smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

But the interior Of the British board
iug-house Is also worthy of attention.
In the first place, it has existed through
such lengthy though unknown period


of time. The sojourner from the set
ting sun has never inquired when the
edifice was built; but to his eyes, ac-
customed to frequent emissions of shin
plaster architecture, 1t looks old enough
to be lit for pulling down; and he has
even a vague, superstitious feeling that
its destruction would be an act of mercy,
setting free many generations of ghosts


which now tenant it, and permitting
them to find places of rest. Indeed, IL
one may venture such a disrespectful
statement, the edifice has not borne its
years well. There Ia a looseness and
also clatteringness about its fittings
which reminds one of machinery, and
sets one to marveling what unearthly
web and woof is being woven by the
spirits of the invisible. There IL Ger
tain chamber door which rattles to that
degree that the occupant frequently
shouts "Come In" when nobody Is
there but lost breeze which has stum-
bled into the house by some Granny and
Is fumbling in all directions TO get out
again. That occupant proudly believes
that nothing in the world can Out-rat-
tie his door, except his windows. These
last, especially when the wind blows
from the southwark side, have an ague
which transports him with a mixture
of admiration and pity. He would canlk
them up with coats and trousers, only
that he has other uses for those articles.
Everything within the room CORES
ponds with these symptoms of senility.
An antiquarian would fall down and
worship before a certain bleared and
tottering washstand which has, to all
appearance, been in steady use for
matter of five or ten centuries. A
shaky, worm eaten bedstead, which the
Plantagenets may have had the night
mare on. would fill the right kind Of a
soul with pensive joy. This bedstead,
by the way, is so lofty that, if the boar
der tumbles of it, he will dash himself
to atoms on the griniest Of carpets. In
to the composition of the bedding-the
mere, sheer. complex, miscellaneous
bedding-there is at least one man who
has never dared to explore exhaustive
ly. He knows, however, that it con-
tains not only springs and mattresses,
but also feathers. Furthermore, he
has noted that what should be a bolster
is simply roll OF threadbare blanket,
ambuscaded under the sheet. The cur
tains are of very venerable fabric,
matching in color the grimy exterior of
the building. In one corner of the
room (and only 10 be discovered by pull
ling idiotically at the wallpaper is
totally improbable closet which smells
as though it might have been a locker
in Noah's ark, so strong is the perfume
of antediluvian bilgewater.-Ths Atlan-
Year: 1877

To be pretty is the great object of al
most every living woman, even those
who lecture upon the impropriety of
doing so.


Brautiful women spend great deal
of thought upon their own charms, and
homely women grow homelier through
fretting because they are not handsome.


Men, at least when they are young,
are very much like women in this re-
spect, though they hide their feelings
better.


There Is one comfort 20 the homely
ones however.


After you come to know people very
intimately, you do not know whether
they are pretty or not.


Their "ways" make an impression on
you, but not their noses and ears, their
eyes and mouths.


In time the soul expresses itself to
you, and 1t Is that which you see.


A man who has been married twenty
years scarcely knows what his wife
looks like.


He may declare that he does, and tell
you that she is bewitching little
blonde. with soft blue eyes. long after
after she Is fat and red, and forty; be-
cause the image Of his early love is in
his heart, and he doesn't see her as she
is to day, but as she was when he court
ed her.


Or, being an Indifferent husband, he
may not know she is the fine woman
that other people think her.


You have known men who have mar
ried the plainest women, and think
them beauties; and you know beauties
who are quite thrown away ON men
who value wife for her -uecess as a
cook.


As far as ones effect upon strangers
is 10 be taken into consideration, beauty
is valuable, and very valuable.


So, If you have it, rejoice; but if you
have it not, be content.


