smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

DEAR Miss: This is an important
epoek, into your life, The 1st thing
to make a good Quire singer is to
CYCLE a little. "a
Put up your hair in Girl papers
every Friday mite soze to have it in
good shape Sunday morning. If
your daddy is rich you can buy some
store hare. If he is very rich buy
some more and build it high upon
your head; then git high-priced
bunnet that runs ilp very high, at the
high part of it, and then git the mIl-
liner to plant some high crown arta-
fishels onto the highest part of it.
This will help you sing high, as So
phrano is the highest part


When the tune is Civ out,s don't
pay attention to it, and then giggle.
Giggle like good eel.


Whisper to- the girl next you thai.
EN- Jones, which sets on the I'd seat
from the front on the left hand side,
has her bunnet with the same color
exact she had last year, and then put
up your book to your face and gig
gle.


Object to every tune unless there
is a solow into it for the sophrano.
Coff and haw a good eel before you
begin to sing.


When you sing a solow shake the
artafishels off your bunnit, and when
you come to high tone brace your
self back little, twist your head to
one side and open your mouth the
widest on that side, shet the eye on
that side jest a triple, and then put
in for dear life.


When the preacher gifts under he'd
way with his preaching write note
onto the blank leaf into the fore part
of your note book. That's what the
blank leaf was made for. Git some
body to pass the note to somebody
else, and you watch them while they
read it, and then giggle.


Ifanybody talks or laffs in the con-
gregashun and the preacher takes
notis of it, that's good chants for
you to giggle, and you ought to gig
gle great eel. The preacher dars-
ent say anything to you because you
are il the quire. If you had a bow
before you went into the quire, give
him the mitten-you ought to have
somebody better now.


Don't forget to giggle."
Year: 1879

The Sheriff of Boilinger county,
was robbed of slI0 in money and
some papers, at the depot yesterday.
Some sneak thief picked his pocket.
Hc did not discover his loss till about
Q mile out on the Jefferson City
branch No arrest as vet.
Year: 1879

While experiments are being made in arteSian well boring in Arizona it will he of interest to notice the success of similar wells recently put down in the equally arid districts of Australia. We quote the following from the Bos- ton Transcript:

 II is said that the successful borings for water in Frame County. South Australia, promise to render a large district, formerly almost destitute of water, highly valuable for agricultural or pastoral purposes. One artesian well, 400 miles north of Adelaide, sunk to the depth of 37O feet, yields 10000 gallons of excellent water day Much of the arid and inhOspitable region be tween the coast and the rich lands which have been discovered in the in teriOr of the continent is expected to be reclaimed by q systematic tapping of the springs supposed to exist be meath.
Year: 1879

From a gentleman who left the Sandy on the 30th ult., we learn that the new mill put up by MT. Fuller is pounding away quite satisfactorily, and that the McCrackin mill is being cleaned up with 8 view of starting it on McCrackin ore.-T Miner.
Year: 1879

IT seems Co be conceded that no man is to be allowed to mention politics in California for six months to come. Many people there walked up on the fourth of September and found them selves under the necessity of doing something for living.
Year: 1879

THE fire-fend has been at work ia Prescott, and the people of that burg have been seriously considering the question of building waterworks, so as to be prepared to more ef'ectuallv quench fire when one breaks out in their intlammable town. Various pro jects have been discussed, one to cost S3O,OOO or more, but all have been abandoned for the present, and atA pub lie meeting resolutions were adopted requesting the Village Council to con Struct wells where most required in the village and to procure force-pumps and hose to place in them, and that a fire brigade be organized
Year: 1879

THE latest novelty in suicides was that of Bennett, at Atlantic, N. C. It was well accomplished by laying him self at full length on high bridge. with hIs head protruding over the edge, tying one end of long rope around his neck and the other to a heavy stone, so that its jerk broke his neck.
Year: 1879

Many people who complain serious ly of the summer suns of Arizona

 would be delighted with a proposition

 to spend year in Italy. That's what's

 in name. The fact is, Arizona has q summer climate that is superior even to famous old Italy. During the day the sun Is warm, someti:"es very warm, but there is no time when sleeping in the open air is not only refreshing but actually delicious, the air is pure, fresh and cool, and one glides off into un- conscious slumber at the rate of 10 strokes per minute. To give our read an opportunity for contrast, we quote from the Rome correspondent to the Philadelphia Bulletin, who writes as follows:

