smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

quantity of corn meal. The result Of the
mixture is 306 pounds Of stuff costing about
S6.45, or fraction over cents pound !;
while Graham flour, made from the best
wheat. cannot be sold now at less than 3
l-2 to 4 cents pound. And yet this vile
stun Is being swallowed by people In search
OF better health, when they would do about
as well on diet OF hot white biscuit.
There is a fortune in store for the miller
here In st. Louis who will make q strictly
pure article Of Graham flour from the best
winter wheat, from which the outer husk
of the bran shall have been removed before
grinding. That man will establish good
reputation, make money, and confer q
blessing upon thousands of his fellows.
Year: 1878

AN ARABS ANXIETIES.
The Story of a Trsmp-How He
Came to be a Wandering


Rake of Poverty.
A Fast Youth, Driven From Home,
Takes to Dead. Beating for


Living,
But Finds That the Experience is
Hardly Worth the Trouble, and


Nothing Funny About it.
Year: 1878

The coming Fourth OF July Will be a red
letter day In the history OF Leavenworth, as
IL Is proposed To celebrate IL "A in style worthy
the glorious consummation IL comunemoT.
ates. Every man, woman and child la The
city VIII turn out on that day, and they, to-
gether with the thousands OF strangers who
will be present, Will constitute gathering
The ike OF which has never been seen before
in this western country. By reference TO
another column IL will be seen that the more
prominent business men ofthe city have sign
ed call for a meeting at the rooms OF the
Academy OF Science this evening, for the
purpose of making arrangements Tor grand
pyrotechnic display on the night OF the
Fourth. This idea Is a feasib e one, and con-
stiiates grand attraction also, and at the
same time will not be attended with much
expense. Two years ago, dealers in fireworks
got up "A corner of those articles which made
any kind OF a display In that line a costly
luxury, but this year they can be purchased
at least one hundred per cent. cheaper than
in lo7j. There is no reason whatever why
should not have the grandest
pyrotechnic display ever seen west of st.
louis
Year: 1878

Being the Traffic Contract Entered
Into by the Union Pacific, Kan
sas Pacific, Colorado Gen.


trail and The Omaha


Bridge Company.
Containing the Basis of the Agree
ment Whereby TIE Various
Roads Will Pool Their


Earnings.
The Union Pacific of Course Get
ting the Lions Share, or


Something Over Sew


enty Per Cent.
A Contract Which is Intended to
Endure for Fifty Years-FuII
Text Of the Agreement.
Year: 1878

How softly on the bruised heart

 A word of kindness falls, And to the dry and parched soul

 The moist'ning tear-drop calls; Oh fthey knew who walk the earth

 Mid sorrow, grief and pain, The power a word of kindness hath,

 'Twere paradise again. The weakest and the poorest may

 The simple pittance give, III And bid delight to withered hearts

 Return again and live Oh what is life if love be lost,

 If mans unkind to man? Or what the heaven that waits beyond This brief and mortal span ? As stars upon the tranquil sea,

 In minute glory shine, So words of kindness in the heart

 Reflect the source divine. Oh then be kind whoe'er thou art

 That breathes the mortal breath And it shall brighten all thy life,

 And sweeten even death.
Year: 1878

Now that the harvest is nearly over it is ascertain ed beyond a peradventure that the wheat and barley crop in Salt River Valley is large. The Gila Valley usually produces an enor- nous quantity of that grain but this year very little has been raised there, ow- ing to the lack of water for irrigation. The late abundant rains will insure fodder in the Northern part of the Territory but it has come to late for the corn, so that crop will be nearly a failure tlhs year. This state of affairs in the surrounding country will give. the farmers of Salt River Valley a market for all their grain at remuner- ative prices. Barley has advanced a quarter and wheat half a cent since har- vest began, with an up- ward tendency.
Year: 1878

Who keep at their old stand on the west side of the plaza being in unison with the best interests of the country, will continue to supply their patrons with anything usually found in a
Year: 1878

 Store at the very lowest price possible. They do not sell many times for cost but they sell at such a small advance on cost that all who desire to purchase will find 1t to their advan- tage to go there and buy. Having purchased the en- tire stock of the late firm of A. NJ. LANES & Co.,, they are prepared to sell many things at
Year: 1878

