smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Information of undoubted reliability is to
the effect that Vanderbilt's tunnel for the
Canada Southern railway, under the De.
troit river at Crosse Isle, is now fixed fact


Work will be commenced April 2sth, and
the tunnel, when completed, will cost
$l,500,00O. The tunnel will extend from
Stoney island to Anderton, Ont, distance
of $500 feet, and will have double track
and double arches, each of the latter
eighteen feet high and fifteen feet wide.
The diversion of through traffic to point
below and outside of Detroit is deeply re.
gretted by her business men, but it is not
regarded as heavy blow to the city's
growth and prosperity. The worst effect is
that the railroad focus of all through lines
now in existence or to be built hereafter
will ultimately be ten miles below the city.
Year: 1879

normal condition. All that is necessary


to arouse her is to blow breath in her
face. If her eyelids be raised, or the
light exhibited, catalepsy again super
venes, and these changes-catalepsy
the mesmeric state, catalepsy recur
regularly. These experiments are as
interesting as valuable to the medico.
scientific world.
Year: 1879

A PROJECT is on foot to have the
national guards of Pennsylvania assem-
BILE on the Gettysburg battlefield some
time during the coming summer, and 60
into camp for a week. 1t is intended to
make it the largest encampment ever
held in the state
Year: 1879

The Philadelphia Society Of Friends
is taking active steps towards the for
nation of settlements in the west, to
bring together isolated members who
were gradually losing interest in the
principles and customs of their sect.
Year: 1879

EsPARTo grass is largely used by paper
makers in France and England. That
which reaches England from Morocco is
used by the paper mills that supply the
Times. The great value of this paper
lies in the tenacity of its fibre and the
comparatively minute quantity of silica
in its composition; it is a rather coarse,
stiff, perennial grass, growing to a height
of three feet. 1t is found in the moor
lands of Scotland and in the boggy
pastures of Ireland, and has hitherto been
considered of little value.
Year: 1879

The legislature of Indiana also seems
to have gone into the school-book ped
ding business. A bill has been intro
1uced in that body authorizing the state
BOARD of education to prepare lists of
school.books for county boards to select
from. The ostensible object is to
cheaper the cost of school-books, the
real object is to throw the sale of school
books into the hands of ring. The in
ference will be inevitable that the legis-
lators who vote for such bill are paid
by the ring for doing so.
Year: 1879

1T is said that careless legislation in
the internal revenue bill makes it legal
for the owners of large stocks of manu-
factured tobacco to export it to some for
sign country receive a drawback at the
rate of twenty-four cents per pound and
reimport it, paying to the government a
tax of sixteen cents, thus making net
profit of eight cents per pound less the
expense of the operation. Secretary
Sherman thinks that unless the law is
changed the cost to the government will
be between 100000 and $4,000, 900.
Year: 1879

About three years ago the Observer re.
ported the case of citizen of Mecklen-
burg County, n c., who, having married
in 1843, lighted a fire on his hearthstone
as soon as he carried his bride to his new
home, and had kept it burning ever
since. The citizen was in town yester-
day, and, being questioned about the
matter, stated that the fire was still
burning, and that throughout all these
thirty-six years it had never been allowed
to go out. Questioned as to whether or
not it made the house uncomfortably
hot in torrid weather, he said the extra
heat thus generated was not perceptibfe.
in reply to another question, he said
that in summer weather, when it was
necessary for comforts sake to keep the
fire burning very low, he had to get up
frequently at night to replenish it
slightly, but that he counted this as
nothing when he contemplated the idea
of that fire going out. He has evidently
formed for it "a strong attachment, and
yet one would not take him for senti-
mental man. But this fire is to him a
constant reminder, of the day when he
first brought home his bride. Around it
his children have grown up into man.
hood and vomanhood, and their children
have gazed into its light. 1t was the
last light that fell upon the eyes of his
wife, and hopes that it will be the last
that will fall upon his. Viewed thus,
his sentiment in the matter can be un-
derstood, and sd strong is this sentiment
that with the old man it amounts almost
to a passion.
Year: 1879

Commenting on the evidences of re-
renewed prosperity, which it thinks the
country does not more than half appre
ciate, the New York Herald closes very
sensible article with the following con-
servative advice:


Whoever has managed to lay by
little money has now the opportunity to
fling it awaysin speculation. On every
hand citizens are invited to become sud
denly wealthy by putting their means in
mining and other speculative ventures
We advise everybody to steer clear of
such things. There is, no doubt, money
to be made in mines, but it will be
pocketed not by the credoulous public,
but by the gentlemen who dispose of
stock to A, B and G as special favor.


