smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

i yer. remarkable circumstance. and
an important point Of analogy, is to he
found in the extreme rapidity with which
the mental operations are performed, or
rather with which the material changes
on which tie ideas depend are excited II
homishe,ical 4angalia. It would appear
as if q whole series OF acts. that would
really occupy . long lapse Of time, pass
ideally through the mind i'll one instant.
We have IN dreams 10 true perception OF
the lapse Of time---a strange property OF
mind for if such be also its property
when entered into the eternal disem-
bodied state, time will appear to Us etel-
nifty The relations Of space as well Is
time are also annihilatcd. SO that almost
while IN eternity i compressed into a
moment, infinite space Is trayersed more
swiftly than by real thought There are
numerous illustrations Of this on record.
4 gentleman dreamed that he enlisted as
. soldier, Joined his regiment. deserted


was apprehended, carried back, tried


condemned TO be shot, and at last led out
for execution. After the usual prepara-
tions, cum was fired; he awoke with the
report, and found that a noise in the adj
joining room had at the same moment
produced the dream and awakened him.
A friend Of DR. Abercrombie dreamed he
crossed the Atlantic and spent fortnight
in America. II embarking. on his return,
he fell into the sea, and awaking in the
right, found that he had not been in bed
en- minutes.
Year: 1879




People generally suppose that there is
no danger to be app1ehende3 from hight
ming until there have been >harp reports
OF thunder quickly following the flash,
and indicating a near explosion Of the
electric fluid


Such is moi the q sc. Two little girls
were killed in the upper part Of the city
by the same bolt There had been but
one report Of thunder before. and that
from u distance The 1lttle girls were
frightened and ran under 4 tree. The
very next discharge from the clouds dc
scendcd the tree and instantly killed both
of them.


When the celebrated James Otis, Of
Massachusetts, the great orator Of the
Revolution, was killed, II Is said that but
a single bolt fell from the elouds during
the shower. He had often expressed il
wish for Il sudden death, and had re-
marked that Wheneyq. his time should
come, he should prefer to he struck dead,
instantaneously, by lightning. One day
he was standing III his front door watch
ing il small cloud which had arisen from
which rain drops had he.Qn u fail. There
was single flash and he ay lifeless on
the floor, in accordance Will his often
expressed preference


1t is not safe 1T any time during a
thunder shower 70 stand hy IN open WIN
dow or door, OF 70 take shelter under 4
tree Ledger
Year: 1879

beyond enduranceeand he aesires that Il
should he made known u all who are
ambitious Of serving as deputy hangman
that At present he stands d no need OF
assistance, and that when thar time are
lnves he has made provision tot IL
Year: 1879

The pistol which on Christmas Day exploded in the
hands of man Of not over fair repute and drove
bullet through the breast Of young girl. the bride
Of q month. has left . mystery to be solved by
courts investigation which the victim in Life failed
to explain and which her death has only served
tensify-' Felix Lavelle has all along denied most
stoutly that he intended to shoot Sarah Hayden.
and the girl herself seemed at q loss to divine
whether her death wound was given with purpose
not. Now that she has breathed her last the eye
of inquiry Is turned upon her relations with Lavele
to seek out motive for his act Nothing of import
ance, however has been elected and he remains in
his cell a the Tombs. still proclaming his
innocence and still indulging the belief
that he win escape punishment AT the
seemed to believe that il would have serious
effects upon his victim any than upon himself.
But it is said that his selpossession LETT him when
breathed her last and he bitterly lamented the
currence 'She always q friend of mne," La
velle is said to have declared, "and would not have
hurt hair of her hend- Had it been an enemy
this happened to would not have cared so much"


Meantime the death of the young woman has caused


sd sehefa, ieenhs o. regre. IN tne neisnoornood sne
happy end tendsd TO bring a host Of people.
to her cofin to express their sympathy. In
her fathers house, at No. Sc Centre street.
where the remains taken. there was
uninterrupted stream of visitors yester-
day and il clear that the Sixth ward was moved
by the event more than 1t usually by others of
equally tragic character. The coffin lies in q neatly
furnished roorn-a grim caskct of black velvet,
studded with silver nails and mounted with metal.
Candles burn at the head, and last evening they
posed to many asympathzing visitor the pallid young
face from which the death agony had not removed
its winsomencss. From tho groups that passed in
and out Of the house nothing came to shed any
light upon the tragedy; curiosity and speculation
alike seem stifed by regret.


