smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879




A REMARKABLE suicide is reported in
the Philadelphia newspapers. Harry
Ackley, aged only 12 years, hung him
self in the House of Refuge there. For
attempting to escape from the institu-
ton he had been placed III solitary con-
finement, on bread and water, in a dark
and unfurnished cell. He had been
kept there a week, being taken ont each
day for little air and exercise. He
had piteously entreated for release
when last locked up, and when the door
was again opened he was found hanging
by his suspenders and dead. He had
taken his own way of obtaining release.
1t appears that, though the officials
knew who and where was the boys
father, the father himself knew nothing
of the whereabouts of his child until in
formed of the suicide.
Year: 1879

In mild weather much coal may be
saved in large stoves, or furnaces, or
CRATES by covering part of the grating
with brick, or fat stones, or clay, even, or
by covering part of the coal with fine
ashes, so that the draft of air can only
pass through part of it. A little skill
and care in this will effect great saving
of fuel, and supply an amount of heat
adapted to the weather.
Year: 1879

AT late meeting of the Juridical
Society in st. Petersburg, it was shown
from official data that from four teen
thousand to eighteen thousand poor
wretches are annually drafted off into
the northeastern parts of the Empire,
and that therefore in many districts the
number of convicted exiles far exceeds
that of the ordinary population, and is
great drawback to the prosperity of
the latter. The smaller towns of Sibe-
ria, in particular, are overfowing with
the outcasts from European Russia.
The society came to the conclusion, not
that such excessive Punishment should
be restricted, but that great number of
prisons ought to be built as soon as pos
sible to accommodate the banished.
Year: 1879

10 PROF. JOHN kINDIG:


Dear Sir:-Appreciating the efforts you
have made and are constantly making to
cultivate the musical taste Of our people,
and also remembering with grateful SEN
timents your willingness at all times to
assist us in every attempt at amusement
or diversions, often at the sacrifice of your
own time and tastes, we, your friends,
would like an opportunity Of expressing
in public and more substantial manner
the regard we feel for you.


We therefore respectfully beg that you
will name an evening when it will SUIT
your convenience to assist in Testimonial
Concert for your benefit.
Your early reply will crafty
Year: 1879

Electricity as an instrument for cap
ital punishment is now advocated by
the savants in place of the present bar
barous and unscientitic method of end
ing life. 1t would be an instantaneous.
cheap and mysterious shock. Scatiolds,
gallows and executioners are costly
affairs, whereas one operator at a cen
trail battery could dispatch all the Grim
inals in the land
Year: 1879

When a man is young he spends much
time in parting his hair in the middle.
When he is old and bald he wastes much
more time in trying to make the ends of
his sparse locks meet ON the polished
crown above.
Year: 1879

THE LATE RICHARD RsAIr. IN ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
Fair the flowers and the children but their subtle


suggestion is farer;
Rare is the rOeeburSt of dawn, but the secret that
Sweet the exutance Of song but the strain that pre-


cedes 1t Is sweeter;
And never was poem yet writ but the meaning out


mastered the meter.
Never dasy that grows, but mystery guideth the


growing;
Never river that flows, but majesty scepters the
Never Shakespeare that scared but stronger than
Nor prophet foretels. but mighter seer hath


foretOld him
Back of the canvas that throbs the painter hinted


and hidden;
Into the that breathes the soul of the sculptor


is bidden;
Under joy that is felt lie the infinite issues Of feel


ing;
Crownine the glory revealed is the glory that crowns


the revealing.
Great the symbols of being but that which is sym
Vast the create and beheld but vaster the inward


creator;
Back of the sound broods the sence back of the gift
Back Of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive


nerves of receiving.
Space Is as nothing to spirit the deed is outdone by
The heart of the warm but warmer the heart
And up from the pits where these shiver and up from


the heights where those shine,
Twin voices and shadows swim etarward. and the


essence of life is divine.
Year: 1879

In going down Michigan avenue on the car
yesterday woman partly rose up at street
corner. and one of the men across the aisle at
once sprang up and pulled the bell. The
woman pulled her shawl around her and sat
down again, and after the car had waited
quite spell the man remarked:


II rang the bell to let you off"


But l don't get off here" she replied.


swell, you rose up as if to ring the bell,
and I pulled it for you" he continued. ''The
car has stopped, and the driver expects some
one to get out.


