smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

country, that the northern hill side, though
not as early, will finally prove to be the
best. We would, however, advise western
and rather steep side hill when such can be
secured. as it is an intermediate, until further
experiment has been made. This is broad
subject, and cannot be too well ventilated.
We therefore trust that our friends may
communicate their experience, that the new
beginner may not make the same blunder
as those who first undertook the business.
It is a matter Of general interest to our
country, and we invite discussion through
our columns.
Year: 1878

rel is exposed to too much heat, but by
packing the rolls in such a manner as to
avoid touching the sides and be entirely sur
rounded with the brine, rancidness may be
entirely avoided. The rolls may be taken
out at will. This mode of packing is cheap
est, and good butter thus packed will keep
perfectly sweet for twelve months or even
more. WILL.
Year: 1878

The following is the result of the pri-
mary elections in the various wards of the
city, last night. The vote polled was very
small, the turnout of voters not being as
large as usual:
Year: 1878

The disposition to sportiye exercise


shown by nearly all young animals is
not altogether the result of mere aim
less exuberance of spirits. OF the pur-
pose Of this natural instinct the Scien-
tiic American has This to say:


Play is an instructive faculty, inhe-
rent in all animals. 1t is as much an
instinct as the desire to seek food when
hungry; and to re- gard it as mere aim
less and tritiing species Of eXertion is a
total mistake. The gambols Of a child
emerging from babyhOOd, orof a kitten,
are due 10 precisely similar reasons. At
this period of life the purpose Of play in
man and brute is the same; in after
years the difference vastly widens
through the introduction Of the intel
lectual element in the actions Of the
child, and Of course its total absence in
those of the brute. The games and
playthings of youth are not those of
childhood; but the play of an old dog
though more rarely OccurriHg-is new
ertheless the same as that Of young
puppy. The object of play in young
life is exercise. It's the peculiar exer-
else which Nature prompts the organ
ism to undertake; and it may be said
that it is the only possible form Of ex-
erCise which is at once attended by
pleasure, and is able to moUi0 tbs-fraRe
Of the growing animal in the direction
Of its perfect development. It's antith
esis is task work, which, though it may
nOt involve one tithe the exertion, nev-
ertheless passes quickly into fatigue,
and tHus results in straining some mus
cIes unduIy while others are left COM
paratively Undeveloped. Inplay alone,
the instructive sense Of physical need
gets full scope; its spontaneity and aim
lessness are therefore only apparent,
and its nature and amount are deter
mined by the sense of pleasure in the
exercise itself; while on the other hand,
strictly natural limit is imposed on
all undue exertiOn by obedience to the
sense of fatigue. The result is an equa-
bic and harmonious development of
muscular energy and nutrition in every
muscle and fiber; and it is one attaina-
bic in no other way-certaiuly not by
any prescribed routine of exertiOn-Or
save by Obeying natural instinct.
Year: 1878

washington Dispatch to the New York Herald.I


The leaders of tie extreme silver
movement have determined to rest
content with the silver act for a
while, and for the present win not
attempt to push any further legisla-
tiun in regard to silver. They ad
NIT that It is their duty to allow re
suits Of the silver act to work them
selves ont before urging the next
step, and they are as uncertain as al
most everybody els. Of what may be
its eff f.ct.
Year: 1878

Investigations which were recently
carried through by French physician
DR.. Flelry, of Bordeaux, have adduced
facts showing that cur natural impulse
to use the members on the right side Of
the body is clearly traceable to prob
ably physiological causes. DR.. Fleury,
after examining an immense number
of human brains, asserts that the left
anterior lobe is a little larger than the
right one. Again, he shows that, by
examining a large number of people,
there is an unequal supply of blood to
the two sides Of the body. The brach-
iOcephaliC trunk, which only exists on
the right of the arch Of the aOrta, pro-
duces, by a difference in termination,
an inequality in the waves of red blood
which travel from right to left. More
over, the diameters Of the subclavian
arteries on each side are different, that
on the left being noticeab'y larger.
The left lobe Of the brain, therefore,


