smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

An improved starter" for horse cars
was recently tried in Baltimore. The
invention consists simply in a grooved
iron cam that is attached on each side of
the axle near the wheel This cam ex-
tends above the axle, and affords lever
age of II inches Through the grooves
on the top of the cams run two wire
ropes that are attached to the goose
neck and double trees. The cams, by
means of heavy spring, resume their
upright position whenever the car stops,
and the leverage they offer in starting
lessons the work of the horses.
Year: 1874

Caibolic acid is said TO be a deadly
poison to snakes, few drops being sur-
flcicnt to cause the almost instant death
of the much dreaded cobra. All you
have to do is to approach that COBRA in
n seductive sort Of way and introduce a
few drops into his mouth, which he is
apt to have conveniently open when
there is anybody about. This discovery
will be received with great joy in that
pleasant land whore the playful reptile
most hourisheth.
Year: 1874

1t is stated in an exchange as fact that
the city and county officials of certain
county occasionally got to church, espe-
cially just before an election. The same
paper gives the following as an ilustra-
ton:


The minister had finished his dis
course. The doxology had been sung,
when dashing young county official
boldly entered, and with the step Of a
conqneror, marched down long aisle,
gracefully threw his talma across bench
In the amen corner and as gracefully
seated himself with toss of the head
which plainly said "you see me, don't
YOU" He had not more than seated
himself comfortably when the minister
lifted up his hands and said "may the
grace of God and the peace that passoth
all understanding, ETC., etc" lie was in
time TO be seen and TO receive the bene.
diction, and hence was happy.
Year: 1874

The whisky war continues undated,
and threatens to become epidemic. AT
New Holland saloon keeper grossly
insulted the ladies who undertook TO
pray him out Of the business. The dis.
patch says that, iustigated by his father,
the devil, he was even ungallant enough
to assault them with poker"
Year: 1874

Don't turn up your nose, dear lady
vcro do We're, and Indignantly contract
your expansive skirts, every time one Of
the children OF toll passes you on the
street The Savior Of the world was
the son OF n carpenter, and wrought in
tho workshop of his father before
teaching In the temple.
Year: 1874

How many people there are in the
world who, though really fine-looking, do
not make a good picture. Sometimes
this is the fault of the photographer, but
oftener the sitter is alone to blame. For
the benefit of those who would like tC
know the most successful way of produc-
ing picture of themselves or dear ones
we condense few valuable hints.


Early in the day is without doubt the
best time to select for sitting, as then
you are not so fatigued or harassed. 1t
is a mistake to choose a very bright day.
The best light is obtained when the sky
is clouded and the sun shining through
| the clouds. Some fancy they can sit
without the head-rest; but that is not SO,
as even the mere act of pulsation will
| cause a movement that ruins the photo
graph. Wink if you must while sitting,
but keep the eyes fixed on one spot.
Avoid aH forced or unnatural expires
sions. Do not give the photograph a
thought, but try to fasten your mind on
some pleasant train of ideas. Do not be
taken in the height of fashion, for when
that changes, as it usually does in six
months time, it makes you look absurdly
conspicuous.


Ladies with long necks should wear
side curls and arrange their hair low.
Never pile the hair on top. Ruffs in the
neck are becoming, as they take off the
long look. Short-necked ladies with
broad faces need to dress exactly con-
trary, wearing dresses low in the neck,
with the hair done up high. Low fore
heads should have the hair combed back,
while high foreheads can add curls and
frizzes on the brow. All colors may be
worn if it is real artist who is taking
the picture, as he can produce beautiful
results; but ordinarily, black, very dark
green, olive or brown look best. A rich
brown will look almost like velvet. Pure
white, unbroken by colors, takes nicely
Do not "get yourself up for the occa.
sion;" that is, do not curl your hair when
you never wear it so, but dress about as
you generally do every day, SO that your
friends will recognize you, and you will
not be obliged to say: That's me; but
wore my hair curled just then. l don't
wear t so now"


With regard to children, let the person
accompanying them get them into rea
good humor beforehand, then leave them
in the hands of the operator Never
threaten child if it won't sit, for he
then imbibes the idea that it must be s
dreadful undertaking; nor coax it will
sweetmeats. Avoid startling plaids ol
gaudy colors, but do not put dark dresse,
on them. Let the operator choose thei
position Western Raral,
Year: 1874

