smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

Empty tin fruit cans, like old hoop
| skirts, are nuisance when out OF place
The question is: What is their place
and should be willing to answer it a
hundred times, if could Danish them
from the cutters, the ash heaps, the va
cant lots, and, above all, from the hands
of the boys. shudder now at the very
suggestion of their ever being used again
as music boxes, strung with rosined
chords. Did that epidemic visit your 10
cality, my dear r. der? If So you would
be in haste to prevent the slightest posi-
biity Of its rescurrence. But to the
remedy


In the first place, to open the cans
properly, put hot Goals on and around the
little soldered tip on the top, until the
solder melts, then scrape of lid and Goals
together, with table knife. BE careful,
however, not set the cans on the hot stove
before they are opened, by which little
neglect steam enough to burst the can
might be generated, which would not be
a very pleasant or profitable method of
opening it. When opened properly, you
have smooth, round orifce through
which to remove the fruit.


When the cans are empty and dry, in
vert them in hot Goals in the stove for
half minute, or on hot stove, until the
solder melts and loosens the remaining
top of the can ; then strike it off, smooth
off the bits of solder, and you have very
convenient cooking utensil. For lid,
use saucer, or the covers to old tin pint
cups or pals. Rice, wheat, samp, pearl
barley, split peas, and maRy other dishes
for small family, and small dishes for a
large family, can be cooked in them, either
standing directly on the stove, or placed
in large boiler or saucer pan of water,
to prevent the possibility of their burn
ing 1t also saves more costly tin uten-
sils; for this method Of boiling water is
hard on the tinware. Que can may be
kept for onions others can be used for
baking or steaming rye and Indian bread, i,
and some kinds of pudding.


They are also convenient for pantry use,
for holding articles to be used in cook
cry or in the laundry for garden seeds,
for paint pots, and for many other things
that will suggest themselves to every
housekeeper, aud for which indeed they
would long ago have been used but for
the untidy, jagged edge made By the
common method of opening them. If
covers are wanted for them in these capa
cities, discarded rims and lids may be put
together with little soldier.


If there are tin shears at hand, and any
one to use them, the cans may be made
into very passable scoops. Take several
of them at time to a timer, and he will
cut them into the shape for triAe. 1t
saves time to have scoop in every meal
tub, -four barrel, sugar pail, and starch
box La short, old tin cans are far better
for many purposes than for street organs,
or for ornaments to dogs tails. Suppose
we change the tune, and have better
economy, more and higher grade Of
music Science Of Health.
Year: 1874

Take one large, red pepper, such as are
grown for family use steep it in half a
pint of water, alter which strain in quart
of molasses, adding little vinegar boil
all together to thin syrup; use this
whenever the throat feels dry or disagree
able if it be the dead of night, it will
soothe the throat (and not irritate) and
warm it up well. If sharper than can
be borne in the mouth, put it back near
the palate with spoon and swallow ap-
ply out-wardIy thin slice of salt pork
warming it up well in a little vinegar and
pepper; apply as hot as can be borne on
the throat fasteB the bandage that holds
the pork over the head to draw the cold
and inflammation up, and not about the
neck, as most people do.
Year: 1874

A gentleman at dance remarked to
his partner, witty young lady, that the
"room was so close-he must 90 out aud
get some air" After an absence of half
an honor he returned, when she asked
him "if he had not been to the grave.
yard, as his breath smet Of the beer"
Year: 1874

The Washington Pa. Reporter says ::
There is still considerable activity in the
local wool market aud considering the al
most impossible condition OF the roads a
large amount is being brought in for
shipment. The rate paid here for good
wool is fifty cents.
Year: 1874

Any person of sound body and mind, of
either sex, not ,ess than fifteen nor more
than sixty-five years of age, and not enga-
ged in any occupation, exceedingly danger
Gus to life, may become a member of this
Company, by paying an admission fee, as
follows:
Year: 1874

ample Of Jesusi Dear brother when you pray will you
think that the Affairs of your family, your anmrs II, ~
points like Him. urge your suit in His nane.


care not whether you weak or strong; offer your
prayer Let he az midnight hour. in secret place
under rich roof or under thatch; oner
it through His name and ye shall receive. AK,
that your face NAV shine, your heart beat that you
may feel your heart throbbing with JOY PninkN the
man full OF 10Y; ne cannot be filed fuller than you
Ny brother, carry your face bright as tho sun.
Year: 1874

