smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

The following Is given as the text OF a letter
which has been addressed to Don Carlos by the
Comte de Chambord:-


The satisfaction which the perusal Of your letter
has given me, through the energy OF the senti.
ments expressed IN 1t, Is as warm as the interest
which II inspires In me In oil its details. am
able to appreciate at their true value the grounds
which have led you to address your memora ndum
to the European Powers. | trust that, alter
reading the facts stated by you with such
clearness the Powers In question, better in-
formed and guided. moreover. by their own
eyes TO the truth, and win not present to the
woro tue melancholy spectacle which we contem-
plate. nave no need TO tell you how happy your
aunt and ] Will be when the news oil the triumph
OF the leRitimist cause IN spain reaches US. God
has already accorded you Visible marks oil His pro-
lection, and He will sustain you to the end, for
you will always be faithful TO Him while fighting
only. as You have hitherto done, for His glory the
welfare o. your people, and the triumph OF tne
Catholic Chuxohs
Year: 1874

.


Writers In the NEW YORK HERALD are discuss
ing the question: "Were Shakespeareis works
written by Shakespeare or Bacon ~ So mauy
questions are raised nowadays that one may be
ready to see almost ythng he has believed in
asserted to be myth. Some increduOus midi
vIdual, not long ago. undertook to show tnat such
O man as washington had never lived and that
what history tells OF him is pure invention Some
people are never happy unless they are inventing
some new fact
Year: 1874

The common schools of farm districts
ought to receive more attention from
farmers themselves. Whyl Because
there is rarely any effort made to adapt
instruction to the professional needs of
the class of pupils who attend them. A
mechanic should be educated in the
laws of mechanics, physicians study the
laws of hygiene and physiology, a law
yer reads law; a farmers boy should
learn botany, vegetable physiology, ami
NAL physiology and hygiene chemistry,
the constituents of soils, plants, etc.
But the Common schools of farm dis
tricts DO not furnish him with any such
knowledge.


In how many country schools is bot
any taught Not one in one thousand,
it is safe to assert, ever had a teacher
who possessed any botanical knowledge
whatever, Yet the farmer boy, from
his youth to old age, has to do with
plants constantly. He has also the care
of animals, and yet he has not been
taught how many stOmachs the COW has,
nor the difference between ruminating
and other animals. His knowledge of
the diseases of animals is only the tFadi-
tional neighborhoOd wisdom, " handed
down from father to son, generation
after generation, as often opposed to all
physiological law as otherwise. Even
the parts of the animals with which he
has TO do have no namesefOr him. He
does not even know enough of the points
of a good animal to be able to act intel
ligently as judge thereof at fairs he
may attend, and give reasons for his
judgment This is asserted concerning
the average country boy, born, brought
up and educated on farm and as a
farmer


Is there not need that the farmers who
would keep their boys at home and
whose ambition is that they shall take
charge of the old homestead and perpet-
uate the family name therein, should
see to it that the country schools may do
to this end-by giving instruction in
matters relating to farm life and the du-
ties of farmer in his relation to his
crops-is done, and done well. This
will never happen without an effort is
made by farmers themselves to secure
professional instruction for their chill
dren-until they insist that the studies
their children pursue shall at least relate
to the vocation they are to fOllOw.--N.
Y. World.
Year: 1874

yided than the colored. They feel the
most intense anxiety to- get on in the
world, for since emancipation and ell
franchisement have given them show
IN the world. they want all there is OF it.
The negro who has amassed money Is a
king among them. and there are many
of these mOnarchs. They are orderly.
hari-working, determinedly industrious
and saving. There is very little crime
among them, and very little drunken
ness, or dissipation. CufTy is a very
good man. and gives promise of being "a
great deal better.


