smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

met with a somewhat curious and mex.
plicab]e mishap last Saturday. He had
been splitting wood in the back yard of
the rectory at the island, and, stepping
back into the shade to rest a few minutes,
was leaning against the wall of the
house, when he was suddenly struck by
something that brought him to the ground
| and rendered him unconscious for con-
siderable time. On recovering conscious
ness he found that he had been struck in
the mouth by some object just large
| enough to knock out one of his front
teeth. The tooth was broken off close
to the gum. The nerve being left ex-
posed caused intense pain, but the Chief
Justice Waite had blown her first whistle
and the time had come for him to leave
for his engagement in the city. So, COW
ering the exposed nerve hastily with wax,
he took his departure, and, protected in
this precarious way against the torture
of the throbbing nerve, otficiated in the
services Of the Sunday. The most prob
able solution of the apparent mystery of
the hidden blow is that he was hit by a
spent ball from the rifle of some chance
sportsman.-10letlo Commercial.


WHEN the train from the West rolled
w w VAAS VII NCpOt YCStCIuty, ,
one of the wheel-soundcrs discovered a
bulky object among the bars and timbers
of the forward truck of the posta car


AT first he could not tell what it was, but
he poked it with stick, when it bent
sideways and in moment human form
came creeping from behind the wheels.


He was so completely covered with dust
that it was impossible to tell whether he
was black or white; but after he had
wiped his face he proved to be a colorcd
man. He got into the place where he
was found at Brooklyn, 130 miles west
OF this city, and all that distance he sat
on an iron strap not two inches wide,
with his back against the upright at the
center of the truck, his body leaning for
ward SO that his head almost touched
his legs, which were bent nearly double,
and his hands resting on a bar in front
of him. There he rode, subject to con-
tinuous jolt, envclopcd in endless whirls
of dust, with the pclting of little pebbles
which constantly fly upward when a
tram is in motion. When asked how he
stood such a ride as that, he replied: Il
declar', Mis'r, it is tough, but I'd held
thar clar to Chicago eff yc hadn't fotched
me out" Then it was ascertaincd that
on Thursday night he rode in that way
from Council Bluffs to Brooklyn, but was
discovered at the latter place and made
to give up his free ride. But he watched
his chance on Friday night and resumed
his journey.-Davenport (Ioaoa) Gazette.
Year: 1874

AT fire in a large city, while the up
per stories of a lofty dwelling were
wrapped in smoke, and the lower stories
all aglow with flame, a piercing shrek
told the startled firemcn that there was
some one still in the building in peril. A
ladder was quickly reared, until it
touched the heated walls, and diving
through the flames and smoke brave
young fireman rushed up the rounds on
his crrand of mercy. Stitled by the
smoke, he stopped, and seemed about to
descend. The crowd was in agony, as
life seemed lost, for every moment Of
hesitation seemed an age. While this
shivering fear seized every beholder,
voice from the crowd cried out Cheer
him cheer hint" and wild "hurrah'
burst from the excited spectators. AS
the cheer reached the fireman he started
upward through the curling smoke, and
in a few moments was seen coming down
the ladder with child in his arms. That
cheer did the work. How much can we
do to help the brave ones who are strug-
Cling with temptation, or almost fainting
in their efforts to do good to others!
Don't find fault with your brother in his
trial, but cheer him. Give him word
that shall urge him Oh the way, and II
you can't help him in any other way, give
him cheer.
Year: 1874

1alr way to recover, when, one day, he
fell into q lcthargy so profound that he
was thought to be dead, and, in due time,
was buried. The following day, beside
the grave in which he had been inferred,
another citizen of London was buried,
and at last one of the assistants chanced
to stand on it, Suddenly the man cried
out that he felt the ground move under
his feet, as though the occupant of the
grave would find his way to the surface


AT first the man was thought to be the
victim Of an hallucinatlon; but the ear.
nestness with which he persisted attracted
the attention of constable. who caused
the grave to be opened. They found
that the officer had forced the coffin lid,
and had made partially-successfu
effort to raise himself up. He was en-
tirely unconscious when they GOT him
out; but it was evident that the effort to
cxtricate himself had been made but a
short time before. He was carried to q
hospital near by, where the physicians
after time, succeeded in resuscitating
him. He stated that for about an hour
before his last swoon he was fully con-
scious OF the awful situation he was in.
The grave had fortunately been very
hastily and lightly filled with clay, and
here and there the continuity of the
mass had been broken by large stones,
which allowed the air to penetrate as far
down as the coffin. He had tried in vain
to make his cries heard and finally, partly
in consequence of having an insufficient
supply of air, and partly in consequence
of the mental agony he suffered, he had
fallen into the unconscious state in which
he was found


