smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The best ascent is made from Resina,
town at the base of the mountain,
and within easy driving distance from
Naples. A toilsome drive from Rcslua
zone can ride horses, or donkeys ii pre-
ferred, but carriage Is the easiest
mcans) over a steep and circuitous road
in many places cut through solid beds
OF lava, brings you to the observatory,
tWo-thlrds OF the way up. Hero you
are obliged to leave carriages, but dom
keys can 20 about a mile further to the
hermitage, at the base of the cone.
Now comes the tug in earnest; over
1000 feet to climu, at an inclination of
about fifty degrees, over loose cinders,
which slide from under the feet at
every step. 1t takes an hour Of the
most toilsome and exhaustlng climbing
to reach the top; the crater, the very
mouth of the Dcvil's domain; all around
you the masses Of cinder and scorla are
smoking and giving on sulphurous va


pors. The interior Of the crater pre-
sents motlled and irregularly striped
surfaces Of rich and vnriegatcd hues,
the bright yellow color of sulphur
largely prcdOminating. The form of
the crater Is constantly undergoing
changes. For example. the old crater,
which is very large, the circumference
being several niles in extent, Is not
the real crater Of to-day, for new cone
Is now forming within this old crater.
This cone had no existence six months
q q DIV nj 70
OF nearly 2O0 feet. AS irregular inter
walls Of from one to three tim es per min
ute the crater Of this new cone vomits
great quantities Of red-hot stones and
and scoria high into the air, which fall
upon the sides Of the cone and keep o.
plling it up. From its side flows a con-
slant stream Of red motion Lava. The
terrible sublimity of this volcanic ac-
ton has to be seen to be appreciated;
the most graphic Of descriptions must
fall short of conveying an adeq uatc
idea of the stupendous forces of the
burning, fuming crater of Vcsuvius.
What was most astonishing to the
writer was the near approach one can
make without danger, for we did not
stop on the brink of the old crater
where the ashes were even hot enough
to cook our eggs in five minutes, but
we went down into it, walking over
immense masses Of cooled lava, and
approached to within six or eight feet
of the rod-hot flowing stream. Butwe
did not stay there long; it was quite too
warm to be comfortable. If the ascent
was slow and irksome the descent was
quite the reverse, for while it took us a
rather slid, down in five minutes, bur
led almost knee deep in the loose, slid
Ing cinders. AS we were going down
how we pitled those who were pulling
and scrambling to reach the top.
Year: 1879

whom he hated as only rich old uncles can hate.
The old gentleman however. loved Isabel. but
he thought it his duty to pocket his hate
and leave the property to henry pro-
ceeding Unprecedented out or the pages
of a novel. Isabel his favorite, he intended 10
leave nothing. but TO provide for her wants ne
planned a match between her and Cousin henry
Isabel was young lady with mind OF her owh'
and she turned deaf to Cousin Henry suit
Uncle lndefer was taken ill., and at the last moment
he changed his mind about the property and made
another will leaving everything to Isabel Iheh he
turned his face to- the wall and died. Isabel. VINO
was OF on visit. got back in time to hear her uncle
say that he had made it all right When 1t was
time to read the will only the hrst copy
could be found. and that left everything TO
Cousin Henry. 1t darkly limited that this young
man had destroyed document No. 2, but he de-
MED knowing anything about the matter He had
not destroyed the second WILL but he knew where II
was. He saw his uncle put 1t in volume OF SER
mons and he put the volume the bookshelf IN
the library. When the lawyers searched the house
they OF course did not think of the books. Abjohn
Welsh lawyer. and the best character IN the book.
suspected Cousin Henry and watched him closely.
The wrongful heir was a great coward and spent
most of his time in the library with his eyes
riveted on the precious volume. At the proper mo-
ment Abjohn collared Cousin Henry. and Isabels
father waved the book before his eyes. He owned
up and they let him OFF easy Isabel married the
man OF her choice. who changed his name to Jones.
to share Uncle Indefers property.
Year: 1879

Boys in search of the adventurous will find all
their hearts can desire in "The Serpent Charmer."
translated from the French Of Louis Rousselet by
Mary de Hsutville. Charles Scribners Sons.) The
scene of the story is laid during the time Of the
Indian mutiny. and the hero is an old serpent
charmer by the name of Mali. He is befriended by
the son Of French planter living on the banks Of
the Ganges. and whom the father is killed he takes
the boy under his protection. The young French
man is Crossed like Hindoo and learns to charm
serpents SO that the terrible cobra is play thing in
his hands. A boy with performing monkeys joins
their party. and together they roam through India
The adventures Of such a trio could not fail to be
thrilling. ana M. Rousselet has made the most Of
them His style is graphic In the extreme and very
natural withal.
Year: 1879

this ungrateful character, far more even and ex-
cellent performance than he has given at hrst.