THE FRESHMAN


is everywhere. and he is here, just what
he is everywhere. Thousands upon
thousands of the sons of Erin have risen
TO affiuence and distinction. They real
ly govern the city, for they act together
and work together, and are so consoli-
dated as to WELD q power beyond what
their numbers entities them to. They
are the same in New York as everywhere
else. They are addicted to whisky, are
mercurial, hasty, generous, Quarrelsome.
witty, brave, cruel, in short they are u
curious compound of all that is good
and bad. Which is to say the good in
them is intentional, while the bad is not.
AS they become educated and get re-
sponsibilities they become more solid
and settled. The second and third gen
eratiOns make excellent citizens


THE GERMANS,


like the Irishman, is everywhere. The
Bowery is full of Germans, but they
have made their mark in all quarters.
They are from the beginning magnificent
citizens. They come to this country
from choice, they can all read and
write, they all bring capital with them,
and they are the most enthusiastic Amer
leans we have The originals are trifle
clannish, for the language is different
from ours, but the second generation
becomes so thoroughly AmericaniZed
that their ancestry would not be sus-
pected. They are industrious, sober,
hard working, prudent and prosperous.
They come to stay, and they make an
important part of the population.


Thank Heaven, this subject has occu-
pied so much space that l have not room
to refer to the Beecher-Tilton business.


PIETRO.
Year: 1874

After Il years cruise. the TuscarUra
steamed into the harbOr of San Francis
co on tile 2d inst, Just a year from the
da, OF her starting on her voyage of ex-
plOraJioh. Her work has been prelimina-
~ 10 the construction of a telegraph
line uniting this country with Asia and


Europe by way of Japan and other is
lands of the Pacific Speaking of her
voyage the San Francisco ilta says:


The sOundiDgs have disclosed some Gu


rious natural phenomena. On starting
on their return from Japan, they soon
found certain descent of the ocean
bed. which was sounded to the depth of
nearly six miles, the deepest water ever


measured But more curious still was
the fact that the sounding apparatus fell
into a powerful undercurrent, a tide set
ting strongly toward the north. which
finally parted the line only a few faith
oms from the surface 1t would seem
that this current must tend toward Beb-
rings Straits. If so. that is the rousa
which would be the most practicable for
those adventurous hunters for the open
Polar Sea and the North Pole to take in
their efforts to solve the question. The
idea of NJ Pavy, who was here a few
years ago, earnest in the advocacy of
that route, and proposing to take it, may
prove eventually the correct one. We
feel satisfied that the route attempted
by Drs. Kane, Hayes and others. will not
do. Those who attempt it are certain
of a continuous and strong current
against them, while by the Behring's
Straits route. it is in favor of the explor-
er. 1t may be, and probably is the case,
that this strong current found by the
Tuscarora, to the east of Japan. has had
its influence in creating that deep chan
mel in the Ocean-bed. Such is doubtless
the cause of the great depth of the Gulf
Stream from the Gulf of Mexico. The
currents have gradually made the chan
nels 1t would appear that this chan
mel TO the east of Japan is a continuous
one, for the party of the TuscarOra did
not find any bridge across it, or any place
where it was less than nearly 20, 900 feet.
This may not prove the most favorable
result. for the cable proposed some Gay
to be laid. but, on the other hand, it
may prove of great interest to naviga-
ton, and especially to those wrought up
by the spirit of adventure and 6iscov-
cry to the determination of some day
reaching the open Polar Sea and the
earth's pivot at the North Pole. That
channel must carry a vast stream of
warm water, and that may create a con-
tinued open water around the Pole.
Year: 1874

GONE HOME HOME, THE BEANS ARE
BURNING. Last Sunday morning a
family living in the suburbs of the city
went to a suburban church, leaving a
little girl about seven years of age, and
a boy about twelve years in care Of the
house. The family was to have beans
for dinner. and these were left in YES
sci OH the stove TO cook The little girl,
while playing. suddenly began 70 smell
the odor of burnt beans, upon which
she rushed out of the house over INTO
the church where the pastor was grave
" and earnestly preaching the profound


word of God. The first person OF the
family the little girl espied was young
lady cousin. and to her in a loud voice
which startled the assemblage consider
ably. she cried: Come, come, come
home. the beans are burning" and i'm
mediateIy rushed out again. The aston
ishrnent was great, and all the solemnity
of the preacher, as well as of the con
gregatien, disappeared beneath a broad
smile at the righteousness of the mat
ter.-COuTieT7JouTnG
Year: 1874

