smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

Dog lovers who would accurately re-
produce the true dog face and the true
dog expression, should have been at the
Sydenham Crystal Palace week or two
ago, when a general order was issued for
removal, and masters as we'll as mistres-
ses rushed in to claim their own. Save
for the almost intolerable noise, the


meeting on all hands, says the London
Telegraph, was most hearty and pleas
ant; and wherever one turned a dramat-
10 situation was present to the eye. Be-
wildcred and dismayed, with so many
faces and so many pattings for so many
days, glorious Newfoundland would
suddenly be alive to the presence of
familiar face He had looked so long
for his master in the crowds that he had
given up all hope and curled himself
round on the straw in despair. But now
new light breaks in upon him. He
looks, he hcsitates, the truth dawns up
on him, he shifts, and he is convinced.
Then commences such an uproar and
tumult of satisfaction as it would be
difficult to describe. The beautiful
creature tugs and tears at his heavy
chain. His legs and body are coiled and
twisted with the links of the fetters.
| The bowl of water is knocked over and
the platter sent spinning. He mounts
his paws on his masters shoulders, he
licks his face, he slobbers and pants with
delight. There is no restraining his
impetuous energy, and when, after ex-
trodinary difficulty, the kind master has
unlocked the chain and released the
prisoner, one sees the master, not the
dog, taken in tow, and the black New
foundiand careering along, knocking the
crowd on this side and on that, and
making with wild energy for the terraces
and broad walks of Sydenham. The
same scene in diminutive form is no
ticed among the smaller pets in kennels
and cages. The instant they perceive
the we'll known face, the familiar collar


and the welcome chain, they knock their
little hairy faces against the bars, they
scratch and tear at the straw, and they
add a wild, sharp yelp to the general
chorus of hounds. 1t il curio1s and
amusing scene. Old hands at dog shows
present themselves with baskets, straps
and hampers wrap up the blue frilled
cushion, unpin the prize rossette, pack
up, and are off to the next dog show as
unconcernedly and with as much system


as the proprietors of circuses and shows
attach to travelling fairs. They havs
done the same thing over and over again
Year: 1874

The editor of the New Albany-Ledger-
Standard is responsible fozthe following:


We were riding in a railroad car; di-
rectly opposite sat young lady.-She
was elaborately dressed and neatly attir-
ed. We will not say that she was home
ly, for beauty is a conventional term.
and there may be some nations which
we have not visited where she would be
considered handsome, but she was hard
ly up to the American standard. Her
beauty, however, is not germain to the
question; but her nose is, and what we
may say of that can not be considered
NAL apropos in this connection.


Her nose was of the vegetable king
dom, and belongs to the turn up species;
in fact, the end of it looked as if it had
started on a voyage of discovery to the
moon. Suddenly her nose seemed to vi
brate. There were internal rumblings
of the Bald Mountain kind, yet there
were evident signs of a subnasal mn
heaval


She quietly put her hand in her pock-
ct and drew out clean white handker-
chief This she half unfolded and laid
upon her lap; then from her satchel be-
side her, small package of thin, straw
coiored paper was taken, ent about six
inches square; it had evidently been pre-
pared for this or a similar purpose.


She selected one piece and the re-
mainder was restored TO the satchel for
future use. This piece of paper was
placed upon the half unfolded handker-
chief, she brought the paper in contract
with her nose, seized it and blew a blast
which would have done credit to Rod
erick Dhu.


In short, to use the language of our
contemporary, she exploded her nasal
rheum in the paper; the paper was then
dainty lifted from the handkerchief and
dropped out of the car window. The
handkerchief was refolded and returned
to her pocket as unsoiled as the moment
it came from the laundress. Could any
thing be more cleanly, economical, or
convenient? With plentiful supply of
paper, one handkerchief would last a
month, to say nothing of the saving in
baggage
Year: 1874

