smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

beinga mere gelatinOus luxury "a


reason very patent to the Mongolian


mind, but which it is not necessary


for me to particularise 1t is proba-


BILE that any one prompted by special


curiosity might get his mind enlight-


ened upon the interesting subject by
applying to our worthy fellow citizen,


Mr.. James All Kew, for as much as
Cinnamon so different in most re-
spects to the rest of humanity sell
dom do anything without a substan-
tial reason, and generally have cor
rect understanding of the same. For
many centuries past Chinese mari
ners have frequented the coasts of
the Indian archipelago of New Guinea
and New Holland, and it was from
this course that the northern shores
of that groat island were as well
known to them before the days of
Marco Polo as they are to ourselves at
the present time. When Captain
Flinders was engaged in the first ex-
ploration of that locality he encoun-
tered, in one of the harbors, feet of
vessels, which he at first supposed to
be pirates, but which on closer ac-
quaintance, he found to be Chinese
Tripang fishers, with whom he be-
came very friendly, and from their in
telligent commodore he received some
valuable information, and was shown
by him chart showing the features
of the principal points of the coast,
and their relative positions to those
of New Guinea and Tinsor. There
can be no doubt that it was from this
source that the Dutch navigators of
former days derived the information
which directed them to the discovery
of New Holland, and set the Span
iards speculating upon the precise To-
cality of that land which they were
the first to name Australia.


AS concerns maratime enterprise
in the coral seas no traffic has ever
done more towards assisting the
progress of discovery than the tri-
pang trade of China, not excepting
the sperm whale fishery, for as much
as the whalemen generally do but
find islands, the beche-de-mer fishers
land and live upon them until their
cargoes are completed, and thus have
been able to supply information not
by other means Obtainable.


1t is commonly supposed that the
market price of this singular sub
stance in its prepared state is subject
to great fluctuations. This is not
really the case. The difference in
price has in the most cases arisen
from the condition in which the arti-
Gle was delivered in China. AS the
superiority, or otherwise, of certain
samples is not question of seasons
or circumstances over which the
fishers have no control, but simply of
sufficient experience, and due pre-
caution, or vice versy. l purpose
next to describe circumstantially the
different processes of preparation and
stowage as practiced by those who
have been most successful in the
trade.
Year: 1874

The lovers of piscatOrial sports


may find the following of some i'm
portance:


1t is not lawful for any person or
person to shoot fish, or put in or
keep up, draw or use any fish net,
seine or pound for the purpose of
catching fish in any of the rivers,
creeks or streams in this State. at
any place or point above the level at
high or backwater of Lake Erie or
the Ohio River, or in the waters of
any lake, pond or reservoir, having
surface not exceeding $4,000 nor less
than ten acres, lying within the
State, whether the same be a natural
or artificial lake, pond or reservoir.
The only net that can be used legally
is the dip net or any net not exceed
ing ten feet IN length, used for the
purpose of catching minnOws. The
penalty for a violation of the law
may be a fine of from ten to fifty
dollars or thirty days imprisonment.
Year: 1874

THE most expensively dressed man
1 ever saw, writes a Captain in a
navy, was an African chief on the
Gold coast. His wives had anointed
him thoroughly with palm oil, and
then powdered him from head 10 foot
with gold dust. You never saw in
your life man got up so utterly re.
gardless Of expense,
Year: 1874

Extravaganza is the rock on which
society is going to pieces, Let us face
the danger before it is too late to avert
it. Single people shrink from marriage
because they see married people are liv-
ing in a perpetual whirl of bills and
competition and social hypocrisy. An
air of co ommon deception hangs around
all our houses. We are afraid to be
poor. On one thousand year, how
shall we keep up the appearance of
three thousand That is the standing
social problem. In such a case, luxury
in the parlor necessitates meanness
somewhere else. Our lace curtains tell
dreadful lies. Let us have . reform
and come down to a specie basis. The
well.to-do people ornament their houses
with mortgages. The poor run bills.
High pressure marks all life from the
cottage to the mansion, and in three dl-
rections it is ruinous.


1t is financial ruin.