PLAYING IT on A CLERK--A certain
lawyers clerk had been in the habit of
taking an afternoon nap, in the absence
of the boss. On such occasions he has
been in the habit of putting up his pla-
card on the front door: "Gone to the
Clerks Office Some young men who
had witnessed the performance conclu-
ded to play joke at his expense. Ae-
ecOrdingly, they watched him last Satur-
day afternoon, and, after he had put out
his usual sign, and dutifully laid himself
down ON his lounge. they removed it and
put the following in its plate: ''On the
lounge in the back room asleep-don't
knOek-will wake up at 5 o'clock. Call
then. A number of persons read the
notice and went away wondering what
the country could be coming to, when a
young man could thus fritter away time.
At last the young man awoke from his
dreams, and his feelings may be imagin-
ed when he saw what had been done
Patterson { ". ~ Guardian.
Year: 1874

THE best elOeutiOnary exercise yet de-
vised for little scholars is that of having
them read the list of exhibitors at the
Mechanics Fair, particularly the part
relating to rag rugs" When the child
has repeated rag rugs a score of times
he will submit to any indignity that his
teacher may see fit to impose upon him.
-BOStOn Globe
Year: 1874

SUSAN JANE must have been scantily
dressed, when she was looking out for
her love and sang:


Hell come tonight; the winds at rest,


The moon is full and fair;
wear the dress that pleased him best


A ribbon in my hair"
Year: 1874

THE POWER OF LANGUAGE.-It is re-
markable how some writer's can adorn
the most commonplace subject with the
flowers of poetry, and make it a joy for
ever We read in a eotemporary that a
highly-esteemed citizen of Franklin,
who has dwelt upon this sublunary
sphere for some seventy winters, he in
that time had the mingled grief and
flowers of spring could grow over them,
and the dews of summer sparkle like q
robe of diamonds about them, recently
he took to himself fourth partner of
his Joy and SORROWS in the person of q
charming widow, who has deposited two
matrimonial ventures in place of per-
petual security, and gazed on the blush
ing roses of seventy-five summers"
Year: 1874

WITTY sayings are as easily lost as the
pearls slipping on broken string; but a
word Of kindness is seldom spoken in
vain. II is a seed which, even when
dropped by chance, springs up flower
Year: 1874

All previous narratives ofsinteIliRent
proceedings on the part of animals are
thrown into the shade by the following
account of medical monkey, described
by the Oriental correspondent of Lon
don journal: He one day saw monkey
hoidlng snake by the throat and rub


ohg ITS head in the dirt, but as the
sIOuhd was moist and damp, the snake


was not readily killed by this mode Of
punishment Every now and then the
money would look most knowingly in
Ihe Iaee OF the reptile to see If h was
dead, ana IN the course of one of these
investigations the monkey received =
severe bite. This angered him and ba
speedily dispatched the snake bnt its
coils had hardly relaxed before the mon.
key reeled and fell PROSTATE, and ann1-
rently in all the agonies of death bv
poison. By this time an aged looking
monkey arrived on the scene, and after
examining the bodies of the snake and
his victim, he Immediately started for
some neighbOring bushes, where he col
leeted some leaves of the plant known
as the red cherehita- These he rapidly
and skillfullv fashioned into a pill, which
he administered to his snake-bitten com
panion, who revived and walked OF with
his physician The story is declared to
come from trustworthy sources.
Year: 1874

are not TO be clGssed as foreigners, but
they are a distinctive race. They have
selected the Eighth Ward as their grand
centre, though there are large colonies
of them in other parts of the city. There
is no class of people in the city more di-
Year: 1874




The house under a call of States, many bills
were introduced aud referred.


Nv Barrere-For a branch mint at Chicago.


THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.


MIR. Wilson Ind. ! presented four memorials
touching the affairs of the District OF Column
bia and made a statement in reference TO a
matter in regard to which he said some er-
roneous publications had been made
respecting the speaker of the house.
Two of the papers had been in his
hands for the past month and he had
sought for considerable time to get the floor
in common with the gentlemen; and in COM
mon with them had been successful, finally
Just before the Vest Virginia election he had
given way TO the speaker, and had told him he
desired the floor for the purpose of submitting
this matter of the District OF Columbia, and
had been informed by the speaker that there
was q very great pressure for the floor; that a
number of gentlemen were insisting on 1t,
and that after the matter then pending should
be disposed of he would try and recognize
him. Mr.. Wilson, Immediately after he
learned that the gentleman who had charge
OF the West Virginia election case was insist
ing on going on with that question, he then
came to the conclusion the speaker would
not be warranted in Withholding recognition
from the gentleman lSmithl from New York
for that purpose He had afterward gone
back to the speaker and had another conver-
sation and the speaker then told him that II,
after the house passed from the consideration
of the election case, he Wilsonl was willing
TO take the risk OF submitting the matter.
Year: 1874