Some people estimate the ability of
newspaper and the talent of it's editor
by the quantity of original matter. 1t
is comparatively an easy task for frothy
writer to pour ont daily a column of
words-words upon any and all subjects.
HIS ideas may flow in one weak, washy,
everlasting food, and the command of
his language may enable him to string
them together like punches of onions,
and yet his paper may be a poor con-
Germ. Indeed, the mere writing part of
editing paper is but a small portion Of
the work. The care, the time employed
in selecting, is tar more important, and
the fact of good editor is better shown
by his selections than anything else; and
that we know, is halfthe battle. But 80
we have said, an editor ought to be esti-
mated and his labor understood and ap-
preeiated by the general conduct of his
paper-its tone, its uniform, consistent
course, its aims, its management, its dig
nifty, and its propriety. To preserve
these as they should be preserved, is
enough to occupy fully the time and at
tention of any man. IF to this to be ad.
ded the general supervision of the news
paper establishment, which most editors
have to encounter, the wonder is how
they find time to write at all.-lEx.
Year: 1874

PUNcTUALITY.-GenerBl Washington
Was a pattern Of punctuality. When he
engaged to meet Congress at noon, he
never failed to be at the door of the hall
just az the clock was striking twelve
He always dined at four o'clock, and If
the guests whom he had invited were
not present, the dinner went on precise
ly at the appointed hour without wait
ing for them. Washington would make
no apology, but simply remark, Gentle
men, we are punctual here" When
those people got another invitation to
dine with the President, they would be
sure to be on time.


A person had a rair Of beautiful hOr-
ses to sell, which the President wanted
TO buy. Five o'clock in the morning Of
a certain day was 6xed as the time for
Washington TO see them; but the horses
were not bro't till q quarter past Eve,
when the owner was told that the Preai-
dent had been there the hour appointed,
but had gone away. The man thus lost
good chance of selling his horses BY
his delay of one one quarter of an hour
Year: 1874

In late address before one of our
Dairyman's Associations, the following
truths were uttered:


at is one of the greatest mistakes of
our farmers that, as rule, they suffer
the buyer to know more about the quail
ity and value of farm products than is
known by those whose labor makes
them. The buyer has tests which the
farmer does not have. ! notice that
when the wool buyer comes around he
takes out his glasses and sees at glance
the structure Of the article in hand, and
knows more about it than he who has
+oiled a year in its production. The
same theory is true of seeds. The mag
niRer Is applied to pork to see If it Ii
infested with trichina. think It Is
true, as a rule, that buyers of farm pro-
duets know more about them than the
producers. the man who knows tbs
most always gets the best of the bar
gain. 1t is certain that knowledge !
power in making trade. 1t can safe
ly be put down as a rule that man
who for natural or artificial reasons, cal
see a hundred times as much as hi
neighbors, will know the markets"
Year: 1874

There shall be no more sea: no wild winds bring
Their stormy tidings to the rocky strand.
With its seant grasses, and pale sea flowers


springiDg


From out the barren sand.
No angry wave from cliff and cavern hOary,
To hearts that tremble at its mournful lore;
Bearing on shattered sail and spar the story
OF one who comes no more
The loved and lost, whose steps no more may


wander


Where Wild gorse sheds its blooms of living
Nor slafe bis thirst where mountain rills me
Along the healthy void.
Never again through howery dingles vending,
In the hushed stiffness OF the sacred morn,
By shady woodpaths, where tail peoples, bend


ing,
Meath whispering leaves his rosy children
In the gray hamlet's simple place of graves,
Round the low tomb where sleeps his white


haired father


Far from tie noise Of waves.
There shall be no more sea, no surges sweeping
Ger love and youth, and childoood's sunny


hair
Naught Of decay and change, nor voice of


weeping,


Rufae the fragrant air.
OF that fair land within whose pearly portal
The golden Hight falls soft on fount and tree;
Vexed by no tempest, stretch those shores i'm


M rial,


Where there is no more sea.
Year: 1874

The letter of Mr.. Parkhurst to the n
Y. Tribune has created considerable
sensation, as the writer undoubtedly ex-
pected il would. Mr.. Parkhurst pre-
diets that towards the end of this month
the earth will pass through the tail of
the comet, and that The moon will prob
ably gain an atmosphere at the same
time, an article in which she is just now
lamentably deficient There is reason to
believe, however, that Mr.. Parkhurst
has dropped figure somewhere, or ia
ken an arc ont in the wrong quadrant.
or made some other mistake, which
even mathematicians are occasionally
guilty of There is no reason to believe
that the earth will pass anywhere near
the tail of the comet.


