smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

10 the Editor Of The Boston Globe:


SIR: The scrub women" commard price
equal to that of skilled labor. Scrubbng of
buildings Is usually done by contract, in which
case an enterprlSlDg woman, as soon as the
foundation is begun, secures the Job and en-
cages her assistants. That person is business
woman and never fails to meet her appoint
rents, as she keeps a list Of applicants from
whom she can draw if her staff gives out Her
terms are at the rate of fifty cents flight for
stairs, and if there should be four or five flights
III building she puts a subordinate on each
and pays her from twenty to thirty cents an
hour, she furnishes brushes, soap and other
materials. One gentleman informed me that
1t cost SIS a week to keep clean the building
which he occupied. A year ago the woman
whom he employed was killed by an accident,
and he = lay awake all night thinking whom
ne could get to take her place. But her
death must have been gain to somebody, as
she left 1000 in the bank, which she had
earned with the mop and pail When you
take into consideration the stores, Offices, banks
halls, churches, schOOlhouses, public buildings
police stations, theatres, including the State
House, City Hall, Court House and the rail
way stations on an average Of from 81. 80 to
IS day, it would not be far from the figure to
say that this city pays from $50 900 to $50, 600
a week for scrubbing. have known one wo.
man who received 81 800 for taking care of a
train of cars, and there are many others who
take their own contracts and have all the
profits. On two occasions it was necessary to
scrub the Coliseum, and the job was assigned
to one of the chiefs in the business She pro-
cured her force, consisting of l0J hands, and
demonstrated her capacity for official business
by having her bill audited in person by the
Committee of Arrangements As near as can
be ascGrtained nOw this amounted to 81 900.
The artist may starve in his garret, but the
wielder of the scruhbiDg brush is independent
Of the changing whims of tickle public.


Of course it does not take long for one of
those thrifty women to become a capitalist, and
she is equally sure to fpd the safest place to
invest. Some of them are public spirited and
progressive, particularly 80 if they have child
rem. few years ago, the daughter of an
opulcnt member Of the fraternity was united in
marriage to very estimable gentleman. The
wedding took place at the residence of the
! bride, which was fitted up with refinement and
taste. Nothing was wanting in nature or in
art to constitute fashionable wedding; nor
could the pen of the novelist describe u happier
one. The young lady was a graduate from
the Normal School, and stood at the head OF
her class, inheriting her mother excellence in
performance of duty. She had also fine
musical education. The proud mother put on
her dress cap, black silk dress and white kid
gloves. Respectfully.


JENNIE CoTTINS
Year: 1874

WANTED TO KISS PAPA-A lady in Pough-
keepsis found little girl in the street crying
bitterly, and asked where she was going, she
was too small to be out alone. Down town
to find my papa. "What is your fathers
name2" inquired the lady. "lIis name is
papa " But what does your mother call
him p ''Sho calls him papa" Il only
want to kiss him." Just then sister of the
child, who was searching for her, came and
took possession of the little runaway, and
told the pitiful story that the childs father
whom it dearly loved, had died recently, and
she being tired of waiting had gone to look
for him.
Year: 1874

A young couple had been married by
Quaker, and after the ceremony, he remarked
to the husband


Friend thou art now at the end of thy
troubles"


A few weeks after, the young man came to
tho good minister, boiling over with rage (his
wife was a regular vixen.)


Il thought you told me that | was at the
end of my troubles?"


SO l did, friend, but did not say which
end"
Year: 1874

The day when boy begins to feel uneasy at
being dependent upon somebody else, is the
day when his boyhood begins to give way to
manhood. The day when girl finds some
body on whom she is willing to depend, is that
in which she passes from girhood to woman
hood
Year: 1874

