smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

Ol tnc DIScuhc.


People generally imagine that when a
dog is "mad" his disease is Immediately
characterized by furious manifestations
and frantic movements. This is false
idea. Often quite the reverse takes
place. An affectionate dog will not be-
come ferocious and estranged in q single
day; it is by slow degrees that the transi-
tion comes. But even in that first
period, from the moment that the first
symptoms of hydrophobia show them
selves, the saliva of the animal is
virulet. Beware of dog which begins
to be sick. All sick dogs, as principle,
must be suspected. Beware especially
of one that is sad, morose and seeks for
solitude; one that does not know where
to rest; one that goes and comes, ram
bles about, snaps and barks without
reason, whose looks are dull and gloomy
and whose bright expression is lost.
Beware of the dog that looks about and
attacks imaginary phantoms: Beware
of one that is suddenly too affectionate.
asking for your caresses by his pitiful
and repeated cravings. The mad dog is
not of necessity hydrophobic. He is not
afraid Of water, and he will not run away
| if one offers him drink. He will drink as
long as he is able to swallow. Rabid dogs
have been known to swim across rivers.
The bark of the mad dog is thoroughly
characteristic. Instead of the normal
and successive barks it is hoarse, lower
in tone, prolonged and not so strong.
After the first bark, made at full strength,
q series of five, six, seven or eight others
Immediately succeed, lower in strength
and thrown out from the throat. The
bravest and strongest dog will, in the pres
ence of mad dog, show cowardice and,
instead of attempting to fight with him,
will try to escape. The rabid dog is
always violently impressed and irritated
by the sight of animals of its own species.
It is generally believed that the mad dog
salivates abundantly, that he froths at
the mouth. This is serious error. The
salivary secretion is increased in hydro
phobia only when the disease is at it's
paroxysms. The cat may become rabid,
but fortunately seldom. Set it down
fortunately, for the rabid cat is more
terrible and more dangerous than the
dog. The rabid cat knows its master no
longer. It aims its blow at the face.
The danger from mad dogs in the winter
is about the same as in the heat of sum-
mer. In the spring cases are more fire.
quent and in the autumn less frequent.
Sensitiveness to pain is greatly diminish
ed in the mad dog. When whipped,
burned or wounded he does not cry nor
utter any complaint. The mad dog runs
away from home, but after two or three
days absence he returns to die near his
master. The surest way OF preventing
the effects of rabid inoculation from the
bite of mad dog is the immediate call
tcrization of the wound with the actual
cautery or with burning gunpowder or
some other caustic agent. If the cau-
terization cannot be done Immediately
after the bite, one must, while waiting
wash the wound, press it thoroughly to
squeeze the blood out, suck it with the
lips (spitting out the liquid immediately,
compress the edges Of the wound, and, if
possible, apply aligature about the limb
to arrest the circulation of blood.-
Philadelphia Herald.'
Year: 1877

A writer in the Baltimore Bee is OF
the opinion that black-eyed ladies are
most apt to be passionate and jealous.
Blue. eyed, soulful, truthful, affectionate
and confding. Gray-eyed, philosophi-
cal, literary, resolute, cold hearted.
Hazel-eyed, quick tempered and tickle.
A woman is either worth good deal Or
nothing. If good for nothing, she is not
worth getting jealous for; if she be a
true woman she will give no cause for
jealousy. A man is brute to be jealous
of o good woman fool to be jealous of
q worthless one !; but is a double fool to
cut his throat for either of them.
Year: 1877

EGGS IN CUps.-Place cups il drip
ping pan Of boiling water, and place on
fire, where the water will keep boiling;
in each cup put lump of butter the
size of hickory nut, and let it become
very hot; then put in, carefully, one
egg in each cup. It is best to break
each egg in dessert saucer first. When
cooked, serve on thin buttered toast.
Year: 1877

A Pennsylvania paper tells the fol-
lowing:


