smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

House BANKING.-As cold weather is
coming on farmers who live in old fash
ioned farm houses are thinking of bank
ing them up to keep out the frost. Any
house is warm which has good warm
banking at its base. We have tried al
most everything that is used, and find
that forest leaves are the best for us.
They keep the air out more effectually
Year: 1877

|" Senator Morton, it is related,
could have been humOrist if he had
liked. In early life he had the art of
being exceedingly funny with a sober
face. When he began politics he made
at Terre Haute speech so amusing
that its fame spread, and invitations TO
speak came from all sides. Morton was
troubled. "This is something of hit
/ have made thus far" he said to IL
friend, "if | do not permit it to be my
ruin. l feel the danger, and am going
to struggle against it. All these invita-
tions have poured in on account of the
speech the other night; they all expect
something witty. Now, the question
in my mind is, whether / have the
moral stamina to disappoint them. Only
the greatest punsters live to any age,
and they are generally cast aside after
a few months of amusement, like a
child's old doll, and never come out
again only on stale occasions for dis
play on account of what has been. A
politician who goes into wit as regu-
lar thing must expect to sacrifice every
thing else to it. He will gain no repu-
tatiOn as sound man. He will never
get very high in honOrs. People will
not deem the author of witty sayings
capable of originating large, solid
measures"
Year: 1877

W Physicians are all agreed that the
use of tobacco by growing boys is full
of danger. Recent Investigations have
demonstrated that a whole train of
nervous diseases are to be traced to its
use by young people. If you desire to
stop growing chew and smoke tobacco.
Year: 1877

The Chicago Tribune relates that a
young couple were recently to be mar
ried in a church in that city, and the
guests had all assembled to witness the
interesting ceremony. The bride, at
tired in all the gorgeous finery custo-
mary on such occasions, alighted from
the carriage, and the groom stepped
blithely and lightly after her and upon
her long trail. AS he did so the fair
lady uttered low cry, and exclaimed
sharply, "Oh, dear, how awkward you
are p The young mans face colored
as he stumbled off the rich garment,
but gave the lady his arm and walked
into church with her. The ceremony
proceeded, the minister asked the bride
if she would accept the groom for her
welded husband and received the
usually affirmative answer, and was
about to iDterrogate the young man,
when the latter impulsively and unex-
pectedly said to the bride, "Oh, dear,
how awkward you are !" and quickly
turning OH his heel walked out of the
church without another word, leaving
the wOuld-be bride and the assembled
company in utter bewilderment. The
young man rode off in a carriage, and
the rest of the wedding party, after re-
covering from their astonishment, left
for their homes. The occurrence was
an actual one, and has occasioned a
great amount of gossi'.
Year: 1877

never had case of recovery, nor of one
who has given any signs of life."


Have you heard of any cases in other
places?"


1t is said that one was saved in Erfurt
but it is only report may be true or may
be not"


This Is the testimony that comes uni.
tormly from all the books and all the
countries where the subject receives careful
attention. While it goes to show that in.
stances of premature burial are exceedingly
rare, 1t does not show that such cases
are impossible. In times of prevailing
epidemic, when bodies are carried off by
authority as rapidly as possible, to retard
the progress of pestilence, it would not be
strange if mistakes were made. Asiastic
cholera sometimes brings the victim to a
state OF apparent death, from which he
may recover, under careful and perseverinc
treatment. But in the common course of
human experience, the approach and
advent OF death are so clearly defined, and
certainly is so easily had, that premature
burial can be possible only from great care
lessness or indecent haste. The ordinary
tests of the breathing may fail, but the ac-
ton of the heart can be detected bv the
ear, even when the most delicate hand fails
to discover by the sense of feeling. In
newborn infants, it is difficult to detect
the motion for some minutes together, but
IN the case of others, the interval between
pulsations of the heart does not exceed six
or eight seconds. And if this examination
Is made twenty-four hours after death is
supposed to have taken place, the fact is
made certain one way or the other. There
are other tests which may be readily ap.
Piled, but they are not needed in tho case
OF persons dying under ordinary circum.
stances. The customs of civilization. tho
dictates of natural affection, and the
most rational judgment, require such an
interval of time between death and burial,
as to make the case palpable to the senses.
so that no possible doubt can exist. II is
not likely that one case of doubt occurs in
each million of persons buried, and the
one case of doubt would prove to be a
certain death in nine cases out ten. From
all which | infer that the nervous appre-
hension some people have that they will be
buried alive, is just us unreasonable as it
would be for man to expect to be taken
up to heaven in a chariot of fire. Such an
event has occurred, and it is not impos
sible that it may again. But it is not
probable"
Year: 1877

