smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

Seeing an inquiry for the best way TO
wash blankets some time since, | waited
to see if some one would not give way
which read u long time ago, | have
tried it and know it is good:


Put II boiler of soft water to heat; dis
solve and add to it Il half bar of Kirk S
soap-cither the white or blue. Put your
blankets in washtub, laying them i'll
somewhat like coil of rope, so they can
be easily handled Heat the suds scalding
hot; pour it over the blankets; punch
them down, and cover with quilt or some
heavy material to keep the steam from es-
Gaping. Let them remain till morning;
then squeeze and rub lightly with the
hands; on no account use wash-boards for
blankets. Then have clean soft rinse
water, but not more than blood warm;
put the blankets into this, but don't wiring
them, either with your hands or clothes
wringer; but run them from suds into
basket, and let them drain, so as to carry
as little of the dirty suds as possible into
the rinse water. Get them as free from
the suds as you can, and then drain them
as before, and put them through a second
tub of clean soft water. Put them into
your basket, without wringing them; let
them drain, and they are then ready for
the line, Hang them lengthwise by the
extreme outer edge, not through the mid
die, and put the clothes-pins near togeth-
er. not more than fingers length apart.
When the blankets are about half dry re-
verse the edges, and let the edge hang
down that was pinned to the line.
Year: 1878

From the Chicago Tribune.


The Boston and New York capitalists
who are building the road have the most


unlimited confidence in the success Of
their great enterprise. They are pushing
one branch of itup the Grand Canon of the
Arkansas to secure share of the rich
mineral trade of Southern and Central
Colorado, and rumor has it that they have
their eyes on Salt Lake and connection
with the Central Pacific as the Western
terminus of this branch of the road. The
other branch they are pushing southwest
about as fast as men and money can do it
in the direction of Albuquerque in New
Mexico, which point they expect to reach
during the coming winter. This will leave
the gap to be completed to Fort Yuma, on
the Colorado river, less than 500 miles.
They will thenpropose to Mr.. Huntington,
of the Southern Pacific, to build half this
gap, and if the proposition isnot accepted,
the Atchison and Santa Fe company will
build it themselves.
Year: 1878

From the SClentlnC American.


What are termed ices consist simply of
the juices of fruits sweetened with sugar
sirup and then frozen, like ice cream. 1t
is stated that the best ices are made by
first cooking the sugar into the form of a
sirup. The final mixture should have Il
consistence of % degrees, 1t is then froz-
en- in the usual way.


10 make the best ice cream it is neces-
sary that the cream should be Of the best
quality; and the utensils with which it is
made must be absolutely clean.


With every quart of the cream mix six
ounces best pulverized sugar, very little
vanilla bean, and the white of one egg.
The latter imparts smoothness and deli
cacy to the cream that cannot otherwise
be obtained. The prepared mixture is
then to be stirred in the freezer until it is
entirely concealed.


Those who desire first rate ices Or cream
should follow these directions carefully,
and avoid the use of corn starch or other
thickeners. Instead of vanilla as a flavor
for the cream, a trifling amount of any
desired ilavoring sirup or juice may be
used, as strawberry, pineapple, orange,
lemon. etc,
Year: 1878

From the American Agriculturist.


Okra is a vegetable that is slow in find
ing its way to the garden and the table in
the Northern States, while in Southern
families it is in very general use. The
plant is much like a large Hollyhock, with
yellow flowers, which are succeeded by
angled pods, six inches or more long, and
over an inch thick. These pods, when so
tender that they will break, are very mu-
cilaginOus, and give off, when cooked, a
large amount Of gummy matter. If they
begin to mature, they become woody, filled
with hard round seeds, and quite unlike
anything edible. Though in the catalogues,
the plant is called "Okra or Gumbo," the
name Gumbo properly belongs to the dish
prepared from the pods, rather than the
plant itself as the Southern cooks make
Gumbo soup without the use of Okra, but
substitute the pitch and young leaves of
sassairas, one of the native violets, and
perhaps other plants. The best Gumbo Is
made with chicken, though veal and other
meats are sometimes used, and Is merely a
stew made thick by the use of an abun-
dance of 0lra pods. GumbO soup Is any
soup to which sufficient Okra is added to
and a tender pods yvot : dressed with
melted butter, are liked by many, but
they are rather too gummy for those who
have not been accustomed TO them, A
dish made of the Okra pods and tomatoes
stcwed together, is also prepared One
correspondent inquiries if we know any
method of preserving Okra by canning.
We have not known of any attempt at
canning the pods, but they are often dried;
the pods at the proper age for cooking are
sliced, strung upon u cord, and dried In
the same manner as fruit They are also
packed in salt, just as cucumberS are, and
when wanted for use are freshened in cold
water.
Year: 1878

