smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

AS the bathing season is now near at
hand, the hints contained in the following
will be found very timely:


DR.. Samuel Sexton, Surgeon-in- Chief to
the New York Ear Dispepsary, in a recent
communication to the Medical Record, es-
Inmates that thousand people of that city
are sent to their ply sicians to be treated
for ear diseases every year whose trouble
has arisen from getting water in their ears
while bathing, or from catching cold at
such times by exposure or neglect. 1t
appears from the doctors researches that
salt water is peculiarly irritating to the
delicate structures of the inner ear. Very
cold water of the freshest kind may, how
ever, be equally harmful. Surf bathers are
especially exposed to injuries, since q
head and drive the water into the ear; the
same result may ensue if the bather gets a
sudden mouthful from an unexpected wave,
the water then being forced through from
the mouth to the inner ear. Man, the doc
tor thinks, is not naturally amphibious.
Animals fitted for aquatic life are provided
with various arrangements for keeping tre
water out seals, for instance, have q NOV
able membrane in the ear which closes and
shuts out huid the muscles of the water
shrew are competent to shut the ear pas
sages. People who are blessed with very
small openings to their ears run the least
risk in bathing. A man should never dive,
say the doctor, If he wishes to preserve his
hearing. The recommendation of this
authority is that all bathers place plugs of
cotton in their ears.
Year: 1878

A Justice of the Peace in New York has
given a warning to the citizens who, having
recovered stolen property, fail to appear
was robbed of quantity of lead pipe, and
the police succeeded in capturing the thief
and recovering the stolen property. There
upon the man who was robbed declined to
prosecute, but the Justice decided that, as
there was no proof of the ownership of the
property outside of the fact that it was in
the possession of the thief, the latter must
be discharged and must be allowed to take
away the lead pipe. 1t had been in his
possession and he was legally entitled to
it until proof of other ownership should be
submitted. If this rule should be more
strictly followed out by Aldermen aud
Magistrates there would be fewer cases of
stealing settled outside of the courts, and
fewer TO settle anywhere.
Year: 1878

This stock has been selected with great
care, and purchased at bottom prices, and
to it will be added from time to time all the
new patterns and novelties as fast as they
are produced in the New York market.
The favorable conditions under which these
new and attractive goods have been pur-
chased, enable us to offer the same at
prices lower than ever before.


The Manufacturing Department as here
tofore will be in charge of Mr.. Henry Good
win, which is sufficient guarantee that all
Diamond work and the manufacture of any
article of Jewelry will be executed in q
manner that canpot be excelled in any city.


The Watch Making aud Repairing De-
partment will be in charge of the most
skillful aud reliable workmen.


A Designer and Eograver has been en-
ployed, and all goods purchased can be en-
graved on short notice.
Year: 1878

years OF labor in order to attain their
present prosperity at prices which the
laborer to-day sneers at. War on the
present money-holders means simply war
on the laborer Of the past in an attempt
to boost the laborer Of the present.


Let this thing 20 on unchecked for a
few months longer and we will repeat
the history Of England Her cotton fac
tories. because Of the continued trouble
with the laborer, are being rapidly car.
ried into India. The wealth Of the ma
tion is leaving the country while the cot.
ton fabrics formerly manufactured at
home are now paid for from abroad San
Francisco is to-day losing its wealth for
the same cause. Let this wild fanaticism
continue q few months longer on this
northwest coast, and Oregon and Wash.
ington territory will drink Of the same
cup. Can she afford it7 Are men going
to lay out millions in railroads to reach
land where mobs will repeat the history
Of Pittsburgh and burn up their depots
and rolling stock Will men build homes
in land where the passport to ruin is to
accumulate property


We sympathize with the laborer. Our
own hands are yet stiff with using the
spade and the ak. We know what il
means to shovel gravel by the day. We
know what il means TO cut cordwood at
ten dollars per month, and burn brush
at thirty cents a day but tho honest
laborer cannot afford to cast in his lot
with a drunken rabble. and we appeal to
all good citizens to stand aloof from every
organization cheered by the mob and led
by men who never did square honest
days work in their lives. The money
pressure will cease when confidence is
restored, and confidence will be restored
when strikes cease, and politicians have
that national integrity is watch
ed and valued in the markets Of the
world.
Year: 1878