being more richly hamatOSed than the
right, becomes stronger; and as, by the
intersection of the nervous fiber, it com
mands the right side of the body, it is
obvious that that side will be more
readily controlled. This furnishes one
reason for the natural preference for
the right hand, and another is found in
the increased supply of blood from the
subclavian artery. The augmentation
of blood we have already seen suggest
ed; but the reason for it is here ascrib5d
to the relative size of the artery, and
not to any direCtness of path from the
heart. DR.. Fleury has carried his in
vestigatiOns through the whole series
of mammalia; and he finds that the
right handed pecUliarities exist in all
that have arteries arranged similar to
those Of man. At the same time such
animals, notably the chimpanzee, the
seals and the beavers, are the most
sdroit and intelligent.-IBe Eclectic.
Year: 1878

a gentleman visited an unhappy
man in Jail awaiting his trial. ''Sir. 3"
said the prisoner, tears running down
his cheeks, Il had a good home educa-
tiOn; it was my street education that
ruined. I used to slip out of the house
and go off with the boys in the street.
In the street learned to lounge; in the
street I learned to swear; in the street
1 learned to smoke; in the street l
learned to gamble; in the street l learn
ed to pi fer. Oh. sir, it is in the street
the devil turks to work the ruin of the
young"
Year: 1878

New ORLEANS, February %, 1878.


Dear Sn-Yours of the nineteenth instant
making inquiry as to the existence, etc, OF
the Louisiana State Lottery Company is to
hand, and in reply have to report that there
is such company" and that it is chartered
by the State, but that it has anything to do
with education is new to this community


1t does educate in crime and wickedness, and
is looked upon by the majority OF Christians
of all denominations as curse to the COM
munity. 1t is a strong temptation to many
to commit theft that they may purchase
chance for obtaining fortune in short time.
Avoid it! Flee flom it! Work for "a liv-
ing" and obtain it by the sweat of thy brow !


SECRETARY.
Year: 1878

PHILADELPHIA, April 27.-The Presidential
party left here this morning on special train
over the North Pennsylvania road, On a tour
OF inspection through the coal and iron
regions Of the Lehigh and Schuylkill valleys
The party visited the most prominent indus
trial establishments on their route, and re-
turned to this city this evening, whence they
shortly after departed for Washington. They
were everywhere enthusiastically received,
and all OF the party expressed themselves
much pleased with the trip.
Year: 1878

NEw YORK. Sept: 3-A London special says
Minister Welsh and his daughter set out this
morning for Paris having brought to a con-
clusion the negotiations concerning Condor,
the Fenian prisoner. Mr.. Welsh had previ-
ously made a journey of 800 miles to Portland
to explain to the prisoner why efforts had been
made IN bis behalf and to prepare him for the
unexpected boon of freedom. Condor ex.
pressed his gratitude for the kindness Mr.
Welsh had personally shown him and the in
terest the American minister had taken in his
case. Minister Welsh then assured the re-
leased convict that his liberation meant his
release with full provision for himself and his
family till all were united. The British Off
cials, too, lent what aid was in their power to
make the visit of the American minister emi-
nently satisfactory. The whole transaction
was decidedly a success, and shows how earn
estly the American mission interested itself i'm
case that TO the average observer appeared
hopeless. The British officials Joined In assur-
ing Condor that after his release he should
ind himself comfortably provided for and
prepared to accept whatever office or position
might be offered him, with view to mis- settle.
ment in the mother country
Year: 1878

How He WAS WOUNDED.-The Lewiston
tMe. Journal tells this story: "a man came
into the office Of Lewiston physician, few
nights since, with several knife wounds In one
of his legs, one Of which severed an artery
The man was exceedingly reticent in regard
to the cause Of the wound, but finally gave the
doctor this curious statement: He said he
lived In Lincoln street; that some one threw a
closed knife at him, and that 1t opened on its
passage and the blade stuck into his leg! The
doctor dressed the wounds and told the man
that he must call the next day and have fur.
ther examination, but this was the last seen of
the mYSfarlnnS caller
Year: 1878

MANY OF THE ILLICIT DIsTILLERs in Ten
nessee are anxious to compromise with the
government and to conduct their business in
lawful manner. There are several hundred
of them. They are willing to plead guilty and
be sent home under sentence, but not to he
disturbed unless they should be detected in
Illicit II anSa ctiOnS again
Year: 1878

