smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

| Wonderful stories are told of how the


Gala hunters capture it, for they dare


not meet it face to face with their
/ spears, and therefore resort to strategy.
| IL is said that when Gala hunter has
discovered the haunt of black PAN
ther, he digs a round hole in the ground,


some six feet deep, and just large


enough for him to stand upright in. He


then gets into this hole, and placing his


round buffalo-hide shield on the top of


it, so as TO cover him entirely, he calls


TO the panther in a mocking voice,


daring it TO come out of the jungle


where it il concealed. The panther,


who is naturally very passionate beast,


on hearing this defiance, Immediately


rushes out and tries to get at the hun
/ ter bp clawing at his shield, which
covers the top of the hole where he is
! ensconced; but the Gala holds tight,


and then ensues dialogue, or rather a


mOnOlogue, for though the panther is
supposed to understand Gala, he only


answers by grOwls. The hunter first
abuses the panther, and then ridicules


it, calling it all sorts of names, until
/ the unfortunate panther gradually
works itself up into such frenzy that
it at last fairly dies of rage, and the
hunter, emerging from his hole, secures
its skin. In confirmation of this story,


the Abyssinians declare that when the
black panther skins are brought to
market, they never have any marks OF
lance-thrusts or SwOrJ-cuts upon them,
as have the skins of other animals


killed in the chase. | fancy the truth
is that the panthers are shared by de-
vice which they often use in Abyssinia
for catching the spotted leopard. \


running-noose is firmly tied 70 the
branch of a tree, and the branch is then
bent down and attached to stake in
the ground in such a way that anything
moving the moose will setit free; kid,
or piece of meat is then placed behind


the moose, which is carefully concealed
among the leaves, and placed in such a


way that the leopard in springing at


his prey will pass through the moose;


of course he becomes entangled in it;


the movement sets free the branch


which flies up, and the leopard instead


of eating the poor little kid Whose feel


ings must be anything but pleasantly


suddenly finds himself suspended in the


air, where his struggles soon cause the


running moose to tighten round him,


and he is easily killed by the hunters.
Year: 1877

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two successive crops. The mode OF


planting is from cuttings, and little


moisture is needed by the plant at its


first growth. There are nine different


species enumerated by botanists, but


two only of which are cultivated for hu-


man food they are known as the bitter


cassava and the sweet cassava. The


roots are very similar, the first by far


the most poisonous, the only percepti-


BILE difference between the two roots


being a tough ligneous cord running


through the center of the sweet cassava


root, which the bitter variety is wholly


without.


Bread is made of both kinds, which
is palatable and wholesome. In Guiana
the mode of preparation is as follows /:
The root is rasped in large tins or
wooden graters fixed on benches, be-
hind which the women employed in
making it stand in rows. A sufficient
quantity being rasped for one time (for
the surplus would ferment and spoil,
it is put in long circular baskets of
plated rushes, about ten feet long and
nine inches in diameter, called maugue-
ras. These are hung up with weights
attached to the lower end, which draw
the plated work tight together, thus
squeezing out the juice. When all the
fiuid is extracted, the maugueras are
emptied of their contents on raw hides
laid out i'll the sun, where the coarse
flour soon dries. 1t is then baked on
smooth plates made of dry clay, with
slow fire beneath. This is the most
difficult part of the process. The coarse
flour laid perfectly dry on the hot
plates, when the women, with dex-
terity only to be acquired by practice,
spread it out i'm round and very thin
layer, nearly the size of the plate it is
laid on. This they do merely with a
piece of calabash, which they keep in
constant motion. pressing gently every
part of the surface until the heat has
united the meal into a cake, without in
the least altering the color or scorching
it. Their method of turning a cassava
cake of that size is like sleight of hand,
for they effect it with two pieces of split
cane without breaking it, though
scarcely as thick as dollar, and, as vet,
only half cemented together, and of
substance always brittle, especially
when warmed.


