smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

The oldest mention of coffee that can
anywhere be found does not go further
back than 800 years. Nobody knows
when it was first used in the East.


There is nothing to go upon, except a
tradition that the angel Gabriel invented
coffee for the especial behoof of Ma
homet in his old age, to enable him to
renew his youth, and be happy in his
loves. Whether it had this effect we
are not told, but it is to be supposed


that Gabriel did his best for the prophet.


In any case, it is certain that coffee is in
comparable as a stimulant, and will even
make UP for the want of food. Rossini
used to say that it could keep him up
for fortnight, the time he required for
the composition of an opera. There is
no other stimulant that can sustain such


pitch. Opium is wonderfully sustain
ing, but it has bad effects, and it tends
too much to dreaminess, with lack of
concentration. Alcohol has force of its
own, as we all know but it requires
frequent renewal, and is too speedily
followed 10y reaction and collapse. Tea
comes nearest to the Arabian berry as q
Year: 1875

Men of science speak of epidemic
waves, and of scarlet fever being COM
municated by the few drops of milk
which you pour into your tea, or the
cream difiused in dish of strawberries.
On late occasion, at a fashionable din
ner party in London, as many as eight or
ten guests, and seven members of the
household, took scarletfever. Obviously,
the infection must have been caught at
the dinner party but how was the puz
zling matter of inquiry, for no one in
the family of the host was known to have
been affected with the disorder. Was
the disease brought to the house by a
waiter2 Was it conveyed in the table
linen from the washerwoman Was it
somehow, Incorporated in the cream that
had been used in the dessert An investi-
cation on these and other points, as we
understand, was made, but not with any
satisfactory result. The cream was
thought to be the most likely vehicle of
infection but how could any one be GER
tain on the point The cream employed
in fashionable dessert in London is pos
siblv made up of half a dozen creams
from ~ many dairies, and inquiry ends
only in vague conjecture. Rather haz-
ardous thing, one would say, going out
to dinner where you may run the chance
of being killed in a manner so very mys-
terious. People, in their innocence, are
not aware of the manner in which con
tagious diseases may be communicated by
public cOnveyances, by articles of dress,
by dwellings,, by the very atmosphere.
We have just heard an instance of the
communication of scarlet fever by means
of exist, the name usually given in
Scotland to a servants trunk. A servant
girl in Morayshire fell i'll with scarlet
fever and died. Her kist, a painted
wooden box, containing all her worldly
goods, her later clothing included, was
sent home to her relations, and lay for
some weeks at station on the Speyside
railway before an opportunity occurred
for removing it by cart TO her mothers
cottage among the hills. During this in
terval the station-master's children, in
romping about, conducted their gambols
ON the kist, which was a repository of
contagion, and in due course were struck
down with scarlet fever. AT length the
fatal kist was conveyed to its destination,
and the contents were dispersed among
friends and neighbors. The donations
were kindly meant, but they proved
fatal. No precautions had been taken to
disinfect the articles, the result being
that wherever the clothes of the deceased
girl were taken in, scarlet fever found its
victims. For several months the fever
ragged, until tine wave of its infection was
expended. Now ensued n remarkable
event. The outbreak proved to be an
opposing barrier to the spread of more
virulent type of scarlatina advancing
from another quarter at later period of
the year. On reaching the former scene
of the disease, it was arrested for want
of material to feed upon, second at
tack being very unusual. Chambers
journal.
Year: 1875

Most of our churches are accas.
toned to having three sermons a
day every Sunday, besides prayer
meeting, Sunday school, and eGAss
meetings in the intervals.


Now, with due respect to ancient
usage, we beg leave to enter our
protest against this time-hOnored
custom. 1t makes the Sabbath the
hardest working day of allthe week.
to those who are faithful in attending
all the meetings, and many consider
it their duty to do So The Minister.
who is obliged to preach three times
every Sunday, will necessarily make
some very poor efforts and we have
known the effect Of a good morning
sermon completely spoiled by the
afternoons poor preach We ought
not to expect so much preaching from
our ministers, and they in turn,
ought not to expect so much endar>
ance from US.


