smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

the addition of such chemicals as the man
ufacturer may prefer


The glue is then run off into wooden
coolers, about six feet long, one foot broad
and two feet deep. Here it becomes a
firm jelly, which is cut out BY spade into
square cakes, each cake being deposited in
a sort of wooden box, open in several Sits
or divisions to the hack. The glue is cut
into slices by passing brass wire, attach
ed to kind of bow, along the slits. These
slices are placed upon nets, the marks Of
which are seen ON the dry glue, and
stretched in wooden frames, removed to
the open air, placed in piles, with proper
intervals for the admission of air. each
pile being rooted in, as protection from
the weather. When the glue is about
three-quarters dry it is removed into lofts,
where in the course of some weeks the
hardening is completed The cakes are
finally dried off in a steve room at an ele-
waited temperature, which when they are
once solid only serves 70 harden and i'm
prove their quality.


Good glue should contain no specks,
but be transparent and clear when held
up to the light The best glue swells
without melting when immersed in cold
water, and it resumes its former size on
drying. Shreds or parings Of vellum and
parchment make an almost coIorless glue:
old gloves, rabbit skins and the like. are
frequently employed in this manufacture


The method of softening glue for use, is
to break 4 into small pieces, soak for
twelve to twenty hours in cold water, then
set it over fire and gradually raise its
temperature until it is all dissolved, taking
care to stir it frequently while melting
Prepared in this way it cools down into a
stiff jelly, which requires only a little
warming to fit it for use. Amber coIored
glue is that most esteemed by cabinet ma
kers. Glue must not be used in freezing
temperature.


Fresh glue dries much more readily than
that which has been once or twice melted.
Dry glue stepped in cold water absorbs
different quantities of water, according to
the quality of the glue, while the proper
tion of water so absorbed may be used as
a test of the quality of the glue. From
careful experiments with dry glue i'm
mersed for twenty four hours in water, at
the temperature of 60o F., and thereby
transformed into jelly, it was found that
the finest ordinary glue, or that made from
white bones, absOrbs twelve times its
weight of water in twenty-four hours;
from dark bones, the glue absorbs nine
times its weight of water, while the ordi
nary glue made from animal refuse alb
serbs but three to FIVE times its own weight
of water.
Year: 1878

RELIEF FOR BURNING FEET.-To re
lieve burning feet, first discard tight boots;
then take one pint of bran and one ounce
of bi-carbOnate of soda, put in a pail, and
add one gallon of hot water; when cool
enough soak your feet in this mixture for
fifteen minutes. The relief is instantane-
Gus. This must be repeated every night
for week, or perhaps more. The bran
and bi-carbOnate should be made fresh af-
ter n weeks use Bi-carbonate of soda can
be purchased for about ten cents a pound
from wholesale druggists. The burning
sensation is produced by the pores of the
skin being closed, so that the feet do not
pcrspire.
Year: 1878

! saw the lily pale and perfect grow
Amid its silent sisters in the mead.


Methought within its chilly depths to read
maidenly severity, as though


cool young life lay slumbering in the snow
ofits frail substance. In that chalice white
Whose fairy texture shone against the light
An unawakened pulse beat faint and slow.
And remembered, love- the coy disdain,
When thou my love for thee hadst first OWNED:
Thy proud, shy tenderness-too proud TO feign
That willful kindness which is yet not blind.
Then toward the sun thy lily-life turned
With sudden splendor flushed, its chalice burn
Year: 1878