"A short time since, q gentleman re-
siding in this vicinity went to Philadel-
phia, and put up at hotel, and while
resting after tea in the reception room,
overheard two gentlemen conversiEg in
regard to trial then in progress before
one of the ou,ts of that city. Our
neighbor learned from this conversation
that man had obtained money upon his
wife's property, the wife giving mort
gage. The money was spent in dissipa-
rion, the wife became a maniac, and was
confined to an asy lum; the husband died,
and the children of the unfortunate
couple were furnished with guardian
by the court who was maintaining the
suit then being tried, against the holder
of the mortgage, on the ground that the
wife was not of legal age when the in
strument was executed. The gentlemen
knew that niece of his who had left
the vicinity when a child, had married
a man of the same name as the one men,
toned, and he concluded to investigate.
He made his way to the court house the
following morning, and to his intense
surprise and qualification was the very
person needed to establish TO a certainty
the age of the unfortunate woman, and
to save her worse than orphaned chill
dren's property, valued at twenty five
hundred dollars
Year: 1877

Times are excessively dull, and the
collection of money is a task of the
most difficult character. 1t is during
stringent times like the present that it
specially behooves all who have the
ability to pay their small bills, and es
pecially when they are due to people of
moderate means. Not to do this is q
natural breach of honesty and is certain
ly piece of positive cruelty.


Pay your small debts the moment you
have the money, and thereby not only
get the approval of your own conscience,
but the good will and blessing of those
whom you thus favor. There are persons
who will never pay debt as long as it
is possible to avoid it, although posses
sed of means in abundance to discharge
the obligation. Their balance in bank
may be large, and they could spare il
without the slightest inconvenience, but
there is magnetism about money that
binds their very soul to it, and which
frequently nothing but the mandates of
the law can sever. Legally such people
may be honest, morally they have nc
claim to the title.
Year: 1877

The New York Medical Journal re-
ports this case: I he patient was engaged
in a machine shop, and while his hand
was upon the anvil of trip hammer,
the hammer-weighing2 700 pounds
fell. 1t so happened tnat a file was on
the anvil, and in this way the force of
the hammer was arrested about half an
inch before il reached its bed. When
the hand was examined it was found
that the whole palm was mass of pulp.
The metacarpel bones were comminuted
extensively, and there was apparently
but small chance of saving the hand.
1t was, however, placed in warm water,
and kept there for three or four weeks,
and then taken out and dressed.


In three months the patient was suffi-
ciently we'll to leave the hospital, and
now-nine months after the accident
he is able to move the fingers, and has
| quite useful hand" Bruises and in
| ilries do much better when treated with
hot than with cold water. The temper
ature should be about 103 degrees F
Another case is reported of compound
fracture and dislocation of the ankle
joint, in which the proximal end of the
first metartarsal bone protruded from
the foot. The dislocation was reduced
and the foot placed in hot water. A
the end of week it was taken out and
dressed in the ordinary manner. The
foot is doing we'll and promises good
| result
Year: 1877

GREEN RIVER, Wy, January 10
Eleven miners came into Camp Brown
on the 9th, for supplies, from the head
of Wood River, and all bring coarse
gold with them. They report about thirty
men now in the diggings, working with
rockers, making ten dollars per day and
upwards. One man by the name of
Watson found a nugget weighing thirty
dollars. The party report no snow on
the route, and very little in the camp
They return Immediately with about
forty men, who join them from Lander
City, in the Wind River Valley, who
feel jubilant over the new discovery, as
they have been waiting for the purpose
of going into that country early in the
spring, but now leave with the Wood
River party. The distance is about
eighty miles from Camp Brown.
Year: 1877

Professor Tyndall, in a recent Holiday
lecture at the Royal Institution, speaks
thus of the painless death by electricity:


"Franklin was twice struck senseless
by the shock. He afterwards sent the
discharge of two large jars through six
robust men; they fell to the ground and
got up again without knowing what had
happened; they neither heard not felt
the discharge. Priestly, who made
many valuable contributions to electric
ity received the discharge of two jars,
but did not find it painful.


This experience agrees with mine. In
the Theatre of the Royal Institution
and in the presence of an audience,
once received the discharge of battery
of fifteen Leyden jars. Unlike Frank.
Inns six men, l did not fall, but like
them I felt nothing. was simply ex
tinguished for sensible interval.