A young man in Austin, Nevada, the other
day made serious mistake. He bought a
nice dress pattern for his sweetheart avd a
pair of red flannel draws for himself. He de-
iverad the wrong bundle to the lady. Result
a broken heart and ruined frying pan.
Year: 1874

n MAN With AN AIM,
Give me n man with aim,
Whatever that aim may be.
Whether it's wealth or whether it's fame,
1t matters not to me.
Let him walk in the path of right,
And keep his aim in sight.
And work and pray in faith away,
With his eye the glitterins height.
Give me Elan who says,
II will do something well,
And make the heeting days
story OF labor tell.
Though the aim he has be SMALL
IT is better than none at all;
With something to do the whole year thrO',
He will not stumble or fall.
But Satan weaves snare
For the feet OF those who stray.
With never thought or a care
Where the path may lead away.
The man who hath no aim
Not only leaves no name
When this liies done, but ten to enc
He leaves a record OF shame.
Give me whose heart
Is filled with ami m5itiOns fire;
Who sets his mark the start,
And moves it higher and higher.
Better to die in the strife,
The hands with labor rife,
Than :" glide with the stream in an idle dream.
And vea purpOseless hte.
Year: 1874

eral persecution on Beecher's account. She had
reason to see from the class OF people who called
At her house that from the clergy to the press
she was an object Of both fear and desire. She
therefore held society to be upside down.
Year: 1874

The lady bug sat in the roses heart
And smiled with pride and scorn
And she saw plain dressed ant go by
With a heavy grain of corn.
So she drew the curtain of damask round
And adj iusted her silken vest,
Making her GLASS of a drop OF dew
That lay in the roses breast.
Then she laughed so hard that the ant look cd up
- And seeing her naughty face.
Took no more notice, but trc veled on
At the same industrious pace
But sudden blast OF autumn came
And rudely swept the ground,
And now the rose with the lady bug bent
And scattered its leaves around.
Then the houseless lady was much amazed,
bor she knew not where to GO,
And hoarse November's early blast


Had brought with it rain and snow
Her wings were chilled. her feet were cold
And she wished for the ants warm cell
And what she did in the wintry storm
m sure cannot tell.
Eut the careful ant was in her nest


With the little ones BY her side
She taught them all like herself to toll
Nor mind the sneer Of pride.
And | thought as | sat at the close of dAy
hating my bread and milk,
That twas wiser to work and improve the time
Than TO be idle and dress IN silk.
Year: 1874

s0- Even the most casual magazine
reader must have noticed the remarka-
BILE increase Of feminine authors within
the past ten years. Especially in the
domain of poetry has the female hand
usurped the place so long almost ex-
clusively occupied by that of man, un-
til nowadays one can hardly take up q
literary periodical that does not exhibit
striking preponderance of women
among its contributors of verse. Three
of the four poems in the last atlantic are
by women-and the other may be as
we'll, for the initials of the author alone
are given-while, for several months
past, the other magazines have been but
little behind the atlantic in their par
tiality for feminine pens. Those men
who strive to get living by working in
the higher departments of literature,
must view this gradually increasing
monopoly of their field of labor by the
gentle sex with feelings akin to dismay.
Soon apparently they will find no choice
between emigration to England, where
the masculine mind still controls the
magazine supply, and the relinquish-
ment of the quill for some heavier in
strument of toll.
Year: 1874

A Boston calamity has brought into
prominence an invention which has
been tried with great success in Chica-
go. It consists of an iron shaft, ex-
tending either over single window
or the entire length of the building
or on oil sides, as may be desired and
secreted in the cornice, entirely hidden
from view. Upon the shaft are coiled
flexible wire rope ladders, of sufficient
length to reach to the ground. In this
drum, upon which the ladders are coiled,
is sheave, through which passes sim
gle wire rope, with hooks at each end,
which unfolds with the ladder, both
ends reaching the ground. To operate
this machinery, box similar to the fire
alarm boxes, is placed in any part of
the building on the outside, where
policeman can have access fire alarm
box keys fitting their boxes), or in the
Office Of hotel. When an alarm of
fire is given, the box is opened the lever
presenting itself is pulled. This releas-
es the break that holds the shaft, and
the ladders descend slowly in front of
every window in that house; so that in
case of fire the occupant of room
in the eightb-story of building may
step from his window on to the ladder,
with his back to thu wall, and descend
in safety to the ground. The fire de-
partment arrives upon the ground; one
end of the wire rope is hooked to the
hose and the other to the hose cart, and
in less than five minutes time the hose
is on top of the house; the fremen as
cend the ladder to the roof, or to either
story, as the case may require, and play
their stream on the fire, without waste
of time or water. And this may be
done from the outside of the building,
without opening a door or window on
the ground floor. The ladder remains
intact and serviceable as long as the
walls stand. For saving life and valu-
ables this machine is especially adapted.
AS the ladder and shaft will sustain a
weight of from 900 to SO, 900 pounds,
anything from piano to the smallest
article can be lowered upon it. In no.
tells, or buildings occupied for Offices or
sleeping rooms, a stout web strap is
provided to be strapped around the
breast or under the arms of an invalid
or timid person, unwilling to descend
the ladder, to which is fastened one of
the hooks in the end of the hose ele-
vator, while the other is held and con-
trolled by parties on the ground below.
Am. Manufacturer.
Year: 1874