At the time of passing the perihelion,
which is the nearest distance from the
sun, and nearly its least distance from
the earth, the comet will be about twen-
ty five degrees from the plane of the
ecliptic The taif will then be nearly at
its greatest length-the time one week
from to-day. Ten or twelve DAYS there
after the comet will cross the ecliptic, AT
which time it's tail will have dwindled
down TO length not much exceeding
its present one. The tail of u comet is
a rather uncertain subject for computa-
ton long before hand, but we may safe
Iy say that its length, when the comet is
on the elliptic, will be not more than
about FIVE million miles. As the head
of the comet will then be more than for.
ty million miles away from the earth, j
is evident that there will be little gap
of thirty five million miles between the
tail of the comet and the earth at the
time of their nearest approach to eacl
other. This is too great an interval tt
admit of any possibility of doubt tina
the earth can be seriously influenced BY
the comet itself, or that there can b
any accretion to the earth's atmospher
ic formation around the moon due tt
the same cause.
Year: 1874

lost no time in arranging his toilet as
we'll as he could, and then with great
persuasion, Ed got him TO go home with
him, and hunting up slippers and socks,
and getting him washed and combed,
had him quite presentable when the la
dies arrived need not tell how the
and how they all laughed as they sat
around the tea-table that night, but will
conclude by saying that they went to
the show together and Bill has no fears
of Gus Sackrider now.


This is the story about Bill and the
widow just as I had it from Ed. VIII
bur, and if there is anything unsatisfac-
tory about it, ask him.
Year: 1874

A gray hair was espied by lady
among the raven locks of fair friend


of hers, few days ago. "Ohl pray pull
it out" she exclaimed. "If l pull it
out ten will come to the funeral" re-
piled the lady who made the unwelcome
discovery. "Pluck it out nevertheless"
sad the dark-haired damsel; sit is of nc
consequence how many come to the fun
eral, provided they all come in black
Year: 1874

This number closes volume second of FIFE ARIZONA SENTI- NEE. For nearly one.half of the closing volume, we have been its editor and proprietor, and are responsible for what has appear ed in its columns. There is noth- | ing that we have written that we could desire to recall. Truth. has been, is and ever shall be our highest aim.

 We accepted the editorial chair with many misgivings. We have labOred hard to raise the paper from the condition in which we found it to it's present respectable position. The SENTINEL is now established on 3 solid basis, with good, daily Increasing subscrip. ton list, aud very fair adveF- tising patronage.

 Of our future course we will say.somethingin in cur next For the present we will close, rendering our heart. felt thanks to tfost kind friends who have appreciated our efforts and who have so nobly stood by us. May they receive the blessing that the conscious, ness of we'll doing always brings. To our enemies, if we have any if there are any miserable cusses who don't like Us or our paper they are respectfully requested to go tO'the devil.
Year: 1874

This company of minstreIs an. nounce that they will give per formance tomorrow Sunday night. They have been actively rehearsing during-th week, and will present some new features, which they think will be attract i've and entertaining. We hope all who can. will go and see them, for the boys are deserving of pa tronage. They certainly give abundance of amusement for the small entrance fee, and in the several performances that they have given, they have kept sheir word. that good order should be preservedsanft that nothing should be said or done that could offend the most sensitive nOdesty. We need amusement, and when it is offered to Us without grossness, let us patronize it. Give the bows g rousing house tomorrow night and laugh till yGur sides ache. We cannot expect to have amuse, ments unless we patroniZe those who get them for us. So go.
Year: 1874

really no place for the unworthy feeling of jealously betwern the routes. But then the great fact still remains that the Texas and Pacific is the route most favored by nature for safe and uninterrupt- ed travel all the year.
Year: 1874

WE are sure that the death Of such a
woman as Madame PAREPA Rosa has
something about it in the nature of per.
sonal loss to very many persons In the
city Of Wheeling. There are many who
will feel sincerely sad over the reflection
that the sweet singer, who delighted US
all on several occasions, will visit US no
more. II seems but a short time since
her last visit TO Wheeling, although it
was in 1868, six years ago this win.
ter. She had small but brilliant
company with her, among whom was
GARD Rosa, her husband, second hardly
to'the great masters Of the violin, and the
famous LEVY who played the cornet as no
one ever played it before. But the
Madame had no rivals in any company,
large or small, with which she Travelled.
She was always the favorite. She sang
not only the great pieces oil music,
those that show extraordinary compass
and cultivation Of voice, but also
the charming ballads that always


Touch the popular heart. There was
something very magnetic about the wo.
man. Her presence was very winning
and she never Jailed 10 conciliate an au.
dience from the outset, Narre caot bsr
in large, matronly and noble mould,
and endowed her altogether with physical
and mental attractions and capacities
such as she rarely bestows on one person.


