smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

ONE of the most remarkable appli-
cations of photography is that by
which it is now made to register, the
mechanical action of the human heart.
The device by which this result is at
tanned, indeed triumph of inventive
skill. 1t consists of a thin india-rub-
ber bag, to which short glass tube is
attached sufficient mercury is pour
ed into the apparatus to fill the bag
and portion of the tube, and the in
strument is then placed over the heart
of the person to be examined. Ar
ranged in this manner, every puIsa-
ton of the heart is indicated by q corr
responding movement of the mercury
in the tube, and by suitable photo
graphic apparatus, provided with a
moving sensitive slip Of paper, per-
feet registration of the extent and rate
of the pulsations is obtained. The in-
teresting fact IS made known by this
process, that the fall of the pulse some
times takes place in successive hori-
zontal lines and sometimes in ascend
ant lines, the column re-asccnding two
or three times before falling altogeth-
Gr.
Year: 1877

A clergyman in this city went the
other day to call upon poor woman
living little distance from his church.
She was new conner in the vicinity,
and the clergyman had understood
that she was very pious. Il trust the
Lord sustains you in your aflliction >.
said he and she answered, The Lord
Who's she p
Year: 1877

For some years past our government has appropriated at each session of con gress means requisite for carrying o1 the survey of the territories, and at the last session the usual sums were granted for the prosecution of this work for the coming season. During the past four years the geological and typographical survey of Colorado has been completed. Every effort has been made to present, as fully as possible, all important feat ures of the region examined, and special attention has been given to all matter pertaining to the future development of the states Within the current veal. the reports and maps upon this survey will be given to the public. The former will comprise the annual reports for 1875 and 1876, and the latter will consist of an at las containing complete information as conveyed by typographical, geological and economic maps. On the economic sheets the distribution of the various grades of land, arable, pasture, etc, and the relative value of timber will be set forth, as we'll as the occurrence of metal liferous minerals in the various mining districts. Preparations are in progress at present for the prosecution of the sur veying work during 1877. In accordance with definite plan, three adjoining dis tricts have been selected as the field of operations during the ensuing season. A special party is organized for the estab- lishment of the primary triangulation, which will pass through all the districts, each of which is assigned to one of the regular surveying parties. All of them are composed of members of the survey who have already for number of years engaged in the same work, and are able to carry it out with the greatest possible despatch and accuracy of observation. Within two menths all the parties will take the field, and remain at their work so long as may be necessary for it's suc- cessful completion, or as the autumn storms setting in may permit.
Year: 1877

heartburn. Alter two meals changed off on to brick bats. see you are aston ished, but truth is my motto and here is the proof"

 He pulled out piece of brick and held it to the citizens nose. There were tooth marks, and no chance for argu- ment.

 "They don't agree with me" sighed the old man. The per cent. of nutri- ment doesn't hardly come up to my standard, and bad taste fingers in my mouth. only ate half dozen cad then changed off to old boots. take one like this, soak it over night M strong lye, shake out the pegs in the morning, and then we boil 1t with an old bone, sprinkle in little bran, and the soup fills up, if nothing more. This is the fourth old boot, and I suppose I could get along all right for week or so, but to-day is my birthday and I thought I'd like little bread to sort O commemorate the occa- sion."

 The citizen looked at him, mouth open, and not word to say:

 tI suppose I might skirmish around and find an old piece of buffalo robe and bake it fer dinner, but if you had jus. as soon lend me ten cents I think I'll accept it."

