smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

The following directions for conduct
in case of fire are issued by the British
Royal Society for the Protection OF
Life from Fire:


Every householder should make each
person in his house acquainted with the
best means of escape, whether the fire
breaks out at the top or at the bottom.


Inmates at the first alarm should en-
deavor calmly to reflect what means OF
escape there are in the house. fin bed
at the time, wrap themselves in a blan-
ket OF bedside carpet; open neither
windows nor doors more than necessa-
ry; shut every door after them. ILLS
is most important to Observe.l


In the midst of smoke it is compara-
lively clear toward the ground; conse-
quently progress through smoke can bS
made on the hands and knees. A silk
handkerchief, worsted stocking, C.
other flannel substance, wetted and
drawn across the face, permits free
breathing, and excludes to a great eX-
tent the smoke from the lungs. A wet
sponge is alike efhcaCiOUs.


In the event of being unable to escape
either by the street door or the roof, the
persons in danger should Immediately
make their way to the front-room win
dow, taking care to close the door after
them, and those who have charge of the
household should ascertain that every
individual is there assembled.


Persons thus circumstanced are en-
treated not to precipitate themselves
from the window while there remains
the least possibility of assistance, and
even in the last extremity a plain rope
is invaluable, OF recourse may be had to
joining sheets or blankets together,
fastening one end to the bed-pOst or
other furniture. This will enable one
person to lower all the others separate
ly, and the last may let himself down
with comparatively little risk. Select
d window over the doorway rather than
over the area.


Do not give vent to the fire by break
ing into the house unnecessarily from
without, or If an inmate by opening the
windows OF doors. Make a point of
shutting every door after you as you go
through the house. For this purpose
doors inclosing the staircase are very
useful.


Upon discovering yourself on fire, re-
feet that your greatest danger arises
from drafts to flames, and from their
rising upward. Throw yourself on the
ground aud roll over on the fame-if
possible, on the rug or loose drugget,
which drag under you. The table
cover, a mans coat, anything of the
kind at hand, will serve your purpose,
Scream for assistance, ring the bell,
but do not run out of the room or re-
main in an upright position.


Persons especially exposed to the risk
Of their dresses taking fire, should adopt
the precautOn of having all linen and
cotton washed in a weak solution of
chloride of zinc, alum or tungstate of
gOda
Year: 1878

Resumption is a measure apart
from the interests of the bond hold
ers-apart from the interests of
gold-brokers-and looks solely to
giving q more absolute and IN
changing value to the money which
passes from hand to hand, and which
the working men of our country are
compelled to receive for their con
slant toll. It is good money for
the people as well as for the bond
holder Hon. J. S. Morrill,.
Year: 1878

Mum Sociables" for the benefit Of
churches are fashionable in the South.
The guests are obliged to sit ''mum"
for half an hour, and any one speaking
must forfeit a nickel for each word.
At a ''mum" party the other night a
wicked young man whispered some
thing in the ear of an old maid, and in
less than ten minutes she forfeited $50
worth of nickels, and was compelled to
appoint a receiver before the half hour
expired.
Year: 1878

When a mother is mending her sons
pants what a pang 1t causes her to find
a euchre deck and a pistol in the pOck-
cts, And what a pang-Or several OF
'em-she causes tue boy, when she in
terYiews him few minutes later on
the subject.
Year: 1878

An angel in the book of life


Wrote down an infants birth,
Then added ere he closed the page,
''Too beautiful for e0rthF'
And when tho reaper Death PISSED by,
He read the words and smiled;
Then folded in his Icy arms


The lovely little child.
The mother Wept, but angels sang
In soft and sweet accord;
And ", lCOmcd the transported hOwOr
In the garden Of the Lord.
The mother wept. She will not weep
When all her days are run,
And at the gates Of paradise


Shc meets her little one.
An infant soul, all pure and bright,
Prom every earth spot free;
A babe to bless that mothers sight
Through all eternity.
Year: 1878

