smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The huttRr should be perfectly sweet
and free from buttermilk; the butter
and sugar should be thoroughly beaten
together. Powdered sugar Is prefera-
BILE to granulated, as the latter is slow
in disSOlving; the whites OF the eggs
should be beaten to IA stiff frOth, and
added to the sugar, butter and yOlks
fruit should be rolled in fieur and add
ed ut the last moment. Soda should De
pulyeriZed and sifted into the cake
with the flour. The hand or "a wooden
spoon is best for mixing cake. An i'm
pOrtant point is the heat of the oven.
The cake should begin to bake ut once,
but should not brown immediately
The oven door should be seldom open
ed while the cake is In. The gem-pans
are excellent for baking cake, first heat
ing them rs tor graham gems.
Year: 1879

-Four young men who wanted to hire
Il double team to go sleighing ten hours
abandoned the ride when they learned
the price. They concluded to lay aside
the amount of money demanded and
purchase an entire livery stable with
il next summer.-NOrriStOID Herald.
Year: 1879

This Greeks had a prOverb which runs
thus: TO dispute on the shadow of
AN ass" This took rise from an anec-
dOte which DemOstheneS is said to
have related 10 the AthenianS to excite
their attention during his defense of Il
criminal which was being but inatteEt-
lively listened to. "a traveller" he
said, "Once went from Athens to Me-
CARA on hired ass. 1t happened to be
ut the time of the dog days, at noon.
He was much exposed to the unmiti-
gated heat of the sun, and not finding
SO much Us a bush under which to take
shelter, he bethOughU himself to de-
scend from the ass and seat himself
under its shadow. The owner of the
donkey, who accompanied him. object
ed to this, declaring to him that when
he let the animal the use of its shadow
was not included in the bargain. The
dispute ut last grew so warm that it
got to blows, and finally gave rise to
an action at law" After having SAID
SO much, DemOstheneS continued the
defense of his client; but his auditors,
whose curiosity he had piqued, We're
anxious TO know how the Judges de-
clded on 50 singular cause. Upon
this the orator commented severely on
their childish injustice in deYOuTing
with attention paltTy story about an
ass shadow, while they turned a deaf
ear to a cause in which the life of a
human being was involved From
that day, when man showed a pref
erence for discussing small and con-
temptible subjects TO great and impor-
tant ones he was said ito dispute on
the shadow of an ass,
Year: 1879

Feeling in California ouer the Presidents s


Veto


SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, March 2,1679.


Owing to the fact that for the last two
or three days the community has been
led to expect vote Of the bill 10 restrain
immigrations, and that anxiety on the
subject had to some extent worn itself
out, the actual receipt of the news Of the
votes failed to create any excitement in
this city. 1t cannot, however, be argued
from this that 4 universal! feeling OF deep
regret and indignation does not exist
throughout the State and Pacific coast.
All day dispatches have been pouring
into the Office of the Associated Press
given voice to the sentiment of the press
and people ON the action ofthe President,
and thus far there are but three excep-
tions to the perfect unanimity which has
prevailed in their expressions, the only
difference being in degree.
Year: 1879

Blushing is occasioned by small dila-
tation of the small blood vessels, which
form fine network beneath the skin,
and when they admit an increased vol.
ume of red blood, cause the surface to
appear sutfused with color. Blanching
is the opposite state in which the vessels
contract and squeeze out their blood 80
that the skin is seen of its bloodless hue.
The change effected in the size of the
vessels is brought about by an instanta-
neous action of the nervous system.
This action may be induced by thought,
or, unconsciously, by the operation of
Impressions producing the phenomenon
habitually.


Most persons who blush with self
sciousness blanch with anger, and this
artificial state of mock anger will soon
blanch the face enough to prevent the
blush. 1t only requires practice in the
control of the emotions and the produc-
tion of particular states at will-the
sort of experiences acquired by actors
and actresses-to secure control of these
surface phenomena. Blushing and
blanching are antagonistic states, and
may be employed to counteract each
other, control of the physical state of
blood vessels being obtained through
the emotions with which they are asso-
ciated.
Year: 1879

A lady entered car on the Oakwood
road one day the past week leading a
little girl perhaps four years old. The
mother sat down and lifted the little one
to the seat beside her. The child was
nibbling at a bit of cake or sugar, now
and then turning her face, full of child
ish love, up to her mother and murmur-
ing some almost unintelligible words Of
affection.


