smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

is within the means Of any such congrega-
tion; /; only the members and their
families would have access to it; these
would carry with them their food in baskets
and their hymn books; as they sailed out
into the quiet Sound. or up the Hudson, or
down the Bay, the hymns could be sung
and the sermon preached and the prayers
offered just as we'll as in the accustomed
place. Moreover, such Sunday service
ON the water would bring all the families of
o congregation together in natural and
pleasing way, would increase the kindly
feeling between them, and be, in fact, sort
OF reunion, making OF the church what it
ought to be--a great family. We make this
suggestion to church going-people with
some diffidence, but in the persuasion that
for the many thousands who are compelled
to work all the week in the hot and noisy
city, and whom religious feeling prevents
from using Sunday us day of outdoor
amusement, this would be a healthful and
benefcent plan. We should be glad to
hear the opinion of some OF our leading
ministers upon the subject.


$4,000
needed improvement in the popular places
Of Sunday resort which we notice this year
is the increased care for order and decency.
The managers Of these excursion places
have at Inst discovered that the rough is
not profitable customer and that gang OF
roughs is as bad as a fire or an accident.
There is still good deal of room for I'M
provement in this matter. thorough,
vigorous system of police is needed, and it
will be found to pay wherever it is
established. But already it is possible for
families of moderate means to make water
excursion in the evening after the days
work is over, or in the latter part of the
afternoon, or on Sunday, and to do so safely
and pleasantly. This is great boon to the
people of New York. 1t is an advantage
which our natural situation, surrounded by
water, gives us, and which will some day
make New York, which offers SO many at
fractions to the people from distance in
its museums libraries, ainusements and
its Park, one of the favorite summer
resorts for large class from the interior.
Year: 1878

shows that many men who in the loose
classifications of the dispatches have been
called Kearneyites are very resolutely OPP
posed to the Kearney policy and to the
whole system OF revolutionary moonshine
of which it is part. In SO far as the Kear-
ney movement has broken mp the old party
lines it is, however, a success but it shows
good trait in the California people that
when menaced by anarchical propositions
they had the spirit and self-sacrifice to
abandon party camps and vote all together
against the common enemy
Year: 1878

In his Newburyport speech on the 4th
Of July, General Butler declared war against
the national banks, and laid down his own
platform i'll these words:-"My PROPOSE
ton is that we should issue four hundred
millions in non-interest bearing bonds of
laboring men of the United States upon the
public lands of the United States" He
added mo more notes OF the United States
can be issued than the people choose to
take, and if they bear no interest those
which are issued involve the country in no
debt"


Here is at any rate distinct platform.
Year: 1878

The MONMOUTH PARK RACES. which came to
an end yesterday, were in every point of view
the most successful that have been held in this
section this year. 1t is true the weather was
all lllat could be desired but independently of
that the management was good. Every race
OH the bills was run promptly on time. There
were no postponemcnts, and consequently no
dsappointnents. The same excellent ideas
controlled the management Mt Jerome in the
spring. but unfortunately the weather ruined
what would otherwise have been II very sue
ccssiul meeting.
Year: 1878

PROFESSOR Eds, is still confident that the
noise OH the metropolitan lcvated Railroad
can be materially diminished His experiments
OH the subject will be finished i'll n short time
and his report presented to the directors, who
will ut once carry out his suggestions.
Year: 1878

The LoUIsIANA BRANCH OF the Potter COM
mittec is having "a thrilling time of it in New
Orleans. They were engaged yesterday in the
profitable work of ovcrhauling the old election
Year: 1878

Hogs should never be fed only what
they will eat up clean, and this amount
only when they have been brought up
to full feed carefully and slowly.
The herdsman should know exactly
how much each individual animal, if
the hogs are kept separately or each lot
if kept in small numbers will eat. 1t
is better for hog to he little hungry
than to be over fed.


Brood sows must be handled entirely
different from the fattening hogs.
While they are raising their pigs they
should be fed rich slops, of which corn
should form an important part. Grind
iinely two parts of corn TO one of oats,
which make into a mush well cooked.
Dilute the mush with water until it
stirs easily, then add sour milk and
kitchen slops until thin enough to
drink. Give each sow from a half to
tWO-thirdS of a bucketful three times
per day, according to the Appetite; af-
ter this is eaten give two ears to each
SOW.


