smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

Sudden shocks occurring to human
beings have frequently changed the col
or of the hair from black to white in a
single night. A physician of Berlin, a
strong, healthy and middle-aged man,
sent his wife and only daughter to
spend the summer at watering place.


The day that he expected letter in
forming him of their arrival, there
came one saying that his daughter had
been taken i'll very suddenly, and was al
ready dead. The shock was terrible,
and instantly his hair became entirely
gray. He had to visit some patients
that afternoon, and they scarcely recog-
nized him.


The other case was a man thirty-fve
years old, living in the Netherlands.
He was one day passing the canal in
Rotterdam, when he saw a child strug-
Cling in the water. He plunged in
and brought it to land, but it was al
ready dead by the time he had rescuod
the body. Bending over it to try to
restore life, he discovered that the dead
child was his own son. The blow was
so sudden and unexpected, and coming
upon him when he was so much ex-
hausted, it turned his hair entirely
gray, and left him scarcely recogniz-
able,
Year: 1874

thought from the serious business of
the day, and the nervous system
will then be calmed and soothed, so
as to induce that peace which fore
tells sleep. The devices are many
and curious to win this boon. But
they all amount to the same thing
the diversion of thought from anv
subject that excites mental effort
Hunger and cold are unfavorable to
sleep. Its not so unwhOlesome as
many suppose, to go to bed after a
good supper. The sleep of infancy
always follows it, All dumb ami,
mails eat and then sleep. Reason
forbids gluttony, and reason also
torbids going to bed with a stomach
craving food. Keep the body warm
and head uncovered, so that the
blood may be tempted away from
the brain, and not into it.


Daniel Webster said he bad a
great talent for sleeping. Mr. Pierce,
when he was President of the United
States, said that distracting business
often engaged him until midnight,
but when he laid his head on his
pillow he went instantly to sleep and
did not wake un'il reused by the
seFSaAt at eight in the morning
John Quincy Adams never went to
sleep at night without first repeat
ing the child's prayer-"Now l lay
me down." &c. And no rational
being ought to close his eyes in sleep
without it, or something like it, A
good digestion, peace Of conscience
and a cheerful mind, make better
night-cap than pills or tOddy.


IRENEUs.
Year: 1874

1t would be too long to relate all
the uses to which elephants are ap-
piled in Burmah Let Us watch
them at work among the wood.
yards, where the trunks of the tick
wood trees, which come floating
down the river, are piled Every
working elephant is mounted by a
driver called a "cornac," whose
principal business is rather to ex-
cite the animal than to direct it., In
the season when the roads are eat;
the trunks come 4dogR to the bar
much faster than they can be dis
posed of in tie saw mills, and they
accumulate in vast quantities along
the bank. 1t is necessary, therefore,
to drag the trees out of the water,
and arrange them in piles until such
a time as they can be cut up. There
are only three sorts of piles, vary
ing witb the sizes of the trees. First
an elephant in the water clears the
logs from the leass, and ranges them
one by one upon the river bank. He
carefully examines the chaos of logs
and proceeds with tusk and trunk to
disengage thu tree he has selected,
and which he intends to carry to
land. As soon as the tree is placed
on the bank another elephant is haTs
messed to it and draws it 10 the
woodward, where he leaves it. Two
other elephants now come up, and
one of them takes one end of the
log in his trunk and drags it to the
pile upon which, in view of its size,
it ought to be placed, while its com
panion assists him by pushing the
log with all his might. As soon as
they reach the proper pile, the first
elephant lifts the top of the log up
on the pile, then he forms kind of
ring around the log with his trunk,
while the other, with a vigorous
blow of the head, sho2ts the log in
to its place. The intelligence dis-
played by these animals is ailaost in
credible, and we should SCARCELY
have believed it if we had not seen
their movements as described above.


