smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

LAST Mar.h man in Detroit named
Emory Prattle, machinist in the EN-
ploy Of the Michigan Car Company
made a bet with another man as to which
could longer hold at the handles of an
electric battery which a travelling nui-
sance had on the Campus Martius. Pratt
tie won the bet, but at a heavy COST
His system received such shock that
up to this time he has not been able to
do days work. He has fallen away
from powerful, heavy man to a skele-
ton almost, and his physicians cannot
say that he will ever be restored to
health.
Year: 1874

OK August 3lst, no less than five men
tried to victimize the three-card monte
sharps, near Battle Mountain. One OF
them was young German with his new
Unmarried wife, from Berlin. He lost a
considerable amount Of money, besides
his pistol, watch and chain. His wife
had in her possession about 5000, which
the husband was anxious also to bet on
what he considered dead thing"
Year: 1874

The custom which express companies
have Of selling off, every now and then,
unclaimed packages, which are unopened
is declared by the Supreme Court Of Penn
sylvania to be illegal, fraud upon the
rights Of the owner, for which the COM
pany is liable in damages.
Year: 1874

The people Of Nevada and Grass Val
ley rejoice in the fact that the narrow
gauge railway to Coliax will be construct
cd. A similar road between Monterey
and Salinas will soon be ready for opera
ton, and The cars are now ia motion on
twenty miles Of the North Pacific Coast
Narrow gauge.
Year: 1874

TIE 4reka JowHai says that parties
fromTrinity county intend to test the
gravel mines Of that county with Lit
tie Giants" We predict the test will be
satisfactory enough to revolutionize min
ing in that county.
Year: 1874

When to sell the crop of wheat is,
perhaps, more difficult to decide than
"hen to thresh. We have known
farmers who, for a series Of yea q,
were obliged to sell their wheat as
soon as possible after harvest to meet
debts, and again others who were
able to hold for the highest prices,
and we were satisfied, from years of
observation, that those who we're COM
PEELED to sell early, realized, taking
one year with another, the highest
priCts for their grain. We noticed
that when from any cause whatever
there was a sudden rise in wheat,
they who were able to hold were re-
solved not to sell till it had reached
the top price, and frequently, just be-
fore it reached that price, it suddenly
fell far below the point from which it
started on its spasmodic advance.
If farmers could always know with
some accuracy just the amount Of old
grain and -four left over, and the true
condition Of the crops all over the
world, so they might be able to judge
OF the ratio Of supply to demand,
they would be prepared to decide
whether the early market is what it
ought to be or not; but 90 long as
there are grain speculators all over
the world trying to bear the market
by exaggerated statements of the
amount of the old crop left over in
the great centers of the world, and
with over-estimates of the ney crop,
they are without reliable guido.
There was a time when specalate4
were able to subsidize almost the On.
tire press, and procure such crop
statements as should suit their ova
interests and mislead the farmers, but
the time for that, we trust, is rapidly
passing by, and the time rapidly
approaching when the intelligent
farmer shall be quite as well inform
ed upon the prospective condition Of
crops and markets as any other class.
When the farmer shall have become
thoroughly informed upon all Ques-
tlons liable to affect the prices be
will be great deal better prepared
to decide when to sell his crops than
he has been or is now. Perhaps We
may lay it down as a general rule.
that when the last years crop has
been generally short one, and the
present one is abundant the early
market is best; but when the last one
was abundant, and the current one i>
short, the later market will be higher.
We have generally done quite as we'll
to thresh and prepare our grain 70,
market as soon as We conveniently
could, and when prepared, to sell it,
and we do not know that We can give
any better advice to othars.-Amert-
can RuraI Home.
Year: 1874

The United States Signal Bureau
is perfecting its organization. A.
rangements are made with different
European meteorologists for a grand
international system of reports, the
benefit of which will speedily accrue
to American seamen in any part Of
the world. Since the 1st of January,
in all the principal European nations,
observations have been taken each
morning at the same moment Of time
that has been selected for the regular
signal stations in this country, and
these are forwarded by mail semi
monthly to the Signal Office in WASH
ington for discussion, in connection
with the regular reports Of this coun-
try. Nearly 200 foreign stations are
now engaged in this work, and sufi-
cient data will soon be collected for the
deduction of general laws in relation
to the movements of the atmosphere
that will mark new era in meteorol-
OgY.
Year: 1874

