smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

The Cossack is little Russian, about
five feet five, even on his high heels, but
at once sturdy and wiry. His weather.
beaten face is shrewd, knowing and
merry. His eyes are small, but keen;
his mouth large, and between it and his
pug nose-rather redder than the rest of
his facets tuft or wisp of straw COL
ored mustache. His long, thick,
straight hair matches his mustache in
color, and is cut sheer round by the
nape Of his neck Below the neck the
Cossack is all boots and great coat. He
is more armed than any man of his
inches in Europe, and could afford to
lose q weapon or two and yet be an
average dangerous customer. Weapon
number one is the long, black, fagless
lance, with it's venomous head that
seems itching to make daylight through
somebody. He carries carbine, slung
in an oilcloth cover, on his back, the
stock downward. In his belt is long
and well made revolver in leather case,
and from the belt hangs a curved sword
with no guard over its hilt. His whip
completes his personal appuytenanc s;
he wears no spurs. He rides, cooked up
on high saddle with a, leathern band
strapped over it, wiry little rat of q
pony.
Year: 1877

That the dead should kill the living
seems paradox yet nothing is more
true. Indeed we venture to say that
every year in our land corpses murder
more people than assassins do. Not
only have intramural interments poison
ed whole blocks and quarters, not only
has drinking water contaminated by
grave yards yearly spread disease and
death through country hamlets, but be-
fore the process of decomposition conf
mences there is often great and press
ing danger from infectious disease. We
quote recent instance:


DR.. GOldie, the medical officer OF
health for Leeds, England, in his report
to the local authority, states that every
one of thirty people who attended the
wake of an Irish girl who recently died
in that town from typhus fever we're at
tackled by the disease and no fewer than
nine of the cases ended fatally"


So strongly have the needless dangers
of exposure at funerals impressed the
medical mind, that the health board OF
New York have issued circular recon-
mending that no public or church fune.
rails should be given to persons dying OF
either diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles
OF whooping cough.


In Chicago also, where scarlet fever
and diphtheria have been severe this past
winter, the recommendation of one hun
dr9d medical men in council was in these
words


"There should be no public funerals
of any patient who had died of any in,
fectious or contagious disease. Remem-
Der that the separation of the sick person
from the well is the most certain means
of preventing the spread of the disease. .


A writer in the Baltimore Physician
and Surgeon, last December, went SC
far as to advocate the passage of law
on the subject (the average American
man looking upon "law" " as cure-all
on every occasion). He thought il
should embody the following provisions


l. Whenever any one dies of contagious
disease, the publication announcing the
death should state cause of death.


2. No person except the immediate
family should be permitted to attend the
funeral, and the handling and burying
the body should be intrusted to persons
who devote themselves to that business.


3. A sufficient number of carriages
should be kept for the special purpose
of attending these funerals, and the
hiring them for other purposes should
be prohibited, under the severest penal
ties.


These are good suggestions, but peo-
pie should learn and obey them out of a
natural sense of sanitary propriety, not
out of obligation to statute. .-Medjcal
and Surgical Reporter.
Year: 1877

The family is the educator of the race.
Here men and women are made. What
they are in the world, that they were in
the family as children. The family is the
place where first the lessons of law are
received, and where the whole character,
in view of law has a direction given it.
The citizen is made in the family long
before the time for voting or activity has
come. When Napoleon said, in answer
to Madam de Stael's question about
Frances greatest need, Mothers" he
asserted the all-potent influence of true
life. The family is the greatest means
for the development of character. What
a world does it present for the affections
to abide in Where in all the earth
beside are sympathies so warm, love SO
pure and fervent as here? All that gives
value or beauty to human character finds
in the family at once an atmosphere in
which to expand and develop the ele-
ments which shall bring it to the highest
perfection.
Year: 1877

A curious story, by the way, comes to
us from India, says correspondent.