The manufacture of horn buttons is one
that is interesting from its antiquity, and
from the modern improvements that have
been introduced into it. Long before
metal buttons were made for general wear,
the horn button shared with the bone but
ton the patronage of the poor. At present
the horn button is used principally for
shooting coats and vests, and for shoes
and boots. The horn button, is not, how
ever, made from horn, as the name indi-
Gates, but from the hoofs of horned cattle.
The hoofs Of each animal will weigh about
two pounds, and more than than eighty
tons are used up yearly by one factory in
Aberdeen. The hOofs of horses are not
suitable for the purpose When the hoofs
arrive they are thrown into a large caul-
dron and boiled until they are soft. They
are then cut into halves, and the sections
transferred to the workshop. Here the
"blanks" are pierced or punched out by
young women seated at hand-presses. The
blanks, which are of whitish color, are
then placed in watts in strong dye, either
of black, red or green, the only colors which
the hoof will take, where they remain until
they are thoroughly dyed. Black is the
most common color used. The next ope-
ration is to fix the shank, which is done
while the blank is soft and hot. This is
a rapid process, and like most of the other
operations is performed by children. The
horn button, after being shanked, remains
but plain piece Of rounded hoof, not even
fattened or smoOthed on its surface. The
next operation is to place it in a mould
having an ori6ce for the shank to fit it.
This mould merely contains the makers
name or trademark, and is for the under
surface of the button. The mould con
tains dozen repetitiOns of the same pat
tern. When the buttons are ranged in
this receptacle they are heated over an
oven until they are almost as soft as wax,
when an upper mould, containing the pat
tern which is to be impressed upon them,
and which fits closely upon the other, is
placed over it. The two are then subject
ed to the press, and the buttons are taken
out round and complete, with the excep-
tion of an occasional roughness around the
edge, resulting from the overflow of the
molten substance. This Is afterwards par
ed off. The buttons are then fixed by
their shanks upon plate Of metal, and
subjected to the operation of brush or a
series of brushes moved by steam-power,
which gives them the last touch and pro-
duces a beautiful polish They are now
ready for carding and packing


The Paris makers of horn buttons are
celebrated for employing many Of the best
die-sinkers of France Buttons of large
size enable the artist to display ability, and
the very fine classical heads upon some Of
the buttons in alto-rclievo show a great
amount of skill in the execution of the
dies; on some, colors have been introduced
in indented rings, which at a short dis
tance look both neat and effective. In
some French buttons the opacity of the
horn Cor more properly hOOf) renders them
unattractive at short distance, and it is
only upon a close examination that their
merits are discovered.-Scientifc NeCs.
Year: 1878

Roach TIARA lady has discovered
novel way of catching reaches which she
pronounces successful and economical, get
an ordinary size bottle, with neck large
enough to admit these pests, then catch a
rach and place it in this bottle. If your
cupboard is infested with these animals,
place this bottle, containing the single
roach, on a shell, near the side of the cup
board, at night, and the next morning you
will have quite bOttlefull, proriclecl, it be
a good night for reaches.
Year: 1878

Music and flowers are evangels of purity
and faith, redolent of God, if we but un-
lock our hearts to their ministry; and the
man or woman who is impervious to their
subtle, spiritualizing influences may feel
assured that there is something essentially
wrong in his or her organization or habits
of life.
Year: 1878

To KEEP GREEN CoRN.-My plan is
this and it never fails Gather the corn
when in good eating state; place the corn,
cob and all in vessel and pour boiling
water over it; let it remain in the hot wa
ter three to five minutes, then cut the corn
from the cob, put layer of corn, then a
layer of salt in large stone jars; when full
weight down; keep adding layers as the
corn sinks down in the jar; the salt makes
brine without water; when used soak all
night in clear cold water.
Year: 1878

We can be but partially acquainted even
with the events which actually influence
our course through life and our final des.
tiny. There.are innumerable other events
if such they may be caled-which come
close upon us, yet pass away without ac-
tual results, OF even betrayirg their near
approach by the reflection of any light OF
shadow across our minds. Could we but
know all the vicissitudes of our fortunes,
life would be too full of hope and fear,
exultation or disappointment, to afford us
single hour of true serenity-Ha,gthorne.
Year: 1878

How TO ENTER A RooM.-Good breed
ing is demonstrated by little things. The


way in which people enter room shows
whether they have had good training as
plainly as anything else in manners. Open
the door wide enough to walk squarely in,
without squeezing or edging through, as il
you didn't think enough of yourself to give
your body room to 60 through without
crowding. Don't rush in, or creep in, but
hold yourself straight, and look directly
atthe people in the room. Don't hesitate;
but if you don't know the visitors, wait
quietly until an introduction is given, when


you can open conversation, or respond to
the visitors advances, as the case may be.
Year: 1878

