smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The skin contains more than two
million openings, which are the out
lets of an equal number OF sweat
glands.


The human skeleton consists of
moro than two hundred distinct
bones.


An amount Of blood equal to the
whole quantity in the body passes
the heart once every minute.


The full capacity of the lungs is
about three hundred aud twenty
cubic inches.


About two-thirds Of a plat of air
is Inhaled and exhaled at each breath
III ordinary respiration.


The stomach daily produces nine
pounds Of gastric juice for digestion
of food its capacity is about five
pints.


There are more than five hundred
separate musclee in the body, with
an equal numbor Of nerves and blood
vessels.


The weight of the heart is from
eight to twelve ounces. 1t beats
ono hundred thousand times in
twenty-four hours


Eacn perspiratory duct is one
fourth of al inch in length, which
will make the aggregate length OF
the whole about nine miles.


The average man takes five and
one-half pounds Of food and drink
each day, which amounts to one ton
OF solid and liquid nourishment an.
nualiy.


A man breathes eighteen times q
minute, aud three thousand cubic
feet or about three hundred and
seventy.fvo hogsheads Of air per
hour.
Year: 1879

Har2oer's Bazar says: Deep apron

 over-skirts remain in favor, ,notwithstand-

 ing the introduction of shorter aprons.

 Their style depends on their simple

 drapery, and in 8 measure on their

 plainness, that is, the absence of all trimming. They are caught up very high on the side, indeed almost to the

 belt, by one or two clusters of shirring, or else by 8 single bunch of pleats that are very near together. The back breadth then falls plainly, and hoops at the bottom by reason of it's scantiness, or else 1t IS very wide, consisting of the en- tire breadth of the double-width goods, and has bunch of pleats in the middle to correspond with those on each of the side seams this gives very graceful bouffant effect. Other aprons are se- ries of irregular folds or wrinkles held in place by tape that passes under heath down the middle of the front breadth, to which the under part of each fold is tackled. Still others are merely aprons without any back drapery; these aprons meet under the ends of the bas- basque behind and the back breadths of the lower skirt have then three deep hounces over them from the belt to the foot. The pleated fronts of the skirt are also sometimes put in the apron instead of in the lower skirt. Thus there is broad pleat down the middle of the apron it's whole length, or else there are two or three narrower box pleats. Some times pretty effect is given by having the front breadth of striped or plaid material, while the remainder of the skirt is of solid colored goods. The over-skirt is then shirred down the seams that join it to the plain updraped front, and is bunchily draped behind. Some times there is 8 cluster of lengthwise pleats that form the side gores of the over skirt; /; the fancy is to have these laid in eight pleats, four of which are turned toward the back and four toward the f,ont, meeting in the middle of the gore; then quite near the foot the pleats are not pressed in, but are gathered horizontally in rows of shir- ring
Year: 1879

John Watts, who died in Philadelphia last week, was in his day one of the most noted gamblers who made their trade notorious on the Mississippi river. Although he professed to be "a man of

 honor" he was by no means of the very

 best morals, and he did not object to take advantage of his fellow man. For instance With his friend and accom- plice he would board 8 boat at Louis vile, and, scanning the passenger list, pick out for his victims some old card players of wealth with whom he was personally acquainted. To these people he would go very quietly and say of his accomplice, "There IS man who p lays high, and we can beat him you join with me and we'll do it." The victim agreed, the party was made up, but Watts always succeeded in regulating success the wrong way for his victim, and thus the would-be bitter was often bitten.

 Once he was accused of swindIing in that way, the charge being made in the heat of play by man from whom Watts's accomplice had just won S1O,OOO. els that your opinlon?" he quietly asked.

