smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

II il be useful to mankind-and 1t may be
to dwell upon the fact that dishonesty does
not pay, commercially speaking, and that
integrity is an excellent business prop
erty, 1t will do no harm to suggest that
the Chicago bookkeeper, whose case is mon
toned in the dispatches, was not a long
headed person. In his excessive haste to grow
rich, he has brought his speed down TO very
slow pace-in short to the deliberate walk Of
the treadmIll. His anxiety for riches led him
TO embezze the funds of his employers for
several years. and the inevitable discovery
has ended in "a sentence TO seven years i'm
prsonment in the penitentiary. Putting moral
considerations aside, the plain inference is
that it would have been more profitable to
remain honest The next seven years will add
very little indeed to the ex-bOokkeeper's
wealth.


AS a rule the male sex proudly maintains
its superiority in the totals of the criminal
calendar, but just now the women seem to be
having their turn. Some strange crimes have
been committed by representatives Of the
eentler half of humanity of late-vitriol-
throwing and murder among them; and now
a lady who is an instructress In the Normal
College, appears in Police Court and
asks to be relieved of the care Of q
little quadroon girl who seems to be
afflicted with a real mania for murder. She has
Year: 1879

A career of victory which seemed to bid
fair for complete whitewashing of Amer
lean pretensions to cricketing was enjoyed
men until they reached Philadelphia. AS
they marched on conquering, games that
had been arranged on the basis OF eleven
against eleven were hastily changed SO as
to give the odds in numbers to the
American batsmen but all in vain. One
inning by the Irishmen sufficed to settle
everything. 1t may be that flushed by such
easy victories they did not come to the bat
against the united eleven of Philadelphia
on Thursday last with all their faculties
alert, for they went out on that day to
total Of fifly-eight before the good bowling
and fieluing of the united. On Friday the
game was continued and Philadelphia
scored handsome one hundred and forty
nine. The Irish eleven could not over
come the deficiency and went out again,
giving the game to the Quaker City by nine.
Naturally the Irish gentlemen longed for
revenge, and worked hard to obtain it. In
game Of single inning each they
won yesterday by one hundred and
twenty-five to one hundred and eight,
thus making matters pleasant all round.
We are exceedingly gratified that Ameri-
can wielders OF the willow have been
able to give our popular visitors u
couple of really exciting games, putting
them at last fairly on their mettle. Our
players can now take heart of grace, for the
proficiency possible in Philadeiphia may
with proper care be cultivated elsewhere.
Year: 1879

Probably the burned out merchants of
Deadwood, like every one who has read the
dispatches upon the great fire, are wonder
ing how they were so insane as to build
their stores of wood. They have had warn
ings innumerable. San Francisco and every
other mining centre was first built up in
the same reckless manner. Merchants
crowded goods into shanties that at home
they would not have thought safe as barns;
insurance was neglected, except where very
properly refused; fires were OF frequent oc-
currence, and the first one that was coinci-
dent with a favorable wind swept the
town. Nobody saved anything but his
life, and every loser mathematical
his bad luck as eloquently as if
luck really had something to do with
the affair. But Deadwood started in the
same way. With quantities of stone at
hand, which, in it's roughest state, would
make more slightly buildings than the
burned ones were, the inhabitants pre-
ferred to pay enormous prices for lumber.
and put up tightly packed rows of tinder
boxes, and their peculiar taste cost them
about two million dollars on Friday. Other
mining cities-Leadville, for instance
have been planned as if to invite a similar
catastrophe, and they are absolutely sure
to experience it. They pay their money
and take their choice, to be sure, but a
decent regard for the rights of their credit
ors should set them to wondering whether
it is fair to also spend other peoples money
on bonfires that havn't even an election day
to JUSTIFY them.
Year: 1879

have any voice in appointing, to name or
to have any voice in naming, any part of
the inspectors of election. The law utterly
ignores all local political organizations.
The law devolves the appointment of in
spectors on the Board of Police and
on nobody elss. 1t admits no outside
body or bodies 10 share of this authority.
The law makes it the duty of the demo-
cratic commissioners to name one-half Of
the inspectors and the duty Of the repub-
lican commissioners to name the other
half; but the law neither prescribes nor
contemplates any outside dictation in the
discharge of lhis duty. A mandamus COM
manding the Police Board to do something
which the l.w does not require would be an
absurdity On its face.