When the pigs are weened, turn the
SOW upon grass and give her about two
ears of corn three times per day, until
she is again bred, after which the feed
must be increased SO that she will be in
quite good condition against farrOwing
time. But the increase of feed must
not he of corn


No damaged food of any kind should
be fed to the hogs. They will not eat
it only when forced to from pangs Of
hunger. Instead of saving all the dam
aged corn and other grain for the hogs,
give it to the cattle If it must be fed.
They relish it better and eat it with
less danger to health.


The hog will eat sound kernel of
corn, if he even has to root it out of the
worst of filth. but if the kernel itself is
mouldy he refuses it.
Year: 1878

Farmers generally have but faint con-
ception of the advantages that could be had
in their business especially the live stock
portion of it, by doing as business men in
other pursuits do, to wit, advertise their
wants. On the matter of bulls men some
times make steer out of a very valuable
breeding beast and buy another when in
many Instances there are other farmers
within few hours drive, who have just the
exchange wanted. and anvinuS tn nrn-
cure new blood.


1t not unfre quently happens that bull
calves of the finest breeding, and OF the
highest type of individual excellence, fall
into the hands of farmers who keep only
common cows. For his use, an animal of
good, but palmer breeding, would answer
equally well, while the other could be eX-
changed for by breeder having a herd.
Some would say that such a herd would be
damaged by putting at its head, a bull pre-
viously in an obscure place but there is no
good reason why this should be so. The
record, and the successes as a calf getter
would take care of all questions of this
kind with those whose good opinions were
1oTsh seeking If farmers, when wishing
such an exchange, would advertise in suit
able mediums, there would always be Gp
portunities resulting in material advantage
TO two parties. beside setting a good exam
pie TO many others. 1t is a sad sight for an
educated breeder to see, the convention Of o
meritOus bull into very indifferent steer.
to go forward as stag beef, at 3 or cents
pound


Such system of exchange would lead to
benefits beyond those stated here, and the
economy secured in the way named would
give encouragement for more general
use for thoroughbred sires. These ex-
shanse. need not be confined to exchanges
IN kind, but farmer or breeder may have a
male Of the cattle kind, which he can no
longer use, and while he may not find an
advantageous exchange in kind, there are
always plenty of farmers who stand ready
to exchange other stock or property, and
these can be reached by using the advertis-
ing columns OF suitable papers. If farmers
would take lessons from business men and
others in the cities, much could be learned
in the way of selling or exchanging articles
or stock which have become measurably
useless upon the farm, for other articles or
stock that the daily needs call for.
Year: 1878

An excessive flooding with water at
fires, an ingenious automatic relief
valve has been devised for steam fire.
engines designed to give the pipe-man
full and instant COntrO! of the stream,
enabling the latter to shut off instantly
to prevent damage by water, to change
nOZzleS, or to move the hose easily, the
appliance thus largely increasing the
efficiency Of the engine to which it is
attached.


This valve, which is applied between
the pump or hydrant and the hose,
with an auxiliary cylindrical alve-
chamber parallel to this, and communi-
eating Herewith by two ports. A
double beat valve in this latter cham
Der allows, when open, the exit of
water from the main chamber through
an education port. To the stem of this
valve is attached a lever with ring
shaped termination floating freely in
the main chamber. The areas of this
ring and Of the pupp t-valves are 50
prOportiOned with respect to each other
and the cutoff nozzle at the end of tie
hose line that, when the nozzle is open
and the current umobs ructed, the wat
Ell will pass through The hose; but any
stoppage of the current 10y means of
the cut off nozzle. or from wall fall
ing on the hoZe, etc, allows of the
instant opening of the balance valves
and the discharge of the wa er through
the education port, which has 2 larger
area than the nozzle.
Year: 1878

Really, my boy, it amt reasonable.
Let's go over to The Cosmopolitan and
take hot Scotch and sit down by the
stove. Pom my word, it makes my
blood run cold to hear you talking
about hunting, and fishing, and picnics
and other summer luxuries, and the
thermometer on the down grade like a
runaway stage team"