Some engineers in Baden have just

 contrived most ingenious piece of mechanism, which has already been adopted in some of the public built,- ings and streets of Heidelberg. Ire object is to provide for the simultano- ous lighting of all the gas lights of the town. This has been done both in Paris and in the Albert Hall, London, by the use of an electric wire, but the German engineers have invented 8 method more simple and durable. Their apparatus can be affixed equally to all gas jets, and it is made to act, not by any special mechanism, but simply by the increased pressure of the gas which is always laid on from the gasometer when the lamps should be lighted. The one act of turning on the gas at the main ignites it at all the burners fitted with the new apparatus. In achieving this result, the designers did not really obtain any very practical advantage over the method of ignition by electricity. But they pushed this invention still farther, and have pro- vided that when the pressure is diminished at the main, the gas can either be totally extinguished or let down to thread. It is chiefly in the lighting of the streets of 8 town that the invention will be of practical use. Directly the gas is turned sn, the whole city will be simultaneously illuminated, and when in the early morning the pressure is reduced, the light may be totally extinguished or gradually diminished. ,sr s. -. r..r...
Year: 1874

In case which came before New York city court it was asked that an order should be issued compelling a judgment debtor to give up his watch to the receiver. It was argued by the defendants counsel that the defendant was keeping boarders for living and for the support of his family, and was therefore entitled to keep his watch. Judge Gross remarked thereupon that watch might almost be considered a necessity, even for student or me- chanic, and that unless the law con- dicted with such action, he should al- low the defendant to keep his time piece. The importance of watch to a man who is accustomed to wear one can hardly be gainsaid, while to boarding house keeper, the success of whose es- tablishment depends upon the punctu- ality of his meals, it becomes an actual necessity and tool of his trade. De prived of his watch, the unhappy land lord would be at the mercy of a horde of scowling and hungry invaders of his dining room, and 8 prey to an existence of misgiving. Because man has the misfortune to be judgment debtor is no good reason why his creditors should not give him "time."
Year: 1874

Under the above caption tho Visalia (Cal. Delta says "We doubt every body thinks he knows what we mean by this heading. But what we do mean is disease by that name, several cases of which have occurred on Tule river. The patient is taken with itching on the under side, at the root of the tongue, from which, we are informed, commences the growth of fungus re- sembling tongue, which soon fills the mouth and protrudes from it, causing suffocation and death in few days, unless relief is obtained. Dr. Henrahon has had several bad cases, the fungus being burned away with caustic. In one instance the tongue is said to have grown two inches in an hour"
Year: 1874

field of rich corn, hedged in by garlands Of
precious flowers; while tho healthy religi-
Gus feeling throughout seems like golden
sunshine, lighting and warming the whole
with its benefcent rays.


Misunderstanding can be more degra-
ding to womanhood than to marry in order
to eat bread and yet Il is not only done,
but special plans are laid for it by worthy
parents, who exult 10 proportion to their
success in driving bargain. Better far
to sec an innocent pair Of young lovers
brave enough, while waiting for happier
times, to work till by their own industry
they can rear a roof.tree over their heads.
Better far the lonely old man, in poverty
and sorrow, than the welded wife who has
brought with her no love nor devotion to
sanctify the tie which, without them,
cannot be true marriage in Gods sight |
The marriages cemeuted by interest, and
those formed by leyity, are equally produc-
tive Of sorowful consequences.
Year: 1874

The ATMosPHERR.--1t surrounds US on
all sides, yet we see it not; it presses on


us with load Of fifteen pounds to every
square inch Of surface Of our bodies, or
from seventy to one hundred tons on us
in all, yet we do not as much as feel its
weight. Softer than the softest down
more impalpable than the finest gossamer
1t leaves the cobweb Gndisturbed, and
scarcely stis the lightest flower that feeds
on the dew it supplies; yet it bears the
fleets Of nations on its wings around the
world, and crushes the most refractory
substances beneath its weight When in
motion its force is sufficient to level the
most stately forests to the earth--to raise
the waters Of the ocean into ridges like
mountains, and dash the strongest ships
to pieces like toys. But for the atmos-
phere, sunshine would burst on us and
fail us at once, and at once remove us from
midnight darkness to the blaze Of noon.
We should have no twilight to soften and
beautify the landscapes, no clouds to shade
US from the scorching heat, but the bald
earth as it turned on its axis, would turn
its tanned and weakened front to the full
and unmitigated rays of the lord Of day.
Year: 1874