Another Englishman describes what
he experienced, while lying in coffin in
a perfectly conscious state, in the fol-
lowing words:


1T would be impossible to find words
that would express the agony and despair
| suffered. Every blow of the hammer
with which they nailed down my coffin
lid went through my brain like the echo
Of a dcath-knell. l would never have
believed that the human heart could en-
dure such terrible agony and not burst
into pieces. When they let me slowly
down into the ground, distinctly heard
the noise the coffin made every time it
rubbed against the sides of the grave"


This man also aWokc under the knife
of a doctor. He, like Staplcton, had
been stolen and carried to the dissecting-
room of medical school. At the mo-
ment the professor made slight incision
down the abdomen the spell was broken
and he sprang to his feet.


These cases in which living persons
under the supposition that they were
dead, have been entombed, are sufficient
to demonstrate that here, if anywhere,
too great caution cannot be exercised
that no corpse should be buried without
having the most positive evidence that
life is really extinct Translated from the
German for Alpleton's Journal.
Year: 1874

A DRUGGIST in Des Moines, Iowa, was
recently made the victim Of rather ex-
pensive practical joke. A man, ap-
parently under the influence of liquor,
entered the shop one morning and called
for glass of soda-water. After drinking
it, he staggered against a pane of French
plate glass in the show indow, shivering g
it to atoms Seeing the mischief he had
done he hurried away, but the druggist
pursued and overlook him, demanding
payment for the damage. The incbriate
protested that he was impecunious, but
the plea did not avail. Two clerks seized
and searched him, and extracted from
somewhere about his person 800 bill.
This they deposited in their money-till,
dcducting the price of the glass, and,
stuffing the change into one of his pock-
cts, sent him adrift upon the street.
During the day the druggist discovered,
to his horror, that the bill was counter
felt. Of course no time was lost; officers
were sent in every direction, and the
offender was at length captured and
brought before the bar of justice. Here,
however, a legal technicality disturbed
the even flow of equity The drunkard
urged that he was guiltless of any crime
that the counterfeit money happened to
be in his pocket at the time of the acci
dent, and that it was taken from him by
force. Under the circumstances the
honorable gentleman who presided over
the court felt constrained to dismiss the
case, and the druggist, with the fear of a
suit for assault and battery before his
eyes, declined to move further in the
matter.


1t is estimated, taking as basis the
Year: 1874

Aye, that is the question. Is it better to shake


from head to loot in the paroxysms of fever and ague
to Danish the aocious disease by course Of that
standard antifebrile remedy, Hostetter's Bitters.
There cannot be much doubt as to the response Of
the malaria stricken to this inquiry From every 10
cality on this continent whose inhabitants tor
mented with the shvering plague comes an increas-
ing demand for the only genuine preventive and
eradicant Of malaria provided by science The deni-
zens Of fever and ague districts well know how utter
" inadequate to do more than give brief respite
the so-caled remedies of the faculty. Quinine
mic, bsmuth-what are these but poisonous pallia-
cial effect whatever and if persisted in wreak ire
parable mischief upon the system? Everywhere
they are being abandoned by intelligent persons and
that genuine vegetable specific for intermittent and
remittent disease, Hostetter's Btters, substituted
in their place. fEf
Year: 1874

Third Assistant Postmaster Gen


eral Barber has left here for New


York to devise the best means for
carrying out the act OF Congress in
relation to the prepayment OF post
age upon newspapers and peFiodi-
calls mailed from the office of publi-
cation, which goes into effect on the
lst of January, 1875. This law
gives a wide discretion to the Post
master General in all respects, save
as to the mode of payment, which is
required to be "by special adhesive
stamp. to be devised and furnished
by the Postmaster General, which
shall be affixed to such matter, or to
the sack containing the same, or
upon 3 memorandum Of such mall
ing, or otherwise, as the Postmaster
General may from time to time pro-
vide by regulation. It is evident
the law did not contemplate the
stamping Of each paper,as it provides
they shall be weighed in bulk" and
payment Of postage made per pound.
Neither can the stamp be affixed TO
the bag, as in most cases other mail
matter goes therein. The most fea-
sible methods of carrying out the
law appears to the department to be
the use of receipt books and stubs,
the receipt to be torn off and given
to the publisher, and the stub, after
the necessary memorandum is made,
to be stamped with the requisite
stamp or stamp and retained by the
postmaster.
Year: 1874