"Oh, but this is honest, just rs true
as that two and two make four"


Il don't doubt your word, my boy,
but honest Indian, your subject is not
appropriate to the climatic condi-
TONS"


but this is on the dead square"


"Well, if you must, you must; but be
quick about it, for l an freezing to
death.n


well, you see, he went down on
Reese river one Of those hot days last
week, and to which the frigid atmos-
phere of to-day is such striking and
startling contrast, taking his gun along
in case he should see a feather or so.
You know snipe 'aint usually very
plentiful in this country, but, you may
believe it OF not, the bank of the river
was Just covered with 'em. He blazed
away, and bIaZed, and banged and
kept shooting ut them, till his ammu-
milton gave out, and when he came to
count his birds he had just 1l3 Of 'em.


You don't say? l did not believe
there was SO many snipe as that in
Lander county,"


"Sure's you live! Well, he brought
'em home, and l met him coming up
the street, and lie asked me to go UP
to the house with him to see his game,
and he would give me few snipe for
breakfast. He had the birds in two
barieysacks, and l, wanting to be
obliging-being as he was going to give
me some snipe-packed one of the
sacks up to the house for him. WheL
we got there We went into the kitchen
and lie commenced emptying the sacks
out on the floor; and, you may believe
t or not, just as you dunn'd choos.,
out of that hundred and thirteen sIipe
very blessed one of them, all but two,
we're mOsQuitoes-two snipe and one
hundred and eleven mosquitoes"
Year: 1878

1t Is certain, writes a traveller IN
China, that a real Chinese dinner
would be very odd thing in the eyes
of a stranger, especially ii lie were one
of those who think, as some people do,
that there is only one way of living.
To begin dinner with the dessert, and
end it with the soup; to drink the
wine smoking hot, out of little china
cups, and have your food brought to
you ready cut into small pieces, and to
be presented with a couple of sticks,
instead of a knife and fork, to eat
with; to have, instead of napkins, q
provision or little bits of silk paper by
the side Of your plate, which, as yoa
use, .he attendants carry Off; to leave
YOUR place between the courses, to
smoke or amuse yourself, and to raise
your chop-sticks to your forehead and
then place them horizontally upon your
cup, to signify that you have finished
your dinner-all these things would
doubtless seem very odd and excite the
curiosity of Europeans. The Chinese,
Oh the other hand, can never get over
Their surprise at our way of dining;
They ask how we can like to drink cold
fluids, and what can have put it into
our heads to make use of 4 trident to
carry food to our mouths, at the risk Of
pricking our lips or poking our eyes
out They think it very droll to see
nuts put on the table i'll their shells,
and ask why our servants cannot take
the trouble to peel the fruit, and take
the bones out of the meat. They are
themselves certainly not very difficult
in the nature of their food, and like
such things as fried silkWorms and
preserved Larvae, but they cannot un-
derstand the prediction Of our epi-
cures for high game, nor for cheese
that appears to belong to the class of
animated beings.
Year: 1878

Two remarkable examples are on
record of persons who allowed them
selves 10 be hung for the entertainment
OF an audience. An account of oae OF
them is given in the Lancet Of April
Il, 1877. The mans real name was
John Harnshaw, but lie performed
throughout England under the high
sounding professional title of Monsieur
GOuffe. He was All athlete, and among
other feats it was customary with him
10 exhibit the process of hanging. Ia
this performance he relied for security
on the strength of the muscles of the
neck and throat. He had rope with
a fixed knot which could not slip, ard
passed both ends of the loop up behind
one ear. The whole act was so adroit-
ly managed that he prevented any
pressure of the rope Oh the Windpipe
or the jugular veins, and could even
sustain weight of one hundred and
fifty pounds in addition TO that of his
own body.


On three separate occasions Harm
shaw mismanaged the rope, and be-
came unconscious, being luckily res
cued each time. DR.. ChOwne, who
writes the account, says very truly: at
cannot be doubted that, as far as SELL
sation and consciousness are concern
ed, UarnshaW passed through the
whole ordeal of dying; and, had lie
been permitted to remain hanging un-
Til actually dead, he would have passed
out of existence without further con-
sciousnesS."