OF late years she has been abroad, in the
far East, and not long since the newspa.
pers published a charming letter written
from her temporary homo in Syria, II we
recollect right. In that letter she seemed
as happy as when singing her ballads to
overlooking houses. Alas, Tor the sweet
singer that will charm US no more.
Year: 1874

vlctlons will lose all faith in any earthly
tabernacle or communion whatever"


We have not seen any Of the Episcopal
Church journals since the appearance Of
the letter. We presume that they will
express themselves at length, according to
their respective proclivities, on the sub
ject The comments Of the Church organ
of the Virginia Diocese, published at Al.
exandria, will be looked for with especial
interest BY all parties.
Year: 1874

WIKEsBARRE, Pa, Jan. 23.-The in
dications are that the miners will not In.
sist on an advance over last years basis
provided steady work Is guaranteed them,
but they are still firm in saying that they
will stand out against a reduction. The
probabilities are that the companies will
not insist very strongly on a reduction,
As soon as all repairs are completed and
the stock worked off or coal reaches a
higher price, they will say to the men,
"You can go to work at last years
wages"
Year: 1874

To follow knowledge, like q sinking star,


Beyond the utmost bound OF human thought


The new movement in the great, con-
servative Episcopal Church, the most con.
serVatiye Of all the Protestant sects, is the
Outgrowth oflong cherished and long sup.
pressed differences Of opinion that have
been vainly seeking to reconcile them
selves and thus avoid the scandal of a
Schism. But as in the Presbyterian,
Methodist, Baptist and other denomina-
lions, these differences have at length as.
serted themselves, so there is every
probability that certain changes in the
loFms and ceremonies OF the service will
either occur or else that there will be q
secession Of greater or less extent from the
Church. Meanwhile pending the move.
ment, whatever it may result in, there
Will be no little discussion oil the issues in.
VolVed, not only in the circles Of the
Church but also in the columns of the
daily press.
Year: 1874

Troops IN THE SoUTH.-The following
is the first of the testimony given by the
military commander Of this department,
and is worthy Of the attention of our rea-
ders


Major General Mcdowell, commanding
the Department of the South, appeared
before the House Military Committee and
made full statement of the present con-
ditions and needs of the army in the South
ern States. He is clearly Of the opinion
that no further reduction of the troops in
that section is either wise or practicable
this year. The number of men under his
command is between three and four thous-
and They are scattered at the posts all
over the South, there being notmore than
three hundred or four hundred men at
the largest post. This number includes
all who are doing garrison duty at the
Notifications on the coast. There are only
fourteen companies, numbering less than
one thousand men in all, for the States OF
Mississippi and Louisiana. All the cav
airy, numbering one thousand men, were
taken away year ago, and sent to guard
the line of the Northern Pacific Rail Road.
The general informed the committee that
it was the policy of the government to IN
terfcre as rarely and as slightly as possible
in the affairs of tbe South. The princi-
pal service of the troops is in aiding the
United States Marshals in serving
their writs. The troops were really no
more than nationalpolice, and not much
if any larger than the police force Of New
York city. Matters were generally peace
full in the South, but there would continue
to be good deal Of friction between the
two races for some time to come, and 1t is
well for Congress to consider whether the
moral effect of maintaining certain mill
tary force in the South can be dispensed
with. The General emphasizes the ne
cessity of keeping up the moral force Of
the army as means Of preventing aisor-
i-;-.s. xzy ,-..--. ;.-.S@if ",
to a1Iay feeling, wherever Il va pUssisas
to do SO, and has mingled freely with both
sides. He ridiculed the idea that there
was such thing as bayonet anywhere
in the South, or any necessity for it; yet
he believed certain amount of military
force necessary at present. He gave to
the committee detailed statements Of his
forces and their whereabouts. Under the
circumstances it is hardly probable that
any reduction will be made in Genera
McDowell's department.
Year: 1874