One good sermon day IS better
than two or three poor ones II We
hear one subject explained in one
sermon and then another subject dis
cussed in the next, We are very apt
to get things mixed in our minds
and no good impression IS received
from either. 1t is like eating dinner
before breakfast is dIsested, harmfal
rather than beneficial After hear
ing . good sermon we ike 10 have
time to think over ii, apply it to our
selves and then pnt it in practice in
our life. But where one sermon
succeeds another ton soon. this can
not be done.


Our plan would be Somewhat like
this: In the morning sermon preach
so as to build up, encourage and
strengthen the believers in the at
ternoon give the time and effort I"
the Sunday School. and Class or
prayer meeting, and then preaeA to
the. sinners at night BY this means
we could reach all classes once every
Sabbath and in addition have NsrS-
ETY. OF services in the church Variety
is the spice of life, and Why not have
it in the church,


We believe in three meals . day,
but it does not follow that sll should
be the same, ON the contrary we like
our dinner TO differ from our break
fast and our supper a little dItercnt
from the others. Aud so it should
be with our church services Does
it not look reasonable Breahrsn,
why not try the Plans Why not
have the backbone to break away
from the treadmill ofOld customs and
do that which You believe to be rea-
n
Year: 1875

HOW A LITTLE BOY DIED.-The
Virginia City (Nev.) Eaterprise has
this little paragraph: Little Eddie
Nye, who was run over by = fiat
car last Friday evening and was SO
badly injured that he died the next
morning, was . rare, bright child,
and one Of the best children in the
city. Just before he died be sang
The Beautiful River with . voice
IS sweet as though he caught the
tones from the softer shore on the
brink Of which his spirits was then
trembling. After the song he repeat
ed . little prayer his mother had
taught him. The child had all his
life had = lisp, but this last prayer
fell from his tongue without . halt
or quaver, but rather, steady and
clear, and yet with a iar-of tone, as
though anothers voice Of Infinite
sweetness had seized upon his lips in
the supreme moment, to leave an
echo in his anguished mothers ears
Year: 1875

When the so-cslled ANTI Monopoly conven-
ton declared that paper money ought to be re-
ceived by the government in payment Of import
duties, did it not virtually declare for repudia-
toni II seems to us if the government Is not
to require specie in payment of import duties,
then it cannot pay the interest on Its bonds in
accordance with the terms Of the contract.
Reputation will not do, gentlemen Wassea
Radical.


Brother Childs forgets that if one-half
of the import duties were payable in
coin and one-half in greenbacks, the gold
half would be sufficient to pay the gold
interest on the public debt. At the
same time the value OF greenbacks would
be increased and the margin of differ
ence between them and gold diminished,
and the country would be that much
nearer specie resumption. Is not that
SOP
Year: 1875

We are informed that baby boy was born
in Forest City one day last week, the mother
OF whom was over fifty, and the father upwards
OF seventy, and YET people will claim that tins,
section is a howling WILDERNESS. - Litci.felG
Neps Ledger


1t was Gov. Marshall who fixed thai
vile stigma upon the irontier country
He should be compelled to MUSE thai
baby for the next sixty days. 1t would
be a 81. lit to make the gods laugh to See
1.-The bald-headed charger of the praries'
holding in his lap that bald-headed
howler of the wilder ess, while Bonni
well was making lively time canvasslng
tor Railroad Commissioner.
Year: 1875

The illiterate slouch, compounded of river
rat and blacksmith printer, whose name as ed
itor and publisher graced former issues, has
also his aspirations, which will mould all the
political sentiments he may be permitted to
express in the Pee Wee.


That is the gentle and charming style
in which one Saltwater editor goes tor
another. Under the very shad-
ow Of the penitentiary they
discourse delicious music at each other
after that bewitching fashion.