 ] suppose it is the heat but there is nothing but police news on the pave. l cannot say tapis, for carpet 8 de- grees RcaumuT is not to be thought of. Yes, we have 3 degrees Reaumur in the shade. We are melting away like candles. If we only had little air at night! But the nights are more sui socatiug than the day. We breathe hot dust, which is stiiling. Every oth- CT town in the world has a garden or park in which to walk or sit at night in order to regain little the strength lost during the day. But in Rome. there is nothing of the kind for the Piucian, our only garden is closed, at sunset, under pretense of malaria, and thus we are imprisoned on the streets and piazza of the town. It Is this that renders the heat of Rome unbearable. Fortunately the warm weather began late this year, and it generally finishes in September.
Year: 1879

PROF SHERMAN, Superintendent of Public Instruction, is reported to have lately made an extensive visit into Apache county, and says there are now five public schools organized, and that the future Of the county is bright.
Year: 1879

Now that the election is over the pedestrian epidemic is about to afiiict the City of San Francisco again. A six days pedestrian contest between Madame La Chapelle and Miss Bertha Non Berg will be inaugurated at Platt's Hall this evening. Both ladies have been in active training, well knowing that their powers of endur- ancc will be put to a severe test, they having each expressed a firm determ- ination to die in the sawdust before they will suffer defeat. The little Frenchwoman is a slight favorite with sporting men, among a hom she is con- sidered a phenomenon Of spunk and endurance.
Year: 1879

There is a certain raft of idlers who
beset newspaper office, and who appear
to believe that every mans time IS theirs
By this no allusion is meant to those
transient callers, even though they cal
every day, who say few words, serious
or gay, to the point, and then drop out Of
sight. We are happy to say that our
experience has lain more among men OF
this description than among the greedy
grabbers Of conversation, who want to
have all the talk and will go on gabbinns
forever. to the annoyance of everybody
who desires to work. Why the drones
should beset the toiling bees, who make
their honey by the sweat of their brows
If bees can be supposed to have brows
we are unable to comprehend, but it is
unouestionable that that privilege is often
accorded to them, out of pure good ma
tl1re. Upon what principle people who
have done their work, such as it is,
should be permitted to habitually harass
those who have been prevented from
doing it by the gabblers who Immediate
" after breakfast set in motion the volll-
bility with which they are cursed, is
more than we can make out. But the
facts of society bear out the statement
rhat these things are so. There is time
to talk and a time not to talk, and it is
only fair to claim that newspaper work,
like all other kinds of work, could be
transacted in much less than the time
now given to it, if the sanctum were
transferred into a temple where the god OF
silence was treated with some respect.
We are all of us sinners some time in this
respect.-Nea0 York Telegram.
Year: 1879

An occasional correspondent of the Lon
on Daily Nep,, who has just been up the
Nile inquiring into the state OF the villages
personally, writes from Cairo:


It is an unpleasant truth, but an undeniable
one, that the people have been, and still
are, starving by hundreds on the Nile, from
no other reason than that they have been
unable, under their crushing taxation, to
save money or stores against the failure OF
their crops; and the immediate result is
naturally famine.


From Slut to the Cataracts there is
scarcely village or town which cannot
count its dead by 6fties, some by hundreds.
At each of the larger towns along the banks
the fellahs from the inland villages have
crowded in, sought for relief or for work.
have found none, and have laid down and
starved. The sight of these poor wretches
is sickening. Their condition is only COM
parable to that of the natives in the last
Indian famine. With shrunken skin and
staring bones, they resemble the mummies
of their land more than fellow-creatures.
In the open market places they lie PROSTATE
in the sun, covered with flies, half or wholly
naked till death puts an end to their suf-
ferings AS long as they have strength they
fight like wild beasts over the smallest NOR
sci of food, and when they are past this
they die with less attention paid to them
than if they were street dogs.