The new decision of the Court of Appeals
to which we call attention is clear and ex-
picit as to the limitations of a manda-
mus. A few brief quotations will exhibit
its seope:-"The office of writ
of mandamus," says the Court of
Appeals, sis, in general, to COM
pei the performance of ministerial
acts prescribed by law" ga subordinate
body can be compelled to act. but not how
TO act, in matter Us to which it has right
to exercise its judgment" Applying this
declaration to the present case the Board
of Police can be compelled to appoint in
spectors, but cannot be directed to appoint
any particular set Of persons. But to con-
tinue our quotations:-"When subordinate
body is vested with power to determine
question Of fact the duty is judicial; and
though it can be compelled by mandamus to
determine the fact it cannot be directed to
decide in particular way, however clearly
it may be made to appear what the decision
ought to be-" Applying this to the case in
hand the Police Board may be compelled
to appoint inspectors, but it is beyond the
legal scope of a man damus to compel it to
appoint any particular set of men. The
Court of Appeals quotes with approval a
decision Of General Term in New York
city 'sthat the Court could by mandamus
compel the Mayor or Comptroller to
meet and act in the matter, but not
to. act in particular manner" These
quotations suffice to show what man
damus can and what it cannot do. 1t
can compel the Police Board to appoint
inspectors Of election, but it cannot direct
them to appoint the Tammany set or any
other particular set of men. The law
makes the democratic Commissioners the
sole judges OF the political orthodoxy of the
democratic inspectors, and no mandamus
can deprive them of this right with which
they are invested by law.
Year: 1879

THE WEATnER.--Thc baromctric pressure is
still above the average throughout the Middle
Atlantic and New England States The storm
centre that was iu the Northwest yesterday is
rapidly moving to the cast. and its influence is
now being felt over the lake regions, where
heavy rain is falling The temperature has risen
considerably throughout the country, especially
in the central valleys. Clear weather predomi-
mates in the Northwest. Light rain and threaten
ing weather prevail over the lake regions, and it
is rapidly clouding up east of these districts.
The winds continue 10 be moderate along the
Atlantic coast but are brisk in the interior of
the country north of the Ohio River. The
weather in New York and its vicinity today
will he warmer and fair, with increasing cloudi-
ness and possibly light rain toward evening.
Tomorrow it will be cloudy, with stationary
temperature.
Year: 1879

is in the course or its condition.
1t is fortunate. therefore, that. the
law is on the side of humanity and that
the public has so fearless an officer as Mr.
Bergh to see that the law is observed. IL
is matter for pride to the racing associa-
tions of the United States that such great
care is taken to have their tracks in as per-
feet condition as possible, and this makes
the Brighton Beach track stand out in dis
agreeable prominence.
Year: 1879

Every lover of sport as well as every
friend of the brute creation will side with
Mr.. Bergh in his percmptory notice to the
proprietor of tho Brighton Beach race
course that no racing can take place on
that track until it is made safe for the
horses. Five valuable animals have
already died from injuries received
on the track, which, considering
the short length Of time it has been open,


is an extraordinary number. Several other
horses have been injured, and it seems as
much as the life of horse is worth to run
him thore. The pitiabe sight of q superb
horse like Egypt being shot to end his
misery is one not impossible to be seen on
any track, but five fatal accidents in about
as many months show that the trouble
Year: 1879