Take care of your heart. your soul,
your mind, and your manners, and you
will make for yourself that beauty
which will render you lovely TO those
who are nearest and dearest 10 you-
Year: 1877

Truly science has, as was said recent
ly by one Of its eminent votaries, sits
romantic side" Its history presents
not a few deeds of heroism and self
sacrifice; its results have not seldom
been attained by suffering voluntarily
inflicted, and have now and then cost
the lives of willing victims. The young
Berlin doctor who, when a deadly con-
tagious distemper was ravaging the
poorer households Of that city. thought
he had discovered method for its cure,
and, knowing that its test might be
yatal. nevertheless boldly tried it upon
himself, and who, as he lay dying from
its effects, jotted down his observations
of its action on his system until within
nine minutes Of his departure from
earth, was hero to whom Sir Philip
Sidney would have doffed his hat. A
deed scarcely less noble, as it involved
serious self-sacrifice, has just been done
at Manchester by a young English med
ical student. 1t appears that weakly
young man had leg amputated at the
hospital. which made bim so feeble that
he was not likely to recover. He was
fast sinking when the hospital doctor
declared that there was but one possible
way of saving him. Into the patients
languid veins must be transfused a
quantity OF warm blood from a vigorous,
living man. A young student, who
heard this. at once stepped forward and
offered his own blood for the purpose.
A pint of the vital fluid was thereupon
taken from him, and sent circulating
through the arm and body Of the mori-
bund youth. Within two hours he re-
vived, recognized people, and was pro-
nounced on the way TO recovery.


The young medical student to whose
unselfish heroism this good result wa


due may POSSIBLY have worked even
bettcr than he knew. 1t was long a
matter of discussion and doubt whether
this operation Of TRANSMISSION could re-
ally be performed 80 as to transfer the
Year: 1877

vital vigor of one person to another. 1t
Is not at all new idea, indeed, for we
read of its having been tried on GER
tain pope four centuries ago, three
young men being compelled to sacrifice
their lives In order that the decrepit
pontiff might thus renew his youth but
the experiment failed. The experiment
has been tried many times, and In diff
ferent countries; and for the past half
century the practicability of TRANSMISSION
has been generally admitted by the pro-
fession. The difficulty is. to success
fully effect it; but 1t Is well known that
the blood of animals has been againand
again transfused to the veins of human
beings with the best physical results.


OF course the idea oftransfusion gives
rise to many amusing fancies. Can
you make an old man young, a cross
man amiable, coward brave, ner-
vous man phlegmatic, by exchanging
the vital fluid In the veinss Is there a
nodicum of sober truth In Edmond
About's funny conceit about the "nose
of a notary?" The blood of lambs is
sometimes used in the operation of trans
fusion do the doctors find the patients
thereafter more lamb-like? How graf
flying 1t would be If, by merely vivisec-
ting the gentle denizen Of the pasture,
and transferring its blood to mortal
veins, we could transform the uncom-
Portable tempers around US into peren-
NAL docility! We fear. however, that
psychological results are not to be at
tained by this very material process.
Very much will be gained, however, If
we can restore ruddiness to pallid
cheeks, and strength to tottering body;
if We can see the consumptive revive
under the circulation of healthy blood
yielded to him by the self-sacrifice of
another, as the fainting vampire re-
vived under the moons rays; and If
the effects of those horrible sudden
hemorrhages which end in abrupt
death from mere loss of blood can be
obviated by prompt TRANSMISSION. 1t
may not be that the fountain Of perpet-
ual youth Is to be found welling up
from the heart of ones neighbor; bu:
the gift of health from one mortal body
70 another has certain poetry about 1t
scarcely less pleasing to the fancy than
the ancient fable, being significant of
human self-sacrifice, noble emotion
in which the ancient fable was wanting.
ADaIefons' Tour,1I
Year: 1877

Ii is not until We come to the reign Of
Queen Anne that We find positive proof
Of masculine noses no longer enjoying
monopoly Of the piquant powder.
The feminine admirers of Sacheverell
contended as ardently for y pinch of
his "orangery," as secondhand bcaux
bad once struggled 10 dip their fingers
in Dryden's box. and carried their
idols portraits in the lids of their
boxes. \ lady writing In l7l2, de-
scribes herself as an Insignificant Great
ure, who dressed not, took no snuff and
did no fashionable things. Lady Betty
Modish, who would accept no gift from
her lover save a suuff-box, asserts,
sincerity in love is as much out Of
fashion as sweet snug; nobody takes It
now" which may account for the femi-
nine dissatisfaction expressed In these
lines:


''FrcH agate lox. the newest mode.
Her STUN Mis- Bid takes Ia a shell
Thousand times TO me shes vowed,
Ti- faint, Ills lADgu'd, has no smell"


Steele inveighed loudly against the
impertinent custom fine women had
fallen into, which performed coquetish-
ly or with a sedate, masculine air, was
in his eyes equally dissgreeable.