How MIRRoRs ARE SLvERED.-The fol-
lowing description of " silvering" plate
glass for mirrors is mainly founded
upon the method pursued at St. Goblin
and Ravehead. After polishing each
glass tablet intended to make looking
glass, is silvered, or more correctly,
coated on one side with an amalgam of
tin. In the preparation of this ANAL
gam tin foil is used, but it must be
beaten from the finest tin, and possess
a surface similar to that of polished sill
yer. The art of silverinS is simple, and
mersH requires dexterity. The glass
plate having been thoroughly cleansed
from all grease and dirt with putty
powder and wood ash, the workmen
proceed to lay sheet of tinfoil smooth
ly upon the table, carefully pressing out
with cloth dapper all wrinkles and
places likely to form air bubbles. He
spreads over it a quantity of mercury
taking care that all parts are equally
covered, and then the glass plate is
pushed gently on to the surface, COM
mencing at one edge. The glass is al
lowed to remain twenty-four hours. It
is then removed to wooden incline,
similar to a reading desk, to allow of the
excess of mercury to drain off. As the
amalgam gradually sets, the incline is
increased, till finally the plate reaches
the perpendicular, when the process is
finished, and the mirror removed to the
store room.
Year: 1874

WHAT IS TERRA Cora But little is
known in this country of terra Gotta,
which abroad enters so largely into Or
namental architecture. In its manu-
facture, clay, flint, glass and fossils
containing phosphate of lime, are pow
dered and mixed with water into paset,
when it is then ground and beaten until
nil air bubbles are expelled. It is then
nodded directly by the artist and burn
ed, having been glazed and tinted to
suit the taste. The material thus
formed is both cheap and durable
Neither heat. cold nor any moisture af-
fects it. Al d there is this further ad-
vantage in its use, it can be nodded by
the artist himself as if it were so much
clay; whereas stone must be cut by the
hand of an intervening workman.
There seems to be no good reason why
terra Gotta should not come into gene
raj use in this country for building pur-
poses. In England it has long been a
favorite material, and it enters largely
into parts of the elegant Albert Memo
rial Hall, as also of the South Kensing-
ton Museum. American architects have
so for had such prejudice against it,
which it is to be hoped will soon yield
before enlightment as to its many admi-
rable qualities.
Year: 1874

BURROWS BoY MADE UsrruL.-Bura
rows was an inveterate tobacco chSwef;
but as his wife detested the practice and
made home tempestuous and stormy
for him when he INDUCED in the prac-
tice there, he always chewed when away
during the day, and declared to his wife
that he had stopped permanently. But
one evening upon drawing out his hands
kerchief, he accidentally pulled out his
paper of tobacco, and without noticing
it, left it lying on. the Aoor. When
Burrows sat down to tea, his wife walked
in with paper of tobacco in her hand,
and looking Burrows firmly in the eye;
said, Do you know who that belongs
to?" With great presence of mind
Burrows turned scowling to his eldest
boy and said, with severe voice: I'm
mortal Mars! Is it possible that yoa
have begun to chew tobacco, you young
reprobate? What do you mean by
such conduct, you villain! Haven't I
told you often enough to let tobacco
alone. Comm to mo or I'll tear the
jacket off of you" And as he spoke
the stern father made grab at the boy,
and dragged him out into the entry and
chastised him with cane. Then Bur;
rows threw the tobacco over the fence,
where he went out and got it in the
morning and enjoyed it through the day.
Merciful Mosesw he exclaimed .
when he told US, what would I have
done if my children had all been girls ?
It makes an old fathers heart glad
when he feels that he has boy he can
depend on in such emergencies.
Year: 1874

SIN.
Man-like it is to fall into sin,
Ficnd-like is to dwell therein,
Christ-like it is for sin to grieve,
G0d-like it is all sin to leave.