Opposite to mother and child sat
another younger lady, who often smell
ed fresh rose which she held. The in
nocent little one before her attracted her
attention, and the natural kindliness of
tho sympathetic woman's heart prompt
ed her at once to offer the fragrant flower
to the little budding lily opposite. So
she leaned bit forward and spoke:


Baby want the posey?'


But the child seemed not to hear her.
Perhaps it was the noise of the moving
car that prevented. Then she spoke u
little louder, and held the flower forward
temptingly--


'Baby may have the poHey.'


The mother heard, for she looked to-
ward the other lady and s:niled-and OH,
such q look of heartfelt gratitude, of
motherly love, yet heavily saddened
with such an expressive tinge of sorrow
rs is seldom seen. And still the lady OF
the rose pressed upon the little ones &C.
ceptance of the flower.


'Baby, take the rose,' holding it
almost to the child's hands. And now
it seemed that sue heard, for the blue
eyes turned full upon her would-be
patron, and then in moment she
strongly drew back and turned her eyes
appealingly toward her mothers face.
The lady with the flower showed her be-
wilderment in her look, while panied
expression fitted across the face of the
mother, who leaned forward and whis
pered just word


'My darling is blind!'


Then the whole sunless, darksned life
of the fair little being-fair rs the flower
which had been offered to her-came up
before the mind. All beauty shut out
from her foreverl For her no foliage
strewn, fower-studded scene to follow
the bleakness Of winter. No looking
with awe into the mysterious depths of
the night sky, sparkling with elittering,
twinkling star gems, for over those blue
eyes the Creator, in the mysteries of
His designs, had hung the impenetrable
vail. No expectant gaze toward the
mothers faca for the gentlest smile that
ever soothes childish trouble; only the
blind passage of the little hand over
those features, for one moments sight
of which that growing little one will
often willingly offer years of existence.
For her the birds will sing; the lowell
ness OF form and feather are not. For
her, while the babbling stream may
make mysterious music, its dimpled
waves and winding reaches and yerdant
banks do not exist.


How bitterly vivid all this as the lady
opened the little hand and shut within
it the tnornless stem of the rose, now
bearing tear on its petals


Aud there were other swimming eyes
in the car. - Utica Tribune.
Year: 1879

Joaquin Miller, in the Independent,
tells how he has seen them making wine
in the old country: When was living
in Italy, on the shores of the Adriatic,
I went up into the mountains among the
peasants to live and learn their habits of
life. The poor or laboring people are
the real people of any land. The rich
are all alike. The poor people are the
character of the country. And then it
is theory of mine that the sweetest
flowers grow close to the ground. These
peasants were wine-makers. Their
splendid dark women climbed the steep
mountains and carried the grapes down
in great baskets on their backs; then
they emptied these baskets into great
round fiat tub or vat. then they 60 into
this great shallow tub, in their short
red petticoats with their naked brown
feet; then they join hands and begin to
go round and round, singing and laugh
ing as they went. They were treading
out the wine. They were black-eyed
and beautiful; they were light-hearted
and happy. They had storms of black
and abundant hair over their shoulders.
They showed the prettiest white teeth
in the world, as they lifted their happy
faces and circled round and round, and
trampled the grapes, until they stood
knee-deep in the wine. At first L did
not like to drink this wine, because |
did not think it was clean. But | after
ward watched them at their work more
closely, and saw with pleasure that they
invariably and always washed their feet
after they got done treading out the
Uina
Year: 1879

