smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

For farmers and those who live in local.


ties where people can -: e e:teight or nine
O'Clock in tie evening. the old notion al ut


early rising is still appropriate. But e
who is kept mp till ten or eleven or twelve


O'Clock and then rises al five or six. be-


cause OF the teachings of some old dity


about ''early to rise,' is committing sin


against his own soul. There is not one


man in ten thousand who can afford to do


without seven or eight hours sleep. All
the stuff written about great men who


slept only three or four hours a night is
apocryphal. They have been put upon
such small allowance occasionally, and
prospered; but no nan ever kept healthy
In body and mind for number Of Years
with less than seven hours sleep. If you
can gel to bed early. then rise early. Ii
you cannot get to bed till late, then rise


I'e. 1t may be as proper for one man to
rise al eight us it is for another to rise at
five. Let the rou,in. bell be r,,ng at least
thirty minutes before your public appear
ance. Physicians say t;l..t sudden jump
ont of bed gives irregular motion to the
pulses. 1t takes hours to get over too
sudden rising. 1t is barbarous to expect
Children Instantly to land on the center OF
f.Nnv
Year: 1877

A Detroiter called at livery stable to
secure a rig to take his wife out for a ride.
and he made it point to ask for docile
animal. While the horse intended for him
was being hitched up. she reared up and
acted very nervous, and the proprietor ex-
claimed:


"You needn't be bit afeared Of her.
She's simply little off to-day"


The citizen got into the carriage, was
whirled arOnnd the corner, and nothing
more was seen of him for two hours. At
the end of that time he came imping back,
and asked:


That horse was little ofl-was she
not?'
Yes


well, she kept growing offer and offer,
| till concluded to get out. and then the
way she got OFT altogether was bad for the
buggy. Go and get the pieces, and We Il
settle up"
Year: 1877

The St, Louis Globe Democrat says that
there was a monkey at the fair grounds that
by some amusing peculiarities of DISPOSE
ton and manner became an immediate IA
vorite with every spectator. A gentleman
who was among the crowd that generally
surrounded the monkey house when the
grounds were open, happened to have a
small pocket mirror in his hands, and just
for sport passed it in through the grating
to the favorite. The monkeys behavior
on seeing his face reflected in the glass was
amusing in the extreme, and kept the peo-
ple In q roar of laughter for nearly an
hour. The monkey, Of course. failed to
recognize the reflection Of himself in the
glass, and took it for another monkey, ant
his anxiety to get hold OF that monkey
was what made the fun. He would look
behind the glass for it, and feel for 1t In
! such a comical way whilst he was looking
in the glass that one could not help laugh
inc. While the glass was close to his eye
he gradually bent over, casually. and, no
.;c;nu that the evancscent monkey Wa!
then on his back, apparently. ne dropped
the glass and made a sudden grab for him
When he didn't get him he looked s'irpris
ed. and commenced looking under TIN
straw to see what had become OF him. Ill
was then seized with luminous idea. IL
picked up the glass and ran up to the top
most branch Of the dead tree that is erect
ell in the cage. and. climbing to tn
extreme end, again looked in the glass. l
seemed rs if he reasoned that in such


position the monkey could not elude him
He felt for it, grabbed at it, and tried a


sorts Of similar strategy to capture it. and
Notwithstanding his repeated failures, h
seemed loath to give it up. At length tn
keeper. afraid that the monkey would Gu
himself with the glass or swallow some
the quicksilver from the back. took it ava
from him, and the fun ceased.
Year: 1877

A great man is affable in his conversa-
ton, generous in his temper, and immova-
BILE in what he has maturely resolved upon.
And as prosperity does not make him
naughty and imperious, SO neither does
adversely sink him into meanness and de
lection: for if ever he shows more spirit
than ordinary, 1t is when he is ill-nsed, and
the world is frowning upon him. In short
he is equally removed from the extremes
of severity and pride and scorns either te
trample on worm or cringe to an emper'
or,
Year: 1877

Trust.
I cannot see, with my small, human sight,
Why God should lead this way or that for me;
l only know He saith, "Child follow me-"


But can trust.
know not why my path should be At times
So straishtly hedged, so strangely barred before
1 only know God could keep wide the door.


But l can trust
1 hnd no answer, often, when beset
with questions fierce and subtle on my way,
And often have but strength to family pray.


But can trust.
1 often wonder, as with trembling hand
1 cast the seed along the furrowed ground,
II rlpened fruit for God will there be found.