''Ididn't want the bell rung," she answered.


81 see you didn't, now, but as long as you
led me into the mistake. it is only right that
ycu should get off. The driver is looking
right at you. and his Car is losing time"


The woman rose up and walked off with
out another word, and the man sat down and
paid not the least attention to the amazed
looks OF the passengers.
Year: 1879

| (From the Reno (Nevada) Gazette]
A bothered-lOoking citizen came into the


Gazette Office yesteday afternoon, and re-
specttuIly asked to be let look at the diction-


ary. He sat down, and rather anxiously


thumbed Webster for while.
''What word are you looking for?" asked
| a reporter, seeing that the stranger had failed
to strike the trail


''Well," said the man in burst of conf


dence, ''you see I've only been married q
short time, and my wife's gone up to Truckee
on visit, and she's written to me to look in
the bottom of the trunk for lot of 'tucking,
and send it to her. Now, what want to
know what in blazes is 'tucking?' 1t amt in
the dictionary"


"Tucking?" said the reporter briskly,
why, tucking is the stuff the girls make by
poking q sort of short-turned fish-hook
through hole and catching the thread and
drawing it back again."


Then the editor spoke up contemptu0usly
and said that a man who was 80 ignorant as
that ought to hold his tongue. What the re-
porter had described was cr0cheting. Every
body ought to know what tucking. was. The
ladies in making it used a little continuance
shaped like mussel, with thread wound
up inside of it. Tucking could be purchased,
he believed, for ten or fifteen cents q yard,
and why intelligent girls should waste q
whole day. in making what they could get
for short bit was more than he could un-
derstand. In answer to question from the
admiring reporter, the editor said he had
been told that tucking was used in trimming
the undergarments of the fair sex, but why
things should be ornamented which fellow
would get licked for trying to look at-or
perhaps shot-was beyond his comprehen.
sion.


The married stranger said the editor was
mistaken; that the article he mentioned was
not tucking-it was tatting. This he knew
for fact.


The editor observed that when man came
to the Gazette Office fer information. the edi-
tor, when he gave it, didn't like to be told he
lied. If the stranger wanted to avoid trouble
he had better get out and 60 to the devil. AS
the editor had grown red in the face and his
eyes were blazing, the married stranger
coughed feebly and skunk down stairs.


In the meantime what Is s. tucking.
Year: 1879

A gay and gallant cattale-raiser of Western
Texas, who had fine ranch. and had many


q time been across the river to firt with Mexi.
can beauties and play monte, thought he


would see New Orleans and be only waited
to sell his stock; so as to have plenty of mon.
ey to see all the fun that was lying around.


He religiously adhered to his buckskiu


breeches, gay waistcoat and parti-colored
scarf, and sported his graceful sombrero ha,
Ia cabalero, SO that the average typical
Southerner blushed with envy at his dashing
appearance He was the best hearted fellow
in the world; always ready to share his last
penny with friend Or give it to the poor,
and, though he had been rather profitable
source Of revenue to the untakers in several
counties-for, of course, he would shoot q
man who was unmannerly enough to refuse
to drink-yet, on the whole, be was regular
good fellow.