Now. this man stated, not with par
ticular reference to either accident
but as common to all. that she could
hardly recoliect anything that happen
ed to him in the rope" that che lost
his senses all at once; the instant the
rope got in the wrong place he felt rs
if lie could not get his breath--as if
some great weight were at his feet;
could not move only to draw himself
up: felt as if he wanted to loosen HIM
self, but never thought of his hands"
And lie added: "You cannot move
your arms or legs to save yourself; you
cannot IaiSe your arms; you cannot
think" lie did not see sparks OF light,
but had in his ears Il rattling sound.
Year: 1878

There is class of men who put in the
meagre portion of their time in picking up
untried horses, testing these, and patting
them into regular training, if they are
found to give fair promise. Such horses
are used for sporting during the year, a lit
tie money being won no and then from
green ones. But these jockeys concentrate
the main effort upon the fall fairs, and the
management is so manipulated that the
most liberal prizes are awarded on these
mere sporting nags. This sounds odd
when we consider the intent of the law
which gave birth to these agricultural exhi-
billions, but nevertheless it represents the
facts accurately.


In the organization Of county and State
Agricultural associations, it was the pur-
pose that agriculture and the mechanic
arts be made most prominent the principal
prizes 10 be awarded in these interests. and
it is the manifest departure that has estrang-
ed so many farmers, and in an equal degree
precludes the enlistment of the younger
portion of the farming fraternity; at least
this has such a general application as to
take in the better class.


How the monotony would be broken il
the ever present sulky, heavy blankets and
driver, playing second to all manner OF i'll
shaped diminutive herses-everything in
fact that can beat four minuteS-in training
in town and at the road crossings, should
be replaced by the draft and business horse,
the object being to accelerate his walking
gait. There would be degree of useful
ness and even novelty in this, that would
give it some prominence at the outset, and
the horse OF useful size that could go into
the market and show walking gait of five
miles to the hour, would command atten-
ton, and a good price. The work which a
team of such horses would be capable of
performing during a year, hitched to
truck or business wagon, over and above
what is accomplished by the slow unframed
walker, would represent no mean item, and
it is not eytravagant to say that the team,
through this accelerated gait, would earn
its feed extra every week.


In the utter absence of any effort, even
in single instance, to breed fast walkers,
is not the field good one to enter upon. BY
breeding for walking gait the capacity
for speed and usefulness i'll other directions
is in no wise compromised, A fast walking
stallion of good size and of general merit
who inherits the traits of two or three good
walkers, his latest of kin crossed upon
strong mares of like tendencies, would en-
sure no little certainty as to the swinging
strides within the capacity of the progeny
to make.


In certain States (mainly southern) where
the saddle horse is extensively used, the
breeding of PAGERS is habitually practiced,
and there is quite demand for horses that
possess this tendency. This system of
breeding ensures uniformity, or at least the
tendency to the popularity of gait;:is such
as t. render the progeny very apt pupils.
Year: 1878

The owner OF a house in Hartford, a
wi!ower, lived in the upper story and
rented the lower part to clergyman.
a servant girl employed in the clergy
mans family was young and pret y.
Her mistress observed that she and tie
wdower were devoting a great deal Of
attention to each other, and, deeming
the matter scandalous, said to her:
"Pack up your things and quit The
girl obeyed; but on the following day
she returned in carr iage, announced
that she had been married to tie land
lord, and said to her former mistress:
Pack UP your things and quit
Year: 1878

Here lies an old woman who always was tired,
For she lived in a house where help WASH t


hired
Her last words on earth were: Dear friends, ]


am going
Where washing amt done, nor churning, nor


sewing;
And everything there will be just to my wishes.
For where they don't cat there's no washing of


dishes,
I'll be where loud anthems will always be


ringing,
But, having no voice. FL get rid of the singing
Don't mourn for me now, AMI mourn for M


never,
For I'm going to DO nothing forever and ever.
Year: 1878

LIFE is good deal like grab-bag.
after all. Sometimes merit is taken
by the hand and told to come in out
Of the cold, bat not always. It's the
exception, not the rule. The great
bcnefactors OF mankind have been but
rarely appreciated and requitcd, while
the Fourth-of-July fellows have car
ried off the honors and boguets.
What sad commentary it is upon
civilization to admit that the man who
gave soft soap to the world is still
sleeping in an unmarked grave.
Year: 1878