But 1 can trust.
cannot know why suddenly the storm
Should rage so fiorcey round me in Its wrath;
But this know. God watches all my path


And can trust.
may not draw aside the mystic veil
That hides the unknown future from my sight;
Nor know II for me waits the dark or light;


But l can trust.
have no power to look across the tide
To see while here the land beyond the river;
But this know, I shall be Gods forever;


So I can trust.


tLondon Evening Magazine.
Year: 1877

1t was five years since Margaret Fen
wick knelt at the corridor door, whisper
ing soft words of love and sympathy to the
unhappy girl inside. She is living in Lon
don with her mother now, for DIR. Fen
wick has been dead some time, and the es-
tabllshment at Horewood is broken up.
The gentle charm OF her lovelIness is still
In its first flower, and, as she fingers over
Year: 1877

New YORK, Jan. 3.-James Gordon
Bennett was horsewhipped this morning
by the brother of Miss May. Bennett
was to have been married the day after
Christmas He did not appear. A ne
arrangement was made, to-day, being
fixed up for the ceremony, at which
Cardinal McCloskey was to ofhciate.
Everything was in readiness and the
couple were to sail Immediately for Eu
rope in the Russia Friends of the May
family charge that Bennett went on a spree
Tuesday night, and was so drunk that he
was obliged to remain 10 bed till II O'Clock
this morning, whereas he should haye
been married aud on his way to the steam
ship before that time.
Year: 1877




The General Political Situation.


The condition and prospects of the presi-
Dental dispute change from the force Of a
public opinion that is felt rather than
heard, Outwardly, the situation remains
the same; inwardly, there is a constantly
increasing conviction that Tilden is entitled
to the presidency, and that by some pro-
cess out OF the present entanglements aud
conflicts, congress will secure it for him.
The Republican leaders at Washington
are still trying to see il the country vii net
sustain them III forcing the counting in of
| Hayes by the discriminating action OF the
president Of the senate with the returns
sent to him


The Republican managers are very
jealous of the attempts OF the business
men and capitalists of the cities to express
themselves on the great dispute, and
seem to regard any appeal to congress
TO settle the question on the principles
OF justice and by the means OF the highest
national authority as conspiracy to help
Ilden. Their efforts in this way have
both delayed and qualified the expression
Of this class Of public opinion, which is
now taking the form OF memorial to con
greSs that. though not so explicit az il
should be in demanding the agreement O
both houses Of congress in place of tht
snap judgment Of the president of th'
senate, still indicates, pretty clearly, ;ha
he one, and not the other, is the orI,
process that will be acceptable to tn
honest independent mind of the country
as it certainly is the only one that cal
bring political peace and restore bushes
, confidence The difficulty of the case is
i that it is Il one sided question. 1t canno
+ be settled rightly or by processes that wi
t be recognized by the country as bearin


authority without electing Gov, Tilden
and the sooner independents and Republ
: cans, who see this fact, sharply state il


the sooner shall we have the only cor
u clusion that is possible
Year: 1877

SANITARY CONDITION OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
To THE EDITOR THE HERALD:-


am very glad to see that the press Is agtatng the
question OF health In the public schools, question
which long required ventilation. One journal the
Evening Telegram, suggests what to me to bo
the proper only plan to remedy the evil E, the
appointment OF competent physic VINO should act
as Health Inspector Of Schools. Tho question Ia,
Would physician be sufficient to carry out tue OBJ
ject view? or rather Would It not be better TO APP
point two? one, say, for the downtown and one ior
the upper wards, and lot each nave his own district,
aud be accountable Tor that alone BY this means the
work would De moro eiectualiy performed parents
would satisfied that when inspection oi school
had been made II would be done thoroughly


SCHOOL TEACHER.
Year: 1877

TNorE-Letters intended TOR this column must be
accompanied by the writer's full name and address to
insure attention. Complanants who are unwilling 70
comply with this rule simply waste time In writing
Write on only one side OF the paper Ed HEaALD.l
Year: 1877

Tho Health Department yesterday ascortaned that
the sickness Of Mrs Mary Drake, Of No. 402 West
1hiry-lrst street, was genuine yellow lever. Mrs.
Drake, whose spoken oil in the HERALD OF
yesterday, removed by the department 10 tho
Quarantine Hospital ana every precaution taken TO
nreycnt the spread vi the disease
Year: 1877

To EDITOR THE HERALD-


Please call the attention OF the authorities TO the
partial darkness which 1lsth street between avenue
A and the river Is left every night only about one
hall Of the lamps have been lighted In that ncghbor
hood in tho last TWO weeks. A. "
Year: 1877

The New York Herald gives
the following account Of the
wonderful. feat of Prof. Cartier,
who waltzed seven consecutive
hours, and still lives