Under the above caption the Coa"0a-
ueahL has an article upon the political stu
alton in the State which We copy this morn
ing. Although it expresses some sentiments
that we canno, endorse, it is in the main
timely and pertinent. 1t gives word OF
warning which the Republicans Of the
State would do well to heed. While there
is no danger Of any part Of the Republican
ticke. being deafeated this Fall, there is
danger that by our supineness and over
confidence in our strength, We may Premit
the opposition to make such headway that
a Republican defeat in the near future may
not be among the improbabilitie..
Year: 1878

That solitary sentinel, the Hon. Fernan
do Wood, is still on his rounds in the Gus
tom House Yesterday he made the re
markable discovery that clergyman hac
been employed for twelve years as a first
class examiner. Under cover of this dis
closure he can now prudently retire to hi
district, where the clerk of tine Mayors OF
fee is already in the field against him al
an Independant Democratic candidate.
Year: 1878

IVIUOe DCInUCrdl, Iy.


We do not recall any instance in which
there has been a contest between a rebel
and Union man for a Democratic nomi-
nation for Congress in Missouri, this year,
in which the rebel has not come out ahead.
To have served in the Union army is al
most positive disqualification tor office in
the DEMOCRATIC party of Missouri.
Year: 1878

John Merkle, proprietor OF Harmony
Gardens, discovered Wednesday night thai
he had been robbed OF about 800 in iii
yer coin Ii has ben his custom, at the
close of business each day, to take what
silver coin was in the drawer and throw
it into a sack he kept in a bureau drawer
in his house When he went to make his
usual deposit Wednesday night he found
that some thief had effected an entrance
and stolen bag, money and all.


Suspicion at once fell upon colored
man named George Paris, who had occss
ionally worked around the house, and
Marshal Benning started after him. About
one O'Clock yesterday morning he found the
man at the depot waiting to take the train
for Kansas City. lie had on new suit Of
clothes throughout, a Dew vslise, new hat
and new boots. In the valize was Sll9 30
He confessed the crime as soon as Marshal
Benning confronted him, and was lodg, d
in Jail to await his trial.


How Webb Wa Acquitted es the
Year: 1878

The sweet potato crop is unusally fine
this season, and large quantities Of the
most magnificent sacchsrine tubers are
daily brought to our markets and shipped
away. On the contrary, the crop OF Irish
potatoes bids fair TO be light, As the early
potatoes are not keeping we'll and the dry
weather will undoubtedly cut short the
late crop.
Year: 1878

An Atchison county farmer informs us
that every body is planting winter wheat,
we'll done; the grain is not well covered !;
and if the winter should be severe one, as
is generally anticipated, large portion of
the wheat thus carelessly planted would be
frozen out, and lost
Year: 1878

A loafer is always welcome in the com


posing room OF a newspaper ofiice. For
some reason or other, known only TO the
craft, 4 lively conversation carried on by a
friendly loafer always makes printers
hump themselves. They can always Sc;
several thousand more in night under the
influence OF a gentle racket, and strange TO
say, there is seldom an error in their proof
sheets. If you want quick and accurate
work in a composing room, always hire an
extra hand to DO the loafing. d&w-tf
Year: 1878

The Episcopal Congregation of this city
has rented the neat and commodIous hall
in McPherson's Block for Sunday services.
Although the pastor is absent every other
Sunday, We understand they will have ser
vices each Sabbath
Year: 1878