Let rs do the work God gives Us in His
name. and Commit the result to Him. He never
fails tanse who trust in Him He guides them
through darkness and through TRIALS secretly
and surely to their end, aud in the evening
time there is light.
Year: 1878

Few female minds would possess the
fortitude to write such will as was left
by Mrs. Ben Pitman, the wife of the
author of a photographic system, who
died recently in Cincinnati. This lady,
who was herself a skilled phonographer
and lecturer on the art, introduced in
to her last will and testament clause as
follows:


Inasmuch as 1 have long conceived it to ho
the most sensible mode of disposing of my
body, desire'my remains to be forwarded 10
DR.. lie Moyne, to be cremated in the furnace
built by him for that purpose at Washington,
Pa.


In obedience to this request the hus-
band of the deceased proceeded to the
place of cremation, where the remains
were reduced to ashes and urned. There
were no religious observances of any
kind, and the process of cremation was
performed in the simplest manner pos
sible. The LIE Moyne furnace is the
one in which the body of the late Baron
de Palm was incinerated some months
QOO
Year: 1878

This is o subject which has long been
discussed by mineralogists, who are
much divided on that question. Prof.
Tschermak, after prolonged study, comes
to the conclusion that the active agent in
the process is volcanic. He points out
that the bolides which fall to the earth
are angular in form that they have no
concentric structure even in their inte-
rior that their external crust is not an
original characteristic and that they are
evidently fragmentary. Examination of
the crust has shown that during the lat
ter stages of the fight disruption of the
meteorite itself frequently takes place
From much evidence of this character,
Prof. Tschermak has been confirmed in
his views. He argues that the finding of
hydrogen in meteoric iron is proof that
permanent gases, and perhaps vapors,
which are the great agents in transmit
ting volcanic energy, have played a part
in the formation OF meteorites I; and al
though we may never have the pos
sibility of obtaining direct evidence of
the volcanic activity which is supposed
DO have hurled these mysterious masses
of stone and metal into space, yet such
proof as the violent gaseous upheavals on
the solar surface, the action OF our ter
restrial volcanoes, and the stupendous
eruptive phenomena of which the lunar
craters tell the history, lend powerful
support to any theory assuming that
meteorites owe their formation to vol
canic agency.
Year: 1878

This is rare sport when we'll managed.
A large sheet should be strained across
an open door; folding doors are better
for this game, as they give larger space
for action. The room in which the
spectators are seated should be dark
ened; but in the room back of the cur
tain, where the giant exhibits, should be
placed on the floor bright lamp or can
die, with a reflector either of polished
tin or looking-g glass. Any one stand
ing between the light and curtain ap-
pears immense in all his proportions, as
his reflection is cast upon the sheet.
Let the person acting as the giant first
open his hands and spread his fingers
wide, and let them appear at the bottom
of the curtain, and gradually rise till
the shadow of his whole body is exhib-
ted between the lights and the curtain.
He will appear to rise from the cellar.
Then let him Jump over the light, to the
rear of the reflector and it will seem as
if he jumped upward through the cell
ing.


Many amusing scenes can be thus
contrived. Articles of furniture, etc.,
can be drawn down from above, by sim
ply passing them over the light. Dolls
can be used with great effect The giant
can appear to swallow them, or destroy
the pigmy race. Care should be taken
to keep the profile on the screen as dis
tinct as possible. Some call this game
"The Man in the Moon. The A0aeri-
can Young Folks.
Year: 1878

SITTING BULL is again on the rampage
He has held a grand pow-wow, and
threatens to make somebody weep"
The usual cry at the Indian post is "no
troops to spare, yet the idiotic congress
reduces the army. Some people need
killing and could be spared as well as
Sitting Bull and his cut-throats.
Year: 1878

JAMES GoRDEN BENNET is SO disgust
ed with the contradictory accounts of
his little affair with May that he will
consent that the truth according to him
should be published. Aud he says, too,
that if the people think he ought to be
tried in the courts for the crime of du-
cling, he will come home and submit.