PEAUCELLIER'S PERFECT PARALLEL MO


TON


a SUBSTITUTE FOR CRANK AND LINN hoiioNS-


u,crA THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ECONOMY


ATTAINED.


perhaps there is no problem more important
n the than the conversion OF the rectinear
.novement OF the pison-rod Of steam engine into the
otatory OF the crank to which s attached
or the The appliances at present to effect
shis conversion only rude contrivances aud give
TO more less friction stran and irregular move
Of the parts bo those motion and those that
fixed. The link work commonly known as Watts's
parallel motion), patented by him in 1884. is the most
perfect that has hitherto been known Tor
converting circular into rectnear motion but this is
theoretically quite imperfect, though practically its
defects can be reduced TO very small amount Proi'
Sylvester, however in recent Friday evening lecture
before the Royal Institution OF London makes tne
highly important announcement or q new hhR'work
lately invented which, both theoretically and pract
ealy is absolutely perfect The beautiful invention
here alluded to seems have been quite independently
made by Peauceier in 1864 aud Lpkin in 1866 the latter
being at the time student in the University of St. Pc
fersburg under the renowned TchebicheR The former
has recently promoted TO the rank OF Lieutenant
Colonel Of Engineers the French army. The modest
manner in which. at the time. the invention
OF Peaucellier was announced by him 10 the
world, caused it to be passed by unno-
teed for several years. until the attention of Prof Syi
yester was attracted to it, The latter says: " IL VIII
give TO the mechanic unlimited command over 'uo
means Of Transforming motion. and 1t is an instrument
that amounts to "a new element OF machinery perhaps
fhe most important addition TO 1t since Archmeoes W
yention OF the screw that raises the theory Oh
work to the dignity OF calculus, and ehaoies te
agebrast TO fashion and work out In his study Dy Tue
-nies Of his science, working plan for competing
steam TO perorm some OF the most complicated move
oens that can be required for the present or any III
ture purpoSe arts" According TO the Wen
known English Journal IrOn there cannot DC oouo'
that the discovery which Prof Sylvester has been tne
FIRST TO make publicly known IN England, Is one des
tined to work great revolution in mechanical science
Already steam engine has been ordered Tor the uSo o
the Houses Of Parliament, in which Pesueeiliers sJs
ten will be introduced, this being its first application
on large scale Ikis stated that Prof sylvester
has by a peculiar combination OF this arrangement
been able to achieve the perfectly accurate mechanical
description any COMO section and. by another CON-
bnation, constructs simple apparatus capable OF ex
tracing the cube root Of any number The original ap
picatOn OF his idea, by Peaucellier himself was
made in construction OF compound compass for the
of draughtsmen, aud We Will briefly explain TINS
form Of the instrument.
Year: 1874

Lei be the fulcrum Of the walking beam, P o. OF
meeting rod the fly wheel f. which is as distant from
CASTS o. is the fixed point Of the above described COM
pound compass; and therefore coincide for an In
stant during each vibration of the beam; the opposite
snd p OF the walking beam will then correspond 70 the
point figure while W. which corresponds to the
Same letter 10 that figure s at the upper end OF the
piston rod 1t is evident that, as rises and falls
the point r. by virtue OF its connection with the link
esstem 7, must describe small arc OF the cir
Gle Y, whose center Is at C; but in describing
This arc no resistance other than that OF rolling
friction at the fulcrum can be experienced.


Beside the application Of the Pesooeer linkwork to
steamer gnes pumping machinery &C., the application
by this ingenious engineer Of his compasses 10 draught
ing purposes equally worthy OF mention. One OF the
peculisrtes OF his instrument may. in fact be thus
stated II Fig. l. having its concave side
toward f. be traced BY T, the point W Will describe
D. having tts convex side toward F and, con-
versey, the qr. being followed by the point p
the curve twin be described by the point W; and IN
AL the described by the latter point have
greater radius of than those described BY r.
This transformation BY reciprocal radi vectors Of
circumference into another OF different radius enables
describe circles Of great radius By means Of those
Ihat comparatively small thus In tracing stereo
graphic charts the Peaucelier compound compass Offers
one the simplest imaginable for drawing the
various circles Of different curvsures and With equal
ease can be applied 10 the describing OF all the
required in patteSndrawing. matter how oo<Dp
Gated their nature.