smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

Flood and Bruce are peripatetic print
ers, widely known. They have habit
of turning up here and elsewhere when
least expected, coming without warn
ing, and departing even as the wind.
By rare chance they have just been
heard from at Danville, ILL.,, tramping
from st. Louis, and headed in this di-
rection. They came within view of
that city last Sunday, weary with travel
and sorely hungered. The road they
came had been overworked. The erf-
while hospitable farmer now sets his
dog on the wayfaring man instead Of
welcoming him to his family. Through
this departure from the customs of the
fathers, they walked and ate not


Thoroughly discouraged at their re-
peated failures to procure food, they yet
concluded to make one more trial on
this beautiful Sunday morning, and
cautiously entered the yard Of decent
farmhouse, peering about them to see
that Towser did not come suddenly
around corner. They knocked on the
front door; no response. AT the side
door; no answer. They went in. There
was not a soul at home. A table spread
and most substantial meal was before
them. 1t was like a dream from the
Arabian nights. The dinner was doubt
less, awaiting the return of the family
from church. The pedestrians fell to,
and their knives and forks soon smoked
with the friction of execution. To say
that they Jared sumptuously would con-
vey no idea of the amount they ate nor
the intense satisfaction with which the
viands were received.


As they were finishing the feast a
knock was heard. Bruce, with unparal-
leled cheek went to the door. There
stood two other tramps, who asked for
som ething to eat. Bruce, in a rare
spirit of mischief, questioned them
closely III regard to their travels, and
finally asked if they would chop wood
for their dinners. They answered yes
He then took them to a woodpile that
he had noticed n the rear Of the house,
and they went to work. Bruce and
Flood, filling their pockets with vict-
uals, stole out the side way from the
house and went to a neighboring hill,
where they had full view of the wood
pile and the tOiling tramps. There they
gloated over the picture. To make
their measure of enjoyment run over,
the owner Of the farmhouse with sew
eral daughters and two stalwart sons ar
rived on the scene, the devastation of
the dinner was discovered, and the two
sweating tramps at the wood-pile seized
as the depreda tor. All was seen by the
two on the hill, from the arrival of the
family to the ignominous expulsion Of
the Wood-cutters.
Year: 1878

against the government of Peru invoIy-
ing S100,000,000. Year. ago the Peru
Wan government enacted law giving
to any individual who should make
discovery that would increase the
wealth of the country one-third of all
the value Of such discovery. Under
this law Theophile Landreau, Il citizen
of France, devoted himself to exploring
for new deposits of guano for the pur-
pose of gaining the reward. After
twelve years of constant labor he sue
ceeded IN making very valuable dis
coverieS, covering deposits of guano from
which the Peruvian government subse-
quently derived revenue amounting to
about S300,000,000. With much diff
Guilty Landreau convinced the govern
ment that his discoveries were actually
new, and his right to the reward was
acknowledged; but as the sum was
greater than Peru could pay, he entered
into an agreement to release the gov
ernment for stipulated sum. Before
he received his reward a revolution
broke out and the new administration
repudiated the claim. During Ian
dreau's explorations and while conf
dent of success his means gave out
and his brother, John c. Landreau, of
Louisiana, advanced him the funds
necessary to carry out this scheme, on
condition that he should make over TO
him half interest in his prospective
reward. This was done, and thus John
c. Landreau became an equal partner
with his brother in the claim. About
year ago the claim was brought to the
attention of the state department, but
as it was in the name of Theophlle
Landreau it was ruled that nothing
could be done, he not being g citizen of
the United States. The parties intend
to appeal to congress in the name of
John c. Landreau, who is citizen, hay
ing been naturalized by court in New
Orleans many years ago
Year: 1878