Revue des Desgs Motades.
Year: 1874

Il would thousand times rather be
up there than in your unclc's fine house.
But We have plenty Of time to consider
all that


Not SO much time! | can only stay
Tour days. for we aie very busy just
now; and we ought, by oil means, to be
married the last of the month";


The head was quickly raised from the
shoulder. why Bernard! Are YOU G ra-
zy?'


by no means. What in the world is
the use of our waiting? We have known
each other all our lives, aud how do YOU
suppose can take the time to como phil
andering down here every week? In
fact, ought not to be here now, but
made confidant of Daryl, and he took
compassion on me. At the end of this
month he thinks they can do without
me for week ,and then We must be mar.
ried. 1t is not SO bad up there, after all.
1t is beautiful country, and we have a
little society. The superintcpdent's
wife, and the wife Of the engineer live
there in funny little houses, just like
mine; and they are both ladies. And
there are good many cabins dotted
here and there in the woods, and the
laborers' wives are nice kindly women


Jessica laughed. you will make it
out sort Of Paradise, expect, if let
you 30 on. But may ask il you had
the house built because you felt so sure
of me?'


Il did not feel at all sure of you, but
could not help little feeling of hope,
did not believe you would care SO much
about the life l led if you did not love
me the least little bit. However the
house was already built. One OF the
members Of the company used to live in
it. Everything seems to have happen-
just right for u.s.


You take too much for granted, Mr..
Bernard, l have not yet consented TO
your arrangement


But, you will darling? Just consider
how much you will make me do when
you get up there!'


This is a consideration, certainly.


oh! know we'll shall have hard
task-mistrcss. But you will make q
happy home for me as a compensation.


Perhaps Jessica iclt she had been ar
bitrary enough. At all events her low
CT had his own way and the wedding
day was fixed To suit him: the bride
elect rejecting that her simple trousseau
would not require much time for prepar-
alton. Rallied dresses and trailing silks
would be entirely out OF place in the
lumber region. They were so happy,
sitting there under the dropping branch
es of the ash, with the silverv sands at
their feet, and the river gliding gently
by, that they forgot to 90 up to the
house to tell the wonderful news to the
family until the dusk of the evening
stole upon them.
Year: 1874

AK INDIANA RoMANCE.-She couldn't
see it in that light. She didn't want to
marry him, and he was bound she
should. They both lived couple OF
miles from the city, and near nelghbors
She refused to listen to his courting,a and
he grew desperate. So he went off to
the West, and while out there persuaded
friend to write letter saying that he
was dead, and asking, as his dying re-
quest, that she might, if she ever went
out that way, to stop for moment and
toss a weed or perchance a flower on
his lonely grave.


This was a tender, but it didn't take
worth cent and she wrote back a
letter to the friend that if he had any
consideration for her feeling at all to
send her the dead lovers watch and
chain, his money, and all his valuables.
To carry out his plans, the dead man
sent home bis brass jewelry and other
effects and she Immediately proceeded
to don the trinkets and start to singing
school with the chosen 'teller" of her
heart.


On their way back home the pair
were startled by the apparition of the
lost lover, clad in ghostly white, but
with the old lineaments intact. The
young man fled. but the girl stood still,
and putting up a paw which resembled
an elephat's foot, naively inquired If the
ghost wanted to be kicked to death by
a mule. To which his ghostship re-
piled thus: 'Lord ! Lord Jerusba,
hev come all the way home 10 find
You false T. "You bet, replied the fair
one, laughing heartily, for she had dis
covered that it was really the person Of
her dead lover.


The fellow had played nice game,
and had followed his goods and chattels
back to the land of his nativity very
quickly. The damsel was 30 Disguised
with the other fellow for running at
sr-ht of the ghost that she Immediately
began preparations to marry the ghost.
-TsrTe Haufe Erpress.
Year: 1874

I stood by the window and looked at


the rain


AS it fell from the sky so gray,
And breathed sigh as l said to my


heart,
"How gloomy how gloomy the day.
I stood in my garden and gazed on the


rose,


Whose petals were open again,
And l asked, "What caused you to raise


your bowed head 2"
And it answered, "The fresh summer


rain"
I stood by the ocean, when lashed with


a storm,


And the shells were washed from my


hand,
And the beautiful tints and shadows /


loved


Were broken and lost on the strand.
/ came on the morrow. The shades


were all there,
Far brighter than ever before
And a beautiful gem found, which the
waves