 'Yes, sir; that's what I think" roared the loser; "you swindled me, and I stigmatize you as scoundrel." The hour was late, and only the watchman and the party engaged in playing heard the charge, but all of them drew back and held their breath. for they were sure "Jack" would take life to wipe out the insult It is said that he had done that thing. "I will give you $5, ,00O right here if you will not make that opinion any further public" said Watts, drawing forth his pocketbook. "No, sir, I do not want the money; you can- not buy my silence with money" Then Watts smiled in his wicked way and held a pistol in one hand and the money in the other, and said quietly, as before " My friend, for the suppression of your opinion I offered you $5,0OO. You re- fused. Now offer you that amount of money and your life. Do you accept ?" The man looked into Jacks cold, steel gray eye and what he read there was convincing. He took the money and his life and kept silent.
Year: 1879

the past will be disl ,osed to take mo. rose or desponding ,iew of the present. |"

 COUNTRY PAPERS.

 It is not true that the ability of the press is declining. The papers of the country are better written now than they ever were before. They are better edi- ted. Their ave rage courtesy is greater their average morality is purer their average tendency higher. They better hit the wants of great, miscellaneous communities, and so they have more readers in propo rtion to population. Their power may be more diffused: but it is unmistakably greater. There has been no more remarkable phenomenon in the history of the profession than the rapid growth of the country press, and it's increase in ability, in resources. in self-respeot and in influence. There are half a dozen towns in the interior of New York which now have better news. papers, with larger income and more in- fuence, than those of the metropolis it. self third, or perhaps even a quarter of century ago.

 THE YOUNG BLOOD IN THE PROFESSION.

 No! The power of the newspaper is not declining. Never before was it so great. Never before did it offer such career. Butit is power accompanied by the usual condition-greatest when most self-re- specting and least self-seeking. There is more good young blood tending to this than to any of the other professions. There is more movement in it than in bar, or pulpit, or whatever other so- called learned profession you will-more growth, larger opportunity, greater future. We are getting the best. These young men will leave us far behind. They will achieve a usefulness and com mand power to which we cannot as- pire. Very crude and narrow will seem our worthiest work to the able editors of quarter or half century hence very splendid will be the structure they erect. We shall not rear the columns or carve the capitals for that stately temple. Let us at least aspire, with honest purpose and on wise plan, to lay aright it's foundations.
Year: 1879

The society people of Murray Hill, the

 arlstocratlc quarter of New York city.

 have lately been agitated over a scandal

 in which the inevitable ooachman again

 figures, and which has thrown a shadow

 over one of the most prominent and

 highly respectable families of that fash

 ionable locality. In this instance, as in

 the case of ex-Governor Hubbard's

 daughter, who married her fathers coach

 man, the young lady is both beautiful

 and highly accomplished, and her lover,

 the coachman, is young and good look ing, but very illiterate. It is said to be a case of love at first sight. Be that as 1t may, the couple carried on their court ship so ardently and boldly that evsntu- ally one of the gentleman's neighbors dropped him note through the mail asking him if he knew of the conduct of his daughter. The father was astounded upon learning of the affair and at once called his daughter to an account. She acknowledged that she knew the coach. man and had spoken to him on several occasions, but this was all. Her ex- planation deceived him so thoroughly that he ceased to watch her movements for time. Subsequently,, however, he found among his daughters effects dur ing her temporary absence from her home, several letters from the love-smit- ten Jehu, which still further opened his eyes and confirmed all that had been written concerning the couple by his friend. The result was a stormy in ter view, during which the young lady's mother was so affected that she is said to have tainted. Soon after this, and de- spite the vigilance of the parents of the young lady, she clandestinely met her lover, and arrangements were perfected for their marriage, which were frustrated by tie appearance on the scene of the father when the couple were on their way to the residence of 8 minister whom they had engaged to perform the ceremony. The coachman was discharged by his mistress and the young lady was taken to her fathers country residence, where she is now reported to be closely watched to prevent her from joining her lover.