How TO KEEP CLEAN.-Once or twice
a week is often enough for any decent
white man to wash himself all over,
and whether in summer or winter that
ought to be done with soap, warm water
and a hogs brush, in room showing at
least seventy degrees Fahrenheit. Baths
should be taken early in the morning,
for it is then that the system possesses
the power of reaction in the highest de-
gree. Any kind of bath is dangerous
soon after a meal, or soon after fatigu-
ing exercise. No man or woman should
take bath at the close Of the day un-
less by the advice of the family physi-
clan. The best mode of keeping the
surface of the body clean, besides the
once a week washing already mention
ed, is as follows: As soon as you get
out of bed in the morning, wash your
basin of water put both feet at once for
about minute, rubbing them briskiy
all the time; then with the towel, which
has been dampened by the face, feet,
etc., wipe the whole body well, fast and
hard, with mouth and chest projecting.
Let the whole thing be done in less than
five minutes. At night when you go to
bed, and whenever you find yourself
wakeful or restless, spend from two to
five minutes in rubbing your whole
body with your hand, so far as yon can
reach in every direction. This has
tendency to preserve that softness and
mobility of the skin which is essential
to health, and which too frequent wash
ings will always destroy.
Year: 1878

NEAR Salem, Or, recently, team
hitched to a s6lfbinding machine ran
of, taking its way through standing
field of wheat containing about one
hundred acres. Strange to say the
machine kept together, and bound
every bundle that came to it with light
ming rapidity. When the team was
stopped, it had nicely bound about one
hundred and fifty bundles, but the
swathe was crookeder than a cork
screw.
Year: 1878

TIE council Of cardinals in Rome
has decided that the Pope should not
quit the vatican unless compelled to do
SO by the most urgent circumstances.
This disposes of the oft-repeated report
that His Holiness would shortly take
up his residence in retired castle
some distance from Rome.
Year: 1878

COLORADO boasts real living glacier


the celebrated Wind River Peak.
tt was recently visited by party of
travellers, and is supposed to be the first
living glacier discovered in this coun-
Year: 1878

From careful analysis of the reports
of Sept. Goth, we learn that the climax
Of yellow fever had been reached in
nearly all the afflicted districts, and
that decrease of considerable proper
tions had been noted. The Grenada
SertjneIagain made its appearance, and
there were no deaths at that place on
that day.
Year: 1878

tonishment not conceiving what was to come
of this, when 10 ! a leg came tumbling down
out OF the air One of the conjuring COM
pany instantly snatched it up and threw it
into basket. A moment after hand came
down, and Immediately on that another leg.
And in short time all the members of the
body came thus successfully tumbling from
the air, and were cast together into the bas-
ket. The last fragment of all we saw come
down was the head and no sooner had that
touched the ground than he who had snatch
ed up all the limbs and put them into the
basket turned them all out again topsy turvy.
And straightway | saw with these eyes all
those limbs creep together again and in
short time form whole man, who stood up
and walked about without showing the least
damage. Never in my life Vas SO astonish-
ed as when beheld this wonderful perform
ance, and doubted now no longer that these
misguided men did it by the help of the de-
vii. | had an attack of palpitation OF the
heart like that which overcame me once be
fore in the presence OF the sultan of India
when he showed me something of that kind.
They gdre me q cordial, hOtrtrer, trhich cured
he attack. The Kazi Afkharradin was next to
me, and quoth he "li'dlah It's my opinion
there has been neither going up nor coming
down, neither marring nor mending It's all
hocus pocus = which was n wise conclusion
to come to.


When the evidence of eye-witnesses is too
direct to be rebutted and no abb can be
proved, the willy advocate in defending his
client relates to the open-mouthed jury GER
tain we'll ll-authenticated stories of optical de-
lusions, which like those other illustrations
of the faibility of circumstantial evidence
can be found in the repertoire of every skilful
criminal lawyer. By way of cdreat, will
only add the motto which every Eastern trav-
eller should bear in mind-"believe nothing
you hear, and only half You see
Year: 1878

BY ALFRED TEsNYsos.
Life and Thought have gone away


Side by side,
Leaving doors and window wide


Careless tenants they
All within Is dark as night,
In the windows is no light
And no murmur at the door,
81 frequent on its hinge before.
Close the door, the shutters close,
Or thro' the windows we shall see
The nakedness and vacancy
OF the dark deserted house.
Come away; no more Of mirth


Il here, or merry.making sound,
The house was builded OF the earth.
And shall fall again to ground.
Come away, for Life and Thought


Here no longer dwell


But in a city glori' US
great and distant city have bought
A mansion incorruptible.
Would they could have stayed with Us
Year: 1878




ever been before in our business
experience, and 1t also gave


us great satisfaction TO


see how
VERY Low EVERY ONE CONSID-


ERS OUR PRICES.
The favorable comments made upon the
extent OF our stock and the
SUP ERROR QUALITY OF OUR