Write on the sand when the tide islow,
Seek the spot where the waters flow;
Whisper name when the wind is heard.
Pause that tho echo may catch the word.
If what you write on tho sand should last,
Ifecho Is heard mid the tempest's blast,
Then believe, and not till then,


That there is truth IN the VOWS of men.
Throw flower on the stream at morn,
Watch at eve for the flowers return;
Drop in the oceana golden grain,
Hope it will shine on the shore again,
If your flower you again behold,


II you gaze on your grain of gold,
Then believe, and not till then,


That there is truth in the VOWS of men.
Year: 1874

Societies are being organized In
various cities for furnishing work
ing girls a breakfast of bread and
coffee for i've cents. How long
tho poor creatures are expected TO
run on i've cents worth of fuel is u
question for a locomotive engineer
10 answer.
Year: 1874




It is encouraging to note the steady ex-
tension Of the opposition movement in all
sections of the country. 1t is the seed of
reform whose growth will certainly bring
forth fruit. Before it, rings and regencies
that have so long held sway, will be con-
sumed like prairie stubble in sweeping
tire. 1t is the only promising movement
now in progress in the interest of equal
rights and common humanity. It's pur-
pose is to lift up the poor and lowly to
reduce the proud and insolent to the nat
ural level of their own littleness; to break
the letters of party, and to alter the policy
Of government by total change of rulers.
There are no public evils which this move
ment does not propose to strike down-no
abuses it intends to spare. Left free to
work its purposes, it will speedily revise
tariff laws, and reduce duties to revenue
standard. 1t will open the markets Of the
world; cheaper supplies; double the gains
Of labor; give value to irredeemable cur
rency; and everywhere enforce the rule of
honesty, economy and reform. In alliance
with other opposing forces it will prove an
irresistible movement, before which cor
ruption and monopoly will be forced to
give way.
Year: 1874

An editor in Congress from Minnesota
would be new thing. Liberty Hall is
the gentleman who is said to be not disin-
clined to the honor. The only objection
we have, is that We hate to see q rare good
country paper spoiled by degrading its
editor in so marked way. Hall has been
doing nothing to merit so ignoble a fate.
Suppose we compromise, and send him to
States prison.-lPioneer.


The alternative isa hard one, David,
but if we must choose, we incline to the
striped breeches.-[Glencoe Register.
Year: 1874

The crop prospects of Otter Tail county
and the Park Region were never better than
now in the June OF any year since the first
claim was taken. Wheat Jour great staple J
and oats could not possibly look more
promising, and the conditions have been
most favorable the past week and still con-
tinue. Corn and potatoes are looking
we'll, and scarcely potato-bug is to be
SEEM Fergus Falls Journal.
Year: 1874

A correspondent Of the London Field
makes a suggestion as to sticking peas,
which is worthy q trial. A few rough
stakes should be obtained and driven into
the ground on each side Of the row about
twelve feet apart. These stakes should be
of corresponding height to the peas, and
when the required number for a line is in
serted, some tar twine, or other strong cord,
may he tied to the end stakes, making a
turn on each stake within few inches Of
the ground, and as growth progresses,
raise the next turn little higher, advance
ing in succession, until the plants attain
their full height Sauk Centre Herald
Year: 1874

Old corn is nearly twice as nutritious as
soft, new corn. .....


