smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

The Utica Herald remarks as follows up
on the manufacture OF a new kind Of cheese,
for which patent was recently granted {:


The insertion OF the prepared solid fat OF
the body to take the place OF the fat taken
from the milk is not alone employed TO make
an imitation Of butter. 1t is reported that,
as fat and buttermilk are employed to make
artificial butter, 30 fat and skim-milk are
used to make artificial cheese. The aims in-
volved arc similar in either case, although
the methods Of manipulation are, Of course,
varied. 1t is reported that factory is in
operation in Brooklyn, where the olein and
margarin expressed from the intestine fat Of
cattle is intimately mixed with skim-milk,
and the rennet then poured in, producing a
curd rich in oil, which can be cured, aud
sold for cheese. Here we have process for
putting back into skim.mik an animal oil
in the place of the cream which has been re-
moved. We have heard that something of
this kind has been practieed nearer to Utica
than Brooklyn. 1t is an ingenious
device for adulteration, and nothing
more nor less. No matter if the
oil derived from the tallow be chemically
pure, still the miuglng Of it with milk to
take the place Of cream is adulteratiou, and
though it may not be change of compost
ton which produces an unhealthfu material,
it is change which occasions loss of val
ne. Thus the schemes for artificial butter
and cheese are fraudulent at the outset,
even when we suppose that none but the pur-
est oils and fats arc used. If these COM
pounds come into any wide consumption
there will be materials used variously dis
guised which are wholly unfit for entrance
into the system. Then will the evils Of an
enterprise which now seems only mildly OBJ
jectionable be recognized and deprecated.
Year: 1874


There's a boy just over the garden fence,
Who is whistling all through the livelong days
And his work is not just mere pretense,
For you see the weeds he has cut away.
Whistle and hoe,


Sing as you go,


Shorten the row


By the songs you know.
Not a word Of bemoaning his task hear,
Ho has scarcely time for a growl, know,
For his whistle sounds SO merry and cloar,
lie must find some pleasure in every row.
Whistle and hoe,


Sing as you go,


Shorten the row


By the songs you know.
But then, while you whistle, bo suro that you hoo
For If you are idle the briars will spread;
And whistle alone to the end of the row,
May do for the woods, but is bad for tho bread.
Whistle and hoe,


Sing as you go,


Shorten tho row


BY tho songs you know.


Rural NeW Yorker.
Year: 1874

etc., to feed them upon, is there no way Of
soiling them, to keep them in good working
order, as we do our cows in the dry time oil
summer. 1t is an old saying alive like pigs
in the clover !" now suppose there might
have been something in the maxim, or il
would not have stood the test of time 80
well, and this will surely direct to my que
ry, viz. can pigs bo carried on through SUM
mer on green stuff, like clover, lucerne, fod-
der corn, etc., after they get advanced
enough to cut, or is thcro something or any
thing better in the soiling line than the
above aud as it will be May or June before
these will be ready to cut to any amount,
what can feed upon during the early spring
to keep my flock iu good roofing condition ?


G. q. PARKER.


Winchendon, May 8, 1874.


We once heard close calculating, prac-
tical farmer say that he did not believe it
paid to work swine, and we know that old
Col. Jacques of Ten Hills farm in Somcr-
vile, genius in his way, always maintained
that it was the best economy to "put pigs on
TO their belly" at nine months old, that is to
fat and kill them young. We incline to
think he was right. Nevertheless there can
be no doubt that manure under the barn is
greatly improved by the mixing and working
which a few swine will effect. This can be
done to some extent, as an incident, but to
keep swine for this special purpose is another
matter. We should want to count the cost
Of it carefully before we undertook it.


Pigs can be summered at pasture very
well and cheaply. We have known instan-
ces Of this whore they have lived almost
wholly on clover and the roots of other
plants which infest old pastures. There is
nothing more healthful, but you could hard
ly expect to get a very rapid growth on
them without some extra feed Kept at
pasture till October, and then put up to fat,
they ought to gain rapidly.