When long continued. pains in the head, dizziness
sickness at the stomach general uneasness in the
abdominal REGION congestion of the liver and hence an i'm
peded circulation the blood. collie and especially the
Year: 1878

Dr.. Steucus:


Dear Sir-I feel it my duty to say one word IN
regard to The great benefit have received from
the use of one of the greatest wonders OF the
world; it is your Vegetlne. have been one OF
tho greatest sufferers for the last eight years tnat
God and your Vegetine for the relief have got.
The RhsNmatisns has panied me to such an extent
that my feet broke out in sores. For the last
three years l have not beon able to walk; now
can walk and sleep, and do my work as well as
ever did and must say l owe 1T all TO your
blood purifier, Vegetne: rrr


VEGETINE--The great success OF the
Vegetino IS q cleanser and purifier OF the blood
is shown beyond doubt by the great numbers
who have taken it, and received Immediate re-
lief with such remarkable cures.
Year: 1878

nation occasionally stick our
ears forward and fan flies off
our forehead. So does the mule.
We let parties get on and ride
Us as long as they behave them
selves. So does the mule. But
when any nation sticks spurs
into our TANKS and tickles our
heels with a straw, we come
down stiff-legged in front, our
ears look to the beautiful be-
yond, our voice cut loose, and
is still for war, and our subse-
quent end plays the snare drum
on anything that gets in reach
of us, and strikes terror to the
hearts af all tyrants. So does


the mule. When the country
gets older, and Congress has
time to get in its work the eagle
will be superseded as the nation
al trade mark, and in it's place


will rise the mule in all his glory.
Year: 1878




Hon. George w. Peck, in his
Fourth of July grafton at La
Crosse, Wis, said:
ut may have been noticed
that thus far l have made no
allusion to the American eagle,
the national trade mark, patent
applied for, but it is not that l
do not appreciate the position
that species of poultry occupies
on these occasions. The poet
alluding to the eagle says:


"Brd of the broad and feeting wing


Thy home is high in Heaven"


"This is too true. He is a
high old bird, and the commit
tee that selected the eagle as a
national emblem should have
been arrested for disorderly
conduct Q great bird! You
live on mice. You soar aloft
on pinieas airy aatii you see a
poor little mouse with one leg
broke, and tiiea you swoop
down like a ward constable,
and run him ia. You are a
nice old bird for a nation Of he
roes, you old coward! You sit
on rock and watch a Peasant
woman hanging out her clothes
and when she goes into the
house to turn the clothes. wiring
lyon, great bird, emblem of
freedom. representative of the
land Of the free and the home
Of the brave, you swoop down
on the plantation and crush
! your talons in the quivering
flesh Of her little baby, take
him to your home high in Hea-
!, ven, aud pick his innocent lit
tie eyes out. You bald headed
oldreprobate, you would turn
tail and run from an attack of
tautam rooster. 0 eagle,
you look we'll on a dress parade,
out you are a unanimous cow
ard and you eat snakes. You
afes fraud, and you were coun.
ted in by a vote of 8 to7.


The bird that should have
Oeen selected as the emblem Of
OUT country, the bird of patience
lofbearance, perseverance; and
Tue bird Of terror when aroused,
Is the mule. There is no bird
1 mat combines more virtues to
II Tue square foot than the mule


when he is emblazoned on on,
! 0anners, we should be a terror
''a % the foe. We are a nation
y oncomplaining hardworkers


'e mean to do the fair thing by


'efybody. We plod along
aolng as We would be done by


" Goes the mule. We as q
Year: 1878

Never seek to be entrusted
with your friends secret; for no
matter how faithfully you may
keep it, you may be liable in a
thousand contingencies to the
suspicion of having betrayed it.
Year: 1878

~ A thousand wheels of labor
are turned by dear affections and
kept in motion by selfsacrihcing
endurance; and the crowds that
pour forth in the morning and return
at night are daily professions Of love
and duty.
Year: 1878