He describes Mrs. Saunter taking
snuff a often as salt with her meals,
with such wonderful negligence that
an upper lip covered with snuff
and sauce was presented to all who had
the honor of dining with her; while
her pretty niece made up for not Offend
ding the eye to the same degree by
startling the ear with nauseOus rattle,
as she stopped her nostril- with her
fingers. He could bear with beauties
who manipulated the snuff-box for the
sake of displaying pretty hand: but
thought Flavilla went little too far in
pulling out her box in the middle of
the sermon and Offering il to the men
and women sitting near her; as we'll as
inviting the church warden to take q
pinch as she dropped her contribution
into the plate. Sir Richard declares
how truthfully, who shall say THAT a
learned lady of his acquaintance, whom
he had vainly tried to talk out of the
evil habit, happened one day TO have
a pretty fellow hidden in her closet
when some company called. She made
an excuse TO 90 to the closet for some
thing they had been talking about; her
eager gallant shatched kiss, but, be-
ing unused to snuff, some grains from
her upper lip set him sneezing, much
to the astonishment of the visitors, who
thereby learned that profound reading
and very much intelligence could not
fill up her vaoant hours so much but
she was obliged to descend to less in
tellectual entertainments.-A the Year
Around
Year: 1877

MONTREAL, July IL.


At meetil 6 of the presidents and Off
GERS of the Irish Catholic societies this
evening the following, one OF a series of
resolutions, was passed: That We make
an earnest appeal 10 our co-natioualists and
co-relgionists, with whom the solemnities
of the burial Of the dead are ever a matter
of religious respect to abstain on the occas-
ion of the funeral of deceased T. L. Hackett
tomorrow, from any display or demon
strAtion that could be interpreted into op-
position to the sacred rite; that we shall
hold up to public execratlon the man OF
men so regardless of public honor as to inn
peril the national character by an unseemly
act or word at such time, and amidst
such surroundings.
Year: 1877

NEW lOKk, July 10.


James II. Rutter, director and general
traffic manager of the New York Central
and Hudson river railroad, denies emphat-
ically that the trunk lines have opened war
on the east-bound freight. On the contra
ry, every effort is being made to secure
perfect harmony. He also said the New
York freight pool could not be broken, and
there is not the slightest intention on the
part of the New York roads to allow the
least injustice done to the commerce of
New York. The Vanderbilts regard it as
their first interest to protect the commerce
of New York city and the state, and secon-
dairy to that is the desire for fair remun-
Grafton for services 10 the public.
Year: 1877

The Richmond IIhig predicts that
not Virgiuiau will be elected to tho
State Legislature who takes the position
that the taxation should be increased
pay in full tue interest upon tho State
debt. lu nearly every county where
conservative nominations have been
made the nominees have declared
themselves in favor Of a ''rejustmCnt,'
by proper aud Legitimate means, of the
State debt. General Fields, the pomi-
uec for attorney general, was the
original choice Of the MahOn party for
tia! Office, but it need not be inferred
,hat bis position on the debt question
is in any sense hostile to tho platform
upon which any other nominee would
have had to stand.
Year: 1877

can not SO conduct themselves in the
1parlor, open to the whole household, as
to render it possible for any one else to
enter it, they ought to be taught to be-
have differently Still, some considers
ton will be shown them by kind-hearted
be alone on occasions, and manage to
sit in some other room than the parlor.


The, German system Of having the
lover spend his evenings with his sweet
heart in the presence Of the whole fam
ily has much to commend it, though the
hearty Germans tolerate degree OF ca
ressing familiarity between the lovers
under such circumstances, which would
be odious to our people. Perhaps it Is
just as well that engaged people should
be put under more restraint than they
are in many circles of American society:
But we trust much to the discretion OF
our girls. .-NesC York Sun. @
Year: 1877

funny little maiden, who had heard her mother
That in the night, at twelve o'clock. the Old Year


went away
Concluded not to go to sleep. and She PERHAPS


might be
The very first in all the world the baby year to


see
She lad plan out in her mind what would be


best TO do,
And thought she'd try and count the stars that


lined the whole sky through
And that would keep her broad awake for fear of


skipping some
And then. when she had finished quite the little


year might come
She watched them twinkling as they shone thro'