THE Lewiston (Me.) Gazette tells Of
lady in that city who, finding no needles
in the cushion where she usually kept
them, concluded to investigate the inte-
rior of the cushion, which had been in
use sixteen years. She thought a few,
very few, of the thousands of needles
which had penetrated the bran might
have gone through the covering, though
no amount of pinching and squeezing re-
vealed their presence there. She accord
ingly dissected the cushion, and found
mine of over four hundred needles, all
in a good state of preservation!
Year: 1874

When they told an affectionate wife
that her husband had been sliced up by
reaper, she impatiently replied: Well,
take the pieces to the barn-I can't leave
this gooseberry sauce just now!"
Year: 1874

A NOTED pearl-diver of Atlantic City
is making arrangements for hazardous
undertaking. He proposes to test the
virtue of newly-invented life-preserver
by being carried from New York in a
steamer to distance of not less than
two hundred miles from land, and there
left to the mercy of the waves until he
shall meet passing vessel. He will
carry with him rations for week; also
signal-lights and flags, all being slowed
away in rubber bag about two teet
square. He is confident Of success; but
the undertaking looks, to common minds,
like hazardous one.
Year: 1874

Give ME home where the evening winds play
And breathe all so low in the ear;
Where the night is not night, but with love is


all day,


And the leaf never once grows sere
Where the emerald grass springs in long,


tufted knots,
And the wind sigheth gently between,
And the shadows drop down in their dark,


checkered spots,
AS If hiding the deep, deeper green.
Give me home by some cool, CLASSY stream,
Where the gables their images show;
Where the long trailing vines are as in sweet


dream,


And drop from the caves hanging lowj
Where in summer the sound of the turtle is


shrill,


As 1t comes from the dank pool afar;
And the chorus of insects, from meadow and


hill,


Begins with the earliest star.
Give me, o give me home in wood,
home In o wood wild and free
Where the many-yoiced thoughts that on the


heart brood,
May expand and grow great with each tree
Where the bee cometh daily to gather the


thyme,


And the squirrels so busily run,
And the MOSES SO gray grow still grayer with


time,


And In silence the circling years run.
Year: 1874

ONhAThOfhD INTERVIEWS


1t was one month after the mysterious
disappearance Of young Chester from the
jamestown jail. Night had succeeded a
pleasant day, and shortly after its sable
curtains had been drawn over the colony,
Chiron sought the dwelling Of Roswell
Berkley. Upon tho brow Of the old hunter
there was a stamp Of deep suffering. and his
Year: 1874

does not kill me, and nowI have ta-
ken poison. I have no .reproach to
make to you, but I could not live
without your love. When ], am dead,
look at my heart. You yill,see your
name there. I have two requests to
make of you. Go to my solicitor and
take what he has for you, and then go
off for a holiday to Italy for few
months. The other request is that
you never ask where I am buried and
never come to my grave"


There was post-mortem examina-
ton made of the young lady's body.
On her breast, over her heart, deeply
imprinted in the flesh, were the in
itials of the doctors name. The
characters seemed to have been made
there two or three years before.
They were probably imprinted by her
own hand on the day when she first
saw him.
Year: 1874

A correspondent Of the Scientific
american writes as follows "For the
last twelve or fourteen years I have
been employed in shop where there
are over three hundred men at work,
and, as is the case in all shops of this
kind, hardly day passes without one
or more of US cut or bruise our limbs.
At first there were but few who found
their way to my department to have
their wounds bound up; but after a
while it became generally known that
a rag glued on a flesh wound was not
only speedy curative, but an effectu-
al protection against further injury.
| was soon obliged to keep a supply
Of rags on hand, to be ready for any
emergency. I will here cite one
among many of the cases cured with
glue: A man was running boring
machine, with an inch and a quarter
auger attached. By some means the
sleeve of his shirt caught in the au-
ger, bringing his wrist in contact with
the bit, tearing the flesh among the
muscles in a frightful manner. He
was conducted to my department (the
pattern shop), and I washed the
wound in warm water, and glued
around it cloth, which, when dry
shrunk into rounded shape, holding
the wound tight and firm. Once OF
twice week, for three or four weeks
dressed the wound afresh, and il


was we'll. The man never lost al
hours time in consequence. The
truth Of this statement hundreds car
testify to. I use, Of course, the best
quality of glue"
Year: 1874