Let us cherish memory for pleasant things,
And let all the others go;
1t is by never giving ''tIt for tat"
That we touch the heart of foe;
1t is not by dwelling on fancied wrongs
That we feel their sting grow less;
And malice once entering the heart is sure
To crush out tenderness.
Forgive, forget, though the wrong be great,
And your heart be stricken sore;
For thinking of trouble makes it worse,
And its pain is all the more.
Do kindly things to your neighbors, cen
Though they do not so to you;
Though they be wrong, unjust, unkind,
Keep your ownheart ever true.
The heart is garden, our thoughts the flowers
That spring into fruitful life;
Have cafe thatin sowing there fall no seed
From the weed of cruel strife.
OH loving words are not hard to say,
If the heart be loving too;
And the kinder the thoughts you give to others
The kinder the thoughts of you.


Hope ArboT.
Year: 1874

SALT TO A Pound OF BUrrER.-At
a recent meeting Of the Falton Far
mers' Club, Pa, the question was
asked, "HoW much salt should be
put il a pound of buttery One
answered half an ounce; another
gave the receipt Of Sharpless the no
ted dairyman Of Chester County,
which is one ounce Of salt 70 three
pounds Of butter.
Year: 1874

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.-Pers at a
distance desiring information from this point can
address me. If the subject does not require much
investigation a few postage stamps will be suffi-
cient remuneration.
Year: 1874


SECRETARY RoBEsoN's REPoRT-rHE coNpI.


TIoN OF OUR NAVY.


The Secretary of the Navy has finished his
report. The facts and figures presented
by the Secretary show that the navy is In het-
s~r O0uuItion now tuau at any other time since
the close of the war The number of vessels of
all classes is less than it was Immediately after
the suppression of the rebellion, but they are
all in good condition and more effective for
service. There is fleet of sixteen iron-clads,
mostly Of the monitor pattern, which can be
got ready for sea in twenty-four hours notice.
They are all in thorough state of efficiency,
armed with powerful ordnance, and would pre-
sent formidable array against an enemy.
With the exception of $4 100000 appropriated
to cover the expenditures necessitated by the
Virginius emergency, the amount of money set
apart by Cong ress for the navy has been COM
paratively small. Secretary Kobeson has used
most of it in repairing vessels built or pur
chased during the war, many of which had to
be partially rebuilt before they could be made
fit for service.
Year: 1874

A sophomore says he cannot un-
derstand how any one possessing
what is generally known as con-
science can counterfeit q five-cent
piece, and put on the back Of it,
In God We trust"
Year: 1874

k'e>AA VI coAupooaeos au Opo1d


tlon consists in overcoming the ca


hesion in the wood for a sligh


depth at the surface-in other word


making a mark-in q mathemati


cally circular line, the function O


the compasses is only to convey tn


force and guide the application O


it in the right manner to accomplish


the purpose required. And il


drawing a nail with a pair of nip


pers, the cohesion which is to be over,


come is that of the iron of the mai


with the wood in which it is EN-.


bedded, q cohesion which the nip


pers enable the force of the mans


arm to reach.


To a certain extent it is the same
with the process of painting. In
this case we wish to detach in some
degree the particles of the paint
from their cohesion with each other,
and to commit them to q new cohe-
sion, as it were, with the surface of
wall to which they are to be applied.
Now the particles of paint are alto-
gether too minute for o man to
manage them with his hand, with
out the intervention of a tool. So
he uses a brush formed of q vast
number of hairs, each one of which
moves a certain number of the paint
and applies them as de-
sired. In this case, as in the
it is the strength of the
mans hand and arm divided and
distributed among the hairs that
does the work. Thus the tool acts
only to enble him to distribute, in
stead OF to concentrate his strength;
because here distribution, and not
concentration, is what is required.