A lady who lives in st. Louis relates
the following: A few days ago there
fell in front of her window from tree a
'chippy' or ground bird, such as chatter
about the parks and streets. 1t seemed
worried aud crippled. She picked it
up, carried it in the house, fed it from
her own mouth and at night placed it in
the cage with her canary. The canary
at once bestowed upon the newcomer
all of the attention of mother, and
nestled beside the little stranger during
the night. In the morning the lady
placed the chippy in the window 30 that
it might have the privilege of regaining
its freedom. 1t plumed it's tiny wings
and went away. The canary mourned
during the day as if he had lost his
mate. In the evening the chippy came
back and perched upon the window
The sash was raised and it flew in and
nestled upon the cage; the canary at
once struck up his liveliest tunes and
seemed grati6ed. This was repeated
two or three days, the chippy going each
morning and returning in the evening.
One day it went away and did not come
back. The canary droopcd and the next
day fell dead from his perch in the sun
shine that played over his gilded cage
in the window. That night the chippy
returned and during the evening mourn
ed over its dead companion. In the
morning it clung to the cage until it was
turned out. For few days the empty
cage was hung in The window, and on
each succeeding evening the chippy re-
turned and chirped as if it was grief
stricken. One day it brought worm
in its bill, dropped it in the cage, flew
away and came back no more.
Year: 1879

A small boy with a big cent in his
hand stood before Michigan avenue
grocery for long time yesterday before
making up his mind to enter. When
asked what he desired, he inquired


If boy should come here and get
trusted for stick of gum, how much
would it be?'


'One cent was the reply.


And if boy should come here with
the cash, how much would it be2'


Just the same


Then guess I'll get trusted quiet
ly remarked the financier as he slipped
the cent down into his pocket.
Year: 1879

Oh eyes that mate with mine, of all the earth
Dear. wistful eyes that mine have never seon!
pray that ye may never look my way


Until my grave be green!
oh hands that would have helped me in myneed!
That mover would have thrust my own aside,
Oh. never may ye touch me till l lie


Too pale for pride!
Oh feet in listening for whose coming youth
Went by, while of its leaf-time came no bloom!
;Tis now too late for 70 to come, till


For happier hearts make room.
Oh lips that would have found my own most


sweet


or all sweet things that gladden. Gods dear


earth
Let the world part us until mine are cold
And dumb and little worth.
Oh heart Of all hearts, that was meant for mine,
That somewhere wanderest weary for my sake!
Will some mysterious sorrow thrill thee through
The day that mine shall break?
Year: 1879

A Canadian firm has adopted the
following novel method of Kidding their
store of flies: While the store is closed
on Sunday, they burn a quantity OF
birthstone in their windows, and the
fumes arising from it suffocate all the
flies that go near to the window to be
near the light. Fully three pints Of
dead flies are found in the window every
Monday morning. As they are very
thick this season this mode of getting
rid of them is very effectual.
Year: 1879

A correspondent of the Boston Ad-
Vertiser, writing from Valparaiso,
says 1 lr u b 500 e..
i [ will try to tell you the principal
causes of the present difficulties in
Chill, Bolivia and Peru. Bolivia
broke her solemn treaty with Chill
because she found it to her interest to
do so. Bolivia has also the stimulus
of being hounded on by Peru, because
Peru has, until very lately, had the
monopoly of the production of nitrate
Of soda, very extensively used in
Europe for manure and many chemical
purposes. The Importance of this
product and its shipment to Europe
have grown enormously during the
last fifteen or twenty years. | went
to Iquique in 1S42, still the principal,
but then the only port of export, to
take the weight of a cargo which was
there shipped. Then three or four
vessels per month were loaded, but
during the past two years over one
hundred vessels per month have loaded
at lquique and two small adjacent
ports. This monopoly of Peru has
given aud is giving her an income oil
from five to seven millions annually.


About four or five years ago the ma
tive salt, from which the nitrate is
made, was found also on the coast of
Bolivia, and almost exclusively
through Chilian capital aud enterprise
the trade in it has become great
competitor and consequent thorn in
the side of Peru. In 1874 Chill and
Bolivia made treaty by which the
latter, for some considerations of
ceded rights to disputed territory,
agreed not to impose any export duties
on nitrate or enact any laws that might
hamper or cause any expense to the
Chilian capital employed on her coast
over and above such restrictions as at
that time existed.