SALT AND WooDwORK.-Itis is a curious
fact that in the salt mines of Poland and
Hungary the galleries are supported by
wooden pillars, which are found to last
unimpaired for ages, in consequence of be-
ing impfegnated with the salt, while pillars
Of brick and stone, used for the same pur-
pose, crumble away in a short time by the
decay of mortar 1t is also found that
wooden piles driven into the mud of salt
fats and marshes last for an unlimited time,
and are used for the foundation of brick
and stone edifees; and the practice of dock
ing timber after it has been seasoned by
immersing it for some time in sea-water,
is generally admitted to be promotive of
its durability. There are some experiments
which appear to show that, even after the
dry rot has commenced, immersion in salt
water effectually checks its progress and
preserves the remainder of the timber.
Year: 1878

Professor John Wise, of Philadelphia,
one of the most practical men Of the day,
in explanation of the theory by which a
house in that city covered by tin roof
which was struck by lightning on the af-
ternoon of March 14th, but not seriously
damaged, concludes his article as follows


The man that nowadays goes around to
put up finger thick lightning-rods for pro-
lection to buildings is as much of char
latan as the man that sells amulets, or he
that furnishes old horse-shoes to be nailed
over stable and house doors to keep out
witches. The only protecting property of
the rod is in its surface, and that to an
ordinary bolt would be as efficacious as a
tin-foil coat of mail to thrust of lancer's
spear. The day is not far distant when
mental-covered roof will be considered as
indispensable to the protection of build
ing and its furniture and inmates from
lighting as is the roof itself to the protee-
ton of the persons and things inside from
the rain.


From over forty years observation, can
incontrovertibly say that the thunderbolt
passes from cloud to earth as any other
missile would pass-shot or shell, meteor
ite or hail of iron-in the direction of
least resistance, regardless of all and any
pointers, and that when it meets a field of
metal it bounees over it harmlessly, and
goes the way of all things that play out.


The fire that we see in the lightning's
play is the combustion-the dehagration
of the matter, diffuse or otherwise through
which the bolt passes. have in my pos
session globules of iron that dripped from
the end of railroad rails along which
thunderbolt travelled. The space be-
tween the rails to allow for expansion and
contraction, not one-eighth to one-quarter
of an inch, being sufficient to obstruct its
velocity-air being a non-conductor to
degree of fusion of wrought iron. The
atmosphere is full of diffuse matter. In
terstellary space is full of diffuse iron and
nickel. A magnetic storm in the regions
of interplanetary space pours iron hail,
and hence the disposition of meteoric
iron upon our planet when its happens to
be the nearest body to magnetic cyclone.
[ have passed through snow and hail
storms in the cloud region the hottest days
of July. 1t often snow two or three thous-
and feet above the earth and the oftenest
in the hottest weather, and we are uneon-
cious of it on the face of the earth, because
it is melted and taken up as vapor in the
grasp of the lower atmosphere.
Year: 1878

An aged servant of God, who lived in IA
poor and lonely cottage, always showed so
much wisdom and sense when any one asked
him for his advice about anything that the
people round about thought he must be a
very learned man. A very great scholar
who went one day TO see him, and was as
tonished at the wise words he heard from
his lips, said How is it, my good friend,
that | don't see library or any collection
OF books at all in your cottage don't
even see the smallest bookshelf. Aud yet
you have been able TO teach me, who am
thought to be so learned myself, much
never knew before" Sir" replied the old
man, 81 have, it is true, but very small
collection of books-in fact, | have only
three, but they are the three best a man can
have. They are the wonderful 0OrkS of God


which | can always look at, and which show
me how great and good lie is. The sun, the
moon, the stars, the earth, the trees the law
of God written in my own conscience, telling
me what ought TO do and what | ought not
to do and most of all, the w0rd of God, the
Bible. The works of God are spread out
all round me in earth and sky; they are as
great book always open. Conscience is a
never silent teacher unless we stop its voice
ourselves by refusing to listen to it. But
these two books would fall short of teach
ing US the truest wisdom ii we had not the
blessed word of God, to make that known
to us which we can learn in no other way