 The citizen handed out the money like man in dream, and slowing it down his pocket the old man picked up the boot and smelled of the heel, lifted up the picket and bit off a silver, and said as he moved away:

 If you ever get down to brick-bats call on me for l0an."
Year: 1877

In France so great is the dread of mil itary service that conscripts employ various devices to escape it. A story IS told of a conseript who recently feigned paralysis of the right arm. Alter many attemp pts to expose the fraud had failed {, it was proposed to amputate the arm, in the expectation that the man would con fess that he was shamming, rather than lose it. All arrangements were made, and the knife was in the hand ot the surgeon, but the conscript did not fiinch, proceeding with the amputation, He was ordered to the hospital, to reach which the river must be crossed. It was planned that the conscript should be suddenly tossed into the river When the unfortunate man foilnd hlmssii com :. nelled to sink or swim, he kept himself afloat some time with his left arm but finally, to save his life, struck out msn' fully with his right arm.
Year: 1877

the map of the continent and of eastern Europe will bo very much changed. General Sherman says all the officers of the American army who got leave of absence .o go across the sea must do SC at haii pay, and that it is decided that they can not be on the staff of any gene. ral of either side, and that they can not become engaged on either side in any

 manner
Year: 1877

SOUND SLEEP.-It is wonderful how
much may be done to protract existence
by the habitual restorative Of sound
sleep. Late hours under strain are of
course, incompatible with this solaee-


ment. On this topic DR.. Richardson
says it has been painful to him to trace
the beginnings of pulmonary consump-
ton to late hours at ''unearthly balls
and evening parties" by which rest is
broken and encroacments made on the
constitution. But, he adds, "If in mid
die age the habit of taking deficient and
irregular sleep be maintained, every
source of depression, every latent form
of disease, is quickened and intensified.
The sleepless exhaustion allies itself
with all other processes of exhaustion,
or it kills imperceptibly, by rapid in
PRODUCTION of premature old age, which
leads directly to premature dissolution. "
There, at once, is an explanation why
many people die earlier than they ought
to do. They violate the primary prin-
ciple of taking a regular nights rest.
If they sleep it is disturbed. They
dream all sorts of nonsense. That is
to say. they do not sleep sOundly, or for
any useful purpose; for dreaming is
nothing more than wild, imaginative
Year: 1877

The calculations on the issue of the
war between Russia and Turkey seem to
be based almost altogether on the rela-
tive strength of the cOntending powers.
The general expectation is that, unless
other European powers cast their swords
into one or the other scale, the Turks
will inevitably succumb to superior num-
bers and to the greater resources of the
Russians. With this confidence in the
strength of the Czar as compared with
that of the Sultan there is undoubtedly
more or less of trust in the righteousness
of the attitude which Russia has taken
face of all Europe. as champion of the
oppressed races of Turkey. But even
with the acknowledgment of right on the
one side and of wrong and oppression on
the other we notice in the present, as in
all wars, too much of disposition to
ignore the dependence of nations and of
their destinies upon the one great Power
that rules not only in the armies of
heaven but among the inhabitants and
the armies of earth.


The history of the world, ancient and
modern. the history of wars shows that
when all human factors have been taken
into the account, there is one grand fac
tor, the Overruling providence of God
that must have its place in the reckoning,
as that which actually determines the
result. Under the Theocracy, God in.
terposed by extraordinary means to con.
found and overcome the enemies of his
people, but although the days of his
miraculous interposition have passed, il
is still as true as ever that the race is
not always to the swift nor the battle tC
the strong; that it is God who puts
down one and sets up another.


There are thousand ways in which
without resorting to miracles, or employ
ing any but the NEST ordinary methods
of Divine Providence, totally differen
turn from that which seems altogethe
probable may be given to great battl
or to campaign. Some of the proudes
armies and fleets, even of modern times
have been vanquished Just when victor,
Year: 1877

TEMpTATIoN.-We have had great
deal to say to our young friends about
temptation, because in youth persons
susceptibilities are greater than at any
other time of life. There is much to
be said besides telling person what he
should avoid, or admonish1ng him to
shun this or that. The best way to
avoid thing is to cultivate something
antagonistic to it; in fact, if one does
not do this, his chances of successfully
carrying out his resolves are only half
what they might be. IF a person can
acquire a relish for good. wholesome,
improving society, he will be in less
danger than if he simply Stunned bad
company, and the same may be said of
good many other things. Among the
greatest protective agencies is taste
for reading. One seldom sees person
of such tastes in the ranks of the fast
young men who are getting in their crop of
wild oats. There is nothing much cheap
er than such taste: indeed, it is wonder
full how cheap are all kinds of culture
compared with the different sorts of
dissipation. A young man who has his
business to study and whose livelihood
and hope of advancement in the world
depends altogether on his own exertions,
will have brief time to devote to other
things but such time may be well filed
up, and by cultiv ating taste for that
which is improving and elevating, in
whatever department it may be, any In
clination in an opposite direction is eff.
fectually destroyed.
Year: 1877