Thus, while the paw of the cat is,
IS it were, a tool which is adapted
% one class Of purposes, and can
20 used for no other, the hand of
nan is o tool-holder, to which i'm
elements for all purposes can be
Idapted. It is a striking instance
If the designing wisdom displayed
n the works of God, and of the
'areful adaptation Of means to ends,
hat the animals who would not be
;ble to construct implements for
themselves, have the one they want
or all their uses already furnished
hem; while those for whose wants
many are required, have only the
furnished them; but
nth this they have a brain, and q
rental capacity connected with it I
'hich enables them to fabricate all t
10 special tools they require. !
Year: 1874

The new bridge celebration in St.
Louis is to be grand affair. The
authorities have sent to New York
for three carloads Of fireworks, and
an accomplished lunatio offers to
jump from the bridge into the river
for tho sum Of two hundred and fifty
dollars:
Year: 1874

No Iowa institution has developed
into power for usefulness with great
er rapidity than the state university.
The report Of the board of regents,
embracing also the report of the
president, the different members of
the faculty, and the treasurer, is
placed before you with the confident
hope that the good results which
they show will be regarded as an
Year: 1874

HERE is pretty good item taken from a late number of The Winnemucca Register:

 Last sunday, during the Indian fandan. go at this place, about twenty Of the braves dressed in their breech-cloths and war paint, visited the depot when the western bound train came in, and went through the gyrationS of war dance for the amuSe- ment of the crowd. It happened that a company of soldiers were aboard, on their way 10 Arizona to fight Indians. When the Captain saw these braves he came rushing out and, in breathless anxiety, inquired Of the crowd eff those red devils were on the war-path, if they were he would turn his men loose on them." Taking into consideration that the platform at the depot was crowded with women and chiI- dren who paid no attention to them, except to laugh at their antics. the ab- Surdity of the fighting Captains eager inquiries are made painfully apparent. When he arrives in Arizona he will prob ably learn that Indians when on the war path do not make a circus of themselves to gaping crowds at railway stations.
Year: 1874

JUDGE DooLITTLE of Wisconsin said. in an address to the law students at Madison that he who in the name of the profession would stir up strife, encourage litigation for any. purpose, and especially to put money in his pocket, is unworthy of it. In the judges opinlOD but one name describes such man and such character, and though newly coined from the mint oi slang, it is too intense in meaniug not to be used; it is "shySter"
Year: 1874




We have Just seen in our own day and
aand ohe Of the most wonderful and
tragical Of all spectacles-a strong man
going about his accustomed work, month
after month, year after year, with n Sc
rene smile on his lips, no hint in lock,
maHBer or S0rd of anything wrong or
even uBusasa with bsm, aAd vet dOgged
at every moment by sickening dread,
and suffering, as@ve know from his own
confession, 1.-THE torments of the damn
cd" AT the very time when this man
was writing to the one friend out of
whole country full of almost id0latrous
admirers i'm whom he could cOufide,
Nothing can possibly he SO ban as the
borrow of that great darkness in which
| spend much of my time. g" IL wasa COM
mon remark among the members OF his
church, as well a. of the YaaG audience
outside, that Mr. Beccier was fairly out
doing himself His humoT, always geni-
al, seemed to mellow and ripen; his
I fancy, always eXuberant, Ia fairly tecm;
| his eloqucnce TO take on more irresisti-
| Bile splendor and charm. The whole
country stood amazed at the power of
the man. his versatility. his seemingly
unlimited capacity to work, and the
! whole sOuied energy and enjoyment with
which he threw himself into it,. To the
mass of US, superficial observers that we
are. be seemed one of the most fortunate
aHd eREGaas4e hen of this, or indeed any,
generation.


A wonderful and tragicaI spectacle,
we repeat: That whether we hold this
man jnnoceAt or guilty of the crimes
laid at his door Not an unprecedented
spectacle, however. even if we suppose
him guilty Upon this point, as upon
so many others, George Eliot has some
lFfn N tn cay n


NY are so made. almost all of us, that
the false seeming which We have thought
of with painful shrinking when before
hand in our solitude it has urged itself
on US as necessity, Will possess our
muscles and move our lips ~ If nothing
bn4 that were easy, when once we have
come under the stimulus Of expectant
eyes and ears. And the strength of that
stimulus to AavoAarUla can hardly be
RleaRuEed by she eXperaence Of ordinary
lives. Perhaps no man e5yer had a NIGH
ty influence over his fellows without
having the innate need40 dominate, and
this need usually becomes the more Inn
perious as the complications of life make
self inseparable from a purpose which il
not selfish. in this way Ii came to pass
that. on the day Of the Trial by Fire,
the dOnbleness which is the pressing
temptation in every public career,
whether of priest, orator, or Statesman,
WAS more strongly defined in SaYonarOla's
consciousness as the acting Of a part,
than at any other period of his life. He
was struggling not against impending
maTtyrdOfn. but againsi impending ruin.
Therefore he looked and acted as If he
were thoroughly confident, when all the
while f@reboding was pressing with lead
en- weight on his heart.