When the minute hand reach
ed the half hoar the referee
called time and the Professor
and his lovely partner glided off.
In order not to crowd the room
and annoy when dancing the
floor manager would not allow
moro than ten couples on the
floor at once. Every one ap-
peared, however, to have a ma
MIA for dancing against time,
and they certainly were the
longest winded lot of couples
that ever danced on a ballroom
floor. They evidently thought
if the Professor can dance seven
hours we can certainly dance one
hour; but when they came to
about thirty minutes the pace
began to tell, and with the ex-
ception Of one fat woman, the
first lot retired. Professor Car
tier danced with his lady twen-
ty-seven minutes, and then took
a gentlemen who waltzed with
him for thirty five minutes. In
the meantime the fat woman
floundered around, with the per-
spiration pouring off her in
streams, but finally she had to
weaken, and sat down after dane
ing thirty-two minutes, with her
best black silk waist completely
ruined. After the sixth heat
the Professors wife took a turn
for forty-fve minutes, and then
a weakened young man who
tok her place was knocked out
Of time in nine minutes. A
graceful young lady then glided
for twenty-nine minutes, and
was followed by a gentleman
who understood his business and
keet on his pins for forty-one
minutes. A young lady was
then substituted and carried
him over his fifth hour, amid
tremendous applause from the
spectators. After spinning this
young lady around for forty
minutes the Professor took a
gentleman for a partner and
started off with him as fresh as
when he commenced. 1t was
then past midnight, and when
the reporter left he looked as if
he could dance for another FIVE
hours. Everybody was perfect
ly astounded at his endurance,
and a we'll known sporting man
offered to bet $500 that the Pro-
fessor could waltz ten hours with
out stopping.
Year: 1877




On Monday morning last at a very early
hour four men broke into the store of F. G..
Maull, in Lewes, and carried off his safe to the
beach, where they blew it open and riaed it of
its contents, receiving for their trouble about
Sl2, mostly foreign coin. There had been
So, 600 in the safe the night before, and that
was probably what Che scoundrels were after,
but they were little too late as the money
was all taken out the day before. They were
seen hanging around the store about the time
af the robbery, and an alarm given, and the
store placed under guard, but it was soon
found that they had escaped with the safe. A
small schooner was seen lying off the harbor
under suspicious circumstances and boat was
sent to her. one man was found on board who
said he had been hired to bring four men from.
Philadelphia, and that they had landed short
time before but that he knew nothing further
about them. He was arrested, and in little
while boat with four men was seen to put off
from the shore and to make for the schooner,
but it almost Immediately put back and the
occupants fled to the woods. They were pur-
sued by the citizens, but succeeded in making
their escape. One, however was afterwards
captured, and on Thursday morning Officer
Legg, of Wilmington, received a dispatch that
three suspicious looking men had taken the
train at Clayton. On their arrival at viii
mington he arrested them and lodged them in
the City Hall cells to be handed over to the
Sussex
Year: 1877

Mark Vineyard, son ofMr. James Vineyard,
met with an exceedingly painful accident last
Tuesday He was at work helping his father
thresh wheat, and going too near the thresher
his hand was caught in some part Of the gear
ing and drawn into the machine, tearing and
lacerating it in a terrible manner. Surgical
aid was at once summoned, but it is feared
that the hand will have to be amputated.


Not Yet Dead.


The colored man, James Brown, who was
shot IN the forehead by Henry Seymour, also
colored, on the Fourth of July, in Dover, did
not die from the effects Of his wound and it is
now thought be viii recover. The shot was
small and, it is now thought did not reach
the brain, but was stopped by the thick bones
Of the skull, where it still lies imbedded.
Year: 1877

mako II healthy and nourishng foody Minute
chemical analysis, either vegetable animal is yet
but imperfecty understood, and nothing known
which will detect the numerous gaseous posons which
are absorbed into tho system and float ana mingie
with and destroy tho vital properties Of the blood
and nervous system. Beneath tho warm rays OF tho
senses cannot discover nor the most delicate
chemical tests detect anything different from
the common atmosphere. Chemical tests
cannot detect animal posous combined with
the milk moro readily than they can detect poisons
taken into the ceftain as that maarous
districts produce ague, FOUL unvcntilaed, crowded
rooms produce typhus


MICROSCOPIC APPEARANCES OF MILK.


II chemical tests fail detect animal poisons
mingled with tho milk tho microscope does not fail.
Pure milk has certain well defined anatomical charac
ters which are discoverable when the milk is placed
beneath a Ions OF high magnfying power. II Is a
well known fact that milk is diseased when any dopar
ture from this anatomical constitution is detected
Year: 1877