The viceroy had received some offense
from Scindia, and could not avenge it
openly; whereupon be meditated and
took the following deeply deliberated
method of retaliation When q large
number of native princes came up before
him to make their obeisance, no sooner
did the offending Scindia enter than the
viceroy sprang forward with unwonted
effusiveness and kissed him on both
cheeks. Such contact from an alien and
n Christian is the EXTREMIST taint ma
tive can receive. Scindia's own wives
would not come near him in one mo-
ment he sank in the eyes of all India
from aprince to pariah, and ever since
the poor man hos been undergoing puri-
flying ceremoniais, costing a large part
Of his fortune to cleanse him from the
viceregal kiss by which he was betrayed.
Year: 1877

In our climate, where rain is abundant
during q considerable portion of the
year, the water falling upon the roof of
any house, if properly collected and
stored, is ample for the whole supply of
the family which that roof shelters. This
water as it falls is ordinarily free from
any impurity that can affect its taste,
and from every source of serious foul
ing, though after a long-continued
drought it is well to divert and discharge
upon the surface of the ground the first
ten minutes flow of a showcase that
the impurities of the air, and the dust of
the roof may be first removed. After
this first dash, lead to the cistern all that
follows. Even with this precaution the
water will be more agreeable for use if
filtered There are numerous systems
for making filters in cisterns, but no
other is so simple, nor so durable and
satisfactory as the separation of that part
of the cistern from which the suction
pipe leads by wall of brick and cement.
1t is simply necessary to build a wall of
brick set on edge (two and a half inches
thick), so as to include about one-quar-
ter Of the area of the bottom, sloping it
back so as to terminate against the side
Of the cistern at a height of from four to
six feet. This wall should be so well
cemented at its joints that water can only
pass through the material of brick, and
for strengths it form should be slightly
bulging. A wall of this sort, measuring
say six feet at its base and rising to a
height of six feet at it's highest point,
will transmit an amount of water suf-
fcient to supply the demand of the most
constant pumping that any domestic use
can require.
Year: 1877

A Brooklyn paper reports that one
Mr.. R, while excavating on the
shore of Newtown creek, struck a spring
of mineral water. He took bottleful
of it to a German chemist for analysis,
telling him he should advertise the re-
suit, and convert the place into regular
Baden-B Baden. The chemist, having been
favored with sight of the location of
the spring, remarked, dryly, that he
would send his analysis written out in
common language, which people would
understand better than such scientific
terms as chloride of sodium, oxide of
iron, etc. Mr.. R soon received the
following


ANALYSIS OF THE NEWLY DISCOVERED NEwTowN
Year: 1877

A closer look at the sort of force the various
officers of the House has called into existence
makes one thank God that Sammy Tilden did
not secure the presidency. Had that sort of
thing been spread over the entire country be-
iieve the wheels Of government would cease to
turn for lack of capacity. Mr. Foster of Ohio
publicly designated the officials of the late
House as respectable bummers. Why he put
in the word respectable bothers me, unless it
was ironical One is first struck with the fact
that the democracy has control in passing from
the Senate end to that of the House by the dirt
on all sides. The corridors are dingy and dirty.
while the floors are covered with pools of tobac
co spit and stumps of cigars. After this the
sight OF the doorkeepers and clerks give evi.
dence that class is about representing the
great unwashed.


You may consider this a little too severe, II
50, come on, and ke look for yourself. But
am not 30 uncomm0nly nice as to row about
this sort OF neglect, but the worst feature re-
mains untold There is not one officer, either
CLERK, doorkeer or, or sergeant-at-arms, who in
able to lind in the democracy men of sufficient
education to act in positions where such educa-
tlon is required. There is the clerk, for exam
pie. In the opening of the late Congress he
turned out the librarian of the House bscsuse
such librarian was republican. He hired an
ex- Congressman from Kentucky, who failed.
and then he run through lively lot of experi.
ments until the House lost patience at being de-
prived of the of the library, and by resolution
forced him to restore the negro messenger, who
is there to-day acting as librarian-not only
republican, but black republican. A bealti-
full commentary that on the intelligence of the
class members fetch up from their districts to
fill these places.