From the London Spectator


Guizot's will contains curious con-
fession Of faith, in which the old states
man declares that, born Protestant,
he had used the liberty which the
Protestant Church gives of inquiry
and doubt, and that for some time he
had held that the unassisted reason of
man is competent to furnish him with
a solution Of the great problem of
duty and destiny, and that his un-
assisted will is equal tothe task of reg
ulating his life according to the NOR
al law. He had, however abandoned
this belief: He was convinced that
we are children in Gods hands, un-
able to penetrate to His motives or
ultimate designs, and declares himself
quite resigned to $50 large share of
ignorance and weakness" IL. be-
lieve in God, and adore Him, without
attempting to comprehend HIM." He
confesses a profound belief in the
permanent government of the universe
by God, as we'll as Of His imminent
action IN the soul Of man and he re-
cognizes God especially in the histor-
les of the Old and New Testaments,
which he calls monuments of the
divine revelation and action, by the
mediation and sacrifice of the Lord
Jesus Christ, for the salvation of the
human race" He adds that he care
fully holds aloof from the scientific
discussions, and the solutions offered,
of the mysteries Of revelation: 81
trust that God permits me to call N.Y.
self a Christian, and I am convinced
that in the light which we are about
to enter we shall fully discern the
purely human origin and vanity of
most of our dissensions here below on
divine being"
Year: 1874

Mark Twain is one of the Di-
rectors of an Accidental Insurance
Company, and in recent speech
spoke as follows of the inducements
held out by his company "A man
is bound to prosper who gives it his
custom. No man can take out poi
icy in it and not get crippled before
the year is out. Now there was one
INDECENT man who had been disap-
pointed so often, with other compan-
les, that he had grown disheartened,
his appetite left him, he ceased to
smile-said life was but WEAKNESS.
Three weeks ago I got him to insure
with US, and now he is the brightest,
happiest spirit in the land-has good
steady income, and stylish suit of
new bandages every day, and travels
around on shutter"
Year: 1874

There is a quiet courtesy and
modest unobtrusiveness about a wise
advertisement that create a certain
responsive feeling of sympathy in the
reader. We all like to be solicited,
and it is natural to suppose that he
who most politely, clearly and per-
sistently solicits us stands the better
chance for our trade. The familiar
advertisements of local papers often
cover these points with great tact and
ingenuity.
Year: 1874

11e1Hplary uamages nave been
given by a Baltimore jury, in a case
in which a man shot another by acci-
dent. The defendant playfully took
up a gun, entertaining the common
idea that no gun can possibly be
loaded, and playfully pointed it at
his friend. AS it always happens in
such cases, the gun was loaded and
he shot and almost killed his friend,
only in fun of course. The jury
showed their appreciation of such
genial humor by giving verdict for
$4,000 damages.
Year: 1874

One Of the sad things connected
with the sealing trade is the indis-
criminate slaughter of the seals, old
and young, for it is at the breeding
season, when they land to breed and
foster their young, that they are at
tackled !; and although the large male
seals are considered the best, as yield
ing most blubber, neither the clap
matches nor the cubs are spared; and
thus like killing the goose that laid
the golden eggs, the seals are being
gradually exterminated, and that,
not from necessity or profit, but from
sheer wantonness and cruelty.
Year: 1874

All day
Her two round hands, silk-soft and brown
In her ungathered garments lay
Half hid and doubled helpleSsly;
All day she did not speak or stir;
All ay she leaned her wistfully
And took no note at all; ali day
Her black abundant hair fell down
In rippled currents over her.
At night they touched the lily shore,
And we passed on, in night indeed,
Against the far white waterfall.
] saw no more, shall know no more
OF her for aye. And you who read
This broken bit of dream Will smile,
Half vexed, that 1 saw aught at all.
The wave struck stropheS in the reed,
And all the sad song of the oar
That long, long night, against the Nile,
Was: Nevermore and Nevermore
This side that other shore that lies
Like Nile below the Paradise.