The world has heard something about
the sorrows of woman and Of her inability
to participate in many privileges and
pleasures peculiar to the ruder sex /; but II
is the firm conviction of the beings who
have to foot the bills that man has no de-
light which equals that which is every
spring and fall provided for ladies by our
thoughtful, chivalrous and disinterested
merchants. Opening Day" they call it !;
but never before did poetic license stretch
little word to such magnificent ex-
mas, with its twelve times twenty
four hours, was not SO long, so
prolific of surprises, SO abounding
in big bundles and-to the masculine
vision-bigger bills. Along Broadway and
other streets containing stores that ladies'
week has been almost as dense Us that at
the walking match; carriages have been
as numerous on many square as IT some
highly fashionable marriage or funeral was
in progress cash boys have had to tramp
so incessantly and rapidly that they are
seriously wondering if they might not
safely offer Rowell odds, and matches
although for rings instead of belts
have been planned over bewitching
articles Of feminine adornment with
degree of secrecy and skill that
exceeds anything whispered about ut
the Madison Square Garden. Why last
years robe, cloak, bonnet or laces may not
as we'll be worn again this winter as the ap-
parel which men are now arousirg from its
summer rest is something which man may
wonder about but never ask. The attec-
tionate husband, or father of grown-up
daughters, may absolutely know that his
darlings cannot be more altogether lovely
to look upon than they were when last au-
tumn's opening day had eliminated, but
the ladies of his family know nothing of
the sort. He finds frequent occasion to
remark that his business is not all he
could wish it to be, and his home partner
honestly says she is sorry; he drops hints
about interest which he has to pay and
mortgages to take up, and his daughters
wonder that poor dear papa doesn't 60 wild
over his engagements; he casually mentions





the aggregate amount OF school bills, doc
tors accounts and church dues for which
he is called upon, and the ladies with one
voice declare for rigid economy. Then the
head OF the family goes to his office and
the gentler members stroll out, merely TO
see what is new in the stores. They do not
intend to purchase anything in particular,
and they remain true to their intention ex-
cept in case of some bargains that it would
| simply be sinful to lose, and something
| else that becomes various members of the
family us perfectly as if made expressly ioI
| them.


| When the lord of that household returns
| in the afternoon to his dinner he finds
stacks of packages in the hallway when
he goes again to his Office he finds sheaves
of bills, and there are questionings at home
and explanations. and perhaps tear ol
two, and a fortnight later the old gentle.
man, beholding his newly arrayed family
as they gather in the parlor before going to
wedding or party, declares to himself that
they have outdone themselves as we'll as
their friends, and that he was an old brute
| to murmur at the expense.
Year: 1879

fects of the great tramp will be the DIS
couragement of amateurs who have been
intending to cope with professional walkers.
The man must be fitted to his work, even
such mere animal work as walking, and the
sooner nine-tenths of the present aspirants
to the belt devote themselves to some pay
ing industry the better off they and the
public will be.
Year: 1879

SCHEME is reported for enforcing the eight
hour system by concerted action of all the
workingmen in the United States and Canada,
who are to strike on given day. If successful
the movement will be followed bv one of all
people who have any thing to sell, and prices will
be put up to suit the new situation.
Year: 1879

THE REpoRT that General Grant intended to
purchase an estate on Staten Island is denied.
The absurdity of the idea that any ex-President
could he foolish enough to live close to the
New York Custom House will be apparent to
Year: 1879

RUSSIA Is REPORTED to be borrowing largely
in order to build railroads Such enterprises
sink money very rapidly. but they are economy
itself compared with war, for purposes of which
the borrowing of money is always supposed to
be judicous.
Year: 1879

A drenching rain set In at l o'clock as
the guns were fired announcing the ar
rival of Grants train in the city and the
procession was forming.