The public never gets rich by gambl-
ing. The haste to be rich brought sor-
row and suffering to hundreds of thou
sands in the past ten years, and plunged
the country into the dreary abyss out of
which it is just now emerging. Another
such fever of speculation would send us
to a yet lower deep, and leave us there
to founder.


"There is still an abundance of legiti-
mate and safe securities in which
men can invest their means with a GER
tainty of a moderate but constant re-
turn There will presently be an in
creasing number of Legitimate new entel-
prises, many of which, resting for their
value on real services to the country,
will also be safe. There is land, farming
and city real estate, both now low in
price, and the last to feel the impetus of
a rise; judicious and careful Investments
in real estate at present prices are pretty
certain to bring handsome profits by and
by. All these are real things : not fam
cies. They are property sure to rise in
value with the growth of the country,
and having substantive value they are
safe for investors. But we counsel and
urge everybody to avoid fancy and wild
cat investments promising large divi-
dends and sudden fortunes. There is
nothing in them but loss."
Year: 1879




The following passionate outpouring
OF woman's heart was exposed to the
public gaze this week in the auction
room of Messrs Sotheby, Wilkinson q
Hodge. 1T occurs on the tly-leaves of
the first edition of Shelley's "Queen
Mab," Qot 63), the authors presentation
copy to "Mary Wollstonecraft Goodwin,
P. B. ST." with his autograph inscriptions,
one at the end in pencil, You see,
Mary, have not forgotten you" On
the tiy-leaves at the end Mary Wollstone-
craft Goodwin has written: "July, 1914.
This book is sacred to me and as no
other creature shall ever look into it
may write in it what please - yet what
shall | write-that l love the author be-
yond all powers of expression and that
am parted from him dearest and only
lovely that love we have promised to
each other although may not be yours
can never be anothers. r
"But I am thine exclusively thine


BY the kiss of love by the glance none saw beside
The smile none else might render


The whispered thought of hearts allied


The pressure of the thrilling hand


al have pledged myself to thee and
sacred is the gift. remember your
words-'you are now Mary going to mix
with many and for moment | shall
depart but in the solitude of your
chamber l shall be with you-yes you
are ever with me sacred vision


"But ah feel in this given


A blessing never meant for me-


Thou art too like a dream from heaven


For earthly love to merit thee"
Year: 1879

A pointed or round chin indicates a
congenial love. A person with such a
chin will have beau ideal, and will not
be easily satisfied with real men or
women. The indented chin indicates a
great desire to be loved; hungers and
thirsts for affection. When large in
woman, she may overstep the bonds of
etiquette and make love to the one that
pleases her. A narrow, square chin in
dicates desire to love, and is more COM
mon among women. The broad square
chin indicates ardent love, combined
with great steadfastness and permanence
of affection. The retreating chin is in
dicative of the want of attachment, and
but little arder in love. The chin, in its
length and breadth, indicates self-will,
resolution, decision, etc. Carnivorous
animals have the upper jaw projecting,
while those of the graminivorous have
the lower jaw projecting. In man with
q projecting jaw will be found large de-
structiveness and love of animal food /;
when the lower jaw does not project,
then the love for vegetable food.
Year: 1879

stringent. Some of the officers of an
other excursion boat were fined for
keeping up their fires on Sunday. the
court deciding that no matter what loss
the company might sustain by having
to suspend work on Sunday and miss
their morning trip Monday by having
to get up steam on that day instead of
having everything prepared Sunday, it
was, nevertheless, a violation of the law
to be doing that work on the Sabbath,
and it would, therefore, have to impose
the ordinary fine for violating the law.
An appeal was taken by the defense.
The law under which this decision was
made has come down from colonial
times. An attempt will be made to re-
peal or modify it at the next session of
the Legislature, but though it has many
opponents, there is large conservative
element in the state.
Year: 1879