~ Stand by your friends, let
come what may, Is a good motto.
If you don't stand By them you
needn't expect them to stand BY
you. So whether they be friends of
high or low degree, in afiluence or
poverty, stick to them and don't
stop to inquire whether it will pay
or whether it will be popular.
Whenever you prove traitor and
desert those who have stood up for
you and helped your battles, yoa
will find yourself without any ono
to congratulate you upon your
achievements, or comfort you in an
evil hour when misfortunes come
thick and fast.
Year: 1878

"Morsl courage was printed in
large letters as the caption of the
following items, and placed in u
conspicuous place or the door of a
systematic merchant IN New York,
for constant ysference, and furnished
by him for pablication:


Have the courage to discharge a
debt while you have the money in
your pocket.


Have the courage to tell a man
why you will not lend him your
money.


Have the courage to tell a man
why you refuse to credit him.


Have the courage TO prefer con-
fort and property to fashions in all
things.


Have the courage to own that you
are poor and thus disarm poverty
of its stings.
Have the courage to do without
that which you do not need, how
ever much Your eyes may covet it.


Have the courage to insure the
property in your possession, and
thereby pay your debts in full.
Have the courage to provide an
entertainment for your friends not
to exceed your means.


Have the courage to acknowledge
your ignorance, rather than seek for
knowledge nnder false pretences.


Have the courage to speak to
friend in q seedy coat, even though
you are in company with a rich one
and richly attired.


Have the courage to speak your
mind when it is necessary that you
should do 90, and hold your tongue
when it il prudent that you should
do 80.


Have the courage to show your
respect for honesty, in whatever
gnise it appears, and contempt for
dishonesty and duplicity, by who
soever exhibited.
Have the courage to cut the most
disagreeable acquaintance you have
when you are convinced that he
lacks principle-afr friend should bear
with q friendss infirmities but not
with his vices
Year: 1878

The best recipe, if you want to DO
miserable, is to think about your.
self, how much you have lost, how
much you have made, and the poor
prospect for the future. A brave
man with q soul in him gets out Of
such fretfnl ruts and laughs at dis.
couragements, rolls up his sleeves,
whistles and sings and makes the
best Of life. This earth never was
intended for q paradise, and . man
who rises his discoqragements and
keeps his manhood will be better
for his adversely. Many a noble
ship has been saved BY throwing
overheard its most valuable cargo,
and many Q man is better and moro
humane after he has lost his gold.
Year: 1878

Open air labor is the most effective
cosmetic, an almost infallible panacea
against all kinds of bodily deformity.
But the remedial virtue of labor, i. e.,
sound bodily exercise, is greater than
the rustic population of Scandinavia,
Scotland, and North Germany, who per-
form large portion of their hard work
indoors, we frequently find models of
health and vigor far more frequently
than among the inhabitants of Italy,
Spain, ETC., who pass the greater part
of their indolent lives in open air.


But, besides all this, athletic exercises
have moral value, which our social
reformers have failed to recognize they
afford diversion and vent to those
animal energies which otherwise are
sure to explode in debauch and all
kinds of vicious excesses. The sympa-
thetic thrill by which the mind accom-
panies daring gymnastic feat and the
enthusiasm of athletic contests, form
the most salutary and perhaps the only
normal qualification of that love of ex-
citement which is either the legitimate
manifestation of healthy instinct, or
else wholly irremediable disease of
our nature. The soul needs emotions
as the body needs exercise, and the ex-
citing sports of the pal8stra meet both
wants at once. We try to suppress
these instincts, but their motives re-
main, and if thwarted in their normal
manifestations they assert themselves
in some abnormal way, chemically in
stead of mechanically, as DR.. Boerhaave
would say; by convulsing the organs
of digestion, since the organs of motion
are kept in unbearable Inactivity. In
times of scarcity the paupers of China
and Siam silence the clamors of their
hungry children by dosing them with
opium and for analogous reasons mill
ions of our fellow-c citizens seek relief in
alcohol they want to benumb feeling
which they cannot satisfy in healthier
way.