THE RESTLESS HEART.
4 milestone and the human heart are driven
ever round;
If they have nothing else to grind they must
themselves be ground.


ACT AND TACT.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are
combined;
OFT in a wooden house golden room is found


EErRIBUTION.
Though tho mills of God grind slowly, vet
they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience he stands waiting, with
eXactness grinds he all.
Year: 1874

E A good mother was trying to
explain to a young hopeful, the other
day, about fighting against the devil.
After telling the little fellow who the
devil was, and how hard he WAS to sue
cessfully resist, he turned around and
said: " Mamma, I'd be scared Of the
old devil; but If I was to come across
one of the little devils, I'd knock the
stufiing out OF him."
Year: 1874

E The Scientific american recon-
mends as cure for nose bleeding, to
extend the arm perpendicularly against
wall or post, or any convenient OBJ
ject for a support. The arm on the
side from which the blood proceeds is
the one to elevate.
Year: 1874

The letter of the venerable Havemeyer is so
full of "reminiscences that we are naturally i'm
PEELED to ask the age of the old man. We had
long ago suspected that he was no longer
young, though he is still as frisky and playful
as Joe Bagstock, but We were not prepared to
consider him as old as he seems to be. If we
are to judge him from the data which his let
ter to John Kelly affords he was contemporary
with everybody. Governor Dix is mere lad
compared with Havemeyer. Dean Richmond
lived and died, and Havemeyer remembers his
political influence as only one little incident
in public affairs. One Tammany dynasty has
followed another, but Havemeyer appears to
have seen them all He is older than Tam
many itself-much older. Jefferson and he
founded the democratic party. Madison and
he ruled it as boys tgether jackson and he
revivifed 1t when they removed the deposits
from the United Staes Bank. Polk and he
settled our little boundary disputes with Mex
leo. Lincoln and he conquered the re-
bellion. We are not more certain that he did
not help to write WShington's Farewell Ad-
dress than we are sur he wrote the letter to
John Kelly. If the people he recalls could
be recalled to life agan they would indeed be
astonished to find hin alive still. How long
he has been in the world nobody can tell, for
there is no contemporary evidence to prove it.
He is old enough to te myth, and some of
these days somebody will be trying to prove
that he never existel at ALL We begin to
doubt it already Ole Parr was youth COM
pared to Havemeyer, and since Havemeyer
shows such remarkable vigor we should like
TO know how old he b, anyhow. Is he not
the oldest inhabitant?
Year: 1874

Another of those awful calamities for which
ton saddens our pages to-day. Yesterday
the Granite Mill, at Fall River, Mass, one of
those enormous woollen manufactures which
employ SO many persons, caught fire early in
the morning, and the confagration resulted in
terrible loss of life and injuries to scores
of helpless women and children. Imagination
cannot realize the scene when two hundred
girls are shut in the upper rooms of mill


fifty or sixty feet from the ground, with the
flames beneath them and all methods of
escape cut of. The horrors of death by fire
are so great that human beings will court
almost any danger to escape from it. This
was the case at the Fall River mill The fire
broke out in the fourth story, and the first
knowledge the girls on the fifth and sixth
floors had of its existence was the
rolling in upon them of dense, suffocating
volume of smoke They rushed to the stair
case, and there were the ascending flames to
the elevator, it was motionless; they turned
to the fire escapes, but they, too, We're beyond
reach. In the terrible panic which fol-
lowed, these children-for they were no
more-leaped from the windows and
dashed their brains out on the stones
below Forty persons, principally young
girls, were burned to death or killed by these
daring leaps from the pursuing flames, and
eighty more fatally or seriously injured. Of
these scenes our correspondence gives too
painful picture.