 Prior to this unfortunate affair the young lady had been receiving the com- pany of a young, wealthy and talented who had asked her hand Tn and had met with favorable response. Tie shock produced by this affair has nearly crazed him, and he has since, by the advice of his friends, started on voyage around the world.
Year: 1879

An elderly Christian woman earned a livelihood for her infirm husband and numerous family by acting as broker for the sale of jewels in the harems of the wealthier class of Mussulmans. One day she was told to take all the jewels she had for sale to @ house where she had occasionally been employed in her calling. Her husband accompanied her to the door of the harem, and said he would wait there for her, as he had been in the habit of doing. After he had stood at the door for several hours, he knocked, and three negresses appeared and he asked them to tell his wife to come to him. They denied that his wife had come to the house that day, and treated him as 8 madman. Re went home, hoping that she had, unseen by the black slaves, left the harem by some other door, and gone to their own house but nothing had been heard of her there. For several days he went about the town inquiring for her without success. At last he happened to meet in the street the youngest of the three negresses whom he had seen at the Turkish house, a girl of fifteen ; she stopped him, say ing she was sorry for him, that she would tell him the whole truth; and then she related how her mistress had taken his wife into room where there was trap-door opening above a deep vault, and there asked her to show the jewels she had brought. They were carefully examined, and placed on a di- van. Her mistress. then, with the help of the two other female slaves, pushed the poor woman into the vault, and closed the trap. over her. All this the girl said she had seen; and she added that they had heard his wife's cries until late at night, and supposed that she must have died from the effects of her fall. In the morning, she con- l tinued, the body was taken out by a small staircase leading down to the vault from the courtyard, and buried in the garden, by the same black slaves. Armed with this statement, the husband laid an accusation against both the Turk lsh lady and her two negreeses. The J tribunal ordered domiciliary visit to the house, but nothing was found that could inculpate any one. He then ap. piled for the summoning of the young negress to give evidence, but she was not summoned, and no trial took place, the husband of the lady being high in office, rich, and influential, which were three good reasons for screening his wife from justice. The jewels obtained by this abominable crime were worth GSOO, and their different owners, who had merely intrusted them to the murdered woman for sale, never heard more of them, though it is believed tha the President and members of the tribunal had been requested, not without compliance, to select few of them for tue use of their harems. --Fraser's Mngazine.
Year: 1879

but the covers soon swell and tighten so as to be quite water proof.

 Hay caps are commonly made of duck or other heavy cotton cloth, cut square, with twine tied at each corner and fastened. to a peg, or with four little loops, through which the pegs are run. After the cock is made, man follows with the caps and fastens the pegs in the ground at the four corners, pulling the cloth out as far as necessary to tighten the cover so that it will stand over the hay like spread umbrella. With this protection, experience has proven that hay will sweat and cure even in bad weather, provided of course there arc intervals of drying wind or sun to carry off the moisture during portion of the dav
Year: 1879

One of the queer things in business is the propensity of people to seek irregular mediums for advertising. It is un- accountable the prices that some men pay for seeing their advertisements in irregular places. Especially is this so when compared with their unwillingness to pay anything for advertising in regular channels. Men will pay large sums for inserting their business cards in 8 section of a frame in hotel, bar room, street car. railway station, or in a hotel-register, or an almanac, or guide book, or annual of one sort or another. The by ways they seek, or that success fully solicit them, are innumerable. In this they ignore the most essential con- dition in advertising, namely, that it has the character and effect from the medium through which it is given to the reader. Advertisements thrust into irregular and unbusiness places impress the general mind that the concern is of similar character. On the other hand, an adver- tisement in general newspaper of first class standing carries the impression that the advertiser has standing Tn his own community, which he is not afraid to show his neighbors, and that he does not shrink from competition with the best of them. If only one is going to place to buy, whether he be trader or buying for his own use, and has to seek dealers through advertisements, where will he look for them? To registers, almanacs, theater-bill frames, in railway stations, occasional advertising sheet or circular? On the contrary he looks to the most reputable newspaper of the place, and he thinks that advertising in these gives an assurance of the good standing of the advertiser and his busi- ness enterprise and of the suficiency of his stock.
Year: 1879

