smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

A night or two since, while on, his
beat through B street, Officer Shirts
found an inebriated individual reposing
on bench in front Wilson & Browns
undertaking establishment: The officer
shook the fellow. until he awoks him
from his drunken slumber, then ex-
planned to him thathe would be obliged
to escort him to the station house unless
he hunted other quarters. The man
told the officer that he was stranger
in town, that he had but four bits, and
the night being warm he had concluded
it would be good economy to sleep out
doors and save his four bits to buy his
breakfast in the morning. Not being q
hard-hearted man, the officer told the
fellow that he might finish his snooze,
provided he would get up and move out
Of sight before the people were astir on
the streets. Passing that way again in
the course of an hour or two, Mr.. Shirts
found that the snoozer had rolled off the
bench and was lying in the empty case
of coffin which was sitting at the edge
of the sidewalk. Rousing his man
again, the officer told him he "must
get out of.that."


"Out of what?" grumbled the fel-
low.


"Out of that cofin," said Shirts
though it was but one of those large
coffin-shaped cases in which cofins are
shipped.


Who's in coffin ?" said the fellow,
rubbing his eyes. r--,


Why you are," said Shirts.


If am I don't know it."


"Well, know it, and if you don't
get out of that it will be the end of you.
Don't you know that if the undertakers
get up in the morning and find you
snoozing in there they'll clap lid on the
coffin, nail you up and bury you, and
then send in bill to pay your funeral
expenses"


Crawling out of his narrow quarters,
the fellow stood and gazed upon the
coffin-case for time, then said:


"What sort of id undertakers
have you got here in this country, that
go and set coffins 'longside the side.
walks to ketch men?" and without
waiting for an answer he shuffied away
to find safer quarters Virginia city
Enterprise.
Year: 1874

sE While youthful couple were
being joined in wedlock in a Justices
Court, in New York, the damsel rather
astonished number Of spectators by
suddenly breaking out with ttifI want
to know whether we are to keep house
or board before going into this thingr'
Year: 1874

French statistics show that there
are cities of fifteen thousand inhabitants
in that country without a physician.
The same figures also indicate that the
per centum of mortality is slightest
where there are fewest doctors.
Year: 1874

SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHS. = The spirit
photographs which pass current among
creduIous spiritualists for genuine
ghosts of the departed are produced
in various ways. The latest and most
scientific method is as follows: The plain
background screen, before which the
sitter is placed in order to have his
portrait taken, is to be painted before
hand with the form of the desired
spirit" the paint being composed of
some duorescent substance, such as a
solution of sulphate Of quinine. When
this painting dries on the screen, it is
invisible to the eye; but it sends out
rays that have power to impress the
photo plate; and thus the image of
the person together with the quinine
ghosts are simultaneously developed
upon the negative.-Seientifc .Ameri-
can.
Year: 1874

A sEAFARING man, who was recent.
ly married, gives the following descrip.
ton of his BRIDE and her apparel
which viii put some of the regular
society" perhaps to the blush:


My wife is just as handsome a craft
as ever left the millinery dry docks, il
clipper-built, and with figure head
not often seen on small crafts. Her
length of keel is five feet, eight inches,
displaces twenty-seyen feet of cubic
air; of light draught, which add to
her speed in a ballroom; full in the
waist, spars trim. At the time we
we're spiiced, she was newly riggcd,
of lace and flowers, mainsail part silk,
with forestaysail Of Valenciennes.-
Her frame was one Of the best of steel,
covered with silk, with whalebone
stanehions. The rigging is intended
for fair weather cruising. She has also
a set of storm-sails for rough weather,
and is rigging out small set of can
vas for light squalls, which are likely
to occur in this latitude sooner or later.
| am told in running down the street
before the wind she can turn round in
her own length if handsome craft
passes her"
Year: 1874

A YOUNG lady of Lyons, Iowa, re-
Gently said L: Some men are always
talking about patronizing their own
town-always harping on that duty
and yet they go abroad to get
married, while here we all stand wait
ing | do hope that some Of these
men who marry Eastearn women will
get cheated !"
Year: 1874

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"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. :
has made the word "curfew" familiar
to every English speaking boy and girl
The word is formed of two French
words courre fen or couprir feH (coyer
fre), and came into use when William
the Norman, the first monarch of Eng
land, made law that all fires should
be extinguished at the sound of the
evening bell.