Now let US hear what the ''illiterate
slouch, compounded OF river-rat and
blacksmith printer" has to say in reply.
Year: 1875

Our Representative in Congress is marching
through this District in his war paint, so to
speak, and his track is st1ewn with the heads
Of decapitated postmasters- And now we're
glad we amt postmaster. -Wrighs COsaty
Tinss. lRep.l


That means Bill King. He is reform
ing the party from within out If there
are sny patriots who think the nation
can vet be saved from the gull of uni-
yerssl corruption by the Republican
party, they should promptly fall into
line. They might get the place Of one
of these decapifasod postmasters-


Last year Bin ssxode through his dis
Year: 1875

gold at the rate of FIVE or six per cent.
Der annum. In the former case the
government got all the benefits of the
issue Of paper money. In the latter
case the government delegates its power
to create money TO few bankers and
they get the profits. And that is Repub-
lican Craftsmanship.
Year: 1875

From the Republicans account of the Anti
Monopoly Convention held Oct. %, it would
seem that it was a very puny affair and every
delegate present was in the Sax grinding busl-
ness" Or course they were, for aren't they
about to trim off some Of the decaying branch
Is Of the Republican party?
Year: 1875

1t is said long sober row Of Republican
Office seekers were anxiously seated in the
Anti Monopoly Convention, watching for n
chance to dodge under the wings OF the 'sbant-
ling and be called one of the family. twas
sstao thin -
Year: 1875

A COMMITTEE OF CORRUPTION SAID TO BIZ


OPERATING AMONG ANTI-TABIMANY VOTERS.


AT the meeting or tine ant-Tammany Executive Com
mttee held on Friday night IN the Everett Rooms il
was declared by member of the committee that he
had boon offered S. 600 to betray his friends and his
real CONVICTIONS and by manipulation OF tickets, aid
in the election Of Judge Loew the candidate on the
Tammany ticket Judge George B. Van Hoesen-
The gentleman who made the revelation also
that the who tried TO bribe him boasted to him,
before he rejected their proposals. that they had
rupted numbers of connected with ward anti
Tammany organizations, and they declared that they
were willing to spend an immense amount
OF money to procure the election Of Judge
Loew because they believed tho Tammany
nominee 10 be in danger Of annihilaton and desired
to ward that fate or their favorite One OF the project
ors OF and leaders in the scheme OF corruption is
ported to be well knQYn ex-senator from the west
side who was once political love "a his disLct l9y
he held the ighnngs Of power in his grasp and
small aspirant for place he struck went down as
the tree before the thundcrbolt The other IL Is said
is wealthy man, who for several terms held lucra-
tive office out of whose proceeds he adorned himself
dubbed "Handsome Charley


The Executive Committee Of tho anti Tammany party
alarmed by the report which reached Is and yes
terday issued the following


ADDRESS TO VOTERS


We have ascertaincd that efforts have been and are
hourly being made by tho friends OF the candidates Of
Tammany Hall TO corrupt by the use Of enormous
sums of money, those who charged with the duty
OF distributing our tickets 10 the voters on election
day. II Is proper for warn every member of our
organization of these efforts We call upon every voter
carefully to scrunize his ballot 1t is the duty of
every member of the organization TO see that no
frauds are practised We particularly call your aten-
ton to deliberate attempt the part of the friends
Of Judge Loew without his knowledge,
douotedlyl By the corrupt Of money, to have his
tickets surrepttously distributed from our boxes and
py our owp friends TO permit this would be Infamous;
dad ne ea upon every member Of our organization to
spurp with contempt the pronered bribe Every mem
per of the organization who shall hereafter be ap-
preached with offers OF money for tho betrayal OF his
trust Is earnestly requested report the fact to the
headquarters OF tho organization at the Everett House,
that the guilty party may be exposed and properly
dealt with.


IRA SHAFER. Chairman County Committee.


H. b. HART, Chairman Executive Committee.


Ocw
Year: 1875

TICKET EULOGIZED.


The Tammany Hall democrats Of the Eighteenth AS
sembly district held mass meeting last evening In
Glass Hall in Thiryfourth street. near Third avenue
Hon. John Kelly vas the rrst speaker lie said that
questions have been brought into this canvass having
nothing DO with Il that the old know nothing party
spirit Of thirty years ago being revived by
the republican party In their efforts to
make religious matters issues in the campaign that
they accused the Catholics ol anything gain control
or the school fund, when reality tho Catholics loved
this country and It's institutions dearly as anybody
did that the press Of this city on these issues were
attempting to crush Tammany Hail. and said
the speaker, ''f Tammany Hall u to fall
when t does fall you may have fear for your
liberties Mr., Kelly then said that John Morrssey
Francis Bixby Ard other untl-Tammany can
ddatcs ought to be condemned and defeated
for entering into unhoy alliance with
the republican party. He next discussed the
question Of the reduction Of tho labOrprs wages stat
ing that the reduction made in spite OF the earnest
protest Of Tammany Han aud Of himself lie then de-
nounced the present criminal Judicial administration Of
the law IN this county saying that Mr. Phelps and Re-
corder Hackett were unat 70 hold their Offices