A PRISONER TAKEN FROM JAIL AND HANGED
BY A MoB.-Mike Green, colored, who COM
mitted an assault on Miss Alice Sweeny, OF
Prince Georges county, Md, last week, and
was lodged ia jail therefor at Upper Marlboro,
yesterday morning about a mile from the
town. Green's crime is said to have been Of
an unusually aggravating character and great
excitement prevailed at Marlboro from the
rather early Monday morning, a band Of
masked n.en succeeded i'm forcing the jail, and
having secured their prisoner conveyed him to
the junction of Queen Anne road and HIlls
lane and hung him TO cherry tree. Green iS
said TO have struggled desperately while the
moose was being adjusted about his neck, and
rore was thrown across one of the boughs and
the victim lerked fifteen feet from the ground.
Early travellers along the road yesterday morn
Ing saw revolving spectacle-the lifeless body
still dangling from the limb
Year: 1878

SECRETARY SHERMAN expresses much plea.
sure at his cordial reception in Ohio. He
states that the interruptions Of his speech in
Toledo came from about twenty five person
In the gallery, and did not seriously annoy
him
Year: 1878

LONDON, Dec. 30.-Dspatches from Dublin
represent that no little indignation is felt and
expressed there by Home Rule and National
lists in consequence OF the refusal of the
Home Secretary to grant the application Of
the wife of O'Donovan Rossa for permission
for her husband to return home to die. 1t is
said that Rossa's health is completely UNDER
mined that his recovery Is out of question.
and that the few months OF life still re-
naming to him could only be prolonged for a
little while by his return to his native land.
Mrs. Rosa In making her application to the
Home Secretary said that she would under
take. on the part of her husbands friends,
that no demonstration should attend his ar
rival in the island, and that he merely de-
sired to come home to die. Mr.. Cross, how
ever, has peremptorily refused this petition,
and the Nationalists are declaring that his
action was unnecessarily cruel.
Year: 1878

LONDON, Dec. 3O-The TelegrdDh speaking
Of the arrest OF Mr. Mapleson at the instance
Of y society for the prevention Of cruelty to
chlqfen. says: Though no business Of ours
to hhd fault with the regulations under which
Americans choose to live we may be thank
full that our own children and young persons
are looked after with little more regard for
expediency. There are times when certain
good resulting from stage employment OF two
or three children OF q needy family outweighs
whatever risk to body or mind 1t may involve.
In England, though apparently not In the
States, this fact receives due recognition.
Year: 1878

JERSEY CRY, Dec. 30-A mass meeting was
held in Jersey City this evening, under the
auspices OF the general Democratic commit
tee, for the election Of a new committee. The
unpopularity OF the general committee is as
cribed as the cause OF the recent Democratic
defeat In Hudson county. The general COM
mittee will resign when their successors shall
have been elected
Year: 1878

buffalo Courer's Paris Correspondence


Gen. Grant Is represented as very mad at
the summary dismissal of his friend, Gen.
TOrbert, from the Consulate Generalship here.
Those who enjoy the ex-President's intimacy
say that he is putting all these slings and
arrows Of outrageous fortune in "blaCk
book" and that "when he comes to his own
again" he will get even with the Hayes
ders TODD that Grant firmly believes that
he is sure of denomination and election.
His son, the piquant jesse, contided
to q French friend the other evening
that "pa can be President whenever
he wants to; he gets bushel of letters a day
from home saying that the people can't get
along without him In the office" The con-
fiding Jesse only put into words what that
peculiar group OF time servers about the eX-
ring President hints. If it were left to his
own volition, Grant would return to America
tomorrow. He hates Europe. After the first
novelty there is nothing In the Old World to
interest o man Of his sort. He confessed art
lessly to an acquaintance in Rome that he was
glad to get out of Germany because they
bored him to go and see the churches, while
he was perfectly satisfied to be in England,
where the horses were the best in the world.