To many hearts in the old country
that cherish its traditions, the 'curfew
recalls story of loves devotion.


In the time of Cromwell young
soldier, for some offense, was condemn
ed to die, and the time of the death
was fixed 'at the ringing of the cur
few" Naturally such doom would
be fearful and bitter to one in theyears
of his hope and pride, but to this un-
happy youth death was doubly terrible,
since he was soon to have been married
to beautiful young lady whom he had
long loved.


The lady, who loved him ardently in
return, had used her utmost efforts to
avert his fate, pleading with the judges
and even with Cromwell himself, but
all in vain. In her despair she tried to
bribe the old sexton not to ring the
bell, but she found that impossible
The hour drew near for the execution.
The preparations were completed. The
officers of the law brought forth the
prisoner, and waited, while the sun was
setting, for the signal from the distant
bell-tower.


To the wonder of everybody, it did
not ringl Only one human being at
that moment knew the reason. The
poor girl, half wild with the thought
of her lovers peril, had rushed unseen
up the winding stairs, and climbed the
ladder into the belfry loft and seized
the tongue of the bell.


The old sexton was in his place,
prompt to the fatal moment. He threw
his weight upon the rope, and the bell,
obedient to his practieed hand, reeled
and swung to and fro in the tower. But
the brave girl kept her hold, and no
sound issued from It's metallic lips.


Again and again the sexton drew the
rope, but with desperate strength the
young heroine held on. Every move
ment made her position more fearful;
every sway of the bells huge weight
threatened to fling her through the
high tower window; but she would not
let go.


At last the sexton went away. Old
and deaf, he had not noticed that the
curfew gave no peal. The brave girl
descended from the belfry, wounded
and trembling. She hurried from the
church to the place of execution
Cromwell himself was there, and was
just sending to demand why the bell
was silent. She saw him.


aapd her hroxv
Year: 1874

AN Indiana man stole q lawyers
tombstone and made beer counter
of it, and the justice refused TO try
him for larceny, holding that the law
yer could be found at the last day, even
if his grave was hidden under a six
story building.
Year: 1874

the present and the future. In our ag-
ricultural brotherhood and its purposes
we shall recognize no North nor South,
no East, no West. It is reserved by
eve:y patron as his right as freeman
to affiliate with any party that will best
carry out his principles.
Year: 1874

z. 1t shall be an abiding principle
with us to relieve any of our oppressed
and suffering brotherhood by any
means at our command. Last but not
least we proclaim it among our pur-
poses TO inculcate proper idea of the
abilities and the sphere of woman as is
indicated by admitting them to men,
bership and position in our order.
Imploring the continued assistance of
our Divine Master to guide US in our
work, we here pledge ourselves to faith
full and harmonious labor for all future
time. to return. by our united efforts
to the wisdom, justice, fraternity and
political purity of our forefathers."
Year: 1874




institution, we cannot admit ali to our
ranks. Many are excluded by nature
OF our own organization, not because
they are professional men or artisans
or laborers, but because they have not
a sufficiently direct interest in tilling
or pasturing the soil. They may have
some interests in conflict with our pur-
poses, but We appeal to all good. citi-
zens for their cordial cooperation to
assist in our efforts towards reform,
that we may eventually remove from
our midst the last vestige of tyranny
and corruption. We hail the general
desire for fraternal harmony, equitable
compromise and earnest co-ol GRAFTON
as an amen of our future sue
cess
Year: 1874

A MAN may buy a ticket, nowadays,
for $1,000 that will carry him from New
York around the globe and back again
to New York, using flrst.clsss lines Of
travel all the way. Along this route,
with the exception only of the gap ct
G,000 miles make by the Pacific Ocean,
run telegraph wires, and work Is rapidly
in progress to complete this last break in
the circuit. Puck should have lived a
little later in the history Of progress to
see his girdling process eelipsed.
Year: 1874

Loss.-We understand that Hugh Turley,
who runs the buss from Auburn to Auburn Sta
ton, has lost the best horse he had This is
rther hard on Hugh, but such things will hap.
pen to the best Of us occasionally. About two
weeks ago the horse run nail into his foot, the
Inflammation from which so spread as to cause
death
Year: 1874

