smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

Never write with pen and ink. II is alto
gether too plain, and do>en't hold the mind OF
the editor and printers enough to their work


If vou are compelled to use ink, never use
that vulgarlty known as the blOttng pad. If
you drop a blot of ink on the paper, lick it of.
The intelligent cempositor loves nothing so
dearly rs TO read through the smear this will
make across twenty or thirty words. We
have seen him hang over such Il piece Of
copy half an hour, swearing like pirate all
the time, he felt that good.


Don't punctuate. We prefer 10 punctuate
all manuscript sent to us. And don't use
capitals. Then we can punctuaie and capi-
talize to snit ourseIf, and your article, when
you see it in print, will astonsh, even if it
does not please you.


Don't try to write too plainly. II is sign
Of plebian origin and publc-school breeding.
Poor writing is an indication of genius. Its
about the only indication Of genius that
great many men possess. Scraw yonr article
with your eyes shut and make every word As
ilegible as you can. We get the same price
for it from the rag-man as though it were
covered with copperplate sentences.


Avoid all pans,akng with proper names.
We know the full name of every man, wo-
man. and child in the United States, and the
merest hint at the name is sufficient. For
instance, if you write a character something
like a drunken figure "S," and then draw Il
wavy line, and the letter VI and another
waving line, we will know at once that you
mean samuel Morrison" even though you
may think you mean "Lemuel Messenger"
|, is a great mistake that proper names should
be written plainly.


Always write on both sides Of the paper,
and when you have filled both sides OF every
page, trail line up and down every margin,
and back TO the top of the first page, closing
your article by writing the signature just above
the date. How we do love TO get hold of
articles written in this style. And how we
would like to get hold of the man who sends
them. Jus, for ten minutes. Alone. In the
woods, with cannon in our hip pocket.
Revenge is sweet. Yum, yum. yum!


Coarse brown wrapping g-paper is the best
for writing your articles on. If you can tear
down an old circus poster and write on the
pasty side Of il with pen-stick, it will do
still better.


When your article is completed, crunch
your paper in your pocket, and carry it two or
three days before sending it in. This rubs oil
the superfluous pencil marks, and makes it
lighter.


If you can think of it, lose one page ont of
the middle Of your article. We can easily
supply what is missing, and we love TO do ii.
We have nothing else to do!-BurlingtOn
Hdtck- EVe
Year: 1877

The number of new buildings now being
erected in this city certainly indicates mole
prosperous condition of affairs. These i'm
provements are confined to no particular
locality, but everywhere in the city can be
seen these evidences Of returning prosperity
Slate Register.


And yet we are told by the Republican that
none of thu Signs of improvement that were
to follow the overthrow of Radical corruI ton
have shown themselves since Packard aban-
doned his pretentons. We are inclined to
believe the Register, although we are not
among those who supposed happiness and
plenty would follow right on the heels of the
change. 1t requires time to rise from want to
afiluence, to bring order out of chaos and
rebuild the waste places that required years
to make.
Year: 1877

A novel scene occurred as the western
train was leaving the Montreal depot last
evening. Ii, appears that marriage took
place four years ago between a young man
from western city and a handsome young
lady residing here. The couple resided
peaceably here for some time with the young
lady's mother. until the mother of the young
man arrived in town and persuaded him TO
20 home again. The wife and morher-in-law
hearing of his contemplated departure hasten
ed to the Bohaventure depot just a few minutes
before tho departure of the train. A scene
then occurred The young man was held
firmly by his mother, ami Notwithstanding all
the efforts of his wife he was unable To move.
The conductor put an end to the scandal by
entering the car and ordering those without
tickets to leave the train. The young wife
was carried from the car fainring, and the
train proceeded with her uniaithiul husband
and his triumphant mo,her.--Hamiiton
Spectator.


