smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

That fsh may be scaled much easier by
dipping into boiling water for about q
minute.


That fish may as well be scaled il de-
sired before packing down in salt, though
in that case do not scald them


Salt fish are quickest and best freshen-
ed by washing in sour milk.


That milk which is turned or changed
may be sweetened and rendered fit for use
again by stirring in little soda.


That salt will curdle new milk; hence IN
preparing milk porridge, gravies, etc, the
salt should not be added until the dish is
prepared.


That fresh meat, after beginning to sour
will sweeten If placed out Of doors in the
cool over night.


That clear boiling water will remove
tea stains and many fruit stains. Pour
the water through the stain and thus pre-.
vent its spreading over the fabric.


That ripe tomatoes will remove ink and
other stains from white cloth; also from the
hands.


That tablespoonful Of turpentine boil.
ed with your white clothes win aid the
whitening process.


That boiling starch is much improved
by the addition Of little sperm, or little
salt, or both, or little gum arabic dis,
solved.


That becswax and salt viii make your
rusty hat-irons as clean and smooth as
glass Tic lump Of wax in a rag and
keep it for that purpose When the irons
are hot rub them first with the wax rag
then scour with paper or cloth sprinkled
with salt.


That blue ointment aud kerosene mixed
in equal proportions, and applied to bed
steads, is an unfailing bed-bug remedy
and that coat Of whitewash is ditto fol
the walls Of log house.


That kerosene will soften boots or shoes
which have been hardened by water, and
render them as piablc us new.


That kerosene will make tin tea kettle.
as bright as new. Saturate wooden rae
and rub with it. 1t will also remove
stains from the clean vanished furniture


That cool rain water and soda will re
move machine grease from washable fab
ries.


Every one Of these recipes is unfailing
Cat out this slip and place it in book 70
reference.
Year: 1879

To REMOVE INK FROM CARPET
When freshly spilled, it can be removed
from carpets by wetting in milk. Take
cotton-batting and soak up all the ink that
it will receive, being careful not to let it
spread. Then take fresh cotton wet in
milk, and sop il up carefully, Repeat
this operation, changing cotton and milk
each time. After most of the ink has
been taken up in this way, with fresh cot
ton and clean, rub the spot Continue
until all disappears; then wash the spot
in clean, warm water, and rub until nearly
dry. For ink spots on marble, wood or
paper, apply ammonia in clear water, just
wetting the spot repeatedly till the ink dis
appears.
Year: 1879

A Useful CEMENT.-For stopping
holes 10 castings, or for covering scars, a
useful cement may, il is said, be made of
equal parts Of gum arabic, plaster Of Paris
and iron filings, and if little finely pull
vcrized white glass be added to the mix
ture it will make it still harder This
mixture forms very hard cement that
will resist the action Of fire and water. 1t
should be kept in its dry state, and mixed


with little water when wanted for use.
Year: 1879

MYSTERIES OF Our LANduAGE.-A
fast man on fast day took his fast horse
and went to the end Of the fast land, and
their tied him fast, and as fast as he could
he broke his fast Then he rose and took
of his hose and went with his hoes along
the rows, and put the rose on the end Of
his hose-which, as every one knows, is a
nose, though hear some noes-and, like
fisherman rows for the shad with roes,
or hunter goes for the forest roes. So
his hose waters every rose in the rows.
Now tell me who knows how foreign wight
q do not mean white) could learn very
fast the meaning of hoes and rose, or nose
and noes, or to perform any rite right or
even to write wright right, if his living
depended on getting some right which in
volved the right writing of wright, right,
write or rite.
Year: 1879

To LESSEN FRIcTIoN FOR FURNITURE.
Black lead is excellent to lessen friction
between two pieces Of work. The sides
aud rests Of desks or bureau drawers may
be made to move easily by spreading COM
mon stove backing evenly with cloth or
the finger over their surfaces. Time and
patience may thus be saved
Year: 1879