Any man who puts dollar into ap-
pearances is on the way to sink for>
tune in the same miry slough. Living
costs about twice what it ought, fully
twice in America what it does in Eu-
rope. There is no reason for 1t. This
is land of grain and fruits, and abund-
ant work. The man who spends two
thousand year could live on one thou
sand and be happier. Perhaps not in
deed by himself. The social level needs
to sink from extravsgance to thrifty
economy. If this is the way out Of
natioual trouble, it is doubly the way
out of family worries. Bebrave enough
to decline appearances. Be honest
straight through your domestic arrange
ments, though he two.story must yield
to the cottage, and thepudding to corn
meal.


1t is mental ruin.


The money that is spent on horses
and dress and table unnecessarles would
fill all our homes with books. The ex-
pensive furniture wonld be well replace
ed by pictures, TO be a constant refining
and enlightening influence. The mon
ey it costs many family of moderate
means to keep up four weeks OF appear
anoes at the sea shore would fill their
house with treasures of knowledge and
art Instead Of that the glorious month
ut Long Branch IL followed By eleven
Year: 1874

months of scrimpng in the kitchen and
general meanness all around.


1t is moral ruin.


People cannot Systematically deceive
without moral penalty even though the
lies are velvet and silken. The penalty
comes in the loss of self-respect. The
man who mortgages his property to
keep up the family style thereby mort
cages his name to the devil. Instead
of studying moral philosophy to find
the causes of general social disorder
loosening of home bonds and lowering
of purity-let us come down to an hon.
est way of living. Let us make our
carpets and table aud our clothes tell
the truth, and then perhaps our children
will. A blight will surely fall on all
our social life unless we recover our
selves from that great american vice
truckling-and live honestly before
men. The seeds of hypocrisy are in
the heart of every child that goes out
from a household whose life is a sham
In vain we preach honesty and. .sincerl-
ty from the pulpit, so long as the life
from the pulpit wood to the home
management is all pretense. Society,
you must come down and dare to ap-
pear what you are.-Interior.
Year: 1874

The HAPPY MAN. noticed me-
chanic, among q number of others, at
work in house erected but little way
from my Office, who always appeared to
be IN . merry humor, who had always
q kind word and q cheerful smile for
every one he met. Let the day be
ever 90 cold, gloomy, or sunless, a hap
py smile danced sunbeam upon his
countenance. Meeting him one morn.
ing, I asked him to tell me the secret Of
his constant happy Aow of spirits. mo
secret, Doctor, he replied. Il have
got one Of the best Of wives, and when
I 60 to work she has always a word of
encouragement for me; when go home
she always meets me with tender kiss;
and she Is sure to be ready with my
meals; and she has done 30 MANY things
through the day to please me, 80 that
cannot find it in my heart to speak
unkindE to anybody" What influ-
ence, then hath women over the heart
Of man, to soften it and to make it the
fountain Of cheerful and pure emotion !:
Speak gently, then; happy smile and
a kind word Of greeting after the tolls
OF the day are over, cost nothing, and
go Ear towards making home happy
and peaceful-Dr. Frasklin.
Year: 1874

LUpIcRoUs SCENE IN PULPIr.-A
South German paper relates the follow
ing: I'm Bavarian town of the most
pronounced Catholic orthodox. the priest
preached lately against the Old Catho-
olics and related such horrible things
about them that his pious hearers were
literally horror-stricken at Old Catholic
impieties. At last the preacher cried
out, The Old Catholics are SO vile that
they will all be cast into the pit, and if
what l say is not true, may the devil
take me on the spot! 4! His excitement
was terrible, and he so struck the cush-
ion that tho book fell from it. Not far
from the pulpit there sat an American,
who had a negro servant with him, to
whom he beckoned to take the book up
to the priest, who, perhaps, had never
seen one of those sons of Ham in his
life. The negro at once obeyed, and as
he mounted the lowest of the pulpit
steps the clergyman repeated his wish,
that the devil might come if what he
had said against the Old Catholics was
not true.


