smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The cows down in Knox county ought to
feel relieved by the capture of Haines.
They were in great danger of their lives on
account of the frightened detectives mistak-
ing them for the murderer. One of them
quietly chewing her cud in a barn was sur
rounded for an hour or so by officers armed
with clubs, in the belief that she was
HaineS
Year: 1879

Among the wonderful and useful inven-
| tiOns OF the times is the common sand blast,
says the Portland argus. Suppose you de
sire to letter piece of marble for a grave
stone, you cover the stone with a sheet of


wax no thicker than wafer, then cut in the
! wax the name, date, etc., leaving the marble
exposed. Now pass it under the blast, and
the wax will not be injured at all, but the
sand will cut letters deep into the stone.


Or, if you desire raised letters, a flower or
other emblem, cut the letters, flowers, ETC.,
in wax and stick them upon the stone; then
pass the stone under the blast and the sand
will cut it away. Remove the wax, and you
have the raised letters.


Take piece of French plate glass, say 2x6
feet. and cover it with fine lace, pass it under
the blast, and not thread of the lace will be
injured, but the sand will cut deep into the
glass whenever it is not covered by lace.
Now remove the lace, and you have every
delicate and beautiful figure raised upon the
glass.


In this way beautiful figures are cut in
glass at small expense. The workmen can
harm, even when it is rapidly cutting away
the hardest glass, iron or stone, but they must
look out for finger nails, for they will be
whitfield off right hastily.


If they put on steel thimbles to protect the
nails it will do little good, for the sand will
soon whittle them away: but if they wrap
piece of soft cotton around them they are
safe. You will at once see the philosophy of
it. The sand whites away and destroys any
hard substance, even glass, but does not ef-
feet substances that are soft and yielding like
wax, cotton or fine lace, or even the human
hand
Year: 1879

1t is now generally conceded that milk un-
duly retained in the udder of the cow is alb
sorbed. The flow is decreased, and the ami
NAL gradually goes dry. Once this process
begins, it is next to impossible to bring the
COW back to her regular flow. This is not
so bad however, as to allow the bag to be-
come infamed, and thus poison the milk.
This being the case from any cause, the
milk should never be used. The milk may
not show signs of taint to the eye; it may
even taste well, or so nearly right as to cause
no alarm; and yet it willtaint the entire mess,
and in the end the whole will become little
better than poison made into cheese, since
then the putrefactive process still goes
on. If the cow shows any tenderness or red
ness about the udder, or if it be hard or
swollen, discard the milk until the animal is
again all right. Through this care certain
dairymen are able to get extra and uniform
prices for their butter and cheese, and
especially for the milk sold for family use.
In the end they make the most money, for
consumers and reputable dealers are apt to
be shy of. those who have from time to time
!. old them such milk, or its butter or cheese.
Year: 1879

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Many persons may not be aware that glass
can be cut under water with great ease, to al
most any shape by simply using pair of
shears or strong scissors. In order to insure
success two points must be atteneed to-frst
and most important, the glass must be kept
quite level in the water while the scissors are
applied; and, secondly, to avoid risk, t is
better to begin the cutting by taking off small
pieces at the corners and along the edges,
and so reduce the shape gradually to that re-
quired, as if any attempt to cut the glass all
at once to the shape, as we should cut piece
of cardboard, it will most likely break just
where it is not wanted. Some kinds of glass
cut much better than others, the softer glass
es being the best for this purpose. The scis-
sors need not be at all sharp,as their action
does not appear to depend upon the state of
the edges presented to the glass. When the
operation goes on well the glass breaks away
from the scissors in small pieces in straight
line with the blades. This method of cut
ting glass has often been of service when q
diamond has not been at hand, for cutting
ovals and eegments, and though the edges
are not so smooth as might be desired for
some purposes, yet it will answer in great
many cases. The two hints given above, if
strictly followed, will always insure success.
Year: 1879