LONDON October THE steamer
Faraday will put To sea as soon As she
has taken in provisions and coal, and will
resume the attempt 10 recover the direct
cable Of which she had laid six hundred
knots when it was loat. Should her
efforts b. successful she will proceed TO
lay the remainder of the cable 10 the
American coast.
Year: 1874

OMAHA, October This was the last
day of the State Fair and the attendance
WAS very large, although not equal to
that of yesterday. 1t is generally ac-
knowledged to have been one of the best
exhibitions of the kind ever had in the
Western States
Year: 1874

The test of philosophy is present con-
duct not to be repented OF.


The best eternity is for thos> who pay
the best interest on time.


A little perfection would revolntionize
the world-if IL were in II.


Kindness is not r.lished plain it needs
the sweet sauce of fiaItery,


There is not a string attuned to ninth
but has its chord of melancholy.


Mingled virtue and vice make very
Uncertain twilight in the human soul.


Ifaman empties h 3 purse into his
h cad, no one can take it away from him


Pitch lucky man into the Nile, says
the A. abain ploverb, and he will come.
up with fish in his mou h.


As riches and favors forsake a man,
we discover him fool; but nobodiy
could find it in his prosperity
Year: 1874

The following rules and regulations
respecting newspapers are so well un-
derstood by the general public that
they need hardly be repeated, but the
members of the press, although re-
minded in various ways that they are
not forgotten, will attest to their cor
rectness


The model newspaper publisher will
always send his paper free to any re-
ligious association or reading-room as
sOciation that requests it, satisfied to
know that the inhabitants Of the
country will walk two miles TO read
the free paper rather than subscribe
for it.


Any person can have forty or fifty
copies of the paper free, at any time,
by coming in and saying he is 'an old
subscriber, or used to take the paper


Any person who advertises to the
extent Of four and sixpence will be
entitled to take away three or four
dollars' worth of paper ON the date
that his advertisement appears, and
have the paper sent to him free ever
after.


Whatever the price of advertising
may be, the publisher will always be
prepared to make discount.


II you happen to get an advertise
ment into the Bungtown Banner for
two dollars a column, remember that
is'the standing price for all other news
papers.


The best way to have your adyertis-
ing done cheap is to have letter head
printed, reading, Advertising Agency
ofShyster, Chears & Co, andthen send
your order to the publisher, request
ing him to deduct the usual commits
sion of 81 per cent"
When there is an unusual demand
for the paper, send up to the Office for
an extra copy, free, and say yours has
not been left. A crowd of these ap-
plications always shows the Publisher
on what day there is anything un-
usually attractive or spicy in his paper,
and how many people will lie for six
pence each.


If you change your residence or
place of business, do not take the
trouble to order your paper left at the
new location, but drop in the office
three months afterwsrd, and blow the
clerk up for not having the paper left
correctly.
Year: 1874

determination on the part of the gen.
eral assembly to meet the liabilities of
the State would secure the confidence
of capitalists, enhance the value of the
State securities and promote the best
interests Of our internal improvement
companies" /" Not an


ARGUMENT


is here urged by the honored statesman
and financier, then the president of
the bank, in favor of sustaining that
institution which does not now apply
with ten-fold force in favor of re-es-
tablishing it.


l do not hesitate to say that, with
circulation of 81 800, 900, the Bank of
Tennessee and its branches would. at
the end of the first six months from
its establishment, place a large sum
from its net profits on loans, discounts,
exchange, etc., to the credit of the
treasury, and that within two years
from Its esta blishment the net profits,
after paying the interest on the bonds
issued and sold to obtain the bank
capital, would be sufficiently great to
pay from one-half to two-thirds of the
taxes which would otherwise have to
be levied to meet the obligations of the
State | do not think it extravagant
to predict that within ten years the
entire annual Indebtedness of the
State would be paid from the net profits
of the bank.


Tn the foragoipf, T haua said nothino
of the great advantages which the peo-
pie of the State, with its mining,
manufacturing, agricultural, indeed all
industrial interests would derive from
the re establishment of the bank and
its branches. | have said nothing of
the great political advantages that
would accrue in building up in every
State a powerful antagonist to the
present national bank monopoly, which
will ultimately prove the greatest
power in support of central despo-
tism, as the State bank system would
prove powerful opponent to centrali-
cation and a powerful influence in favor
of the constitutional doctrine of self
government. To discuss these points
would require more time than | can
spare to-day. / suggest them for your
with the simple remark.
that in his contest with the old United
States bank, General Jackson found
potent allies in the banks organized
under State authority.