Although the negro went softly, the
preacher heard his footsteps, and turn
ing around, saw black object solemn.
", steadily, and surely approaching him.
He looked at him in terror, and believ.
ing that he would be the next instant
colared by his Satanic Majesty, he
cried out, with trembling voice, 1t is,
after all, possible that there may be
good people among the Old Catholics.
Turning then around to see if the OBJ
ject had disappeared, he saw it still
steadily approaching. The perspiration
burst out upon his brow; and full OF
despair he called out, There are even
many good people among the Old Cath.
oics y. Thinking that this would suf.
fee, he turned around, but what was his
horror to find that the object was close
at hand. Imagining himself in the
very grasp of Beelzebub. turning partly
to the negro and partly to the eongre.
cation, he cried out, May the devil
come and take me if all the Old Catho-
lies are not better than We arev The
terrified priest tainted from the fright
and it was only after some time that be
recovered"
Year: 1874

MysrEHlEs.-It i . singular fact,
says . PArisian writer, that man gem
orally requires different qualities IN .
wife from those be admires in sweet
heart. While . lover, he expected to
zee his future wife neatly and stylishly
dressed whenever he chose TO call, either
morning or evening, and the girl busted
her little brain I'll day in efforts TO
please his taste. II he left town for q
few days, he sent letters full Of sweet
nothings that filed her soul with Joy.
Then came delightful Eamhles in the
mOonk9ht, an1 henzs spent in. eharuns
1gJu ~ tlSg 1Am1 1s6 80
tired, when the two saw no one but each
other in their world Of love.


Also that such bliss must ever be
dispelled. Time brought preparations
for the approaching wedding; for the
devoted couple imagined that their hap
piness could never be complete until the
hymeneal knot was tied.


So the wedding and honey moon were
soon over, and the parties settled into
the matter Of fact part Of life. The
bride knows nothing of housekeeping.
Since her schooldays she has spent her
time in studying the tastes Of her low
er, which certainly seemed to incline
towards dress and sentimentaity.


Now, alas! she discovers that his
stomach demands food of the best
quality, and because she knows not
how to cater to his palate his love
seems to be waning. While he is vain
ly trying to appease hunger with sour
bread and burned steak, little does he
appreciate the sweet nonsense and
honeyed words which used to be 50
satisfying to his sentimental nature
All, men are 50 unreasonable They
expect to find every quality of excel
lence in the woman they marry, vet
have not penetration sufficient to choose
the most worthy. To shine in society,
to exhibit every feminine accomplish
ment, both at home and abroad, are du-
ties which they require in the women
they marry; and what have they to give
in return? 1t seems impossible that
terize the lover shonld be SO withdrawn
by the husband.


The other day when I heard a neigh
Dor demanding his dinner in not the
most pleasant tone, l thought, ''Can it
be possible that he ever played the ar
dent lover to that pale, detected woman,
whom he called his wife,


The lover who could scarcely tear
himself away from his sweetheart at
midnight is the same man now who
leaves his wife to spend her evenings as
best she may. while he passes the hours
in doubtful enjoyment.


All! how soon men forget the solemn
vow to love and cherish till death -
And how many women regret that the
charming delusions of courtship were
ever exchanged for the unpleasant real
tiles of marriage.
Year: 1874

How mulch better it would have been
to have shaken hands and allow it was
all a mistake! ~ said Detroit Judge.
Then the lion and the lamb would
have lain down together, and white
robed peace would have famed you with
her smiles of appreciation. But no; you
went to clawing and biting and rolling
in the mud, and here you are. It's Eve
dollars apiece"
Year: 1874

Here is a comical advertisement -
ITO the credit drapery trade. Wanted.
a young man to be partly out OF doors
and partly behind the counter" What
will be the result when the door slams
Year: 1874

MAX ADELER's HuMoR.-Our coun-
ty fair is Just over, but Johnson's .
Cotswold ram did not take the prize
that was offered for the best animal Of


that kind. Judge Pitman was chair


man of the committee on rams, and he


manifested the deepest interest in John
sons ram, indicating clearly that if any
sheep ought to take a prize that one