CAIRO, EGYPT, 1871.
Year: 1874

Nothing could mark SO clearly the
progress of liberal thought in the old
world, and especially in Great Britain,
as the fact that John Mitchell, who,
twenty-seven years ago, was carried
over the seas away from his home un-
der a sentence of imprisonment for
life, can now 20 fearlessly back to that
home, and not only be allowed to stay
there unmolested, but actually to he
received with every demonstration of
joy and mark of honor on the part OF
those in support of whose liberties he
incurred his punishment. 1t will be
remembered that we announced, some
weeks ago, the fact that he had sailed
tor Ireland; now we learn that he
was received by the Irish people upon
his landing with all the marks of res
pect that usually attend upon the con-
queror's steps. The grand old city of
Cork was illuminated in his honor,
and torch light procession of more
than five thousand persons turned out
to do honor to the occasion.


What tho English government pro-
poses to do about it has not yet trans
pired. Whether he will be allowed to
stand for parliament and TO take his
seat therein if elected, or whether he
will he shipped back to the penal colo
ny to serve out the balance Of his term,
is not yet determined. lie must be
made of brave stuifto risk the alterna-
Year: 1874

ty presidents might approve IL, but II
could never he enforced. The eternal
DEGREES OF Almighty God are against it.
1t is true that the white people Of the
south might be annihilated by the fed
eral government in the attempt to
force 1t upon them, but before ii could
be accomplished the blzzards from the
frontiers of Texas to the Atlantic ocean
would be gorged with dead negroes.


We are not unaware Of the fact that
some distinguished politicians of the
south have been accused of taking
stock in the third term movement.
They have all, however, Kemper, Cor
don, ana others, when called upon 10y
an outraged public sentiment, denied
their completely in the movement. 1t
is true that Gen. GurdOn's denial was
not as explicit as we would have been
glad to see; but that we attributed to
the fact that he felt that his record was
so clear that the charge was not worthy
of denial at all.


No, Mr.. Hill may reflect his own
feelings when he says he don't care
two straws about the principles and
usages of the government; but when
he claims that those feelings are shared
in by any considerable portion of the
southern people, he does them gross
injustice.
Year: 1874

We usually do not place implicit
contiderce upon the statements of in
terviewers in their reports of the opin-
ions of those interviewed. Mr.. Red
field, of the Cincinnati Commercial, is,
however, recognized as one of the
most intelligent and reliable newspa-
per men in the United States, and we
therefore have no doubt that in his re-
port of the interview with Ben Hill, of
Georgia., which will be found in an
other column, he states exactly the
sentiments expressed by Mr.. Hill.


At the same time that we are not at
all surprised to hear such utterances
from Ben Hill, in view of his record
since the war, we wish distinctly to
place ourselt on record as one that is
not ready to bow the knee to Grant for
the sake of securing his favoring
smile, and to express our decided opin-
ion that the feelings and probable
action of the people of the south are
most foully misrepresented by these
fiippant expressions of the Georgia
statesman (so-called).


Can it be possible that after all the
south has endured on the field Of bat
tie and under the heel of the oppressor,
to save for her children and her child
ren's children the principles of civil

liberty, that she is now ready to falter
and to give up everything for which
she has struggled and suffered for the
sake of saving herself from the last
lash that is about to be laid on her
back? Ifpeace and quiet, regardless
of pr,nciple, are what we are to live
for, we could have secured that in 1861
by bowling to the will of Abraham Lin
coin. We could have secured the SAME
thing in 1867 hy accepting the provis-
ions of the fourteenth amendment.
We could have had il at any time
since that date liy doing exactly what
it is said now 10y Ben Hill that the peo-
pie of the south are prepared to do.


