smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

push on for home. The junlls had gone
about, but we knew that they were
doomed, and the roar of the broadside
soon informed us that it would be quick
work. ALI Wing never moved. He
would have kept that revolver pointed
at tile Cinnamon until doomsday, had
not told him that he might put it away.


AL How and "Buddha" took the
guns below, and made everything tidy,
and we had hardly rounded Paoushan
Point when All Wing came up and said (:


"1hat cook makee enquire what thing
you likee chow chow" "(eat).


We had y jolly dinner the next night.
Lieutenant Graham and couple of his
officers came just in time. They had
handed the survivor of the junks' crews
over to the Chinese authorities, in whose
care our rascally lowdah also was. They
had made short work of their fight, and
had no casualties. When the cloth was
removed, I tried to get Manson to make a
speech, but the only thing I could get
him to say was that he was never less
bored in his life than during the skirm-
ish.


lave not seen him for years. He
drifts between the Old and the New
World, and when I last wrote to him I
quoted Hawthorne's expression about
the danger of doing so until the only in
heritance left him in either was the six
feet for his final resting-place. But, MS
I had before insisted to my group in the
smoEing-room, it is a great mistake to
Judge by appearances, and | am surer of
nothing than that / shall never see a
finer fellow, on this side of Jordan, than
MY friend, the man without enthusiasms.
Year: 1879

There are certain disagreeable people
in this world who seem to take special
delight in annoying others by reminding
them of things they would willingly for
get. They are human thorns, forever
torturing their fellow-men for the sa Ike Of
torture. Has man met with q misfOr


tune in business. they are forever recall
ing the fact. Has man in times that
are gone wandered into devious paths,
they are forever reminding him of it,
often by congratulating him that that is
past. Has a man blundered, they are
forever telling him what might have
been" When the thorn is Of the mascu-
line gender, there is. one way of getting
relief. He can be knocked down and
taugltma When the thorn is of the
feminine gender, the case is different and
not SO easily disposed of. But Causeur
hears of one such scourge in petticoats
who got her deserts the other evening.
1t was at little party, where some score
of people where gathered together. The
thorn sat near a young man who, in days
gone by, had been guilty of foliSes that
cost him dearly. He had put them all
behind him. But the thorn tool occa-
sion to recall them, in subdued and
confidential tone. The victim. who had
been subjected to the same torture before,
spoke up so that all could hear:
Madam" he said, for five years |
have been trying TO forget all that. You
have been trying to remember it. You
have succeeded better than l. Icengratu-
late you.n The thorn subsidized.
Year: 1879

A lover of certain cut OF beefsteak is
like a plucky prize-fghter, always ready
for another round.


The most economical man is reported as
living in the second ward. He took a
bung hole to the cooper to have barrel
made around it.


Ar exchinge asks: "Why do the horns
of COW grow up and the tail DOWN." We
suppose it is because the horns do not grow
down and the tail does not growup. If this
is not the answer we give it up.


A Roman says he has figured ont the
cause of the failures that overtake business
men. When he went to school he was
taught that the world was the shape of an
orange---round, but little hattened at the
poles. lie says that is where the trouble
lies. If the world had not been fattened
at the poles everything would have gone on
all right.


A painter, who had already put seven
coats of paint on the walls, demonstrated
with the lady of the house because she
wanted him to put on another coat, just to
change the tint little. "Why not put on
more?" she said. "What will be the
harm {" "Well, madam, if you keep on,
you will take up all the room with paint,
and then you will have no space for your
furniture" Butshe insisted, and at last ac-
counts he was still paihting.-Roms Sentinel.
Year: 1879

The ancient custom of throwing an
old slipper after the bride as she leaves
her home is still in many places be-
lieved to bring luck to the happy couple.
But it may be a question whether the
old shoe was thrown for luck only. 1t
is stated in Holy Writ that the re- re-
ceiying of a shoe was an evidence and
symbol of rejecting or rcsigning it."
The latter is evidence in Deuteronomy,
twenty-iifth chapter, where the cere-
mony of widow rejecting her hus-
bands brother in marriage is by loosing
his shoe from off his foot. And in Ruth
we are told that " it was the custom in
Israel concerning changing that a man
plucked off his shoe and delivered it to
his neighbor." Hence the throwing of
u shoe after bride was symbol Of re-
nunciation Of dominion and authority
over her by her father or guardian, and
the receipt of the shoe by the bride


groom, even if accidental, was an omen
that the authority was transferred to
him.
Year: 1879