This cake is very nOurishing and will
melt to jelly in liquid. This cake af-
ter becoming cold, is broken up and is
the tapioca of commerce, but ii is dan
gerous if eaten in any large quantity
when dry, as it swells, on being
moistened, to many times its original
bulk. 1t will keep good for any length
of time if kept in dry place. The
Eastern tapioca is generally packed in
bags of about one hundred pounds each
but that of South America, and COM
mercially known as Rio tapioca, is
generally packed in barrels of about
two hundred pounds weight, and is
considered far superior in quality; con-
sequently it commands a much higher
price. The Indians oftentimes eat the
simple root after having roasted il in
hot ashes without any subsequent pre-
paration; the leaves are also boiled and
eaten by the Indians. Such is the pro-
of the cassava plant that it
has been calculated that one acre of it
will yield nourishment to more human
beings than six acres of wheat.-Amerj-
can Grocer.
Year: 1877

There is an old saying that what is
ones meat may be another's poison,
and how often we are reminded of this
as we see the likes and dislikes of peO-
pie for the same articles of food, and
learn the reasons therefore. Straw
berries, that are so delicious to almost
everybody, are poison to many. A
prominent member of the bar told US
that one strawberry would poison him
to such an extent that it would require
weeks for him TO get over it. An elderly
lady of our acquaintance will almost
faint away at the sight of cheese, and
wherever she goes this article is ban
ished from the table. Shell fish are
pernicious to many, poisonous, and
offensive. We have read in a late medi-
cal journal, a number of instances of
those antipathies confirming our own
observation. Some persons cannot eat
a lobster salad without its having very
curious effect upon their complexion.
A lady INDUCED at supper-time in a
salad of this kind, and upon her return
to the ballroom her face and neck i'm
mediately became covered with spots,
obliging her to retire. A medical friend
tells us that eating veal gives lady of
his acquaintance the nettle-rash, and
that orange peel has produced great
nervous excitement. Figs. again, give
rise in some people to sensation like
the tickling movement of ants upon the
palate.
Year: 1877

Spend your time in nothing which
YOU know must be repented of. Spend II
in nothing which you could not review
with 4 quiet conscience on your dying
bed. Spend it in nothing which you
might not safely and properly be found
doing If death should surprise you In
the act.
Year: 1877

For the honest people relations in
crease with the year. For the vicious
inconvenience increase. Inconsistency
Is the defect of vice; the influence OF
habit Is one Of the qualities Of virtue.
Year: 1877

Editors Dispatch:, Why compel house
owners and tenants to remove snow
from in front of their premises when
vacant lots are left entirely undisturbed
On the street where reside are situ-
ated vacant lots, and while the police
were very prompt in notifying tenants TO
remove the snow, in front Of said lots it
was allowed to remain. PEDESTRIAN.
Year: 1877

THE FOUNTAIN UNcovEREp.-For many
weeks past all Of the fountains in the Capt.
tol Square have been covered with ice, and
the one in the southeastern portion Of the
grounds was particularly pretty. Last
night the ice, which has been melting very
rapidly from around the pipes, fell over into
the basin with q crash, and now it is clear
OF ice once more.
Year: 1877

LEVY BROTHERS have the only weit-assorted


stock OF dry goods in this city besides which. they
show large variety OF notions and fancy goods.
II you wish to avoid shopping around give them .
Year: 1877

don't suppose you feel much interest in
terest in burglarsnor are their habits a very
choice theme in polite literature; but then
that occurrence at Glen Spring was really an
extraordinary affair. You see, the way
came to get wind of it was through "Calico
Charley" as they called him. / was on the
force then as sergeant. That was when Ac-
ton and Kennedy made it too hot for bsth
the politicians and the thieves We used
to boast at that time that we had the best
police force in the world. Well, "Calico
Charley went up for ten years for helping
TO crack old Oppenheimer's place there in
the Bowerv. 1t was an unluckv job for him
all through. and as | was one Of the specials
that "pined" and took him, and as I.had
known him off nn1 on for long time before
that, it was Just like me one day, when 7
was IN at Sing Sing. to go over to the stone
quarry and get the koeper to LET me have
talk with him got his whole history He
wasn't one ofvour common cracksmen Not
n bit Of it. lie was too smart by long shot
for that sort of thing. Don't run awav with
a notion that burglars are such awful smart
chaps. That's onrar idea that peonlp get
ont of the story Narers Let me tell vou
t''nt havo nigh onto fifean wears chance
to fnd cut. ard l'vo rcvcr sean one that
wouldn't run lis head into slip moose 4 e
minute he lad the least luck. o. no.
heard the chaplain say once, over 10 the
a. LII,
we're all right wouldn't he thief no morc'n
n healthy fellow'd be a pauper. There's al
wavs something the matter with 'em. A
twist 'cm some where that knocks 'em fiat
when q sound man gets after m.