The Sunday conflict is still raging in
Baltimore. The Postoffice Department
is willing that steamers and other COM
mon carriers shall transport the mails
oftener than they have contracted to do,
provided they do it gratuitously. On
finding, however, that little steamboat
at Baltimore was doing this to prevent
its Sunday trips from being stopped by
state law, the Postmaster General re-
fused to give it any more extra mails to
carry, alleging that the department
would not help the violation of local
statutes. The law of Maryland is very
Year: 1879

BURDETT, of the Burlington Hawkeye,
has bad opinion OF so-called great
men. He says: "a writer recently set
himself at work to get out a series of
papers on The Great Men of Amer
ica,' but, after diligently reading them
up in the journals of opposite political
faiths, he came to the conclusion that
we have none at present, and never had
more than one or two in all our history
as a nation, and that he could not find
out just who they were."
Year: 1879

THE chirping and singing of the
cricket and grasshopper are frequently
spoken of; but they do not sing =
they fiddle. By rubbing wings and legs
together in such a manner peculiar to
the species these insects produce the
sounds which characterize them. Per-
haps our best insect instrumental per
former is the katydid.' Each wing
contains little tamborine, and by the
opening and shutting of the wings these
are rubbed against each other and pro-
duce the sound of katy-did-she-did,"
which can be heard at such long dis
tance, and gives the insect its name.
These sounds are supposed to be useful
in enabling insects TO find their mates,
or they may indulge in them for their
own qualification, and to add to the gem
eraI harmony of nature.
Year: 1879

In regard to the assertion which mas
recently been made that the sun never
sets on American soil, the Scientific
American says that this is boasting too
much; thatwe have really four hours of
darkness every night. as when the linger-
ing rays of the SUN are kissing the hills
of our furthest Aleutian island good
night they are saluting the hilltops of
Ireland with good morning, while the
breadth of the Atlantic lies between us
and davlieht
Year: 1879

The mystery surrounding, the
Waynesyille horror appears to be pretty
we'll cleared up SO far as the identity of
the guilty party is concerned, The dis
covery of the body of the boy Anderson,
killed by his own hand. points without
much room for doubt to his being the
author of one of the most cold-blooded
murders in the entire history of crime.
But what could have prompted him to
the commission of it yet remains an
enigma. r
Year: 1879




A woman, notwithstanding she is the
best of listeners, knows her business,
and it is woman's business to please.
vote, but do say that the woman who
does not please is a false note in the
harmonies of nature. She may not
have youth or beauty, or even manners,
but she must have something in her
voice or expression, or both, which
makes you feel better disposed toward
your own race to look at or listen to.
She knows that as we'll as we do, and
her first question after you have been
talking your soul into her .'onscions-
ness is: Did l please? A woman
never forgets her sex. She would rather
talk with man than an angel any time.
Womanly women are very kindly critics,
except to themselves and now and then
to their own sex. The less there is of
sex about woman the more she is to be
dreaded. ssei sas


But like real woman at her best
moments-well dressed enough to be
pleased with herself, not so splendid as
to be a show and sensation, with the
varied outside influences that set vibra-
ting the harmonious notes of her nature
stirring in the air about her and what
social life to compare with one of those
vital interchanges of thought and feel
ing with her that makes an hour MEM
orable? What can equal her tact, her
delicacy, her subtlety of apprehension,
her quickness to feel the changes of tenn
perature, as the warm and cool currents
of thought blow by turns? AT one mo-
ment she is microscopically intellec-
tual, critical, scrupulous in judgment as
an analysts balance, and the next as
sympathetic as the open rose that
sweetens the wind from whatever quar-
ter it finds its way to her bosom. 1t is
in the hospitable soul of woman that
man forgets he is a stranger, and so be-
comes natural and truthful; at the
same time he is mesmerized by all those
divine differences that make her mys.
tery and bewilderment.
Year: 1879

The story goes that the recent dele
CATION of negroes sent to Kansas by
Mississippi planters that they might
return and report adversely to the coun-
try and, If possible. put stop to the
colored exodus, were SO captivated by
the beautiful country and bountiful
harvests that many of them forgot to
return at all, while others went back
to tell their friends and neighbors of
the beauty and bounty they had found,
and TO induce further emigration.
Year: 1879