The satisfaction of appetite is usually
considered the supreme happiness, but the
highest authority has pronounced tho
blessedness to be rather in hunger than in
its satisfaction. If we examine the subject
| closely abundant reasons will appear to
sustain the truth of this view. Hunger is
the best sauce for dinner" is a saying
familiar to us all. The poor man who
| brigns to his plain meal of meat and pota.
toes, or pork and beans, sharp appetite,
whetted by vigorous toll, gets manifold
more enjoyment from it than the luxurious
epicure who must be tempted with dainties.
The laborer feels the reinforcement of food
in every muscle, in every drop Of his blood :;
the epicure gratifes in a languid way
| merely his sense of taste, while from his
fastidiousness he suffers thousand an.
| noyances the other with his healthful
craving for food and moral enjoyment of
it knows nothing about.


The dominant thought in the minds of
those who hunger for food, for dress, for
riches, for knowledge, for fame for power,
is that the satisfaction of this hunger will
bring happiness. 1t certainly does bring
happiness, but only in so far as the appe-
tite grows by what it feeds on. When a
man has ceased to hunger he says with Sol.
omon, "All is vanity and vexation of
spirit" When "desire fails" man goeth
to his long home and mourners 20 aboat
| the streets.


There is no topic so interesting to sue.
cessful middle-aged and old men as the
struggle of their early life, when hunger
consumed them. This is true of artists, of
orators, Of journalists, of business men in
every department of life. Their Joy is not
so much in presentsuccsss, in dissatisfaction
of hunger, as in having overcome all obsta-
cles that might be satisfied. In our acade-
mics and colleges there is always class of
poor, struggling students, who are willing
70 wear shabby clothes, live within bare
walls and on rugged fare, teach during
vacation, do any kind of work to keep
themselves along, SO that their hunger for
knowledge and for the careful training OF
their faculties may be satisfied. With
what astonishment do these earnest souls
look on the indifference and Incidence oi
those who go to school and college merely
because they are sent there, who takes a
liberal education as they would take a
course Of physic-something to be got
through with; to whose unthirsting lips
the chalice of knowledge is tasteless and
uninviting. "Oh, if had only his chance,
her chance" sighs many famished soul,
wouldn't l improve it ~ Perhaps you
would, but only so long as appetite re.
mained. "The full soul loatheth the
honeycomb." There are cases where
hunger too much has cramped and dwarfed
aspiring men and women. But the deaths
by over-feeding are far more numerous
than those by starvation. 1t is we'll in
every sense to keep ones appetite sharp,
for food, for knowledge, for whatever good
thing life may have for us. Can any but
! the hungry soul be filed?
Year: 1877

BRINE THAT WILL PRESERVE BgTTER A
YEAR.-TO three gallons of brine strong
enough to bear an egg, add quarter of a
pound of nice white sugar and one table.
spoonful of saltpetre. Boil the brine, and
when it is cold strain carefully. Make
your butter into rolls, and wrap each
separately in a clean white muslin cloth,
tying up with string. Pack large jar
full, weigh the butter down, and pour the
brine until it is submerged. This will keep
really good butter perfectly sweet and fresh
for whole year. Be careful not to put
upon ice butter that you wish to keep for
any length of time. In summer when the
heat will not admit the butter made into
rolls, pack closely in small jars, and using
the same brine, allow it to cover the butter
to depth of at least four inches. This
excludes the air, and answers very nearly
as well as the first method suggested.
Year: 1877

Anthony Allison, Confederate soldier,
who lost track of his family during the war
while he was confined in northern prison,
and has been looking for them ever since
found them the other day at Rising Fawn,
Tenn.,---and his wife hadn't married
another man,
Year: 1877