0sE IDEA OF Poverty. 1t was Bul-
wer who said in nine cases out Of ten pow
erty is an Idea. Some men with ten
thousand dollars year suffer more for
want Of means than others with three hun
dred. The reason is, the rich man has
artificial wants. His income is ten thou
sand year, and he suffers enough from
being dunned for unpaid debts to kill a
sensitive man. A man who earns dollar
day, and does not run in debt, is the
happier Of the two. Very few people who
have never been rich win believe this, but
il is true There are thousands and thou
sands with princely incomes who never
know a moments peace, because they live
beyond their means, There is really more
happiness in the world among the working
people, than among those who are called
rich-always providing that poor folks do
not in smaller way emulate the prodigal-
ity of their rich brethren. Poverty is
simply the question Of good OF bad man
agement Of money in hand.
Year: 1874

The late Edward Everett condensed into
a single brief paragraph his estimation Of
what constituted good education. Here
it is ITO read the English language wen,
to write with despatch neat, legibIe hand,
and be master Of the first four rules Of
arithmetic, SO as to dispose Of at once, with
accuracy, every question Of figures which
comes up in practice---I call this good
education And If you add the ability to
write pure grammatical English, l regard
1t as an excellent education. These are
the tools. You can do much with them
but you are hopeless without them. They
are the foundation and unless you begin
with these, all your aashy attainments,
little geology, and all other ologies and
osophies, are ostentatious rubbish. That
education is imperfect which stops short
Of the full development of the moral in
tellectual and physical powers.
Year: 1874

The aims of the order, composed of
farmers and their wives, are:


TO increase knowledge by stimulating
mental activity and aiding inquiry.


To add dignity to labor and elevate
the social position of the husbandman.


To mutually relieve the sickness and
suffering among the fraternity.


To prevent cruelty to animals, and to
lessen litigation and its consequent ills.


To collect accurate statistics of prod
ucts and gain fuller knowledge of
markets.


To give better understanding ofth
principles of business and the laws of
trade.


To overthrow the credit system and
encourage the practice Of true economy.


To bring the manufacturer nearer
the producer and foster a varied home
industry.


To place the producer and the con-
Year: 1874

Farmers, Mechanics and Laborers Of
Minnesota. to the front Advance. is
the universal order Of the hour, and
the firm, determined tramp, tramp,
tramp Of the toiling masses, who have
hitherto Jagged in the rear, is heard all
over the world in the great onward
march. Shall the $4,000 farmers: me-
chanics and laborers of Minnesota fail
to obey the order, or obeying in part
still fail to take their stand in the very
front ranks ? There is no place on the
worlds mighty battle field where the
hosts of the Monopolists are attacking
the people with greater zeal, determina-
tion and ferocity than in our own State.
There is no place on the mighty line
where it is more important that the ene-
my should be repulsed, crushed and
routed, foot and dragoon, than right
"uCIC Wc SCduu AIT VIC lcdUy 1Ul CIlG
work


The GRANGE ADVANCE will always
be just what its name indicates. It
will ever be found with the advance
guard and at the head of the column.
From its pages no uncertain sound will
ever 60 forth. Based upon eternal
truth and justice, fighting in right
eous cause, firmly grounded in the con-
viction Of the greatness and Importance
of its mission and work, it must and
will prevail.


Let all those who favor the cause of
the toiling millions against oppression
and monopoly, the cause Of labor,
against extortion and greed, come to
our aid, for we are marching under the
same colors
Year: 1874

sumer in more intimate relations with
each other.


To teach better culture Of the soil
and to surround our homes with beauty
and comfort.


To avoid imposition and dispense
with middlemen as far as practicable.


To inculate morality and temperance,
foster education and culture brotberly
love.-Ihe New Era.