smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

The frightful death by hydrophobia,
few days since, OF a lady well known in
the dramatic profession, brings vlvldly to
mind the danger which turks, unthought
Of and unheeded, in many households at
this moment. The chance OF getting hy-
drophobia is perhaps not much greater in
general than the chance Of being struck by
lightning. According to one authority,
not more than one In twenty-five of those
who are bitten by mad dogs are infected
by this dreaded disease, and probably not
more than one in thousand is ever bitten.
But just as the chance of being struck by
lightning would be incidentally increased
for person who went about in thunder
storm with patent conductor rigged to his
hat, 50 the chances OF hydrophobia aro
multiplied by habitual association with
dogs. They are still further increased by
habitual association with dogs of kind
most liable 10 Infection.


Hydrophobia is 4 disease as mysterious
as ii is appalling. All the efforts Of science
have done little 10 elucidate its pathology,
and still less to discover its antidote. Ex-
perience, however, has shown certain facts
which it is prudent to recognize and follow.
Male dogs are attacked more frequently
than females, and mongrels oftener than
thorough breds. The genuine Skye terrier,
it is said, never goes mad. But mongrels
ought on no account 10 be allowed in the
household, especially where there are child
rem. Their temper is usually uncertain
and treacherous. They snap on any or no
provocation, and an unregarded bite may,
perhaps, instill the fatal venom. The dog
which gave to the lady we spoke Of her
death-wound had been a family pet for
years, and was hardly suspected to be sick
at the time of its attack. The indications
of rabies are, indeed, almost always OBJ
scure, and often deceptive, and the mischief
is sometimes done before the warning Is
given.


1t is, Of course, difficult 10 persuade peo-
pie that household pets so engaging as dogs,
often gel to be possible source of danger
and death in its most agonizing shape. 1t
is consistent with human nature for each
man to believe that his neghbor's dog
may go mad, but never his own. Yet the
possibility of hydrophobia, however slight,
is so terrible, and the peril incurred so en-
urely disproportionate to the pleasure de-
rivable from the companonship of any
beast, that too much care can hardly be
exercised in selecting dogs for household
companionship. Animals of pure breed
ought in every case to be preferred, aud
mongrels resolutely tabooed. As we have
said, the whole thing is a question of
chances-infinitesmal, perhaps, for people
who do not keep dogs about them a trifle
greater for those who have dogs of pure
breed, still more pronounced for such as
surround themselves with "mongrels and
ours of low degree" Parents, we trust,
will not be slow to observe the distinction.


N. Y. Times.
Year: 1874


ASHES to ashes, dust to dust
His work is finished, and we rnst
Bow to the mandate Of the Just
But who will I'LL that vacant chair?
Speak the whole truth and not forbeAr7
His fallen mantle iitly wSAr7
Won By a lne-work, to him came
A noble, high and worthy name
Inscribed upon the roll Of fame.
And Is this all Did he not see
For man higher destiny?
4 Heaven Of Immortality:
Tis well God knoweth what Ia beat;
lie gives unto the weary rest
within the mansions Of the blest.


Boston Journal.
Year: 1874

ned his mail shirt hind part before;
but the ready witted and confident
Norman declared it to be token
that he was about to be transformed
from Duke into a King, an inter
pretation, at any rate, not to be dis
puted few hours later.


Trouble will never come near
folks whose eyebrows meet. Ladies
with overmuch down, gentlemen
with overmuch hair upon their
arms and hands carry about them
natures own guarantee that they
are born to be rich some day, as
rich as those happy individuals
whose front teeth are set wide apart.
Steel belongings, such as keys and
knives, get rusty by instinct, spite
of all pains to keep them clean and
bright, when some klnd-hearted
soal is laying up riches for their
owners benefit. To find a spider
upon ones clothes indicates that
some money is coming to US. The
moral of which, Fuller says, is this;
''Such who initiate the industry OF
that contemplate creature may, by
Gods blessing, weave themselves
into wealth and procure a plentiful
estate" The appearance of a white
speck upon a finger nail warns the
owner OF the finger gift is on its
way; and the same pleasant mott
fication is made by the itching ol
the palm Of the right hand; but in
that case it is best to make assu-
rance doubly sure, and rub the said
palm against wood, then cit is sure
to be good" Chambers Journal.
Year: 1874