The expression of boys face at
the end of a straw that lacks two
inches of reaching the cider in
barrel is supposed to he the model
that the artist selected in delinea-
ton of Adam leaving Paradise.
Year: 1878

How TO SLEET.-Mauy persons get
into a habit Of wakefulness during the
night which is often very wearing, aud
always annoying and uncomfortable.
Some cannot 90 to sleep until the small
hours Of the night, others wake at three
or four o'clock in the morning, and can
not coax sleep again until il is breakfast
time. A writer on sleep recommends
such wakeful ones to try the effect OF
change. Go into another room, or move
the bed into another position, or lie
with the head in a different direction.
II you are lying on high pillow fling
il away. If your head is low, raise it.
II you have been trying to sleep without
a light, strike one; if otherwise, eXtiu-
guish it. II other means fail, leave the
bed and take chair. Wakeiulness j.
often easily traced to physical causes
But if one does not sleep 50 much as he
thinks he requires, do not let him worry
about il or think he must necessarily
be sick in consequence. Lack Of sleel
is bad, but discomfort is worse. Lei
every one be thankful for the amount
Of sleep he can obtain, and not fret be
cause il is not more.
Year: 1878

ocean. and partly to an accident to our
mainsail in a storm, which could not be
repaired without much to me, unneces-
sary delay.


Nv baby Ethel Graeme Grey was
born on ship board. Whist darling
she was! Her fathers image, her
mothers form. Surely one could desire
nothing more in a child.


Nature is not always a tyrant; but it
is hard TO interpret all her freaks. The
brief experiences Of my married history,
untoward as they were, had not been
lessons lost; and though my life was in
many ways a disappointment, it was
not wholly bitter, thank God.


TO be- cOntiuued.1
Year: 1878

That the Euery Erening has displayed
considerable energy in collecting storm
news cannot be denied, and If any body
doubts what We say, We would refer
them to their own modest little puff OF
themselves in yesterdays issue. As .
sample Of the put which occupies near.
ly two thirds OF column We clip ths
following paragraph:


1T (the h. E.) could be greatly in
creased, however, il men who lament
that it il now beyond their reach cOuld
make up their minds to do with one or
two cigars, or some similar indulgence,
less per week. This Is matter which
concerns them quite as much as 1t does
US, for 1t Is a good deal cheaper TO buy
something for two cents than to pay a
cent and to get practically nothing.
Such people would lind themselves un
comfortably of, however, when really
anxious for news if their more liberal
neighbors did not regularly support d
real newspaper which they can buy


The most surprising thing in the
above is that the editor would advise
people to do without cigars, when he
himself so much appreciates similar in-
dulgences. II We had more room to
spare we would publish the whole ar.
ticle, so that the mass Of the people, not
a few hundred, could read it for them
selves.
Year: 1878

The LATE STORM reveals the want Of a
building commission in Wilmington or
some power that has the oversight OF
the erection Of new buildings. The un
roofing Of buildings during the recent
storm forms food for thought. This was
mostly confined to tin rooted dwellings,
which in most Of the cases is said u
have been put on in very Indifferent
and careless manner under the con.
tract system. The sheets Of tin have
in some instances been almoss a yard in
lneal surface, throwing the cleats and
joints so far apart that the wind In
penetrating beneath them could not
help but force off the roof. Other tin
roofs equally exposed have withstood
the storm. The damage to new dwell
ings has been immense but this ha-
probably arisen from their unfinished
condition, the windows being out and
the wind having fair play. There il
however a painful apprehension that
the mania for building cheap houses i;
leading to the building of very inditfer
ent ones, which are liable to be blown
down by the first severe storm, thereb,
endangering loss of life fearful to con
template. The need OF building coln
missioners has been filly demonstrated
not only in Wilmington but in othe
CT ties.
Year: 1878

