smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

When Chinese woman makes up her
mind to adopt the dress of American women,
she adopts il inits entirety, so far as a mere
man may Judge by observation Not so the
Chinaman. First, be gets rid OF the style of
shoe which, doubtless, Confucius wore and
yet which renders il almost impossible TO
keep the centre of gravity within the line of
support without constant effort. Next he
dons the trousers: at last he changes his
blause for coat, and, last of all, he cuts his
cue. The fsct that woman is the actor IN one
case, and that man is the actor in the
other, may partially explain the difference.
But it would appear that while to impartial
observation our women's dress seems in its
parts all equally good-or bad-our mems
dress is of unequal merit. The trowsers can
scarcely be improved upon, but the compar-
ison between the coat end the blouse Is not
entirely in favor of the coat 1t is impossI-
BILE 10 make ii of such style that it is equal
iy slightly and comfortable when buttOned
and unbuttoned, and, as it can not always
be worn in either way, it is about
half the time worn in a way for
which it is not intended. And besides,
it necessitafes a third garment-the
vest. On the other hand, the blouse or tunic,
while not open to these objections. does not,
to our eyes, look we'll 1t seems baggy. But
this might be obvieted by custom, by the
better making which would come with prac.
tice, and by the use of waist belt. Indeed.
a blouse with belt is very much like one
style OF coat now made; and, looks aside, the
blouse is surely superior to the coat IN the
freedom which it gives the body and
in protection against cold and wind,
while in summer it would not drive the
wearer wild by binding his shoulders. There
is much to be said for the blouse, and when
the "Mongolian hordes" sweep over this
country, from MAINE to California, and
from the Atlantic to the Pacific" it is likely
to displace the coat and vest. 1t might do
so before then il Mr.. roole's successors, OF
good Mr.. Worth, who is said TO wish to in
troduce to his customers the bifurcsted
garments in which Persian ladies are so
beautiful. would lend themselves TO the
movement.
Year: 1878

A correspondent writing from Monterey to
the Record-Union says that at low tide the
timber of sunken ship may be seen-the
wreck of the brig Natalia-the identical ship
on which Napoleon the Great made his es-
cape from the island of Elba to the shores of
France, Just before the final collapse of his
empire on the field of Waterloo. The Natalia
has a local history of some interest. She
brought to the shores of California, in 1884,
the colony of Hijas from their home govern
ment of Mexico, which was to be settled on
the frontier Of SOn0ma county, as il was then
called The colony came as far as Sonoma
did not like the prospect, and returned to
Monterey. They came with the expectation
OF taking possession OF the property OF the
missions which had been lately secularized-
good, snug adobe quarters, with fat cattle on
the surrounding plain-and not TO found
town in the wilderness, though that wilder
ness rich in its virgin beauty, blossomed
like garden of roses. San Antonio de Fa-
rias was abandoned and General Vallejo laid
out the town of Sonomo. The mission had
previously been founded, but the act of secu-
larization OF 1888 had killed it,and the town
rose from its ruins. The company, like the
brig Natalia which brought them here,
wrecked, and the ribs of It's records, like
those of the old brig, can only be seen or
discerned in the ebb of the tide OF the pres
ent time back to the beginning of the history
Of Sopoma county.
Year: 1878

Fair Eve knelt close by the guarded gate, in


the glow of the Eastern spring,
She saw the flash of the angels sword and the


sheen of the angels wing;
She thought, as she held her sobbing breath,
she could hear the happy signs
OF the tiny rivulets that fed the moses of Par
adise;