A correspondent, after bathing in the
Dead Sea, describes his experience in the
following words: The water, which is
quite clear, and nearly the color Of the
Niagara river below the falls, seemed to
me little more bitter and salty than that
of Salt lake, although brighter and more
attractive to the eye when S en- close at
hand. It's supporting power struck me as
n little greater, also, than that of Salt
lake, us the body floated more easily, and
the difficulty of swimming was greater
on account Cf the inability to keep ones
feet under water. So large quantity of
salt is held in solution that the water has
what is called, I believe, a "ropy" ap-
pearance. much like that Of plate of
well-made tapioca soup. l observed,
however, that when we came out OF the
water there was not so large deposit OF
salt crystals on the body rs after n bath
in Salt lake and the feeling of the skin,
instead of being dry and pricklyas l cX-
pccteG, was rather oily and sticky, Our
dinner that night was seasoned with salt
made from Dead Sea water by solar
evaporation: 1t was Il little lighter IN
color than the be tarticle of Thrown sugar.
It's CRYSTALS were large and hard. and,
though foreign substances were eVluenGly
present in considerable quantity, it was
not unpleasant to the taste. | was told
that two quarts of water will produce
one quart of salt, but this is probably an
exaggcration. To complete the statistics
of this remarkable body of water, | may
add, what rnany of my readers may al
ready know--that there is no living thing
of any kind in it; that even the drift
wood brought down by the floods in the
.Jordon is speedily cast upon its shores;
that its length is about forty-five and its
greatest width about ten miles; that it is
over 1900 feet at its deepest point; and
that the immense quantity of fresh water
poured into it daily is undoubtedly taken
up by evaporation, rs its great depth be-
low the basin of the Mediterranean must
preclude the idea of q subtcrranean out
let.
Year: 1879

A new experiment in surgery has been
tried in the New York Charity Hospital,
where two ounces Of human milk were
injected into the veins Of female
patient suffering from several assesses.
At the conclusion Of the operation the
doctor in charge said: "The patient
will suffer no harm from the operation,
and possibly she may be benefited.
However, l think that have seen
enough to convince me that the trans
fusion of milk should be abandoned rs
an unsuccessful operation. think we
will stick to blood hereafter" An<her
patient, also young woman, was then
subjected to the operation ofblood trans
fusion. She was in the last stage of
consumption. The blood was furnished
by n strong male attendant at the hos
pital, who had already been bled four
times in the same cause. He warned the
doctor that this was the last time that he
would consent to the operation, saying
he was getting too old to be able to spare
any blood. About three ounces of blood
were drawn from his arm, and the oper-
ator delibrinated it by stirring it with
a glass rod and straining it through q
piece of linen. Ammonia was then
mixed with the blood to prevent it from
coagulating, and care was taken to main.
tain the temperature at the normal
standard. Then vein was opened in
the patient, and the blood injected.
Year: 1879

The REPupIIc-This is the House that Sam
built.


THE PREsipsSoY-This is the Malt that lay
in the House that Sam built.


TrLDEY-This is the Rat that smelt the Malt
that lay in the House that Sam built.
The BALLor-This is the Cat that scratched
the Rat that wanted the Malt that lay
in the House that Sam built.


THE BuLLpozRR-This is the Dog that wor-
ried the Cat that chased the Rat that smelt
the Malt that lay in the House that Sam
built.


The RETURNING BoARD-This is the Cow
with the crumpled horn that gored the Dog
till his breath was gorn that snapped at the
Cat that hunted the Rat thatsmeltth the Malt
that lay in this House that Sam built
MANroY MARBLE-This is the Maiden all
iororn that millSed the mooly Cow Cn
horn) that kicked the Dog one dewy morn
that teased the Cat that scratched the Rat
that smelt the Malt that lay in the House
that Sam built.