Boston Letter to Chicago Tribune]
Invent to the silent city of Mount Auburn,


where, only mile from the classic shades of


Harvard, slumber q, 900 souls. sought the
resting place of Charlotte Cushman. 1tis de-
lightfully situated in the back part of the
cemetery, at the base of a hill, with grand
view of Boston and the Charles river in the
far distance. The keeper told me that, when
Miss Cushman selected the lot, she said nod
ding her approval of it: 'Here shall lie in
sight of dear old Boston," The lot is very
large one, and in excellent order; but not q
flower, tree or shrub ornaments it. A little
plain marble tablet, three inches thick and
about four feet high, resting on flat free
stone socket bearing simply her name, and
valued about 500, is all there is to mark the
resting place of the tragic queen who left half
million to her next of kin. All me! when
dead how soon we are forgotten! The pro-
fession on which she shed lustre would have
paid better homage to their dead queens
memory.
Year: 1879

The Boston Transcript believes that it is
within the range of probability that in less
than two years Boston will have through
line to Lake Ontario, and that New York
city will connect with the West by four lines
travereing New York and Pennsylvania.
Year: 1879

Basing his opinion on what he re-
CARDS as the legitimate teaching of the
doctrine of heredity, a writer in the
Journal of Science believes that the
criminal legislation of the future-un-
less dominated by those who pander to
crime will do something like this:
The lineage and connections of every
offender, especially of every habitual
criminal, will be carefully scrutinized,
and all surviving members will be SUBJ
jected to an unobtrusive but penetrat-
ing scrutiny. The younger members
of the race will be, as far as possible,
surrounded by such moral and religious
influences as will most effectually check
and counteract their probable inbred
tendency to crime. Courts of Justice,
he says, will have their criminal geneolo-
gists, whose records will shed a new
and most valuable light on not few
unsolved problems both of biology and
of mental science. It is to be hoped
that, when @the future" comes, it will
be able to use such power wisely and
without malice. But the author is
more radical still. GAS for the man.
he continues, "who has once formally
declared war against society, hoisting,
so to speak, the black flag, care will be
taken that he shall neither repeat his
offense nor, after its commission. be-
come parent"


A DIssIPATED and unmannerly noble
man, presuming upon his mobility,
once asked Sir Walter Scott, who sal
opposite to him at a dinner, what wa.
the difference between Scott and sot
Just the breadth of the table" retort
cd Sir Walter.
Year: 1879

As rule every letter, unless insult
ing in its character, requires an answer.
To neglect to answer letter, when
written to, is as uncivil as to neglect to
reply when spoken to.


In the reply acknowledge first the
receipt of the letter, mentioning its
date, and afterward consider all the
points requiring attention.


If the letter is to be very brief, COM
mence sufficiently far from the top of
the page to give nearly-equal amount
of blank paper at the bottom of the
sheet when the letter is ended.


Should the matter in the letter con-
tinue beyond the first page, it is well
to commence a little above the middle
of the sheet, extending as far as
necessary on the other pages.


It is thought impolite to use half
sheet of paper in formal letters. As a
matter of economy and convenience for
business purposes, however, it is Gus
tomary to have the card of the busi-
ness man printed at the top Of the
sheet, and o single leaf is used.


In writing letter, the answer to
which is of more benefit to yourself
than the person to whom you write,
inclose postage stamp for the reply.


Letters should be as free from
erasures, interlineations, blots and post
scripts as possible. It is decidedly
better to copy the letter than to have
these appear.


A letter of introduction or recon-
mendation should never be sealed, a.
the bearer to whom it is given ought tc
know the contents.-HilPs Manual
Social and business Forms,
Year: 1879

JOE PENTz took rifle to his we'd.
ding, at Marks Gap, Texas. The sex
ton tried to persuade him to leave it at
the door on entering the church, but
he persisted in carrying it across his
shoulder as he walked with his bride up
to the altar rail. His explanation was
that rival suitor had threatened to
kill him on this occasion, and he meant
to be prepared for defense,
Year: 1879

All old male orangs are covered with
scars inflicted by the formidable canine
teeth which these animals use wholly
for defense and offense, since they are
fruit-eating, and hence do not employ
them in chewing. Their effort is al
ways to seize the arm or head of an en-
emy, and draw the fingers or lips into
their mouth, instead OF advancing their.
own heads to bite. Almost every speci-
men obtained of the mature animals had
lost some fingers and toes thus bitten
of. and large pieces are similarly torn
from the lips. The baby orang exhib-
tied a like propensity when angry, and
would seize person by the wrist and
try to draw the hand into its mouth so
as to bite the efngers.-Science NeaUs.
Year: 1879

The Lenoir Topic tells of Cald-
we'll county sheep having become
entangled in a lot of brlars and
being held terc for three months
with nothing TO eat except what it
could gather Immediately around it.
It was alive when released as was
also the teller of the story at last
accounts.
Year: 1879

This is duty that we are too apt
TO forget. Its obligations rest upon a
fine sense of propriety that every one
pecially is this obligation lost upon
those whose moral sense is blunted
by vice or care-hardeneG by egotism.