Up one street and down another he went,
looking at everything and anybody, until
presently he espied a crowd around an organ
grinder, with monkey taking pennies. The
New Orleans people are, by their creole blood,
peculiar, and always encourage street music
Our Texan looked on for a minute, then put
up penny, which the monkey presently grab.
bed. then another, then dime, quarter. q
half-eagle, dollar. five, while the crowd
stood by admiring the generosity of the hand
some, picturesque-looking stranger. The
monkey became as interested as the crowd
and the organ man, and took in the contribu-
tions with an avidity that indicated q natural
turn for finance, and as fast as he took in the
generous Texan put up more money.


At last he had lost 500, and, with an oath
drew out big wallet. He carefully unwrap-
ped long string, and taking out some bills,
said:


''Look here, gentlemen, I've bucked agin
every game l ever have saw-fsro, three-trick
monte, casino, vantoon and all of 'em-but
durn me if ever did see one where there
was so many chances in favor of the deal,
and before tackle this game any more I'll
just 60 and learn something about it"


Saying which he put up his wallet and
stalked down the street. Washington Capitol
Year: 1879

New York in her humane laws is far
ahead of barbaro,ls Delaware. Such a
thing is not thought Of as tying tender
little calf by the legs for long hours be-
fore the time and then tossing it pell nell
on the hard floor of car helplessly bound
with II or 10 others all piled up in one
struggling mass of agony. They have
cattle carts in which are large boxes with
Stats on the sides and top, and calves are
taken to the depot decently and without
such scenes of shocking cruelty as are
witnessed at Edgemoor almost every day
in the week aud farmers in the vicinity
of that heartless place aud else~ here will
iplease take notice that such barbarous
doings will not be tolerated any longer


and any case brought to us stamped witt


the present way of working such matters III err


will be prosecuted with the utmost ylsol


OF the law. L. W.
Year: 1879

There is at present, calf about one
year old, in the city pound. The cali
has been there four days, and if the own
er does not claim it very shortly, it will
be sold to pay expenses.
Year: 1879

CONGRESS is about to absent itself for the
holiday recess and polar wave is coming.
The intimate connection between these two
events may not be apparent to the average
reader; but it may strike few far-seeng
ones that the cool impudence of the Bour-
bon claim that Congress has done anything
in the line of its duty, except to ratify Re-
publican estimates for Government appro-
priations, should naturally be followed by
unusual atmospheric frigidity.
Year: 1879

THE gay, festive, itinerant aud somewhat
ubiquitous editor of the Post has evidently
neglected the study of early history, Or he
would have known that his own paternal
ancestor was the bearer of the message to
EVE which led to the first feast of pippins
in the Garden of Eden.
Year: 1879

1T is to be hoped that the Pittsburg
Dispatch will not give itself any painful
uneasiness over our remark in effect that
the present National Committee will give
direction to the National Convention which
will make the next President, for the work
will be well done.
Year: 1879

A CHEAP GREENHoUsE.-The cheap
est plan of erecting greenhouse that
we have any knowledge of-and we used
one successfully for many years-is to
dig out pit in side-hill, where the
upper end will be just above ground,
where the door must be, with two or
three steps down for an entrance. Wall
up, roof the wall, and cover the whole
with sash as in hot beds, the sash hav-
ing more fall, say three feet in width
of two, the house being fifteen by ten.
Erect in this the stand Of shelves, and
when it is time to take up the summer
flowers, bulbs, &C., store them here. The
glass should be covered with thick straw
mats, which can be removed even when
the weather is coldest in clear weather,
| for an hour or two at mid day to get the
warmth and influence of the sun. Al
such times ventilation also should be at
tended to, by slightly opening sash ol
two. No fire is needed. Nearly al
readily towering plants with bloom
and there will scarcely be week dur
ing the winter that bouquet may moi
be gathered, if the house is properly
managed. We had one in use for some
twenty years when it was enlarged an(
heat introduced - Germantown Iele
0rnq1h.
Year: 1879