Considering the rarity with which certain
streets are cleaned there is no excuse for the
work not being thoroughly done when it is
attempted at ALL Yet a resident Of Eleventh
avenue complains that although the side OPP
posite to his own is sometimes swept
the other has not been cleaned since
May. Like all other street accumula-
tions, the contents Of this avenue are
unwholesome at best, and fearfully
offensive and dangerous while in their
present venerable condition. The house
holder does business, pays taxes and thus
contributes to the fund which is supposed
to be expended for his protection, but-per-
haps because the carriages Of rich men are
not numerous upon this avenue--the little
cleaning that is attempted leaves half the
work undone. Such neglect of duty would
cost the responsible party his position if he
were anywhere except in New York; but a
work that is carried on only with view to
Appearances, as that OF street cleaning is,
will demoralize even an efficient man in a
short time, and there is no higher official
who will sea that the negligent are pun
ishe1
Year: 1878

The street cleaning authorities seem to
have peculiar idea of the nature of dis
ease-breeding filth. Though they some
times condescend to remove solid gar
bage, the liquid accumulations are al
lowed to remain, although they gen.
crate IN immense amount of malaria
and fix it in the surrounding soil. In Or
chard street, opposite No. 175, there is q
pool of stagnant green water, which gives of
emanations poisonous enough to make the
population of the whole neighborhood On
easy prey to any epidemic. slight appli-
cation of Croton water, few shovel
fuls of dirt, or few cents worth
Of. disinfectants, would remedy the
evil at once. is this and the hundreds
OF similar places to remain and grow worse,
merely because some officers and foremen
are too lazy or stupid to attempt anything
that cannot be done with shovel and cart ?
Brains and ingenuity are not scarce
among any other class of men, and there is
no excuse for the retaining in the costly
cleaning service set OF fellows so brutishly
ignorant of the object OF the work they pre-
tend to do.
Year: 1878

Such decline Us really exists in the
volume of business and the demand for
labor was clearly explained to the Hewitt
Committee yesterday by Mr.. George Walker,


we'll known financier. The panic, he
said, was the result Of distrust Of enter
prses into which surfeit of currency had
led people. No matter how much labor
and money man ora corporation employs,
if they are not used judiciously the opera
tor fails, the laborer is thrown out of work,
perhaps with part Of his wages unpaid,
and the money lenders not only distrust
the operator for the future. but are more
Year: 1878

market to drain away our gold and thus
arrest resumption. The statement of Secre-
tary Sherman will dissipate that fear and
strengthen public confidence.


The Secretary demolishes Senator Thur
mans arguments in favor of abolishing the
national bank circulation and substituting
greenbacks. In the first place, there is no
constitutional authority to issue legal
tender notes in time Of peace In the
next place, Congress pledged the faith OF
the government not to issue an amount ex-
ceeding four hundred million dollars In
the third place, the government has prom
ised to redeem the greenbacks, and would
forfeit the promise by doubling the amount
and making it permanent. In the fourth
place, specie payments would be impossi-
BILE if the Treasury had to keep the enor-
nous reserve of coin that would be requi-
site for redeeming seven hundred million
dollars of greenbacks Secretary Sherman
makes it clear that Mr. Thurman's argu-
ments are not the reasoning of statesman,
but the sophistry of politician.


DOES TAMMANY love darkness better than
Year: 1878

Taxpayers will rejoice to learn that the
Commis issioners of the Sinking Fund have
at last taken some action upon the enact
ment allowing the funding OF the city debt
IN consolidated stock at u low rate of inter-
est Nearly eight millions of bonds, at six
and seven per cent, and coming due before
the end OF this year, are to be taken up with
the proceeds of an equal quantity which
will pny but five per cent. These are to be
redeemable at the city's option after twenty
years and cannot run over fifty years.
Should this stock remain on the market for
tho extreme time indicated the mere saving
upon the interest, with interest upon the
saving, will more than cover the principal.
1t is believed that the placing of this stock
will be an easy matter. There is no reason
why this city should paya higher rate of
interest than the general government, for
its affairs are in the main as we'll admins
tered as those which are cared for in WASH
ington, and upon most OF the property
within its borders the taxes can easily be
collected. 1t is to be hoped. therefore. that
Year: 1878