Mr.. w. $. Gilbert's Gretchen" has been witl-
drawn from the Olympic stage. The public would
not 90 to see it, There is story about Mr.. Gilbert
threatening his manager with law sut-perhaps q
mandamus from the Queens Bench to compel MI
Neville to continue the performance. 1t has been
said of him before now that his plays were pro-
duced under some sort of contract that they should
run certain number of nights Possibly the courts
might enforce the specific performance of such
contract. But / apprehend that no court
would attempt to compel the attendance
of the public and without that the re-
lief PRAYED for would be of an illusOry kind
Let MS hope there is truth in the story. Mr.. Gil
bert may believe that it is his mission to regenerate
the stage, to supersede Shakespeare and to rewrte
Goethes masterpiece. Bnt he can hardly suppose
that this is to be accomplished by process of law
One has TO say hard things sometimes about English
taste in the matter of dramatic art, and to depiore
the lack of culture which is seen In playgoers and
critics alike 1t is all the more satisfactory to say
that this time the playgOer is right. The critic did
his best for Mr.. Gilbert-much more than he ought
to have done. But the playgoer stayed away with
perseverance which vii. long be remembered to his
credit. G. W. S.
Year: 1879

Here is fearful instance of woman's
perfdy. A young man in the country
went to take his girl for walk, but
fonnd that she had not done her milk
ing. With a gallantry that does credit
to the young man, he volunteered to do
the milking for her while she was max


ing her toilet. After he had got her
milking done, had hung the milk stool
on the bars, and set the pail of milk in
the kitchen, washed his hands at the
pump with soft soap, and wiped them on
the tail of his duster, he discovered that
she had gone to circus with another
young man who did know enough to


extract milk from a milk wagon. The
deserted young man kicked over the milk
pail, and went his way a sadder man.
Year: 1879

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself. All sin is easy. after that.

 If the loved ones could come back to earth only long enouch to be forgiven, would relieve many remorseful heart.

 The innocence and purity of childhood bring bitter heart bangs to the sim hardened man and the worldly woman.

 Some people talk hours and say noth- ing; others there are who, by the mere lifting of an eyebrow or the gesture of a hand, are comparatively eloquent.

 No matter how many of our laden ships may come safely into port. that one which was lost at sea will always seem to us to have carried the richest cargo.

 It is better to wear out than to rust out. We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike until it is made hot.
Year: 1879

In the language of the stock market a corner is where a combination of brokers get possession or control of the whole or a large portion of a given stock, and then put up the price to corner those who have gone short" The same thing may be done in grain, or petroleum, or cotton, though this is more difficult. The greater the amount of the commodity the more difficult it is to get up a corner on t. It is hardly possible to corner the ice market during polar wave. Providence has given poor simple man some bless ings too liberally for capitalists to get control of them. When He sent mama to feed the wanderers of the wilderness, He not only sent in great abundance every morning, but so arranged it that it wouldn't keep, thus thwarting the possi- bility of buying it up and getting a cor ner on it. There are other blessings typi- fled in this. For example, there is on getting corner in the love market. There are lots of pretty girls, and they keep on coming. Also like the mamma they don't keep; they get old. If a capi- talist or a combination of them should try to get control of all the pretty girls, their collection would rapidly depreciate in value, and the market would soon be glutted with younger and primer article. There are plenty of girls, and they keep on coming. And then to their change l fitness. Why, if a great fnancier were to try to corner any particular variety ot girl, say strawberry blondes, and thus put fancy price on that article, before he could realize on them the whole coun- try would be blooming with strawberry blondes. No there is no way of getting a corner on girls. .-B Baltimore Eueay Sztsta-- dug.
Year: 1879

New YORK, December 2l.-The Her
aid devotes page to "Edison's Triumph
in Electric Illumination, giving full
and accurate account OF his work from
its inception to its completion, with il
Illustrative diagrams. The Herald says;
The first public exhibition OF Edison's
long-looked for electric light takes place
on New Years Eve at Menla Park, on
which occasion that place will be illum-
mated with the new light.


The new light, incredible as it may
appear, is produced from little piece OF
paper-a tiny strip OF paper
that breath would blow
away. Through this little strip
of paper is passed an electric current
and the result is a bright, beautiful
mellow light. "But paper instantly
burns even under the tifing heat OF
tallow candle" exclaims the sceptic,
land how then can it withstand the
fierce heat of an electric current" Very
true, but Edison makes the little piece
OF paper more infusible than platinum,
more durable than granite and this in
wolves no complicated process. The
paper is merely baked in an oven
until all its elements have passed
away except its carbon framework.