He entered the grocery, said not a word, but allowed his cane to swing to and fro exactly like the pendulum of 8 clock. The grocer only said, "No, we sell nothing on tick; and the man with the cane passed sadly and silently out.
Year: 1879

BIDDERS AND HAY CAPS.-1n the

 Northern States where the weather at

 having time is liable to be uncertain the

 tedder has come to be very generally

 used for the purpose of shaking up and respreading the hay. Should g rain overtake the hay before it is put into cocks it is useful and convenient means by which to lift the hay from the ground and lay it down again lightly, thus allowing free circulation of air under it. If the rain follows immediately after cutting no great harm results as the water cannot be absorbed by the grass, which is full of juice. In this condition it can lie on the spread and be safe. Had it been dried or partly dried when the rain fell upon it the case would have been different. With fair weather and the tedder, few hours will suffice to draw off the outside wa CT a Id relieve the hay of much of it's inside moisture.

 Cloth caps which are being more and more adopted by Northern farmers are for use in emergencies everywhere. These will effectua1ly protect the cocks from injury and if cared for will last for years. In warm climates where the grass quickly dries and the entire crop can with care generally be saved, the hay cap is not au actual necessity, yet it is an economical provision then. It not unfrequently occurs that the cocks are left standing for several days in the field. Provided with covers, although B severe storm comes, the hay IS safe. A little dampness may penetrate at first.
Year: 1879

The word purse originally meant
receptacle for arms, and was not in
vented to mean simply place OF safety
for money.


Gloves were introduced into England
in the tenth century, but were only
used by the wealthy people, and we're
considered very valuable. As New
Years gifts they were quite popular, or
sometimes glove-money 'in place OF
them. ''Pin- money" originated in
somewhat the same manner. Pins were
so costly that money spent or laid aside
for them was called pin-money, and
it became so important that it grew into
the name of dover. which was settled
upon the lady at her marriage.


Altar Of roses was discovered by acci-
dent. The wife Of an Eastern
mogul had small canal OF rose water,
and as she was walking one day upon
its banks, she noticed thin film upon
the water, which proved to be an oil
made by the heat Of the sun. The
Egyptians were very famous in the
manufacture of perfumes, and at the
museum in AlDwick there is some oint-
ment preserved in an slabaster vase
which still has q very powerful odor,
notwithstanding it must be between
1000 and 5000 years old.


The word hermit comes from Greek
word meaning desert place, because
deserts were generally sought in order
to avoid persecution.


Sandwiches were named from Lord
Sandwich. It is related of him, that
one day in gambling-house, being
very much fascinated by play, for twen-
ty five hours he was unconscious Of
fatigue and hunger, when suddenly,
becoming aware of them, he ordered
some food to be brought, which proved
to be some beef and two slices OF bread.
Placing them together he ate them.
His friends gave them the name Of
sandwiches, and in his memento he de-
clared this act to be the most import
ant one of his administration.


Fortnight comes from the Anglo
Saxons, who counted time by night, and
means fourteen nights.
Year: 1879

DR.. Richardson believed ttat by icing
blood that went through the carotids te
the brain, and blood that came back
through the jugulars, we should direct
" lower the temperature OF the brain
itself; and probably it may have been
done experimensally, but in practice it
was not found easy to dc. It was difi-
cult to keep any kind OF cravat or
collar that was tried, filed with ice,
round the neck Of the patient; it slipped
off. and the old India rubber bag or ice
helmet. SO well known In lnnatic asy-
lums, had to be resorted to. After
time Mr.. Thornton combined q particu-
lar form of cap which answers the pur-
pose extremely well. A pail OF water
with large lump of ice in it is placed
above the bed of the patient, and the
stream OF ice water runs through the
cap, which is formed Of a coil Of India
rubber tubing lined with linen. That
is placed upon the patients head, and
is made of different sizes and shapes to
fit the patient; the other extremity OF
the tube is put intoa second pail at the
side OF the bed, and by this means the
head is iced. The effect in lowering
temperature is very marked, the Their
mometer in almost all instances indicat-
ing q fall of temperature within an
hour, il the temperature be rising ii ia
checked, and III very high u cum be


owered, and 40 time Is gained lor the
recovery Of the patient. -~Scieni{ fe
An16ricQa.
Year: 1879