The General arrived promptly, and the
procession moved off in spite of the rain.
In half an hour the sun came out again,
Year: 1879

The audience at Tony Pastors last night was
treated to a sensation not down in the bills Ella
Zuila performed number of feats, among when
was that OF riding a bicycle backward and forward
on wire about eighty feet long aud twenty-five
feet above the stage. She had proceeded forward
about half way in her aerial journey when the right
treadle of the bicycle broke and losing her balance.
she was thrown from her scat. With great presence
OF mind she grasped the wire with her hands
and encrced the suspended velocpede with her
feet The balance pole fell on the head OF man in
the audience. aud soon after the bicycle. which
weighs about forty pounds. dropped in the centrs
aisle. There was no screen or netting TO break the
fall, and II the woman had not held on tena-
ciousiy she would certainly have been seriously in-
jured. While the utmost excitement reigned on the
stage and among the audience Nine. Zuila's husband
promptly came to the rescue receiving his wife in
his arms amid great applause.


Captain Mccullough has threatened to put stop
to the performance If the netting is not placed in
position. the Law requires. during such perilous
Year: 1879

TENTS body, but there was no pcrccptiblc


change in her heels or voice. The second
mouse, however, cntanglcd itself in her
halr, and her recovery was almost instan-
tancous. She sat up and said that Il the
doctor would only take that mouse away,
she would get right up and see about din
ncr No further treatment was necessary,
and the fact that the disease has not re-
turned leads the doctor to express strong
conviction that the cure will prove a per-
mancnt one. The mouse cure has also been
tried with the very best results in an attack
OF paralysis of the left leg, which was in II
lair way to prevent the wife of a Partisan
banker from making call OH certain of
her husbands relatives, and in Il case of
nervous prostraton which suddenly at
tackled lady when her husband had re-
fused to take her to the seaside. Both of
these cases yielded promptly to the cxhibi-
ton OF mice, and there is no room for
doubt that the cure was due solely to the
remedy employed.
Year: 1879

An old horse wandering about in grass
and water--vainly no doubt, for 1t was du-
ring severe drought. Coming to the great
bare market place, and finding knot of
men talking there, ho singled out one Of
them, and pulled him by the sleeve with
his teeth. The man thinking the horse
might possibly bite, repulsed him, but as it
was not very roughly done, hercturned to the
man with the same reception; but he was
persevcring animal, and practically demostr-
atcd the axiom, that perseverance gains, the
day" for upon his taking the chosen sleeve
for the third time between his teeth, the
man awoke to the idea that deed of kind
ness might be required of him; 80, putting
his hand upon the horses neck, he said:


"All right, old fellow; march on. The
horse at once led the way to pump at the
further side of the square. Three times
was the bucket emptled and replcnished
and omptied before the "great thirst" was
assuaged, and the grateful brute almost
spoke his thanks to his friend by rubbing
his nose gently against his arm after which
he walked of with great sigh Of relief.
Year: 1879

The principal ingredients Of this paper
arc straw, rags and wood. A mill of this
Kind affords ready market for all the straw
produced In the country for miles around