GOODS,
Especially the Black Silks, which
we mentioned at $1.15 of which we
sold over FIVE WHOLE PIECES
and to supply their place we have
bought another invoice which are
much superior quality, but will con-
tinue to sell them at the same price,
$l.15, notwithstanding they are
worth more money. Next to these
to receive favorable comment were
our
Year: 1878

Cincinnati Gazette Washington Telegran.l


A foreign agent of one of the prin-
cipal German steamship lines came to
Washington to inquire in what part
of the country his company could pur-
chase suitable timber lands from
which needed supplies could always
be obtained. His object was to make
a purchase of tracts Of land and open
extensive works forpreparing all kinds
of ship timber. He was informed
that in certain portions of Alabama,
properly situated with reference to
both railroad and water transporta-
tion, lands well stocked with such
goods as he desired could be obtained
at low figures. He replied that on no
account could this company be in
duced to invest dollar in the South
or send a man there that while he had
no doubt, from inquiries he had made,
that he could go into Alabama and
invest in lands and cut timber without
molestation, it would be impossible for
him to convince his company, and it
would be very difficult for them to
procure men at home, who were ac-
quainted with the exact wants Of his
company, to agree to come over and
60 into the Southern States of this
Union. In reply to assurances that
Alabama was free from all political
disturbances, he said that while he
supposed it to be true, nevertheless
the belief had become so general in
Europe that the Southern States were
in an unsettled condition, and that the
rights Of person and property, espe-
cially of those who were not natives
were constantly disregarded, as to rem
der it impossible to induce capitalists
to trust either their money or the
representatives of their interests in
any part Of the South.
Year: 1878

A mother thus writes. Once a
week invariably-and it was generally
when we had cold minced-I gave the
children dinner which was hailed
with delight, and looked forward to
this was dish of boiled onions.
The little ones knew not that they
were taking the best of medicine for
expelling what most children suffer
from-worms. Mine were kept free
by this remedy alone. 1t was a medi-
cine-m man who taught me to eat boiled
onions as specific for a cold in the
chest, He did not know at the time,
till ! told him, that they were good for
ANYTHING else"
Year: 1878

WHAT'sin the wind now2 All sorts of
diseases are in the wind, and they fasten
on to all who are weakened and debilitated,
and they do not let go again until they are
made TO. The air is loaded with malaria,
and if you don't want to get it you had
better purify your blood and recuperate
your system by the use of Reeds Gilt
Edge Tonic. 1t restores the appetite, puri-
ies the blood and tones up the whole
Year: 1878

A new wall covering called muralis
is extensively advertised in England.
1t is SO durable that disease germs can
be burnt off it with fire or washed of
with acid so soft that it can be
scrubbed frequently, and SO cheap that
it can be bought for fourteen cents a
fnot
Year: 1878

A fellow would rather be unhealthy
than to wear a red flannel chest pro-
tector that would creep up around his
paper collar and make him look as
though he had cut his throat with a
buck saw Wheeling Leader.
Year: 1878

The electric light is seen to the ut
most advantage in the Paris Hippo
drome. Five burners irradiated a
company of 10000. The dresses of
the troupe are specially selected with
view to the effect of the light on
coloriug, and a phalanx Of cavalry
(girls riding astride) has a dazzlingly
splendid appearance.
Year: 1878

Truly good people always keep
near good associations. All we now
see why so many young men linger at
the vestibule of church just before
the close of services. [Gowanda En-
terprise.
Year: 1878

Let all the world swing its hat and
rah They've arrested a gory-handed
assassin of an umbrella thief in New
burgh and it appears like the clouds
have parted and the sun was shining
once more Catskill Recorder.
Year: 1878

WE invite the attention of the busi-
ness community to the commercial and


financial department Of the LEDGER,
which viii hereafter be made special
feature. Cotton men, wholesale and
Year: 1878

run the race that is set before him
with single mind. No one sure
lY could have recoiled with more
heartache and terror from the
thought of death than our delight
full lexicograper; and vet we know
how little it affected his conduct,
how wisely and boldly he walked,
aud in what a fresh and lively vein
he spoke Of life. Already an old
man, he yentured on his Highland
tour; and his heart, bound with
triple brass, did not recoil before
twenty-seven individual cups Of tea,
AS courage and intelligence are the
two qualities best worth good
mans cultivation, SO it is the first
part of intelligence to recognize oul
precarious estate in life, and the
first part of courage to be moi
abashed before the fact. A frank
and somewhat headlong carriage
not looking too anxiously before,
not dallying in maudlin regret ovel
the past, stamps the man who il


well armored for this world.
Year: 1878

The PhiIOsOph1c View of Death.