Since then, millions of Chill capital
have been invested in mining and the
manufacture of nitrate on this form
erly unproductiye coast, causing three
important towns TO be built, nine-
tenths Of the inhabitants Of which are
Chilians. In violation of the treaty
and all justice, the Bolivian congress,
in February, 1873, decreed an export
duty Of ten cents per one hundred
pounds on all nitrate shipped at their
ports, This was done partly to OBJ
tain an income for themselves, but
chiefly through the influence Of Peru,
which government stipulated by a
private treaty with Bolivia to sustain
her against all claims by Chill. The
latter country protested, and tried by
every means to make Bolivia respect
her treaty obligations but, finding
diplomacy useless, Chill sent her
squadron, composed of two powerful
ironclads and four small coryettes,
and took possession of the whole Of the
Bolivian coast OF course this exas-
perated both Bolivia and Peru, aud is
the principal cause OF the war.


The war brings ruin to all three OF
these very poor countries, Chill, vt
Year: 1879

THE Little Rock Gazette of yester-


day, says Next Monday at ten clock
the Arkansas Press Association will
meet in Representative Hall. This is
more than passing event, though


with the natural inclination of time,
all events pass. Events in this respect
are different from counterfeit money.
We publish in this issue letter from
President Newman, giving reasons for
calling the meeting in this city. 1t
should be the pride of every citizen
and prospective candidate Of this city
to see the association meet here, and
we feel assured that every courtesy
will be extended. a
Year: 1879




A FEW hundred copies of the His
tory of the Epidemic Of 1878 we're
received at the headquarters of the
Howard Association to-day and sent
out to early subscribers. It's a hand
somely printed and elegantly bound
book of over four hundred pages. We
have not examined it yet and there
fore cannot offer such review as its
Importance deserves. This will be
done at no distant day. The work
was compiled and the greater portion
of it written up by Col. J. NJ. Heating
editor of the Appeal, He was here in
1873 aud in 1873, as we'll as through
several former epidemics, and being Of
an active, investigative turn Of mind,
has devoted much time to the study
of the history of yellow fever in this
and other countries, and to the most
practical ideas of sanitation. lie
writes vividly Of what he has seen and
experienced, and has ayailed himself
of the research and study of others
When we have had time to read thi,
book through wc-will review it care
fully. 1t was written in the shor
period of four months, without fore
going active editorial duties, yet it i,
the most complete record of the kline
in existence, and is bound to be tex
book of the future.
Year: 1879

Cincinnati Gazette.


A number Of Grants near friends 10
New York, who are in constant CORE
spondence with his party, are exerting
themselves to delay his return. They
had been hoping that he would not
arrive at San Francisco until late in
the autumn or early in the winter,
when it would be possible, as they
thought, to occupy him on the Pacific
coast till toward spring. The inten-
tion then was to have triumphal
tour eastward that should increase in
force and influence until the conven
tion. They have now heard that the
general expects to land in San Fran,
cisco certainly by September, and
possibly before. This is disconcerting
all the plans, and an effort is to be
made to either delay the party in
Japan or send it to the Sandwich Is
lands, and then, after a tour 10 Oregon
aud southern California, to take q
jaunt Of considerable length in Mex
leo. Urgent letters in favor Of late
arrival in the central portion Of the
United States have gone forward, botl
fron New York and Philadelphia.
Year: 1879

THE Cincinnati Enquirer thinks
that perhaps Mrs. Hayes was willing
to permit the opening of few bottles
of wine at the White House the other
night after the news of Fosters nomi-
nation was received.
Year: 1879

THE LEDGER, of yesterday, was
doubtless the only afternoon paper in
the South that contained the full text
of the Presidents veto message.
There was no great enterprise in this,
yet it is some satisfaction to anticipate
our morning contemporaries twelve or
fifteen hours in news like. this which
concerns the whole public.
Year: 1879

THE MEN OUT ON THE TYNE ON FRIDAY-How


THEY LOOK TOGETHER.


