smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

4 feat upon which the Arab hunter
prides himself is to capture an ostrich.
Being very shy and cautious, and living
on the sandy plains, where there is little
chance to take it by surprise, it can be
captured only by we'll planned and long
continued pursuit on the swiftest horse.
The ostrich has two curious habits in
running when alarmed. 1t always starts
with outsprcad wings against the wind,
so that it can scent the approach Of an
enemy. Its sense OF smell is so keen
that it can detect person ut Il great dis
tance long before he can be seen. The
other curious habit is that of running in
a circle. USUALLY five or six estriches
are found in company. When discovered,
part of the hunters, mounted on fleet
horses, will pursue the birds, while the
other hunters will gallop away at right
taken. When these hunters have gone
far enough to cross the paths the birds
will be likely to take, they watch upon
some rise of ground for their approach.
If the hunters hit the right place and
see the ostriches, they at once start IN
pursuit with fresh horses, and sometimes
but often one OF two of the fleet horses
fall, completely tired out with SO sharp
q chase
Year: 1877

The future is always q fairy-land to
the young. Life is like a beautiful
winding lane, on either side bright
flowers and beautiful butterflies and
tempting fruits, which we scarcely
pause to admire and to taste, so eager
are we to hasten to an opening which we
imagine VIII be more beautiful still.
But by degrees, as we advance, the trees
grow bare, the flowers and butterflies
fail, the fruits disappear, and We find We
have reached a desert waste.
Year: 1877

There was sudden sensation in on
Oakland Church on late Sunday. II
appears that young lady member Of
the choir became so anxious to exam.
inc certain exasperatingly pretty
bonnet in a pew back under the organ
loft. that she lost her balance, and
turned n somersault down upon the
unsuspecting congregation. The min
ister had only reached "tenthly," when
he was shocked by dissolving view
of striped stdckings; and the million
aire underneath had just selected hi,
smallest coin for the heathen, when 9
pair Of two-inch heels took him in tht
back Of the neck like the last dying
lick Of pile-driver. When the dust
cleared away, the church was found
to be empty, and since then the fiocl
have meekly, but firmly informed the
vestry that unless the choir is fenced
in, or q net stretched over the head,
Of the congregation, as required b,
law, they will stay away from tn,
sanctuary.
Year: 1877

The RULING PASSION STRONG IN
DEBr.-One of the discoveries made
by the latest arctic explorers is that
the length of the polar night is one
hundred and forty.two days. "What
a glorious place that would be-" says
Brown. "in which to tell a man with
bill to call round the day after to,
morrow and get his money"
Year: 1877

CURLING A SWITCH OF NATURAL
HArR.-Comb it out nicely and oil it;
roll tightly on muslin rags, four Of
them; fasten by sewing; boil for hall
an hour in soap suds; sponge them
and set to dry in any warm place,
still leaving them done up; allow a
full week for drying; longer would be
better; separate and brush carefully
on curling-stick without wetting.- =


New York Times.
Year: 1877

We have a brief telegraphic synopsis
this morning Of a speech by Fred. Doug.
lass to some cOlOred people at his old
home in Maryland, Among other advice
given to his brethren was an appeal to
them to save thsir money and accumulate
property. Otherwise he saw very little
In the future for them. "a poor people,"
said he, "is always a despised people"
aud for the reason (amons other things)
that "without money there is no leisure
without leisure there ia no thought; with.
out thought there is no progress" "If,"
said Fred, "in 20 years from now the
colored race as race shall not
advance beyond the point where it
stood when emancipated it is a
doomed race" This last statement sounds
somewhat despondent and ominous, com.
ing from representative Of the colOred
race, but there is not 40 nuchin II as one
might think. It is not possible that the
Colored race can occupy twenty years
hence their mental status "A il existed at
the time Of emancipation, Already they
have immensely advanced. Thousands
and tens OF thousands Of them can read
and write. Twenty years hence they will
be a tolerably we'll educated people-bet-
ter educated than the poor whites Of Vir.
. GINA in the days Of Democracy and
slavery, BY tho census OF 1850 there
10000 grown mp white men and women
in Virginia who could not read and write.
The war emancipated not only the blacks
hut the poor whites of the South from the
thraldOm Of ignorance.