A correspondent Of L01od and Water
tells a well-credited story ola trout caught
in the act of swallowing a sparrow which
it had seized. The trout had been kept
for some time in an open shallow well
or spring, and had become very tame.
In the we'll was a flat stone, one end OF
which projected above the water. On
this small birds would alight to drink,
and the villagers suspected that more
than one of them had fallen victim to
the trout's rapacity. This Surmise prov
ed to be correct, for one day, while the
owner of the well was passing with
some friends, splashing in the water
caused them to turn and look. There
was the trout struggling hard to gulp
his prey. One of the spectators, fear
ing that the fish would be choked by the
wing feathers, thrust his hand into the
water and caught hold of them. But the
trout, unwilling to surrender any part
of his prize, held on resolutely, and the
feathers had to be taken from him by
force.
Year: 1878

Cardinal Cullen has given great shock to
the entire Catholic community throughout
Ireland. Although his health has been
feeble for many months no apprehension OF
his immediate death had been felt. He was
a very assiduous and hard worker, even up
to the day of his death. There is not par
ish throughout all Ireland where the news
of his death has not been received by the
people as a personal loss. The apparent
austerity of his demeanor had not prevent.
ed him from obtaining q very strong hold
on the affections of his people. Specula-
ton is already rife as to his probable sue,
cessor. The name of the Most Reverend
Archbishop of Cashel, DR.. Crooke, is men
toned as one likely to be appointed. The
whole city presents the appearance OF
mourning.
Year: 1878

as the best spot to purge himself. Press
bent on interviewing him, have
hunted him high and low. but thus far


without success The rumor of his recanta-
ton is believed. and it is thought certain


that he is somewhere in the city.
Year: 1878

We are able to consider the relations
of intermatter in worlds where gravity
is SO small as it must be in the Martian
moons. 1t has been said, by myself
among others, that building and ali en-
gineering processes would be much easier
in world where gravity is very small
than in our own world. Bat if less ar


duous, so far as mere labor is concerned,
they would in some respects be far more
difficult. Much more skill would be re.
quired to give adequate stability to
buildings, made even of the most solid
materials, in a world where all weights
are so much reduced. Suppose even


platinum were available in sufficient
quantities for architectural purposes, yet
block of platinum of given size would


press downward with less force there than
block of deal wood OF about one.
twentieth of its size on our earth. Whe-


we'll has we'll described, in his Bridge


water treatise, the effects of g great re-


duction in the force of gravity, though


he is not there considering life in other"
worlds, but the Importance (Which many


are apt to overlook) of those portions of
our earth's frame which lie far below the


deepest mines ever yet dug by men. If


the interior of our Garth could be


scooped out and removed, we should,


in fact, suffer from precisely the


same inconveniences as would affect


creatures like ourselves living in the


moons of Mars. We should indeed find


ourselves, living like them, in dread and


terror. Things" as Whewell truly
saws, e"would not lie where we placed


them, but would slide away with the
slightest push. We should have diff
Guilty in standing or walking, something
like that we have on shipboard when the
deck is inclined and we sheuld stagger
helplessly through an atmosphere thinner
than that which oppresses the respiration
of the traveller on the tops of the highest
mountains" "It is hard" says the
ingenious writer in the Spectator, to
conceive even one-storied house hold
ing together" in the Martian moon
world; "against any serious lateral
blows" Projectiles would be no less
deadly than in our own worldi but the
range which projectiles such as ou1s
would obtain in such werld would
render close fighting impossible, on the
one hand, and efficient aiming impossible
on the other. A Krupp cannon, for in
stance, whose greatest range on our earth
is, let US say, five miles, would on the Mar
tian moon fire a projectile which would
leave the moon forever, and the recoil of
the cannon would probably carry it half
a dozen miles away from the firing point.
Much weaker projectile force would have
to be employed, and less mischief would
he done on this account, and also because
any living body struck by one OF these
proiectiles would give away before it
much more readily than similar body
similarly struck on our own earth
Richara A. Proctor, in Bslgravsa.
Year: 1878

walking~jacket of the same, warmly lined
with flannel and trimmed as simply as
the polonaise.


