smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

Unlike most great rivers, the hill or
mountain scenery of the Rhine, after it de-
bouches from the Alps, comes after the val
ley, instead of before. You journey for
days down the river, through great plains
and valleys, before you come to a hill big
enough to hold castle to any great advan-
tage. Your first castle of consequence sits
upon a hillside among the grape-vines,
just opposite Bingen. You look at this,
but do not like it. 1t is an imposture.
You gaze at it carefully with your glass
from the deck of the steamer that steals
slowly and cautiously down the river
through the rocks, and you see that it has
been repaired. You have a suspicion that
it is put there, or it is at least carefully pre-
served for foolish tourists like yourself, to
look at; and then you turn and look at
ssBingen on the Rhine. - A dull place; and
you do not feel so deep sympathy as you
did for the poor soldier boy who died in
Algiers, for you see how little he lost in
never seeing Bingen any more.


Another turn in the crooked, lagerbeer
| looking river, and another castle. Another
turn, and another. Then two! three
! Opera-glasses are in demand sketch-books
are whipped out, notebooks, guide-books,
and every body is busy for an hour. The
thing then begins to lose it's interest, fol-
you can not keep track of them all, and
! you wish there were not any more on all
the rushing river. But still the castles con-
tinue. Sometimes they come right up to
| the bank, and sit down on bluff fifty or a
hundred feet above you. Then, again, they
| sit indistinctly back, and certainly look the
| better for it. One old Teuton built his cas-
| tie on little island i'll the river. This, il


is said, was for the purpose of taking toll


But whatever this one old fellow may have


taken, it is safe to say he did not make hal


SO much out Of the whole world as the Ger


mans are now making out of American


tourists who go there to gaze upon thes'


sorry old piles of stones.-JoaqRin Miller


IN January Overland Monthly.
Year: 1874

WHAT Is THoRoUeHBRED.-W we
call the thoroughbred horse was created in
England by the importation of mares and
stations from Arabia and Barbary, and by
the judicious com1ningling of the foreign
with the native blood. Through contests
ON the turf and the right kind of crossing,
the horse was gradually improved, CT ele-
waited to high standard of excellence and
these improved horses were then recognized
as the progenitors of an aristocratic race.
Equine heraldry has been made science,
and the birth and pedigree of each horse of
high breeding has been preserved in the
"Stud Book. Usage has decreed that an
animal which can show an uncontaminated
pedigree of five generations shall be classed
as thoroughbred; that is no drop Of cold
or coarse blood must appear in the veins,
the origin Of which cannot be found behind
five successive periods of reproduction.
Five generations removes from common
parcntage refines the blood and makes it
aristocratic. Field and Farm.
Year: 1874

Old Jones was always at the Bar Store
when not at work or eating his hastily dis
patched meals of bread, beans and bacon.
Jones wore one perpetually unwashed grey
shirt and a pair of duck pants, tied about
the waist by string, and always seeming
ly in danger of falling down. He had been
more or less drunk since 1859. When
Jones was decidedly in liquor, his legs more
than his head were affected. They seemed
feebly elastic, and kept the observer in a
continual state of anxiety as to their fur
ther ability to support the upper part ot
Jones. They would III unison waver, see
saw, and lurch with him from right to left
in a manner creditable to u gymnast, and
crazed all speculation as to the real location
of Jones centre Of gravity. Yet they were
never known to give way. They bent, but
never broke.


Jones' idea of the end and aim of exist.
ence was simply "grub, tobacco and whis.
ky Physically, he was living and
| defying contradiction to the total abstinence
theory. lie drank year in and year out.
He drank all he was able to buy. HI
drank it by the tumblerful. A privately
prepared bottle was kept at the store espec
| tally for Jones. His libations from the de
canter III ordinary use were too large to
leave any margin for profit. He drank o.
the poorest and cheapest quality. He wa;
never sick, always at work, always blessed
with good appetite. No one ON the Bal
ever thought of saying, I" Jones is drinking
himself to DEATH" The old residenters'
would have laughed at such an idea. The,
had found Jones there in 1852, drinking
and mining indnstrioEssly, making an ounc'
or two daily, and attired in that same old
unwashed shirt and string-tied duck pants
and his excesses had long ceased to be nov
elites. Delirium- -tremens had no terrors foi
| him. lie said the snakes did bother
him once, but he'd got used to 'em. Ell
.stold them to go off about their business
i and they went. ''-O Overland Monshly .fol
Jaaaary
Year: 1874