Pigs ought to have access to plenty OF
water To promote disposition to root cx-
tensively, probably corn in the kernel and
scattered about rromiscuously, is as good as
anything. Potatoes and raw roots are
always useful, especially beets.-Massachu'
sets Pioughman
Year: 1874

soil to become warmed under the suns rays
more rapidly and more highly than would be
the case otherwise. This fact would partly
account for tho good effects reported Of it in
cold climates.


Charcoal has been reputed to act as fer
tilizer because Of its absorbent power for
ammonia. 1t does, in fact, condense in its
pores 90 to 100 times its bulk of ammonia
gas, when its pores are perfectly free from
air moisture and all other gases, and when
the ammonia gas is also unmixed with other
gases. But these conditions never exist in
nature, and the fact is that charcoal exposed
to the air never contains or absorbs any inn
portant amount OF ammonia, and does not
fertilize by acting as a means Of collecting
and storing this gas.


Charcoal is a powerful oxidizing agent,
and this quality may not unlikely como in
to play usefuly when it is mixed with the
soil. DR.. Stenhouse was the first to show
that the offensive gases which escape from
putrefying animal matters are deodorized
and destroyed when made to pass layer Of
charcoal dust, and that the result is brought
about by the oxygen gas condensed in the
pores of the charcoal. A dead rat nicely
buried in cigar box so as to be surrounded
at all points by an inch of charcoal powder,
decays to bone and fur without manifesting
any odor of putrefaction, so that it might
stand on a parlor table and not reveal its
contents to the most sensitive nostrils The
gaseous products of decay under such
conditions are carbonic acid, ammonia,
and WATER or the same that would result
were the ordinary efluvium of putrefying
flesh burned in furnace. The soil often,
if not always, contains nitrogen in combina-
tion with some form of humus, which is in
ert, or at least not Immediately available as
food to crops. Charcoal, we should antic-
ipate, would hasten or set up oxidation of
these matters, and might liberate a portion
of this inactive nitrogen in the form Of am
monia or of nitrates, and thus enhanco the
fertility of the soil. This is, however, but
a speculation, bit Of theory, and while
probable enough to warrant investigation,
must not be accepted as a fact until it has
been proved to be such.


AS direct fertilizer, 4. e., by virtue of
anything it can yield Of its own substance
to crops, charcoal cannot be regarded as Of
much value. 1t contains Of course, if it
has not been washed by water, the ash ele-
made, and when applied in large quantity,
the potash, lime, &c, which it carries upon
the land may easily produce striking effect
upon poor soil. This kind Of effect cannot
last more than a single season, and on a soil
in fairly good condition would commonly
| make no show.
Year: 1874

How consoling it is for woman to feel
that she has something to fall back on, if
her parents or husband should be taken
away, and know that she will not starve or
fall into sin


There is entirely too much of this looking
down upon woman because she earns her
own living. Why is it considered more de-
grading for woman to work than man
Does not one have to eat, drink and live, as
well as the other and does she get her
board or clothing any cheaper than man?
Then why should she not work in spite of
her friends ? supereilious looks Per-
haps they would rather see her fold her
hands and slowly pine away for want of
something to eat.
Year: 1874

We frequently hear about working horses
and working oxen, but write to inquire
about working swine. 1t is my intent to
purchase fifty to seventy-6ve hogs as early
in tho spring as they can be set to work
composing meadow mud, sods, leaves and
gleanings from tho road side and all refuse
from the barn and barnyard in other words
want them solely to work now as | shall
start in the spring and have no last fall
crops, such as potatoes and corn crib, roots,
Year: 1874

| have few breeding sows and boar,
that fed on corn meal, shorts and pork
scraps, until the first part of February get
ting out Of scraps, commenced sleeping hay
in common farmers boiler, and feeding it
to my hogs with less meal aud shorts. My
hogs ate it we'll, and do well on it. cut
about bushel Of hay, when cut put it in my
boiler, fill with water, let it stand till morn.
ing, when build up little fire and warm it
suitable for feeding, and feed three times q
day. l usually salt my swill as l feed it.
l think we as general thing do not salt our
food for hogs enough. The above amount l
feed to six hogs day.-Cor. Massachusetts,
Ploughman.
Year: 1874