Calico Charley, as was going to say, was
pretty much of an exception. He was
brought up well His father was one of the
best machinsts in the country. and he took
more pains to make man of his boy than


he fellow deserved. The old man had
little place down there in Maiden lane when
was shaver. recolect ii WELL 1t WAS
a kind of machine shop, where he made
and sold three or four tricks he'd invented
himself. He had the boy Charley with him
"a bright, smart chap he was then. When
he was 2l he got to be pretty lively about
town, for the old man had saved up hand
some property and let Charley have more
money than was good for him. Then he
got up a new safe lock, and it made a big
stir, and believe they went into that sort
of thing pretty heavy. Any way Charley
went over with the lock to the first worlds
fair in London, There he got tripped up
never heard exactly how it was. They
put up wicked job on him of some kind,
and got him mixed mp with a pretty bad
London "mob." The story that we heard
was that he picked safe lock for party
that shouldn't have been picked. Any We
he got in with the wrong crowd and


wouldn't lstgo Of him. He stayed owe
Year: 1877

chimbly to give her plenty of room, and.
while he was sitting there thinking about
nothing, the old man put keg of powder !
down below in the fireplace to clean Tie
SCOT out of the chimbly, and when he touch 4
ed her off Bill was blown over against the,
Baptist church stseple, and he landed on the !:
weathercock, with his pants-torn, and thsy !.
couldn't get him down for three days, 30 he
hung there, going round with the wind, and. /.
lived by eating the crows that came and sat !.
on him, because they thought he waas
made of sheet iron, and put up there o.
purpose !.


"Hes had more fun than enough. He
was telling me the other day, about . sau. :
sage.stuffer his brother invented. It was !
kinder machine that worked with treadlef
and bill said the way they did in the fall
was to fix il on the hogs back, and connect
the treadle with sting, and then the hogd
work the treadle and keep on running it up
and down until the machine cut the hog all
up fine and showed the meat into the skins.
Bill said his brother called it Every Hog
His Own Suffer- and it worked splendid,
But I don't know. Pears to mes if there
couldn't be no machine like that But any
way, Bill said so.


And he told me about an uncle of bis out
in Australia, who was ct by big oyster
once, and when he got inside he stayed thsrs
until he'd ct the oyster, then he split the
shells open and took half one for boat,
and he sailed along until he met sea ser.
pent, and he killed it and drew off its skin
and when he got home he sold 1t to an en-.
gine company for hose, for forty thousand
dollars to put out fires with. Bill said that
was actually so, because he could show me .
man who used to belong to the engine COM
pany. wish fatherd let me 60 ont to find
a sea serpent like that; but he don't leave
me have no chance to distinguish myself


"Bill was saying only yesterday, that the
Indians caught him once and drove eleven
railroad spikes through his stomach and cut
| off his scalp, ard never hurt him a bit. He
said he got away by the daughter of the
chief shaking him out of the wigwam and
lending him horse Bill says she was In
|
me see the holes where they drove in them
spikes, he said he darsn't take off his clothes
or he'd bleed to death Bill said his own
father didn't know it, because Bill was afraid
it might worry the old man.


"And Bill told me they wasn't going b
get him to go Sunday school. He says his
father has very large brass idol that hs
keeps in the garret, and Bill says he's
made up his mind to be a pagan, and 20
naked and carry tomahawk. and bow
and arrow, as soon as the warm weather
comes. And to prove it he says his father
has this town all underlaid with nitrogly.
cerine, and as soon as he gets ready hes 60.
ing to blow the old thing out and burst her
up, let her rip and demolish her. He said -
down at the dam, and told me not to tell
anybody, but l thought they'd be no harm
in mentioning to you.