At Belyaneh, Bagour Hau and such
towns the people have been and are starry
ing in utter neglect. Sitting in the field
and in the open streets, many OF them have
been supporting themselves for days on
sorrel and the foul refuse from the cane
factories. All human feelings are lost, and
in trying to distribute few morsels OF
bread at Belyaneh the stronger tore it from
the lips of those weaker than themselves,
and struggled till exhausted for the merest
scrap.


At Edfoo there lay an old woman by the
bank, with the water washing halt over her,
too weak to move or speak. Her eyes were
sunk into her head, and her whole skin was
like dried parchment from the sun. She
could not swallow except by artificial out.
side friction, whilst another woman forced
the food down her throat. This was no un-
common case, women and children from
their smaller strength afording the most
ghastIy spectacles Of the march of famine.
Year: 1879

Contentment produces, in some measure,
all those effects which the alchemist usually
ascribes to what he calls the philosophers
stone, and if it does not bring riches, il does
the same thing by banishing the desire for
them.


Where men are the most sure and arro-
CANT they are commonly the most mistaken,
and have there given reins to passion, with
out that proper deliberation and suspense,
which can alone secure them from the
grossest absurdities.


No enjoyment, however inconsiderable, is
confined to the present moment. A man is
the happier for life from having made once
an agreeable tour, or lived for any length Of
ime with pleasant people, or enjoyed any
considerable interval of innocent pleasure.


It is easy to pick holes in other peoples
work, but it far more profitable to do better
work yourself Is there fool in the world
who cannot criticise? Those who can them
selves do good service are but as one to a
thousand compared to those who can see
faults in the labor of others.


Kind words cost nothing; they ara easier
to use than any other They WON'T blister
the tongue nor aggravate the children or
servants. People who talk loud and threaten,
use weapons of weakness. Kindness, favored
with love, is the true principle for the home
circle or. indeed, elsewhere.


Not alone to know, but to act according
to thy knowledge, is thy destination, pro-
claims the voice of my inmost soul. Not
for indolent contemplation and study OF
thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of
pity-no, for action was given thee; thy
actions, and thy actions alone determine
thy worth.
Year: 1879

The small boy who steals rides on the
street-cars swung himself upon the plat
form of Jefferson-avenue car the other
day to ceme down town. He was men
tally calculating the cost per rod of
street railways, when the driver looked
back and caught sight Of the top of his
head and leaped off to give him cut.
If one of these small boys was ever hit
with drivers whip before, the date has
been forgotten; but this lad caught n
stinger, and left that platform as if he
meant to fly. The driver chuckled, but
the horse didn't. For some reason he
stopped, left the track, tried to draw the
car off the rails, and in the effort broke a
tug, jerked the money-box off the rail
into the mud, and might have climbed
into the car if the driver had not ap-
peared. While the money wns being
fished for in the mud and repairs made,
the small boy put in his speech. The
"ache" had left him, and, standing
where he could secure a good view of
operations, he called out:


kin We tell fellar jist 'zactly how
much ye made by that ERE job?"-Detrot1
Free Press.
Year: 1879

believe if were dead,


And you should kiss my eyeGds when I lie
Gold dead and dumb to all the world contains
The folded orbs would open at thy breath,
md from its exile in the Isles OF Death,
Lite would come gladly back along my veins.
believe # were dead, , d
And YOU upon my liteless heart should tread
Not knowing what the poor clod chanced TO
It suddenly would pulse beneath the touch
Ofhim it ever loved in life 80 much,
And throb again, warm, tender, true 70 tnee.
I believe if in my grave,
Hidden IN woody depths by all the waves,
Your eyes should drop some warm tears Of


regret,


From every salty seed OF your dear grlef
s,r,e fa;r sweet blossom would leap into Leaf,
,ro ,rove death could not make my love forget
believe il should fade 80
Into the mystic realms where light is made,
And you should long once more my faee 70 500,
I would come forth upon the hills Of night
And gather stars like taggots, till thy sight,
Led by the beacon blaze, fell full on me,
believe my love tor thee
(strong as my life) so nobly placed to be,
It could as soon expect to see the sun
Fall like dead king from his heights sublims
HIS glory stricken from the throne Of time
AS thee unworth the worship thou hast
1 believe love, e,pure and true,


Is to the soul sweet, immortal dow
That gems LIES petals in the hour OF dusk,
The waiting angels see and recognize
The rich crown jewel Love OF Paradise,
When lite falls from us Like withersd huak.
Year: 1879