No power can prevent wealth from ac'
cumulating at the great centers. Those who
handle thousands Of dollars daily must be
expected to make money faster than the av'
erage farmer. The offset is that they can
lose it faster also, and that the sure though
slow gains Of the farmer, and bis life OF in
dependence and comfort for himself and his
children are of unpurchasable value.-BOs'
ton Journal.
Year: 1874

Mr.. Carpenter said, Monday next after
the pending bill should be disposed OF, he
would ask the Senate to take up for refer
ence his bill in regard to new election in
Louisiana, and would ask the indulgence
of the Senate to enable him to submit
some remarks thereon.


Mr.. West said, as a member of the Ap-
propTiation Committee having charge OF the
Army Appropriation bill, he would ask to
have that considered as soon as the pend
ing bill should be disposed of, TO the exclu-
sion Of everything else.


The Senate then went into executive
session, and soon after adjourned till Mon
day.
Year: 1874

As l desire this grand exhibition to be the
croWntng effort of my first visit to Memphis,
and as this will be the gTandest, most novel,
scientific and brilliant exhibition of classical
Fancy Dancing ever given in the South,


gould be very sppy II at least five thousand
Of The Science and Art-loving citizens of Mem
ohis could be present TO see it, and I most
IearlesSly and unhesitattngiy invite the eriti-
c1sm of every artist anu cOnnoisseur of Terp-
schorean art, tine combined Press of Mem
phis," and all who attend, either, to give their
app oval by the most hearty applause for the
talented and persevering little Misses and
Masters VINO Will dance those great dances, or
to keep perfect silence, if I should have been
mistaken in your estimation. 1 have there
fore liked the price of admission at such a
very liberal rate that each gentleman might
take three or four ladies, one ticket alone
being worth fully five dollars,
Year: 1874

of my life, have tried to do this with
zeal, though perhaps not with that eff
cheney of other men, yet have done it
prompted by no other motives than
those which characterize an honorable
Year: 1874

Dress has an effect upon character. =
y Not only may we be sure that an ill-drcs-
sed person will never he so much at ease
as one who is well dressed, but we are
sure that he will not think so highly OF
80 well. A mean and shabby appearance
gives man mean aud shabby ways. A
stlattern in her own gown and cap is toe
often slattern at home. A fiucing
foolish. smart little ''gent' ofa ox-comh
il iinicin, foolish. in his way of thinking
a smart young city clerk % dapper, lid '
little fellow, is active, dapper and tidy
in his manners. Cause runs into efecti
and effect becomes cause. What effects
one man will do so to thousands.
Year: 1874

The City Council held a lengthy session last
night


There were seventeen dodgers at the City Hall
cells last night.


Public sale bills are neatly and oheaply printed
at the GAZETTE office.


The Republican nomination election takes
place tomorrow week.


The newly elected Board OF Health wiz meet
tonight for organization.


The DELAWARE GAZETTE, the largest aud best
ing
Year: 1874

TnE WoMES GRADUATES OF WESTERN Col
LEcEs.-Study here does not produce the
direlul effects described by DR. Clarke; for,
as We look along the list of former graduates
of our colleges and inquire into their state.


we find them almost universally having no
need of doctors, but the healthy mothers of
happy families, innocent alike of bodily pain
and nauseating drugs. We recall the names
of Lucy Stone, Mrs Tracy Catler. and a host
of others of wonderful health and endurance,
and we remember that these strong and
healthy bodies were maturcd under the strict
discipline. the regular and uninterrupted
study, Of Oberlin. We see in our minds


eye Antoinettc Brown. who finished the full
college course, and is still strong. young and
blooming, although an author, preacher,
and the mother Of five healthy children.
And then in another college the results
would almost seem to show that women en-
dure constant study far better than men. for
we recall two young women, sister graduates
Of the college, who married two young men,
graduates OF the same college the two
young women are both strong and healthy
mothers, likely to live to old age; but they
are both widows. Another Young woman
graduated and married classmate who gra-
duated with her ; the young women is very
successful teacher and mother of a pleasant
little family, but her husband is the victim
of epilepsy. In another case, young wo-
man graduated and married a man from the
same college the weakness and imbecili ty
of the man has for some years thrown upon