After finishing his days work the
Grecian mechanic went to the gymnasi-
Year: 1878

Money might be made by the COM
mittee having the Moody tabernacle at
Boston in charge, if they were willing
to let it for dramatic entertainments,
pedestrian matches and other irrelig-
iOus shows, but they prefer not to put
it to uses so different from the purpose
for which it was first intended, and it
is now being demolished.
Year: 1878

A good story is told of Rochester,
IN. Y.,) deacon, who thought he recog-
nized young lady friend leading a
little boy up the street, and stepping
to her side he asked: "Why, Mary,
where did you get that child ?" The
scarlet face instantly turned to his was
that of an entire stranger, and her quick
reply fully satisfied him. 81 came by
it honestly" was all she said, and the
good old man had something to think
about all the way home to dinner.
Year: 1878

"Oftentimes have seen," says Oliver
Wendell Holmes, "a tall ship glide by
against the tide as if drawn by some
invisible tow line, with a hundred
strong arms pulling it. Her sails un-
filed, her streamers were dropping, she
had neither side wheel nor stern wheel
still she moved on very stately, in Sc
rene triumph, as if with hel own life.
But | knew that on the other side of
the ship, hidden beneath the great hulk
that swan so majestically, there was
little tOiling steam-tug with a heart
of fire and arms of iron, that was tug
ging it bravely on; and knew that if
the little steamtug untwined her arms
and left the ship, it would wallow and
roll about, and drift hither and thither,
and go off with the refuent tide no man
knows whittier. And so have known
more than one genius high-decked, full
freighted, wide-sailed, gay pennoned,
that but for the bare, toiling arms and
brave warm beating heart of the faith
ful little wife that nestled close in his
shadow and cluDg to him so that no
wind or wave could part them, would
soon have gone down with the stream
and been heard of no more"
Year: 1878

=. The Bulletin says it has been aware, for
ing That's just what's the matter. Knowing
that it would not get the printing, it put in a
bid for less than it could legitimately afford to
do it, in order to get some capital to howl on.
Well howl
Year: 1878

70 Things are working. The subcommittee
on Finance in the House, in view of the almost
certain prospect of the passage of the Silver bill,
have prepared a bill providing for the retire
ment of National Bank notes, and the substitu-
ton of Treasury notes, or Greenbacks, in their
Year: 1878

B- Said an old subscriber, a few days ago,
when renewing his subscription to the Chief: 81
am an old-time Democrat, but want to read the
CHIEF. l consider the Bulletin Fraud Call a
County Convention, and read him ont of the
narfyi
Year: 1878

r. Beecher delivered an address at tho recent
Burns anniversary, in which he said th 1T Barns
is now chanting melodies in the realms of bliss,
and looking down upon the millions whom he
tried to succor and to help. And yet Lut
short time ago, Beecher said there would be no
burnh in the hereafter.
Year: 1878

~ There is now a vacancy in the Office of
Pope. Why not choose an American as his sue
cessor Z We nominate the editor of the Troy
Bulletin. He is thorough believer in his own
infalhbiity. Call Democratic County Conven-
tiou, and recommend him for the place.
Year: 1878

- Neither Blaine nor Conkling show a dis
position to worry over the silver bill, but both
are pursuing course that will not necessitate
backing out hereafter. Blaine made speech on
the bill, in which he expressed the opinion that
the bonds were payable in either gold or silver,
and the only point that he objected to was that
the silver dollar was too light by few grains.
Conkling says nothing, but presents the numer-
ons petitions from New York in favor of silver,
that are sent him.
Year: 1878

II Modesty is a trait that highly adorns the
editor of the Balletin. Last week, in conse-
quence of having large amount of job work,
and of the sickness of one of hands, the Chief
did not get out until Thursday night, whereas
its usual time is Thursday morning. But the
Bulletin modestly claims that it was delayed in
order not to give that able paper time to answer
certain articles which We published! If it will
add anything to the quiet of the Balletin mans
slumbers, We will assure him that the publica-
tion of the Chief is never advanced or retarded
one jot or little of time, with reference to any
effect it may have upon him. 1t is matter
that is regulated altogether by our own pleasure,
convenience, or necessities.
Year: 1878

n The BalletiH says that the Democrats will
be able to retire one of the Republican County
Commissioners, next Fall. Yes, in horn. If
the present member is not elected, one of the
same politics will be. Notwithstanding all the
sore-headism and trcachery, the Republicans
carried the District handsomely last Fall. Now
that you have thrown off your disguise, and de-
serted to the enemy, the Republicans who fol-
low you in opposition to the Republican ticket,
will tally up q miserably meagre crew.
Year: 1878