WISE MAx1Ms.-Mr. John McDon-
ough. the New Orleans millionaire, has
engraved on his tomb series of maxims,
which he had prescribed as the rules for
his guidance through life, and to which
his success was mainly attributable ;
Remember always that labor is one of
the conditions of our existence. Time
is gold throw not one minute away,
but place each one to account. Do un-
to all men as you would be done by.
Never covet what is not your own.
Never think any matter SO trihing as
not to deserve notice. Never give out
that which does not first come in.
Never spend but to produce. Let the
greatest order regulate the transactions
of your life. Study in the course Of
life to do the greatest amount of good.
Deprive yourself of nothing necessary to
your comfort, but live in an honorable
simplicity and frugality. Labor, then,
to the last moment of your existence"
Year: 1877

It is pleasant to believe that the
world is gradually growing whittier. 1t
is joy to feel that, as the years pass,
the mission of Jesus fulfls itself and
the world becoming purer. There is a
basis Of fact for this belief, and abund-
ant cause for such joy. Two thousand
years ago the world was foul, both in
its thoughts, its practices, and its ex-
expression. Even in literature of our
own language, three centuries ago, was
too impure for the present time to read.
In our age, on every hand, we behold
proof that the cleansing work of Chris
tianity has triumphed. The world is
progressing. 1t moves on and it moves
up. The hearts of men are becoming
chaste, the affections Of men pure. God
is coming nearer and nearer to the race,
not in outward and visible splendor Of
actual appearance, but in the interior
Improvement and developement OF hu-
man nature. Again is his likeness be-
ing born on earth. Not now, as at
Bethlehem, by the birth of the flesh.
but by the birth of the spirit. He is
not taking TO himself the nature of ang-
els, but the nature of man, and man
beholds him in his own nature. And
through the increasing purity of his af-
fections he sees his God. By and by
he will see him more clearly. By and
by they will realize the truth of the
saying of Jesus, when he exclaimed to
his disciples, "The kingdom of heaven
is within you" Then will they indeed
be near GoA Then shall they see him,
as it were, face to face.-W- II. H.
Murray.
Year: 1877

A SPIRITED SCHOOL, -GIRL.-The mis-
tress of most disordely school in Sho-
whcgan, Me-, lost control of her scholars
one day last week, and allowed the
naughty boys to throw wads of paper
and balls of clay at the pretty girls.
One of the girls finally reported" cer-
tain boy who was annoying her with pot
shots from popgun. The timid school
mistress sternly reproved her for tattling
in school. The girl returned to her seat,
and her prosecutor, resuming military
operations and firing at long range across
the schoolroom hit her in the face. ''Ii
the teacher can't lick you l can,' said
the pretty girl, and darting across the
room she struck him with a big book,
dragged him out of his seat, and bea'
him until he lay on the floor blubbering
and begging for mercy.


After a boy is tired out hoeing pota
toes nothing seems to rest him more thai
to dig over few square rods Of green
sWard in search of bait.
Year: 1877