Respectfully,


JNo. G. BURCH, Comptroller.
Year: 1874

The following eloquent passage is
from the pen of the Rev. Albert
Barnes a whole family in Heaven
Who can picture or describe the ever
lasting joy? No one absent. Nofath-
er, nor mother, nor son, nor daughter,
areaway. In the world below, they were
united in faith. and love, and peace,
and joy. In the morning of the resur-
eotion, they ascend together in united
alteration. On the banks Of the
of life they walk hand in hand, and
as a family, river have commenced a
career of glory which shall be ever
lasting. There is hereafter to be
no more separation in that family
No one is to lie down in a bed of
pain. In Heaven never is that fam
lily to move along in the slow process
sion, clad in the habiliments of woe,
to consign one of its members to the
tomb. God grant in his mercy every
family may be thus united"
Year: 1874

A PHYSICIAN Of skill and expert
ence says mustard plaster should
never be mixed with hot water, but
with the white of eggs; and when so
prepared does its duty as eountsr-ir-
ritant without producing the anguish
Of blister. as in the old method.
Year: 1874

view OF Christianity than all the Protestant
preachers, lawyers. doctors, architects and phil
iosophers in this world. II you have not arrived
at any conclusion yet OF what mean tell you
that all religious denominations outside OF the
Catholic Church Will not enter the Kingdom or
heaven. Knowing those things, anu pervertlng
them with malice aforethought, their kingdom is
In this world and the devil has got charge OF II.
don't pretend TO say, however that all Catholics
wiz get to heaven. When they go asrray they
and all the rest OF the heathen nations Narrow
IL the path which leads 10 eternal happiness ana
few there are who enter In thereat. Broad Is the
path which leads to eternal damnatlon, and many
there are who walk therein. Can you tell me
the name OF the college IN which Jesus Christ
and HIS disciples graduated Do You want me TO
dlsgu se the Holy scriptures IN nowery language
like H. Beecher and talk OF dogs IN the pulpit
Verny say that intelligent dog OF his Will be
before him in heaven.n
Year: 1874

Graceful, tossing plume of glowing aold,


Waving lonely ON the rocky ledge;
Leaning seaward, lovely to behold,


Clinging to the high cliffs ragged edge
Burning in the pure September sky,


Spike of gold against the stainless blue,
Do YOU watch the vessels drifting by?


Does the quiet day seem long to you?
Up to you climb, oh perfect shape!


Poised 50 lightly 'twixt the sky and sea;
Looking out DER headland, crag and cape,
O'er the oceans vague immensity.
Up to you my human thought bring


Sit me down your peaceful watch to share.
Do you hear the waves below us sing?


Feel you the soft tanning Of the air?
How much of life's raptures is your right?
In earth joy what may your portion be?
Rocked by breezes, touched by tender light,
Fed by news, and sung to by the sea!
Something Of delight and of content


Must be yours, however vaguely known;
And your grace is mutely eloquent,


And your beauty makes the rock throne.
Matters not to you, o golden flower!


That such eyes of worship watch you sway;
But you make more sweet the dreamful hour,
And you crown for me the tranquil day.
Year: 1874

In short it is the SIMPLEST, SAFEST, most
DURABLE and most ECONOMICAL Engine in
the world. We fully guarantee them in all the above
particulars. COLTS ARMS CO. have spared no
expense in getting up SPECIAL TOOLS AND MA
CHIMES with which to build these Engines, that
every part Is made to gauge and perfectly ill.,
Interchangeable, the Importance of which will be
derstood by all who are at all familiar with machin-
cry. Thus, every Engine of given size is exact
duplicate of every other of that size, and case
OF breakage the broken part be immedia ely re-
placed by its perfect duplicate.


The inventor of this Engine had in view, in its
construction, the great need that exists tor perfect
Steam Engne-of small power-adapted to all kinds
OF light mechanical work, and that should also COM
bine all that is good in Steam Engineering


The first point was, to secure perfectly philo-
sophical Boiler and Furnace in order to insure the
most perfect combustion and to take up the greatest
possible amount OF heat in generating steam.