Old people, who have fought life's
battle, and, with wounds and scars
are soon to retire from further con-
hict, are entitled to the respect and
consideration that belongs to the mill
tary veteran.


But it too often happens that the
young recruit in life's battle, full OF
ardor and hope, forgets the service of
the retiring veteran, and thinks chief
ly upon the heroic deeds of himself.
This species of disrespect to Old age
grows out of th"ughtlessness, occa-
stoned by feeling of self importance.
1t is not the most culpable form of
disrespect and in more thoughtful
and better moments, the raw recruit
will recognize and do justice to the
achievements and characters of his
seniors. That species of disrespect
which grows out of a blurting of the
moral sense through vice, IS more cul
pable and lamentable. Its darkness
is not illuminated by the light of bet
ter moments, in which there is a
genuine and profound feeling of re-
spect for the aged. 1t is one con-
tinued state of darkness, in which
there is no longer capacity for the
exercise of the noble moral sentiments.
When young persons arrive at this
stage, albeit they may affect swag-
gecing sort Of gentility, they are not
very far from ruin. They are ready
to fall into the abyss of wretched
degradation and crime.


1t is true that old people do not
always think abreast with the spirit
Of the age. The customs and habits
of the past decades are craven, in
some cases ineradicably grown upon
their minds. Vet these are eXcep-
tional cases, and as rule, wisdom is
10 be found with age. But whether
old people have faults or not whether
they exhibit weaknesses or not; it is
all the same the duty of the Young
man to exhibit profound respect
Failings, pcculiarities, even though
they be trying sometimes, cannot be
absolved from the obIig ations of re-
spect.-Satens Conservative.
Year: 1879

Il has been profoundly remarked
that the true way Of telling toad
stool from q mushroom Is 10 eat It,
II you die, It was u toadStool ifyou
live, II was u mushroom. a similar
method Is employed Ia the selection
Of husbands marry him, # 10 kills
you no was q bad husband # hs
makes you happy no Is u good one
There Ia really no other criterion, AZ
DR., Samuel Johnson remarked, the
procf Of the pudding Is 10 the eating
thereof. Some young men that seem
unesceptionable, indeed, very desira.
bic, when they arc single, are per.
fec!ly hornd as soon as they get mar.
RED, All the latent brute there is IN
the heart comes out as soon AZ deli.
cato and sensitive being seeks her
happiness in his companionship, The
honeymoon lasts very short time.
tho receptions and the rounds oi
parties are soon over, and then the
two sit down TO make home happy
II she has married society man, he
will soon begin TO get bored no will
yawn aud go to sleep on the sofa -
Then he will take his hat and 90 down
to the club and see the boys, and per,
haps not come home till morning. If
she has married u mau engrossed in
business he will DO tagged out when
he comes home, lilo may be sickly
man that she must nurse, and a mo-
rose man that she must seek 10 cheer /;
a drunken man that she must sit up
for a violent man that she fears ; a
fool whom she soon learns 10 despiss
u vulgar man for whom she mus.
apologize--in fact, there are thousands
OF ways Of being bad husbands, and
very few ways Of being good ones.--
And the worst Of it is. that the poor
silly women are apt to admire III
single men the very traits that make
bad husbands, and look with contempt
or ridicule upon those quiet virtues
which make home happy. Men with
very little personal beauty or style
often make the wife happy-and
sometime, quite the reverse. The
number Of ways Of being a bad hus-
band is almost as great as the number
of ways of being ugly. No one can
tell from the demeanor Of a single
man what sort of q husband he will
be. Meantime she must marry some
body. Eat it: if you die, it was a
sort of toadstool; il you live, it was a
sort OF mushroom Baltimore Every
Saturday.
Year: 1879