This same clerk has in his employ and can.
not dispense with his services a man who for
16 years has been and is notoriously q lobbyist
for the gas company here that is owned in
Philadelphia. could fill my letter with cases
illustrative of his incspacity. You must not
blame the clerk, doorkeeper and sergeant-at-
arms for these appointments. They had to
select from the people the members put for /
ward. Every NJ. @. has lot of political bum
mers dependent spon him who follow him to
Washington, and he has to provide for some of
the worst or be murdered. He pushes the
most obnoxious upon the poor fellows who have
to make up force to run the House,


Nor am l an advocate of the beastly system
of filing places with political adhere nts for ser
vices at the polls. Had these gentlemen re-
tanned one and all of the old republican lot
hould have made no objection, But as thew
sdid make a sweep, or attempt is II only cali
your attention to the result.
Year: 1877

The ne House has been on trial seven
weeks, and the result of its labors during
that time is not sufficiently gratifying to in
duce the country to engage the Democratic
party to administer the government. The
House was called together in extra session
to supply the deficiencies which its own care
lessness and reckless partisanship had caused.
1t postponed day after day the consideration
of this business and occupied its time in
making attacks on the national credit. In
stead of passing the bills it was called to con-
slider its members introduced eight hundred
other bills, mostly bad. When the session
closed but two OF the deficiency bills had be-
come laws, and the bill to provide for suit
able representation of this country at the
Paris exhibition had failed to be enacted.
The House refused to attend to the pressing
business before it. 1t found time enough,
however, for mischief, and passed two of the
worst bills which ever made their way
through legislative assembly. One of these
bills was to indefinitely postpone the payment
OF debts, the other provided for the ''scaling''
of debts should it ever become necessary to
pay them.


The record of the Democrats in the extra
session is record Of business incapacity and
partisan recklessness. It cannot be regretted
that they have exhibited their weakness and
wickedness so soon. The people know now
what to expect Of Democratic administra-
ton, and they will take good care to escape
that inhiction. 1t is becoming more appar-
ent to them every day that the good of
the country requires the supremacy
of the Republican party in all the
branches of the government. As evidence Of
their belief they should make sure of Re
publican majority in the next House,
Year: 1877

We have just purchased another large
Job Lot of Boots and shoes which we now Of
fer to the public at prices never before
Manufacturer's samples you can rely upon
getting the best goods at prices bekOW the
manufacturers cost.


There never before was such bargains of.
fered i'm this city and those who come earli-
ess will secure the best. DO not delay. but
come at once and realize what bargains we
are Offering you


We quote DriCess
Year: 1877

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has been fasting.
He eat nothing for six days, and says he had
good time. He did 1t just for fun. There
was hope in the public mind that he would
make a scientific experiment fit and pursue
the matter at least as far as the traditional
horse who got down to one straw q day
and then died.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous etters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are In
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1877

The repudiationists in Virginia seem to
have got hold of the Legislature. On test
vote in the representative caucus to nominate
speaker the opponents Of the payment of
the State debt threw 50 votes against 40
thrown by the honest men.
Year: 1877

PATTERSON is to come North on lectur-
ing tour. South Carolina offered him a
chance to earn his bread and clothing and
acquire good trade If he would return to
her, but he 0refers the uncertain receipts of
the platform. His subject will be "The
South" he has studied 1t with all the care
full attention which . burglar bestows upon
bank the safe Of which he purposes to open.
Year: 1877

Philadelphia Bulletln.J


A mournful subject for contem-
plation is the fact that thousands
of weary human brains are now
engaged in wrestling with that
mighty question: "How shall |
make some money; how shall l get
what | want?"


If we consider merely those who
have fallen into "reduced circum-
stances" whose strivingS are not
for necessities, out for the comforts
and luxuries they have not yet
learned to do without, we shall find
a picture sufficiently pathetic to
suggest the doubt that life has
need of no fercer fires of puri6ca.
ton than our ungratified desires
may prove to us.