Finally, the party has already earned
and will receive 10 full measure here


after the scorn of sincere men on
either side of the financial issue. by
It's attempt to dodge those questions
and crowd them out Of the way. 1t
begins to feel that contempt in the ac-
ton OF the Greenback party of Ohio.
Before the Summer ends, it will find
that the fictitious issue, which it sought
to raise by revolutionary scheme
of coercion, has cost the party the
support of thousands of honest men,
both of hard money and of soft mon-
ey beliefs. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1879

society TO bid the boys goodbye, and give them word
of parting advice. He introduced by Charles L.
Brace the secretary and said briefly that the gentle
man in whose interest he acting was giving them
the best sort Of hclp-the means OF helping
themselves They would be placed in COM
Portable homes. and there the aid OF others
would cease their future in their own hands:
There was nothing for which they might not
hope. He would be glad II each boy became a
farmer they could find better starting point IN
any OF usefulness. Those who bad aided them in
hndng hOes would hear OF their future success or want
Of success and only reward they desired was the
knowledge that their aid had been deserved aud had
been fruitful in good results. ,


The boys gave three cheers, and after started
for Chambers Street Ferry In omDibuses and wagons
their small amount OF baggage and travelling equip
ments having already been deposited on the latter.
Year: 1879

BosToN, March 11.-The Committee on
Street Railways, after two prolonged conferences has
decided to report leave to withdraw upon several
peions for vated street railways in Boston. 1t is
probable that the report. which VIII embrace review
OF the hearings and the result of the investigation made
by the committee, will be presented TO the Senate on
Wednes sday, The committee was anxious TO keep Its
action secret hut Is understood that the members
stand six five in favor OF the report Of leave TO with


draw and tnat the minority have decided 10 report
Year: 1879


The Pal Mall Gazette says a private letter
from high Indian official states that the people OF
Cashmere dying of famine like flies, and that at the
present rate OF mortality the province will be nearly
depopulated by the end OF the year.
Year: 1879

clare that that title as obtained through the action
of the Electoral Commission and ratified by tye
vote of the joint convention, is not valld. me
main idea appears to be tO keep the question OF the
title and charge Of fraud in connection with 1t a
live question with the Democracy until 1850. -,


One of the curious ideas held in regard TO mus
matter among certain class Of Democrats Is that
they will be better able to restrain the President IN
this way than by any other meansin their control
Year: 1879

NEW HOME OF THE PRINTING BUREAU


WASHINGTON, Tuesday, March IL. 1879.


The cellar and basement stories OF the new
building the Bureau OF Engraving and Printing have
been completed to-day and the work turned over to the
new contractors who to finish the building ready Tor
occupancy expected that the outer walls and ROOF
will be completed by September Appropriations sum
cent to complete the building to furnish 1t with the
necessary machinery and to move the Bureau from
the Treasury Department into II have already Deen
made so that the work in any manner dependent
upon new legislation The work OF the Bureau at the
present time is great that relays arc WorAlng hlSh
and day keep up with its orders with the increased
and facilities in the new building, an emergency
can be met with much greater economy, by employing
additional hands and working only IN the day trne


REDUCTION IN THE POSTAL SERVICE.


Superintendent Thompson, of the Postal
Railway Service Will address a letter tomorrow TO all
division superintendens In his service u which, after
saving that although l16 have been retired since
the first OF December, there remains deficiency OF
S22 made up during the fiscal year, division
superinendents are therefore. requested to examine
the force and ascertain the number or employees I'D Iuer
divisions that can be retired.


CLARENCE KING AND THE SURVEYS.


1t is announced here this evening that Clar-
ence King is to be appointed Director Of the Surveys in
the Interior Department 1t is generally agreed that
this will be a most creditabe appointment Mr. King
conducted the geological survey the XLth Parallel
under the Engineer Department. and was engaged IN
field work of this survey from 1868 to 1872. The Office
work has been lately completed Ihere IS ana mas Dteh
perfect accord between the Chief Engineer ana
Mr.
Year: 1879




stranger from the interior of New-England
hand d Mr. Whitelaw Reid a roll of S1, 600 in green
backs few weeks ago, requesting him to use IL
according to his best Judgment for the relief OF
rases of real distress in NewYork only asking that
he should be sure that the subjects of the charity
were deserving that the help should be given IN
some such manner to try to put them In the
way of thereafter helping themselves, and that
rs far as possible it should be given to the sufferers
directly without the expenditure of any money Oh
the machinery of any charitable organization. lie
Thought well of sending poor bows to western
homes a branch of the work conducted by the
Chldren's Aid Society and suggested an inquiry
into this as possibly good means OF using a part
Of the money.