The more see of the world, the
more l am satisfied that simplicity is
lnseperacle the companion of true
greatness. never yet knew a truly
great man-who over-topped his iel'
low-men-wbo did not possess a GER
tain playful almost infantile simplicity.
True greatness never struts or stiits,
or plays the king upon the stage
Conscious of its elevation, and know
ing in what that elevation consists, ii
is happy to act its part like other men,
in common amusemonts and business
of mankind. 1t is not afraid OF being
undervaIued for its humanity. .-Paul0
ma.
Year: 1879

"The Lord loveth cheerful giver,"
but there's no use of chucking a cop.
per cent into the contribution box
loud enough to make the folks on the
back seat think the communion SER
vice has tumbled off the altar. Ar.
gonaut.
Year: 1879

Reflect that life at best is but short,
and that we cannot afford to suffer
any part of it to run to waste. In
youth You must lay in q stock Of
kno wledgs which may carry you
through life, whatever your after pur-
suits may be, with usefulness and hon.
or. But recollect, this is not to be
done without exertion, without the
frequent sacrifice of momentary pleas
ure and qualification. Self.denial is a
virtue of the highest quality, and he
who has it not, ard does not strive to
acquire it, will never excel in any
thing.
Year: 1879

Mrs Gen. Hatton, State Librarian,
will send an individual or shop right
to the famous and Popular Wilson
patent bride to any person in the
United States who will send a dollar
for the first, and two dollars for the
second. The whole to be given to
sufferers by yellow fever. This sjust
half the price the proprietor has sold
the individual rights for. With these
rights will be sent to each purchaser
full printed description of the bride.
and directions how to use it, which are
50 simple that they are readily under>
stood and applied.
Year: 1879

According to department reports,
the cotton crop does not promise quite
as well as last month, although the
average is still quite handsome, while
corn is plentiful and fiourishiug every
where. Corn and cotton being the
two latest crops of The season, gener-
al jubilation over a good year is in
order.
Year: 1879

Johnny. little son of widow Allison,
met with a severe accident last Thurs
day, which will probably confne him
to the house for some time. He was
sitting on wood-pile when the wood
gave way and he rolled to the bottom,
the wood falling on him, breaking his
hip ioint.-HlmlbOlh Argus.
Year: 1879

Yes, we are all growing old, though
unconsciously, and the foot of time falls
as softly as ever, and the current of life
ar-r- erannthlv as ever-indeed.
the fuller the current. the more noise
less its flow. And months and years,
are after all, SO very much alike that
they pass away without special observa-
tion, and We begin to get old before we
thlnk OF 1t. auu whoa mo cir down tn
simple sum In arithmetic-the SUBJ
traction of the year of our birth from
the current year-we are astonished at
the answer, and are so doubtful of ira
correctness that We 60 over it second
time, but always with the same result.
Children grow up around us. but We get
used to that, and are SO busy that we
seldom stop to compute their ages and
realize the swift fight of years. The
wife who has stood lovingly and faith
fully at our side SO long never changes.
and is always the fair young bride of
the old and happy days. Though his
hair may have grown gray in some way
that we do not understand, and his step
may seem little less elastic and firm
than it was, the husband does not seem
to have changed much, after all. He is,
to us the same strong, manly one whom
we loved so much and to whom we con-
fided so much just little while ago.
To be sure, the few friends of our youth
that remain are all gray headed. but we
do not think much of that, for we all
seem to be using the same fashionable
hair dye. There is nothing in that to
attract attention. Some one-he may
have been philosopher-has said that
if we doubt whether we are really grow
ing old, we should look in the face of
our friend whom we have not seen in
twenty years. The preacher tried that
few years ago. He did more; he look
not seen for nearly forty years. What
his friend thought of him he does not
know. We were both too polite to ex-
press our thoughts. He knows that ne
kept wondering. and wondering yet.
what had happened to his friend that he
| should look so very old.
Year: 1879