Odd understanding the ever
fatal thirtcen--are thought to be
lucky. The shrill piping Of the
household cricket is prophetic Of
happiness to the hearth it haunts, as
surely as the settling of stork upon
a Dutchman's root tree bidcs pleas
ant times to those beneath it. That
forlornest of animals, the master
less dog. that follows close upon the
heels Of q night.walker, and will not
be banked Of companionship, is a
certain luck-bringer. Black eats
should be at premium, consider
ing q stray puss of that hue who
takes fancy to establish himself in
a house introduces good fortune
with him; while a cat of any color,
whether an uninvited visitor or q
member of the family, ought never
to be restrained from sharpening
his talOns at the expense of the ia
ble's legs, since when he thus
scratches, he scratches for luck.
Pat kindly the head of the first
lamb of spring, if you have the
chance; it will bring prosperity to
you and yours; but avoid the limo.
cent creature If it presents its tail
to view. Hail thanktulness, If he
salutes you upon your right hand
then his greeting is an assurance
you will make your way IN the
world, and attain the highest object
OF your Ambitions; and begrudge not
sip OF good liquor to the busy
curious, thirsty fly, dropping into
your glass, but welcome the intru-
der as heartily, if not rs poetical-
ly, as Oldys did; he brings good
luck to tie glass, and the drinker
too.


TO come suddenly upon couple
Of magpies, to pick up pin lying
with it's head towards you, to find
Of course without seeking-a four
leaved clover, or bit Of old iron,
is matter for rejoicing; if the iron
take the shape Of a rusty nail or an
old horse shoe, the omen is SO much
the more fortunate. Absent-minded
and careless dressers are likely to
be often in luck's way. To put on
any garment wrong side out, provi-
ded we are not neat enough to break
the charm, is an intallible prognos-
tic that something will happen
which will profit the sloven greatly.
Mr.. Village tells us, in the Con-
noisseur, how his pretty country
cousin came down to breakfast one
morning, with her cap on wrong
side out, whereupon her mother sol
emnly charged the needless lassie
not to alter her head gear all tho
day for fear she should change the
luck. When the couqueror was ar
raging himself ON the morning OF
Hastings, some one limited he would
get the worst of .lhe coming bout,
because, in his haste, he had don.


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Year: 1874

who, living some distance from
London, had no chance of gaining
any Information about him.


At this point George Denton took
up the narrative. His first step had
been to obtain sight Of the body;
he had found peculiar mark on
the right side of the neck, which
had led to the suspicion that, in
stead of being the. body of David
Birch, it was that of notorious
burglar with whom he had several
times been brought in contact, in
the course OF his professional work.
This was further proved when he
found on inquiry that Lighttingered
Joe, as he was called, was missed
from his accustomed haunts, and
one OF his associates remembered
having seen him in the neighbor.
hood of Putnam on the night named.
Upon making inquiries in that To-
cality, George learned that a market
gardener had been asking whether
anyone was missing, as a man un.
known was lying ill at his cottage.
Thus, step by step, the detective
.unraveled the mysterious affair. It
was thought that the drowned man
had ended his nights work by get
ting drunk, and, losing his way IN
the dark, had fallen into the river.
This was the history of the mistake
through which the young carpenter
had suffered. But the old bird fam
cier seemed ANXIOUS to make up
matters by q full reconciliation with
his nephew, satisfying his grand
daughter by his unexpected liberal
ity toward the brother and sister,
not forgetting reward to George
Denton. Polly made no secret OF
her feelings toward John, and it was
easy to see how it would end with
the yOunu neOnln.
Year: 1874

hirelings wagesf Which OF them ever risked
days work or dollar for the success OF the idea of
which they arc now the chosen rcpresentativosf