The second point was, to make perfect cutoff
Engine, working steam expansively, and keeping up
the temperature OF the cylinder to prevent loss by
radiation or condensation.


The third point was, to combine and make the
whole mechanically and scientifically correct ma
chine; all its parts being provided with means to
take up lost notion so that it may be used for any
number of years, and always run Smoothly. In all
these particulars as much care has been taken as in
the largest and most perfect engine constructed


The result is-THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF POWER
PROP0RTIoNED TO THE AMOUNT OF FUEL CON-
sUMED-thus proving the faet-we known to men
of scienee-thdt cter is the best medium to trans
NIT the mechanical forces, generated in the com
bustion of fuel, to the production OF moipe Doarer
Year: 1874

Bound TO LAP OvER.--" Landlord"
said transient guest at a crossroads
tavern, Us he drew near the end of his
dinner, "won't you give me little
more pork to eat with this potato?' \
little later be said:


"There was more pork then 1 want
ed; let me trouble you for a little
more potato to eat with the pork" and
shortly afterward:


Well, ] declare, GIVE got some
more potato left, and it seems q pity to
leave-just u small piece more of pork,
if you please.


1t ran on for some time. At length
the landlord stopped short in front of
his guest and remarked: q" Look here,
stranger, faint no use. I'm willing
to make that pork and potato come out
even, but I've made up my mind, the
way you cat, it cant be did. You're
bound to lap over on one or the other
every time. Now jest make up your
mind which you'd rather leave, and
leave it and quit. I've got enough pork
and potatoes, but, if you keep on,
you'll bust"
Year: 1874

H- Some Branford, Conn. women
are credited with inventing the most
novel substitute for tar and feathers.
Their patience becoming exhausted, re-
Gently, at the continued inebriety of one
of the male members of the household,
they took him in hand while lying dead
drunk on the ground, covered him
from head to foot with soft soap, and
then sprinkled it all over with flour.
The victims sensations under the broil-
ing sun must have been peculiar.
Year: 1874

@ The latest innovation in Wash
ington is to be seen in the House Of
Representatives, where special partof
the gallery has just been set aside for
the families of members OF Congress ex-
clusively, in imitation of and near that
assigned to the diplomatic body. II
this separation from the people means
anything, it is an attempt to draw a
line of distinction, to set up superior
class, and to look down upon the con-
stituency. This is the sort of repubi-
canism which the so-called Republican
party practices at Washington, and it is
q very bad sort.
Year: 1874

b@ The anthracite coal basin of
South Wales is the only anthracite coal
field in the Island Of Great Britain.
This field is about eighty miles long
and from one mile wide in some parts
to two miles in other parts.
Year: 1874

I0r The discovery is said to have
been made that it is not necessary to
groove a rife-barrel the whole of its
length but that few inches of groov-
ing near the muzzle will give the bullet
ali the needful amount of spin.
Year: 1874

ANOTHER RXPEDITIoN or WHITE MEN IN


SEARCH OF GOLD-THR INDIANS ALARMED


TBKY WANT To SILL TIE LAND TO The COW


BRNMBNT.


NEw YORK, October PA dispatch from
BISMARCK, DakOtah, dated p 4, says: A gentle
man from Grand River agency, about eighty
miles Gown the river, reports much excitement
among the Indians at Standing Rock agency
owing to news OF Black Hills expeditions They
have learned that three hundred whites were
seen on White river, between the Missouri river
and the hills on their way to the gold region.
The Indians at once convened q council 70 dis
cuss the matter and consider what would see m
tue best course 70 pursue. Several of the chiefs
and head men delivered speeches. the burden
of which consisted OF accusations against the
military authorities OF this district who they
claim, might have checked the expedition had
they taken proper measures. They were not
chary OF charging the military with bad faith
in the matter, as thOy appeared TO hold them
responsible for the unimpeded departure OF the
party. The council also dem anded that the
agent should obtain for the deleg alton repre-
sentng treaty tribes a conference with the
Great Father at Washington in relation ID
talng steps toward the sale of their Land to the
government.
Year: 1874

THE MIKADo OF JAPAN gave Q breakfast on
the I'D instant to all foreign diplomats at his
own residence. This was the first entertain
ment at which the sovereign has freely mingled
with foreign guests and received them at his
table,
Year: 1874