The straw IS piled up in great stacks near
the mill ready for uso. The rags come from
oil parts OF this country and Europe. The
wood is bought III the pulp from firms who
make business of reducing wood to fine
pulp. Regarding tho processes which these
materials undergo while being converted in
topaDcr In the first place the straw is cut
up fine and passed through flaming mill,
which separates it from all the grain and
particles Of dust. 1t is then put into huge
rotary boilers, running under eighty pounds
OF steam pressure, where it is boiled and
cleanscd in strong solution of caustic
aliiali, after which 1t is cmpticd into vats
and thrown up into washing engines filed
with water; there the alkal is extracted,
and chlorine is added for the purpose of
whitening it. After remaining here until
the pulp is thoroughly washed, it is cmpticd
into large watts, where it is left TO bleach
twenty-four hours. The pulp in this stage
is rs white rs snow, and is one mass of fine
silky fiber. The rags are first carefully
assorted. and everything not composed of
cotton or linen is discarded. They are then
cut up and busted by machinery, after
which they are boiled and ccanscd with q
solution of lime in other rotary boilers.
Afterward they pass through the same pro-
cess as the straw until they, too, arcrcduccd
to beautiful, white, fibrous pulp. Equal
quantities of rag and straw pulp arc mixed
together W til lesser quantity of wood pulp
10 this is added a small portion of kaolin,
or white clay, which is used to fill up the
pores of the paper and give ii smoother
surface. The whole is then put into II
beating engine, where IL remains until the
different ingredients are thoroughly united.
This operation usually takes about three
hours. Hcrc also the blue coloring is added
a blue white being considered the best
shade for the paper. From the bcaling
engine tho pulp is pumped up into another
engine, where it passes through the Inst
stage of refining and is dropped in LIQUID
form into al immense tub. 1t is now ready
to be put into form. There arc two kinds
of machines for this work, the Fourtlrincr
and the cylinder. The Fourdrincr, the
latest invention, and the most perfect ma
chine now in lse is used ut this mill The
fbrous liquid is then poured from the tub
through slraincr into the machine, where
l. Is caught on an endless sieve of very fine
wire, which filters out the water and retains
the fibre. This sieve continually vibratcs
rs it moves along thus thoroughly uniting
the fibre, and when It reaches the section
box, all the water is drawn from the pulp.
This sheet Is carried over numerous drying
cylinders, heated by steam then over the
cylinder rolls, where it receives its final
gloss and finish and is finally wound on
spools, weighed, wrapped, marked and
stored, ready for shipment.
Year: 1879

The persons who become habituated to
chloral hydratc are OF two or three classes,
as rule. Some have originally taken
the narcotic to relieve pain, using it in the
earliest application of it for true medical
and legitimate object, probably under
medical direction. Finding that it gave
relief and rcpose, they have continued the
use of it., and at last have got so abnormal
ly under its influence that they cannot get
to sleep if they fail to resort to It, A sec
ond class of persons who take to chloral
are alcoholic incbriatcs who have arrived
at that stage of alcoholism when sleep is
always disturbed, and often nearly impos-
siblc. These persons at first wake many
times i'll the night with coldncss of the
lower limbs, cold swcatings, starting and
restless dreamings. In little time they
become nervous about submitting thom-
selves to watchfulncss and restcssness
until confirmed insomnia is the re-
suit. Worn out with sleeplcssness, and
falling to find any relief that is satisfactory
or safe in their false friend alcohol, they
turn to chloraI, and in it find for a season
the oblivion which they desire, and which
they call rest. 1t is a kind of rest, and is,
no doubt, better than no rest at all but it
leads to the unhealthy states that we are
now conversant with, and it rather pro-
notes than destroys the craving for alcohol.
In short, the man who takes to chloral
after alcohol cnlists two cravings for a sim
gle craving, and is doublc-shotted in the
worst sense. A third class Of men who be-
come habituatcd to the use of chloral are
men OF extremity nervous and cxctablc
temperament, who by nature, and often by
the labors in which they arc occupied, be-
come bad sleepcrs. A little thing in the
course of their daily routine oppresses thcm.
What to other men is passing annoyance,
thrown Off with the next step, is to these
men worry and anxiety of hours. They
are ovor-susccptible of what is said of them
and of their work, however good the work
may be. They are too elatcd when praised
and too depressed when not praised, or
dspraiscd. They fail to play character
parts on the stage of this world, and as
they lie down to rest they take all their
cares and anxletics into bed with them, in
the liveliest state Of perturbation. Una
bio in this condition to sleep, and not
knowing more natural remedy, they re-
sort to the use of such an instrument rs
chloral hydrate. They begin with mod
crate dose; increase the dose as occasion
seems to demand, and at last, IN what they
consider a safe and moderate system Of
employing 1t, they depend on the narcotic
for their falsif1ed rcpose.