Deputy Coroner Goldschmidt, who made a,i-
topsy on the body, assigned the cause of death to
shock produced by the wound In the breast.
Year: 1879

aid Of the enterprise for which the lands were appro
priated.


RATE INTEREST.


He refers to and renews the recommendation of
his predecessor that provision be made for more
careful examination and scrutiny of the savings
banks of the State. and says that owing the fact
that money be obtained on good security at
and eight per cent and that real property in
the State has now no uncertain value the provision
authorizing contracts at ten per cent interest should
be repealed. and the maximum rate of interest
throughout the State be limited.


FISH CULTURE


Regarding fish culture he states that the Commits
sioners claim that the work of Matching and trans
planting fish has proved success. The protection
of fish is important matter and earnest exertions
should be made to have Congress adopt uniform
regulation to prevent their wanton destruction.
At fve p. M. the Legislature adjourned until next
Tuesday.
Year: 1879

AIDED Dy Danks, cun now easily MAINTAIN at par
the outstanding volume OF greenbacks, resump-
ton would unquestionably break down IL the
volume were increased $32O.0O0,O00 We must
debate the bank question with eyes open to the
sye against the measure. But besides destroying
resumption, IL would be most radical and danger
revolution in our system of government. The
substitution of greenbacks for national bank notes
converted into work shop for the manufacture and
sale of money that not only its quality but its quantity
and distribution shall depend solely upon the will OF
Congress. To force citizen into the army and put
him In the front of battle without his consent was
thought by many violent invasion OF private rights.
but for Congress to assume the power TO raise de-
press all prices, to change the value Of every pr-
chase and of every private contract would be q
usurpaton OF power the most despotio and danger
GUS ever proposed to Americans.


WE MUST RETAIN rrIR BANKS.


Continuing this argument MIR. Garfield declared
cannot get on without banking system. The bank
is the chief instrument of modern exchange Ninety
per cent Of all trade In carried on by means Of
the bank credits by drafts, checks and CONNER
cal bills, and only ten per cent by the
tual of money, which has become the
small change of commerce. We shall 20 back to
tho wretched system Of State banks aud private
broker shops and create S32O.OOO moro of paper
principle OF public policy the attempt should be
sisted. IL ought not to succeed, and 1 do not
believe IL succeed 10 make resumption
should insist that present cur
rcncy and coinage laws shall remain for the
present unchanged. Whether we can safely
allow the government to keep S340, 900 Of Cur
rency in Circulation. and TO that extent make the
Treasury bank OF issue, remains to be tested by
experience. For myself doubt its wisdom AZ a per-
manent policy. But let the experiment be fairly
tried. Later on some modification may be needed in
refusal TO restore silver its old place of honor as
n part of the worlds coinage, II the principle
OF bi-mctallic currency should be practically
abandoned By other nations who have long
Year: 1879

A Husband Robs His Wife of $11S and


Goes on Spree.