We never expect to advocate a public proposition tho other side of which we will be ashamed for our readers to examine. We are oppos

 ed to the scaling of the State debt. We have reasons for assuming this position which we regard as at once logical and just. However, that our readers may see for themselves whether our position IS tenable, we issue the accompanying supplement this week. This supplement lays down the Adams Redfield doctrine of our stase debt settlement, with the ideas thereon of the State Fi- nance Board. Our people, we be- lieye, will see that the legislature can propose an amendment for rati

 fication by the PEOPLE, which will secure the payment of just such debts as the state owes, and the non payment of just such debts as the State does not owe. We belleve in meeting this issue squarely. The Adams Redfield plan does not do this. And we will stake our reputa- tion as a delineator of future events that the people of Carroll county will elect a man for representative next fall, who opposes scaling. - Carroll County Bowlder.
Year: 1877

have been fighting up their work let us put the knife to the roots But what then? Let the legislature after reducing their per diem, go <

 work and pass a law setting sssdt ten, twenty, or twenty five peyesent. if it can be spared, of our incomc as sinking fund, to accumulate until we get money enough to pay out But whosis to keep that moncy-the sinking fundp Can we not find 8 man honest eDsagh to receive that money anrzaay from the collectors of the different counties, and loan it out at s or 10 per cent. per annum upon mortgages of real estate, or undoubted security? This, for the time being, would be sort of a Bank Of Discount, and if we'll con ducted, would annually increase the fund, and when we got enough, we could say to our creditors: Here is the amount with interest) that you agreed to take through MT. Adams and Redfield; it is yours, if you will take it; if not, we will continue our bank.

 l know the unpopular part of this proposition is the disfranchisement of the non taxpayer, but the spirit of reform is upon me today, and l feel that to call halt and take q retrospective view of things passed, but not gone, and the effects of which are still upon us and will be for a iong time to come, would be the proper thing to do. We have had too much legislation of vicious character; the result of sending non- taxpayers to the legislature, and, in many cases, sending men to make laws to collect money of themselves. What else has prevented the collec- tion of the old Bank debts to this day? Many of the different legisla- lures had men, the most prominent in their body, whose lands were mortgaged to the state for money borrowed of tue Real Estate Bank. The debts became due and were not paid, and laws were passed to evade the payment, more than for the col lection of the debt. Had these leg islatures been composed of men who owed the Bank nothing, how differ ent would have been the result We would have owed no Bank debt now. A few laws, impartial in character and we'll administered, is all we need to pay off our debt in a short time.

 Don't understand me to be down upon the debtor, or the poorer class of.society. On the contrary, 1 sym pathize with them as much as any man, but I will not dead them into tempation," to avoid which l would put the salaries So low that that they would not be prize worth contend ing for, then we would have less ex- citement at our elections, and thus, the interest being taken away, it might be possible for us to make the ballot box our political altar in which to deposit an honest, true and patriotic vote. CREED TAYLOR.
Year: 1877

The Detroit Free Press is one of the very few Northern papers having any considerable circulation in the South, or which desires and publishes Southern correspondence. There is hardly locality in the South where this paper is not taken, and where it has not secured warm friends, for the interest it has taken in Southern affairs. It has advocated all measures looking to the development of new industries, the establishment of permanent peace and friendship, and the election to office of representative men whose administrations must be prolific of peace and harmony.

 During the coming year the Free Press will publish articles from the pens of various State Governors in the South, letters from centers of business, and communication from those in po- sition to know the needs of their State and can suggest beneficial changes.

 We will send the DEMocRA AT and the Free Press for l year for $2.75.
Year: 1877

The people of Benton county, Ar kansas, are getting enthusiastic over the prospects of getting railroad from Pierce City. Soon the snort of the iron horse will awaken tue Rip Vanwinkles and open up enterprises to wealth, that has been sleeping in the hills of Benton, for To these many years. We assure the people of that county Pierce City will do all she can to push the enterprise along.-- Pierce City Record.
Year: 1877

| thoy again 6eJtleO OOWn on tnelr Ieed-
ing-ground.


There was pause for two or three


minutes, and then the same thing took
place again. A branch drifted down


with tho stream into the midst of the
ducks, and made. them take to tligh
once more. But when they found that
the bough had drifted by, and done no


harm. they flew down to the water a


before.


| After four or five boughs had drifted


by in this way, the ducks gave no heed
| to them, and hardly tried to fly out of
| their way on the stream, even when
they were near to being touched.
| The gentleman who had been observ-


ing all this now watched for the cause


of the drifting of the boughs. At


length he saw, higher up the bank of
the stream, fox, which, having set the


boughs adrift, was watching for the


moment when the ducks should cease


to be startled by them.
| This wise and clever fox at tlast seemed
| satisfied that the moment had come.
So what did he do but take larger


branch of spruce-fir than any he had


yet used, and, spreading himself down


on it SO as to be almost hidden from


sight, set it adrift as he had done the


others!


The ducks, now having ceased to fear


the boughs, hardly moved till the fox


was in the midst of them, when, making


rapid snaps right and left, he seized


two fine young ducks as his prey, and
fioated forward in triumph on his raft.


The ducks flew off in fright, and did
not come back.


That fox must have had fine dinner


that day, think. The gentleman who


saw the trick pitied the poor ducks, but
could not help laughing at the fox's
cunning. Nursery.