For in the Bible we read how God made the
heavens and the earth, and all these glorious
things we see around us. He teaches us
there also how man sinned, and how the
| Lord Jesus Christ redeemed us with his
blood. In that book we read what thai
blessed Saviour did and suffered for us, anC
what he commanded and promised, 1t tell'
US, too, how the Holy Spirit is promised t.
all who seek him. Conscience can, indeed
show us our SINS but it is Gods word alon'
which teaches how they can be forgiven, anC
how we can be saved from them. "Thus


without library or human teachers, tn


three books of Conscience, Gods Works an,


Word, will if explained by the Holy Spirit


make man truly wise."-From the German
Year: 1878

DO not be too anxious TO give away your.
self, to wear your heart upon your sleeve.
1t is not only unwise, it is wrong, to make
your secret soul common property; for you
bring the delicate things of the heart into
contempt by exposing them to those who
cannot understand them. If you throw
pearls before swine, they will turn again
and rend you. Nor again, should you claim
too much openness, as a duty due to you,
from your child your friend, your wife, or
your husband. Much of the charm of life
is ruined by exactng demands of conf
dence. Respect the natural modesty of the
soul its more delicate flowers of feeling
close their petals when they are touched too
rudely. Wait with curious love- with eager


interest, for the time when, all being har-
monious, the revelation will come of its own
accord, undemanded. The expectation has
its charm, for as long as life has something
to learn, life is interesting; as long as
friend has something to give. friendship is
delightful. Those who wish to destroy all
mystery in those they love, to have every
thing revealed, are unconsciously killing
their own happiness. 1t is much to be with
those who have many things to say to us
which we cannot bear now. 1t is much to
live with those who sometimes speak to us
in parallels, if we love them. Love needs
some indefniteness, in order to keep its
charm Respect, which saves love from the
familiarity which degrades it, is kept vivid
when we feel that there is a mystery in
those we love which comes of depth of char
acter. Remember that in violating your
own reserve, or that of another, you destroy
that sensitiN eness of character which makes
so much of the beauty of character; and
beauty of character is not so common as to
make it not cruel thing to spoil it
.Stopford 4. Brooke.
Year: 1878


Little lost darling. come back to mel
lie in my arms as You used to dol
Here Il the place where your head should be.
Here Ia the bosom waiting for YOU
Let me hut feel again on my breast
The velvet touch OF your tiny hand;
Your roae-leaf lips to my own close prcsi
My cheek by your balmy breathngs famed.
See here; shut tight my weary eycs.
As thousands Of times I've done in play.
When nnciose them In soft surptlsc
Ring ont q laugh in your sweet old way.
Come TO me, come 10 mo, precious one
am 20 heari-sck and sad and lom
Naked ns nature without the sun,
Now that the light Of my life has gone.
You sleep in tho churchyard all alone.
No one to watch by your narrow bed
The wind DER your tender body blown
And nleht-dcws drip your bnhy-head.
mol In the luminous delds above
Angels another now star have set.
They may surround you with ceaseless love.
Shield you from sorrow and sinning-yet
Heaven cannot need Won 20 much as
Legions Of cierubs 1t had before.
Baby, my baby. why did You die2
Come 10 your mother. my own, once more
Little lost darling, come back to mel
Lie in my arms as You used to dol
Here is the place where your head should he
Here on the bosom waiting for youi Solicited
Year: 1878

The meekness which Christ honors and
commends, the long-suffering and patience
which he manifested in his life, the willing
ness TO suffer wrong rather than do wrong
these appear to be at great discount in the
world, and even amongst many who lay claim
to the name of Christ, without displaying
that mind which was in him. That, very
frequently, silence is the best reply that can
be given, is not credited by many. But it
is certainly the very best reply which can be
given, under many circumstances. 1t is
more overwhelming for the children of the
father of lies than the severest reproofs can
be. Why reply to every malicious declara-
tion that may be made against us2 Why
do we endeavor TO cast from us every
false accusation that may be brought for
ward ? Why resent the insults which we
may be called upon to endure Following
the holy example of Jesus, may grace be
given us to be silent as he was, and when re-
viled, not to revie again; when suffering
threatening not, but committing our cause
to him that judgeth righteously. Let no
words of ours be heard, but let the voice of
an upbraiding reproving, condemning con-
science sound forth in all its power-speak-
ing far more in our favor than any reply
which we could offer. Feeble as we all are
so inclined to lose control over ourselves, and
to be carried too far by our feelings, how
much better at times is silence than any
other reply which we might Offer To bear
injuries in all meekness, to be silent under
abuse, to resent not, but commit all to him
who judgeth righteously, is no evidence of
weakness but rather of power; it is not
thing which need call forth the least shame
within us, but rather cause for thanksgiving
and rejoicing that we have been enabled
through divine grace to initiate the perfect
example of our Lord, and to endeavor TO
display the mind which was in him.-The
lfnrnrinn
Year: 1878