She knew how the birds were futtering,
among the clustered flowers
And gorgeous blooms and arching trees that
shadowed Eden's bowers,
And she cried aloud in an agony of wild, re-
s'Give me one bud, but one, but one, from the


thousands that blossom there!"
And he looked with a wistful tenderness ON


the beautiful woman's face;
And because 1t was so beautiful and because
she could not see
How fair were the pure white cyclamen,


crushed dying at her knees;
And because he knew this punishment
through the weary years must bur1.
That through all things sweet and good on
earth her heart would for Eden yearn,
He gathered rich red rose, that grew where
the four great rivers met,
And flung it TO the frail, fatal hands, that
clasped imploring yet.
And though for many cycle past that rose In
With her who bore it on her breast, when she


passed from life and pain,
There is never a daughter Of Eve but once, ere
the tale of her days Is done,
She viii know the scent of the Eden rose, just


once, beneath the sun!
And wherever else she may win or lose, en-
dure, or do, or dare,
She Will never forget the enchantment it gave


to the common air;
For the world may give her content or JOY,
fame, sorrow or sacrifice,
But the hour that brought the scent of the


rose, she lived il in Paradise.


All the Year Round.
Year: 1878

Every business man IN New 0rk can, Wnlle
seated a h desk speak with and every other business


man by being connected telephone with the Central once
System Of the Bell Telephone Company OF NsH1os Busi
psss Ondos. DIS Broadway.
Year: 1878

Mrs. Young, wife of John Young, janitor of
the building No. III Nassaust., killed on Saturday
by an ascending hydraulic elevator. She entered
the elevator with tho wife OF the waChman.
Henry Cook pulled the rope and began the ascent,
although had been repeatedly warned not 10 attempt
TO manage the elevator herself few minutes after


ward Mrs Cooks attracted the attention OF her
husband who ran upstairs. The body OF MeY Young was
found hanging from the top OF the door the fifth floor
The BODY crushed between the platform OF the ee-
VatOr and the Intel of the door When released, Mrs.
Young was breathing but she died in short time. The
elevator had been stopped al the wrong hOor and before
the mistake was discovered MIS- Cook had stepped out
Mrs Young was caught and crushed by the ascending
elevator the rope having been moved by her in the
wrong direction.
Year: 1878

The attempt on the life Of the Emperor
of Germany has thrown that empire in
state of great excitement. The spirit OF
Socialism is alarming and Bismarck, in his
hearty hatred of it, is no doubt ready to
turn the present commotion to account,
and thereby secure a more docile legisla-
ture. The firm hold which the Liberals
have on Germany may, however, prove too
strong for him. They have already fore
stalled this appeal to the people by disa-
vowing fellowship with political fanatics,
and offering to pass extraordinary mea-
sures to save and heal the State" They
will have likewise in their favor the proba-
bility that Nobiling will prove to be
lunatic, who would have de6ed all the laws
that human ingenuity can devise. The
over zeal of the authorities may also pro-
woke irritation, and deter the people from
giving them the support they would other
wise deserve. The Reichstag, as now con
stituted, consists of 397 members, who are
chosen by universal suffrage and ballot fol
the term of three years. AS the number
of electors is over S,500,000 the social dis
turbance, which an election, under the
present circumstances, would cause, threat
ems to be veay great.
Year: 1878

A CORRESPONDENT in another column can
not understand why Senator Salisbury
should consider it Unconstitutional to
vote small appropriation to improve the
navigation of our own Creek, when he
obtained an appropriation of $4,000 to
build Post Office in Dover where $4,000
would have answered all the requirements.
Perhaps the Honorable Senator can answer
the conundrum.
Year: 1878

The San Francisco Chronicle says the prospect ot
this time is that the present year will be- by millions
of centals. the most productive Of wheat and other
cereals ever yet experienced by the farmers Of Cali
Year: 1878

The St. Paul Pioneer Press and
to a very slight degree, the St. Paul
Dispatch have just walked up to
the fact that the management of the
insane asylum at St. Peter is a dis
grace to the State: The Globe. is
worthy Of much credit for persistently
keeping the St. Peter rottenness before
the public and calling for reform when
the other papers in st: Paul and Min
neapolis were disposed to dlscredit the
charges that had been published. The
Globe is not afraid Of rings and mo-
nOpolies.
Year: 1878

The food passes from the stomach at the
right side, hence its passage is facilitated by
going to sleep on the right side. Water and
other fluids flow equally on level, and it re-
quires less power to propel them on level
than upward. The heart propels the blood
to every part of the body at each successive
beat, and it is easy to see that If the body is
in horizontal position the blood will be sent
to the various parts of the system with
greater case, with less expenditure Of power,
and more perfectly than could possibly be
done if one portion OF the body were elevated
above horizontal line.