window near her bed
And wondered how Gods arms could reach TO


light them all oerhead
And If the moon their mother was and when she


went away.
II some of them tthe tiniest were not afraid to


stay.
1t tired her head to count ana count and See so


many there.
The while she listened breathlessly tor voices in


the air:
But not a sound disturbed the nirhl. no ppioDs


hoated By.
Aud yet how strange it was So still y the glad


New Year was nigh
"uood night dear year. the darling said 70 han


py year good night
think I'll close my ewes lust once, 10 rest them
for the light.
And then-f some breathed sigh 50 softly
sleeping here
Perhaps it was the little maid perhaps It wa. the
Year: 1877

a correspondent of an exchange writes :.
"kXpemence has taught me never to raise
a can, no matter how good the dam. IN
less sired by thoroughbred. Here is
Uhe Whole secret OF successful breeding in
a nutshell. A calf sired by a bull of GOOD
miii(in9 stock. but of 40 particular blood,
whose pedigree cannot be traced to sires
VINO nave transmitted their good qualities
through several generations, may, and
often does make good COW: but if sired
by thoroughbred bull Of good milking
STOCK the chances of failure are reduced
TO a very low rate, and can only be
further reduced by using a thoroughbred
COW OF the same stock. Thoroughbred
stock seldom, if ever, fail to perpetuate
thelr own qualities, and common stock
often DO it but in the latter case it is
only chance work, and vet we know there
are those who will still continue to raise
calves OF common stock, when at an in
creased expense OF less than five dollars
pc! animal they might have had good
mixing ancestors on at least one side.
Inc dalWman who expects to build up
tifSt-class dairy by raising the cows can
hardly make better Investment than in
q male from noted milking stock the
expense, when it is divided among the
product. makes very small amount to
each one, but the aggregate result is
large.
Year: 1877

some species OF dried herb, which sent
out strong aromatic odor as it burned.
| This herb he was holding directly under
Dicks nostrils, who now perceived to my
horror, was wrapped in profound slumber.
The smoke 0f this mysterious herb ap-
| peared to deprive him of all conscious
ness, tor he rolled gently off of the pine
| log, and lay stretched upon the floor


The halt-breed now stole to the door
and opened it gently. Three sinister
| heads peered in out Of the gloom | saw
the long barrels of rifles and the huge
brawny hands that clasped them. The
halt-breed pointed significantly to where
| lay with his long bony finger then draw
ing a large thirsty looking knife from his
breast, moved toward me. ~The time was
come. Ny blood stopped my heart ceased
to bear. The half breed was within foot
Of my bed the knife was raised another
instant and it would have been buried in
my heart when with a hand as cold as
Ice, lifted my revolver took deadly aim
and fred


\ stunning report, q dull groan, huge
cloud OF smoke curling around me, and
found myself standing upright With a
dark mass lying at my feet.


Great God. What have YOU done,
slr - cried the half breed rushing toward
me- 'lou have killed him. He was lust
about to wake YOU"


staggered against the wall. My senses,
until then immersed in sleep, suddenly re
covered their activity The trightlul truth
burst upon me in a flash. had shot Dick
Linton while under the influence Of a
nightmare Then everything seemed to
| fade away, and remembered no more.


There was trial, believe The law
yers We're learned, and proved IN phys-
clans tlat ii was a ease If what is called
somnolentia or sleep drunkenness. one
form haunted me, lying black and heavy
on the hat floor; and one pale face was
ever present face | SAW once after the
terrible catastrophe ana never saw again


the wild, despairing face of Bertha Lin
ton. my promised bride
Year: 1877

One of our young men who visited
Europe a short time since stepped ashore
at Liverpool with a beard the growth of
the VOYAGE, long hair and looking and
feeling decidedly rusty generally, He at
once repaired to the nearest barber shop,
and having entered, said to the native
artist in charge, 81 want You to shave
me, cut my hair, brush me up and make
a good-looking man Of me- The barber
looked the young man over for moment
and very deliberately remarked, eli can
shave thee, and hi can cut thy air, and
brush thee hup, but the Lord H'almlghty
himself can't make good looking man OF
thee" {Willimantic Journal