And he ought to have been thrown over.
board and had his neck broken after the train
got under good hcadway--that is If il was
worth breaking.
Year: 1877

discreet silence was observed by the
Democrats who attended the Manhattan Club
Tilden and Hendricks reception IN regard 10
the Presidential candidacy IN 1850. How
could they give expression TO preference ON
that occasion with Mr. Tllden and Hendricks
both honOred guests and both candidates!
But. though nothing was done directly, Mr..
TIden, who Is almost as able Il diplomatist as
Taleyrand, succeeded in planting himself
and Mr.. Hendricks on a platform upon which
no other candidate will be half as safe as Mr..
Tilden. If the Democratic party is going
into the contest of 1850 solely and sinsly TO
cancel and condemn the fraud Of 1876, il can
have no candidate so suitable or so strong as
the prime sufferer by that fraud. Mr.. Tilden
has made great advance in laying down his
platform. with the assistance of Mr.. Hendricks,
and with the backing of New York. 1t is Il
strong platform, for it appeals TO the desire
for fair play which is As natural as conscience
in the breasts of all men. Ii also strikes at
the weakest point in the harness of the Hayes
Administration. The failure of the Republi-
can party and its candidate to refuse the
executive office when the title to il was known
to be fraudulent must remain a permanent
disability to both 1t cannot be atoned for by
subsequent good conduct 1t cannot be over
looked by the nation without establishing a
dangerous precedent. But 1850 is three years
hence; and three years of our swiit-running
history must develop new issues and bring
forward new men.-Phiiadelphia Record.


The principles upon which Tilden and
Hendricks were elected were all right, but
their condemnation of the fraud that placed
Hayes in the presidential chair was altogether
too weak and came too late to commend them
to the Democratic party as its leaders in the
next campaign. The people want a candidate
for President in the next campaign who has
backbone enongh to stand squarely up for
his rights and refuse to be kept out of his office
by fraud.
Year: 1877

THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN being the only
morning newspaper in Washington is the best
advertising medium In the city. II Is read by
everybody, and advertisers will and 1t TO
their interest to advertise in THE REPUBLI.
CAN
Year: 1877

WILL the District Commissioners kindly bestow
their attention upon the highly imperfect and
dangerous condition of cur sewers7 A report
from the Board of Health upon the subject would
ba Desirable
Year: 1877

From the Carson (Nev.) Appeal.


We observe with sense Of admiration,
which resembles envy as the mist resem-
bles the rain, the manner and capacity OF
the Washoe Indians enjoyment of the
balmy June weather The buck abort
CINE takes more solid comfort than the
female of his tribe Here and again the
latter is found with huge burden of
green tules, freshly cut on her back.
This is her spring poplin; her rosewook
cradle; her marble-top bureau; her cam
brio shams with shiny lace insertion.
But Mr. Buck, with true masculine indlf-
ference to domestic affairs, forgetting
that man must work and woman must
weep" lays him down upon the sun
warmed earth, upon the grass, upon the
sidewalk, anywhere in the inviting air,
prone upon his broad and manly stomach,
and sleeps away the cares which infest
the day. Now and then a group may be
/ seen taking in the mild fascinations OF
willow-stick monte; but the preference i;
given to natures sweet restorer, balmy
sleep. Such may not be as ennobling az
occupation as tending the fiocks which
bleat for more copy; but if we are not IL
candor bound to confess that there ar
moments when the weariness imposed b.
the gristless treadmill makes one lool
with complacency at these happy


healthy, yagabonds, then there Is N


truth in the editorial chair
Year: 1877

TENNESSEE has at last been permitted
to rival Kentucky with a meat shower.
The substance which fell was found on
analysis to be what the impartial scient-
ist called a "loricated infusoria." The
inclosing jelly was perfectly transparent,
except little coal dust and paint from
the tin roof. Each animalcule was in
closed in a shell of silica: and all were
alike, of the same family. One drop
contained about fifty or sixty and they
had ample room to float around. They
were about one four-hundredth of an
inch long.
Year: 1877

THE decisions of the Supreme Court
of the United States that the govern
ment cannot receive bequests of real
estate, comes just in time to prevent the
turning over to the nation of immense
tracts of landed property. Had the de-
cision been otherwise, there are thous-
ands, no doubt, who would bequeath all
their real estate to the government, to
save their heirs the burden of taxation.
Year: 1877

On the margin of your paper indi-
Gates that your time is out, or will ex-
pirc with the next paper. Remember
our rule-CAsH ALWAYS IN ADVANCE.
If not renewed, we take il tor granted
You do not want the paper any longer,
and your name will be dropped from
our list. We intend to publish the
BEST paper in West Tennessee, and
the more subscribers We get, the bet
ter we can make the paper. Let eve
ry one rcIiew and bring another with
MIN
Year: 1877