"And now l believe must be going. I
hear Bill a-whistling. Maybe he's got
something else to to tell me-"
Year: 1877

THE Tribune, in commenting upon
the proposition to establish college in
China, based upon the traditions OF our
western civilization, compliments the
Chinese by saving with some truth:
Education occupies a higher place
in the state than it does with us,
and in their art, the integrity of ali
their handiwork, their respect for learn
ing, their self-control, and fine courtesy
they have reached a higher plane of
civilization than the Anglo-Saxon." "
When it adds, however, that: Their
religion has in it broad basis of sublime
truth, both in its conception of the
Deity and of human brotherhood" 1t
does not speak with knowledge. The
educated Chinese are what we would call
Atheists, being disciples of Confucius,
who recognized neither God nor future
state, and whose religion was system
af morals based on reason and human
experience. Buddhism, in its purity, is
also atheistic; and these two forms OF
so-called religious belief embrace the
great bulk of the Chinese people. There
+. however, in China, form Of belief,
bigoted and superstitious, and not unlike
our own spiritualism and these three
religions, dwelling side by side for several
thousand years, have resulted in mixed
creed. so that the average Chinaman is
about as much confused concerning his
real belief as the ordinary non-church
going Christian. No doubt the faith of
China may be best described as fetichis-
tic. The Emperor is brother to the son
and moon, and the all encompassing
canopy of heaven is worshipped instead
of any personal god. 1t is misleading to
say that Cinnamon generally have any
such idea of deity or god as is under
stood by those terms in christendom.
Year: 1877

AN ingenious girl up on North Hill,
who has never feller" in the world,
goads the other girls in that neighbor-
hood to madness by lighting up the par
lor brilliantly and then setting her
fathers hat where its shadow will be
boldly marked against the curtain.
Year: 1877

In all diseases affecting these organs,
whether they secret too much or too little
water; or whether they be afflicted with
stone OF gravel, or with aches and pains set
tied in the loins or over the regions of the
kindnevs, these Pills should be taken accord
ing to the printed directions, and the Oint-
ment should be well rubbed into the small
of the back at bed time. This treatment
will give almost immediate relief when all
other means have failed.
Year: 1877

Is the great blood purifier, Syphilis, and re-
moves Fimples and Humors on the face


Reason should teach that blotchy, rough or
pimpEed skin depends entirely upon an internal
cause, and no outward application can ever cure the
defect.
Year: 1877

One shadow still upon my life is cast,


One fragment of the soTrows Of the past,
The hated chain of memory links me yet
With days whose deeds I've striven 10 forget.
Wan from the gulf of Time they Iise again
The dead years; heavy with that weight of pain
Whose presence CALLED me to such bitter mirth,
When, in my misery, walked the earth.
Year: 1877

Young soapsuds and old nicotine havn
proved fatal in the case OF an Engli sh
lad at Dartmouth Park. Ho saw some
children blowing soap bubbles On q
neighbours doorstep and borrowed a
clay pipe from his father, which he soon
broke. He then returned for another,
and his father gave him an old wooden
pipe which had been lying on a shelf for
a year. In an hour the child was very
sick, vomiting and becoming very dr0w-
sy aud deathty pale. AT the end OF the
third day the little fellows sufferings
came TO an end. The physician testified
at the inquest that the child died from
imb bing nicotine contained ia the old
wooden pipe.
Year: 1877

A Scotch clergyman, who was hard
laborer on bis glebe, and, wnen occupied
in culIiyating it, dressed in very slov-
enly manner, Was one day en- ;aged In a
potato field, when he was surprised By
the very rapid approach of his patron In
an open Carriage, with some ladies
whom he was to meet at dinner In the
evening. Unable to escape in time, he
drew his bonnet over his face, extended
his arms covered with his Ia tered jack
ct, and passed himself off as a scare
crow,
Year: 1877

A dog in Sierk, France, returned good
for evil. His master, a peasant, at
tached a stone to his neck aud threw
him into the MOselle. The poor brute
sank, but the cord broke, and he rose to
the surface and made desperate efforts
10 get into the boat. His master pu ed
him repeatedly with an oar, and at
length stood up and endeaVored to strike
him violent blow. In the attempt the
man tell into the water. Tue dug swan
to MIN and held him up by the clothing
until aid arrived.
Year: 1877

A CARD.-The members of the
mineral Point Reform Club" desire,
through their Committee, to express
their gratiIuue to the ladies of the
"Woman's Christian Uniou" for the
handsome carpet which now decor
ates so tastefully their pleasant rooms
The goodness, the liberality and the
industry which prompted and car
lied out the scheme for so beautify-
ing the Reading Rooms could only
proceeded from enthusiastic interest
in the welfare of those who need
the grace of reform. That kindly
interest will be one of the greatest
which could be provided to keep
the men who have turned over new
leaf, from ever turning back to their
former evil habits. Ia view of this
gift, it is felt that the spirit OF re-
form i, still in our midst, and for all,
the Club is truly grateful.