As nm other great battles, the plumber has fallen
into the hands Of the camp followers. and the ad
vance gnard who bore the burden in the heat OF the
day, have their consciousness o duty well done
M their reward. Like the front ranks of Napolcons
cavalry at Waterloo, they have filed the sunken
way for others to pass over


tbs sad TO think that the lives of those great
leaders should have been shortened or darbened by
the ingratitude of the nation they cr>ed long
and well Sad that their thrilling hearts aud aching
heads should have been trampled rnthlessly
by the hordcs who rode them in their mad pur-
suit of plunder; SAD that head and heart should
have been ranked by this people secondary TO the
blindly executing hand; sad that the very men
whom they had SO labOred to serve should have
learned to dstrust them to their counsel and
give confidence to those who had resisted eniancipa
tion as long AZ resistance possible Is 1t strange
that the American people plundered when honesty
is no passport TO their favOri people that habitu
ally chooses the representatives Of its ideas from
among the active enemies of those IDEAS and among
those who VIGOROUSLY profess espouse them for sake
Of gain, deserves TO be robbed for they hold out
bribe for dishonesty and pay the highest price for
falsehood. The party which turned its back upon all
ITS leaders, which diSOwned the men who organized
and led II to victory and substituted for them those
who were willing to serve il for consideration, de-
serves death without even decent burial; and the
Republican party should be brought to a speedy and
ignOminlous end for its treason TO its greatest and
best, for the obloquy it heaped upon the good and
true men who supplied 1t with brains and moral pur-
pose. JANE GREY SWISSHELM


tLiCG1o H. March ID 1874
Year: 1874

STRENGTH EXHAUSTED BY SIlMULANIS.


TOTAL ABsTAINER GIVES THE RESULTS oF HIS


OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES DELUsIONs IN RESPECT


TO sTIMULANTs.


TO the Editor Of The Trtbune


= SIR: The letter of Archbishop Purcell in your
issue of the 18th betrays ignorance which Is really
surprising but which is not uncommon among clergy
men and educated men, The Bishop would not preach
that il was sinful for dayaborer to restore his ex
hausted strength by glass two OF beer just as Ii
that beverage ever exhausted strength The
product OF the brewery, less than that or the SUM- III
its very nature impart strength, but only
physcal weakness, Is apparent every hand among
those addicted to it, Beer ike whisky is the pro-
duct Of cecayng vegetable matter and IT, destructive
tendencies are not apparent it is not because OF Its
nature bat its containing less OF the lntoXl-
eating principle It has been proved over and over again
that the beer-ruker match for the total abselncr
in any de apartment OF industry. The actua! Apartment
has been largely In favor OF abstinence Just here LES
one great obstacle to the triumph OF the REFORM The
public mind largely mbned with the idea tat there u
element OF strength or virtue IN tue various stu
liant, which are swallowed with such disastrous eject
by our people Until this error has passed away We
Shall make permanent advance No one Is 50 dull as
not to perceive that stimullnts In effective quantities
dim sh only the power but the disposition 10 labor
and the result that immense amount O capital IN


There can be no strength for exhausted powers IN any
ouid that is made by dstilatOn fernenta ion, In
which the life Of the gram IL destroyed Tbo
beer druker may drive his falling strength and hasten


lie gradual decay but never can he restore IL except by
the use OF undecayed ani unfermented vegetable or
ANNUAL matter II will always he truo that rest and
food alone the only means OF restoring exhausted
powers


In the firof Arctic regions amid the eternal frosts
total abstinence has proved better than indusence 80
In every cline the man who would accomplish the
greatest amount OF labor must he sober Tue SIN OF
drinking s apparent TO large share OF the bost
people OF our land II is impossible for many To sep
araie the efec: from the cause; while they condemn
drunkards they also declare pernlcous shat which
always has aud always will lead TO ~, W. moderate
drinking j. H. bEONsoN.


gs,e- Isrk March II, 1874
Year: 1874

The Hepa5iican says that the Collectors of this
city have returned to the Levy Court the names
OF some 5000 persons as dclinquents We doubt
this. But that paper should remember that the
Radical Collectors returned nearly as many seye-
raj years ago when there had been no panic, and
the population was not SO large. The delinquents
then Of one section Of the city alone was over four
teen hundred; and W. presume the aggregate
was about 26o0 These were nearly, if not quite
ALL white men. During the last fall and winter
II was said that hundreds of the men who were
ASSESSED at the shops that have since been closed
had gone elsewhere TO lind work. Perhaps this
may be one of the causes OF there being large
number of dehnquenls returned this year.
Year: 1874