We learn that DIR W. A. Thomp-f
son, of Humboldt, started to see a
patient few miles in the country
last Monday night, and was frozen to
death ON the way. He was found
next morning. He was prominent
and highly esteemed citizen, and his
death is great loss to the county.
lie is the second citizen of the county
who has lost his life by freezing this
winter.
Year: 1877

Next to the Calumet conglomerate
stands the Pewabic lode as yielder of
copper. The noticeable mines operating
on this deposit to any extent now are the
Quincy and Franklin. The progress of
the former has been marked by a series
of prosperous years, and in 1876 its pro-
duct was the largest ever obtained in any
twelve months before. The Quincy is
now the deepest mine worked on the
lake, and its lode at the lowest point
wrought is as rich as it ever was in its
upper levels.


The Franklin, notwithstanding the
mine was badly disabled two years ago
from the treatment it received at the
hands Of the tributers, who for some
time had operated it, afforded more cop
per in 1876 then it ever did before. Com.
paratively speaking, this mine is shall
low, and it has a good stretch of lode.
The success Of the industry since its re-
vival shows that the portion of the
Pewabic deposit it is working is capable
of being mined proftably under judi
cious management. Barring unforeseen
accidents and drawbacks, the coming
twelve months the Franklin will do bet.
ter than it did in 1876, and with the
large amount of virgin ground there is
economically available for years-the
mine, as long as it is kept on the right
track, is permanency-one of the
solid industries of the district


The company, owing to the tattered
and torn condition the underground and
surface Of the mine were left in by the
tributers, has been obliged to expent
large sums of money in repairs, etc
The working plant above and below is
in tirst-class shape The Franklin mil
is now one Of the best on the lake. Will
copper at anything like a fair figure dur
ing the next year, the results of the mine
in 1877 will no doubt meet the approba
ton of its stockholders, as well as those
who have heart in the progressive de
velopment of the mining interest of this
district. Portage Lake Mining Ga
zRitc
Year: 1877

The British consul at Nicolaieff, South
Russia, reports to the foreign Office the
discovery of a new hair restorer. He
says: In the summer my attention was
drawn to several cases of sudden bald
ness of bullocks, COWS and oxen and the
loss of tails and names among horses.
A former servant of mine, prematurely
bald, whose duty it was to trim my
lamps, had habit of wiping his petro-
leum-besmeared hands in the scanty
locks which remained to him, and after
three months of lamp trimming expert
ence his dirty habit procured for him a
much finer head Of black glossy hair
than he ever possessed before in his
recollection. [ subsequently tried the
remedy on two retriever spaniels that
had become suddenly bald, with won
derful success. My experience induced
me to suggest it to the owner of several
black cattle and horses affected as above
stated, and while it stayed the spread of
the disease among animals in the same
sheds and stables, it effected a quick and
radical cure on the animals attacked.
The petroleum should be of the most
refined American qualities, rubbed in
vigorously and quickly with the palm of
the hand, and applied at intervals of
three days, six or seven times in all, ex-
cept in the case of horses tails and
names, when more applications may be
requisite.
Year: 1877

The question Of precedence having
arisen between certain queens counsel,
an affidavit was read in the supreme
court of Nova Scotia, setting forth that
the seal attached to the commission of
queens counsel appointed by tie local
government, was not the great seal of the
province, but the old seal which was Or
dered to be returned by the imperial
government in 1869. The premier of
the local government admitted the gov
ernment had been using the old seal.
The court expressed astonishment at
such contempt for her maiesty's author
lied and expressed opinion, and said that
all acts requiring the great seal done
since 1869 were totally void.