THE Nation, and most of the Demo,
cratic papers, admit that the cipher
dispatches are wicked, but they join in
exclaiming that no just verdict can be
made up until the Republican de-
spatches are discovered. 1t would be
very odd if jury, trying a burglar,
should say "This man did break in
and steal, of course. He is great
scoundrel. He deserves condemnation.
But possibly there is some other bur
glar somewhere in Europe, or Asia, or
Central Africa who is greater rascal,
and we must clutch him and examine
him before We determine the measure
of this mans guilt" When the Re-
publican dispatches turn up-it there
are any--it will be time enough to dis
cuss them. But Just now we are dis.
cussing Democratic dispatches which
have turned up.
Year: 1878

.THouGH OUR REPORT Of the gathering
of Episcopal Sunday Schools, at the
Opera House, on Thursday night, was
not SO full as desired, 1t was the best
we could do, as we had to gather up
our information the following morning,
no tickets having been sent US. Perhaps
it was an oversight,
Year: 1878

We PRESUME THERE will be the usual
religious exercises tomorrow at the
church at the south east corner Of
Third and Walnut streets by the min
ister in charge. AS we have been for
bidden by the powers that be, to never
mention the church again, why OF
course we have to comply and our
readers will have TO put up with the
best notices we dare give.
Year: 1878

yet during the last 1000 years less than
twenty such catastrophes have been re
corded. Mr. Proctor, moreover, treasures
us in another way. He says, in effect, that
all but one Of these confagrations have ap-
peared in the zone Of the Milky Way, and
that one in a region connected with the
Milky Way by a well.marked stream OF
stars: tbat. the process of development is
still going on in that region; but that il
there be among the. comets travelling in re
gular attendance upon the sun one whose
orbitintersects the suns globe, itmQst have
struck before the era Of man, and that in
our solar system We may fairly believe
that all comets of the destructive sort have
been eliminated, and that fer many ages
still to come the sun will continue to dis
charge his duties as fire, Light aud life OF
the solar system.
Year: 1878

An extraordinary instance Of true love
comes to US over the hill from the poor
house at Liberty, Indiana. For some time
a woman, aged seventy years, has been
confined there a pauper. Emp eyed as a
farm hand, young man, aged about
twenty six, has been connected with the
institution. This young man was in Che
habit Of carrying wood for the old lady's
fire, and paying other attentions to her.
i few days ago the keeper was informed
= the young MAI. that i was bis inten-
ton to marry the old lady. Notwith-
standing The keepers protestations aid
advice, the affair was consummated, and
the loving couple are living together as
happy IS tWo doves in mating season.
Year: 1878




A New York man, against whom pro
cesdings for a limited d:aorce had been
begun by his wife, testified That he had TO
keep his hair closely trimmed to prevent
his wife from pulling it out. When man
takes such mean advantage Of his wife
we are not. surprised to hear that she
wants divorce. No doubt if he had per-
mitted his hair to grow as long as a wild
eyed spiritaaIist's, 50 that she could get a
good grab and drag him around the room
three or four times a day torelieve the dull
monotony Of her HOUSEHOLDS duties, sic
would never have thought Of bringing suit
Tor a divorce. Husbands should read d
lesson from this.
Year: 1878


Last year, when welded life was new,


And, like the spring time, promised bliss,
Each hour and day of rosy hue


| now, my friend, contrast with this
You ask me what miss from out


Ny household orbit, as move?
/ answer, with wife's sweet doubt,


Il miss the atmosphere Of love.
Last year my husbands gentle hand


Would pluck from out my path the thorn,
And gladly ransack sea and land,


That he his 'darling,might adorn;
The losing look. the tender tone,


The anxious heart, with fond care rife,
All these miss, as here alone


sit, a sad, neglected wife.
"Whence came the change l cannot tell


l only know that, day by day,
l tried to do my duty well,


A faithful help-meet, grave or gay;
l only know miss the smile


OF him who was my hope and guide
The loving words that did beguile


My spirit, when happy brile."
Oh man, could you but know the gloom


OF that fond heart your love once thrilled,
That waits within the silent room


An empty chamber never filed
The deep-dark agony that speech


Can never tell That dleary life
You'd place your heart within the reach
OF her, your faithful, loving wife
Year: 1878