There is a singular contest going on in
a Hartford family, where a sixty years old
father and his twenty years old son
are both courting the adopted daughter
and sister. The girl is in strait betwXt
the two; the young man is Of age and
suits her, but he can't support wife,
while the old gentleman has plenty Of
money, and she also owes him gratitude
for taking her from a life of poverty.
Meanwhile both parties urge their suits
openly and vigorously.
Year: 1877

AKTIsTIC.-Mr. Chas. ]. Hun
tington will remain in town only
about a week longer, after which he
proposes to go to Neeah Bay, there
TO spend about q week. He will
then return to this place and make a
longer stay. Mr.. Huntington s work
speaks for itself, and the people of
Port Townsend speak for it in a most
substantial way, by patronizing the
workman. Those who do not care
to "make an impression" on the pic
ture mans cards, would do well to
secure some of his views of the ro-
mantle scenery of our Territory. To
tell your Eastern friends that West
ern Washington can rival, in the
grandeur of its natural landscape
views, the famous Yosemite valley,
will be to raise it in their estimation,
far above its present standing; and
yet this is just what you can do by
sending them a few Of the photo
graphic productions to be obtained
at the gallery.
Year: 1877

UNION wharf company has re
duced its rates of fare to nearly
what they we're before the late de-
parture Upon looking into the law
concerning the matter, we found that
under the general provision they
were prohibited from making any
charge for trunks or other baggage
of travellers; also that they could
only establish such other rates of
charges as the town authorities, or
county commissioners might first
sanction. BY this it will be seen that
the recent movement on their part
was illegal.
Year: 1877

The National Republican says
that u "Presidential ticket TOR
1880 has already been put forth
with the names Of Mr.. Evarts to.
President and Wade Hampton for
Vice President. 1t is to be called
the National party, whose great
mission will be to cement the
Union of States with peace, recon
citation and good will, or rather
whose mission will be to complete
the work President Hayss will
have gotten nicely under way by
that time"
Year: 1877

Wade Hampton closed his great
reception speech at Columbia, on
his return from Washington, with
the following words:


81 wish to say to you, forget for
the next four years everything
about politics. Forgot that you
are democrats or republicans, and
remember only that you are South
Carolinians. Go to building up
the material interests of the State,
invite immigration, show the peo-
pie of the North that we have no
prescription in our hearts; that we
will welcome him here who comes
as citizen, no matter what his
| politics may be that We are striv-
ing for the redemption OF our
State, not for petty offices of gov
eminent, and then you will see the
era of peace, and new prosperity
will dawn upon South Carolina.
Labor will be employed you will
see whites and honest colored men
improving, happy, prosperous and
united, if you will only forget pol
itics for awhile and devote your
selves to the great interests OF the
State. You will see both races
and both parties willing for awhile
to forget the bitterness of the past
strife, and ready to clasp hands
and move off and lift up our old
State. You will see capital brought
here. immigration will flow in, and
you will find your old State once
more exercising that controlling
influence for good in the national
politics which he has SO long en-
joyedssand honorably employed. |
BEG you to be true to that record
in the past, to try every means IN
your power 10 cultivate good will
between both races and parties. |
beg YOU white men to show to the
colored men that what l have said
for twelve years is true that you
are the best friends they have in
this world


Thoughtful men in every South
ern State should take these sug-
| eestions to mind and heart, FOL
they are the cues to the future
prosperity of the South. He who
uttered them stands at this mo
ment in the character of leader
of modern ideas in our section 0
country. His words are, therefore
representative. In material deyel
opment, and not in distractions
are we to look for political redemp
ton. Fair play to the blacks. opei
doors to the honest immigrant
free schools to all, home rule ant
hard work will yet make the Soutl
to blossom as the rose.
Year: 1877

Whilst New Orleans is the first
city that introduced steam cars
on the streets on her outskirts,
Philadelphia is now running them
on Market, one Of the principal
streets of that city. Seven OF
them are now in use. making
about double the time OF a horse
car, and at an expense IN fuel OF
about ten dollars per week for
each car.
Year: 1877

whether men, women or children |;
but any other sort Of q Bishop
would have shelled out that $50
and come back with the report
that the churches Of Liberia were
entirely out of debit Courier
Journal.