The responsibility of this appalling calam-
ity may not be fixed with accuracy, but the
construction of the mill appears to have been
one of the principal causes of the unusually
large loss of life. There was but one
staircase by which four hundred per-
sons could have egress from the
mill When the fire burst forth this
avenue was closed. Then the fire escapes
were only placed at the ends Of the building,
and were inaccessible. Thus these poor chill
dren were shut in a fiery furnace, and per-
ished by somebody's criminal recklessness.
The causes of the appalling calamity should
be strictly investigated, and those who are an
swerable should be punished with all the Sc
verify of the law.
Year: 1874

with the subject at all. Such sweeping mean
ingless accusations do the cause of true relig-
ion no service, but rather bring its intelli-
gent advocacy into disrepute. While we
cannot agree with Professors Huxley and
Tyndall in their new theories of creation, and
have endeavored to answer their arguments,
we have not confused science with dogmatism.
The true place to meet these modern theorists
is upon the ground of reason, common to all,
and there to refute their erroneous opinions
and to establish the true principles of human
belief
Year: 1874

The SEVENTH REo1sKNT have had hard
time of it recently. FIRST, the roof of the old
market in which they AVE their armory was
partially consumed by fire, and then the rain
came in and ruined whit the fire had spared.
The delay of the Boart of Estimate and APP
portionment to repair the roof has cost the
regiment loss OF ten thousand dolIars--a
sad example of the ,enny wise and pound
foolish policy.
Year: 1874

The RECENT OUTRAGE of Jersey City
policeman upon young man has ended in
the death of the latter. This pistol shooting
and clubbing are too frequently committed by
officers without any just reason, and the man
who shot young Bagley ought not to escape
with o reprimand. And what is to be done
with Graham, the policeman who arrested the
respectable ladies'?
Year: 1874

The PRESIDENT has replied to the protest of
Governor Brown, OF Tennessee, in regard
to the interference of the general gov
eminent with State affairs, and JUS
ti6es his action on the ground that
it is a duty which is imposed upon him by
the constitution. Senator Brownlow has
thanked Governor Brown for his energetic
measures to secure the arrest and punishment
of the assassins at Trenton Jail
Year: 1874

The CHRISTOPHER PLAGUE has been so se-
we're that aid to the inhabitants of different
parts of Nebraska and the Northwest has been
found absolutely essential. A society has
been formed in Omaha for this purpose, and
General Brisbin is the agent of the society for
the distribution of the stores and supplies.
The purpose is good one, and it is in every
respect deserving of support
Year: 1874

The STEAMSHIP CONFERENCE between the
representatives of the North Atlantic COM
panies will likely turn out for the benefit of
the passengers and emigrants, as twelve or
fifteen dollars for trip to Liverpool is bring
ing fares down with q vengeance Some of
the companies will be compelled to give way
under the pressure.
Year: 1874

The EXPULSION OF DANISH sympathizers
from Schleswig is now attributed to a plan of
Bismarck to compel Denmark to enter the
German Bund. But the theory needs better
confirmation before it can be seriously de-
hated
Year: 1874

AT CREEDMooR yesterday the fifth contest
took place for the Remington diamond badge,
which was on this occasion won by Mr. Hep
burn. The Irish rifemen were present and
took much interest in the contest in which
some Of them participated.
Year: 1874

SENATOR MORTON has just delivered him.
self to the people of Indianapolis of flaming
speech in denunciation of the Ku Klux, White
League and democratic outrages in the
Southern States upon the poor blacks and
especially in Louisiana, and in support of the
Kellogg government Now is the time, there
fore, for ringing speech from Senator Car
penter in exposition OF the Kellogg govern
ment as usurpation, and OF the necessity of
new election to establish law, ORDER peace
and confidence in Louisiana
Year: 1874

JUDGE WALTON, of the Supreme Court of
Maine, has decided that the liquor law is in
full force in that State The argument
for its supposed repeal has not in his opinion,
the merit of plausibility.
Year: 1874

The FIRES IN THE WOODS Of New Jersey
have made clean sweep from Sandy Hook to
Tuckerton, and were only subdued by the
rain. Long Branch escaped with the loss of
few fences and felds-a fortunate escape for
the hotel keepers The cause was, as usual,
a spark from locomotive near the Navesink
Highlands and a total want of facilities for ex-
tnguishing the fire before it gained full head
way When railroad corporation sets woods
in blaze it should devise means to put out
the fire..
Year: 1874

THE WEATHER YESTERDAY did not prevent
the regattas of the amateur oarsmen in Cow
anus Bay. There were three clubs who took
part in the amusement, and the particulars of
the races are elsewhere published.
Year: 1874

A few more of those Heavy Merino Vests and
Drawers at 70 cents-the last this season. And our
entire stock Merino Vests and Drawers, the finest
assortment in the city, will be closed out at this Sale
regardless of cost.