NEyY PELroS-This is the Man all tattered
and torn that kissed the Maiden all for
lorn that tried to milk the mooly Cow that
kicked the Dog and raised a row that bull
lied the Cat that followed the Rat that
wanted the Malt that lay in the House
that Sam built


The TELEGRAPH-This is the Priest all
shattered and shorR that tried to marry
the Man Gorlorn to the milking Maid all
tattered and torn and them with bar'l o.
money endow when she was upset by the
mooly Cow that Aourisied a light and
Timber head that kicked the Dog till he
ceased to feel that bit the Cat that chased
the Rat that went for the Malt that lay
in the House that Sam built


TnE CIPHER DIsPATcHEs-T This is the mar
riase certificate that bound in the beautiful
bonds of fate the milking Maid all latter
ed and torn and the wealthy Nevy shatter-
ed aud shorn aud the whole copartner-
caboodle that fooled the Cow that kicked
the Poodle that bit no more the worried
Cat that made 1t warm for the pillaging
Rat that said at shant be none of my
fault il don't eat that nourishing Malt
that lies in the House that Sam built"
The TRIBUSE-This is the bold aud impu-
dent Boy that roared with glee and gig
gled with joy when he found the eompli-
Gated key that opened the halls Of Gram
orces to "the bright sunlight Of publicitee"
who when he found that his guess was
right rang all the "irebells in the night
and shouted under his tickled risible
"traces Of money darkly visible" and told
of the strong financial desire that crossed
! thousand miles Of wire and the lovers
who met a terrible fate that left them at
last in "a single State with the crumped
Cow with the irskey heel that kicked the
Dog that worried the Cat that chased the
Rat that missed the Malt that lay in tho
House that Sam built-N T. Graphie,
Year: 1879

THE NEW PUMP WoRKs.-There was q
conference Yesterday between the president I


and Board OF Directors OF the James River
and KanaWha Company and the chairman OF
tire Council Committee on Water and the City
Attorney, with reference to the use OF certain
of the company's property between Bosher's
dam and the Tbree-Mile locks for the pur-
pose OF the erection on the part OF the city
of the, new pump-Works now in contempla-
tion. The conference is said to have been
satisfac tory to all concerned.
Year: 1879

Can't Stay Aeuay.-Yestcrday morning
Captain Lipscomb arrested lunatic on
Hull street near the market and locked him
mn in the station. He is the same one that
was turned over to friends not long since,
who intended to convey him to the Central
Lunatic Asylum. 1t seems, however, that
he never reached that institution, and it is a
hard matter for him to stay away from our
Year: 1879

THE OVAL CAKE


IS the most economical form of Washing Soap. All
bar or square cakes wear down in use to alarge fiat
piece too thin to handle, and therefore wasted !;
while the OVAL CAKE of
Year: 1879

Our LoT.-We know not what evils
we have been preserved from for daz-
cling prospects do not always bring the
cheer and comfort We expect, and prom
Use of future good often results in disap-
pointment and sorrow. There are bless
ings and privileges in every life; let US
be thankful for all those which fall K
our lot,
Year: 1879

A certain judge was reprimanding an
attorney for bringing several small suits
into court, and remarked that 1t would
h,ye been much better for all parties
had he persuaded his clients to leave
their causes to the arbitration OF two or
three honest men. Please. your honor
retorted the lawyer, we do not wish 70
trouble honest men with them.
Year: 1879

A North Carolina Legislature Is only
pa,d for sitting sixty days. at the end
Of the session recently il was found that
important business remaiued unattended
to. and the Legislature sat sixty days
loprer-for nothing. There is some
thing positively touching in this unex-
ampled generosity.
Year: 1879

An Unlocking fellow was asked how
he could account for nature forming
him so ugly. Mature was not to
blame" said he. "lor when l was
two months old, l was considered the
haudsomest child in the neighborhood,
but my nurse one day swapped me
away for another BOY just to please
friend. whose child was rather plain,
looking.n
Year: 1879