"This may be regarded as An expert
mental proof that people killed by light
ming suffer no pain"


The measured velocity of electricity i
many rhonsAsnd times greater fhan TN
measured velocity of sensation in tn
nerves. Hence the electrical conclusion
reaches the centre of life, without an,
possible announcement by the eye o
ear or sense of feeling. There is abun
dant evidence that death by rifle bal
traversing the brain is for the same rea
son entirely without consciousness Q
pain. But rifle ball is a tortoise CON
pared with the electrical fash.
The Ruhmkof coil places artifcis
lightning in our hands. If society mu.
kill its members, let this instantaneor
doom be substituted for the slow to-


ture and brute violence of the gallow
, Il Providence Journal.
Year: 1877

He was a middle-aged man when in
1888 he settled near where Portland,
Ore, now is. He had tried civilization
and was wearied with it. He had sold
his little property in the East, and with
a few horses, cows and dogs had thread
ed the dangerous way from the Missouri
River to Oregon, and there, under the
shadow of the Cascades and besides the


beautiful Willamette, paused at last !
and said to himself. "I shall have no |
more trouble; l can stay here with my
dogs, my rifle and my own soul for COM


pany, and none will modest me-" For
awhile he was entirely happy, but at


length one stranger after another made


his appearance, and one morning the


man who had journeyed SO far to be


alone woke up to find that town was


being laid out near his cabin. He called


his dogs, and, remembering beautiful


spot that he passed over on his journey


West, he retraced his steps, threaded the


mighty canyon of the Columbia, and
built another cabin where The Dalles


now is. Here he felt secure. The dis


turbers who broke up his home on the


Willamette had reached him from the


eas. He said now to himself. at will


be years and years before they find me


here" For good many years he enjoy


ed his dream. Game was plenty, the


scenery was glorious, the soil was rich,


and the man, now grown old, was happy.


But one morning as he sat in his hut a


strange sound broke the stiffness, and,


going to the door, lol in the great river


a steamboat was putting against the cur


rent, and in few days another town
was in course of construction around
him. Again he moved, and this time
did not pause until be reached the
| Umpqua country. This was an uttel
wilderness, and he told his dogs that a
: last they were safe. He built another
e cabin and settled down for life. For
) year or two he was undisturbed, but on,
: day some strange men, with strange in
s struments, crossed his ground, stopping
: every few rods, looking through thei
f instruments and taking notes. 1t dis
= turbed the old man little, but at last b
said they were but Government survey
It ors-he should see them no more 70
!. years. But before many weeks a gan
o of workmen came right across his favor
o lite field; they threw up an evenly-grad
j. ed road, and within fort night loco
Is motive came screaming by. Then tn
j, old man gave up. His dogs, too, SCENE
le to understand that there was no more us
N in trying. One after the other died; th
Sc game was driven away, and one mornin
J. as the cabin door of the old man W;
is pushed open he was found dead, and Q
IN the smoky wall, written with charcos
" was found this sentence: "They crow,
to ed me to death" This coast is full


these men. They tried at first the fel
H. competitions of business and failed, ar
IS. then, turning to nature as their on
Is. friend, tried to hide from mankind. V
IF. presume that all new lands are full
of such histories of gentle, kindly iv,
h. which, wearying of and chafng at t
by attritions of civilized life, at last stc
ce away, to live alone for little while al
he then go to sleep.-[Virginia New E
by terprise.
Year: 1877

A correspondent of the Country Gen
tleman writes: II am decided advo.
cate for milking cows up to calving; i.
the milk gets thick, throw it away, but
milk the COW. Always give her to un
derstand that giving milk is her busi
ness, and keep her at it late and early
If she should, by any possible means
lose her life by giving too much milk
she will have lost it in good cause. ant
saved her throat from the butcher
knife"
Year: 1877

: Credit one to the family cat. He lives
at South Carver, Mass, his name is Asa
and the other day, in quest of mice, he
yanked out of an obscure corner an old
etocking half full Of silver coin.
Year: 1877