If We we're called upon to advise the
young men of promise and ambition what
path to pursue in order to avoid the pit
falls that have proven the destruction Of
SO many thousands who have started upon
the voyage of life sanguine of future re-
nown and success, we should say avoid
the wine cup ns your most deadly enemy ;
turn from any intoxicating beverage as
you would from corpse left putrid by
the most loathsome and deadly disease that
ever hurried its victim into eternity. We
have said if we were called upon; we
take it back-we are called upon solemn
ly, earnestly to call attention to this, the
greatest scourge Of the age; it is impov-
erishing the wealthy, and making beggars
of the poor; it is dethroniug intelccts and
sullying the reputation of men whose hon.
or in moments of sanity none would i'm :
peach; it is dragging down and casting
into felons cells those who have stood
high in public esteem; it is filing our
jails and penitentiaries with thieves and
murderers it is peopling Gods acres ev-
crywhers throughout the land with those
who Holy Writ assures us shall never EN-
ter the Kingdom of Heaven: it is leav-
ing countless thousands of widows and or
phans to mourn as those who cannot be
comforted Great God the untold mis-
cry entailed upon the human family by
this fiery draught. intended only to fit men
for hell, cannot be estimated Strange is
the infatuation that makes men the slaves
of such a master, the imps of such dem
on, and almost as strange that our lcgis-
lators, who grow hourse in denouncing re-
pudiation and in advocating increased tax
ation upon land and the very necessaries
of life, yet shrink back appalled, at the
bare idea of touching this petted child of
Satan. Strange, indeed ! 1t is passing
strange Eachange
Year: 1874

There is no great success in farming
without hard work. but it is the good
thinking that costs, not the plodding
alone. 1t is uphill business to 60 against
the common jud gment of all your neigh
bors, but if you are sure your are right
60 ahead, no matter what they say. The
servant is not above his master in indus
try. The farmd dr must be able to lead the
field and know whether man is doing
good work, and the workman must know
that he knows what days work is. ]
said forty year is ago that would use
plaster if it cost me $40 ton; but clio.
yer and plaster alone will not keep up the
fertility of gra ~ farms When l see q
man draining his farm and carting out no.
table piles of wql-rotted manure consid.
er him safe He can borrow money te
make improvcn cnts, and the sheriff viii


not often tie II at his hitching post
When the midge demands an early har.
vest, or the ground is so rich that the
straw falls, have almost saved crop by
sowing salt. + Farmers miss it in giving
up the old wor % fences 1t is the cheap


est in the end. wire the stakes together
and keep the Bottom rail up. 1t is awk


ward looking, but | have sound rails nov
that were not new forty years ago.
have burned good rails in my time, but
did not know as much then as [ do now
Year: 1874

WATERING TN A Dry TIME-In the
summer droug hts, which now and then
occur, it is com mon to see persons every
where at work watering the garden to
keep things alive till the regular rains
come. 1t is, however the experience of
all, that the IN pre- the garden is watered
the more it wants; and thus on the whole
il does little good. Yet water can be so
given as to be free from this objection :
1t is the hardening of the surface which
causes the evil, and hard, compact sur
face always dries out faster than loose
one. The proper way is to take the earth
away for few inches around the plant to
be watered, so as to make a sort of basin
and into this pour the water letting it
gradually soak away After it has all
disappeared and the surface gets little
dry, then draw the earth back again
which had be en- displaced to make the
basin This will make a loose surface
over the waterCd part, which will preserve
it from drying out rapidly. Tomatoes,
egg-plants, cal hbages and other things OF
this character, watered in this way, will
need no renewal of water for several
weeks. 1t is d slow way of getting much
work done, but it is the only sure way oil
doing it.
Year: 1874

THIMBLE MAKING.-The manufacture of
thimbles is very simple, but singularly in
teresting. Coin silver is mostly used
and is obtained by purchasing coin dol
lars. Hence it happens that the profits Of
the business are affected instantaneously
by all the variations in the nations green
back promises to pay. The first opera
tion strikes novice as almost wicked, for
it is nothing else than putting q lot of
bright silver dollars, fresh from the mint,
into dirty cruciblcs, and melting them in
to solid ingots. These are rolled out to
the required thickness, and cut by stamp
into circular pieces of any required size
A solid metal bar of the sizo of the inside
of the intended thimble, moved by power
ful machinery up and down in bottom
less mould of the outside of the same thin
BILE, bends the circular disks into the
thimble shape as fast as as they can be
placed under the descending bar. Once
in shape, the work of Frightening, polish
ing and decorating is done upon lathe
First, the blank form is fitted upon a
rapidlyrevolving rod A slight touch of
a sharp chlsel taxes thin shaving from
the end, another does the same on the
side and the third rounds off the rim. A
round steel rod, dipped in oil and pressed
upon the surface, gives it lustrous polish