1t would seem as if any slight obstruc-
ton is sufficient to turn the street
cleaners away from their duty. The in
habitants of Fifteenth street, between
avenues b and G, belong apparently
to the same species as the rest of
us, but because great many carts are kept
on the pavement at night the filth, princi-
pally manure, that is under these is allowed
to remain for an indefinite time. Every
rain saturates it. and then leaves it, carry
ing that vilest of all drainage poisons,
the soluble portion of animal excreta. The
liquid thus prepared remains in tho gutter,
growing more offensive and dangerous with
every hour of sunshine, and making Of this
block as offensive and dangerous locality
as there is in this filth-ridden city. II
the carts are. to have free storage against
the curbstone there are still easy methods
of getting the filth from under them, but
this would be slight departure from the
usual method, and for street cleaning to be
managed by sense instead of precedent
would require very different kind of stuff
in the cleaners.
Year: 1878

ANY one not an engineer who walks along
the line of the unfinished portion of the
Metropolitan road may at first imagine that
some work is going on, but if he is an in
telligent observer he will soon perceive that
the operations are merely desultory. Espe-
cially will this be the case if the observer
recalls the admirable manner in which the
winter, fighting frost, legal proceedings and
everything else that stood between them
and the pockets of prospective passengers.
In those days q man could hardly step off
the sidewalk without tumbling into one Of
the company's excavations but now blind
man might safely walk from Fifty-ninth
street to Spuyten Duyvil Greek without any
annoyance from railway stumbling blocks
This mastery inactivity is what the road
seems to imagine compliance with the
terms of its charter =


Fortunately there are two parties to every
in question the grantors made valuable
concession for the stipulated equivalent of
rapid communication between the two ex-
tremes Of the city. Had there been any
intimation that the road was to run to Gen.
trail Park only, company could have been
quickly organized which would have paid q
handsome yearly royalty for the privilege
which the Metropolitan road seems to con-
slider its own by free gift. The charter was
not granted out of affection for the corpora
tors, but because of the needs of the resi-
dent public. and because to keep New York
business men from living in New Jersey
and Connecticut would be to increase
the tax, BILE property of this city and State


The Sv.te wanted to make the whole city
habitable, and to charter elevated roads
seemed to be the most feasible method of
doing SO. The charter was not simple
Grafton Of service to be rendered SO far
the service is invisible and apparently un-
intended along most of the line. What the
State gave it can also take away, particu-
larly in the case Of IN unfulfilled contract,
and those who constitute the State, capi-
talist and laborer alike, will not only stand
by the authorities to call this laggard COM
pany to account, but will demand the re-
scinding of the charter unless its require
ments are promptly complied with.


Yesterday the east side line of the New
York Elevated road went into operation as
far as Forty-second street, with q promise
Of speedy extension to Harlem. We shall
carefully watch the progress of the work
and promptly inform the public of any in
dication to shirk the service agreed upon.
Year: 1878

hereafter the Board will not allow six and
seven per cent bonds to remain until DUE
but will take advantage of an easy money
market and follow the plan of the national
finance department in selling new securi-
ties for money with which to take up the
old ones
Year: 1878

SOMETIMES SINGLE CITIZEN can deter
mine mans fitness to govern by imagining
how he himself would feel under the said
persons rule but Mr. Kelly is denied that
privilege, for being ruled is something
which he is unable to imagine.
Year: 1878

The ROBBERY OF lady and gentleman by
pretended detectives is the latest outrage in
Central Park. Ii the grounds were properly
. lighted we should not be compelled to record
lawlessncss of this character in the principal
pleasure ground of the city. The Park should
be safe ut all hours as Broadway ut midday
Year: 1878

Four VERY EXCITING RACES were run on the
Saratoga course yesterday. Tomorrow will
probably witness the last OF the one hundred
faces which were promised in the beginning by
Inc management. Altogether the meeting has
been one of the best and the most successful
ever held in the country.
Year: 1878

HAVE The PEOPLE ANY RIGHTS in regard
to the choice of Mayor which Mr.. Kelly is
bound to respect? If they have we hope
these rights will be recognized and acted
upon at once. There should be no dark
lantern politics in a democratic city.
Year: 1878

reluctant to accommodate other men like
him. The laboring classes, for instance,
in the building line, look longingly back
to the good times just before the panic.
when houses were going up everywhere
and everybody was busy. But now half the
houses then built can be bought at half
their cost. and though the laborers got
their pay the builders are losing their own
money besides great deal that they bor-
rowed. The same results came from many
busy manufacturing enterprises Labor
suffers now because capital suffered then,
and if the volume of currency were now
increased it would be only to bring the
workingman short period of activity to
be followed by long one of stagnation.
Year: 1878