In England, too, he was made much OF,
whereas on the Continent he is Of no more
consequence than thousands Of his country
men. He was wearied beyond expression in
Italy, and quit the country as soon as he
could make the rapidest possible trip over the
prominent routes. His first visit to Paris
thanks to the arts of Noyes and TOrbert, aided
by colony of rich vulgarians crazy for social
distinction something of an excitement
He was entertained at very loud dinner at
the Grand Hotel, paid for by contributions,
thirty francs ticket, and was then passed
from house to house as reigning lion. A
few journalistic. claquers attached to
the personal suite turned on the regu-
lation lights and threw the shadow
of these festivities across the ocean, to inn
press America with the social status In for
eign country Of the friend and patron Of Bab-
cock and the whisky ring. It was shortly
after COnkling's return that letters began to
come to Grant from his old cronies The first
to write here was Robeson, saying that if he
could keep it up long enough" and remain
outside the party wrangles then boiling about
the shaky foundation Of the Hayes fraud he
must inevitably be nominated in 1880. From
that hour the purpose has grown, and in pur-
suance of it Grant has been cnunseled to re-
main abroad until just before the nomination
in 1880, when he is to return and be welcomed
by a series of colossal demonstrations in
V TiOuG StatnS
Year: 1878

Just beginning to learn how to take care OF
themselves. They eschew whisky as q bever~
age altogether, and drink very little beer.
They work as little and sleep as much as pos-
sible, though 1t Is impossible to sleep much
these hot nights. Business throughout the
city is in q state of semi i-suspenslOn. The en-
plOyees In factories and mills do not work so
hard or SO long as they did last week, and o
great many labOrers and mechanics have
quit work altogether One Of the noteworthy
facts of the heated term is the utter disregard
of people for their personal appearances Very
few men wear collars and cravats now, and
most Of them go without their vests. Those
when walking along the street, and every
body carries fan and an umbrella with him.


THE WOMEN


keep at home as much as possible, and are
not very particular how they look. At night
the doors of most of the houses stand wide
open, and many of them are occupied By
sleepers stretched out in their night clotheas
Horses now wear wide-brimmed straw hats
with the sides pulled down something like the
"sundowns" which the ladies wear, and with
holes cut for their ears. Some Of the hats are
trimmed with red fringe, and have ribbons
streaming down behind. The sight, of course
is ludiCrous in the extreme. How long this
heated term Is going to last nobody knows,
but everybody is hoping that the end
Is near. For five or six days the ther-
mometers in the shade here have shown
the difference being due to the difference In
the locations OF the different thermometers.
In the sun the heat was fully $50, in some
places 400, more than In the shade. And
almost the same temperature has been main
tanned throughout the twenty-four hours Of
every one Of the past, five days. In the mid
die of the night the thermometer stood at 900
and 0bo
Year: 1878

ST. LOUIS, July 17.-Even though the Mani
toba wave Of cool air strike this city, it will be
days before the temperature will be mate
rally reduced, unless the long-expected cur
rent be phenomenally icy. When the town is
once thoroughly heated through, heavy
rains are necessary to q reduction of the
temperature, for the reason that, after
protracted siege of high thermometer,
the streets and houses become so hot
that even though the suns rays become
less pitiless, there Is no appreciable relief
from the heat. st. Louis is built chiefly Of
brick, and on limestone foundation. During
the summer an almost impalpable dust covers
the streets, which assumes a glaring, white
appearance, and is perfectly dazzling to the
eyes. When sprinkIed, this dust drinks the
possess all the attributes of brown mud for a
few minutes, shortly reclaims its wonted
white and binding appearance. That the
dust the real scourge of St Louis is migra-
tory, is testified in the fact that the streets
paved with wood are covered with 1t. 1t
penetrates houses, and there is no protection
against it. Lying in the roadway, it is
scorching to the touch, and when raised by
the hot breezes that come in from the South
even on the hottest days. it is a more potent
factor than the sun itself, and is really the
agent through which the heat is conducted.
The dispatches have during the past few days
chronicled the deaths of people who were
prostrated even in their own houses. These
cases are directly referable to the impregna-
tion of the air by this fiery, powdered lime
stone. Every class is defenseless against it,
and, until its thirst is slaked by q good stiff
rain, you may look for q continuation OF the
record Of horrors.
Year: 1878




Sunday night was beautiful as O spectacle.
The. moon rode maiestically in q cloudless
sky Not breath of air was stirring. The
heat was intensely oppressive. Bed rooms
were ovens and sleep almost mockery
Throughout the city windows and doors were
left open with q reckless disregard to the
thievish inclinations Of providers. Thousands
OF people slept upon porches and verandahs,
and reporters on their late walk home noticed
many persons snugly rolled up In their own
doorways. The sun rose bright and vindic-
tive, but to increase the misery in the air and
shone without the interference of a single
cloud, with deadly effect, during the day.
When the orb settled behind the western hills
it was with sullen and prolonged glow.