A CRITICAL MOMENT.-lt Is crlIic-
al moment in the lite and clothing oi
man when he gets down on his knees 10
,ooL under the sofa for bail OF zephyr
that lady friend has dropped IL Is
poss,ble that he may be able to accom-
nlish this and recover his perpendicular
with nothing more serious than a very
rod face and a general sense OF having
done something for which he shou'u
be sent from the room. But III uine
cascs out of ten he never fully recoVers
the GOOD opinion OF himself that he
possessed before he undertook the re-
coverv of that ball. 1t is always just
havond his reach. and III a moment Oh
weakness be drops on his vest and com
mences TO work himself under the sofa
nv series OF acrobatic leats that would
have won him an encore on the stage
He is so intent upon the recovery oil the
hall that he quite forgets his appearance
untiI be is reminded By a suppressed
,it,er from enc of the ladies. Then he
realizes the situation to back out. Vi
oourse his coat is worked up over his
head and as he feels cold streak creep
m his back he prenounces benedic-
,ion on the man who invented an OPEN
hack shirt. He is also painfully con-
scious that abou. two inches of red nan-
mel drawers are Visible between the tops
ofb;s boots and the bottom ofhis trows-
orc This has the effect of producing
more internal profanity aud still more
violent struggles TO back out during
which one suspOnder breaks and his
collar-button comes out. When ne
finally delivers himselfard stands up IN
the middle OF the room, you would not
rocognize in that red-facec, wild-eyed
man, standing there holding his clothes
,ocether with one hand and trying to
smooth down his hair with the other
the smiling, genteel ladies' man VINO
stopped down to pick up that ball oil
zepbyr a moment before.
Year: 1879

The Washington correspondent Of
the Philadelphia Press is authority
for the announcement that Senator
Chandler will be to the administration
what Senator Morton would have been
had he lived. The administration has
sadly needed brains in the senate.
Senator Chandler is one of the shrewd-
est politicians in the country. More
over, he is chairman of the National
Republican committee. The admins
tratiOn kindly made room for him by
sending Father Christiancy abroad.
This means that the Grant movement
is not booming quite so lively as it
was. John Sherman has his hand on
the rudder of the Republican party,
and is steering the machine quietly
but firmly.
Year: 1879

THE immigration to Kansas even
this early in the season is immense
and the immigrants are coming in by
the hundreds. It is probable that the
number to be added to the population
Of Kansas during the present year will
be greater than has ever been known
in the history of the West. The i'm
migration last year was very heavy,
but that OF this year will exceed it by
many thousands, aud the number OIL
acres Of land which viii be taken can
hardly be computed.
Year: 1879

THE last official statement as to the
magnitude of Mongolian immigration
does not present very terrifying figures.
During the six months ending Janu-
airy lst, the number of Chinese arriv-
ing on the Pacific coast was 1855, and
the number leaving this country for
China during the same period was
4646. Perhaps, after all, the scare is
worse than the hurt.
Year: 1879

The Boston Advertiser remarks
that the gift Of exasperating those
whom he dislikes was developed in
Senator Conkling when young, and he
has cultivated it to a very high degree.
lie can convey more intense animosity
by slur or a sneer than most men by
a flood of rhetorical inYective.
Year: 1879

A runaway horse attached TO a
buggy was found ten days afterward in
a swamp aoOr Montgomery, Ala, so
wedgcd in among trees that il could
not stir, Although a. bed remained
during all that time without food or
water, it was sufficiently strong TO be
driyon home without being taken from
the buggy.
Year: 1879

JUDGE LoCHRANE says that one
reason why the city of Atlanta has
come forward so rapidly into promi-
nence is that its people from the very
first set their faces against having any
local aristocracy or social heaven.
They welcomed anybody who came
along and who helped build up the
town
Year: 1879

WHEN the senate committees are
recognized by the Democrats, it is
reported that Senator Bayard will be
made chairman of the finance commit
tee, and Senator Thurman will be at
the head Of the judiciary committee
Year: 1879

At Parkersburg, W. Va, at about
ten O'Clock on Monday night, a young
man named Thos. Tuttle who, it is
said, had been Tilted on the day ap-
pointed for his wedding, by young
and beautiful girl to whom he was de-
votedly attached, went to the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad depot and got
on locomotive standing on the track
without attracting attention. He at
once opened the throttle Of the engine,
which the next instant dashed from
the depot at terrible rate of speed
The headlong course Of the iron mon
ster was stopped at jackson switch, five
miles distant, by coming in collision
with passenger train bound vest
Tuttle was flung from the engine and
fatally hurt. He gave as bis reason
for the mad exploit that lie did not wish
to live.
Year: 1879