INHALATION. Last Saturday evening the
Odd Fellows Lodge at Roseville gave public
supper and dance on the occasion of the install
Mon OF officers, which is reported by those
who attended as a very pleasant affair. This
evening, we understand the Auburn Lodge will
bold public installation at their hall, which
vii be open to all who desire to attend.
Year: 1874

SNokIsTs.--We are informed by the medium
Of sight, which we are compelled to accept as
convincing authority. that two of our Auburn
ladies', of unquestionable respect ability, have
recently taken to smoking cigars. We hope
they may realize full measure of enjoyment
in their newly acquired habit without being
lound out, for wesare most sure they would not
have the matter made public, and we hope it
vii not be-, If they were old ladies perhaps
hey would not care SO much. but they amt
We have heard it said that what is good to tn,
a''e IS good for the stomach. And We gues S
these ladies think what is good for man is good
lor woman. IT. not had rule.
Year: 1874

LAVE PROVED, FROM THE MOST AMPLE
n experience, an entire success. Simple PROMPT,
efficient and reliable. They are the only medicines
perfectly adapted To popular use-so simple that
mistakes cannot be made in using them; SO har IN
less as TO he free from danger; and efficient as
to be always reliable. They have he highest com
mendaton from all, and will always render satis-
faction.
Year: 1874

coin or United States notes, themselves
redeemable and made equivalent to coin.


AS a measure preparatory to free
banking, or for placing the government
in condition to redeem its notes in coin
at the earliest practicable moment, the
revenues of the country should be in
creased so as to pay the current ex-
penses, provide for the sinking fund
required by law, and also surplus to
be retained in the treasury in gold. I
am not believer in any artificial method
of making paper money equal to coin
when coin is not owned or he d ready to
redeem the promises to pay, for paper
money is nothing more than promises
to pay, and is valuable exactly in pro
portion to the amount of coin that it
can be converted into. While coin is
the currency of the country is not con-
yertible into it at par, it becomes an ar
ticle Of commerce as much as any other
product. The surplus will seek a for
eign market as well as any other sur
plus. The balance of trade has moth
ing to do with The question. The duties
on imports beng required in coin, Gre
ate a limited demand for gold, and
abont @enonghto satisfy that demand
remains in the country. To increase
this supply see DO way open but by
government boarding, through the
means above given, and possibly by re-
quiring the national banks to aid.


It is claimed by the advocates of the
measure herewith returned, that there |
is an unequal distribution of the bank |
ing capital of the country. I was dis
posed to give great weight to this view |
Of the question at first, but upon re-
Election it will be remembered that there
still remains four million dollars of au-
thorized bank note circulation unas-
signed, and states having less than Their
luoto of bank circulation have the op-
ion of twenty-five millions more than
heir proportion. When this is all ta-
Ken up, or when specie payments are
'ully restored, or in rapid process of
will be the time to consider
he question of more currency.


q. s. GRANT.


Executive Mansion, April %, 1874.
Year: 1874

"Don't, Charley" came to my ears in
sweet. musical tone, while 1 was
seated in a railway car, last sum-
mer. I should not have heard the soft,
touching voice, had it not been very
near me. 1 looked to see who it was
that had spoken, and saw a sweet,
beautiful woman upon the seat in front
of me. A half-sad look rested upon the
young face that was all aglow with love
and tenderness. A young man was
seated by her side whose face wore a
restless, dissipated look, and in a mo-
ment / comprehended it all. His face
was flushed slightly, and I knew why
it was thus. He was talking very fast
to some one in advance of him, and
once 1 heard a low oath. "Don't,
Charley" she said again, in the same
sweet voice. But Charley did not seem
to heed the words, but went on in a
half wild way to the man. Several
more oaths came from his lips but the
woman remained silent, yet looking so
pleadingly at the erring one that l
thought, if he had been half human, he
would have needed the mild, loving re-
proof that was SO visible in her tear
dimmed eyes.


A friend by my side whispered in my
ear. "They have been married just
one year"


He is a BRUTE" only said in reply.


At that moment I saw the young hus
bind wink slyly to the man, and then
they both arose and went into the bag
gage-car. I understood the movement
when saw bottle protruding from the
husbands coat pocket.