Mr. Kelly said the press Of this city and county
with but few honorable exceptions is a. disgrace TO
free and civilized people Tile press of tins CITY is
controlled by personal motives and the men who
are al the head 81 the papers and 80 controlled
ought to be driven from tic community MI Kelly
concluded biz remarks by predicting a large majority
for the state and county democratic ticket
Year: 1875

This department ef'aiv: paper will be
open at all times to thsse who wish TO
furnish communications for publication.
But the editor reserves to himself the
right to accept or reject The name Of
the author must invariably accompany the
article, and manuscript should be written
upon but one side of the paper.
Year: 1875

We would advise the members Of Council,
If they intend to elect Democratic Chief
Engineer of the Water Department, that will
rebound to the credit of the party and add
lustre to their name, to elect q man whom
thousands would wish,-a working man, .
man among thousands, practical workman
from foundation to top. That man 10 Chas.
Smith, of the Seventh Ward


MANY DEMOCRATS.
Year: 1875

There is no place in the state which


has been more completely metamor-


rhosed than Galveston has since the


war. The whole tone and spirit of it,


socially and commercially, has


changed. Progress has faced its
southern characteristics and grated


upon il northern and European habits,


tastes and ideas. "rhe old, familiar


facesr are seen but seldom on her
streets or in her sdiOns. The very ar
chitecture of the houses and dress of
the people has changed. Society is
composed largely of new people aud
an old resident or visitor would lind
himself quite stranger and miss the
familiar southern accent and a certain
general softness and graciousnesS
peculiar to southern women of the best
TYNE. There is more luxury and style
than there was under the old regime,
but il is questionable whether the so.
ciety is rs polished, cultivated or select.
The standard of admission to its sacred
precincts is more one of money than
of birth, breeding, culture or talent.
This must needs be the case IN all
places rapidly built up. The first
generation do the accommodating ncces-
sary to found family, the second have
the money and leisure to elevate them
selves in the work of refinement and
distinction. There are few old fam
lilies distinguished 10y their services,
talents and hereditary high social posi-
ton, vino form within themselves
very charming circle. They partici'
pate in the general business Of society,
but draw among themselves an inviSi-
BILE line of distinction between the nOu-
ueuu riche and themselves They are
in the minority and many of them
poor, and cannot hope long to stem
current which is rapidly making Gal
weston society material, and money its
god.
Year: 1875

TmEArER MANAGERS and hotel
proprictors in New York do not
secrn much disturbed by the pas
sage of the civil rights bill. Gen.
orally they agree in the conviction
that to make no distinction in treat
mcnt between the white and colored
people will ruin their business.
Many declare their purpose to evade
or violate the law, while others say
they will be guided by the advice
of counsel.


in New Orleans there has been
comparatively little excitement on
the subject, the bill Laving by gen.
eral consent been quietly ignored
by all parties.
Year: 1875

Contrary TO the expectations OF the
friends of the measure, tie civil rights
Till, which has now become the law OF
the land, causes no CONSERVATION
among hotel proprietors in st. Louis,
most of them apparently looking upon
the whole affair as a good joke, rather
than . serious matter which should
cause them any harm.
Year: 1875

A c0untryman who came to the
city yesterday morning. visited the No.
3 engine house and set his watch by
the steam gauge Of the engine, which
measured twenty pounds of steam
Fiat Contributors Paper.
Year: 1875

The Philadelphia and Reading railroad
adopted the plan of running an engine
ahead Of all passenger trains, and found
its advantage in so doing. The miners
are very sick of the contest, and are leav.
ing in considerable numbers. Not
enough will leave however, to make any
material difference in the quantity Of coal
Year: 1875