ought to. Johnson's ram was by itself
in q pen with high board fence, and


before adjudicating the prizes the
Judge thought he had better 10 ii and
make close examination of the animal
for the purpose of ascertaining the fine-
ness of its wool, etc. As soon a the
Judge reached the interior he walked
towards the ram, wherupon the ram be-
gan to lower its head to the ground
and to shake it ominously. Just as
the Judge was about to feel ths fleece,
the ram leaped forward and planted its
head in the Judges stomach, rolling
him over on the ground. Before the
Judge had time to realize what had
happened, the ram came at him again
and began a series of promiscuous butts,
each given with the precision and force
of pile-driver. 1t butted the Judge
on the back, on the ribs, on his arms,
on his shoulder-blades, on the bald
place on his head, ON his breast, on his
shins, it butted his ncse, it butted his
watch into q mass of loose cog-wheels,
it hutted his spectacles of, it butted his
high hat into black silk chaos, it butted
him over into fence corner and up
against the fence, then it butted four
boards out of the fence, butted down
another of the committee, butted three
small boys into fits, butted the money
taker at the gate, and then fed out into
the country. butting harmlessly at the
fresh air. The Judge did not distri-
butte the prizes that day. When collec-
ted from various parts of the pen, they
wiped the mud from his trousers and
the blood from his nose, and sent him
home with a perennial stomachache and
a determination to start after that wan
dering mutton the first thing in the
morning with a shotgun.
Year: 1874

On Thursday evening of last week, at
Lake Station, the train stopped before
reaching the depot, while brakeman,
or one of the trainmen, went ahead with
q lantern to see if theswitch was all right.
Finding it to be SO he gave the signal,
and the train started forward but he,
by misstep, fell between the ties of the
trestlework on the main track on which
the train WAS coming and there stuck.
A little boy about Il years OF age, son
Of Mr. James Martin, who was near by,
seeing the struggle OF the man to free
himself, and aware of the Immediate
danger, ran to the spot, seized the Ian
tern and swung the signal to stop the
engine. The train stopped in time and
the man was saved, Such presence OF
mind in this young boy deserves special
mention.-Ohio paper.
Year: 1874

The best news which the country has
heard from Washington, since the ad-
journment Of congress, is that the pre-
sident 'thas made up his mind to take a
decided stand 'in favor Of the resump-
ton Of specie payment. It is under
stood that in his message to congress he
will advocate the taking of Immediate
steps to that earnestly wished for end,
by such legislation as shall be needful,
and especially by fixing some definite
time, not exceeding two years hence, as
the date at which the national treasury
shall resume coin payments. Of course,
to fix time for resumption would be
useless and futile, except congress make
the necessary legislative provisions for
rendering resumption at the time fixed
not only possible but obligatory, as q
supplementary contract between the
government and its creditors, the hold
ers of its too-long- -dishonored treasury
notes. CHICAGO Times.
Year: 1874

In a hospital in Montpelier. France,
is patient who has just swallowed a
thermometer left on his table, while suf-
ering from temporary delirium. They
have great deal of trouble with him
now. When he drinks hot coffee that
thermometer rises up against the roof OF
his mouth hard enough to lift his hat
off, and when he eats ice cream 1t gets
down in his boots and worries his corns.
Year: 1874

Before making any definite statement
in regard to the result of the late cleo
ton, SO far as it related to the question
OF the election of a United States Senat-
or, we have preferred to wait until we
could obtain correct data from most OF
the Senatorial and Assembly Districts.
While we have not definite reports from
al our correspondents, we have received
reliable information from enough of
them 10 enable use to see very positive
~ and clearly what the result must be.
The voice of the people on this question
is positive and unnistakabie, and 1t Will
not be disobeyed by their representa-
tiyes. Of the II Republican Senators,
II ere unalterably opposed to Senator
manning members, there is not one that
has publicly avowed that he viii sup
port him, and there is no reason to sup
pose that he will receive the support of
more than two Senators, and they were
only. elected after declaring that they
were not pledged to Mr.. Carpenter. OF
the remaining four Senators, we have
not definite inforhAation, but such as we
ment Of the people whom they represent,





" opposed to him, with strong prob
ability of the fourth The Assembly,
while not so pronounced in all cases as
the Senate, is absolutely certain to be
| largely anti-Carpenter. There are 80
Republican members of the Legislature,
and if Mr.. Horn, Of Ozaukee, who was
elected as an Independent, goes into the
caucus there will be 81, and it will re-
quire Al to nominate We assume that
Mr. Carpenter, Mr.. Washburn, and all
other Republican candidates will have
to submit their claims to a caucus of the
party, from the decision of which there
is to be no appeal.