"Don't Charley; don't CO." the
young wife had pleaded before he got
beyond her reach; but he tore himself
from her light grasp, and rushed along.
Her eyes filled with tears, and a low
moan came from her pale lips, and then
she bowed her head and wept silently.


He came back in few moments, his
face flushed still more, and his voice
a key or two louder than before. He
brushed rudely past the wife, evidently
to get near the car window.


"Let nae alone, Mag" he said as she
laid her white hand upon his arm.
" Women are always in the way" he
said, again turning to the man in front
of him.


The wife turned away, aud did not
hear her sweet, reproving voice again.


How 1 pitied that young, loving wife,
and how often wonder If her sensitive
heart must suffer and bleed for many
long years I think not; for her ten
der, loving soul, and frail, slender body
will not bear such unkindness. Strange
how soon liquor will transform human
beings into unfeeling monsters, and chill
the ardent, loving nature of tender
husband and trusting wife
Year: 1874

Greenland is almost continental in its
dimensions, containing not less than
| $50, 900 square mil s, and is all bleak
wilderness of ice and snow, save little
strip extending to IA degrees north lat
itude, along the western shore. The
coasts are deeply indented with bays
and fords, which invariably terminate
in glaciers. The whole interior seems
to be buried beneath great depth of
snow and ice, which loads up the val
leys and wraps over the hills. Nothing
can be more desolate than the interior.
It is one dead, dreary expanse of white
so far as the eye can reach-no living
creature frequents this Wilderness
neither beast, bird nor insect. The 81
lence, deep as death, is broken only
when the warning storm arises 10 sweep
before it the pitiless, binding snow.
This represents the state of the north
ern part of our continent in the ice age.
Some of the Greenland glaciers attain
vast size. DIR. Kane reports the great
Humboldt glacier as sixty miles wide at
it's termination. Its seaward face rises
abruptly from the level of the crater to
a height of three hundred feet.


Since ice is lighter than water, when
ever a glacier enters the sea the dense
salt water tends to buoy it up. The
great tenacity of the frozen mass ena-
bles it to resist the pressure for time.
By and by, however, as the ice reaches
deeper water, its cohesion is overcome,
and large segments are forced from its
terminal part, and foated up from the
bed of the sea, to sail away as lcebergs.
The glacier evidently crops under the
water to considerable depths, or, so
long as the force of cohesion is able to
resist the tenacity of the salt water to
press it upwards.


Ahough Greenland is said to be in
habited only upon the south and west
coast, there is a record of an early set
tlement upon the side toward los land,
with which there has been no commu-
nication for 400 years. The colony was
planted about l ZOO A. D.. and flourish
ed, and maintained intercourse with its
mother country till the beginning of
the fifteenth century. Since that time,
owing to the setting in of the Arctic
current, and the consequent gradual in
crease of ic upon the coast. the colony
became inaccessible, and the records OF
it disappear from history. At various
intervals between 1879, 1851, etc.,
down to our own time, the intrepid
Danes have striven in vain to reopen
communication with their lost colony.
This emerald coast, with valleys well
stocked with reindeer and verdant
glades, is now shut in by the pltiless
ice packs, and the fate of its inhabitants
ought to excite the interest of the world.
1t would be very interesting to be in
formed of the condition of this colony
whether the increasing cold has enlarged
the glaciers so as to push the dwellings
out to sea, or whether the habitations
are still standing, and population has
sprung up who know of the outside
world only by tradition.
Year: 1874

Hot alum water is recent sugges-
ton as an insecticide. 1t will destroy
red and black ants, cockroaches, spl-
ders, chintz bugs, and all the crawling
pests which infest our houses. rake
two pounds of alum and dissolve IL IN
three or four quarts of boiling water
let it stand on the fire until the alum
disappears then apply it with brush,
while nearly boiling hot, to every joint
and crevice in your closets, bedsteads,


nontrv shelves, and the like. Brush
The crevices in the floor of the skirting
Or or mon boards, if you suspect they har-
bor yermin. If, in whitewashing a cell
inc. plenty of alum is added to the
lime. it will also serve to keep insects
at distance. Cockroaches will fee the
paint which has been washed in cool
alum water. Sugar barrels and boxes
can be freed from ants by drawing a
wide chalk mark just around the edge
of the top of them. The mark must be
unbroken, or they will creep over in,
but a continuous chalk line half an inch
in width will set their depredations at
paught. Powdered alum OF borax will
keep the chintz bug at respectable dis
tance, and travellers should always carry
a package of it in their handbags, to
Year: 1874