This state of affairs leaves Nova Scotia
to-day without parliament and without
a government, with all grants of mar
riage licenses, consequently marriages,
and all commissions since 1869 totally
void. The greatest excitement prevails
in consequence. The chief justice, after
intimating that it would require i'm
perial Legislation to rectify the matter
adjourned the court for ten days for {
ull inquiry.
Year: 1877

Not long after the stealing of Charley
Ross, little son of Henry Dochmueler,
of st. Louis, was stolen. The father
had but little property, and was unable
to pay the expenses of an extensive
search; but he shrewdly hit upon plan
for accomplishing the object effectually.
He read the newspapers carefully, and
whenever he saw an account of the find
ing of a supposed Charley Ross he sent
to learn if the boy was not his lost one.
At length, two years after the kidnap-
ping, he saw an account of a stray boy
in Illinois, and, on going there, he found
what he had been so long in search Of.
The child's hair had been dyed, and he
had changed much through sickness and
deprivation, but there was no doubt as
to the identity. He had been stolen by
wandering beggars, who had made his
pretty face profitable in exciting SYM
pathy. The father is now prosecuting
the supposed kidnappers.
Year: 1877

People have different ideas of happi-
ness but it really seemed to us that q
slight degree of unhappiness would have
been more becoming in Mrs. Murphy
just then.


We went on with the letter in sort
of blank amazement, and read that, on
the writer's arrival at the Murphy man.
sion, the first person she encountered
was the deceased himself. AS may be
conjectured, he had never been dead at
all, although he had been very i'll with
fever in hospital, and eancying himself
dying, he had made the request to have
his remains sent on to his parents. The
occupant of the next cot had died, and
the two became somewhat mixed up in
the minds of the officials-hence the mis-
take, which, although inconvenient, was
cheerfully borne with for the sake of
seeing the lost son walk in alive and well.


Clothed in his right mind, too for he
had long ago deplored his evil ways, and
his industry and self-denial had accumu-
lated a nice little sum for the purchase of
cozy home nest. Thither wife and child
were to be taken at once and Mary wrote
joyfully that she never knew how much
she loved Will until she saw him stand
ing before her at his fathers door, when
she had supposed him to be dead.


Not a word of poor Carl Blumenthal,
except to say that Will was so good, he
did not blame her or Mr.. B. in the least,
and would certainly shake hands with
the latter should he chance to meet him
only, he was very glad that he got
home when he did.


We rejoiced, of course, in Marys Joy /:
but, if the truth must be told, we were
very sorry for ourselves and as to poor
Mr.. Blumenthal, he was scarcely to be
thought of at all-his future stretched
before us such gray, dismal blank.
We broke our dreadful news to him in
fragments, giving him morsel at time
as we thought him able to swallow it.


After long period of silence, the de-
serted German shook his head sorrow
fully, and said : "That one little
woman she have d dreadful smile " (poor
fellow, he meant irresistible y, "and
she speak German like to break nv
heart. She should not ought to with
her husband not dead"


Evidently he could not divest himself
of the idea that Mary was in some way
to blame for Mr.. Murphy's unexpected
appearance.


Br1lnhilda actually cried for sympathy,
and took melancholy pleasure in run
ming to the door for our letters. But
such is the ingratitude Of human nature,
that she was probably compared, some
what to her disadvantage, with the lost
one.


About six months elasped, when we
one day encountered our blighted friend
with fair haired little woman clinging
to his arm and looking very happy. She
was evidently German, and as evidently
his wife and he subsequently informed
us that she was an old sweetheart who
had followed him from home. She had
arrived just at the right time, to act as a
poultice for the wounds inflicted by
"that one little woman" with the
"dreadful smile"


This arrangement naturally "made
things comfortable all around, with the
exception, perhaps, of two lone women
who had lost a treasure that could not
be replaced.
Year: 1877

If your seat is hard to sit upon, stand
up. If a rock rises up before you, roll
it away or climb over it. If you want
money, earn it. 1t takes longer to skin
an elephant than mouse, but the skin
is worth something. If you want conf
dence, prove yourself worthy of it. Do
not be content with doing what another
has done-surpass it. Deserve success,
and it will come. The boy was not born
O man. The sun does not rise like q
rocket, or go down like bullet fired
from gun; slowly and surely it makes
its round, and never tires. 1t is as easy
to be a leader as a wheel horse. If the
job be long, the pay will be greater; if
the task be hard, the more competent
YOU must te to do it.
Year: 1877