The latter is then placed in a glass
globe connected with wires leading TO an
electricity producing machine, and the
air exhausted from the globe. Then the
apparatus is ready to give out light
that produces no deleterious gases, no
smoke, no offensive odors, light with
out flame, without danger, requiring no
matches to ignite, giving out but little
heat, vitiating no air, and free from all
light that is a little globe OF
sunshine. And this light, the inventor
claims, can be produced cheaper than
that from the cheapest oil. The inventor
finds that the electricity can be regu-
lated with entire reliability at central
station, Just as the pressure OF gas is
now regulated. The entire cost OF con-
structing the lamp is not more than 20
cents. -
Year: 1879

STEUBENvILLE, December 20.-Mrs.
Boyd, who lives on South Third street,
has been i'll for some time, and also has
little child very low with scarlet fever
Last night, while her nurse was tenn
porarily absent from the room, the hour
arrived for her to take her medicine.
Reaching what she supposed TO be the
right bottle off the bureau she took the
usual quantity, but made the mistake OF
taking poisonous mixture which was
used to rub her child's limbs. The
prompt use Of a stomach pump by
physician was all that saved her life.
Year: 1879

Cincinnati Enquirer


The new advertisement of Mary
Anderson of nearly falling off bridge
into the river, will not be as popular as
the diamond robbery ad., as it is too
much trouble TO work up.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, May l2.-The Demo
Gratis. if the statements of their leading
men are to be relied upon, have already
agreed upon the programme which they
will endeavOr to follow in the event OF
a veto of the military interference bill.
The plan, stated by one of the men,
bers of the Committee of Safety, the
thinking committee of the Democratic


party, is: "If veto comes which We
now confidently expect and will well
come, we will take the jurors test oath
section out of the legislative bill
and pass it Immediately as separate
bill and send it TO the President. That
Year: 1879

INDIANAPOLIS, May l2.-The situation
is unchanged; everything quiet. This
morning about twenty Of William Wat
sons men went to work. They were
not troubled. 1t is expected that the
strikers will try to keep them from going
to work in the morning. In that case
there will probably be trouble, as his
men are determined To work. MCClel-
land x Cellars men at Harmony are
working every day.
Year: 1879

WARNING TO MOTHERS. Mothers,
have care that passion for dress
and personal display be not generated
in the hearts of your daughters. How
many lives have been blighted, how
many souls dragged into the depths of
sin by craving for dress. Teach your
daughters moGesty and contentment.
Don't make your children, who should
be all innocence, women of the world
in a sense before they have got into
their teens. What should children
know Of the fripperies of fashion
Yet how many Il little mss is, owing
to the foolish Indulgence Of parents,
as vain of an elaborately trimmed
dress and as alive to the charms Of
"style" as one twice her years. Teach
your little girls the beauty of modesty
and the virtue of contentment from
their earliest years and when they grow
up they will be nobler women for it and
able TO withstand the temptations Of
the world. 1t is only the other day that
young girl in the west committed
suicide because of the dishonor which
she had brought upon herself and her
family by a petty crime into which
she had fallen through the love for
dress.
Year: 1879

The earnest men are so few IN the
world that their very earnestness be.
comes the badge of their nobility i;
and as men in crowd instinctlvely
make room for one who seems eager
to force his way through it, so man
kind everywhere open their ranks to
one who rushes zealously toward some
object lying beyond them.
Year: 1879

Among the batch of prisoners brought be-
fore Judge Cooley yesterday morning was a
man who answered to the name of Harvey
Maynard. He was dressed in a suit of what
was once clothes, and wore on his vest
broad blue ribbon, the sign of the Murphy
temperance band, to which he did not to all
appearances belong. In answer to the ques-
tion of guilty or not of being drunk, be
tolda heartrending tale of misfortun e, stat
ing that he had been in the United States
army for thirty-tive years, fifteen of which
We're spent as prisoner of war in Mexico.
He evidently had not changed his linen since
his first incarceration in the Mexican prison,
and as proof of his serving as soldier he
showed three letters signed by Gen. Logan,
all written in different handwriting. He
stated that he wanted to 60 to st. Cloud on
business, and the judge taking compassion
on BIN sent him on his way.
Year: 1879