WHILE our ears are constantly as
sailed by distressing reports of the fail
ure of crops in Europe, it is pleasant to
hear such a statement within our own
borders as that which comes from Mime
sofa. Fifty millions of dollars worth of
farm produce is the quantity the Min
nesotans expect to put in market.
Year: 1879

RUSSIA is about to tax all importa-
tions of iron. II the home product was
as superior in ether varieties as the
sheet-iron to all foreign makers, there
would be no use in levying duty, for
there would be no one to pay it. The
empire needs, however, many manufac-
lures Of the metal which the ingenuity
OF its subjects is not competent to
sunply
Year: 1879

OVER one hundred thousand sheep
were killed or injured by dogs in Ohio
during the year 1873. an increase of
fifty per cent. over the destruction of
the preceding year. The dog popula-
tion needs thinning out.
Year: 1879

The emigration of Southern negroes
TO the northwest is reported to be going
steadily forward. The later emigrants
are of better class and require little
assistance. The movement is expected
20 receive a great impetus after the
gathering OF the crops. '
Year: 1879

than the occasion warrants. The fact that they
have used upwards of $25, 900 since the fever
appeared here, is spoken of as evidence of
waste, and many ask what is there to show
for it.


The Howards of New Orleans have always
aided their INDECENT yellow fever sufferers with
out calling on the public for subscriptions. with
out pay for themselves, and without buggies to
ride around the streets, working with an open,
free hand, and keeping nothing hid.


The Howards are an exclusive corporation,
permit no reporters to attend their meetings,
make no showing of their expenditures, except
such as they choose to ventilate, and while it is
admitted they have extended relief to many,
yet it is the general talk that large share of
the charity fund expended by them would not
bear favorable inspection. These few o /.
the remarks freely spoken there. Other hard


hings are also said.
Year: 1879

1T Is said the Dominion Government
will examine the Trent Riv er Works
shortly with the view Of ascertaining
the feasibility of connecting Lake Huron
with the Bay of Quinte by ship canal.
Year: 1879




II Jsek Bunsby had been asked to log his impress
sions Of this mornings stock market In nautical
language be would probably have described the day
"a being made up of variable weather-light airs
alternating with dead calms. and with never whole
topsau breeze the day through" The stock Jobbing
navigator, whose marine experience is limited to
sailing In out of stock. would. in the patter OF
the street. describe the market to have been irregu-
lar alternately weak and strong. and mover sufh-
ciently animated to create sensation in the bosom
of either bull or bear. From either description
1t is to -be gathered that to-day's market.
like the many which have preceded it, was
dull and featureless. What there of specu-
lative interest centred in the graugers.
Kansas City and Northern. Wabash. Erie and the
Hannibal and st. Joes. Buyers of Wabash and Kan
Northern to possess less appetite for shares
to-day, judging from tho fact that both stocks de-
clined in price. Although the consolidation appears
to be . fxed fact, and it is somewhat more than
probable that the corporation will be leased to
the Union Pacific company upon terms which
promise to guarantee per cent upon 20,00OOOO OF
preferred stock there nevertheless exists consider
able doubt to whether any great advantage is to
grow out Of the arrangement and in fact whether
some stock jobbing scheme is not at the bottom OF
the business after all. The Hannibal and st. Joes
were weak and lower. There never has been any





have higher. notion that the consolida-
tion referred to above might prove to be . serious
opposition started holders into selling to-day Erie
securities-both bonds and stock--were higher and
more active The judgment obtained by the COM
pany against Mr.. McHenry appears to be the cause
Of the improvement though nobody expects to
touch any OF his money. judgment or no Judgment.
The granger stocks were spasmodically active and
dull and zigzaged the day through between strength
and weakness. At the close. however. they were
notably strong. and with the rest Of the market
finished at or near the best prices Of the day. At
the Mining Board there was continuance Of the
summer siesta The only people inclined to wake
up tho holders of Consolidated Pacific. who
were led to show some animation late in the day by
rumors that . and influential pool had been
formed in Boston to bull the stock


Mr.. r. H. Parks, to whom we are indebted for
valuable grain statistics has been elected member
of the New York Produce Exchange.


Tho following table gives the extreme fluctuations
nf tho dav In, tha lead
Year: 1879

Man was made in dry weather.