An extraordinary report appeared
few days ago IN the British papers of an
explosion and sudden disappearance of
an unknown vessel off Portland. A cor
respondent of the Dorset County Chron-
icle states that when on the lookout at
Portland Hill on the morning when the
alleged explosion occurred, he. saw what
at first appeared long, low, dismasted
ship, with short stumpy jury masts,
about one mile south southwest off
Portland. She looked like a vessel
broken backed, as her stem and stern
were we'll out Of water, and something
like steam or smoke was rising up in
midships. To his surprise, on looking
through telescope, he saw it was a
"monster fish, with head and tail rising
above the swell Of the sea, and the back
nearly down to the level of the water
and what appeared at first to be smoke
or steam was large jets of water, thrown
up like a big whale blowing. The
stumpy masts were immense long fins
All at once, with a tremendous bound
at least thirty or forty feet high, anc
down again almost like lightning, tn,
huge monster disappeared" This state
ment, it is said, is confirmed by Capt
Cosens Gibbs and Mace, who went ou
in search of the crew or fragments of tn,
supposed vessel. They saw can i'm
mense monster of the deep" throwing vi
jets of water and making itself painful,
conspicuous by its eccentric proceed


inPs
Year: 1877

The favorite plan adopted by lion
hunters in Algiers for Turing their prey
is to select favorable plot of level
ground below a commanding eminence,
where the hunters, armed with rifles,
conceal themselves. A stake is driven
into the centre of the plot, to which a
kid is tethered. 1t is about two in the
morning, and the moon full and bright
About twenty minutes delay, and the
heavy silence of the place is broken by
an ominous sound in the distance. Tits
not quite howl, but greatly magni.
fed imitation of that long wailing cry
of lonesome cat in the dead of night
Then the moon reveals dark objec
among the heavy grasses andshrubbery
and then the form of the king of beasts
whipping his launches with his tufty
tail, and leisurely following the scent
The piteous bleating of the doomed kit
accelerates his pace, and when within
few feet of his victim he crouches dow
to gloat over the prospective meal. H
advances, and with a stroke of his pa,
nearly dispatches the kid. Almos
dead, it attempts to crawl away. The
the lions feline instincts are apparen


He plays with the dying kid as n ca
does with half-dead mouse. While b
10 thus engaged the hunters take stead
aim at point near one of the fore shou


ders or behind his ear. He sends up
terrific yell, and rolls over dead.
Year: 1877

TO heed them II s expected OF ~ that continually
advance In doing good for each day grace Will be
given US In proportion 10 the good use we nave made
refuse listen the voice Of inspiration, Tor men
grow daily dealer and dealer TO until the END they
become dead all Of duty and regardless oil tho
consequences. We nave examples OF men who, when
dying, refused even then 10 restore their ii-sottcn
wealth. and Of others who led vicious lives and knew
that in i've minutes they would be 10 eternity, yet
would not separate themselves from the partners OF
their crimes II is fatal mistake 10 think that after
having spurnod all graces and Inspirations for liic
time, in tho end the necessary grace would be
gwen. There Is no reason Whatever 10 expect that
such n miracle wou ID then be performed. II we cx-
pect TO be among the few that are chosen we must
need the voice OF God and implicitly obey Him.
Year: 1877

The long threatened war in Europe has
actually begun. The movement of the
Russian troops across the Prulh is the
initiation Of bloody struggle, which be-
fore it closes may involve the greater part
of Europe.


The two immediate contestants, Russia
and Turkey. have been long and energet-
ically preparing for war. They take the
field with large and well equipped armies,
after the most mature deliberation and
against the efforts of the remainder OF
Europe to preserve the peace. The fight
ing viii be desperate. Both Russians and
Turks are under the influence OF relig-
ious fanaticism which will stimulate them
to fight to the death. Left to themselves.
there can be little doubt that the Turks
would be obliged to succumb to their pow
erful antagonist, but will the other Euro
pean potentates consent to the farther in
crease Of the colossal power of Russia
and the jeopardiDg of their own interests
through the humbling and despolation OF
Turkey by the victorious CzarP This is a
question which only the course of events
can answer. AT present the policy APP
pears TO be to leave the Turks aud Rus
slams to have the war all to themselves.
But few weeks or months may show a
different state of things. Other nations
will not remain inactive when their own
possessions or interests are endangered.