The great naturalist died just at the time
when the consummation of his hopes was
reached. The presentation to him Of Peni-
kese Island was all that he needed to carry
out his plans Those who were with him
last summer will well remember his almost
childish delight at the progress of the ac-
commodations there for his beloved work.
He opened the school of nature with earnest
enthusiasm, and the disciples who flocked to
sitby his feet, as it were, expected to renew
next summer the studious delights of the
last. 1t has been ordered otherwise. The
chair of the master is vacant, and the place
that knew him will lsoon know him no more
and what wider, grander scope of vision il
now open to his intellectit is only left to II:
to conjecture.
Year: 1874

You will find this paragraph in many of
the unedited newspapers: "a naughty boy
being told by his mother that God would
not forgive him if he did certain things,
answered: Yes, he would, too. God likes
to forgive little boys; that's what He's for .
The people who invent these stupid and
irreverent, not to say blasphenlous, things
and attribute them to little boys and girls
ought to be taken out and shot, and the
only thing that keeps us from doing it is
the conviction that shooting is too good for
them.
Year: 1874

A man shot a oman in Washington City
the other day for claim of twenty cents.


We hate to deal harshly with an erring
fellow-being, but we can't help saying that
the man who would shoot woman for any
thing less than dollar and halfis probably
not the Christian gentleman he ought to be.
Year: 1874

It is said that Chicago is to have another
religious newspaper Chicago already has
more religious newspapers in proportion to
the quantity of her religion than any city
on the continent. E#
Year: 1874

From the New York Evening Post


To-day, when the breath of the dying
year is almost as tender and delicate as that
Of genial spring, the remains of the great
naturalist whose name has shed such a lus-
tire upon the annals of American science
have received from loving friends and dis
ciples the last sad honors. The generous,
kindly heart has ceased to beat. The keen,
analytical intellect is at rest. The eye
which looked further into the manifold
mysteries of nature than any other of this
century is closed, and the familiar form
which so many knew has now been laid
away forever.


1t is not only in this country that the
death of Agassiz will be felt. His name is
as well known in tho scientific circles of
France, Germany and England as in those
of this country. His earlier works were
written in the French language and pub
lished abroad. Before coming to this
country he was famous i'll Europe. How he
was welcomed here, how he became not
only the leading authority of this country
in scientific matters, but the centre of
circle of devoted personal friends, is well
known. For quarter of a century or more
he has been the "cynosure of neighboring
eyes" Sixteen years ago his friends cele-
brated his tiftieth birthday, Longfellow con-
tributing that graceful poem beginning:


1t was fifty years ago


in the pleasant month of May
In the beautiful Pays de Wand
\ child in his cradle lay.


And Nature the old nurse, took
The child upon her knee,


Saying, t Here is a storybook
Thy Father has written for thee"


Most of the distinguished men present on
that occasion live to mourn the loss of their
friend; and to carry the idea of grief at his
| departure into the realms Of fancy, one
might almost imagine a dim, dull pain ex-
! isting amid the swarms of once inanimate
| creatures which his researches in the arcana
of nature have brought to light. The wide
versatility of Agassz's scientific acquire
ments cannot but strike even the unseien-
tific mind with wonder. The flower, with
it's delicate petals; the fish, darting through
the cool wave; the glacier, sweeping down
from the Arctic regions, leaving here and
there it's handwriting on the face of the
earth, to be interpreted cycles later by this
wonderful man; the fossil, lying hidden fol
unknown centuries, but at his bidding tell.
ing it's tale of the past; the grim monsters
of the DAYS when the creation was young,
revealing by fragment of bone the secrets
of their existence long ages after they hao
flourished, decayed and disappeared-al
these had been his loving study. Inall ht
traced the Great First Cause. His resear
ches were without cessation, for he knew
that his field was inexhaustible. The ben
ediction of the poet seemed answered. Ma
ture, in the grandest, most comprehensive
sense of the word, was the companion O
Agassiz:
Year: 1874