He was made of dust.


O lite n number have never recovered
rom their creation, they are still dry.


It's mans nature to be discontentcd.
Adam had monopoly, but he couldn't
be happy without some one to crow ov.
cr.


For while he knocked around over
the garden OF Eden, and then went to the
house but he had to cook his own sup
per, there was no stovewood chopped,
and things were in a bad state generally.
The next morning II was the same way.
He had to make his own bed and sweep
out. His socks were dirty, and his arm
would run through hole in his sleeve.
So he was dissatisfied.


The next night when he went to sleep,
the Creator punished him by making one
of his ribs into woman--a great mis-
fortune to the race.


1t has been six thousand years since
that rib was lost, and yet man continues
feeling for it.


This is very feeling subject.


Pursuit in this case is said to be sweet.
er than possession.


After Eve got acquainted with her mate
she vowed that all men in the world were
not worth Adam.


Goliah was man.


He was bigger than old Grant, but be
coulda't stand as many sings


A fop is male who is ashamed of his
sex, and attemps to conceal the fact that
he is man.


Concealmant in such cases is attended
with but little trouble. 1t 10 only neces-
sary to part his hair in the middle.


The family man resembles an oyster
on the half.shell.


The shell is known at home---,he soft
side abroad.


Some men carry the resemblance in
their faces. A grert many men have
countenances like oysters.


Job is said to have been very pa
tient man.


He had boils all over him.


Many man now boils all over him.
self when the preacher reaches thr-
teenthly on hot summer day, and new
er thinks Of tue grandeur of Jobs exam
pie.


II is natural for man to disregard
good example.
Year: 1879

DAlN in the right side, under the edge
1 Of the ribs, increases on pressure !;
sometimes the pain is in the left side !;
the patient is rarely able to lie on the
left side; sometimes the pain is felt
under the shoulder blade, and it FIRE.
quently extends to the top Of the shoul-
der, and is sometimes mistaken for
rheumatism in the arm. The stomach
is affected with loss Of appetite and
sickness; the bowels in general are
costive, sometimes alternative with lax; /;
the head is troubled with pain, accom-.
panied with dull, heavy sensation in
the back part. There is generally a
considerable loss Of memory, accom-
panied with a painful sensation OF hav-
ing left undone something which ought
to have been done. A slight, dry cough
is sometimes an attendant. The patient
complains Of WEAKNESS and debility; he
is easily startled, his feet are cold or
burning. and he complains Of prickly
sensation of the skin; his spirits are
low; and although he is satisfied that
exercise would be beneficial to him,
yet he can scarcely summon up forti-
tude enough to try it. In fact, he dis
trusts every remedy. Several Of the
above symptoms attend the disease, but
cases have occurred where few Of them
existed, yet examination of the body,
after death, has shown the LIVER to
have been extensively deranged.


AGUE AND FEVER.


DR.. C.. McLANE's LIVER Pills, IN
CASES OF AGUE AND FEVER, when taken
with Quinine, are productive Of the
most happy results. No better cathartic
can be used, preparatory to, or after
taking Quinine. We would advise all
who are afflicted with this disease to
give them a FAIR TRIAL.


For all bilious arrangements, and as
a simple purgative, they are unequaled.
Year: 1879

IT is well-knoGn fact that in the smaller towns on the frontier, but lit sle attention is paid 10 the spot select e1 for burial purposes. Graves are dug here and there without regard 10 regularity, and if marked at all by some f1imsy stick or board that a gust of wind would remove. Such appears to be condition of the ceme- tcry at this place, but during the past week it has been considerably i'm proved by our worthy Sheriff, who has had the county prisoners at work clearing it of. It would take but a few hundred dollars to put it in ex- cellent condition and 3 move in this direction shcaid be made. The final resting place of man should be made pleasant.
Year: 1879

ENGLAND is considerably worried over the agricultural depression of that country and at meeting held in the House of Commons, the Govern ment agreed to the motion for the ap- pointment of a royal commission to inquire into it's cause, and how far created. During the debate that fol lowed, it was stated that the success of British agriculture was dependant upen America, and that if the cost of importing cereals fell below the cost of producing home article, the ruin of British agriculture was not far distant.