FIRST INNINGS SCORED FOR TURKEY.-Thc
first serious battle in the Turco- Russian war
Is reported in cable dispatches as having
been won by the Turks at Batoum, where
they are said to have worsted the Russians
to the amount of four thousand killed and
wounded. If this statement be true it is
cumulative evidence that Turkey is not the
very "sick man" Russia has been growing
over, and that there is fight and pluck in
the so long decried effeminacy of the
worshippers of Mahomet and his houris
And there may be some reason in the
recent suggestion that the baggy- -brecched
Ottoman is fully the peer of the bear
breeched Russian-although the immense
territory and population of the bear seems
to be sufficient to swoop away the Turk
without any difficulty. In whatever event,
however, the fight is a notable one, and is
attracting the attention of all civilized
nations.
Year: 1877

At the "earnest request" of several
young men, a Missouri paper publishes the
following bit of information: "There is
nothing so tends to shorten tho lives of old
people and to injure their health as the
practice of sitting up late, especially summer
evenings y
Year: 1877

When burly youth betakcs him
self to the vile habit Of carrying con.
cealed weapons, he straightway broods
over the act of killing somebody as a
thing to give him high standing in
the community. The current Of his
thoughts always in this channel, wear
away all moral restraint, and then OF,
slight provocation he becomes mur.
derer, hated by God. Stunned by good
men; perhaps hanged like dog. or
else imprisoned to show white face
beyond iron CRATES the balance Of his
life. Young man, start not down hill
thus; otherwise, let us say farewell to
you as a felon-as a wretch, whose
damnation is certain! What! will you
go to Gods bar with the red hands Of
a murderer! Will the friends who
applaud you as bully, soothe you in
the death hour when the mystery and
helplessness Of the last dread change
drapes the universe in "the blackness
ofdarkness?" What good will your
pistol do you then? Think!-[St.
Tamany Farmer.
Year: 1877

II rlan gets reputation in Persia
for excellence Of skill in handcraft, the
Shah, it is said, sends for him to work
for the court at starvation wages. Some
time ago potter in Khorassan succeed
ed in manufacturing sort Of porcelain
resembling china, and his fame soon
reached the Court. Wien ne Shah sent
for him, the poor fellow, knowing his
fate, sold all he had, scraped all the mon
ey together he could get, to raise a brbe
for the Prime Minister, and entre0tcd
him to tell the King that the right man
had run away and he had been put un-
der restraint by mistake. The Minister
pocketed the bribe, and had the potter
released, who vowed he would never
make another bit of china, or attempt
any kind Of improvement.
Year: 1877

ONE Coop EFFECT.-If ihis Presiden-


tial muddle has 10 other good effect but


that of dcmolisbing the old doctrine Of
State rights, it viii have had blessing
after all. Only a few years ago, to hint that
Congress had the right to interfere in an
election in any Of the States, was TO throw
the whole Democratic party into n spasm
Of virtuous Indignation. Now, how
changed Old Bourbon leaders grow
red in the face, claiming that one-half Of
Congress can reject the vote of Stat e,
even though that vote has been announc-
Cd according to the forms of law prescrib-
ed by the State itself. u few years ago Com
gress had 10 right TO extend protection to
citizen of State now, n single branch
can set aside the vote of any State it
chooses to question. This is slightly in
advance OF Republican doctrine, and is so
far ahead Of any scheme Of centraization,
that we fear even Democracy cannot sus-
tain it long. Still, it is hopeful sign
before long, the proposition TO extend
Federal projection to the bull-dozed vic
tins Of tho South will be regarded as
both constitutional and sound, for, surely,
il the House OF Representatives can set
aside the expressed will Of State, the
Government itself can have something TO
say about the manner in whsch that will
is determined. 1t is Il poor rule that
won't work both ways, and if this effort
to count 1iden in, not only counts him
o,it, put prevents all possibility of his
ever getting so close to White House
again, we shall have cause for public
thank. giving washington ReIUtttc.
Year: 1877

A CURIOSITY Of San Francisco is Jack
the Grabber," who moors his boat close
to the ships which may be discharging
cargo at the different wharves. The boat
contains ingenious books and grappes,
specially devised for bringing up sub
stances from the bottom Of the bay. If
the vessel be dischargng coal, Jacks
hooks viii fish upall the Jumps that drop
into the water while in transit from the
ship to the wharf. II an angler drope his
pocket book into the water, Jack is the
man to find it for him. He scours the
bottom Of the muddy waters as carefully
as detective examines a suspected dwell
ling for stolen goods.
Year: 1877

