT Weav.
er, but there is going to be trouble in
the delivery.
Year: 1878

The republicans of the Sixth district
have done themselves credit in the
denomination of Judge Sampson for
Congress. We invite the scrutiny of
every citizen of this district upon the
character of the Judge throughout his
whole life, as boy, as a man, as a
student, as lawyer, as a soldier, as a
Judge, as congressman, rs a gentle
man in public and private life. We
say we invite from everybody the
closest scrutiny of our candidates life,
and we do so with the utmost conf
dence that the verdict of every hon
est and fair inquirer will be that he is
a man of energy, of industry, of abil-
ity, Of unstinted fairness in his every
purpose and deed, and of the most
unfiinching integrity. He has dis
played his patriotism i'm the field
most gallantly; no soldier of Iowa
bears better record and none who
more modestly and unassumingly, as
is his wont in all things, made up
that record. He has been State Sena-
ator from hiscounty, eight years judge
of his judicial district and now on his
fourth year in Congress, and never in
his life has he pushed himself for
ward, but invariably he has been
sought by the people for the places he
has filled and put forward even be-
times against his wishes and in spite
of them. E. S. Sampson has invaria-
bly, been called by the popular will.
He has never been found pressing
himself forward. He is the very an.
tipodes of the man who, year in and
year out, has been pushing, working
and demanding something; the man
whose unbounded desires for prefer.
ment and exalted estimate of himself


winds in and out, to find lodgment


in some Office, and if his demands art


not gratified in one party finds anoth


er on which to fasten like vampire


and if this does not meet the end de


sired, straddles around and accOmmo


dates his principles SO as to gather il


one or two more parties.


! 1t Is favorite idea with the people
Year: 1878

The democratic papers are getting
sick of the Potter Butler committee
investigation. Too much Sto7 in the
witnesses to suit them. Why don't
they subpoena Trumbull? We want
to know the particulars of that quad
room ball,
Year: 1878

The State Leader says Hon. Josiah
T. Young will probably open law
Office in Des Moines when his official
duties at the capital cease. He will
form partnership with his son. Des
Moines people will be glad of this
and the people of the state will prob
ably give him all the law business he
can attend to.
Year: 1878




MADRID, June 27.-The announce
ment of the death of the Queen of
Spain has been received with pro-
found sorrow and sympathy through
nut Enrnnn- The faalin1 ain Spain
almost approaches consternaffon.
Hopes were raised at the crisis of the
disease that the vigorous constitution
of the Queen might triumph over the
of maladies, but her
condition was made doubly perilous
by the fact that she was expected to
be a mother before the end of the
year. The Queen died at noon in the
arms of the King and surrounded by
the royal family. Her remains will
lie in state to-day, and will be con-
veyed to the royal Mausoleum at the
Escurial on Friday.


The president Of the medical facul-
ty of the royal palace, in bulletin
announcing to the president of the
council of ministers the death of the
queen, attributes the painful event to
nervous gastric fever, accompanied
by severe intestinal hem orrhage.
Year: 1878

FINALLY it has come to the point
when even the democratic members
of the Potter investigating commit
tee are compelled to admit that the
so-called notorious Sherman letter to
Anderson was not written or dictated
by Sherman but that it is forgery.
Year: 1878

A Kentucky man hitched up a pair
of unbroken mules to stone boat,
and commenced to train them with a
hickory pole. The team reared over
backwards and ran away with the
man mixed up in the gearing. The
appropriate epitaph on his tomb
stone is: ale died in harness.
Year: 1878

testified that he visited Florida soon
after the late presidential election,
and met Governor Noyes and had
many conversations with him regard
ing the electoral vote of that state /; do
Year: 1878

Young readers may find a fund of
amusement in the following interesting
experiments Place coin in an empty
basin and then move back from it until
you can no longer see the coin over the
top of the basin. Stand quite still, being
careful not to move the head, while some
one fills the basin with water. As the
water rises, the coin viii come again to
view, and when the basin is full will be
entirely visible


Into goblet half filed with water drop
a silver quarter; now place a plate over the
tumbler and then turn it over very quickly.
Ii now You look into it from above the
water line, you will see your quarter on
the plate, but enlarged to the size of a
half dollar, while it will also appear in its
natural size just above. Unfortunately
when the water is poured out you will find
only the original left.


If ray of sunlight be allowed to fall
on a three-sided prism, it does not pass
through it as it would through the window
pane, but is refracted or bent from its
course, and appears upon the wall in all
the brilliant colors of the rainbow. This
colored strip, called the solar spectrum,
results from the unequal refraction of the
primary colors composing white light.
Every separate tint is now simple, and can
not be further decomposed, but with a con-
cave mirror or a double convex lens they
may be again united and form white light.


"a very simple experiment, based on
the persistence of vision, may be made by
any child who can draw or procure a pic
ture of bird and an empty cage. Cut
out circular piece of cardboard of suit
able size and paste on each side the cage,
and on the other the bird. Now attach a
short piece of thread on each side, take
the ends between a thumb and finger of
each hand, and twirl the card rapidly.
when the bird will appear in the cage.
Be careful in pasting ON the pictures not
to put them upside down to each other,
or the bird will stand on his head in the
cage.


Line the four sides of a small box with
looking glass, and the bottom of the bcx
will be extended in every direction to an
astonishing extent.
Year: 1878

it Is the nearl y universal custom of the
hdottaes to repair to the spring before
breakfast to drink the water, or to the
bathing establishment for bath. though
for the latter many prefer later hour of
the day From haf-past eight to half
past nine breakfast is served in the great
dining room of the hotel, to which the oc-
cupants of the cottages, in common with
those of the main building, repair to take
their meals-sometimes through torrents
OF rain, which is the price paid for the
greater quiet, retirement, and freedom of
cottage life. After breakfast the parlor is
thronged, and the ten-pin alley, shooting
gallery, billiard-table, croquet ground. and
at noon the "German" in the ballroom,
have their votaries. Promenades under
the oaks on the lawn or to Lovers Walk.
drives, rides, the last newspaper or maya
zine, and every species of occupation con
sistent with the sweet do nothing of the
time and place, then follow; and at half
past two, with appetites sharpened by the
mountain air-warm in the middle of the
day, but so chill at night that blankets ara
necessary in the middle of July often
the company, numbering sometimes more
than thousand, have dinner served to
them in the great diniug-room, where at
each OF the small tables little circle in
terchanges jest and laughter. In the al
ternoon the programme of the forenoon is
repeated, especially the riding, driving and
walking to picturesque points in the Vi
cinity; and after tea the parlor, larger than
the East Room in the White House at
Washington, is the scene of interminable
waltzes and Germans-on two nights of
the week of full-dress balls.-Harper's
MdqaziRe.