Then little revolving steel wheel whose
edge is a raised ornament, held against
the revolving blank, prints that ornament
just outside the rim. \ second whee


prints different ornament around the
centre, while third wheel with sharr
points makes the indentions on the lower
half and end of the thimble The inside
is Frightened and polished in similar
way, the thimble being held in revolv


ing mould. All that remains to be don,
is to boil the completed thimbles in soap


suds, to remove the oil, brush them W
and pack them for the trade &C..
Year: 1874

TnoRoUdn CULTURE The theory that
there can be no drought in the soil which
is ploughed SO deeply and communicated or
pulverized so thoroughly that the air can
strike down in 10 it far enough to come to
Il temperature below the dew point, Is
nothing new. That theory has been
familiar to scientific agricullurists for
years. 1t is founded on the fact tn At
whenever the atmosphere comes in con-
tact with substance colder that itself,
moisture is precpitated, no matter how
dry the season may be. So, if soil be
SO prepared that the atmosphere can pene-
t,ate it to point where the soil is colder
than the atmosphere moisture will be pre-
cipitated at that point, and then, by ca
pillary attraction, be drawn through the
soil to the surface, whereby whatever is
growing in the soil will be refreshencd. -
Maryland Farmer
Year: 1874

TIE DONE OF ST. PAuLs The dome of
St. Paul's is the original of our dome at
Washington but externally | think ours
is the more graceful of the two, though
the effect inside is tame and flat in com
parison This is owing partly to tho
lesser size and height, and partly to our
hard, transparent atmosphere, which lends
no charm or illusion, but mainly to the
stupid, unimaginative plan of it Our
dome shuts down like an inverted iron
pot there is no vista, no outlook, no re-
lation, aud hence no proportion. You
open door and are in circular pen
and can look in only one directon-up.
If the iron pot were slashed through here
and there, or if it rested on row of tall
columns, or piers, and was shown to be a
legitimate part Of the building, it would
not appear the exhausted receiver it does
now.


The dome of St. Paurs 10 the culmina-
tion of the whole interior cf the building
Rising over the central area, it seems to
gather up the power and majesty of the
nave, the aisles, the transepts, the choir,
aud give them expression and expansion
in its lofty irmament,--John Burroughs,
in SertJaers for September
Year: 1874

KEEP WEEDS DowN.-C. G Fuller, of
Mass in the GelmontoUn Telegraph,
says it is poor policy to expend money for
manures and then let weeds steel it, Five
years ago he bought piece of land which
had been used as garden and was very
rich, but was full of witch grass. He
planted it to beets. A neighbor asked
him why he did So He replied he
thought it good soil for them " That
may he" said he, " but you will find you
will raise NOR p witch-grass than beets. y
In August he happened along again and
expressed his surprise at the wonderful
growth of beets. Not a trace of witch
grass to be soon.


Keep weeds dorm and they cannot como
p.-Mvyland d Farmer
Year: 1874

The bride and the bridegroom hold n
lighted taper in their hands in front of a
small altar placed in the center of the
church. Rings were placed on their fin
gers, and their hands being Joined they
were led by the pope three times around
the altar. Two highly ornamented gilt
crowns were placed on their heads and
held over by the groomsmen during part
of the services. They drank wine out
of cup three times, and kissing one
another, the ceremony was finished.
The married couple then made tour of
the church, crossing themselves and
saluting each sanity Icon on the way.
Weddings generally take place to-
ward evening, so that immediate
ly after the ceremony dinner COM
mences at the house of the bride S
father. At q marriage feast lighted
candles are placed in every position and
corner possible. No other wine but
champagne should be drunk, and the
quantity consumed of this beverage is
remarkable. The dinner is followed by
ball, and the feasting is usually kept
up for twenty.fonr hours. The custom
of honey does not exist in
Russia. The married couple spend the
first few days of their welded life with
the brides father. After the marriage
the bride and bridegroom must call up.
on every one of their relations, friends
and acquaintances, and after this cere-
mony is finished they sink back to their
ordinary life.
Year: 1874

Boston girls go without onions and
baked beans in order to save money
enough to buy picture of Salvini, sim
ply because he said that Boston is the
capital of the world in literature and
art