A pretty hard case and not an infrequent
one. Yesterday, pretty petite woman, a
typical Swedish blonde, came into police
headquarters to complain of her husband.
She did so hate to do it, but nothing else was
left to her. Her name was Ann Arnsen, and
she lived out on Sherburne street. Her hus-
bands name was Hans. She was dress
maker by trade, and hard worker at all
times In proof she claimed to have
accumulated $118. About this money
and her huband she proceeded
to talk. Yesterday, after having
been absent from home for day or two, he
came back very drunk. He demanded
money to prolong his spree. The wife
looked at her two infant children and re-
fused. The husband then broke open the
bureau drawer and stole the wife's $1lS.
Her own money, which she had toiled for,
and to which he had contributed not one
cent. Then he went away to squander her
and her children's money. Mrs. Arnsen
thought it was rather hard, when it was ex-
planned that what was hers was his to do
with just as he pleased. But a little conso-
lation was given her when she was told she
could have him arrested as chronic drunk
ard. She got warrant accordingly, and in
company with Officers Baer and johnson
started out to look after her liege lord and
master.
Year: 1879

shall all know the result in a short time, and
l do not care to discuss the NATTER


The doctor having won a victory evidently
did not propose to upset it by indiscreet
babble, and hence he held his tongue with
excellent success. He was evidently at ease
in his mind, and apparently has no fears of
being inducted into the Office as rapidly as
the usual routine will permit.
Year: 1879

Instead of regarding obesity as an alb
normal condition, many people have
enormously considered 1t as an evidence
of health, and any agent that reduces fat
is therefore at once suspected of being
injurious. Starting to reason from the
false position that fat is an evidence Of
health, it is not surprising that they
should, very naturall~, fall into the error
of supposing that an agent possessing
properties capable of reducing corpuIency
would prove injurious TO the health.


Reasoning, however, from the rational
basis, that an undue deposition of fat,


constituting obesity, is not healthy but
a morbid condition, it is quite as natural
for rs to arrive at the opposite conclusion
which is sustained by experience and
observation, i. c. that the reduction of
fat N cases of corpulencY is invariably
followed by an Improvement of strength,
spirits. and physical comforts. Allan's
Anti-Fat will reduce fat person from 2
to 5 pounds a week. Sold by druggists.
Year: 1879

She has laughed as softly as if she sighed.
She has cou Ited six and over
OF purse wen filed and heart well tried
o each a worthy lover.
They give her time; for her soul must slip
Where the world has set the growing.
She zyin lie to none, with her fair red lip
But love seeks truer loving.
She trcmbcs her fan a sweetness dumb
As her thoughts were beyond recalling,
With q glance for one. and glance for some,
From her eyelids rising and falling.
Speaks common words with a blushful air;
Hears bold ones, unrcproving;
Buther silence says what she never viii swear,
And love seeks better loving.
Go, lady. learn to the night guitar,
And drop a smile to the bringer,
Then smile as sweetly, when he Is far,
At the voice of an indoor singer;
Bask tenderly beneath tender eyes;
Glance lightly on their removing
And join new VOWS 10 old perjuries-
But dare not call it loving
Unless you think when the song is done
No other is soft in the rhythm;
Unless you can feel when left by one
That ali men else go with him;
Unless you can know when unpraised by his


breath


That your beauty itself needs proving;
Unless you swear, For life-for DEATH
oh fear To call it loving
Unless you can muse in q crowd all day
On the absent face that fixed you;
Unless you can love, as the angels may,
With the breath of heaven betwixt you;
Unless you can dream that his faith is fast,
Through behooving and unbehooving;
Unless you can die when the dream is past
Oh never call it loving