The meeting under the auspices
of the Moral Suasion Reform ASSOCIATION
which was announced to take place at
the Opera House, yesterday afternoon,
did not come off. At the time advertis-
ed, 3 o'clock, there were only about fifty
persons in the auditorium, and the mum
ber being SO small, the President of the
Association, II. w. Morrow, announced
that owing to the absence of the speakers
and the inclement weather, the meeting
would be postponed until some future
date,
Year: 1879

COLUMBUS, o., March i0.-The strong mill
tary and civil force engaged In protecting
property here from the lncsndiares is still
kept up with vigilance. New and startling
Developments are being discovered Of an or
ganzed plot to lay the eastern portion Of the
city In ashes, In order that during the cOnfla-
grafton the business portion may be plum
dered. Last night and this morning eight
fires were found already prepared for
lighting In u single street, while In
the manufacturing establishments Of a
eombustible character have been found
packages of cotton and other conbusti-
bles saturated with coal oil. Postal cards Of
a threatening nature have also been received
by propert y-holders. The police authorities
believe the ncendiares to consist OF a large
number Of men sworn to secrecy, but are con-
fident that the gang will be broken up by
some OF It's members confessing. The excite
ment In the city runs high, and swift ven
geance would be meted to any one captured
In the act Of applying the torch. While great
confidence Is expressed In the police and mill
tary, panlcky feeling prevails among all
classes, many Of whom remain up during the
entire night.
Year: 1879

[Correspondence OF Tue UemOctatI


PLAoUEMINE, March 8, 1879.


We complain, if complaint could do any
good. shout the way the mail service in our
section Is being conducted. From Saturday
week we had BUT one mail, and that only OF
few letters. Friday we received the mall,
which had been accumulatlng at Donaldson
vile during the week preceding, and this
morning we received another batch. Things
are mixed up generally, SO much SO that our
merchants are compelled to have recourse TO
the service of the coast packets to get letters
TO and from your city.


This is becoming so disagreeable that our
people who are subscribers to the daily
papers Of your city would be glad 10 dscon-
subscription has just run out does not care 10
Year: 1879

meeting in Mechanics Hall this morning the
floor gave way and precipitated about fifty
persons to the floor below. Nobody was
killed but many we're severely and several
fatally injured.
Year: 1879

ONE of the oft repeated "regrets" that
come to our ears is that the Legislature
did not pass the bill to convert our State
bonds into A, per cents. This measure
was urgently insisted upon by the GA
zETTE, and it was only defeated by the
influence of few old note shavers. The
State could have saved at least one hun
dred thousand dollars, or about one
eighth of her debt, by the success of the
measure, in ten years. Better luck next
time, we hope.
Year: 1879

BY THE CONTRACT SYSTEM the Demo-
Gratis in The City Council who managed
the Lamp and Lighting Committee for
the present year will save between seven
and eight thousand dollars, and in addi-
ton some twelve or fifteen hundred dol
lars in repairs to lamps and lamp posts.
The Street Committee, we feel confident,
could have saved at least five thousand
dollars by the judIcious management of
that department under the contract sys-
TEN, and advertising fairly and properly
tor proposals to do the work. Thele is
no reason in the world why our streets
should not be cleaned cheaply and well
Wy machines as they are in New York
and her cities. A contractor did the
work a year ago for $4,000. We are told
lac made little money; but he did it with
out the aid Of machines and did it better
than ithad been done before. The street
dirt is good compost manure and would
readily sell for fifty cents load if prop
erly treated. If the Council would con-
tract for two or three years we believe
parties would purchase machines and do
the work properly and cheaply and
much of it should be done at night as IN
New York.
Year: 1879

THE refusal OF the Republican Sena-
tors yesterday to accept the oiler Of Mr..


Bayard to pass an at repeating the sec
tions permitting the Attendance Of the
army at the polls, in separate bill,
shows the insincerlty OF the Republican
leaders, and is conclusive evidence OF
their Intention to use the army at the
polls If they are not prohibited by law.