The brocaded camel's-hair is very
handsome. especially that in which
threads Of gilt or silver are introduced:


White mateIassee silk is used for the
most elegant opera cloaks; but if you
cannot afford this, get white, cream
colored, or else pale blue camel's-hsir.
Year: 1878

They are Always at the Gata
They are always at the gate,


Are the poor;
And at early morn and late
Come these beings deaolatr,


Seeking more.
Freely as Col gives to you


Give to the poor,
Trust Him, for he shall rpstcrr
t!l you give to them, and more
Never clos" to them toe door.


To the pooY
Year: 1878

A large proportion of the Bavaxlan
peasantry, unf6rtnnateIy enSertaIn the
superstitious notion that fire kindled by
lightning is not to be extinguished.
When such an accident happens they
are discouraged, and 40 scarcely any
thing to check the progress OF the
flames. A funeral must never pass
through titled field, not even IN wnlS.
ter, though it might considerably shols,
en- the way. The peasant is fully per<4
suaded that field through which fun
eraI has passed becomes barren. Except
on extraordinary occasions, no funerals
are allowed on Mondays and Fridays. A
peasant who is In search of a wife never
goes. except on a Thursday or Sunday,
into the house where he expects to make
his choice. The bride and bridegroom are
not to give their bare hand to anybody
on the day of their marriage except
to each other at the altar. otherwise they
are threatened with poverty during the
whole course of their union. It is also
a very bad sign if, when the bride re-
turns from church, she finds anybody
IN the threshold of her door. When
y0ung girl finds leaf of trefoil divided
into four instead of three parts, it is
sign that she will be married within
year; at all events, she carefully pre-
serves this leaf to her wedding day. On
Christmas Eve the countrymen are ac-
customed to frequently drive ont in
sledges. They think that this will cause
their hemp to be more abundant and
higher. They do not fail to visit the
ale house, and to drink heartily the same
evening; being convinced that this is
the way to make them look well till the
following Christmas. They never de-
stroy crickets by fire, being persuaded
that those which. escape will destroy
their linen and clothes. When peasant
loses his way in the wood after sunset
he avoids calling any person to show
him the way, being convinced that in
any such case the evil spirit of the forest
would canse him to plunge still deeper
into Its recesses. 81
Year: 1878

Owing to our temporary absence
up the Sound during the past week,
two or three departments Of our reg
ular news will be unrepresented in
this issue. Look out for lots of ne ws
though next week, including another
interesting Alaska letter and also
two or three from Washington City.
Year: 1878

AN APPEAL BY HoN-MoRMoN WOMEN OF UTAH


SALT LAKE CITY. Nov. 7. 1878.


The following was adopted at meeting OF non-
Mormon women Of this city to-day


To Mrs. r. B. HAYES AND THE WOMEN or THE
plapted on the shores Of the Great Salt Lake. During
these years Congress has utterly failed to enact ef
great crime. and believe that more of these
unlswful and unhallowed alliances have been consum
history Of the MORMON . Church n Endowment houses
under the name Of temples being erected in differ
ent parts OF the country costing millions 1t is i'm
possible to ascertain the exact number Of poygamous
marriages, for they consecrated in these endow
ment houses an institution Gentle is permitted to
enter where brotherhood and sisterhood
sealed and bound by oaths SO strong that even apos
tates Will not reveal them and to mention which wit
nesses on the witness stand unblushingly perjure
themselves and on the jury of late all considerations
or oatn ana duty are disregarded Considering all
our surroundings polygamy has never taken such de-
grazing and debasng form In any nation or among any
people above the condition Of barbarians in Utah.
1t Is degrading to man and woman curse to children
which the civilization of nations depends, and there
are things that cannot be printed repeated that
dnce % the system to the lowest form Of indecency.
Ihat should be pracced in the and under the
CLOAK OF religion and that apostle polygamst with
four acknowledged wives is permitted to sit in Con-
grcss only adds to the enormity Of ~the crime
and makes 1t more revolving to our common Chris
tian principles. Our Legislature is composed almost
entirely Of polygamsts and members of the Mormon
pr1estnood, ana they have thrown around polygamy
every possible safeguard in their power. The right
OF dover has been abolished to break down the dis
tinction between the lawful wife and concubine.
The Mormons are rapidly extending their set
Elements into Arizona. Idaho. New Mexico and
wyoming. They have the balance Of power in
two Territories. and are without doubt plotting
for II in others. We call upon Christian women OF
tho United States to join in urging Congress to
power the courts to further progress of this
evil and to delay the admtance Of Utah into State
hood until this Ia accomplished; and ask you to
circulate and publish our appeal in order to arouse
the public sentiment. which should be against
abomination that peculiarly Expresses and stigma
tzes women.