Many have scanty locks-for them.
far from forbiddipg borrowed ones, L
enioin them. Many have hair 30 heavy


that it really needs elaborate fasten-
ings. Some have bald patches, caused
by the dragging Of too much false hair
or by iniudicious tying; to these re-
commend some dainty head-gear for dis
guise sake--and how few know the i'm
provement that some form of ornament
is TO the hair. A little cap of antique
lace or gracefully managed ribbon Of
good color, or thick gold chain twisted
among the plaits, viii give height and
importance to the figure, by drawing
the eye, through color, to the top of the
head. The generality OF women have
hair neither dark enough nor Light
enough to be conspicuous per Sc. To
all of these some headdress is a great


Improvement. One of the prettiest


modes OF doing up the hair is that
affected greatly by the artistic world.
The hair is cut in fringe over the
forehead. or the fringe is simulated by
the ends Of the hair brought over the
head to the front and bound to the head
Year: 1879

We smile at the ignorance of the saw
age who cuts down the tree in order to
reach the fruits; but the fact is that a
blunder of this description is made by
every person who is over-eager and i'm.
patient in the pursuit of pleasure.
Year: 1879

The common council Of Racine, Wis,
have adopted what may be considered d
peculiarly discriminative liquor law. ~
prohibits all hquor-dealers in the city
from giving or selling liquor TO lawyer
of the place who used to be leader at
the State bar, but is now drunkard'
Year: 1879

middle aged lady. richly dressed. and bearing
othor evidences Of wealth. entered o Broadway
horse at Fourteenth street yesterday
afternoon. and before the car had gone
three blocks. became insane and raved in
tho most violent manner. Her appearance and re-
fnod language created considerable excitement, and
o large crowd collected about the car in few min
utes. Officer Robbins. OF the Twenty ninth pre-
cinct police called and took tho lady in.
charge. cab was hired and they drove TO the West
Thirtcth streot police station. When questioned
the lady rsvod and said among other things that she
was q spcculator and had built all tho elevated
railways In the city of New York. She further
said that she owned q vast amount of real estate.
both In this country and In Europe. From u card
found in her pocket her name is supposed to be
Mime. DO Georgian. Tho unfortunate woman
locked in cell in tho station house and will DO
arrnigned in Court this morning.
Year: 1879

[NorE.-Lctters intended for this column must be
accompanied by the writer full and address TO
insure attention. Compainants who unwilling to
comply with this rule simply waste time in writing
Year: 1879

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


wish to inform the public as to the brutality Of
the police at Manhattan. Beach. On Saturday last.
while at that place. got cigar at the bar in the
hotel, and friend of mine thnt with paid
it, at loast thought he did, but when went to 90
away ordered to pay for the cigar again. which
I refused to do. was arrested by detective and
turned to police officer. who, after dragging
me headong down flight of stairs, struck me three
times In the face. Upon explaining my to the
captain was told that II would pay for the cigar
and give one to tho officer that arrested ME they
would let mo go. r. j. W.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


Mr. vanderbilt's offer to build road from Forty
second street City Hall and run 1t at Eve cents
fare will be of no benefit to this people. We are
paying him twonty cents from Fordham to Forty
second street and six cents his horse to City
Hall-in all twenty-sx cents for n distance
of ten miles. Practically his offer amounts
to o reduction OF cent from Forty second street
and nothing more. Had not director OF tho Van
derbilt roads been appointed the commission
from this district Mayor Cooper would not have had
cause to be surprised 1t their report II our City
Fathers grant the franchise let them rst establsh
the fare for all distances within tho city limits
which should not exceed and onc-half cents Per
mile for any distance, moro than ono cent per
mile from Harlem. NJ. F.