BY the Committee,


r. C..EvANs,


q. w. FIELD.
Year: 1877

LOCAL ELECTION RETURNS Be
low are the returns from the various
precincts in this vicinity as received
up to Wednesday evening, we give
only the vote on Governor, Attorney
General and local officers:


CITY OF MINERAL POINT-BOTH
Year: 1877

COMMISSIONER CAMPBELL OPPOSED TO USING


MANHoLEs FOR THAT PURPOSE.


The Commissioner OF Public Works yesterday trans.
mted to the Aldermen a communication In answer to


request asking for his opinion relative to the easI-
bny OF using marholes throughout the city for de-
posting Ice and snow Tho following are its principal
points,


In reply beg to state that the unauthorized Of the
and receiving basins for this purpose has been
OF great trouble aud expense whenever occurred
in Broadway between Washington place Fourth
street. opened filed with by men OF
the cleaning In March, 1879 stop
ping cansng the flooding of the adacet
cellars. The solid deposits thus formed had be
by hand The number and capacity
manhOles small In comparison with
the quantity OF and Ice which in the
Manv Of the old la the lower
city built without manholes. and those that
Gently in to facilitate examinations and repairs
aud only large enough to give TO tho OF the
small qantity aud ice that could thus be
manhoes only small proportion would be melted
the would be reduced below
melting point and the balance remaining solid would stop
be made to contribute to the removal Of and
from the Is by keeping the CUTTERS cnlverts
OF receiving basins The attention
the Police Department recently called this and
they promptly responded by approving the suggestions
made From the Is clear that the empty
or ice tho manholes Is altogether
unadvisible and should not be permitted
Year: 1877

For the purpose OF ascertaning what action tho
Board OF Health would take ing the heating Of
the street railroad Professor Charles y. Chandler
President OF the Board to the Inquiries OF


HERALD reporter, said:-"Thc Health Department oc-
cupes peculiar, II not anomalous position If we
satisfied that any portion Of the public Is suffer-
ing In health from the cars being cold that travel in
them is injurious to public health and the general
sanitary condition Of the cityior almost everybody
rides IN street cars, more less-wc could order
the companies TO heat them, and they could
complain OF the expense, but could not help
themselves. On tho other hand, II the
were actually In operation the street rail-
road or they were heated by other means and
became convinced that they we're working injury to
the passengers health aud producing all tho pneu.
monla diphthera and other diseases which the
doctors OF the companies say Will Inevitably be tho
suit OF stoves In the cars, could order them out
But in just this position We can't order them
10 be put in the limited knowledge We have on the
subject The whole subject Is now before the Board
OF Aldermen who considering II In detail hear
come satisfied that the cushions the second,
Third and Fourth avenue railroads real vehicles Tor
conveying contagon, so we have ordered them re.
moved. The THIRD avenue is taking It's cushions out,
" IL has not already done so, and yesterday we In
struccd our attorney TO commence suit against the
other railroads for neglect OF our Instructions As "a
heating the cars only wait till action taken by
the Aldermen and our CO operation IL solicited"
Year: 1877

The Adermnnc committee In charge Of the PROPOSE
ton to heat the cars have not yet waited upon the
Board OF Health In order ascertain their views upon
the subject II understood that the three membc
.! the committee, Messrs Cowing, Guntzer and Reilly
will request the Board to send written opinion as
TO the feasibility of this necessary reform Mcssrs
Cow,ng ami Gunner have already made up their
that the cars should be heated. favorable report
may therefore be expected from the committee tho
meeting OF the Beard on Thursday next 1t Will not
do to trust altogether to the decision Of tho Board Of
Health upon TINS important subject