In the storm had washed on the shore.
l stood on the hillside, and grieved that
the frost


So early had come to destroy
That the forests, all stripped of their
green summer robes,
No longer could whisper their JOY.
I wakened next morning, and glorious


tints


Flashed out in the suns rising sheen,
And Nature looked grander, in dia-
monds of frost,
Than even in dewdrops and green.
! stood by a bedside and watched
face chill,


While faint and more faint grew the
breath,
And 1 wept that being so young and
so fair


Was lost in the shadows of death.
But an angel came down and breathed
in my heart,


"Mourn not She is happier now
Her home is above, with The ransomed
of GOO,
And a crown encircles her brow
Year: 1874

Miss President-I am here to-day for
the purpose of discussing the womans
rights.


AS a success man is a failure, and l
bless my stars that my mother was q
woman.


not only maintain these principles,
but maintain shiftless husband be-
sides.


They say that man was created first.
S'posn' he was. Amt first experiments
always failures ?


The only decent thing about him was
a rib, and that went to make something
better


And then they throw it into our face
about Eve taking an apple.


III bet five dollars that Adam boosted
her up the tree, and only gave her the
core.


And what did he do when he was
found out q?


True to his masculine instincts, he
sneaked behind Ewes Grecian bend and
said "Twan't me-twas her" And
woman has had to father everything
mean since-and mother it too


What we want is the ballot; and the
ballot we're bound to have, if we let
down our back hair and swim in san
culinary.


Bring up your little daughters tolove
and caress the ballot, and when they
are old and scrawny they will not part
from it.


Teach them that without the ballot
woman is simply cooking and washing
machine; that with it she can just rule
her little roost.


Gin 'em little ballots to play with.


We have plenty of ballot girls, but
what we want is ballot women.


The male creature now sitting on this
platform, whom the law compels me to
call husband, says have got ballot on
the brain.


He SAYS I sleep with ballot under
my pillow, and dream that | am com
mander-in-chief of large army OF bal
lots, and am cleaning out everything
that looks like the male sex, while the
band plays,


"See, the conquering hero cometh !"


Such remarks show that man was
created lower than the beasts OF the sea
the carrion Of the air, or the rhinoceros
upon the prairles.
Year: 1874

BEAR SroRr.-An old gentleman in
the mountains of West Virginia, says a
Staunton correspondent of the Lexing:
ton Gazette, missed corn from his noun
tain field and watched for the rogue /;
found it was very large bear saw him
in full view carrying off a large armful
of corn. He kept cool and didn't shoot,
but followed the bear up the mountain
to see what he was going to do. He
was surprised and amused to find him
throwing the ears over into pen, built
by himself (the bear), to a pig which
was too poor to be eaten!
Year: 1874

O, kiss me sweet, o, kiss me sweet,
On my lips and on my cheek,
Press me close unto thy heart,
Would we never more might part.
Oh, fold me close unto thy breast,
There, oh, there l tain could rest,
In thy love forever blest,


Grant, oh, grant this one behest.
My woman's heart to you so true,
Rich in woman's love for you.
Dearest, can you ever know,
The bliss there is in loving so7
Then kiss me sweet, oh kiss me sweet
On my lips and on my cheek,
Fold me close unto thy heart,


Would we never more might part.
Year: 1874

The DOUBLE TRACK WEsr.-The
Grafton Sentinel has been informed by
railroad officials that TIE Baltimore and
Ohio company has given orders to put
as many laborers at work in the next
four weeks upon the double track that
is being laid between Newburg and
Cranberry Summit as can be worked to
advantage. The growing business OF
the road demands the completion OF the
double track at the earliest day possible.
Year: 1874