A RULE OF LIFE.-Though Christ
takes away our sins by his cross, and
covers our disobedience by his right
eousness, and offers to our weakness
his helping hand through faith, still he
acoords to his disciples no lower type
of religion than that which he himself
illustrated, no lower rule of life than
that which he observed. Nay, rather
did he put new life and emphasis into
the fundamental law of the decalogue
as the law of his own kingdom. For he
congresses the ten commandments into
that one rule of holy obedience and con-
secration which he pressed home upon
the heart when he said, Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and soul, and mind, and strength
and thy neighbor as thyself." Deeper
than this we cannot 60 for foundation
of religion; higher than this we cannot
rise for a standard of life; nothing
broader, fuller, more complete and final
can we have as a spirit and rule of con-
secration. 1t is the most spiritual con-
ception of religion that the philosopher
can form, and at the same time the
most simple and practical rule of piety
that can be given to a child. This
principle, settled within the soul as the
one aim and law Of its life, is the good
treasure of the heart, out of which all
good things are brought forth.-Re0.
Dr.. j. p Thompson.
Year: 1879

There is growing feeling in every
healthy community against journals
which make it their special object to
minister to perverted taste by seeking
out and serving up in a seductive form
disgusting and licentious revelations.
There is good reason to believe that the
clean newspaper is more highly priced
to day than it was four or five years ago.
1t is also safe to predict that as people
in all ranks of life who protect their
own, at least, from contamination, be-
come more conscious of the pernicious
influence of certain class of journals,
called enterprising because they are am
bilious to serve US dirty scandals. they
will be careful to see that the journals
they permit to be read in the family
circle are of the class that never forget
the prupr irtiUs Uf lift. Already mon and
women of retirement and healthy morals
have had their attention called to the
pernicious influence of bad literature,
and have made commendable efforts to
counteract the same by causing sound
literature to be published and sold at
popular prices. These efforts are work.
ing silent but sure revolution. The
best authors are more generally read to-
day than at any previous date. The
sickly sentimental story paper and the
wild ranger and pirate story book are
slowly but surely yielding the field to
worthier claimants. To the praise of
the decent newspaper it may be said that
where it has place in the family aud
has been read for years by young as well
as old, it has developed such healthy
tone and such a discriminating taste,
that literature of the slums has no ad-
mirers. Fortunately, the number of
such families is increasing in the land,
and as they increase the journal devoting
itself to sickening revelations of immor-
alists will be compelled to find its sup
porters solely among those classes who
practice vice and crime or are ambitious
to follow such ways.-Bosto,a Herald.
Year: 1879

VIII. Always write your full name
and address plainly at the end of your
letter. Why? Because it will often
happen that the editor wants to COM
municate with you, and because he needs
to know the writer's name as a guaran-
tee of good faith. If you write pseu-
donym or initials, write your own
name and address below it. 1t will
never be divulged.


TX. "These precepts in thy memory
keep" and, for fear you might forget
them. cut them out and put them where
you can readily run through them when
tempted to spill innocent ink.
Year: 1879




"What animal is this ?"


"This is a baby. He is now about
three years old, and at the wickedest
point of his earthly career"


"What country does the baby most
inhabit ?"


''He can be found in every inhabited
country on the globe, the same as mos
quitoes and boils."
"Can they be tanned %
Eyes, quite easily. After little ju-
dicious discipline they cease to struggle
and become subservient to the will of
man."


"Does the baby eat grass %


Eyes, or anything else. They swal-
low pocket knives, thimbles, buttons,
spools, or any other object little small
er than teacup. If offered milk they
seldom refuse it"


"Do they Craze during the day, or
only at nights p


"They are always grazing, paying not
the least heed to the hour. When not
actually eating they generally give ut
terance to a peculiar cry. Strong men
often jump out of bed at midnight in
the coldest weather when hearing this
cry


"What meaning is attached to this
cry p \


"Men of deepest thought have agreed
that it signifies to wake up the neigh
borhood and have some fun"


''Of what benefit to mankind is do
mesticated baby ?"