|


The Cabinet was in session for nearly
two hours today, during which the Ar.
kansas question was under consideration.
II was expected that the general govern.
ment would have made some decision In
response to the many applications there.
Tor from tho representatives of the con.
tending factions IN this case, but there
were no conclusions. The decision OF Inc
Supreme Court favoring tho Brooks side
Of the case, in such direct contradiction ol
It's previous decision that the Legislature
had the exclusive control Of the question,
has the effect Of Rugmenting the difficult.
ties under which the Federal Government
rests IN arriving at solution OF the Vexed
question. This new phase Of the matter
was TALKED, OF at some length in tho Cabi.
net session.


The reversal OF the former opinion of
the Supreme Court OF the State has oc-
casioned some surprise. No member Of
the Cabinet has made o definite or posi-
tive expression ol opinion on the subject,
Al the papers that have been present ed
10 the case were read to-day. There NAV
DO some decision tomorrow, but there
is no certainty OF 1t, as the attorneys Of
both parties are continually sending tele.
grams and presenting new points and ar
guments which they are anxious to have
considered. A Cabinet officer said this
afternoon that the Government was heart.
lily tired OF the controversy, and when It's
decision is made proclamation will be
Issued, which all will understand must
settle the question.
Year: 1874

Reports are in circulation that very
considerable amount OF bills Of exchange
drawn by q German house have been re.
turned from London. The reports lack
confirmation. 1t IS barely possible that
the whole thing may have some connec-
ton with the disappearance, some time
since, from the Produce Exchange of an
individual who left without providing for
his American creditors, and probably
treated his English friends in the same
Way.
Year: 1874

FIRE AT THE DANylLLE RAILROAD BRIDGE.
Yesterday afternoon about . O'Clock, just
after the shifting engine of the Richmond
and Dunville Railroad Company had crossed
the first span of the bridge on this city 70
meet the through train, smoke was discover.
ed issuing from the end of the covered span,
and in few minutes the bridge was found
TO be on fire. a member of the police force
and Que or two citizens who happened to he
present promptly informed tie watchman,
and the fire was eXtinguishcd with bucket
of water before any dlmagc was done. 1t is
supposed that the woodwork clught fire
from sparks from passing engine.
Year: 1874

The COUNTY CoNvEsTIoN.-In the APP
preaching convention at Chester for organi-
zition each township is entitled to one dele
gate for each one hundred Conservative
votes. Manchester being out of the county
her delegates simply attend BY request Of
the county superintendent for consultation.
Year: 1874

SPECIFIC ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS


shall be taken as maximuIns to be expended,
and shall be expended with proper regard
thereto. No additional expenditures shall
be authorized unless by transfer provided
for in the annual order or by creating city
debt; in either case to be done only by o
Year: 1874

Poor Dick Yates went down to the grave
impelled by fatality that was unyielding.
His difficulty was not one of his own seek.
ing. 1t came to him by transmission, and
he was no more responsible for it than is the
child born with faint of scrofula, or the
person who finds his system pervaded with
poison communicated by the bite of rabid
dog. lie was an inebriste from conception !;
he was doomed when he lay on his mother s
breast; and his subsequent yieldiHgs to slim.
ulation were NO more than the outbreaks OF
congenital disease. He fought the thing gal-
lantiy he fought it with all the odds against
him; he fought it as a man fights against
pulmonary consumption which has fastened
itself upon him; and for these struggles, for
this fighting off Of the final catastrophe as
long as he did, he is entitled to consideration.
-(Iic0OO Times
Year: 1874

New York, january "A Washington
special of the 9th says the House Military
Committee to-day began its investigation to
ascertain whether the military expenses can
he reduced. The Secretary of War and
General Sherman favored the maintenance
of the full force of &c, 600 men. and said that
with the present needs the service could not
get along with less. lie thought that the staff
corps could he materially reduced, and that a
reduction could take place in the quartermas
ter, cemmissary and medical forces. The
committee expect to make very marked re-
ductions i'll the number employed in the civil
and military branches Of the service, and in
works carried On under the War Depart
ment.
Year: 1874