Icy CABLE TO THE HERALD


LONDON. March 80. 1879.
The Sportsman says:-"The weather on the Tyne
side yesterday great improvement upon that
expert enced during the past week. and both Hanlan
and Hawdon put in some strong work. The latter
was the first to show ahoat in the fore
noon. After sculling steadily up to Leming-
ton Point he turned and back at a
fair pace to the head OF the meadows. On his way
back he met Hanlan. The pair having met on the
river for the first time. had square look at each
other, and Hawdon threw out kind of challenge to
his opponent by quickening his pace to thrtyeisht
strokes per minute. which made his boat move
in beautiful style. Hanlan quickcnins his
stroke considerably moved away from the
Delavel sculer in style which would
not give the latter impression of his powers.
Hanlan continued his pull down into the m m,adows.
Hawdon substituted walking for rowing in the after
noon, but the American put OF about three o'clock
and journeyed to Elswick ferry, where he wheeled
about and rowed back to the Suspension Bridge.
making from thirty to thirty-two strokes per min
nj
Year: 1879

The Stonewall IS now looking bet ter than it ever has since its dis covery. In one of the lower levels q large body of ore worth a dollar or two per pound, some of it assays as high as eighty per cent, has been struck It shows on both sides of the winze a depth of twenty feet. and is over two feet in width. This strike is on the main ledge. The strata, which first gave the mine so much prominence, is again being worked, and is yielding large quantities Of native silver, $2,O00 or S3,000 are daily being taken from it. One shot this week blew down over $2,000. From one charge of pan in Stone wall mill from ore taken from strike on the main ledge, 800 pounds of amalgam was taken, worth over $1.200. The main shaft is now done 2S6 feet and is in ore.-SilCer Belt.
Year: 1879

 An AnecdOte of Zach. Chandler,

 When he assumed the duties of Secretary of the Interior, he desired that the position of Attorney of the Department should be filled by a lawyer from Michigan, whose fitness for the work was undoubted. It was teudered to him and refused upon the ground that he could not afford the pecuniary sacrifice that would be required by his withdrawal from his business.

 What sum will make you good ?" asked MT. Chandler.

 Not less than five thousand dol lars year." was the reply.

 "You shall have it, 'said Zach, and during his occupancy of the office the lawyer received a check each year for that amount, paid from Chandler's own pocket. This fact shows, what was true, that he had no desire to prey on tha public Treas ury, but rather a generous wish to give his country the best service, even though it must be done at his own expense. -IOEedo BLdde.
Year: 1879

What we said some time since as

 to the home productions of fruit is

 equally applicable to another branch

 of c ,noiny, that is within the ea-v

 rt ach of our people-the manufac-

 ;ure of sugar. The sugar cane can nowhere in America be grown more

 cheaply or in better quality than in

 Salt River valley. Several crops

 have already been grown on the

 same soil without the labor and ex-

 pense of re-planting. It grows to

 a size that would be simply astound-

 irg to the planters of Louisiana or

 Cuba. The sugar beet also seems

 to be almost indigenous 10 cur soil

 and climate, and can be raised with

 equal facility and with as little care

 So far then as the sugar producing

 plants are concerned, the problem is

 already solved. Our farmers can

 with less labor than is necessary 10

 produce a field of wheat, make tue

 whole atmosphere wave with an abundance of ssccharine matter that will be more than sufficient for the needs of the Territory. We believe in mixed farming any how. It is rot only more pie asure- able but q variety of crops will rem der the husbandman less liable to failure, than where the chances are taken on raising but a single class of products. What may fail i'll one year may be success the next. and if one field should fail another will bring r:turns. We arc aware that the method of farming by irrigation in which we are not dependent as in tine east on < win6 and weather" reduces these chances of failure to minimum, but nevertheless, there are chances to be taken, and this va ricty of husbandry would obviate the very last chance that can in the nature of the case exist. Then too. rotation of crops is proven to be the very best mean of prolonging the fer tility of the soil. This is especial y so in farming by irrigation. The waters hold in solution the elements of fertility of every kind, and what IS consumed by one class of plants for q few years will have a tendency to rob the soil of that which is essential for this crop so that in time the yield will became smaller. But while th:s process of weakening is going on. there have been deposited by the water poured upon the field other plant-food, by which it has been made richer all the time for other crops, and so perpctually, in rota- .ion, the process absorption and de- Dosit goes on, and the farm by 5his means becomes partially rested IS the crops are gathered one by one. from year to year. Our far mers, therefore, have everything o gain, and nothing to lose by uriiing their attention to the rais- pg of variety of products, and lmong them none Is more certain 1T more profitable, as we shall how in another article, perhaps o-morrow, than the susar-cane and ugar beet.