Many who condescend to illuminate this
dark world with the FIRE of their genius
through the columns of a newspaper little
think Of the lot Of tue printer, who sits up
at midnight to correct their false grammar
and orthography and worse punctuation.
We have seen the arguments Of lawyers,
in high repute as scholars, sent to the
printer in their own handwriting, many
words-cspeeialIy technical and foreign
terms-abbreviated, words misspeled and
few or no points, aud these few, if any,
certainly 10 the wrong places. We have
seen the sermons Of eminent "divlnes"
sent to the press without points or capitals
to designate the divisions Of the sentences
also tho letters Of the political and scien-
titic correspondents. Suppose all these
had been so printed--the printer would
have been treated with scorn and contempt.
No one would have believed that such
gross and palpable faults were owing to
the Ignorance or carelessness Of the author,
and no one but the practical printer knows
how many hours the compositor, ard after
him the proof.Feader, Is compelled to spend
in reducing to readable condition manu-
script that often writer's themselves would
be puzzled to read
Year: 1879

ny PELHAM.
Yon sny have asked for the costlesl thing
Ever made by the Hand above
woman's heart aud a woman's life,
And u woman's wonderful love.
That have written your duty out
And, man-like, have questioned free
You demand that stand at the bar your soul,
while you in turn question me.
And when ask you to be my wife
The head Of my house and home,
Whose path would scatter with sunshine thro life.
Thy shield when sorrow shall come
You reply with dlsdaln and a curl Of the lip,
And point To my coats missing button.
And haugbbly ask II want a cool.
To serve up my bd.f and my mutton
Tls ling that you look for Well am not he,
But only plain, earnest man
Whose feet oflen shun the bard path they should


tread,


Omen shrink from the gulf they should span.
Tls hand to believe that the rusc VIII fade
From the cheek 50 full No fair.
'fweTe harlcr to think that heart proud and cold
Were ever rcAeeiol ibere.
True, the rose will fade aud the leaves will fall,
Aud the Autumn Of life will come.
But the heart that give thee will be true as In May,
should make il Thy shelter thy home
Thou requIrst all things that are good and true;
All things that man should be-
Ali lady my truth doubt not,
For the rest, leave il to thee.
Year: 1879

The black smoke which pours from the
chimneys Of manufactures, disfguring
houses and making life in such cities as
Pittsburg disagreeable, represents a great
waste Of fuel. Part Of the loss cannot be
prevented, though some Of it can; but il
is practicable by the use of an English in
vention to wash the smoke and make il 50
clean that, when passing from the chin
ney top, IL will not soil white handker-
CHIEF. The washing is done by passing
the smoke through the spray caused by
paddle-wheels revolving in tank of water
holding soda ash in solution. The tank
and wheels are placed in the Hae, between
the furnace and the chimney, and, the
wheels being made to revolve in the d.
rection Of the chimney, the draft is in
creased. II is said that tho saving In the
cost OF constructing the large chimney
stacks now necessary, but which can be
replaced by smaller chimneys, will cover
the cost Of the apparatus. The impurities
OF the smoke collected In the tank can
probably be utilized as articles of CONNER.
cial value. At all events they are much
better in the tank than floating about in
the atmosphere. Attention has heretofore
been directed to inventions designed to
secure a more perfect combustion Of coal
in order to save money aud get rid of the
smoke nuisance, but there are limits bo
yond which inventions cannot go, and
when these have been reached, the wash


ing OF the smoke and detention Of impu


Flties must be a great boon to manufac
turing cities. philadelphia Ledger.
Year: 1879