In the fall of 1869 we were feeding sixty
largo hogs on mill stuff steamed. When the
corn came in We fed 500 bushels of good
round corn from the field We stopped
this feed when We found that the hogs had
lost weight: This year we were surprised
at the rapidity with which healthy hogs
will take on fat if fed on steamed meal made
from old corn.
Year: 1874

A chap was taken from a larger
beer saloon. where he got tight,
without knowing that lager would
intoxicate, and put through a cold
water treatment by the Good Temp
lars, a few evenings since. He
"peaches'' on the Templars, and
gives the following expose Of their
initination ceremony, which we
doubt slightly, but give it for what
it is worth:


In the first place, the victim foI
/ initiation is blindfolded, bound hand
and foot, and thrown into 8 cider
press and pressed for five minutes
This is done for the purpose of clear.
ing his system of ''old drunks." He
is then taken out of the cider press,
and by means of q force pump gorg-
ed with cfstern water, after which a
sealing plaster. is placed over his
mouth, and he is rolled in a barrel
four or five times across the room
the choir at the same time singing
the cold water song. He is now
taken out of the barrel. and hung up
by the heels till the water runs
through his ears. lie is then cut
down, and a beautiful young lady
hands him glass of cistern water.
A cold bath is then furnished him,
after which he is showered by cistern
water. He is then made to read the
Water Works act ten times, drink
ing q glass of cistern water between
each reading after which the old
oaken bucket is hung around his
neck, and fifteen sisters. with squirt
guns, deluge him with cistern water.
He is then forced to eat a peck of
snow, while the brothers stick his
ears full of icicles. He is then run
through a clothes-wringer, after
which he is handed a glass of
cistern water, and his boots are filled
with the same, and he is laid away
in a refrigerator. The initiation is
now almOat concluded. After re-
naming in the refrigerator for the
space of half an hour, he is again
again taken out and given a glass
of cistern water, run through n
clothes-wringer, and becomes Good
Templar.
Year: 1874

Not long ago an officer of the
London School Board was crossing
Covent Garden at late hour, when
he found little fellow making his
bed for the night in fruit basket.


Would you not like to go to
school and be well cared for?'' asked
the official.


mo" replied the urchin.


"But do you know / am one of
the people who are authorized to
take up little boys whom find as /
find you, and take them to school p


know you are old claPs,if. you
find them in the street. but this here
Is not a street. It is my private
property. and If you interferes with
my liberty the Duke of Bedford
will be down upon you. | know the
hack as well as you do."
Year: 1874

Every farmer who has occasion to
drive nail into seasoned oak posts,
knows its liability to bend and break.
If the point be moistened in the
mouth it will usually drive more
kindly. Oil is better, but then it is
inconvenient to dip each nail separ-
ately into it. Another point is, that
boards become loose eventually from
the rusting of nails in the wood, ,caus-
es not only an enlargementof the nail
hole, rendering the fence or building
shaky or insecure. This may be
prevented by heating any rough
grease until it smokes, and then
pouring it over the nails to be used.
The grease will penetrate the pores
of the iron. and cause the nails to
last without rusting for an indefinite
period. Besides this no difficulty
will then be experienced in driving
them into the hardest wood. The
reason is that the coating of grease
prevents contact by air, and conse-
quently oxidation. Oxygen is the
great destroyer ofiron, and moisture
is the inducing cause. Anything
which is kept from air is preserved
indefinitely, and if it is kept dry the
effect is measurably the same. Paint
upon buildings prevents the contact
of air and moisture. If the whole
fence cannot be painted, the heads,
ut least, of the nails therein should
be touched.-NeaCdrk Builder.
Year: 1874

will shown toward the Board Of Publica-
ton itself. The Assembly had been look.
Ing for an explanation Of oil and had
found none. Mr.. Drake was Of opinion,
that It was all caused by q rooted dis
like Of Calyinistic lilerature,,n
Year: 1874

The great corruption in public life
results from the social life of the peo-
pie. The reform must commence in
the houshold. Your boy must be
taught that he is not born genius
that his education is to be such as
will suit him for some useful vocation
in life, just such as the father of the
family will be able to place him with
out sacrificing the comforts of the
rest of the family. No boy should
learn the silly notion that he must
seek a sphere Of life superior to that
in which his father moves. Ifa boy
has the germ of great man in him, he
will find his way to eminence even
though he commences life as boot
black. Any efforts to make a great
man of a boy ofmidiocre abilities only
units him for that position which ma
ture intended him to occupy. Men
honest, virtuous men and women, for
the common walks Of life-nature' 8
ladies and gentlemen,-are what the
country needs. Commence the reform
at home and give us these, and the
country will always find eminent men
whenever and wherever she needs
their services.-Rushville Republi-
can.
Year: 1874