The present year Is the first in the history Of
tho national game IN which neither this city nor
Brooklyn supports professional clubthat is, club
that devotes their entire time and their living
by playing baseball Nevertheless, manifested
by the large attendance citizens Saturday last
at Prospect Park the opening game OF 1878,
the interest the game is as great now as 1t ever
was II not indeed, greater Than for The past several
years. This is doubtles owing to several causes,
vz:-First the belief justly entertained, that the
evils that formerly attached to the gamc-gamblng,
crooked playing anu revolvlng-havo been at last
wholly banshed from the arena; second, that In
sequence thereof and Of the admiration
Tor the manly heathgving outdoor sport, the people
sincerely desire to uphold the game and the men who
brought about the reforms. Consequently the eight
strong clubs belonging TO the Reform Inter national
this vicinity tho coming season have tho ontro
confidence OF the community. Their prospects,
therefore, oil the very brightest II Is iact that
all classes OF society IN this city and Brooklyn take
deep interest the game OF baseball the
that they now have that honest contests will be tho
rulo hereafter Is al that was wanted to restore tho
olden time enthusiasm for the game. The opening
this year earlier by q number OF weeks than
usually occurs. The mid winter, ending In balmy
spring doubt had much do with the carly OPEN
ing: put as late the LIST OF May In former years
OF respectable citzens brimiu OF interest," made
up the audience OF Saturday last have been in tho
hapit of attending In view Of all these facts there


FORE Is deemed quite safe to predict that THIS will
prove to be nighy successful ycur tho history OF
baseball in this vicinity.
Year: 1878

A WHITE WOMAN USES RAZOR ON A COL
ORED GIRLS NECK.-A white woman named
Lisk, who lived near Batesvie, Va. under the
conviction that her paramour was unfaithful
to her, made murderous assault on colored
with a razor that will probably prove fatal
The Jealous woman rushed upon the colored
girl, seized her by the hair and deliberately
drew the razor across the back of her neck
Fortunately it did not reach the juguIar vein.
Mrs. Lisk was committed to the county Jail
and will be tried at the next term of the coun-
ty court
Year: 1878

The CHINESE AMBASSADOR and party who
arrived at San Francisco on the City OF Toxic
yesterday, will leave for Washington in a few
days. No formal reception wls rendered on
their arrival, none OF the T. ). officials vel
coming the party on landing. number of
Chinese merchants met them at the wharf
and they were subsequently, received at the
Palace hotel. great crowd of Chinese of
the lower class gathered at the main door of
the hotel to catch glimpse of the visitors
Year: 1878

AA bullock, the property Of farmer near
years old, who was teasing IL, into dyke Of
water. The animal then jumped on the child,
and lay on him In the water until life was ex-
tinct.
Year: 1878

GEN. GARFIELD, while bathing in the surf
at Atlantic City yesterday morning, was at
tackled with vertigo Representatives Springer
ana Hiscock and G. F. Rainey, sergeant-at-
arms OF the Potter committee, were also bath
ing at the same time. Something peculiar was
noticed in Gen. Garteld's movements as he
left the water, and MesSrs. HiScock and Raj
ney went TO his relief, conducting him to a
bath house IN the immediate vicinity where
by the prompt attentions of the above gentle
men he was soon restored to consciousness
and driven to his hotel. He Is so rapidly i'm
proving that he will To- day leave for his home
in Ohio. The Potter committee will make an
effort TO close their business at Atlantic City
TODAY.
Year: 1878

EXCITEMENT IN TIE WESTERN WHEAT
MARKET.-The market for wheat at Milwau
kee has been considerably excited lately and
l0al2 cents, and in some cases as much as Is
cents per bushel. The advance, it is said is
based upon reports of damage 10 the spring
wheat crop, the operations resulting in cor
ner for July delivery. The accounts of the
damage to the crop from the late unfavOrable
weather are very conflicting, and it is gener-
ally thought they are exaggerated. The con-
effect the Eastern markets, and it is thought
that the operators will settle the difference eX-
iSting without any serious trouble or an appeal
to the courts, which was at one time threaten
p6
Year: 1878