The child pining to possess a
yellow-haired doll; the youth whose
artistic aspirations cause him to
dream with delight of handling a
brush all day long, and daubing a
piece Of canvas; the shabby old
scholar, whose only ambition is to
forget the monotony of clerking
and the daily worries Of mercan-
tile life, to dip his feyerish mind
in some cool lakes of thought, to
live a few hours within a musty
volume in the company of Dante,
Spinoza or Milton--to these it is
Year: 1877

and hymns are not trumpet calls to
the battlefield, but soothing melo.
dies, which give additional zest to
home comforts and luxuries, and
make the sharper demands of a
life of the highest integrity less
bearable. Nay, the case is rather
worse than this. We have little
doubt that this sentimental religion,
as we may call it, in many cases de-
ceiyes a man utterly as to his own


moral condition, and hides from
him the true character and direc-
tion Of the road he is travelling, and
furnishes his conscience with a false
bottom. The revelations of the
last few years as to its value as a
guide in the conduct of life have
certainly been plain and deplorable.
Year: 1877

4


Special to the London Times


ROME, October 21.-The genera
of the company of Jesus threatens
the expulsion of Father Curci from
the ranks of that militant order
Father Ourci has been for many
years the editor of the Oivitia Cat
tolica, the most renowned religion;
organ published in Italy under the
patronage of the Vatican. As a
sacred orator, as well as u writer
Father Curci was looked upon as
the brightest luminary both of the
order of Jesuits and Of the Roman
Church. What the Vatican wa:
once disposed to call a political
heresy has crept into the writings
and preaching Of the eloquent faith
er, who has not been as blindly de.
voted to the cause Of the temporal
power as the pope expects his zeal
Gus champions to be. He has in
several instances been forbidden to
preach, and his writings have been
put on the index, or are in danger
of being so dealt with.


In all probability the pope will
intimate to this new refractory dis
ciple of Loyola what he openly said
to his predecessor in apostacy,
Father Passaglia: You are a mere
stone set upon the cornice of the
temple, an ornament to its facade
so long as you abide in your place,
but the moment you fall from it
you bury yourself in the dust of
the highway, and the world ceases
to see you or to hear Of YOU"


Father Ourci is now residing at
Frascati in a convent or country
house belonging to the Jesuits. My
information leaves it doubtful
whether he is detained there, or
whether he has taken up his quar-
ters in that establishment of his
own accord.


ROME, October 24.-The general
Of the Jesuits, by the pope's per-
emptory command, has pronounced
sentence of expulsion on Father
Year: 1877

good opinion of him ovcrthrown by the ah-
surditics of his recent speech, and they
are likely to accept his explanations on
that subject. On the other hand, 1t
is not safe to calculate largely upon
disaffection in the Democratic ranks becanse
of the record of their candidate; as has been
suggested already in TIE TRIBUNE, such mat
tcrs are apt to be forgotten by that party on
election day. more important element in the
canvass than either of these present features,
may prove to be the sentiments of the Liberal
Germans. who are anxious to show their good
will toward the Presidents Southern pohcy.


Several practical benefits may result from the
work which the United States Coast Survey
has undertaken in SheepShead and Canarsie
Bays That portion of the coast has under
gone considerable changes as to shoals ana
outlines within recent memories. full
knowledge of the alterations there will con
tribute materially to the more important prob
lem of the changes likely to take place IN
New-York harbOr-a problem which must he
considered in all future construction along the
water line. There is also a possibility that one
or more of the harbors at the southwest end
of Long Island might be greatly improved at
small cost. The localities are now reached by
railroads that are used at present only for
Summer visitors to the seashore. The roads
pass through fertile districts and could doubt
less do a considerable freight business it there
were shipping facilities at each end OF their
lines.
Year: 1877

Ex-Secretary RC6eson reappears in public as the
plaintiff in a suit wherein he claims as his personal
property some 5000 worth of paper which had been
attached rs belonging to Jhe Washington National
Reoublicap He explains his connection with that
journal to be merely Of personal friendship Tor
the proprietor, to assist whom he advanced the
money for four months supply of paper. We fear
the ex-Secretary is getting careless. Having sue
ces.fully passed the ordeal Oi investigation and
obtained from Democratic Congress certificate
of character he incurs the risk OF losing it all by
disclosing his relations with paper which, through
ont Grants Administration was probably one of the
yilcst journals ever printed-haying f.Irly solved
the problem of attaining the maximum of news
uaper ofemsiyeness with the minimum of brains
He might better have lost his 5000 than make
public such q damaging fact
Year: 1877