From the reports we have been gather
ing, we present the following analysis of
the different Congressional Districts on
the Senatorial question, which will be
found TO be generally accurate.
Year: 1874

NEW YORK, November 5.-It Is
rumored that a new and direct cable


company expect TO commence business


This month, and have made contract with


the Atfsutio and Pacidc telegraph company
Yur the Transmission OF their messages at this
end OF the line,
Year: 1874

rS- The Observer eulogizcs "Good
Old Dutch Law rs follows:


In lG47 Peter Stnyvesant governor OF
New Amsterdam, now New York, issued
a proclamation against Sabbath deseera-
ton, intemperance, and all quarreling.
No Intoxicating liquors were to be sold
to the savages, under penalty Of I've
hundred gnilders And the seller was
also to be held responsible for any inju.
ry which the savage might in6ict while
under the influence Of strong drink. AT.
ter the ringing Of the nine o'clock bell in
the evening. Intoxicating drinks wercnot
10 be sold w amy person whatever.


0 for one year OF old Peterl It was
thought to be quite modern Solomon
who invented the idea Of making the sell
er OF rum responsible for the mischief OF
him who drank IL; but the 6ery cid
Dutchman, the hero OF hundred fights
whose leg was oaoagh for him,
for he never ran made that the law OF
this city more than 200 years ago! And
il it had been the law ever since, and
had been applied to civilized aud savage
alike, what u city this would have been
to-day We have had three dynssties In
this town--the Dutch, English, and
American--and one little graveyard In
Tenth street is said to hold the dust OF
IL Governor Of each OF the three. But
we venture to say that no one OF them
all ever enforced a statute moro conduc-
i've TO the public welfare than this which


4 4 l. n
trus Stuyvesant


Even the very least Of all the measures
Of this proclamation would be vast i'm.
provement upon anything VIC have now
in the way Of temperance legislation.
Peter shut up all tho dram shops at nine
O'Clock in the evening! Good for Peter.
There was more stuff that good govern
ors are made Of in Peters wooden leg
than in the loins Of many Of our legisla.
tors nowadays
Year: 1874

A great writer has said, that History is
Philosophy teaching by Example. Hence
the great Importance attached to it by the
wisest and best minds in all ages. 1t is one
of the serious evils of the present day that
the youth of both sexes so generally prefer
the exciting pages of Fiction, which give
only false and exaggerated views of life, in
the majority of cases, to the sound and in
structive lessons of real human experience.


A more accurate and comprehensive
knowledge of general history can be OBJ
tanned by a few weeks study of this Chart
than by many months reading All the
leading teachers of schools and colleges
who have examined it, recommend it in the
highest terms. 1t gives at glance the
leading facts in the history of every nation,
from the earliest period down to the year
1872, and the plan of the Chart is SO simple
that it can be understood by all. =


There is no branch of learning more in
structive or pleasing than history, and we
hope this useful aid to its study Will find a
place in every family. Mr.. Lawson is now
canvassing this and Marshall townships.
and will give those who wish the Chart an
opportunity to subscribe.
Year: 1874

If the license regulation can be
made so effectual, we would like to
know why it is that Philadelphia with
a license system, has more unlicensed
saloons than she has licensed ones?
The truth of the whole matter is, the
penalty for q violation of the license
regulation is not more likely to be
enforced than any other. A public
sentiment that will enforce strict Ii
cense regulations will enforce other
penalties equally well.-[Marietta
Register.
Year: 1874

The brethren and members of the
Hillsboro District Conference, and
the Sardinia Quarterly Conference,
are kindly invited to our Camp Meet
ing. Let us meet and pray and
preach and sing together-work more
for the Master and do less in the
way of "Resolutions." The Lord
will pour His blessed spirit upon the
meeting, and crown it with His
glorious presence. Let Hillsboro
and the country generally come out
in force to the Meeting. Bring your
families and have tents, and let us
all work nobly for the Master.


r A ARTHTR
Year: 1874

The monthly report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture for June is
published. The aggregate increase
of wheat acreage is 7 per cent The
condition of wheat is better than the
average of years.
Year: 1874

A Brooklyn matrimonial agency
advertises for q stock of dumb wo>
men. We suppose the dumb article
Is In demand with dealers who do not
relish the idea of their wives on the
stump and rostrum. The highest pre-
rogative Of the women should be the
absolute control of the butter and egg
business, but whenever she thrusts
her digits into the pockets of q pair
Of breeches, she should be raped
over the knuckles. OF all the detest-
able characters on earth, defend US
frcm . che" woman.