A SHARP little girl in Chicago got
ou, of patience with her bashful lover s
backwardness. and 50 brought matters
TO A favorable climax by saying TO him.
L really believe you are afraid tn ask
me to marry you. for you know | would
say yes.
Year: 1878

at the hour Of ten o'clock A NJ, Of said day, for
the purpose of nominating . candidate for Dele
gate to Congress. and for the transaction of such
other business as will properly come before II.


The Committee has fixed the spportionment OF
Delegates 10 said Convention follows: One
delegate at large, for every county in the Terri
tory. and one additional delegate for every one
hundred votes and for every majority portion OF
one hundred votes cast In each county at the gen.
ersl election in 1876. for the Republican Candi.
date for Delegate to Congress. Upon this basis
the various Counties Of the Territory will De en-
titled TO representation In said Convention Is fol-
Year: 1878

VEGETINE. when tho blood becomes life
less and stagnant either from change or
weather or climate, want OF exercise Irregular
diet, or from any other cause, the Vcgctnc Will
renew the blood, carry or the putrld humors,
cleanse the stomach, regulate the bowels, and
l1hpart O tone OF Vigor to the whole body
Year: 1878

The styles are new and pretty and the
prices will suit the times. Call and
look at them: they Will bear the closest
inspection, and we take pleasure in
showing them. will receive in q few
Gays full assortment of oil goods in our
line.
Year: 1878




New York, January at. S. Lambert
ex.president of the Mexican Popular Life
Insurance Company, convicted of swear
ingto false reports, was to- day arraigned
for sentence. He spoke for two hours
and half, claiming that he was bounded
down by certain members of the press,
and witnesses against him were inter-
ested. He made bitter attack upon
the head of the insurance department,
charging ignorance and corruption, and
finally asked the court to remember his
family and pass light sentence.


Judge Brady then said; With regard
to sympathy, DR.. Lambert, you have
asked the court to be lenient in sentence
and spare your family, to do something
which you should have done, and if you
had, you would not stand before me
charged and convicted of perjury. You
have arraigned the press for writing
about your case. 1t is the right of the
public at largeito know through the voice
of the people, "The Press that you
have received your just deserts for your
crime. don't believe, DR.. Lambert.
that you believed that these checks were
cash. ltwas your duty to know the true
condition of your company, and if you
had you would have had mercy on your
family. The sentence of the court, DR..
Lambert, is that you be confined in the
State prison for five years at hard labor


The prisoner stood a few seconds, half
dazed, then bowed and took his seat.
Year: 1878

WE are not musician enough to know
the difference between the wedding
march in "Lochengrin," and Tommy
make room for your Uncle"-but never
theless, we do see a remarkable propri-
ETY. in the course of the Repository under
its new management. They prefer not
to say much about the split in the Re-
publican party and the war going on
against the Hayes administration. They
started in fercely on Massillon bridge
and heating the Infrmary; but those
guns being spiked by plain statement OF
facts, they are now thrown back upon
John Sherman and forced resumption,
and accordingly, in the last Repository
they set sail rather happily in that di.
rection, claiming this financial storm is
not much of storm after all that times
are pretty good trade is reviving, and is
already excellent, especially in Can
ton. This is just what the shermans,
the Grants, the BabCocks, the Chambers,
and that ilk have been saying for years.
1t must be admitted this "happy family"
is not as happy as they we're, for the suf-
fering people will not now believe them,
and then the trouble with the Hayes ad-
ministration and the old "bloody shirt"
leaders is waxing fierce and furious, tear
ing the party to tatters.


But the new Repository regime may 60
on with the dance tune of Tommy make
room for your Uncle"