BY d. NJ JORDAN.
Gods sweetest poets wake TO life again
From the dull earth In fairest resurrection;
POURING, from many n snowy lily cup
The purity OF heavens divine reflection,
The waxen crocus with its dainty leaves
Tells Of its dismal sleep, and happy wax


ing,
And tender blossoms in the sheltered hooks
From out their folded buds sweetly


breaking.
The regal caiia, with its wand OF gold,
Points upward where the blue is brightly


shining,
Forgetting, In the joy of newborn life,
The wintry clouds that held SO fair lin


ing.
The hyacinth, from many censer sweet,
Sings out its incense on the passing air,
And lilies OF the valley wait to preach
a fragrant sermon, and a perfumed prayer.
In the dim earth where ye 20 long have


slumbered,
A lovely blossom that we gave to death
When all the shining summer days We're


numbered;
The buds are waking in the field and wood,
Distilling sweetness for the summers


glory;
No radiant sun shall bring our lost one back,
Midsummer day renew the pleasant story
Sweet flower that faded fio our human


sight


To blossom far beyond our narrow vision,
Where fadeless roses bloom eternaliy,
And winter never dims the fair elysian.
The garden of my heart is desolate,
Recalling all the sweetness that cherish


ed
SometningI miss from every sunny day
The flower loved the best of all has per-


ished.
Year: 1874

We believe in the man or woman
who has enemies This does not
sound sound but it is sound. Your
milk and water people who content
themselves with simply doing no
harm-at the same time never do
ing any good, are mere negatives.
Your man of force, who never waits
for a stone to get ont Of his heay-
en- appointed way, bnt manfully
rolls it over, may unintentionally
hurt some body's toes in the act;
but thousands who will have to
travel that way will thank him for
clearing it. The man or woman
who has no enemies ii generally a
sleek, creeping, cowardly creature,
caring for no one but himself
smirking, and creeping his unchai-
lenged way to the obscurity no
merits. He adds nothing to the
common stock-does no good in
the world and is lowered into his
six feet OF earth githout one sincere
regret from any one. He has no
enemies, but has he had friend,
A place is vacant, but not in any
warm, grateful heart. A fig for
such people.
Year: 1874

Remedy for Sore Throat.-Take
one large red pepper, such as grown
for family use; steep in half a pint of
water, after which strain in a quart of
molasses, adding little vinegar; boil
all together to a thin syrup; use this
whenever the throat feels dry or disa-
greeable; if it be in dead of night it
will soothe the throat (and not irri-
tate) and warm it up well. IF sharper
than can be borne in the mouth, put
it back near the palate with spoon
and swallow; apply outwardly thin
slice of salt pork, warming it up well
in vinegar and pepper; apply as hot as
can be borne on the Medical
Journal.
Year: 1874

Light Corn Bread-Scald one quart
white corn meal with one quart hot
water, then add half cup molasses,
one teaspoonfuI salt and one quart
cold water. Stir we'll, and add one
quart meal, half pint yeast. Let rise
in warm place for ten hours. then
stir we'll, put in. the skillet and bake
by the fireplace four hours. If you
haven't hop yeast add half pint salt
rising yeast before putting to bake.
Year: 1874

Corn meal cakes for morning dish:
One quart sour milk; two or three
eggs, a teaspoonful Of saleratus, not
heaped; two level full of salt Mix
thick with corn meal. and fry after
steak, or in lard
Year: 1874

eide; but the depth TO which the knife was driven.
must preclude such theory, as death certainly
Resulted long ere the blade passed through The
vital organs OF the head; again, the presence OF
the hatcnet under the body gives evidence OF sys-
TEN and dellberauon IN the dismal deed. and,
third, there Was another and larger knife covered
with blood. These facts all tend to prompt the
behef that the man was deliberately murdered.
Why he should have been SO brutaly dealt with is
as hard TO imagine as to know who Is guilty.


AT THE AORGUE.