A Kansas paper gives the following report
Of Il Judges sentence, lately passed on a
criminal: 'Brumley, you Infamous scoun-
drel. You're All unredeemed villain. Yon
haint single redecming trait in your char
acter. Your wife and family wish we had
sent you to the pententiary. This is the fifth
time have had you before me, and you have
put me to more trouble than your neck is
worth I've exhorted and played over you
long enough, you scoundrcl. just so home
and take one glimpse at your family, and be
off in short order. Don't let's ever hear of
you again. The grand jury have found two
other indictments against you, but Ill dis
charge you on your own recognizances, and
if catch you in this neck of woods to-mor-
row morning at daylight I'll sock You right
square in Jail and jump you off to Jefferson
Vile in less than no time, you Internal scoun-
drel If ever | catch you crossing your
finger ut man. woman or child-whte man
or niggcr-l'll sock you right square into tho
jug. Stand up. YOU sceundrel, while pass
sentence on you.
Year: 1874

Each finger, and the mount at the base ct


it, is named from planet In the normal


hand the second finger is the longest, the


third the next longest, the first nearly as long


as the third, and much longer than the fourth,


or little finger. Jupiter is the first finger


If it be long and net ill-shapen, and if the


mount ut its base be well developed, it indi-


Gates noble and lofty character snG i roli-


gious- minded person. II disproportionately
to the type of hand in which it may be


found, or according to the type of that par
ticular finger; in the first type, an over-long
first finger would denotc All inclination to the
fantastic or the exaggerated in religious mat
ters; OK it might. perhaps, mean religious
madness; or, if other signs in the hand fav-
ored this view. it could be taken to denote
pride. Pride is a form of worshp-the cult
of self. In the SECOND type of hand the ex-
cessive development of Jupiter might mean
ambition, or, it it were in a hand that was
eminently Unsel6sll, it would stand for q
something puritaHical in manner and morals
"a too great severity. In the third type
very long first finger would probably signify
vanity. The second finger is Saturn. If too
prominent It announces melancholy or misaa-
thropy, or downright cruelty, according to
the type of hand; but if the finger be with
due proportion this sadness may take the
form of pity for others, or it may from
merely becoming gravity. The third finger
is Apollo, and belongs to the arts. In
"pointed'' hand Apollo will give poetry and
music Composition y in a square hand, paint
ing, sculpture, (here art leaves the domain of
the purely contemplative; it becomes partly
active from the combination of manual
skill with what is only imaginative;) and in
a "spade-shaped" hand Apollo will give his
trienic power, an aptitude for acting, or
love of theatrical amussments. On the stage
art is joined in the closest manner to mo-
ton. The fourth finger is Mercury. If we'll
it promises a scientific turn Of
mind, resourcefulness, and diplomacy-tact
The thumb is Venus. Chirognomy and
palmistry agreed in almost all particulars
about the thumb. In both systems it is treat
ed as the most important part of the hand
The upper joint, that with the nail, stands
for the will; the second division, tie reason
ing faculties; the base, the animal instincts.
St PuuTs AQU1zine.
Year: 1874

Our best lawyers disdain the use of unfair
means, but they know that there is Ger
tain amoant Of dirty work to be done in
every case, and they are not only willing it
should be done, but they accept the results
with great satisfaction. One of the features
in this dirty work is perjury. The leading
lawyers will argue q case with great ability
from testimony which is got up for the occa-
sion. They say it is no part Of their business
to make inquiries beyond the testimony, and
if = witness be ready to prove a specified
point. they are bound to make the best of
his services. Hence most of our chief law
yers let perjury come into play whenever the
managers Of the case introduce it. There
was no small use made Of this feature IN the
Stokes case: and when Pat Logan swore
that he expected to receive from the prosccu-
tion 81, 900 for testifying against Stokes, it is
probable that he had received handsome
douctuv from the defense to make this state
ment You can got men in this city to prove
any required point. Their terms vary accord
ing to the value of their services. Ii the case
be one of small importance, $40 will be an
acceptable fee If the result be one of great
moment, ten times as much will be required
Such witnesses are trained by the subordi-
nate counsel 80 as to make the best impress
sion On the jury, aud often important cases
are carried in this fraudulent manner.