Bismarck. speak very freely to you, be-
cause am not in the public service, and
may say what like without fear of conse-
quences. / have no doubt in my own mind
that Count Arnm will be chancellor of the
German empire within the next nve years.
perhaps before. He is a very clever man.
very honest, very much liked in high
quarters and very rich. We have had
enough of Prince Bismarck. and when he
dies, or when the king dies, there Will be a
clean sweep OF all his creatures. That will
be Arnim's opportunity, and he will profit
by 1t. Whatever becomes OF this business,
Count Arnim Ia politically ruined. He has
been guilty Of finsubordinatioD, and it is en-
tirely contrary to the official traditions OF
Prussia that bo should ever again be en-
ployed in the public service. The best thing
which can happen TO him is to be forgotten.
The queen has no influence whatever over
her husband, and the crown prince is loo
cautious TO break through the customs oi
the country. Count Arnim is in the wrong
and if he were not i'm the wrong il would De
all she same. He is ruined man.
Year: 1874

knows where, comes to town with a United
States nusket loaded with Is buck shot


which he secretes in the suburbs and which
he resumes upon his outward march, goes


and comes when ne will and does as he
pleases generally. B.
Year: 1874

A SHOCKING WHOLE


AHEROIC SACRIFICE.


A special to the Chicago Tribune from
Watseka, ILL.,, on the 2d inst, gives the fol-
lowing facts of painful tragedy: A cor
respondent of the Iroquis Times, writing
from Papineau, in this county, relates a
most frightful catastrophe which took place
there last Friday night to one Peter Lane,
his wife, two children and little hired girl.
When they retired they left a strong fire
burning in the kitchen. From this fire the
house caught. Mrs. Lane, being awakened
by the smoke, rushed into the kitchen and
took out the child that was sleeping there.
After she left the house Lane awoke, and.
not knowing where his wife was, rushed
into the kitchen to save the child. By this
time the floor of the kitchen was so badly
burned that Lane, on entering 1t, fell
through into the cellar, and remained there
roasting, while his wife took out the other
child, the little assistant, and some goods,
wondering all the time where her huband
was. How he ever got out OF the cellar
is not known, but he was seen later sitting
on the steps with nothing on but shirt,
the back of that blazing. His wife rushed
up to him and put out the fire. Lane then
went to the stable, let out the horses, and
ran some twenty rods to neighbor's where
he fell down helpless. His tracks were
marked by pieces of flesh that had fallen off
his body, and on the halters of his horses
were large pieces of skin. He was immedi-
ately taken up by the neighbors and placed
in bed, and died next morning. His face
was SCARED most horribly, and on his
body, in many places, the bones were ex-
posed, and the flesh in some places black
and crisp.
Year: 1874

The following story of the achieve
ment i'm respect Of speed in an ice
boat OH the Hudson i'm the vicinity of
Staatsburg is told by the Poughkeep-
sic Eogie. "ThurSday last the wind
blew very fresh from the south, and
the owner of the new ice-boat Cyclone
took advantage of the favorable
opportunity for timing his yacht.
The Hudson at this point is very
wide, and at the course selected its
breadth is one mile. Having made
every preparation for the feat to be
accomplished, the reef points were
shaken out Of the sails, and every
stitch Of the canvass spread to the
gale. With the two men on the
windward runner to keep the boat
down on the ice, the helm was turn
ed, the sails filled, and i'm a moment
every inch of canvass, drawing, she
was under full headway. Like an ar
row from bow, she darted away on
the course, clouds of pulverized ice
following i'm the track Of her runners
as they hummed over the surface of
the river, and in what seemed but an
instant the river had been crossed,
and the mile accomplished in the in
credible time of thirty-one seconds,
being ut the rate of two miles in Il
minute and two seconds. Persons on
shore compared the speed of the fly
ing racer to that of meteor flashing
through the sky, and watched her
movements with eager interest. The
owner afterward put the boat through
some movements on tho ice, and as
tonished, as well as paralyzed, the
lOokers-On by sailing all the way
across the river on one runner, the
force OF the wind throwing her beam
ends, and raising the windward run
ner from ten to twelve feet above the
fee. Although but few were found
willing to partake Of the amusement,
all seemed disposed to coincide in the
opinion that ice yachting is the most
exhilerating of sports, and the evo-
lutions of which one of these yachts
is capable, the most graceful of any
thing they have eyer witnessed"