Our correspondence from Cleveland reviews
the probable effects Of the utterances OF Judge
West and the Know-Nothing record OF Mr..
Bishop, as judged from local point OF ylew'
1t is thought that tie people OF Ohio have
known Judge West too long TO have their
Year: 1877

creditable and economical administration,
and to the liquidation Of public debt, and
that the government should not undertake
any new obligation nor lend its credit for the
furtheranee Of any speculative schemes under
the guise of internal improvements that may
be for the advantage fany particular locality
or cornoration.
Year: 1877

SAN FRANCISCO, July A telegram from
Portland says that gentlemen from Yakm
City report that the people in that vicinity
are very much alarmed at the information
given by a friendly squaw to the effect that
the Indians belonging to the Simco and Ka-
lass reservations are about to make descent
on the settlements there


A dispatch from Gen. Howard dated at his
camp on the Salmon river, June 30, says that
his command was then crossing Salmon
river, which was swift, deep and difficult to
pass. The Indians had disappeared from his
front and are apparently encamped near the
junction Of Snake river and Little Salmon
trails
Year: 1877

A despatch from Philadelphia states that
the Grand Army of the Republic is organiz-
ing in that city for the purpose of aiding to
preserve the public peace. There are
twenty-seven posts in Philadelphia, and
they can supply fifteen hundred men at
short notice for the service proposed. But
these fifteen hundred men are tried veterans
who have faced the fire of n brave enemy
and proved their devotion to the cause of
teer TO fight. Their coolness, bravery and
experience make them worth four times
their number of inexperienced men or
rioters. Indeed, TO this Grand Army of the
Republic the country may look for its most
reliable defenders in the hour Of danger
We have an excellent State militia, men of
high spirit and courage, who will as rule
perform their duty we'll ); but the Grand Army
of the Republic is composed Of soldiers who
have had training and experience in active
service and will be at once at home in
fight. We have no means Of ascertaining
the exact number of the Grand Army but
the organization is supposed 70 be quarter
of million strong. Not man among them
would hold back if the poace and safety of
the country should ever be seriously en-
dangered. They would be as ready to
shoulder their muskets now as they were
in the past hours of the nations peril. 1t
would be we'll for tho posts in this city and
State to follow the example OF their CON-
rades in Philadelphia, and announce their
readiness to respond to any appeal from the
Mayor or Governor, should their aid be re-
quired to suppress lawlessness and dis
rd
Year: 1877

The reports of Russian force operating
to the east Of Adrianople and of troops from
Shumla passing over the Balkan by the
Boghaz Pass are indications that the mill
tary operations are moving as if to make up
for lost time. It is said in the report that
Russian corps is at Kirk Kilissa, east Of Adr-
anople but it is likely that the word corps,
as here used, is not to be taken in its proper
military sense, and does not imply that
there is force composed Of troops of
all arms at that point 1t is, doubtless,
large cavalry command raiding through the
country with the composite purpose of
finding the Turkish army, if there is any
there, cutting communications and seizing
supplies. Our knowledge of the operations
Of the Russians beyond the Balkan is made
clearer by the perception of the course it
has forced upon the Ottoman commander
than by any direct news yet received From
the only account yet received of the
passage of the Balkan by the Rus
SLAMS it appeared as If the routes
used by them were not strategic lines,
as if neither cannon nor supplies could
be passed over in that way. But that i'm
preston was apparently ill-founded, as this
movement seems to have fanked the Turks
out of Shumla. Their movement from
Shumla is waste of effort, unless it is
movement in force made with the hope to
compel the Russians to fight at or near
Adrianople. II the Russian movement has
fanked Shumla it must be known to the
Turks that there is more than cavalry on the
south side Of the mountain.