The much abused Rev. Florence Nc
Carthy, of Chicago, in recent lecture
on "Who Wouldn't be q Minister ?"
said Gone Of the first troubles which
befell q minister-and it was a matter
which they would never suppose he
would have any trouble about-was the
management of the hair. Happy is the
minister whose head is shapely and
whose hair naturally falls into elegant
and handsome convolutions. He can
get as many calls and as much salary as
he needs. If the hair is right it matters
little whether his principles be good or
doctrine sound. / speak feelinRly on
this subject, said the lecturer. My own
hair has been the cause, fear, ot much
of nv roisfortune. never thought of
II uniiI recently; but now 1 remember
that the people who ousted me from
Union park church are exactly those
Who used to labor with me about my
hair. Absolutely that church has split
on my hair. After watching public SEN
timent in my church on this subject for
about one year, / can assure you there
were three parties in it on the subject
of my hair. The first insisted on its
being brushed down close. The second
on its being stuck up on end. The
third-the conservative party-on hav-
ing it loosed up. Noticing that these
three parties corresponded to the three
divisions of sermon, soon fell into
the habit of delivering the first head of
my discourse with my hair as now.
FIattened to the head The second
division as now. Putting his front
locks on end.) The third division of
the sermon 1 generally delivered with
NV hair brought down to the conserva-
tive position quitting his hands through
his hair and smoothing down the more
elevated locks), and even now / don't
know that my hair has given entire sat
isfaction"
Year: 1874

al appearance AID in pitch and tone of
voice-just as twin pebbles on the
beach, exposed to the same tidal infu-
ences, are each others alter ego. He
has gained feminine something which
brings his manhood into full relief.
She has gained masculine something
which acts as foil to her womanhood.
Beautiful are they in life, these pale
winter roses, and in death they will not
be divided. When death comes, he
will pluck not one but both.


And in any case, to the old man, when
the world becomes trite, the triteness
arises not so much from a cessation as
from transference of interest. What
is taken from this world is given to the
next. The glory is in the east in the
morning, it is in the west in the after
noon, and when it is dark the splendor
is irradiating the realm of the under
world. He would only follow.
Year: 1874

He laughs by the summer stl cam


Where the lilies nod and dream,
As through the sheen of water cool and clear
He sees the club and sunfish cutting sheer.


His are resplendent eyes


His rnien is kingiwise;
and down the May wind rides he like king,
With more than royal purple on his wing.


His palace is the brake


Where rushes shine and shake:
His music is the murmur of the Stream,
And that lcaf-rustle where the lilies dream.


Such life as his would be


A more than heaven to me;
All sun, all bloom, all happy weather,
AL joys bound in a sheaf together.


No wonder he laughs so loud!


No wonder he looks so proud
1here are great kings would give their royalty
To have one day of his felicity.
Year: 1874

The time is approaching when the
feminine dweller in the suburbs will say
to her little girl q" Susan, go in and ask
Mrs. Smith if she won't keep few of
those hens at home. I've Just planted
my seeds and can't have all those fowls
here at once"
Year: 1874

The Herald has the following note oI
the death of the Mayor OF New York
mention Of which was made last week


On the floor OF his Office In the City
Hall, at ten minutes past noon, yester.
day, the Mayor of New York, Hon,
william +. Havemcyer, dropped sud.
denly down, after rising from his chair
and In very brief time expired of apo.
plexy. He had stood up from his seat
with the evident intention Of proceed.
ing to lounge in the retiring room
adjacent to his Office, and advanced but
step when the hand Of death seized
him. During the few moments oil
struggling life that followed he never
uttered a word. There was no premou-
tory warning, no wrestling for exist
ence when he fell upon the floor. He
passed into the other world as calmly
as an infant and death left on his fea-
lures no painful token of its sting. lie
was exactly seventy years aud len
months old, aud wanted but one month
of completing his two years term as
Mayor Of this city. From the time he
fell until he was laid upon the lounge
In his private apartment and life pro-
nouncod extinct he made but one ap-
parently conscious movement. Before
the face and form grew rigid he raised
his left hand slowly 10 his fourhead for
n moment and as slowly laid il down
again by his side.