After examining into the matter pretty carefully
Mr. Reid concluded to avail himself of the facilities
Of the Childrcn's AID Society for sending thirty
four bows without homes or resources here, to as
many homes with reputable farmers in Kansas.
The party was carefully selected, arrange
ments were made for placing them suitably IN
Kansas, the condition of the several boys was par
ticularly inquired into and everything being
ready they were yesterday gathered at the Chll-
dren's Aid Society, whence they started last even
ing on their journey, under the care of James. I.
Brace an agent of the society.
Year: 1879

Camille FlammariOn, the well-known
French scientist, thus beautifully ex-
presses himself in La Correspondence
Scicntifgue, regarding the ultimate
fate of our globe


The earth was born; she will die.
She will either die OF old age, when her
vital elements shall have been used up,
or through the extinction Of the sun. TO
whose rays her life is suspended. She
might also die by accident, through
collision with some celestial body
meeting her on her route but this end
Of the world is the most improbable Of
all.


She may, we repeat, die a natural
death through the slow absorption Of
her vital elements. In fact, il is prob
able that the air and water are dimin-
Ishing. The ocean, like the atmOs-
phere, appears to have been formerly
much more considerable than it is in
our day. The terrestrial crust is pene-
trated 10y waters which combine chem
ically with the rocks. It is almost GER
tain that the temperature Of the in
terror of the globe reaches that Of boil
ing water at the depth Of six miles, and
prevents the water from descending any
lower but the ABSORPTION will continue
with the cooling Of the globe. The
oxygen, nitrogen and caTbOnic acid
which compose our atmosphere also ap-
pear 10 undergo absorption, but slower.
The thinker may foresee, through the
mist OF ages TO come, the epoch, yet
afar of, in which the earth, deprived of
the atmospheric aqueous vapor which
protects her from the glacial cold of
space by preserving the solar rays
around her, will become chilled in the
sleep of death. As a writer says
"From the summit OF the mountains a
winding sheet OF snow will fall upon the
high plateaus and the valleys, driving
before il life and civilization, and
masking forever the cities and nations
that it meets on its passage Life aud
human activity Will press inseusihly
toward the inter-tTopical znne. ST.
Petersburg, Berlin, London, Paris, Vi
emma. EOustantinople and Rome, will
fall asleep in succession under their
eternal shroud. During very many
ages equatorial humanity will under
take Arctic expeditions to tind again
under the ice tie place of Paris. Lyons,
Bordeaux and Marseilles. The sea
coasts will have changed, and the geo.
graphical map of the earth will have
heeu transformed. No one will live
and breathe any more except in the
equatorial zone up to the day when the
last family. nearly dead with cold and
hunger, will sit on the shore Of the last
sea, in the rays Of the sun which will
hereafter shine below on an ambulent
/ tomb revolving aimlessly around a use
I less light and barren heat.
Year: 1879

"No PoLITICs In IT."-On Tuesday
the Republican, in an article column
in length, attacked the members Of the
Levy Court in very savage manner,
charging them with having ''thrown Mr..
Rice aside on account of his political
opinions" This was poor, weak at
tempt to make political capital for the
Republicans party even at the sacrifice
of Mr.. Rice himself it appears, for a
card is published by him in the same
paper on Wednesday, in which he says !:


sin your editorial Of last evenings is
sue, you were in error as to the action of
the Levy Court Committee in regard to
the appointment of Mr.. Chandler on
political grounds. As far as | am ena-
bled to learn politics have in no wise
entered into the Court House construc-
tion. In justice to the Levy Court MEM
bers please make this correction"


Had Mr.. Rice sent his card to the GA
ZETTE also, we do not know that " q
should have taken much notice of the
grossly, false and malicious attack which
the Republican made upon the Levy
Court. And we publish Mr.. Rice's card
in another column to show how glaringly
false the charges made must have
been, and how unjust to himself and all
the parties concerned must he have felt
them to be thus voluntarily to reply and
refute them on the instant.