The Cincinnati Enquirer prints the
following bit of history in answer to the
inquiry of q subscriber: The expression:
"Pull down your vest, was first heard
in this country in 1853; A New Eng
land deacon named Spilkins had vest
which was too short for him. When il
q heated debate or controversy his vest
would work up under his chin, People
who were listening to his discourse would
interrupt him, and tell him to pull down
his garment, and in this way the express
sion came into use as means Of check
ing bores.
Year: 1877

Don't sit down and say, "damn the Dutch''. Do like they do. Get up and go to work. If things ain't lively enough, put your shoulder to the wheels of commerce and trade and aid in getting the road wagon of old fogyism out of the mire. Hitch the mule of energy in the shafts, take the whip of enterprise in your hand, and make the dust fly along the road of progress. Get up, dod blast your lazy hides, advertise your business, let people throughout the country know who you are and what you've got to sell, and, our word for it, you'll have some thing else to do and think about this fall than to sit around and wait for business to come to you and "cuss the dutch. ."-Cour- ter Journal.
Year: 1877

The man with 8 white vest often looks disconsolately at the varying lines across the front of that garment, and wonders why all bars are not built the same height.

 And now Roscoe Conklin returns to Uti- ca, and stands under the back stoop, hold ing on to the lightning rod, and responds to the serenade of the sons of Oneida with the remark that 'there's nothing like this nothing in all Europe"

 Tubal Cain invented music, but he was honest about it. He never dreamed that a woman would sing through her nose, or that young man would drive a whole neighborhood distracted with fiddle.
Year: 1877

w We are informed by postmasters the fol- where they have been regularly receiving THE NEWS, and as they did not notify us of their change of post-office, and in arrears to the

 fish their only address known to us, and if any of our readers know of the whereabouts of any ot them, they will do us a favor by informing us.- Is it exactly HONEST treatment. to receive news paper till several dollars due, and then leave the postmaster to inform us the paper is not re- wherei The following have done this: Does
Year: 1877

PETE.

 Tour distinguished friend Pete is entitled to our gratitude for his kind offer to give us 0 cereus plant. His generous and unselfsh heart is constantly urging him to similar acts, and we shall, we hope, in due time be the joyful recipient of his proffered ex- otic, but we cannot refrain from correcting the impression he manifestly has, that Mrs. Taft's night-blooming cereus is the same species of plant he alludes to as blooming in the morning at his fine residence in Lee His is nothing more than 8 morning bloom ing cereus, and as he truthfully says, is of no more trouble to raise than cabbage in fact we do not believe it is as much so, for we can take his plant by the top and raise it, which cannot be done to 8 full blown cabbage. Mrs. Taft's is no such cereus at all. Hers blooms only in the night time, and is so delicate, 30 refined and so senei- tive in its nature and character, so entirely like the Editor of the CONNECTICUT WEST ERN DAILY NEWS, that to associate it with that unsavory pot herbage, a cabbage, is piece of injustice the poor plant would wither under at once. CereuslY, Friend '' Pete," are you not rather inclined to the belief that your cereus is Tt much of a ce- reus in comparison with this Ashley Falls cereus ?"-ED. NEws.
Year: 1877

THE Shoe and Leather Reporter has the
70 flowing to say about the business condition
ofits speciality: There has not been any
general "rush" in trade thus far the present
month, though there are many dealers who
have had an active business. The manufac-
turers, in some cases, especially at the East,
are crowding on all the pressure possible to
get out goods, but these are largely made now
to fill orders some time since placed; yet
these orders have been supplemented by addi-
tional ones more freely than had been ex-
pected, and there is now the confident feel
ing among both manufacturers and dealers
which can come only from the assurance that
full and healthy demand will fill out the
proportions of the spring trade in such a
measure that prudent business men need
have no reason for complaint. There is now
no room for any long negotiating about
prices; these are substantially fixed, and
there is, for the present, little danger but
what all the goods made in season, and with
in the known limitations of the market, may
be sold with reasonable profit to both man
ufacturer and dealer. And this condition of
the trade is quite as strongly defined in other
sections of the country as in Massachusetts.
At the East the active trade always opens
earlier, and the bulk of the business is done
earlier than in other localities, but in New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and the West,
the trade follows closely, and the late busi-
ness will this year reap advantages from the
Increasing confidence in the community
which it was impossible to count upon in
transactions made in December. January and
February