"They are of no earthly account for
the first two years, but by-and-by they
can slide down hill on a cellar door and
carry articles out of the house and trade
them for a wooden sword or lose them in
the grass


"Do you know of any instance where
the baby has attacked the household and
killed or injured any one %


"Such instances have been related by
such eminent raturalists as George
Francis Train and Texas Jack, but We
don't put much faith in them. How
ever, if baby was maliciously and per-
sistently provoked, there is no knowing
what it might do"


care they healthy animal %


"No on the contrary, no druggist
could make enough profit in a year tc
buy him pair of Arctic overshoes but
for the presence of the baby in every
household. There IS hardly an hour in
the day that the baby does not demand
peppermint, paregoric, milk, sugar, cor.
dial, cod liver emulsion. ipecac, or some.
thing else costing money"


"What machinery is made use of tt
compel the baby to take dose of castor
oil ?"


There are several patent machine;
for the purpose, but most people follow
the old rule of knocking senseless anc
getting the dose into his mouth before
he recovers.'


"Is the bald-headed baby more do
mestic than others 2"


"Not bit. He kicks around after
the same fashion, and has even a worse
time fighting flies and mosquitoes


"What music do they seem to pre-
fer ?"


"a bass drum is their first choice
but they have heavy tendency toware
the sound Of a stove handle knocking
the nose off the pitcher with the emp
, tings in it. This is all about the baby.
Year: 1879

The Boston Pilot, which is edited by
an Irishman, gives the following sad
vice to children


'.Love God, honor your father and
mother, and never forget this republic
is the grandest idea that man ever saw
in practice These things, little ones,
may be forgotten in the public schools,
where you have so much arithmetic and
history and grammar to learn but they
are true for all that, and don't forget it
like good children, when you hear your
elder brothers and sisters wish they
were in Canada eating mud before a
princess"
Year: 1879

Over and over, round and round,
Like gold-green top on a crystal ground,
With never a whizz or a singing sound,


The beautiful earth goes spinning.
She sweeps in a circle around the sun
With Time. and the year-long race is won
By both-to a minute; It's ever done


And ever again beginning.
We clasp our hands in amaze and cry.
" "A time to be born, and time to die
Is gwen to men, but the years 90 by,


Unending and unbeginning."
But on New Years morning the people sing
And wall in a breath and the broad lands ring
With ''The King is dead-long live the King"


But the earth goes on with her spinningI
Year: 1879

Beautiful boyi so still tonight;
Little pale face, twas once so bright;
Weary mother, with fearful eye,
Patiently hoping he will not die.
Oh, there is no grief so deep and clear,
None springs from the heart like mothers tear.
Why wilt thou leave the bright green earth?
When the sunshine and roses are bursting forth,
When joy and plenty are on the wing,
Away to welcome the beautiful Spring.
And clouds of light from the crystal shore
Are gliding in at the window and door?
Why wilt thou go, my own sweet child?
Is the world too cruel, and in sin defiled?
Canst thou not venture thy spotless soul
Where waves of the deepest color roll?
Nor dare to launch thy little boat,
Sweet boy, on the waters unbound and afloat?
All have watched thee with jealous care,
And waited thy name on the wings of prayer;
Have listened thy tones with earnest Joy,
And caressed thy form my angel boy,
Heaven wills it, rise this test above,
With the faith and trust of mothers love.
Year: 1879

The Deer Lodge and Butte Telegraph Line
was completed on Wednesday evening. This
will be Of decided benefit to our Butte neigh
bors, who have heretofore been Obliged to
mail kilograms to this place. The line be-
tween here and Helena is to be put in repair.
Messages can now be sent from here to either
Butte or Helena for so cents.


Judge Knowles offers his professional SER
vices in card in this weeks paper. The
Judge is too well known to require an in
PRODUCTION to the Montana public. hut r.,
those not acquainted with him it need only
be said that business entrusted to his care
will receive prompt and careful attention.