II is generally predicted that the war
will be of short duration. 1t is said that
modern wars are so destructive of life
that they must necessarily be short. There
is some force in this fact aud yet the Cri-
mean war, which at its beginning it was
reckoned would close in few weeks was
extended through two years while the late
war in this country. which 1t was prophe-
sled would be wound Up in ninety days
after the first cannon shot, was only closed
after four years of continuous and desper-
ate fighting. 1t may take years to finish
the war now begun. Railroads and de-
structive implements and enginery Of war
hasten the bloody work, but even with
these time is required to exhaust the war
like energies of nations and bring around
peace.


The attitude Of our government will be
that of neutrality. The sympathy of our
people is quite naturally with Russia
The Car extended sympathy to our gov.
ernment in its struggle for existence
against the rebellion. We remember it
Over the unfriendly British government
the Russians have often and always
reached out friendly hand to America,
even from the early days of our govern
ment. We do not forget this. And Rus
sa in the present war is the champion OF
the Christian religion, the defender of the
rights of people trodden down under
the heel of fanatical despotism. Occu-
pying such an attitude as this in the fight
she appeals with peculiar force to the
American people, not only through relig-
ious associations but because of our expe-
rence as nation 10 conflict with despo-
,ism foreign and domestic.


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Year: 1877

Liberal Advances made on Personal Property
to any amount and for any time desired on very
reasonable teTmss


Also, Goods sold on Commission.


A large stock OF Goods on hand, (new and sec.
ond-hand,) sold very low for cash. jab-tf
Year: 1877

but which has never been sent to the
Congress of the United States or the
President of the Senate during a hun
drcd years. The proceedings in Court
rccited in it are all subsequent to that
time which, by the Constitution and law
of the United States, is fixed. | do not
believe that this commission by the
Constitution or law, was ever intended,
or has the power to 90 to the extent
that would be required to probe these
mutual allegations on both sides to the
bottom. Kasson argued at great length
against the power OF the commission to
90 behind the returns, and said: Are
You to revise the proceedings OF all
State elections and State tribunals APP
pointed by State laws, or are you to
count what is properly certified and pre-
sented to you If it be otherwise, let
the Constitution be amended and let 1t
he declared by this tribunal Each
State shall appoint in such manner as
the Legislature thereof may direct, u
number of electors, ETC., subject to revis'
ion by the Congress of the United States,
which shall determine whether such
electors have performed their functions
L., ,,ts1IooN,n, Af gntI y
We are brought inevitably to an amend.
ment to the Constitution, which is
sought to secure the rights Of the States,
which require every ballot in the Presi-
dental election to be cast on the same
day, that they might be freed from cen
tralized influence. Every member of the
commission knows the history of the
adoption of this clause, and yet we are
brought to-day to the question: Shall
we 90 on and complete the absorption
of the absolute independent right of
State to appoint electors in their own
way, and say that it is subject to the two
houses OF Congress whether they have
done or shall do what is necessary
The gentlemen asks, are we then to take
the certificate of the Governor against
the truth Is there not reason on the
other side why it should not be asked
are we to take the certificates of fifteen
gentlemen against the truth Field
proposed in his argument to show log.
rolling by which the Hayes electors got
their certificates May l ask this tribu-
nal if there is pried tacia presumption
for or against fraud whether it exists
against these officers elected before fraud
could have been contemplated against
a board that acted at the time required
by the State law; against a board that
acted at the time required by Congress
sional law; against board that acted
in ignorance OF the result of other States;
or does that presumption of law exist
against men who knew the Importance
of change of result in Florida; against
men who acted with knowledge of the
necessity of the action they took to ac-
complish their result; against men who
were organized as q new tribunal and
enacted new law to accomplish that.
If you take Jurisdiction to determine
the mere ninety votes which constitute
one of the illegal majorities in Florida,
and upset an election college that might
exist there, you might 60 to my State
and assert that the 10000 majority there
should be upset.


Mccrary followed, reviewing the quo
war,Gnto case already referred to, and
reciting many authorities in connection
Herewith.