On the other hand. if one portion of the
body is too low, the blood does not return as
readily as it is carried thither hence, there
is an accumulation and distension, and pain
soon follows.


If person goes to sleep with the head but
a very little lower than the body, he will
either soon wake up, or will die with apo
plexy before the morning. simply because
the. blood could not get back from the brain
as fast as it was carried to it. If person
laws himself down on a level floor to sleep, a
portion of the head at least is lower than the
heart and discomfort is soon induced hence,
very properly the world over the head is
elevated during sleep.


The savage uses log of wood or bunch
of leaves; the civilized pillow; and if this
pillow is too. thick, raising the head too high,
there is not blood enough carried to the brain,
and as the brain is nourished, renewed, and
invigorated by the nutriment it receives from
the blood during sleep, it is not fed sufficient
ly, and the result is unquiet sleep during the
night, and waking up in WEAKNESS, without
refreshment, to be followed by day of
drowsiness, discomfort, and general inactiv-
ity of both mind and body.


The healthful mean is a pillow which. by
the pressure of the head, keeps it about four
inches above the level of the bed or mattrass; !;
nor should the pillow be so soft as to allow
the head to be buried in it and excite perspira-
ton, endangering ear-ache or cold in the
head on turning over. The pillow should be
hard enough to prevent the head sinking
more than about three inches.
Year: 1878

Some time ago there was dancing party
given in q certain neighborhood in Texas and
most of the ladies present had little babes,
whose noisy perversity required too much at
tention to permit their mothers to enjoy the
dance. A number of gallant young men
volunteered to mind the young ones while
the parents indulged III an old Virginia break
down. No sooner had the women left the
badies in ehAlge of the mischievous devils
than they stripped the babies. chang,
esd tAesf clothes giving the apparel
of ore to another. The dance over
it was time to go home, and the
Hethers hurriedly took each a baby in the
dress of her own and started, some to their
homes, ten or fifteen miles off, and were far
on their way before daylight But the day
following there was q tremendous row in the
settlement. Mothers discovered that single
night had changed the sex of their babies,
observation disclosed physical phenomena,
and then commenced the tallest female pedes-
trianism. Living miles apart, it required two
or three days to unmix the babies and as
many months to restore the mothers to their
natural sweet disposition. To this day it is
unsafe. for any of the baby mixers to venture
into the neighbofhOod.
Year: 1878

A person afflicted with this disease can easi-
ly supply himself with the remedies used at
nearly all the inebriate asylums and be his
own physician at his own home, without the
necessary expense and publicity of visiting the
Washingtonian home or any other retorma-
tory institution. His laboratory need contain
only small quantity of cayenne peper, pot
of concentrated extract of beef, and few
grains of bromide of potassium. When the
desire for alcoholic drinks recurs, make tea
from the cayenne pepper. as strong as can be
taken with any degree of comfort, sweeten it
with milk and sugar, and drink. This tea
will supply the same place that glass OF llq-
uor would fill, and will leave no Injurious et-
feet behind Repeat daily as often IS the ap-
petite returns, !: will be but a few days before
the sufferer will have become disgusted with
the taste of the pepper, and with the appear
ance of this disgust disappears the love OF hq-
uor. The fact is proven every day. The ex-
tract of beef is to be made into beef tea, accor-
ding to the directions on the pot, in quanti-
ties as may be needed for the time being, and
furnishes cheap, easily digested and healthy
nutriment, it being Ito lay on the stomach
when heavier articles of food would be reject
ed. The bromide of potassium is to be used
carefully and only in case of extreme nerv-
business, the dose being from fiftee n to twenty
grains, dissolved in water. This is public
exhibit of the method of treatment adopted
at the inebriate asylums. In addition thereto
the drinking man should surround himself
with influences which tend to make him for
Get the degrading associations of the barroom
and lift him upward. He should endeavor,
so far as his business vocations will permit,
to sleep, bathe, and eat regularly, and obey
course, energetically and sincerely, no man
who has the will to reform can fail to do 80.
Hundreds and thousands can attest the truth
of these statements.
Year: 1878