DoN'T WORRY ABOUT YOURSELF
To retain or recover health, persons
should be relieved from anxiety concern.
ing disease. The mind has power over
the body-for person to think he has
a disease will often produce that disease.
This we see effected when the mind is
intensely concentrated upon the disease
of another. We have seen person sea-
sick, in anticipation of voyage, before
reaching the vessel. We have known
people to die of cancer in the stomach,
when they had no cancer in the stomach
or any other mortal disease. A blind
folded man, slightly pierced in the arm,
has tainted and died from believing he
was bleeding to death. Therefore per-
sons should have their minds diverted as
much as possible from themselves. 1t is
by their faith that men are saved, and
it is by their faith that they die. AS a
man thinketh, so is he. If he wills not
to die, he can often live in spite of dis
ease; and, if he has little or no attach
ment to life. he will slip away as easily
as child will fall asleep. Men live by
their minds as we'll as by their bodies.
Their bodies have no life of themselves
they are only receptacles of life-tene-
ments for their minds, and the will has
much to do in continuing the physical
occupancy or giving it up.
Year: 1877

ners. Never did prouder fleet or one
more confident of success set sail than
that which is known in history, or in
irony, as the Invincible Armada. and
none ever met with more humil1ating
discontinue, and this in great measure
directly from the hand of God. France
under both Napoleons, while giving IL
lustrations of what may be accomplished
by valor combined with numbers, has
also shown that the odds are all against
those that fight against the DEGREES of
heaven, and SO does the history Of every
great nation that has been involved in
war.


Our hopes of the success of the Rus.
sian arms, in the conflict which is now
going on, are based not so much upon
the superior forces of Russia, as upon
the avowed object of the war and upon
its hopeful and probable results. Russia
has declared before the world that her
purpose in undertaking the war is the
liberation of the oppressed Christian
subjects of the Porte, or at least the
complete amelioration of their condition;
and should she be successful, we are
fully authorized to anticipate as one of
its consequences the breaking of that
naughty power which, as one form of
Anti Christ, is ruling over so many mil
lions of the human race, and which con-
stitutes one of the strongest barriers in
the way of the progress and complete
success of the gospel of Christ. Russia
may have ulterior ambitious designs in
view of making war upon Turkey, but
with her recent pledges on record, in the
present state of Europe with SO many
jealous powers armed to the teeth watch
ing her every movement, it is impossible
that she should achieve any success that
will not be for the benefit of the Chris
tian and even the Mohammedan popula-
tion of the Turkish Empire.


They who look for the final triumph
of the gospel of Christ over all opposing
systems of religion must expect the
overthrow of Mohammedanlsm, which
now numbers among its adherents nearly
two hundred millions of the human race
The chief ruling power of this gigantic
form of error is in the throne of the
Sultan of Turkey. Many students of
phrophecy regard the near future as the
time indicated in Scripture for the ex-
tinction of that power, as symbolized by
''the drying up of the great river Eu-
pirates" The time must come for its
overthrow, and all things indicate the
present as the opportunity.


In the hope that the beginning of the
end is at hand, and is to be hastened by
the present war, we earnestly desire the
success of the cause to which Russia
stands pledged. But our trust is in the
God of Providence and of revelation, the
God of battles, who has his own great
purposes to accomplish that are far above
the plans of human governments; who
sometimes disappoints the hopes of those
that stand pledged for the right, but who
in all and through all the commotions
and changes that take place, is working
out the final redemption of the world
Neao York Observer.
Year: 1877

Hons BINDING OF PAPERs AND MaGA-
zryEs.-We know what handsome
books are made by getting old mag
azines bound up in yearly or half
yearly Volumes. Many OF us cannot
afford to have all of the old maga-
zines and papers which we preserve
in order, bound by the regular book
binders. It is possible to bind these
together SO as to preserve them in
convenient form, with a very little
trouble, and with no expense to
speak of. Sew them together with
strong cord or twine. Don't sew
them "over and over" like the
seam in sheet, as papers sewed in
this way tear out badly, and the book
loses its shape. To make q thick
book, q good strong awl is needed.
Lay tho numbers in order, removing
the covers, if they are covered. Fix
the backs evenly, and make awl-
holes from half to tbree-quarters
of an inch from to !, edge,
Ahrough the whole pile, not more
than two or three inches apart.
Sew through these with q daruing
needle and twine, back and forth,
until the book is firm, fastening the
ends of the twine securely. If q
good strong cover be desired, it is
best to bind the backs with q strong
cloth. This may be done by folding
q strip of cloth over the backs (the
whole pile together) before piercing
the holes. To this strip, on front
and back, paste paper, one thickness
over another, until thick board is
formed, drying it with warm fiat
iron as you proceed, SO as to keep q
smooth aud even surface. Trim the
edges, paste something strong over
the back, line the cover neatly, and
embellish the outside according to
taste. .
Year: 1877