A COUPLE Of free lovers have mar
ried in Boston by signing a contract
promising that they will try to control
each other only by advice or persuasion ;
that they are equal partners that Meth
er church nor state has any right to in
terfere in their affairs; and that when
they cease loving each other they will
cancel the contract, il they desire.
Year: 1877

THEY do not have to worry over Elec-
toral Colleges and the total depravity Of
Oregon Governors in England, but they
get up just as much uncomfortable ex-
element over the question Of its being
right to marry a deceased wife's sister,
and every session Of Parliament has a
row over it. Those who favor the legal
ization Of such marriages appear to be
gaining ground.
Year: 1877

THE San Francisco doctors threaten to
stop the gratuitous treatment Of the poor,
if they arc obliged to pay municipal
tax. In that case, the city would be put
to II very heavy expense in maintaining
free dispensaries.
Year: 1877

DIR. Joseph d. Stewart of Eagle Bridge
was killed Tuesday at the first railroad
crossing below that place, being struck by
the 1.16 p. m. train from Troy. The doc
tor was riding in light wagon, going
north. The engine struck the wagon about
In the middle and the doctor was thrown
thirty-six feet upon the top of large pile
of ties and cord wood lying at the north
east corner of the crossing. His head
struck against the sharp end of a stick of
cord wood making horrible wound. The
train was going rapidly and ran about a
hundred rods before 1t was stopped. When
1t was backed up the wagon was found over
turned, but the occupant could not be found
until his body was discovered on top of the
pile of wood which was about six feet high


He was raised up and he uttered few
words in weak voice. He died in about
ten minutes after the injury. DIR. Stewart
was resident of Cambridge for many years
and was ABOUT sixty years old. He was a
surgeon in the union army during the war.
Year: 1877

illustrates tho Piano War by Dog
story, and Gives the Bottom Facts.


Last week at the Tombs court, New
York city, before Judge Duffy, two claim
ants appeared for and with a handsome
Newfoundland dog. As neither had any
corroborative evidence, the astute Judge
decided that the instinct of the dog himself
would be the surest test of ownership. A
policeman was ordered to hold the dog in
the center of the court room, while one
claimant was placed on one side of the
room, the other on the opposite side. Both
were ordered to whistle for the dog at a
signal from the judge, the dog to be re-
leased at the same time, and choose between
the claimants.


The judge called time each claimant
whistled to the best of his ability. Police
man let go the dog but the dog, after
looking at the judge and surveying the
scene, escaped through the door, and
sought elsewhere lts rightful owner.


A similar scene has been enacted for the
past two weeks among the piano men. A
couple of piano-forte manutacturers-bOth
honorable men-hsve been whistling their
respective centennial awards through the
public press, with about as much success
as the claimants had with the dog.


The prize belongs elsewhere.


Stripped, then, of all verbiage, subter-
fuge, elimination and recrimination, law
suits, and all side issues simply intended to
befog the public, the naked facts as to the
centennial awards are just these:


Most of the leading manufacturers re-
ceived nearly the same recognition in re-
gard to workmanship. Durability the
commission could only guess at. The
only real distinction was made by the jury
as to the TONE of the pianos exhibited.


The piano, violin, and every other musi-
cal instrument is valued and purchased
for Its


Thus, then, the Baltomore house is given
an award for "geueral excellence in the
requisites of a first-class instrument in
power of tone," to which the commission
added singing quality.


The New York house for "largest VOL
ume, purity and duration of tone"


Whereas to WEBER is awarded "sympa-
thetic, pure, and rich tone, combined with
greatest power"


Comment as to which is the highest
award would be an insult to the intelligent
musical public. d.
Let them be the judges as to who is the
rightful owner of the centennial prize.


Suffice it to say that the Weber award
contains all that is possible in piano-forte
-"sympathy, purity, richness, and great
est power"


In short, a soul in piano. A. WEBER.