BEES AS MAIL MATTER.-COmplaints are be
coming frequent at the Post Office department
against p0StmasterS at various small offices in
New York state and other localities for per
mlttlng bees to be transmitted in the mails as
third class matter. A stringent order has been
issued to employees OF the service fOrbiddine
the receipt of bees as third class matter.
Year: 1878

DollyGsount and Creedmoor by the
assertion that Americans are fa-
miliar with the use OF the rifle from
the CRADLE" that the appearance of
this yeritably riAe-bred Yankee on
foreign soil may be complacently
anticipated as a fulfllment of a
kind of poetic justice. Though
born in the northern part of this
State, Carver was hardly more than
an infant when his parents removed
to Minnesota. In the course of
one of the murderous Indian forays
of some twenty years ago in the
latter State he was carried off a
prisoner by the savages, amongst
whom he grew nearly to manhood,
and acquired a truly wonderful
skill with both bow and gun.


OF his reclamation to civilization
and subsequent quieter career on
the Pacific coast not much is
known, save that the rife-shooting
and pigeon-killing contests of the
past few years have stimulated him
to exhibit his own craftsmanship
in public, to the astonishment Of
all beholders. And he really is a
marvel in his speciality, doing all
with a single bullet that the most
expert of his competitors can ac-
complish with a scattering charge
of fine shot. More than this, he is
able to shoot as unerringly from
the saddle of a horse on q full run
as from the solid ground, and can
hit a ringing bell or other sounding
object while blindfolded. He says
that he has shot birds and animals
by night, in the darkest woods,
merely by aiming in the direction
indicated by their cries. Firing
very quickly, and often without
seemingly sighting" his object at
all, he appears to be dead-shot by
general physical instinct, and in
deed hardly understands himlelf
the principle of his amazing execu-
ton. Here, then, is a genuine ma
tive American "born.rifleman" for
English and French sportsmen to
try their skill against, and it is safe
to predict that no original Ameri-
can product will attract mare atten-
ton in Paris this summer. Roman
tic as his outward aspect is, DR..
Carver is modest in conversation,
and believes Captain Bogardus to
he the best shot with fowling-
piece in this country, if not in the
world.
Year: 1878

The fashionable wife looks on her
husbands money as spoil-some-
thing which he wants to guard, and
she to seize. Itisno joint property
which it is as much her interest as
it is his to save and use wisely; but
an enemy's possession which it will
be her gain to loot. AS for compan-
iOnship = toujours perdrix pals,
and an evening spent with her hus-
band alone counts as the ne plus
ultra of deadly dullness. Personal
love for him has died out, if even
it once existed under the guise of
passion because of novelty; and
whatever she may be to others, her
husband finds her uniformly cold
and repellant. Motherhood is her
bugbear; children unwelcome in
truders; and there is no more mis-
cradle woman extant than the FASH
ionable wife with a baby, that him
ders her from joining in the sea-
sons vulgar pleasures. Essentially
selfish and shallow; love has as lit.
tie meaning for her as the doctrine
of duty or the glory Of sacrifice;
and those who know her stand
aside in a kind of wonder at the
scheme of creation which includes,
among its offsets, being without
uses and virtues-a woman with,
presumably, a soul like any other,
absolutely destitute of the love
which saves the world from worse
than death-of the reality which
seeks truth and lives in it-of all
nobleness of aspiration and all
of life-a woman
WIN god is pleasure, and her one
sole religion-iashion.
Year: 1878

lot, or in alphabetical rotation, or
by any simple method the class
may decide upon, one Of their own
number, kill him and cut him up.
The twofold benefits of this plan
are at once apparent to the dullest
comprehension. 1t furnishes the
surviving students with good, fresh
subjects, of firm texture, and it re-
duces the number of raw doctors,
thus affording the public, living
and dead, the widest protection
from the rayages of the medical
student it has ever enjoyed. The
plan may seem a little severe on
the ill-fated students, but then if a
young man has not the martyr
spirit with which to lead him to
thoroughly devote himself to the
profession, he is unworthy to enter
upon a professional career.