1t is well-known fact that the
malicious slanderings of gossips have
caused more trouble in this world than
almost any other cause. The liquor
traffic has been assailed again and again,
but it is very doubtful if this traffic, so
much decried. really does as much harm
as that class of people. only too large,
who are continually seeking opportuni-
ties to vilify their neighbors and to ruin
their characters in the light of all their
friends. Could the secrets of various
persons be read it would be found that
many person has been driven to suicide,
and many happy home broken up, on
account Of the stories set afoat by those
who, having no business of their own,
employ their time IN prylng INTO ana
mlslnterpeting the action of others. A
case illustrating the results of this gos-
siping habit was ANNOUNCED in the Asso.
ciated Press dispatches of few days
ago, dated Norwich. Conn ''z;be Sid
10y Of East Killingly, attacked his Sleep
ing wife with club, and beat her about
the head so that her recovery is consid-
cred impossible. The cause is believed
to have been jealousy needlessly excited
by gossiping neighbors."


Here is one of the most serious crimes
known to the law committed on person
innocent of the offence claimed by the
gossipy neighbors. The husband. led
on by blind jealousy due to these scan-
dal-mongers, murders his wife. 1t is
sad commentary on the Christian spirit
which is supposed to exist in this nine-
teenth century that people should allow
their unbridled tongues to bring a brutal
death to an innocent person and another
person to the gallows. The murderer
will probably be hung. and it is pity
that the same punishment cannot be
meted out to the gossips who virtually
caused the murdered woman's death by
their falsifcations. They will be held
directly responsible by the Great Judge
for the crime with the commission of
which the husband is charged. Were it
possible to try and convict them by an
earthly tribunal, as accessories to this
murder, it would undoubtedly furnish a
wholesome and much needed warning to
other gossips of the possible result of
their malicious ISLANDERS. Erchonqe.
Year: 1879

Very few persons understand how
greatly health and happiness in this
world depends upon regularity of their
habits-the constant recurrence of those
events which we are apt to refer to as
tiresome and monotonous. During the
earlier periods of our life this ''even
tenor" is essential to our well being
and though we may feel like kicking the
traces when at zenith of power and
activity, and sometimes fly off at tam
gents OF get rid of our super6nous ener-
gies in odd aud eccentric ways, yet we
usually come back, or at least try to
come back to our moorings. and gladly
accept the tread mill path of daily duty,
which if it brings no ecstatics of pleas
ure. leaves no remorse.


Every one can understood how dis
agreeable it would be not to be able to
make sure of ones dinner; to lose the
enjoyment of abundance of good water,
daily bath and daily paper, but upon
the recurrence of many more and much
smaller minutie do We depend for our
daily comfort. We like certain kinds
of bread at every meal; We want meat
always cooked certain favorite ways,
and expect to find it so as naturally as
we expect the sun to shine. We get to
seeing certain things in certain places,
and We could not miss them upon any
account; a tree, bush, a picture. or
chair which occupies the same place
for years acquires value to our con-
sciousness which only the habit of see
ing it can give it. The world seems
very large in growth. and full of many
and varied interests, but it contracts as
we grow older. and the objects of value
to us narrow themselves down to those
which we know to be real. and which
form our lives Naturally as these grow
dearer. and the more we dislike to miss
them from our sight and sense. No
lives are SO happy as those which are SO
we'll ordered that there is little to resign.
and to which. therefore, every year brings
added interest and added enjoyment in
the regular discharge of individual and
social duty.
Year: 1879

business continues brisk for seasonable
work, and all over the country there is
only one report-.good trade and no
stock in store There are none in man.
ufacturers' hands, and the odds and ends
of goods that could formerly be packed
up are not to be found now. Goods are
delivered as fast as possible. and in
good many large warehouses the floors
are completely bare on Saturday night,
as every case is sent forward to buyers
who are anxious to fill their orders to
the interior retailers"
Year: 1879

The journey of President Hayes
through part of the West has not been
without unpleasant experiences. and he
has been brought into contact with some
very uncouth people who were complete
ly devoid of manners At Hannibal.
Missouri, he was grossly insulted by a
crowd of roughs, and the circumstances
brought out General Sherman, who
talked to the turbulent people in such
way that they were glad to have the
General intercede with the President to
again show himself after he had retired
because of abusive treatment. Sherman
said that '.as sure as there is God in
heaven. the day will come. and ere long.
too, when Missouri will be peopled by
ladies and gentleman. who will not in
suit the President of the United States
when he comes within your borders"