The ssntinef says that while J. A Bar
bee Of Orange was seated In q saloon I'm
Raleigh day or two since, bis watch Was
taken from him BY one Mcclure dis
charged soldier. The thief was caught In
the act, and lodged 10 jail.
Year: 1875

The latest news from San Francisco
says "there Is an abundant supply of
coin on hand; banks hold heavy re-
serves, capitalists have good balances,
and besides large; amounts are hoard
ed, hence the belief of an easier money
market gradually gains ground.p This
is all that is required to make money
plenty and give greater prosperity to
the entire Pacific Coast than we ever
Witnessed at any previous time. 1t is
a fact known to all thinking men that
there Is more money on this Coast at
this time than ever before, and conf
deuce is all that is required to bringit
in great abundance. The holders of
money cannot afford to keep it locked
Up when they learn that the world
can move on without it. The course
pursued by our capitalists is we'll cal
culated to- invite competition. For
while they are Withholding their cap
ital from circulation here, when it is
worth fifteen per cent. per annum,
Eastern men are anxious to let out
their capital at six to eight per cent,
and, failing to find demand for it in
the. East, hundreds of them are send
ing or bringing their money to the
Pacific Coast for investment. 1t would
astonish our people to know the
amount of Eastern capital now repre-
sented in this city by Eastern men.
If we are not misinformed there will
be several millions here by the first of
January.
Year: 1875

Los ANGELES is now in her winter
garb. Her streets swarm with people.
Every place of public accommodation
is being taxed. There is an impulse in
the throng that moves along thethSr-
oughfares that speaks of rich blood
and bounding energy. There is a
pleasure upon the faces that. greet US
on all sides that makes us feel proud
of our country. The superb climate,
the hills clothed with, verdure, the
plains covered with waving grass,
these are naturally calculated to draw
thousands to our city. Those who
have come merely to witness the ra-
ces will be prone to linger In our midst
or return tolus once more. s.g ~
Year: 1875

THE farmers on all sides are re-


joiced at the prospects of the present
season. A good crop year is an as
sured fact, and every advantage
should be taken of it. Let the plow
and harrow be busy henceforth, so


that the coming Spring may see
thousands of acres of graiu ready for
the reaper. There are too many who


are exerting themselves but indiffer-
emily, when comparatively little labor
would insure them q rich remunera-
Year: 1875

THE Sacramento Herald says some
speculative persons are trying to get
up a panic in sheep. Nothing is easier
to get up than panic among sheep
unless it is to get up a panic ameng
people.
Year: 1875

THE DAILY and WEEKLY HER
AID has more than double the cir
culation of any other paper published
In Southern California. Business men
recognize 1t accordingly as the best
advertising medium South Of Ban
Francisco.
Year: 1875

In ordorto establish cheap and ready
means OF communication between the adver-
tiser and the reader and facilitate the busi-
ness OF seller and buyer, landlord and tenant,
employees and employee, we have reduced the
rate Of advertising in our "want' column to
five cents line. Business men and the gen.
eral public will find this the best possible
medium Of inter-communication and the
cheapness price will recommend IL to all.
Year: 1875

weekly cases was still increasing at the
time, but he noticed a decrease in the
rate of weekly increase, and as the con-
tinuance of this would soon bring the
number of attacks TO a maximum. he
concluded that the turning point was
near. DIR. Evans has lately been inves-
tigating the behavior of cholera and
scarlet fever in London, for me purpose
of ascertaining whether this method of
representation was not capable of more
extensive use, and what were the best
weeks in the course Of an epidemic for
forming an opinion. He constructed
charts of the weekly reports Of these
diseases, and found that there were
several condolences between these
charts and the calculated progress of
the diseases. But he was not able To
determine what was the best period FOR
basing calculations upon. The rate of
increase was found 10 vary very much
in the earlier and later stages OF an epi-
deInie, and he could only say that the
rate varied most irregularly in the ear
lier weeks. and that therefore the later
weeks offered the best grounds for pre-
dictions. This result is Disappointing.
Is it shows that the significant period of
an epidemic is confined to tOlerabiy strict
limits, and if these are exceeded at
either end BY even one week, consider
able inaccuracies in the results may
follow. Especially is it unfortunate
that the early weeks of an epidemic do
not permit of safe prophetical calcula-