Cornhlll Magazine.l


There is a great deal Of very vile
nonsense talked upon both sides Of
the matter; tearing divines reduc-
ing life to the dimensions of a mere
funeral procession, so short as to be
hardly decent; and melancholy un-
believers yearning for the tomb as
if it were q world too far away.
Both sides must feel a little
ashamed of their performances now
and again when they draw in their
chairs to dinner. Indeed, a good
meal and Q bottle of wine is an
answer to the most standard works
upon the question. When o mans
heart warns to his viands, he for
gets a great deal Of sophistry, and
scars into 0 rosy zone Of contem-
plation. Death may be knocking
ut the door, like the Commanders
statue; we have something else in
hand, thank God, and let him
knock. Passing bells are ringing
all the world over; all the world
over, and every hour, some one
is parting company with all his
aches and ecstasies; for us also the
trap is laid. But we arc 60 fond
of life that we have no leisure to
entertain the terror of death. 'Tis
a honeymoon with us oil through,
and none of the longest. Small
blame to US if we give our whole
hearts to this glowing bride Of ours,
to the appetites, to honor to the
hungry curiosity Of the mind, to
the pleasure Of the eyes in nature,
and the pride of our own nimble
bodies. We all of us appreciate
the sensations; but aS for caring
about tho permanence Of the pos
sibility, a mans head is generally
very bald, and his senses very dull,
before he comes to that. Whether
we regard life as a lane leading to
dead wall-a mere bags end, as
the French aay--Or whether we
think of it as a yestibule or gymna-
SUM, where we wait our turn and
prepare our faculties for some more
noble destiny; whether we thunder
in a pulpit or pule in little athe.
istic poetry books about its vanity
and breyity; whether We look
justly for years Of health and
Yigor, or are about to mount into
o bath-chair, as s step toward
the hearse; in each and
all Of these views and situations
there is but one conclusion posi-
BILE; that u man should stop his
ears against paralyzing terror, and
Year: 1878

A newspaper in the fullest sense of the word
at once adapted to the Merchant, the Me-
obanic, the Farmer, and everybody
desirOus Of keeping up with the
stirring news Of this live and


progressive age.
Year: 1878

A genuine tramp is now an inmate OF
Missouri poor-hcuse. He was doctor at
one time of his life, but tired of his pro-


fession and ceased practice. Then his


wife worked for him until she worked her.


self to death, and then he tramped. Be-


lieving that work wasn't healthy, he had


resolved never to work any more. His


mind was fully made up on that subject.


He did not want to steal, and he had to


live. A poor-house was what he was


looking for. The poor-house keepers told


him that if he stayed there he would have


to work. He thought not. No more


work for him under any circumstances.


They put him in dark cell for twenty


four hours, to bring him to sense of his


loneliness and isolation, feeding him


moderately. They piled him with the


labor question; wouldn't work. They


shut him up for twenty -four hours more.


His determination remained unaltered.


Ten days passed, and he still refused to


work. Doctors were called in, and found


the man serene, perfectly healthy in mind


and body, and he moreover proved himself
physician by answering correctly all the
professional questions put to him. He was
a stumper. They had never before met
case of laziness that forty-eight hours OF
enforced idleness and darkness and silence
would not bring reaction. They took
him out and put hoe in his hand. He
dropped the hoe. They tried to make him
follow plow. He dropped in the furrow
So they turned him loose among the other


paupers and find him useful in lecturlng
them on morals and giving them good ad-
vice, So he has his uses, after all.
Year: 1878