the wife the burden of supporting herself
and children, of which she has several. In
another instance family OF three daughters
and one son were all in the college together;
all went through the regular course. of
the three daughters, no one has ever been
afflicted with any disease--they are all strong
and well-only the son was stricken down
and fingered for months, suffering from in
flammatory rheumatism. A talented young
man who graduated from the same college
became insane several Others who have
graduated within the last ten years have
died. Now this does not show that study is
destructive to the male sex I; it is simply a
singular circumstance that from college
which has graduated twenty-seyen women
nearly the entire number shonld be unusual
ly strong and healthy, while so many of the
male graduates have fallen victims of disease.
The women graduates of oar western colleges
for joint education are generally able to out
talk, out-walk, out-study. any of the men Of
their acquaintance.-"A Western Woman"
IN Boston Commonwealth.
Year: 1874

The following article, taken from the
Country Gentleman, so thrillingly sets
forth the fearful results of using tobac-
co that the most hardened sinner must
repent and hasten to be wise after read
ing it:


First experiment, hog was shut up
in tight pen, and his only food was one
half pound of tobacco day. In one
week he had lost four pounds. Second
a mule was placed in stall without
food. Two plugs of tobacco were
placed before her twice a day. She
grew gradually restIve. On the third
day one plug was forced down her throat,
when she tore the experimentor's ear
with her teeth, showing the bad effect
tobacco has on ones disposition. It
was then found necessary to muzzle
her so that she could not open her
mouth. At the end of eight days she
died. Third, dog was nailed up in a
tobacco hogshead. At the end of four
days he was taken out much reduced.
Fourth, another dog was inclosed in a
tobacco barrel and rolled down steep
hill. Within two years that dog went
mad Truly these are Satan's nets I
could cite plenty more of such expert
ments. We all know that a single drop
of the oil of tobacco placed on the end
of dogs tail will kill man in min.
ute. Of four men lately killed on the
Erie Railway three were smokers, and
the father of the other an inveterate
chewer of tobacco. On the bodies of
the two men washed ashore after the
late STERN on Lake Michigan,
papers of tobacco were found.
In my own neighborhood very dis
tresging accident, by which most esti-
mable lady, the mother Of seven lonely
children, broke her leg, occasioned by a
pair of runaway horses running into a
fence that surrounded field of tobacco.
Miss Chloe FIatfoot recently died in the
county adjoining mine at the age of 118
years. She had both chewed and smoked
over 100 years, and as she had no dis
ease till the time of her death, it is
only fair to suppose that it was tobacco
that killed her. For so long time was
Satan spreading his nets for her; but l
think Mr.. K. will agree with me that he
must have her sure now. But why null
tiply examples? You know how it is
yourself. So, Mr.. Editor. do not go on
helping spread these nets, by showing
n your paper how to grow large crops
of tobacco any more. Rather interline
the book of Proverbs with the remarks
of our second Solomon. Only let me
add a word of caution to that gentle
man. Does he, let me ask, use tea or
| coffee? These are other nets of Satan
as much as tobacco. Does he eat mince,
pies and use salaratus? More nets.
Does he indulge in ice creams or oys,
ters? Let him beware, lest, when he
least expects, Satan, in seooping in his
tobacco-users, fly away with him Ora
ham bread without salt is his only saliva,
tion.


No man is safe these times. A con
,-:oE "a C:p1. C;,rr hos ho5 Dnkiea of 3
Year: 1874

A COLORADO paper describes a young
whirlwind in that section, which was
about yard in diameter, and which
picked up man and waltzed off down
the road with him. It's vertical force
was sufficient to invert the tails of his
coat above his head, Notwithstanding
his pockets were loaded with specimens
of silver ore, and at the same time he
was carried along for a hundred feet or
more, like a feather, while under him
was noise like that of an empty cart
bouncing {. er a stony street.
Year: 1874

