smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

A CoMsTocK MINERS SUPERsTIrIoNs.
A reporter was talking to an old miner It
few days ago who implicitly beloved that
no death ever took place in the mines
without warning OF some kind. "lon
see, " he said death never comes OF h
sudden upon the men in tho mlne4. You
reporters write up accidents aud how
something gave way or fell quick AID
killed somebody. Now, this amt So.
There's always some warning. When
see my lantern begin to burn low down
and blue, know that there Is danger
head. II it keeps on for a few days and
then begins to weaver and flicker, III
watch it close TO see where 1t points.
Now you may set me up as q fool, but
what I'm telin' is the gospel trutL.
When the flame leans over Gas il ii was
being worked by blow pipe), and points
to man death has marked him. Some
years ago when Bi' Hendricks was kill
cd in the Savage, the fame Of my lantern
pointed right to him for over an hour,
and when he moved tire flame would
turn Just as if Bill was n loaded stone
and the fame was marines needle.
knew he was gone, and told hun to bs
careful about tho blast Well, he gnt
through that all right and got on the
cage. As he want up the candle kept
acting strangely, and at times lhe Name
would stretch out long and thin toward
Bill. At length ii gave sudden n'oHer
and Bill reeed to one side and was
caught in the tiln bers. heard his dread
full cry as he disappeared down the SHAFT
ana while he was bounding from side 10
side, dashing out his brains and scatter
ing his fesh down to the bottom, my
licht went out. l never lit that lantein
again. 1t hargs up in my cabin now'
and it always will. There's more IN
candle fame than people think. a
rather see cooked revolver pointed at
me than candle fame, n revolver soiee-
times misses, but a candle fame i sue
To kill when it starts toward man'--
VTrginta Chronicle.
Year: 1878

AFTER DINNER MAPS No wonder if
half the world knows how pleasant it is
to take an after dinner nap, and what u
relief it is to the overburdened brain or
stomach. We used 10 know a lawyer
who took his nap on three chairs: and
that lawyer, if he continues the practice,
will die an old man. If there IS any one
time when man is forced to exert him
self, whether in muscle or brain labor, to
work, it is after the MONDAY meal. Ii
all men cou Id only rest, not an hour but
two hours and could put the extra time
on the closing hours of the day, what an
improvement would be made in their
health Whether he be a farmer or me-
chanic, or professional man, good rest
after dining leaves the man in better
cond tion for hard labor than even in the


morning. 1t was sensible farmer who,
in harvest, always made an agreement
with his workmen to work ten hours
day; and from twelve o'clock to two
O'Clock no work was done, unless IN case
of an emergency-a threatened rain, or
something that required extra exertions.
The men had glorious times sleeping
under the trees after dinner. They al
ways used up three quarters of an hour
at the table, and then slept one hour and
a quarter during the heat of the day. The
result was they were never overw Orked,
and that farmer got more labor from his
men than did any of his neighbors from
theirs, though their men often worked
twelve hours day. When two O'Clock
came the men were in good trim, COM
pletey rested, and could do double the
work with more ease than if they had
commenced work at one o'clock. A
single hours rest at the proper time works
wonders.
Year: 1878

MEN VINO MAKE JOURNAL lists. 1t
has been remarked that very fow men
who get into journalism start out with
such intentions, They drift in accident
ally and are promoted us they develop
capacity. Money, wealthy parents and
influence are Of no sort OF service in get
ting young man n place on n newspa-
per. There is no business tina: is so en-
tirely Independent of all those considera-
tions as this. a wea lthy father can easily
get his son location to read law or medi-
cine, or push him forward in almost any
ranI, Of life he may select out be is utter
ly poweress to DO anything for him in a
journalistic way. To be sure he may buy
a newspaper, and set him up in that way,
but unless there is something in him call
ed Journalistic knrck, "a natural knowl-
edge Of what to write and how to write
it, he will be Il failure in that line, and
all the money and influence Of wealthy,
and perhaps powerful relatives will count
tor nothing. Some fond parents educate
their sons with the special view Of max
ing Journalists OF them; but it is rare that
.we hea2 of these young men after n few
years. Meanwhile, some youth born
among our hills, having nothing more
than a common school education, and the
knowledge scraped up in a country print


ing office, will advance to tho front rank


in the profess ion. He has the journals
tic llnacll, and forces recognition not be-
cause he has wealthy parents to influence
the proprietors Of leading newspapers,
but because ho knows what to write and
how to write it. His articles go in be
cause they supplya demand, while, per
haps, tho elaborate essay of man edu-
Gated on two continents are cast out into
the waste basket.
Year: 1878