Hrs PTgJrrfEr
Year: 1879

II a deed IS bounded by, on or upon
road, it usually extends to the middle of
the roadway. The farmer owns the soil
of half the road, and may use the grass,
stones, gravel, sand or anything of value
to HIM, either on land or beneath the
surface, subject only to the superior rights
OF the public to travel over the road and
that OF the Highway Surveyor to use
such materials for the repair of the road !;
and these materials may be carted away
and used elsewhere Oh the road. No
other man has a right to feed his cattle
there, or cut the grass or trees, much less
deposit his wood, old carts, wagons or
other things there. The owner of drove
OF cattle that stops to feed in front OF
the soil, is responsible to you at law, as
much as if they did the same thing in
side the fence. Nobody's children have
a right to pick up the apples under your
trees, although the same stand wholly
outside OF your fence. No private per-
son has a right to cut or lop off the limbs
of your trees in order to move his old
barn or other buildings along the high
way, and no traveller can hitch his horse
to your trees by the sidewalk, without
being liable, if he gnaws the bark or
otherwise Injuries them. Ii your well
stands partly on your land and partly out
side the fence, no neighbor can use it ex-
cept by your permission. Nay, more, no
man has a right to stand in front of your
land and insult you with abusive langua-
ge without being liable to you for tress-
passing on your land. He has right to
pass and repass in cE or ierly and becom-
ing manner right to use the road, but
not 10 abuse it. But Notwithstanding
the farmer owns the soil of the road,
even he cannot use it for any purpose
which interferes with the use of it by the
public for travel. He cannot put his
pigp pen, wagons, cart, wood or other
things there, if the Highway Surveyor


orders them away as obstructing public
travel. If he leaves such things outside
his fence, and within the limits of the
highway, as actually laid out, though
some distance from the travelled :path.


and traveller runs into them in the night
and is injured, the owner is not only liza
bic to him for private damages, but may
also be indicted and fined for obstructing
public highway. And if he has fence
or wall along the highway he must place
all on his land, and not half on the road,
as, i'll case of division fences between
neighbors. But as he owns the soil, if
the road is discontinued, OF located else
where, the land reverts to him, and he
may inclose it to the center, and use it as
as part of his farm.-Judge Bennett.
Year: 1879

Fatal TIeHT BooTs.-The agony of
tight boots is traditional, but so serious
a result Of the torture is not often report
ed as the Eln,ira Gazette announces
A lad named Thomas Near wore a pair
pair of boots that gave as much pain to
his feet as they did pleasure to his eye.
They not only pinched hisfeet but bruised
the skin In places, producing al eruption
which rapidly took malignant form and
going to his head produced death.
Year: 1879

The project of flooding the Great Des-
ert of Sahara has not been abandoned.
The surveying parties on the route of the
proposed canal from the Mediterranean
report favorable progress. Another propo-
sition is to cut canal from the Atlantic
to the great basin Of the desert, or to re-
open the old channel, which, it is believ
ed, connected the sea that formally COW
cred the territory now included in the
desert with the Atlantic Ocean.
Year: 1879

An exchange says that the only jokes
women like to read are those which re-
fleet ridicule on men, and asserts in proof
that on taking up paper woman in
variably turns to the marriage column.
This is high-menial charge against lie
fair sex,
Year: 1879

through it, rushed among the terrified
multitude upon the outside of the inclc-
sure. The crowd scattered in all direc-
tionS, aud the bull tossed or trampied
upon ali who were in its way, as it rush
ed towards the open plain. There were
three others killed outright, and several
seriously wounded. Heartsick with the
horrible scene, / blended with the people
that were seeking their homes. l would
not for the possession of the entire Mexi-
can republic witness another such bull
tight
Year: 1879

A man was once walking along one
road and woman along another. The
roads finally united, and man and woman,
reaching the junction at the same time,
walked on from there together. The man
was carrying large iron kettle on his
back, in one hand he held by the legs a
live chicken, in the other cane, and he
was leading. a goat. Just as they were
coming to a deep, dark ravine, the wo-
man said to the man, I'm afraid to go
through that ravine with you; 1t is lone
ly place, and you might overpower me
and kiss me by force"


"If YOU were afraid of that" said the
man, 'you shouldn't have walked with me
at all; how can L possible overpower you
and kiss you by force when l have this
great iron kettle on my back, cane In
one hand and live chicken in the other,
and am leading this goatl I might as
well be tied hand and toot!n


"Yes," replied the woman; "but if you
should stick your cane into the ground
and tie the goat to it and turn the kettle
bottom side up, and put the chicken into
it, then you might wickedly kiss NE, In
spite of my resistance"


Success to thy ingenuity, o woman"
said the rejoicing man to himself; Il
should never have thought of such ex-
pedient."