Let us first sketch the story OF the IL
on's life, beginning with his marriage,
which takes place toward the end OF
January. He has first to seek bis wife;
but as the males are far more abundant
than the females, who are often cut of
in infancy, it is not rare to find young
lady pestered with the addresses of two
or three gallants, who quarrel with the
acerbity of jealous lovers. If one of
them does not succeed in disabling or
driving away the rest, madam, impatient
and dissatisfied, leads them into the
presence of an old lion, whose roar she
has listened to from a distance The
lovers at once fly at him with the temer-
ity and fury of youthful fire and expas-
peralion. The old fellow receives them
with calm assurance, breaks the neck
of the first with his terrible paws,
smashes the leg of the second, and tears
out the eyes of the third. No sooner is
the day won and the field clear than the
lion tosses his name iu the air as he
roars. and then crouches by the side of
the lady, who, as reward for his cour-
age. licks his wounds caressingly.


When two adult lions are the rivals
the encounter is more selilus An
Arab perched in a tree one night saw
lioness followed by tawny lion, with
a full grown name. She lay down at
the foot of the tree; the lion stoppedin
his path and seemed to listen. The
Arab then heard the distant growing of
a lion, which was instantly replied toby
the lioness under the tree. This made
her husband roar furiously. The distant
lion was heard approaching, and as he
came nsarer the liouess roared louder,
which seemed TO agitate her husband,
for he marched toward her as if TO force
her to be silent, aud then sprang back to
his old post, roaring defiance at his dis
tant rival This continued for about an
hour, when black lion made his APP
pearance on the plain. The lioness
arose as if TO 60 toward him, but her
husband, guessing her intention. bound
ed toward his rival. The two crouched
and spraDg on each other, rolling on
the grass in the embrace of death. Their
bones cracked, their flesh was torn,their
cries of rage and agony rent the air,and
all this time the terrible lioness croucbed
and wagged her tail slowly, in sign of
satisfaction. When the combat ended.
and both warriors were stretched on q
plain, she rose, smelt them, satisfied
herself that they were dead, and trotted
of, quite regardless Of the uncompll-
mentary epitbet which tho indignant
Arab shouted after her
Year: 1874

The gold market was fairly active. and showed
quite reaction from the late Decline as the short
dealers began 20 cover, though in view Of the
amount of exchange likely 10 come from the new
bank negotiation we cannot look upon the advance
AS more than temporary The opening quotation
was lO9 and the price later rose to 1C9!. On gold
loans the rates per cent for carrying fat
and two per cent paid for of coin to deliver The
London market quiet and firm easy money
which IL obtanable among the outside discount
banks at IA per cent. Der cent
below the minimum rate at the Bank Of
England. Tho bank lost f76.OO0 bullion. with
Year: 1874

The nsM York Herald reporter has
been to &c Fat Woman's Clam Bake, :"
in Pleasant Valley, n. Y, whereat
solid ladies of some three hundred
pounds attempted the light, agile and
graceful dance. He chose the smallest
partner he could find. Unfortunate
man There was band on the music
stand, which played quadrilles without
any dancers for some time, owing TO the
known modesty of the fat people.
Through an unadvised sentiment [ was
induced to dance a waltz with a fat wo-
man, who turned the scale at 1913
pounds. Now, let it be remembered
that the thermometer stood at SO de-
grees, and the floor was highly glazed.
After several bows had been delivered,
/ approached my female Behemoth and
grasped her madly around what was in
tended for waist, but which resembled
much more a sack OF oats. The band
of eight pieces struck up a waltz troll
temps, and in the words of Artemus we
"glode." After the first step or two,
l felt as II L had been swinging kehoe's
clubs for week, and there was a sing
ing in my ears as I vainly strove to glue
myself to the floor. l looked over the
lady's shoulders and saw tears in the
eyes of some of the spectators, while
others were laughing outright at my
predicament. The lady grasped me
tighter, and the drum gave a rattle.
My collar few off, and button was
heard audibly to rattle on the floor like
the sound of a pistol brllet that might
be dropped suddenly. She struggled
money! as we went whirling around
L mean as L went whirling around, for
she was moving with the specific grav-
ity of a lumberyard on wheels-and
suddenly 1 was hurled into space
and lay on a bench, while the lady
dropped into a seat, and her bench shut
itself into a fan, under the terrible
weight of her person. Thus ended my
first and last waltz with a fat woman.
I felt humiliated, and heard her telling
a lady friend shortly after that l didn't
amount to much-I was too light.
Year: 1874