Douglass advice to the negroes IL good,
and yet the day is far Of, we fear, when
they will act on it nS people. They
have struggle before them in the South
more hopeless in some respects than that
Of the Jews in Europe during the middle
ages. They lack the force Of character
to enable them, in the very near future
to overcome a constitutional predisposi'
lion to spend money faster than they earn
it. They work hard, and are working
more persistentIy and effectively every
year, and yet they spend their money tt





very little profit. The present genera
tipu must needs disappear before The
spirit Of thrift can be properly in'pired
in them. And until this spirit does pos
Sess them to much greater extent than
at present they will be powerless polit'
ical element.
Year: 1877

PRACTICAL APPLICATION By The POS MASTER


GENERAI-No MAN TO BE REMOVED EXCEPT


FOR CAUSE.


lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRiBuNHl


WAsHrSGTON, March 2.-POstmaster-General
Kew had talk with South Carolina gentleman to-
day that Republicans may take an indication of
what his methods are to be. This man appeared at
the department with a petition for an appointment
TO be postmaster at Columbia S. G., very nunerously
signed by persons OF prominence various parts of
the State lie was exceedingly aggressive in his
manner and evidently expected that his papers
woud receive immediate attention aud favorable
action. When MIR. Key obtained chance TO talk
he asked the man who held the Office now.- A col
ored man was the reply, "whO OF course, ought to
DO put out at once" Mr. Key asked if he mismanaged
the office The man said he had not heard about that
On being questioned more closely. he was oblged to
admit that he had heard nocOmplaints on the score
of efncency Then" said Mr.. Key, " there are
only two ways in which he can be displaced without
oppostion from me. One is by the army OF the
United States and the other is by the order OF the
President of the United States" Mr. Key followed
this with statement that there would he no ele-
ment of civil service reform In such change as
WAS urged and there was no intention on his
part TO neglect putting the principles OF CIVIL ser
vice reform into practical operation.
Year: 1877

The following nnecdote of the late
Senator Nye is told by the Virginia City
(Ncv.) Enterprise:


"He was telling us incidents of a jour
ney to Europe, from which he had then
Just returned. Among the rest, he said
the sultan of Turkey ordered in his
honor, as q senator of the United States,
n grand review of the army in Constanti-
nople, and the grand vizier mounted
him upon steed which he described as
magnificent. Said Nye: He was q
pure Arabian. He had coat like vel
vet he felt like myriad of steel springs
beneath man his eye was between a
lions and woman's, with all the collr.
age of the one and all the human gentle
ness and beauty of the other blended
he knew I was an old man and was as
tender of me as q child. When l dis
mounted I could not refrain from ex-
pressing to the grand vizier my admira-
ton for the incompatible creature. He
heard me through an interpreter, and
then, bowling low, begged me to accept
the horse as mark of the profound re-
gard which the sultan entertained for
me- Did you accept him, senator {?
we asked. A peculiar look came into the
old mans eyes as he replied Il made a
rapid calculation anl saw that I had not
enough money, and could send to nc
place for enough money, to pay the
freight on the animal to New York, SO
took high ground. I bowed low in re,
turn to the grand vizier, and bade the
Interpreter explain to him that while
touched to the heart by this appreciation
and generosity Of the sultan, it was,
was sorry to say, against the laws of my
country for q senator of the United
States to accept n present from any for.
eign prince, potentate or power.
Year: 1877

Lingering labors> come to naught.


Dull not device by coldness and delay.


The steps of faith fall on the seeming
void, and find the rock beneath.


A cheerful face is nearly as good for an
invalid as healthy weather.


Though fame is smoke, its fumes are
frankincense to human thoughts.


He only is An acute observer who can
observe minutely without being OBJ
served.


Faith is the root of all good works. A
root that produces nothing is dead.


Let us fear the worst, but work with
faith the best will always take care of
itself.


The proper means of increasing the
love we bear our native country is to re-
side in foreign one.


Philosophy is modest profession; it
is MI reality and plain dealing. We hate
solemnity and pretence, with nothing
but pride at the bottom.


The pleasure of being master of ones
self and of ones passions should be bal
anced with that of controlling them; it
will rise above, if we know what is
liberty.


Perseverance merits neither blame nor
praise; it is only the duration of or in
clinations and sentiments, which we can
neither create nor exting1lish.


The most positive men are the most
credulous, since they most believe them
selves, and advise most with their falsest
fatterer and their worst enemy, their own
self-love.


Perseverance is one of the primitive
impulses of the human heart; one of the
indivisible primary faculties or senti-
ments which give direction to the char
acter of man.


Whenever you commend, add your
reasons for doing so; it is this which dis
tinguishes the appreciation of man of
sense from the fattery of sycophants and
admiration Of fools.


The love of country produces good
manners, and good manners also produce
the love of country. The less we satisfy
our particular passions, the more We
leave to our general.
Year: 1877

the approaching train-to tell them to
go on, for all was well. On to their
doom


She dashed across the railway track,
flung the reins to an amazed bystander,
and, striking the white lantern from
the hand of the astonished official, she
seized the ominous red lantern from its
hook, and springing upon the track,
waved it in the very teeth of the coming
train.


Two sharp, short whistles told her that
her signal was seen, and moment later
the train came to a stop, and the officers
rushed out to learn what it all meant.