We hope our neighbor will be more
careful in future, how it assails Demo
Gratis, and at least not be SO glaringly
false in its tones with regard to them, a
to displease its own partisans as it ha
done in this case.
Year: 1879

THE scene in the Senate and the re-
marks INDUCED in between Messrs.
Conkling and Lamar are the most dis
graceful we remember since the disgust
ing quarrel between Benton and Foote.
1t is to be hoped that both these gentle
men will remember that they are repre-
sentative men and that common decency
as well as justice to their constituents
demand that they will both apologize
to the Senate and through it to the
country at the earliest opportunity.
Year: 1879

A stolid obstinacy is the camel's usual
disposition. Mr.. Palgrave, criticising
the reputation that the animal has for
docility, remarks:


"If docile means stupid, well and
good; in such a case the camel is the
very model Of docility. But if the cpl
thet is intended to desi signate an animal
that takes an interest in its rider so far
us beast can; that in some way under
stands his intentions, or shares them in
subordinate fashion; that obeys from q
half-submissive or half-fellow feeling
with his master. like the horse or ele-
plant; then say that the camel is by
no means docile-very much the contrary.
He takes no heed of his rider, pays no
attention whether he be on his back or
not, walks straight on when once set
a-going. merely because he is too stupid to
turn aside; and then, should some tempts
ing thorn or green branch allure him out
Of the path, continues to walk on in the
new direction simply because he is too
dull to turn back into the right road
again. In word, he is, from first to
last, IN undomcsticated and savage oni-
NAL, rendered serviceablc by stupidity
alone, without much skill on his mas
ter's part, and any cooperation on his
own, save that of IN extreme passive
ness. Neither attachment nor even habit
impresses him; never tame, though not
wide awake enough to be exactly wild"


Nevertheless the animal gives indica-
tions OF intelligence when badly treated.
if we may Judge from its revrngrtul
nature, we'll illustrated in the following
account:


"A valuable camel, working in an oil.
mill, was severely beaten BY its driver
Percciying that the camel had treasured
up the injury, and was only waiting a
favorable opportunity for revenge, he
kept a strict Matcll upon the animal.
Time passed away; the camel, pcrcciving
that it was watched, was quiet and
obcdient, and the driver began to think
that the beating was forgotten, when
one night, after the lapse of several
months, the man was sleeping on a raised
platform in the mill, while, as is custom
airy, the camel was stabbed in n corner.
Happening to awake, the driver observed
by the bri ght moonlight that, when I'LL
was quiet, the animal looked cautiously
around, rose softly, and stealing toward
a spot where bundle Of clothes and 4
burnous, thrown carclcssly on the
ground, reScmblcd \ sleeping figure, cast
itself with violence upon them, rolling
with all its weight, and tearing them
most viciouSly, with its teeth. Satisfied
that its revenge was complete, the camel
was returning to its corner, when the
driver sat up and spoke. At the sound
of his voice, and pcrceiving the mistake
it had made. the animal was so mortified
at the failure and discovery of its scheme
that it dashed its head against the wall
and died on the spot"
Year: 1879

On what sort of milk does the eagles
scream rise 3?


Telegraph wires seem to be musically
but would it be appropriate to call calla
lily by any other name


From the local market reports of the
New York Eaprcss we CLEAN that a trade
dollar will now buy strawberry in the
metropolis. This will be encouraging
information to owners Of trade dollars,
who have heretofore been unable to de-
tcrmine what these coins were good for.


Health and scientific journals have
considerable to say nowadays about
breathing gymnastics. This SOFT of
breathing may be all well enough, as far
as it goes, but there are plenty of people
in the world who will keep right on
breathing air in preference to taking up
any new-fangled notions. Air for
breathing purposes stands by the aver
age mortal longer than anything else.
Year: 1879

The sweetest thing on earth is a little
child when it has learned to know and
love.


After friendship and love come be-
ncvolcncc and that compassion which
unites the soul to the unfortunate.


How contagious is the laugh Of some
people; how Earring that of others, like
playing on q worn-out piano.


In general, there is no one with whom
life drags so disagrceably as with him
who tries to make it shorter.


There are some human tongues which
have two sides, like that of certain quad
rupeds, one smooth and the other rough.


You cannot churn happiness out Of a
chest of gold; it will never come. You
cannot make unfading crowns of fading
flowers.