If the reader were to ask me who arc these
manufacturers of false testimony, should
hardly be able to afford a satisfactory reply.
know that lawyers can generally procure
them on short netice, and they appear to be
attaches of our courts. In the famous Forrest
divorce case such men were furnished on
very short notice to prove important points !;
as fast. indeed, as these points were required.
Runners were out constantly getting up wit
nesses and crammn: them for the occasion,
both sides being thus honorably employed:
The professional witness may be found
hanging round our courts, and he is also OF
use as juryman. Two of this class were On
the Stokes panel, and no small degree Of art
was shown in getting them there. A man Of
tact and assurance, who is ready to swear
falsely, can always obtain patronage among
the legal profession.
Year: 1874

A good many years ago, one Of the
most notorious thieves in the United
States, had a confidential conversation
with a gentleman who is now one OF
our most efficient detectives, and ex-
pressed desire to reform. "Why do
you wish so much to live on the
square ?" asked the gentleman. BE
cause" replied the thief, 81 have
wife and children to whom | am very
much attached they have no idea of
the mode in which l make my living;
the children are growing up, and are
beginning to wonder why l leave home
SO often and what do; and if l am
ever to reform, now is the time" The
gentleman warmly approved the idea,
and to further it, loaned the man sew
eral hundred dollars with which to be-
gin an honest business. The reformed
man at once broke off all his old asso-
Citations, lived a perfectly honest life,
would have no dishonest persons call
on him, devoted himself for years
closely to business, raised his family
respectfully, did good many acts of
unostentatious charity, and died not
long since esteemed by all who knew
him. His children are doing we'll and
highly respectable. The money ad-
vanced was long since repaid.
Year: 1874

MIR. SMITH has fine machinery for
lNI making all parts of watch or clock
that may be missing or broken. He war
rants all his work. The patronage of the
citizens of Forest County is most respect
fully solicited. All he asks is fair trial.


Aft
Year: 1874

A QUAKER PRINTERS PROVERBS
Never send thou an article for publica,
ton without thy name, for thy name Of
tentimes secures publication to worthless
articles.


Thou shouldst not rap at the door of a
printing office, for he who answereth the
rap sneereth in his sleeves and thereby
loseth time.


Neither do thou loaf about, ask ques-
tions, nor knock down type, or the boys
will love thee as they do the shade trees
when thou leaveth.


Thou shouldst never read the copy on
the printers case, or on the sharp and
hooked container thereof, or he may
knock thee down.


Never inquire thou of an editor for
news, for behold it is his business to give
it to thee at the appointed time without
asking.


1t is not right that thou shouldst ask
him who is the author of an article, for
it is his duty to keep such things unto
himself.


When thou dost enter his office, take
heed unto thyself that thou dost not look
at what may be lying open and concern
eth thee not, for that is not meet in the
sight of good breeding.


Neither examine thou the proof-sheet,
for it is not ready to meet thine eye, thou
mayest understand.


Prefer thine own town paper to any
other and subscribe for it Immediately.


Pay for it in advance and it shall be
well with thee and thine.
Year: 1874

AN exchange says that we have a right
to take an umbrella or a kiss without
permission whenever we can. Well, but
if the umbrella isn't returned, the fault
is ours if the kiss isn't, its the lady's
Year: 1874

THE smallest dew-drop that rests on a
lilly leaf at night holds in itself the image
Of shining star, and in the most hum
Bile and insignificant person something
good and true can always be found.
Year: 1874

for some time and had partially recover
ed when he was taken sick. During his
illness she tended him, and after his
death found herself scarcely able to
leave her bed, nor has she gained much
since; but it is hoped that our balmy
summer breezes may improve her
health. -la....


At present, times are very dull, but
soon haying will commence, and then
comes harvest, and all will be hustle
and activity preparing for the winter
frosts


The farmers life is busy one but it
is a free and pleasant one, for he is
monarch Of his farm if he be free from
debt and those farmers who, by good
calculation or otherwise, have kept clea,
from that curse, are moving along slow.
y toward afluence, and can look for.
ward to the time when, if prospered,
they will be comparatively wealthy.


I remain yours fraternally,


D. G. G.