Buy tools for your boys, and if you have
no boys, buy tools for your girls. 1t will not
harm any girl to learn to drive nail or saw
a board and do it we'll, and if she knows how,
she will, without any doubt, many times find
it convenient, no matter what may be her
fortune in life. For every one, it will be
great advantage to cultivate mechanical skill
no one has too much of it. Nothing will be
handler or be acceptable on more occasions
than to know how to use few common
tools. To begin with, the outfit need not
cost over ten dollars, but we will say twenty
five dollars. For this he may buy square,
a jack-plane, a smoothing-plane, hand-ax, a
hammer, draw-shave, some dividers, Bit
stock and half dozen bits, half dozen
chisels, bench-screw, small bench he can
make few files, milestone, hand-saw,
a rip-saw, screw-driver. Then with the
rest of the twenty-five dollars he can buy
little wire, an assortment of screws, few of
kind, and assortmentof nails, and small
quantity of pieces of boards of various dimen-
sions. The tools should be of good quality.
In little time some of these will be lost or
broken, but what of it So is money lost
and thrown away. 1t is profitable training
for every one to learn how to use money
properly. To learn, they need to begin early
under good instructions. Twenty-Five dollars
in money may be spent in thousand ways
for things which will do less good than the
tools. Although this may seem to some
large amount to pay for tools, twenty-five
dollars would be considered small item as
an inheritance for young man. Then buy
the children some tools and they will learn to
make many plythings for themselves, and be
less likely to get into bad company. They
will be happier, wiser, better; they will have
stronger attachment for home, and a
greater love for parents, and these are a
priceless fortune to any young man or woman,
a fortune which cannot be lost by any failure
of banks or depreciation in real estate.
Year: 1878

Pull up the blind, Kitty; pull up the blind!
You say, ''The sun will spoil the carpet"


Meyer mind, never mind.
Far better so than that your cheeks or mine
Should lose their worth or color, Kitty.


Let it shine, let it shine.
And you shall find new JOY it will impart.
Full up the blind, Kitty. pull it up!


The sun helps the heart.
Year: 1878

We copy these words from the speech


of Secretary Evarts at the New England


dinner. But justice is hardly done to the


neatness and epigrammatic force of his
sentence without quoting the whole of
it. off we wish to build ships, let lis
build them; if we wish to buv sbips LET
us buy them" Such language contem-
plates perfectly free trade IN ships. Sena-
tor Blaine, who spoke at the same dinner
was quick to catch its import, and apollo
gizing for controversy in a social repast.
ne made an argumentative reply to the
Secretary of State, advocating the per
manence OF our present navigation laws.


1t is easy to appreciate the advanced
point OF view of Mr.. Evarts. He desires
the extension of our foreign commerce
by the opening of new markets, and his
particular aim is the conquest for our
productions of the markets of South
America. Those markets naturally he
long to us by geographical proximity and
by the adaptation of our goods to the
Year: 1878

wants of South American Consumers
But our command of their markets de-
pends on the establishment of direct
communication between our ports and
theirs. Commercial correspondence with
South America is too circuitous and slow
when ii requires four transits across the
Atlantic namely, a passage to England
and thence to South America before a
letter can be delivered, and then pas
sage OF the answer to England and
thence to the United States before IL can
be received.