MCCLURE & HALL,


RUTLAND,


Agents for the Weber Piano.
Year: 1877

continue. There is every reason to be
encouraged at the present state of
American credit abroad. The sale of
the Al per cent bonds will be continued
until the price realized is such as to
show that per cents would be sold at
par. Then the 41 per cents will be with
place.
Year: 1877

Our direct trade with the two powers
who are drawing the sword on each
other is not large In amount. The total
Of our imports and exports with Russia
and Turkey combined amounts to only
some $17, 100000, OF which two-thirds Is
with the former country and the re-
mainder with the latter, the exact
figures for the fiscal year 1875 being as
Year: 1877

The insane lady, who was arrested by the,
police on Tuesday night, WAS taken to
Philadelphia, yesterday morning, in charge
of friend. From what information the
police obtained, she is thought to be from
Pittsburg. After her arrest by officer Can
non, she told him that her husband had
killed her son, and that before he went off
of duty she wanted the officer to kill her
husband,
Year: 1877

A WAR correspondent says that the
question of maintaining the Russian
army in Bulgaria during the Winter is
becoming one of Importance. The sup
plies of food for man and beast nov
stocked in Roumania would maintain
100000 men through the Winter, AMI
10000 men would be sufficient to hold
the Russian positions during the season
when the roads are practically impass-
able for military purposes, and the rest
of the troops could be retired across the
Danube until Spring. The question Of
getting these supplies to the army is the
chief one for consideration. The scarcity
of fuel is the greatest difficulty to SUI
mount. Underground barrack huts
might be sufficient to keep the soldiers
warm in connection with their heavy fur
or sheepskin coats, but for cooking pur-
poses fuel is, of course, a necessity. #
the Russians can overcome the fuel diff
ficulty they can Winter in Bulgaria.
Year: 1877

LONDON Standard: Poikilographrsi
that is the art of photographing in
natural colors, is now. not only discov-
cred, but prohtably practiced in London.
The process in question is one by which
paintings ancient or modern can be re-
produced in fac simile and with all the
softness and blending of color that made
them as pleasing to the eye of the gem
eral observer Though perhaps not to the
connoisseur) as would be the original
paintings themselves. The copy is es-
sentially faithful in the minutest details
from the simple fact of its being photo
graph, which by mechanical contri-
vance can be enlarged to any given di-
mension. Being thus acquired, it sub
sequently undergoes the poikilographic
process by which it is made to resemble,
and is, in fact, an oil painting that would
not discredit the walls of those lovers of
art whose means will not enable them to
indulge in the originals themselves.
The patentee of the process is MIR. Lom-
bardi. He and an American associate
have brought the invention to basis of
practical utility. Z
Year: 1877

The fatal rapidity with which the
venom impregnates the blood is exem-
plifed by the following story, told me
years ago as having occurred at Mahab-
leshwur. A native gardener at work in
a garden at that place was bitten by a
snake on one of his fingers. The man,
with great presence of mind and deter
mination, Immediately chopped off the
bitten finger with his garden knife. But
it was too late, the poison had already
passed up the hand beyond the place of
amputation, and poor malice died from
the effects of the bite.


A party of friends were one evening
sitting at whist table, some playing,
others watching the game. One of the
PLAYERS happened to look down on the
ground, and was Mortified by discover
What was to be done? To move was
certain death, and all that the man thus
strangely shackled could do was to sit
perfectly still and call the attention of
his friends to his dangerous predica-
ment. For any of the rest of the party
to have Immediately attacked the snake
would probably have been fatal to their
friend. By what may be almost called
inspiration, one of the non-players
quietly left the room and ordered in a
basin of milk, which was gently put
down on the ground not far from the
snake In a few minutes, or perhaps
only seconds, which must have, how
ever, appeared an hour at least to the
unhappy captive, the cobra uncoiled
himself and went off to the milk, and
when once well away from their com.
panion's leg, was of course, very soon
killed.


1t may be objected that snake would
not venture in among a number of peo
pie in the way above described. How
then, would the objectors account fol
the danger run by a lady, whom l coult
name, one evening in drawing-roon
full of people? This lady was reach
ing out her arm to draw a chair towarC
herself, with the intention of sitting
down on it, when a snake was observed
on the back thereof. How did the snake
get there? 1t is very difficult to tel
where snake will not be found, bu
still more SO to ascertain hew and wheI
it reached the place of discovery.
Year: 1877

The Krupp cannon works in Ger
many are of immense dimensions. They
send their armaments to all parts of the
world, and employ an enormous capital.
A striking feature of the establishment
is hundred thousand pound trip-ham-
mer. The Emperor William recently
made visit of inspection there, and six
thousand three hundred and ninety-four
workmen turned out to receive him.