When people have resolved to shut
their eyes, or to look only on one side, it
is of little consequence how good their
eyes may be.


The triumphs Of truth are the most
glorious, chiefly because they are the
most bloodless of all victories, deriving
their highest lustcr from the nunpcr OF
the saved, not of the slain.


Mems lives should be like day-more
beautiful in the evening; or like sum-
mcr-aglow with promise; and like au-
tumn-rich with golden shcavcs. where
good deeds have ripcncd in the field.


Tenderness is the genius of simple
minds. If passion knows no obstac les,
tenderness knows no bounds. Passion
is the attribute of a soul which no longer
controls itself; tenderness, that Of 4 heart
which no longer belongs to itself.


Contcntment is a blessing, and it is
within the reach of all, but it will not be
found by him who goes out to seek it..
1t is something from within, and until
the heart is right all effort after it must
be in vain.
Year: 1879

<hAA A-ASAsAA6 Aoo Va


A tug of war" is trial of strength
between two teams of men, who grasp 4
rope and try to draw each other over 4
mark. A correspondent of the London
Ne,CS in Afghanistan describes contest
of this kind between two teams of native
soldiers rs follows:


The tug of war which excited the most
interest was that between the Hazara
mountain battery team, and one from
the infantry Of the Guides. In both
eases they seemed powerful sets Of men.
The tug lasted for about forty minutes;
five minutes being the usual time in
which such trials Of strength are settled.
The bull dog-like lirmness with which
these men held on was an evidence to
any of those who at the moment may
have thought back on the past history Of
India, that if these races had been pro-
perly drilled and led by the right men
"the haphazard frontier" of her ma
jesty's Indian empire would still have
been the river Sutlej. The Guide infan-
try are chiefly Patans. while the noun
tain battery are Sikhs. One or two of
the latter lost their pugrees in the strug-
gle, and their hair fell down over their
face, neck and shoulders in wonderful
black masses. There was one man whose
jet blush black locks were in such 4
quantity that his whole head and upper
part of his body vas completely vailed
Ivy it; so. dense was the mass that he
could not see through it. Although the
skin was coming of his hands he would
not let 20 the rope to throw back his
hair, which hung down so long that. his
body being bent, it trailed in the dust.
If any one can conceive lion with
magnificent black name, he will
have q picture of this hero as he lay
on the ground holding on to the rope
like a wise. Not only was the skin of
his hands pccling off, but he began ut
Jast to spit blood; but not n sign of re-
linquishing his grip was given. The
thick mass of hair hanging round his
face like curtain prevented the air from
getting at limit must have been sutfo.,
eating and when at last his team had
won the victory, this splendid fellow
tumblcd over on the ground and all but
fainted from sheer exhaustion. There
was an instant rush of his comrades, and
the restorative they employed was that
of shampooning him all over the body;
but he was not the only one that re-
ouircd it. About onc-half the team re-
ccivcd similar attentions from their
friends; their exhausted condition will
in itself tell how hard the struggle had
bccn. The Guide infantry, who lost in
this struggle, had nothing to be ashamed
of. They held on manfully, and scarcely
lost an inch Of rope till the end. During
thirty minutes it would have been hard
to say which would have gained the vic
tory, and at the close it became only q
question as to which side could sustain
the struggle minute or so longer than
the other.
Year: 1879

(BALLAD.)
The clouds are thick and darkly lower;
The sullen sodden sky would fain
Pour down q never-ending shower:
hear the pattering of the rain,
hear it rattle on the pane.
And then I see the mist entwining
Nor one position long retain,
Behold the gentle sun is shining
AS though exulting in its power,
The storm beats down with steady strain
Upon the ivy OF the tower
hear the pattering Of the rain;
1t swiftly sweeps across the plain.
And then see the sky refining
And molten with golden stain.
Behold the gentle sun is shining!
Beneath the storm the cattle cover;
1t beats upon the growing grain,
And as it breaks both bud and flower,
hear the pattering Of the rain.
From where the clouds too long have lain
They turn, and show silver lining,
A splendid glory comes again.
Behold the gentle sun is shining?


ENVOY.
Although like some far faint refrain,
hear the pattering Of the rain,
The storm is past. No more repining-
Behold the gentle sun is shining


-" Scribner.'