A merchant needs to have his hand
constantly on the pulse of the markets in
which he deals, otherwise he cannot, take
advantage of the ever varying ebbs and
tides of demand. When ii requires four
passages of the Atlantic to get an answer
to commercial letter opportunities for
shipping goods at profit are lost be-
fore our merchants can take advantage Of
them. And even ifthey could keep them
selves promptly informed of the state Of
the South American markets they would
be unable to ship their goods in season
without means Of direct and constant
transportation. it's, therefore, Of the first
importance to our conquest of the grow
ing commerce of South America that reg
ular lines OF steamships be established
between the United States and the
southern portion Of the continent.


This is the point Of view from which
Mr.. Evarts reasons on the question of
free ships. He regards it as of subordin-
ate consequence whether we build or buy
the ships for the establishment of South
American lines. The thing itself is Of
such overshadowing importance that the
question Of means Is Insignificant in COM
parison.
Year: 1878

HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE GAZETTE,
the Democrats and a few sensible Re
publicans, our public schools would now
have been spotted with negroes from one
end of the city TO the other and most
probably have been abandoned and de-
graded, instead of being the greatest
boast OF all our public institutions. There
are few white mothers in the city that
did no, dread the association of her chill
dren in the public schools with negroes,
and none knew this better than the edi-
tor of the Republican, if he told the
truth few years ago when he was then
himself an advocate for equality, as he
is still. In the Howard School, In this
city, there are now male negroes being
educated in the first rudiments, from eight
years of age to twenty-five, or there was
few years ago; and this, too, at the eX-
pense of the white taxables, as the real
estate of negroes in this city was moi
td1ed for any purpose.
Year: 1878

JOHN SHERMAN swore terribly yester-
day in his rage, when correspondent
called on him for an explanation of his
favoritism toward the New York First
National Bank. John had better keep
his temper. The people have an unset
tied account with him, which they will
attend to in time.
Year: 1878

SENATORIAL elections will be held in
FraHce the first weed of the new year.
The contest is bitter one, but 1t is gen
orally thought that the republicans will
be able to return small majority.
Year: 1878

That man may be q good Bishop and a
good Editor at one and the same time is ex-
emplifed by the Right Rev. DR.. Rosecrans,
Bishop of Columbus, Ohio. As q Bishop he
ranks with the foremost ecclesisstos of the
Church in this countr7. As an Editor, be
publishes bright, interesting paper it's edito-
rial page bein z usually filed with pointed
editorials, not one of which is over twenty
Eve lines in length. As eamplos of these, we
copy the following, which, with o dozen
others, appeared in the last issue of the ColaBs.
1idR:


Call it "a mutual admiration society" if you
please, but we would rather hear people
speaking kindly, than harshly, of one another.
grow insipid to the taste, but never ending
vinegar will destroy the life.


Every Catholic ought to be an Apostle ao-
oOrding to his sphere and ability. He will be
sorry for it who negleots to show his kindness
and good feeling for his neighbor in spirit
ual way. Many think to show their love for
perversities. But such friendship is o snare.


"Hew can one help speaking unkindly of
Others, when there is scarcely any other sub
ject of conversation in society p is question
often asked by people that have conscieuces.
The best way to help it is never to harbor any
feeling of unkndness towards them. If they
have done wrong, let them answer it to their
Master. Wait to be appointed judge before
beginning to pronounce judgments. Then
you will fiud excuses for their faults as easily
as you find them for your own,


1t is q mistake to suppose that by learning
the evil others do one is helped to do we'll
himself The reverse is true. 1t is better to
be satisfied with knowing, in general way,
than to learn it in sickening and horribls de-
tail. What benefit is there in satisfying Curl
osity by studying in to the details of how this
fone fell and that one went astray. The devil
has no better allies earth than the ingeni-
ously obscene. Bad books have destroyed
more souls than even bad examples. Perverse
principles harm more persons than even single
wicked actions. The founders of heresles and
propagators of corrupt maxims make the final
judgment necessary.