The body was taken to the MorRue, where the
buried knlie was pulled from Its place in the skull.
II may possibly be that thorough investigation
by the Coroner win develop definite results but
is probable that the entire affair VIII be buried
with his body.
Year: 1874

1t is a wondrous advantage to man, in


every pursuit or vocation, to secure an adviser


in sensible woman. In woman there is at


onte a subtle delicacy of tact, and plain


soundness of judgment, which are rarely


combined to an equal degree in man. A


woman, if she be really your friend, will


have sensitive regard for your character,


honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you


to 10 shabby Thing, for woman friend


always desires to be proud of you. At the
same time her constitutional timidity makes
her more cautious than your male friend


She therefore, seldom counsels you to do any
imprudenr thing. Imean pure fricndshi ps-
those in which there is no admixture of the
passions of love except in the married state


A mans best female friend is Il wife of good
sense and good heart, whom he loves, and
who loves him. If he have that, he need
not seek elsewhere. But, supposing the man
to be without such helpmatc, female friend
ship he must S i'll have, or his intellect will
be without Il garden, and there will be many
an UNDECIDED gap even in its strongest fence.
Better and safer of course, friendships where
the disparity OF years or circumstances puts
the idea Of love out Of the question. Middle
life has rarely this advantages; youth and old
age have. We have many female friendships
with those much older and those much
younger than ourselves. liolerc's old house
keeper was great help to his genius: and
Montaigue's philosophy takes both a gentlcr
and loftier character of wisdom from the
date in which he finds Marie de Gonrnay, an
adopted daughter, certainly beloved by me,
says the Horace Of essayists, with more than
paternal lOye, and involved in MY solitude
of retirement, as one of the best parts of my
being. Female friendship, indeed, is to ::
man the bulwark, swceter, ornament of his
existence. To his mental culture it is inyal-
uable; without it all his knowledge of books
will never give him knowledge OF the world.
Year: 1874

An ANCIENT REPUTATION DESTROYED.
The "little busy bee" is fool. So says
Sir John Lubbock. This crushing blow to
the Jctc noH of childhood will be hailed
with universal joy. The ugly insect has
buzzed around the ears of lazy people and
stung them into working when they didn't
want to on false pretenses. TO be sure, tho
creature labors, but its intelligence. its
high moral toue,-all the virtues common
ly attributed to it, save industry, are non
existent. 1t is but stupid brute, despite
its hexagonal cells, despite its boasted in
gonuity, despite Linn@us and DR.. Watts
put together. Sir John Lubbock has
tested the bee-inteliect, and has found
it wanting. He entirely rejects the idea
that they communicate quite complex
ideas TO each other. He combats the be-
lief that they are shrewd. He has enticed
bees into his parlor, and has there, by his
experiments, destroyed their reputation as
thoroughly as the spider did The fly. First
he put some honey in the room near an
open window. Eight bees were brought TO
it, one after another. Each loaded itself
and flew away. Not one had sense enough
to como back. Sir John aferward placed n
hive Of bees in the room, between the open
window and the honey. The main en-
trance was toward the window, but he cut
a smaller one at the bacl; of The hive, by
the honey. Very few bees came out of this
back door, and nearly all of those which
did so flew to the window, not finding the
sweets at all. The few which did find the
honey worked steadily to get it into tho
hive but did not communicate their dis
covery TO the others. Either they could
not, or else they were inordinately selfish.
In either event their efficiency as moral
mentors is sadly impaired. Perhaps the
most striking proof of the somi-idocy OF
the average bee is the conduct of one of the
tribe in a bell-glass. Tho glass was is
inches long, with a mouth Gl inches in di-
ameter. The closed end was turned tow
ard tho window. The bee inside buzzed
about for an hour in the attempt to get out,
but kept always at the end by the light.
quite unable TO find the easy egress at the
other. 1t was finally released, in despair
and disgust. Sir John suggests, in view Ct
this display of stupidity, that tie boes
which sometimes buzz so distracIinSly
about our rooms are not doing 1t for fun,
but because they have lost their way and
are roaming in helpless search for it. II
these Journeys arc really as dstasteful TO
them as to us, their exasperating conduct
loses its last excuse. On these and other
experiments tho investigator grounds his
theory. He will find few to say TO him
nay. 1t is a joy to know that the busy bee
is really q zany.-CAicalO Tribune.