The fact il, that it is az least as un-
philosophical and unsafe ito argue from
the external composurc to the fact of
innocence, as from the Eepresscd mental
suffering to the fact of guilt
Year: 1874

Del Ncrte Prospector.


lie was watching the movements OF
striped. frlsky-tail chipnunk, that
washed its little face in the laughing
waters of a mountain brook, and
thinking how happy was that little
fellow away off there in the eve.last-
ing silence. Perry was not a large
man, but is handsome:; lie looked at
his face, reflected in the waters, end
wished he was as young as he
used to be i" lie moaned the fact
that gray hairs had silvered his head.
and thoughtfully ran over tile days
of happy youth. With a prayer for
his descendants. he turned from the
water brook to find himself in the
presence of bear! Few words we're
spoken both meant business. The
bear reared up laughing and Perry
reared down, praying. The situa-
ton was peculiar-Perry says id
peculiar. AT it they went, the bear
above, Perry below; each felt the
other a foeman worthy of his steel.
In the midst of the conflict the bear
became affectionate, and embraced
Perry. Perry said twas : fond
embrace" and reminded him of the
days of hrs courtslIip. But too much
familiarity bred contempt. and Perry
intimatcd with a big knife that his
preference was that that bear should
not hug him just then.


The bear weighed $50 pounds, and
Perry got eleven gallons Of oil from
thtee quarters of him.
Year: 1874

little or justify them? 1t public


opinion could be directed to a cor
rect survey of what is-and rebuk-
ing-wrong, and aiding the proper
authorities in furnishing it, a better
state OF feeling would be inculcated,
and the sooner we would have that
peace which would leave the States
free indeed to regulate their own
domestic affairs. / believe on the
part Of our citizens of the Southern
States, the better part of them. there
is n disposition to be law abiding
and to do no violence either to in
! dividuals or the laws existing. But
do they do right in ignoring the ex-
istence Of violence and bloodshed in
| resistance to constitute authority?
/ sympathize with their prostrate
condition, and would do all in my
power TO relieve them. acknowledge
ing the fact that in some instances
they have had most trying govern
ments TO live under, and very op-
pressIve ones in the way of taxatiOns
for nominal improvements, not Civ
ing benefits equal to the hardships
imposed; but can they proclaim
themselves entirely irresponsible for
this condition? They can not. Vio-
lenee has been rampant i'm some To-
calities, and has, further, been justi-
fed or denied by those who could
have prevented it. The theory is
raised that there is to be no further
interference on the part Of the Fed
eral Government to protect citizens
in a State where the State authori-
ties fail TO give protection. Treat
the negro as a citizen and voter as
he is and must remain, aud soon
parties will be divided, not on the
color line, but on principles, and
then we shall have no complaint of
sectional interferences.


CIVIL SER VICE.


The rules adopted to improve the
civil service of the government, have
been adhered to as close as has been
practicable with the opposition with
which they met. The effect, / be-
lieve, has been essential on the whole,
and has tended to the elevation of
the service, but it is impossible to
maintain them without the decided
and positive support of Congress.
Generally the support which this re-
form receives is from those who give
it their support only to find fault.
when the rules are apparently de-
parted from. Removals from Office
without preferring charges against
the parties removed, are frequently
cited as departures from the rules
adopted, and the retention of those
agaist whom charges are made by ir-
responsible persons and without good
grounds. is also often condemned as
a violation of them. Under these
circumstances, therefore, / announce
that if Congress adjourns without
positive legislation on 'he subject Of
civil service reform, l viii regard
such action as a disapproval Of the
system, and will abandon it; except
so far as TO require examinations for
certain appointees to determine their
fitness, competitive examinations
will be abandoned. -..t