It is our purpose to ask to apettiondesigned
for Congress- and hope also that every minister Of
the gospel will commend it to the women Of his
gregaton, and that all Christian associations will do
what they to obtain signatures. With the cordial
cooperation and concerted action of the Christian
women Of our land we may confidently hope that the
great sin Of polygamy may be abolished.
Year: 1878

She next ran in the City and Suburban st EPSON.
when she was unplaced. Her third appearance was
In the Newmarket Spring Handicap. st the Newman
ket second spring meeting. when she again un-
placed She next ran in the Royal Hunt Cup at Ascot
and was second to Julius Cesar seventeen being be-
hind her at the finish.
Year: 1878

MANCHESTER April ia strong movement
is on loot among the cotton operatives to avert
the impending strike. An effort will be made
10 secure an acceptance of five per cent re-
ductiOn by the masters and men.
Year: 1878

A LESSON FOR GAMBLERS.-Edward F. Ma
Surett, cashier of the fremont house, Boston.
shot himself in the head Saturday. and will
probably die from the wound. Having lost
the funds of the house at faro, he confessed
the fact and sought to compromise the matter


but the pfoprietors sent for An officer, and he
Year: 1878

TAKING TINE BY EHE FORELOCK.-In view
OF the possibility of the passage by Congress of
an income tax law, the Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue is taking steps to ascertain from
the different collectors throughout the country
what extra force would be required to carry
such law into effect.
Year: 1878

A Ill operations executed in the most scien-
n tiic manner. Teeth Extracted ABso-
LuTELY WITHOUT PAIN, by the use Of PURE
Nitrous Oxide Gas Artificial Teeth inserted
by new principle of suction which prevents
them from becoming loose in the mouth None
but the PUREsT MATERIAL used The BEST
WORK for the LEAST MONEY. viii visit Rail-
road Stations, when requested, either In per-
son, or will send a competent Operator, for
whose work will be responsible.


oct3P77-tf.
Year: 1878

The Catholic Review publishes some
" Five Minute Sermons" by the Paulist
Fathers. Last week it had one On Let
every man be swift to hear, but slow to
speak" The preacher made use OF these
illustrations:


A story is told of crazy man who, in
some very lucid interval, asked friend
if he could tell the difference between
himself and the people who were consid-
cred to be of sound mind. His friend,
curious to see what he would say, said,
" No, what is it?" " Well" said the
crazy man, cit is that [ say all that
comes into my head, while you other
people keep most of it to yourselves.


My friends, am afraid that the crazy
man was about right, but he was too
complimentary in his judgment of others.
By this rule there would be great many
people in the asylums whe are now at
large. Really, it seems as if it never
occurred to some persons, who are sup
posed to be in their right minds, whether
their thoughts had better be given to the
world or not. Out they must come, no
matter whether wise or foolish, good or
bad.


Yes, the madman, for once in his life,
was pretty nearly right. One who talks
without consideration, who says every
thing that comes into his or her head, is
about as much lunatic as those who are
commonly called 30. For such will have
one day to give an account for all their
foolish and inconsiderate words, long
after they themselves have forgotten
them. And to carelessly run up this
account is very crazy thing.


A little instrument has lately been
, invented, as you no doubt have heard
which will take down everything you
say. 1t is called the phonograPh. II
makes little marks in sheet of tinfoil
and by means of these it will repeat fol
you all you have said, though it may
have quite passed out of your own mind
There are great many uses to which
this little instrument may be put +; but
think that one of the best would be to
make people more careful of what thes
say. They would think before they
spoke, if phonogrsph was around. Few
people would like to have record KEEP
of their talk, ready to be turned off a
moments notice. 1t would sounC
rather silly, if no worse, when it was 1
day or two old.