Another unsuccessful attempt to settle the
ap-makers strike by compromise made yesterday.
In answer the appeal OF the principal
addressed to meeting OF the central body Of strikers
on Tuesday, committee of seven from the men met the
employers at the store OF Messrs. Ldor Helm, at No
l6 South Fthaye yesterday afternoon Another price


LIST was submitted 10 committee this the manufac
turers assert advance OF 80 per cent over the
wages paid Just strKe the wOrkmen. on the
other hand state that the advance Is not more than is
per cent The new list received by the conmlttee
without much opposition, but when It had been lald De-
fore the central body i rejected III the testimony
OF the employers he taken, tho advance offered Il
All that the Wholesale trade bear ar present. ana
even MORE and the hope was general that "ouiu Dc
accented by
Year: 1874

A man in Greenfield, whom we
will call William, got up the other
morning, and proceeded to put on a
shirt which his wife had just made
for him after new pattern. AS
she stood At the mirror, curling her
hair she heard suppressed sound,
between a groan and an oath, and
turning around said laughingly,
"Why, my dear - "Shut up" he
calculated, "you are born fool.
Never let woman attempt to fit
shirt; she can't do it; it is one Of
the impossibllities." "But, Will
liam," deprecatingly. "Don't you
talk-let me talk. Do you think
I'm going down in this rig? A
pretty disposition you've got; just
because 1 happened to find little
fault last week, with your ironing,
you must go and make me a shirt
without bosom Such malicious
conduct, madame, is unpardonable.
Shut up, l say; wont hear word;
when a starched shirt front is the
only finery that man INDUCES in,
is he not excusable for being par
ticular in regard to that, I should
like to know ? And this thing sets
like the devil. Look how baggy it
is here in front, and it feels behind
as if there was a board bound
across me;'' walking up and look
ing in the glass, hitching up first
one sholdcr and then the other, af-
ter the indescribable manner of men
trying a new garment. His wife
dared not speak, but, bringing a
good sized mirror from the next
room, she held it up behind for
moment and perceiving by his
chop-fallen expression that he saw
the point, and the front, she ran
down stairs to settle the coffee, and
see if Bridget had set the table
geometrically. As William walked
down to his Office that morning he
said to the first friend that he met,
81 tell you, Tom, that little wife Of
mine is a born genius. Look at
this shirt now: She cut and made
it all herself. Do you see it's open
behind no confounded buttonholes
to bother a fellow. Just send your
wife up for the pattern" And it
was by the way Of Toms wife that
Lizzie first knew that William was
please with his shirts.
Year: 1874

The "Fat Contributor" furnishes
the Utica Observer the following
strange story Of IA twin"


"There was woman out west
who gave birth to one twin, ust
one, that's all there was OF him.
She never had another solitary twin
so long as she lived. He was a
melancholy child from the first, and
wore such a lonesome look. He
always seemed to be watching and
listening for somebody whos never
came. He appeared to realize that
he wasn't all together-that he was
a sort OF human parenthesis with
one bracket gone-animated dumb
bells and one dumb bell missing
a pair that couldn't beat duces and
hardly worth drawing to. He used
to moan in his sleep and paw
around on his pillow for the missing
brother. When that boy grew up
he was different from any boy l ev-
er knew-that is to say, any one
boy. He seemed more like two
boys-at least, he. was altogether
two.boys-terous for one. If he had
a fight it was with boy twice as
big as he was, for he seemed to
feel, somehow, as though there
were two OF him, or ought to be.
He always managed to get two
pieces cf pie at the table, just as
| if one was for the other of him who
| wasn't there, and there was a thin
| pretense of taking care of it fol
him, but he always took care to eal
| it, / noticed. He only half learned
his lessons, and double entry book
| keeping nigh about set him crazy


because as told you, there wasn'


but .alf of him there, and hs


couldn't double entry. He would
mt sleep with any other boy be


cause, he said, it crowded 'em. III


grew up but he never got marled


Once or twice he attempted to cour


a girl, but left her when it was hal


done, as though that other twin o
his would be along and court tn


other half. I don't know what be


come of him. Iheard that he die'


from sheer loneliness, but onl,,


believe half hear about that boy


anyhow. If he be dead you ca


bet lie is only half dead"