Floss told them in few brief words,
and one of the men at the station went
forward to confer with the train from
Golosha, which had not yet been tele-
graphed from the next station beyond.


The man waited fifteen minutes before
Kirke's train slid on to the siding, and it
was then known that but for the decision
of one young girl, the two trains must
have collided four miles beyond Deer
ing's Cut.


When told the story Kirke looked at
his watch


The man from the station looked at
his.


Kirkc's was ten minutes behind time


You want to know how it happened.
Certainly you must have guessed. HALL
day did it, A man was found the neAt
day who confessed to have seen Jack
tampering with the time pieces in the
engine house thst night, but he had
thought nothing Of it, he said.
Jack? Oh, he left town, and was last
heard of in Australia. His little game
was not success.


A few months later, Kirke was married
to Floss Whately, for being ten minutes
behind time.
Year: 1877

When you see young fellow standing
on corner with far away look in his
ewes and bit of yarn on each of tie last
two fingers of his hand. you may be tol-
erably sure that he has just begun keep
ing house, and that he is muttering to
himself "Chopping bowl, eggs,
clothes line-that's the thumb ano first
two fingers. Now, what did she want on
the other two fingers ?"
Year: 1877

The Hindoo widow, though no longer
burnt on the funeral pyre of her hus-
band, is subject to process for the rest
of her life which may sometimes cause
her to doubt whether her latter state is
really any better than that which British
law terminated. omatter how beautiful
the young widows tresses, they are
cropped off, all her ornaments are taken
away, the very notion of second
marriage regarded as worse than murder,
and the poor thing never permitted to
leave her room. This is simply the sub
stitute of imprisonment for life in place
of death.
Year: 1877

and in which I hope for the sympathy
and help of the country-bound farmers
wives and daughters-a scheme which
promises what seems the easiest, If not
the only, relief for the dullness and
desolation of living which make Ameri-
can farming. athsome to 30 many who
ought to glory in it's pursuit, but who
now are only bound to it by command
ing necessity."
Year: 1877

In Los Angeles, CAL, a benevolent fam
lily took in a tramp and nursed him during
a long sickness. And now he sues for
pay for little work that he did about
the house while he was recovering.
Year: 1877

One Killed and Many Seriously Injured.
q New YORK, Aug. 9.-The engine and four
cars, three being filed with passengers, on the
New Jersey Central road were thrown from
the drawbrIdge at Oceanport en- route to Long
water, which was fortunately shallow. More
than thirty were injured, few seriously and
one fatally. The cause of the accident is not
yet determined. Several of the passengers
say the draw was not quite closed, but the
engineer and other train officers think the
engine and baggage car were safely on the
draw before the train was thrown off and
attribute it to motion of the bridge,


Two of the passenger cars were thrown
down an embankment and the third fell plump
into the water. while the fourth became un-
coupled and remained standing on the track.
The third car contained fifty-five passengers.
When it fell into the creek the water was
waist high. There were many women and
children in the car, and their shrieks were
terrible to hear. With great difficulty some of
them were extricated.
Year: 1877

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-The Sun states that the
New York Central & Lake Shore Railroad is in
uolved in difficulty on account of orders Civ
en- by the officials at the beginning of the re-
cent labor troubles. When Vanderbilt learned
that the men proposed to strike, instead of
waiting for them to do so, he telegraphed all
along the line of the Central & Lake Shore to
stop the trains at midnight and would not allow
them to run until the differences between the
men and corporation had been adjusted.
While the blockade was going on large guam
titles of perishable freight were ruined,
and great numbers of cattle either died from
hunger or thirst and became unfit for market.
If trains had been stopped by the rioters, it
would have been question whether the ship
pers of pershable freight could have recovered
from the companies. but as the officials were
responsible for the detention, the lawyers say
the corporation can be made to pay.
Year: 1877

who had no moral support behind them, wheth-
er the next Congress would appropriate any
money to pay the army for the last year or for
the next. The great olundeI was made when
the Congress OF the United States refused to
follow the lead of that statesman, Charles Sum-
Der, (lOud applause) who wanted to keep them
territories until cured of their heresies He
did not see why the Convention should not give
the endorsement of President Hayes as pro-
posed by Gov. Chamberlain. Great appause.)


Speech of Senator Elaine.