Grace Reformed Church in
Pittsburg introduced a novelty at
its recent fair. Young ladies, or
ladies supposed to be young, were
put up by auction, the successful
bidlers obtaining them as part
ners for the evening. To pro
mote the fun Of the occasion, the
ladies were robed in sheets from
from head to foot whils being auc
toned off. The prices ranged from
two to five dollars, and there was
hearty merriment when the sheets
were removed from the ladies, as
each lads was knocked down to a
successful bidder. S,me of the
gentlemen were delighted with
their luck, and others were badly
bored by finding themselves COM
PEELED to be attentive for a whole
evening to some lady not eminent
for personal or mental attractive
ness. 1t was an open q',estiou
which of two young men was
most badly taken in, tie one to
whom his own m <tden aunt was
auctioned, or he whose partner
for the evening proved to be q
neighbor's mother-in- law.
Year: 1878

One OF the dead certalntles


about a mule is, that he is sure


footed, especially with his hind


fcet--he never misplaces them


If he advises that his feet will


be at a certain place at a GER


tain time, with sample OF


mule shoes to which he would


call your attention, you will al


ways find them there at the ap-


pointed time. He is as reliable


as the day of judgment, and
never cancels an engagement.


Every man living who drove a
a mule team during the war,


now draws a pension. / never
owned mule in my life. | came
near buying one once. He
was a fine looking animal. His
ears stood up like the side spires
on an Episcopal church. His
tail was trimmed down so it
looked like tar brush leaning
up against him. He was striped
off like the American flag, and
RaphaeI's cherubs never looked
more angelic than did that
mule. He looked all innocence,
though he was so in no sense.
The owner sat in the wagon
with his chin resting on his
hand and his elbow resting on
his knee. In the other hand he
held a stick with brad in it. /
examined the mule and asked a
few questions. and out of
mere form asked if the mule
was kind or if he kicked.
"Kind? kind?" said the man,
and those were the last words
he ever uttered. He reached his
stick over the front of the wag-
on, and stuck the brad into that
mule. 1t was awful to see a man
snuffed out so quickly as he
was. 1t almost took away my
breath, he went so suddenly.
| never saw the thread of life
so abruptly as it did on
that occasion. He didn't have
time to leave message for his
family. That mule simply
ducEed his head, and then a
pair of heels flew out behind;
there was a crash, flying Of
splinters, and that was all; and
the next moment that mule and
1 stood alone, my face covered
with astonishment two feet
deep, and his, covered with an
an old bridle. The next day |
read an account in the tele-
graphic news of a shower OF
flesh in Kentucky. 1 was the
only man that could explain
that phenomenon, and did not
dare to lest | should be implica-
ted in the affair with the other
mule.
Year: 1878

The way a mob acts in one
city is no criterion for mob action
in another. 1t is much like the
Irishman who heard that the
Scotchman's horse had run away
"Thin something must be done,
an I'll go home and lick the old
woman"
Year: 1878

A correspondent, whose brief letter we
print elsewhere suggests that the English
government should hire Sitting Bull and
heartily approve of this suggestion, and
hope Her Britannia Majesty will avail her
self Of it. There need not be any qualms
Of conscience about it. The elder Pitt
thought that the employment of red men
of the Sitting. Bull type i'll warfare was
atrocious and barbarous, but the British
used them for all that. The Sioux warriors
shoot and scalp their victims just as the
Indian allies of the British century ago
tomahawked and scalped the Americans.
The sentiment which then sustained
the use of the red savage has not
quite died out. The bashi-bazouks,
who did such thorough work upon
the wounded Russians and Bulgarian vii.
layers, were petted by quite large section
OF the British people during the late war.
But the bashi-bazouks are pretty well used
up and will not do to count on for much
service Just now. Here, then, is a chance.
The Sioux Indian is not only cruel, but
brave. 1t would be very pretty thing to
set Sitting Bull to fight a Cossack, and ten
thousand Sitting Bulls against ten thousand
Cossacks would make combat at once SO
effective and picturesque that the special
correspondents would never weary of de-
scribing it. 1t would give much needed
variety to yellow-covered literature and
would make the fortunes of n dozen play
wriohts. Besides. we can spare Sitting
Bull and his warriors Let the great Sioux