An Indian grave containing four skele-
tons, was recently discovered at Revere,
Mass. One skeleton, evidently that of a
warrior, clasped In its right hand a large
clam shell, containing the bowl of a stone
pipe, smaller pipe complete, ochre and
vermillion war paint, and substance
resembling tobacco. The smaller pipe is
curiosity of itself. It is made of roll
of lead, rudely fashioned In resemblance of
European pipe, and when first found
contained tobacco, SO that if any one had
been sotdisposed the smoke interrupted
two hundred years ago might have been
continued long after the lips that had
olasped it had turned into dust.
Year: 1878

In the by-gone days Of Der Freischutz,
rife-shoo.ing was very different affair
from the routine business now so well
known to all of us-thanks to the volunteer
movement. The old-fashioned riaeman,
Kuno, head-ranger to the Grand Duke Of
Schloss- Windbeutel, used rifle as unlike
the Martini Henry or the Snider, as could
well be imagined. Into the nature Of
Caspar's gun and bullets it is needless to
inquire; but it is perfectly well known how
Kuno's weapon was constructed, and what
he did with it. It was heavy grooved
rifle, with rather sharper twist than that
now in fashion. Kuno carried with him q
quantity of apparatus besides his flint
lock gun. He had two powder horns, one
for loading and the other for printing; he
had store of wadding and of creased
circles of leather, and little hammer.
When he loaded his gun he gave his mind
to very serious operation. First of all
he wiped out bis gun carefully, then
poured in his coarse powder and wad, and
rammed all down. He next took creased
piece of leather, or, in default of leather,
Of linen, and placed this over the muzzle of
the gun. In this creased disk was laid the
old-fashioned spherical bullet, too large to
enter the barrel without persuasion. This
he applied with the hammer before mem
toned, driving the ball by main strength
into the muzzle, and then forcing it down
with the ramrod. He then primed his gun
with some very fine powder, and if his
hand were steady, and both flint and steel
were in good condition, all went well.
Excellent shooting was made with these
old rifles, within, of course, far more
limited range than that of the last new i'm
provements. Whatever may be thought
of the comparative merits of the breech
and muzzle loading in the case Of infalli-
BILE artillery, there is little doubt that the
Ereech-loader has, as small arm, COM
pletely superseded its sometime rival. .-AH
the Year Round.
Year: 1878

DR.. saunderson was blind from. infancy,
but became eminent as a classical scholar
and mathematician, and occupied for many
years the chair Of mathematics in Cam
bridge University, England. He Judged
philosophically, and from his observation
of human nature, a. in the case Of the
lady's teeth; but he possessed in high
degree the sense Of feeling and hearing.
He could distinguish true from counterfeit
Roman medals by the touch. He could
tell, by some effect Of the air upon his
person, when light clouds were passing over
the disc Of the sun. When he entered a
room, he could judge of the size Of 1t BY
BY the sound of his footsteps.
Year: 1878

The Reno (Nev.) GaseHe won- ders which vas the beast: This fore noon a rather well-dressed man reel cd down Commercial row in state of brutish intoxication. At his heels trotted a little shaggy terrier whose shame for the condition of his mas- ter was both pitiful and amusing. He kept close to the drunkard, fol- lowing his staggers, but so utterly mortified and miserable that he would not raise his head, and let his tail dangle wretchedly. Occasion- ally the man would stop and clutch q railing, and standing there would sway to and fro. This increased the misery of dogSie, who sat him. self down or his hauuches and cast sneaking glancas to the right and left to sec if any one was observing.
Year: 1878

Is there no shame left? The Ne vada Sentinel makes 1t clear. She waltzed into the store yesterday af- ternoon, and stepping up to the counter, asked to be allowed to look at some corsets. The clerk Ehap- pened to be an exceedin gly bashful young man, but he managed to get down the box and opened the goods for inspection. Selecting one, the lady asked if she could not try it on and was shown 10 a room at the rear end of the store; but when she called out to the clerk to come and help adjust it, he gave one despair ing look at the surroundings, seize his hat and departed for-Yirginia City. Over there modest young men are appreciated.
Year: 1878

From the Eureka Sentinel we copy this paragraph: The gentleman who attracted so much attention in church last Sunday by crying out Holy Jesus !" had no intention of disturbing inc congregation. He had been tearing up and putting down carpets after the flood, and as he sat down in the pew he sudden ly remembered that he had left some tacks in his shirt-tail coat pocket. We make mention of this in justice to his family, who arc highly respectable.