His figure about the drowning man
and all that is very good but it hap
pens that Grant is the very man that
has been holding our heads under the
water, and should he relent now and
say to us. be my slaves for life andrll let
your heads out, while the alternative
would be hard one, we unhesitatingly
believe that the liberty-loving people
of the south would tell him to duck
away-that they would stand itawhile
longer. Besides, in our judgment, Mr..
Hill makes a great bugbear of the civil
rights bill to frighteu the people of the
south with when, in reality, there is
no danger from that source. Forty
congresses might pass the bill, and for
Year: 1874

IL was rumored that Colonel Moodey
had negotiated a sale Of some more of
the bonds of the state. The Gazette of
the 10Th instant says there is no foun-
dation for tho rumor. 1t further says
that Governor Coke is in receipt OF adj
vices from the financial agent, to the
effect that he believes the late sale will
fix the market value and assure the
future sale of all the bonds.
Year: 1874

It appears from later telegrams received
from Havana that the announcement of the
death of the Cuban patriot General Ca!ixto
Garcia Inequez was premature. The cor
rected telegram states that the General and
several of his staff were made prisoners and
carried into Manzanillo This is the severest
blow the Cuban cause has received since the
death of Cespedes. 1t sweeps away the
most respected and the ablest chief of the in
surrection in the Eastern Department Unfor-
tunately for the Cuban cause there is no man
capable of taking his place. Others there
may be as brave, but none who possess the
mingled shrewdness and audacity Of the cap
tured rebel leader. We hope the Span
ish authorities will show the same
humanity and good sense in deal
ing with General Garcia that they
exhibited in the case of Rojas and Jiminez.
Blood enough has been shed in this unfor-
tunate contest, and Spain cannot adopt
wiser policy than to hold out the olive branch
of peace practically in dealing with captured
Cubans. The Spanish authorities should not
forget at thia moment that GsnAral Garcia
Year: 1874

The New York liberal republicans have held
their State Convention, declared their plat
form, and have left their State ticket to be
considered hereafter. Their course will
probably be the same as that Of last year,
when they adopted mixed State ticket from
the republican and democratic nominations,
and when with their six or seven thousand
votes thrown in as balance of power they
elected their men. But as balance Of power
the liberals will doubtless direct their efforts
mainly to secure a balance in the Assembly,
whereby they may WELD their little strength
to some purpose in the election OF a United
States Senator in place Of Mr.. Fenton, whose
term expires on the 4th of March next. Our
State Senate (republican) elected last year,
holds good for the coming Legislature, and
against the republicans (for the United States
Senator) the only chance is an opposition
majority in the Assembly (of five or six)
which will give majority on joint ballot.


According to the results Of our last Novem-
Der election the republicans, under the guber-
material banner OF General Dix, have clearly
the best show for the Assembly; but the demo-
Gratis, under the advantages to them Of general
apathy, are hopeful, while here and there the
liberals expect to secure member, and If
they only gain even two or three members all
told, they may be enough to turn the scale
perhaps in favor of the reelection of Senator
Fenton. That, as liberal or independent,
he is candidate for another Senatorial term
we cannot doubt, and his position, as defined
the other evening in public speech before
the liberals at Albany, is such that upon a
pinch, as last resort and as a choice of evils,
he may be taken up by republicans or demo-
Gratis.


Mr. Fenton claims that the liberals in the
cause Of reform have done good service within
the last two years. but that much remains to
be done. He holds that the principles of his
party are in the end sure Of entire success.
He is sound on the money question. He dis
trusts the motives and the wisdom Of an ad-
ministration which assumes the power to
regulate State and local affairs. He de-
nounces the lack Of attention, the lack of
comprehension, or the lack of honest intent,
at the head of affairs, which he will discuss
at another time. From all this it is apparent
that no agreement has been entered into be-
tween the national administration and Mr..
Fenton, but that the Senator remains in the
attitude of infexible hostility to the national
powers that be. AS an active guerilla party,
therefore, under Mr.. Fenton, the liberals in
our approaching State election may possibly
gain the whip-hand in the Assembly over
the democrats and the republicans. We can
not tell, however, until we shall have heard
from the democrats at Syracuse and the re-
publicans at Utica.
Year: 1874

The Euening Post in dwelling with COM
mendable emphasis upon the fact that ''the
HERALD possesses a large circulation" ex-
presses the natural regret that "the voters of
this State are not as enlightened as the
HERALD circumstance which the Post, with
Characteristic acumen, regards as misfor-
Let it be our duty, as well as the duty of the
Post, to educate the people. Let us show the
democracy that to force Mr.. Tilden upon the
State ticket now is to sacrifice the success of
the party in the State and its presumptive
the local ambition of Tammany Hall. Mr..
Tilden will only run, if at all, to help Mr..
Kelly.