The Times has been making 8 careful can- vass of all the States of the Union with view to learn the preferences of all classes of men in respect to candidates for President; and the other day it announced as a result of the inquiry that General Grant was the choice of the Republicans by an overwhelming majority The Times took pains to say distinctly that it did not itself prefer him to all other candi- dates that he was neither it's first choice nor it's second. Harper's Weekly in it's latest num- Der prints an earnest protest against the nomi- nation of General Grant. These two newspa- pers represent great number of the most in- telligent members of the Republican party. There is widespread conviction in that party that General Grant ought not to be nominated. It is not worth while to go again over all the grounds of this conviction. They may be Grant represents the old questions the old no- tions, the old passions, the old strife, the old bitterness the old purposes which, it had been supposed, were put aside, rather than the new questions, the new spirit, the new objects which, it is believed, ought to be paramount and absorbing. Why is it then that notwith- standing this strong and intelligent opposition, General Grant comes to the front in such force for a third term? Because the old questions are also pushed to the front while the new ones are brushed aside. If General Grant rep IcScuGS Gl1CSG Olu QucStlOuO, CFCI for their revival is help to General Grant. If we insist upon going back into history, we must not be surprised to find ourselves amid historical circumstances If we return to the times of the war and reconstruction, we must expect to surround ourselves with the notions, the impulses, the men of the war and recon struction.

 The course of events at Washington has the tendency to turn the people back into history. They find there what might be looked fer; and among the consequences is the fact that Gen. eral Grant has secured stronger support since the meeting of Congress probably than at any time since his first candidacy in 1868. It is not because there is any fear of new war in- velving the need of successful soldier to fight in it, but because many men believe that the old questions are coming up, and that the old men may as we'll come with them, if in- deed it is not logical necessity that they shall do so We believe it is possible to arrest the threatening movement if only the atten- tion of the country can be directed to it's pres ent business of pressing importance, and if political leaders can be induced to let the past alone. On the other hand, the surest way to nominate General Grant is to reopen historical controversies, to revive sectional strife and partisan bitterness, and to fight over again the old battles.-Neeo York E0ening Post.
Year: 1879

New YORK, June ll.-Mrs. Jane
L. D. j. Hull, aged So, wife Of Dr.
Alonzo j. Hull, was found dead in her
bed at No. 40 West Forty second
street this morning Her hands and
feet were tied, she was blindfoldcd
and a gag was in her mouth. A trunk
at the side of her bed was open and
rif1ed of its contents. Examination of
the premises shows that an entrance
had been effected through the front
door, which was open, and all the other
parts secure. The fingers were badly
torn and one large diamond ring and
one emerald had been taken therefrom,
The neighborhood is in state of the
widest excitement, and the police are
without clue


The colored servant girl who dis
covered the body said that about 7
o'clock this morning she went to her
mistress room to receive her instruc-
ton for the day. She found the door
open, which was something unusual
On entering the apartment she saw the
body of Mrs. Hull firmly bound to the
bed by strips ofsheeting; another piece
was tied across her eyes, and gag was
firmly tied across her mouth; a piece
of fshawl was strapped around her neck.
1t was evident the lady's death result
ed from strangulation, for the shawl
was tightly drawn around her neck.
On the body were found several con-
tusions and slight wounds, which had
been received in Il scutf,e with the as
sassins. The lock on the door leading
to tue bedroom was found tampered
with.


The front door leading to the house
had been found open short time be-
fore the murder of Mrs. Hull was
brought to light, by the servant girl.
There were no marks found on the
massive door, and on that account the
police suppose entrance was effected by
means of false keys.


The murder and robbery was done,
it is thought, some time during the
night, for when the body was foun1 it
was quite cold. One of the chamber
maids who passed the night in room
near the one in which Mrs. Hull was
murdered, says she was awakened dur
ing the night by a scream. but was un-
able to say at what hour that was. She
paid no attention to the noise, thinking
some one h ad nightmare.


When the people in the neighbor-
hood learned of the crime large crowd
gathered and detachment of police
was needed to preserve order.
Year: 1879

Speaking ofthe disgraceful misman-
agement of Indian affairs by the gov
eminent, the New York Herald says
the true Indian policy is to fix the
Indian to the soil; to use every means
to disable him from roaming; to mar
row his reservation until each family
has only small patch of land to till,
which it must till or starve, ana to
break up utterly the tribal consistency
and scatter the families abroad in such
manner that unity Of tribal action
shall become impossible. We doubt
whether the Indian Bureau or the In
terror Department, with the best in
tentions, will ever do this. 1t has
been too long accustomed to deal not
with the individual Indian, but with
the tribe, and to deal with that as a
nation. We have heard for too
many years of the purpose Of the In
teriorDepartment to reform this abuse.
That somewhat famous secretary, Mr..
Columbus Delano, talked perpetually
of the desirability of allowing the In
dian to own land in severalty, as in
dividuals and not as a commune; and
we notice that Secretary SchGrz, a
very different man, some weeks ago
developed the some sound idea in his
talk with the people Of the Indian
Territory. We have not the least
doubt of Mr.. Schurz's good intentions,
but nothing will be done by him nor
by his successors.