detected. This may depend on the ma


ture of the object, or on some abnormal
state of the atmosphere. The currents
of air can have nothing to do with this
power, as the state of the mind does not
lirec.ly affect it the sense Of hearing
has nothing to do with It, as when snow
lies thick on the ground objects are
more distinct, although the foo;fall can
not be heard. / seem TO perceive OBJ
jects through the skin of my face, and
to have the impression directly trans
mitted to the brain. The only part of
my body possessing this power is my
face this have ascertained by suita-
BILE experiments. Stopping my ears
does not interfere with it, bat GOVERN
my face with a thick veil destroys it al
together. None of the five senses have
anything to do with the existence of this
power, and the circumstances above
named induce me to call this unrecog-
nized sense by the name of Facial
Perception. >"
Year: 1874

Nature struggles hard to make up for
any defects in the senses, and she gives
to the blind a certain power to see
when the eyes give no help. A blind
man says:


"Whether within the house, in the
open air, whether walking or standing
still, / can tell, though quite blind,
when / am opposite an object, and can
perceive whether it be tall or short,
slender or bulky. I can also detect
whether it be solitary object or con-
tinuous fence, whether it be q close
fence or composed of open rails, and
often whether it be wooden fence. a
brick or stone wall, or a qulck-sct
hedge. 1 cannot usually perceive OBJ
jects, if much lower than my shoulder,
but sometimes very low objects can be
Year: 1874

ALMOST invariably the cry of short
Reports from Augusta, Memphis and
Galveston this year take similar gloomy
views but from Mobile and New
Orleans considerable increase is an
ticipated. A review Of the entire field
at the present time would probably in
dicate nearly, if not quite, an average
crop.


WHEN a paper says that there has
never been family fight in the town of
Clio, Iowa, it little knows of tile way
women have of choking their husbands
with the left hand TO drown the noise of
their screams as the rolling pin falls.
Year: 1874

HAH.oAKEs, composed of hay and
straw, very finely cut, well mixed with
crushed oats or rye and moistened with a
solution of rape seed or linseed oil.
cake, and then formed into tablets
under pressure, have been for some time
employed in France as a convenient and
portable food for horses.
Year: 1874

pean system of succession and declare
his eldest son his heir The old Moham-
medan party is opposed to such course
which it considers would involve de-
parture from the precepts of the Koran,
and, as under the Koran Mohammedan
is only bound to obey his sovereign in SO
far as he keeps within its restrictions,
this opposition may lead to very serious
results if the Sultan should adopt the
proposal to alter the plan of Succession.
Moreover, it is feared in Constantinople
that the Princes of Servia and Rou-
mania, the Khedive of Egypt and the
Bey of Tunis, who, as it is, bear with
impatience the suzerainty of the Sui
tan, would seize the opportunity for de-
claring themselves independent if a
Sultan is crowned who, according to the
law which existed at the time when they
did homage at CoEstantinople, would
not be the rightful heir to the throne.
Year: 1874

Everybody who knows anything about
the heavens knows the position of the
constellation called the Great Bear,
or more familiarly, the Great Dipper.
Two of the stars in the Dipper are
called pointers because they point
to the Pole star. But Lieutenant
Drayton, of England, calls attention to
the fact that when the pointers are west
of the Pole star they do not seem to
point in so direct a line as when they
are to the eastward. He ascribes the
difference to this cause: The Pole star
is not exactly at the North Pole, but
more than degree from the true point.
Consequently the Pole star revolves as
well as the pointers, and the relative
position seems to the spectator to be
little changed. Every one can test the
accuracy of Lieutenant Drayton asser-
tion by his own observation.