As Senator Blaine arose to speak he was
greeted with deafening applause, and it was
some time before he could proceed. He spoke
as follows:


do not rise to speak for an endorsement of
the administration or against it, for the South
ern policy or in opposition to 1t, but beg to
say an earnest word for the harmony and sue
cess of the Republican party in Maine. cloud
applause.) The resolution offered by my ex-
cellent friend, the President of Bowdoin Col
lege; and the substitute moved by my friend of
the Bangor Whig, show plainly the difference
that exists in the ranks of the Republican par
ty. This difference existing, what shall be
done about it? Shall one man be compelled to
swallow the opinions of the other, or shall not
eacn nave tne nperty TO cherish his own? Mr..
Lincoln used to say that on matters of admin
istration he was often compelled to do as the
old farmer in Illinois, who, when he could not
grub the stump or burn it, just quietly plough
ed around IL.


am opposed to both these resolutions, and T
believe l represent the wishes of vast majors
ty of this large convention when l move to lay
them both on the table and then have direct
vote on the resolutions reported from the COM
mittee. am known perhaps by every member
OF this convention to entertain very decided
views on the Southern question, but am just
as ready to vote against resolution condemn
ing. the Presidential policy as l am to vote
against one approving it. We cannot take ac-
tion either way without offending good men
and creating needless heart -burnings and dis
sensions. We can all unite on a strong plat
form, embracing issues which we hold in COM
mon. We can all rally as one man to the sup
port of Gov. Connor. We can all be tolerant
of each others opinions. We can all remem-
ber and adopt the old theological maxim which
teaches that 'In essentials there should be
unity, in Don-essentials liberty, in all things
charity" Great and prolonged applause


The arguments urged for the adoption Of "a
resolution approving the Southern policy. On
Year: 1877

And in accordance with law and order OF The Board Of
Trustees made and entered the l4th day of August A
D. 1877 many of such designated shares of stock be-
longing and standing in the of the shareholders
aforesaid shall and will be necessary psy the
upon all shares held and owned by such shareholders


standing in their upon the books of the company
will be sold public auction the office of said company
in the office of Trenmor Coffin in Carson CITY Nevada
Year: 1877

Presently tho stiffness Of the court room
was interrupted by tho entrance of a man
who came in with shufiling uneasy step,
and leaning against the railing. Nobody
took the slightest notice of him, however.
At last he took courage and spoke.


" Is the judge in?"


The clerk Immediately awoke his honor.


"Well, what do you want?"


"Im looking for a job, your honor. I've
been looking for work over month"


"There's nothing for you here"


| thought yc occasionally gave jurymen a
job. | don't read the newspapers and
boin' stranger in town haven't got any
prejudices agin' anybody. A pard of mine
wrote down to ME at Reno last week, and
said that the jury business up here was
brisk, an it would pay to come up. AS
I'm stranger to you and little hard up
I'll start in and serve for a case or two for
half price till you kin see what l kin do p


"What are your main qualifications ~


3" My strong suit is maxim jury agree.
No juries ever get hung if I'm on em.
just lay low till they take the first ballot,
then jine the majority and argue the rest
into it. can discount any lawyer talking.
can show EN- up points they never tum-
bled to before. Sometimes | have to use
force, but seldom. Once, down at Truclee,
in murder case, there were couple of
fellers standin out agin' hangin', and after
arguing with 'em as smooth and gentle
manly as | could for over a quarter of an
hour, | went for EN- with chairs, and by
the time Id busted half dozen pieces
of furniture over EN- they was glad to
come in with verdict of murder in the
first degree and the feller was hung not
long aftcrward. In these justice courts |
can get on the jury, and if you'll just give
me wink as to how you want the case to
90, III guarantee to fetch in the verdict
you want, or not take a cent"


The man was told to drop round again
in day or so and they would try and
make a vacancy for him. In order to dc
it, however, some regular juryman will
probably have to be discharged. Tirg1iio
Cfty CHroa;cIc
Year: 1877

| would not take any consideration for
the first two or three years of my mar
ricd life. | was settled on a salary of $4OO
in the county of Dearborn and tho town of
Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and with 5000 of
it | came east and married my wife, and
got back to Lawrenceburg, with eighteen
cents in my pocket! lived in the second
story of house that was without door,
yard in front, but that unfortunately had
one in the rear which was the pigs COM
mon. One room of the rooms was Inv
cellar, my kitchen and my dining room all
together. In those two rooms spent the
first two or three years of my married life
and every day was a problem every day
we set in battle array the question of
economy every day we studied how to
make the most of the least, and to make
eXpedients satisfy US when we had not the
substance. 1t was very active play, and as
| was young and handsome, and my wife
was young and discreet, we to this day look
back with pleasure to those early days, in
our small quarters of two rooms, when
(now am confossing l may as well tell the
whole), l wore Judge Burnett's clothes,
and our carpet was given to us, and every
thing in the rooms were given to us. If
the articles of furniture were oddly
matched, it was no fault of ours; for they
came from the different persons who had
diffent ideas of housekeeping. And yet,
little as there would seem to have been to
feed the imagination, look back upon
those happy years, and would not part with
the memory Of them for countless gold.
Henry Ward Beecher.