@ Assistant Secretary OF State
Seward always wears a small black
skull cap. The reason assigned
for the habit is that the cap covers
the scars upon the head which still
remain from the wounds received
while endeavoring to shield hin
father, the late Secretary Stewards
assassination.
Year: 1877

failed. 1t happens, very strangely, that both
the parties disappointed arc serene, while the
party that is triumphant is outraged. W.
usually look for ms, ,,uaDimlty and not mallce IN
VictorS. The practice of shooting prisoners Is
out of date. / lave heard there was a time
long ago when conquerors tied caphyes to their
chariot wheels to grace their triumph. LII you
attempt that, your coach will get upset.


Since you are my friend let me take you INTO
nv confidence. No man more earnestly than
myself wishes to retain Republican supremacy
in this State To that end am prepared to
make great sacrifices.


Rather than surrender the seat hold in the
Senate to Democrat, have already trampled
ON the only real ambition ever had.


But there is limit beyond which L won't go.
Twenty years ago, you remember, would not
surrender conviction to secure seat IN the
Senate. l am not likely now to surrender my
personal independence to retain that seat. And
L won't consent to stand in the pillory and be
pelted with bad eggs, not even to prevent a
Democrat from taking that seat.


OF course can't prevent your scoldlnS at me
whenever it fits your mood; / can't even prevent
the dogs from barking at me as go along the
street But don't abandon the highway to
avoid the latter peril. and l can't falter on the
course my judgment dictates to avoid the Tor
msc.


Put Z 7rbip in the hands of child and he is
moved to hit everyone who comes within his
reach newspaper III thg hands of some ed
itors is lust as provocative to the aggressive
spirit within them. We must not be offended
at the child nor at the pseudo man, but it Is not
amiss properly to correct both.


Again, 1 caution you not to suppose because
[ reply to your structures, while for two years l
have submitted in silence to the reproaches OF
a neighbor of yours. that it is because fear
you more than fear your neishbor. 1t is be,
cause respect you more. believe You would
like to help-not hurt-tEe Republican party
and mean to do SO according to the light that
is in you 1 have no such faith in your neigh
Dor. When spring lice can be employed to
feed the oxen they infest, then such spirits as
control the Sentinel can be relied upon to help
a good cause, but not till then. L. o. HOWE.
Year: 1877

NUT CAKE.-Three eggs, one cup milk,
two Of sugar, three of flour, one-fourth
cup of butter, three teaspoonfuls baking
powder, one cup of raisins, one of
hickory-nut meats.


PARsNIP5 which have remained in
the ground through the winter are nice
now cooked till tender by boiling, then
split lengthwise and fried to nice
brown in hot lard, or dressed with
cream, or butter and milk, with dust
of -four.


A SMALL quantity of carbolic acid is
recommended to be used in whitewash
and in paste for laying paper-hangings.
1t will repel cockroaches and other in
sects, and also neutralize the disagreed
bic odor consequent upon the decompo-
sition of the paste.


BRoILING STEAK. may be
covered while broiling, but should never
be hacked while cooking, nor pounded
before cooking; simply lay it upon the
gridiron, and turn but once, as at every
turning you lose the juice of the meat
when done, lay upon the dish it is to be
served in, sprinkle over it little salt,
and spread over it some good sweet
butter, and let stand five minutes in the
/ oven.


USEFUL EXPERIENCE.-A few weeks
since a barrel of sugar was brought into
the house. We had many misgivings
about keeping it from the ants, and
placed it where we could examine il
often. We soon found them swarmine
about it, Win an occasional scout Climb.
ing the sides of the barrel. We quickly
destroyed all we could see, then drew 8
chalk mark half an inch or more IL
width around the barrel on the floor
which has proved a perfect barrier
so far. Finding that some came uE