Perhaps the phonograph will never b
used in this way, but there is a record o
all your words on something NOR
durable than a sheet of tinfeil. Thi


record is in the book from which yol
will be judged at the last day. Our Lor'
has told us at that day we shall have no
only to hear, but to give an account fe


all the idle words spoken in our lives
Baptist Weekly.
Year: 1878

DEInklHS DEdnttN III GHS AdhN'
1 took the train to Birmingham at
about o'clock in the afternoon. My
carriage companion was q beautiful
woman, and her beauty impressed me
the more because of its delicate char
acter, and because she was the first really
pretty woman of her class that had yet
seen in England. She was just tall
enough to be noticeably so, and the noble
elegance of her figure could not be con-
cealed by her travelling dress. This was
long garment OF soft texture and light
color, buttoned from the throat to the
lower hem with buttons of the same tint
as that of the dress. Her hat, or her
bonnet, was also of the same material,
and was without ornament of any kind.
In her dainty ears were small, dull gold
earrings, set with turquoises, which were
matched by the brooch which confined
the lace frill around her lovely throat.
Her eyes were blue; her brow fair; her
mouth had the childlike sweetness which
Murillo gave to the lips of his virgins;
in expression her face was cherubic.
She apparently had no other luggage
than small leather bag which she put
into the rack above our heads. We sat
in silence, for there WAS no occasion of
my speaking to her, and she looked
mostly out Of the window.


After we had passed one or two more
stations she took down the little hand
bag, opened it, took out bottle snd a
small silver cup, and turning herself
somewhat more to the window, poured
something into a cup and drank it off
at draught. L did not see what she
drank, but in an instant ] knew. The
perfume filed the whole carriage. 1t
was brandy; and the overpowing Odor
with which was surrounded told me of
the strength of her draught as well as if
1 had mixed her grog myself, or had
Joined her in social cup. AT this was
not so much astonished as 1 should have
been two or three DAYS before, for at the
Birmingham festival had seen, during
the internal between the two parts of
morning performance, potations of the
same kind by ladies of whose respecta-
bility there could be no question: At
lantic Monthly.
Year: 1878

Would that my master could but see
The Prophet of the LsTd; for he
Would heal him of his leprosy !"
So spake the little captive maid
Unto her mistress, half afraid


And so to-day speak We.
"W Would that my shild,' so prays her sire,
NV ehfId-the child Ct my desire
But felt Gods love, or feared His ire
Life. with its sins fast from her throbs,
And the end thereof "-the old man sobs-


1.-The end thereof is fire
"W Guild" saith wife, my husband could
Amid life's hunger have the food
Amid Hie's fever, the calm mood
Which come to them that love His name
Who bore dishonOr for their fame,


And evil for their good =
GO, would to God my brother knew"
His sister saith, s. what fair flowers grew
In Gods dear garden, and be too
Would come and gather them all day,
And we would wander In the way


Where walk the happy few"
One to another thus they speak,
Or muTmur out of hearts that breek-
Nay, lift your heads the thiog ye seek
Is higher to you than you dream;
Look up 10, the q is JordAns stream,


And there the Prophet meek
Year: 1878

Reaumur states that for twenty years
he endeavored, without success, to dis
cover the materials employed by wasps
in forming the blue-gray papery sub
stance so much used in the structure of
their nests. One day, however, he saw
a female wasp alight on a sash of a win
dow, and it struck him while watching
her gnawing away the wood with her
mandibles that it was from such materi-
ais she formed the substance which 80
long puzzled him. He saw her detach
from the wood bundle of fbres about
the tenth of an inch in length and finer
than a hair, as she did not swallow
them, but gathered them into mass
with her feet, he had no doubt but that
his opinion was correct. In short time
ne saw her shift to another part of the
window, and carry with her the 6bres
which she had collected, and to which
she continued to add. He then caught
her, and began to examine her bundle,
and found it was neither yet moistened 4
nor rolled into ball, as it is always done
before being used by the wasp in her
building. He also noticed that before
detaching the fibres she bruised them
into a kind of lint with her mandibles.
All this he initiated with his pen-kniie,
bruising and pairing the same wood till
it resembled the fbres collected by the
wasp; and so he discovered how wasps
manufactured their paper; for these
ibres are kneaded together in kind oi
paste, and when the wasp has formed q
ball of them she spreads it out into 8
leaf nearly as thin as tissue paper, and
this she accomplishes by moving back.
ward, and levelling it with her mandi.
bles, her tongue and her teeth. And sc
the wasp forms paper, placing layer upon
layer, fifteen or sixteen sheets deep, and
thus preventing the earth from falling
down into her nest.