And when they care TO the ravine he
stuck his cane in the ground and tied the
goat to it, gave the chicken to the woman,
saying: Hold it while | cut some grass
for the goat" and then, lowering the ket
tie from his shoulders, imprisoned the
chicken under ii, and wickedly kissed the
woman, as she was afraid he would.
Year: 1879

Put boiled hnseed oil in a saucer and
expose it to the air Tor three or four days,
but carefully protected from dust. Mix
it with a little yellow ochTe, ground In
oil. Give the frame a coat of this and let
it stand Tor twenty four hours; twill then
be ready 10 receive the gold-leaf. Take
a small piece Of tissue paper about two
inches square, rub one side of the paper
over lightly with white wax (beeswax) or
composite candle, then take a knife with
rstraight edge, cut the gold-leaf just the
size OF the frame about one inch IN length
take it up by putting the prepared paper
upon it, remove it to the frame, and rub
over lightly with the finger. In putting
on more pieces OF leaf be sure to let them
rest about the sixteenth OF an inch over
the former pieces. When the frame is
covered all over pat gently with cotton
WOOL. The light co.ored leaf should be
chosen as it docs not contain such great
amount OF alloy as the darker. There
need be no fear of showing any iointings
il care is taken to put the pieces SIX
teenth Of an inch over each length as you
90 on. There are also methods OF gild-
ing with q tip, and from the book, but
the above is the easiest way. You must
paint The frame with white paint three
times, then let it harden, leaving two or
more days between each coat, and after
wards rub well with fine glass cloth; then
apply oil gold size and put the frame
aside away from dust until it feels just
dry, then apply the gold-leaf, which must
be cut to the proper size with a gilder's
knife on a gilder's cushion, and be applied
with gilder's tip. To make the tip lift
the gold gilders generally stroke it across
the hair or whiskers and pad it down
with cotton. See that all parts are well
covered, and put the frame away for few
hours, then rub off the superfuous gold
and the work is finished,
Year: 1879

A fair dame Of Eureka, New, threaten
ed to sue wealthy gentleman for breach
of promise. Rather than have his fellow
men suspect that he was not man who
lived up to his word, he offered to marry
her, and procured a license from the coun-
ty clerk. At the hour appointed for the
ceremony the bride and groom were upon
the floor Of hotel before a magistrate,
with their hands joined. The bridegroom
promptly made his responses and prom
ised TO love and cherish her. The magis-
trate turned to the bride with the ques-
ton: "Will you have this man to be
your welded husbandI" The response
came quickly and angrily: mo, l WON'T >
and, tearing herself away from the bride
groom, she sailed out of the room under
full head of steam, with her mother in
tow. The bridegroom was stunned for a
moment, and then, recovering his self-pos-
session, accepted the congratulations OF
the wedding guests on iis unexpected de-
liverance, and ordered up two baskets Of
champagne.
Year: 1879

The horse, although it looks straight
forward much more than most animals,
yet does not do SO nearly as much as man,
and therefore requires in its habitation an
arrangement Of light quite different from
that in its owners dwelling. Give the
horse the light from only one side, and 1t
will direct only one OF its eyes toward 1t,
but the other eye will be in the shade;
this inequality weaizens both eyes. Put
it in such position that it looks into the
dark, which is certainly unnatural, and
when taken out of the stable the abrupt
change from darkness 10 light will harm
it. TO place it straight against the light,
gives the latter binding effect which Is
also injurious to the eyes. The Lorsc
stable should therefore always receive the
light from above, either through sky
lights or through windows placed Lear
the ceiling in the wall to which the ami
mails head is turned as he stands in the
stall. Moreover, the stable should be al
ways bright-;,s bright, indeed, as day
light; 1or the horse is not night or tai
light animal, and is IN no need of an arti


ficial darkness, like fatteping stock.