~ The Bulletin says that it has frequently
been told that its charges for advertising were
only about half the prices charged by the Chief.
Yes, and an inch of matter in the Chief makes
as much as two inches in the Balietia, and an
advertisement IN the Chief reaches three times
as many persons as one in the Bulletin. Besides,
you had better take down your advertising rates
from the head of your paper, if they are not in
tended to mean anything. If man will stand
big charge, you sock it to him 4; but if he OBJ
jects you take what he is willing tn give.
Year: 1878

IMPORTANT TO PERSONS VISITING New
YoRK.-One of the best kept and most
convenient Hotels for Merchants and others
70 stop at when in New York is the Grand
Union Hotel, nearly opposite the Grand
Central Depot, kept on the European plan
you therefore only pay for what you get.
Everything is first class, and prices mod
crate, adapted to the stringency Of the
times You save the expense Of carriage
hire, and By leaving your baggage check
on the counter Of the Hotel, your baggage
viii be delivered 10 your rooms, fifteen
minutes after the arrival Of the cars, free
of expense. We advise you to give the
Grand Union trial. IL
Year: 1878

Prof. Samuels, Rock Island House, will
remain in this city this week only. and all
those having weak eyes that wish to have
them strengthened with his improved
crystal glasses will do we'll to call on him
early this week. Office hours to l and
o a.
Year: 1878

Frank Miller's Harness Oil and Backing
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured. The grade OF
these goods is always standard aud their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere. The
firm is one of the oldest in the country and
has the largest trade in its line IN the
oonn,rv -ras dwtf
Year: 1878

rnas rented for $500 three years ago that
only brings now $500 Fort Greene houses
AS rule rents that figured at ST. 500 and 81, 500
years back now rate $500 and 5000 snow you see,
said he, f the depreciation Is to continue between
now ana the completion OF the bridge. and to be ac-
CELEBRATED by rapid transit in New York, why, the
prospect four years from now Tor those looking up
houses to rent win be splendid, as they may be able
to got them for next nothing - and sad sardonc
smile passed over the lace OF the agent


The leaven the real estate market as II relates to
uptown property IN New York Is beginning slowly TO
work with every prospect OF continuing SO 10 do
TIL rapid transit is an assured fact.
Year: 1878

A meeting was advertised for 8 o'clock
this afternoon at the City Terminus Ho.
tel, on Cannon street, to protest against
the supplementary vote Of six million


pounds. Long before the advertised
hour the hotel and all the adjacent streets
and open space were filled with crowds,
which cheered the government, sang pa.
triotic songs and held impromptu meet
ings in support OF the governments poll.
cy. The proprietor Of the hotel called
10 the police, but small squad was sent
in response, and their request had no
affect on the crowd. Several public rooms
in the hotel were Quilted. No attempt
was made to hold an anti-credit meeting.
HOUSE OF COMMONS THE SCENE OF INTER.
Year: 1878

Dodge County.-Weather mild and
pleasant; no sleighing. Roads hard and
smooth; splendid wheeling. But little
more wheat will be shipped until spring.


Winona County.-Farmera still hold
ing their wheat for 81. do not think
much Of move Of wheat will take place
until June, unless the roads should get
in a better condition.
Year: 1878

Nemaha County.-We have q magnif-
cent crop Of corn. The gold and silver
question has retarded the movement Of
grain. ave think we can stand 1t with
our produce as long as the East can do
without IL
Year: 1878

American ladies in the best
society, spend from five to ten
times as much as English ladies
Of corresponding social grade
On the other hand an English
gentleman spends twice as much
as an American on bis own ap-
parel.