Do yon know that you have asked for the costllest


thing


Ever made by the Hand above
Aw0mans heart and womans life,


And womans wonderful loyeg
Do you know that you have asked for this priceless


thing


As a child might ask for a toy?
Demanding. what others have died to win.
with the reckless dash Of II boy.
You have written my lesson Of duty out
Man'llke you have questioned me
Now stand at the bar Of my woman's soul,
Cntll shall question thee.
You require your mutton shall always be hot,
Your socks and your shirts shall be whole
require your heart to be true as Gods stars,
And pure as heaven your soul.
You require a cook for your mutton and beef;
require fur better thing;
scamstress you're wanting for stockings and shirts
look for man and king.
A king for a beautiful rcalSn called home,
And man that the maker. God,
shall look upon as he did the first
And say, " It very good
am fair aud young but the rose will fade
from my soit, young cheek one day
VIII you love me then mid the falling leaves,
As you did mid the bloom Of May
Is your heart an ocean so strong and deep
may launch my all on IT, tideg
loving woman finds heaven or hell
on the day she is made a bride.
require all things that grand and true.
All things that a man should be:
IL you give This NIL I NauiI stall, t,,- tfG,
To be all You demand of me.
lfyou cannot 10 this-a laundrcss and cook
You can hire with little 10 pay:
But woman's heart and womans life
Are not 10 be won that way
Year: 1879

James Parton concludes recent yery
suggestive article upon the habits and
death Of Bayard Taylor (whom he had as
a personal friend, warned against the dan
ger of wine and beer drinking and smok-
ing as follows


"Mental labor is not hostile to health
and life. But am more than ever con.
yinced that man who lives BY his brain
is of all men bound to avoid stimulating
his brain. In this climate, to stimulate
the brain by alcohol and tobacco Is only
slow kind Of suicide. Eveu the most
moderate use Of the mildest wine Is not
without dapger, because the peculiar ex-
haasiion caused by severe mental labor ls
constant aud urgent temptation 10 in-
crease the quantity and strength Of the
potation.


II would say to every young man ia
the United States, if could reach him
If you mean TO attain one Of the prizes of
your profession and live a cheerful lile
70 the ago Of eighty, throw away your
dirty old pipe, put your cigars IN tho
stove, never buy any more, become an
absolute teetotaler, take yoar dinner 10
the middle Of your day, aud rest one day
il sever"
Year: 1879

The Sanguenay River is one Of tie most
wonderful rivers on the globe. For sixty,
five mile Of its length its depth is from
1000 to 1900 feet. At Cape Trinity it
reaches this enormous depth, while the
rocky shore rises almost perpendicularly to
the height Of nearly 2000 feet-truly
grand and wonderful. Some hold the
theory that this mighty gorge was made
by an earthquake, and that it is an arm Of
the sea, although it empties into the
St Lawrence, nearly three hundred miles
from the sea, or tho mouth of the Gulf of
St. Lawrence.
Year: 1879

discharged him. and will say in conclusion that
did so on the evden>e before me. knew nothing OF
the mans conduct on the street previous to
the arrests and the structures that have been placed
on me by those who imagined had tried and dis
charged him also on the cnarge of disorderly con-
duet and reckless driving compel me to make
charges against the officer (Knapp) for wiliully with
holding the charges he ought to have made i'll the
case.


PRIESTS DEFENSE.


DIR. William O'Gorman. of No. 903 Broad street.
said. "On my return from Jersey City. at halr-past
six o'clock P. NJ. found ON my slate q
call to visit the Rev. Mr.. McCarty. at
the station house. went, and found
him lying bench. He very pale and excited
in his appearance, and when the door was opened he
without apparently recognizing me. This is
q gross outrage; l want to the who
struck me. want justice DONE" He tried to pass
endeavored to quiet him and have him talk ration
ally me- but failed he was laboring under
such high state Of nervous excitement. though Arm
ascertaning that it necessary to Judge Ricord
to obtain his immediate release, drove to his
residence. to lind he had already left for
the court room. which adjoins the station house.
An officer then made q charge of drunkenness
against him. and as was anxious solely
to have him removed from the painful po-
the Judge what the penalty would be. He said
fine of 81 so, which said would pay, and then
asked permission to remove the clergyman without
bringing him to court. in consequence OF the
excess OF feeling under which he laboring.
was afterward convinced that he not intoxicated
and other things showing it. insisted on his return
charge was unrounded. He did so, aud the Judge.
he decided in his favor remarked to me- lf he Is
drunk have never seen q sober man."


Father Mccarthy himself could not be seen, but
sent message to the door from his bed saying "he
was sorry but the correct statement could be OBJ
tanned from the police court where the thing oc-
Cured"


Father Murphys disappearance after his superior's
arrest has excited much comment.