1t were useless to descant upon the great
force Of the suns heat yesterday. People
forced by business into the streets appreciated
the situation. The man who walked other
than under the shade of an umbrella was as
rash and rare as the man who walked fast, or
walked at all If he could get street car. The
street sDrinkling carts we're put into the SER
vice at a. m, and 1t was only unusual indus
The trail of q sprinkler was actually marked
by the steam OF the water being rapidly evap-
grated by the intense heat. On Eleventh
street. near the City Hall, the tar, which Is q
decided ingredient OF q specimen patent pave
ment actually melted and run slowly into the
cutters on either side.


The main thoroughfares were almost de-
serted. Fourth street, at p. M, looked like
the main street of some inland town of coun-
ty Importance. On the sunny side, there was
the appearance of Sunday. On the other, pc
destriaus but little better than crawled along,
hats off and handkerchief in hand. The aver
age citizen, firmly believing that absence of
perspiration was evidence Of impending sun
stroke felt the back of his neck with the fire.
quency of a small boy taking note of time by
his new watch. A swetering policeman told
q reporter at 2 o'clock that he had been look
ing for the shady sides Of the streets on his
beat since 10 o'clock, and that he hadn't found
in that time a strip over two feet wide. A re-
porter walked through the business portion
of the city sufficient distance to observe that
the intense heat had all but paralyzed busi-
ness. There were less than half the usual
number of drays and freight wagons in the
service. All shipments that could be post
pOned were laid over.
Year: 1878

to borrow, could get loan from the govern
ment of the United States But no one Is so
silly as to advocate the policy Of the United
States government becoming money-lendet.


Then, how are we to get the government
greenbacks 1t buys nothing from US: 1t
owes us nothing. How, then, are we to get 1t
We can only get, it by the sale OF our pro-
ducts But we have not the capital to de-
velope our resources and to increase our pro-
ducts. We want the use of capital to enable
us to produce manufactured articles, mineral
wealth, commercial wealth, and agricultural
and horticultural products This Is our great
need-capital that we can get the use OF at ~,
cheap rate A large increase OF greenbacks3 3
will not give us this. In 1866, when the United
100000, instead Of $66O,OOo,OOO, as now,
money was habitually lent in this
community at Is per cent per an
mum. The large amount of government
currency then in existence did not give us low
rates Of interest, but rate. that produced
widespread ruin. very large issue, OF


United States currency will subject us all TO
the evils of initiation without corresponding


benefit. But repeal the 10 per cent tax on
State bank currency and State banks will at
once spring into existence in our midst, man
aged by men Of our community, who know
our people and who will lend money to all


who are responsible and judieious; Having
the right to issue three dollars of their notes
for every dollar of capital paid up in specie,
they can afford to, and will, as they did be-
fore the war, lend money aC d per cent per


annum. The actual money capital OF the
| country will thus be practically increased
| threefOld. Our people can then borrow money,
and that at low rates. This currency Will


answer all the purposes Of our business. It


will pass currently with our own people.
| When we want to send money abroad the


banks will enable us TO do 1t by checks drawn
on New York, Baltimore, etc.


Let us then urge with all our might the re-
peal of the ten per cent on State, banks and


the establishment of the sub-treasury sys-
tenn for the management of the government
funds. Cut loose the government from the
banks and give the people cheap currency.
Year: 1878

PANAMA, July 13.-The Peruvian papers Of
recent dates speak In most desponding tone
in relation to financial affairs In Chill, forget
ting that the condition in which Peru is placed
is far more distressing than that Of her sister
republic, Chill.


The Chilian papers do not publish such dis
tressing accounts of the condition of the
country, for paper money there is at par with
silver, while In Peru the paper is at discount
of 80 per cent to the dollar, with the exchange
at 26, or thereabouts.