CHARLES MoMULLEE was at the bot
tom off we'll in Dedham, Mass when
the sand and gravel through which he
had dug caved in on him. lie was buried
only to the neck at first. but after his
companions had begun to extricate him,
a second fall Of earth covered him com
pletelv. His head was hurriedly reach
ed, and he was found to be alive, although
nearly smothered. A keg, with the head
knocked out, was placed over his head,
and the work of digging him out was re-
samed. Al the expiration of four hours
he was almost free, his legs only being
imbedded. Then a third fall Of earth
buried him anew, and he was smothered
to death.
Year: 1878

The fish from the Mammoth Cave re-
Gently received at New York Aquarium
are known as the fluid fish. They are
nearly white in color, almost transparent,
about two inches in length, eyeless, but
in other re poets apparently perfect and
sound. The head is naked, the body
covred with scales, and the jaws are furn'
ished with small sharp teeth. These fish
were taken In a river about three miles
from the mounth of the cave, and which
is from twenty to thirty feet wide and six
feet deep.
Year: 1878

The following article is from the
Hopkinsville (Ky.) New Era, and
is not only sensible talk but is
strictly true:


The man who deserts the ranks
of the Democracy when his party
is swiftly marching triumphantly
to power and will soon have con
troll of every branch of the Nation
al government, in order 20 join a
helpless band whose sole purpose
is to undertake the work Of finan-
cial reform that was inaugurated
and is being successfully prosecu-
ted by the Democratic party, is per-
sonally committing political sui.
eide. There is no probability that
the National Greenback party will,
even under the most favorable aus
pices, acquire sufficient strength
within the next ten years to effect
the legislation of the country, and
as the Democratic party has
avowed and reiterated its devotion
to the greenback cause, the success
of that cause can only be accom-
plished through the instrumentali-
" of the Democratic orgaization.
Unreasoning men may not choose
to- see, and conform their actions
to the logic of the facts, but il will
nevertheless be sustained by the
result of the future political con-
tests.
Year: 1878

1t is evident even to the casual
critic that there is, among our peo-
pie, great want of attention to
correctness and purity in the use OF
words IN ordinary conversation.
This is a matter much to be regret
ted by al. students Of English, who
are struggling to raise the standard
of culture and refinement in the
use of our native tongue.


We have such variety of words
in our language that by care in the
choice of them we may express the
most meaning. We are not select
enough in the use of qualifying
words. With one, everything is
every nice," whether it be a house,
or landscape, or river, or hill, or
mountain; whether it be lecture or
sermon; whether it be a Dress. hat
or shoe; y neither It be a wagon, or
carriage or coach or ship; whether
it be a common road, highway or
railway. With another, everything
Is perfectly lovely" One person
has mighty bsd'' cold, a mighty
bad" headache; mighty bad" luck,
''mighty bad' time; he travelled
over a mighty bad'' road. Anoth-
er is lawful tired, lawful" hungry,
saw fur sleepy, ''awfur' sick.


And then we are so eXtravagant
in the use of the hyperbole. How
many times is the school girl sal
most dead" She walks up college
hill and is almost "tired to death"
She takes seat too near the stove
in a close, crowded room and al
most "suffocates." She sees some
thing funny, and afterwards de-
clares that she thought she would
kill herself laughing, and on very
cold morning she is almost ''frozen
to DEATH"


Finally, through carelessness, we
often violate the rules of gram mar
and rhetoric. If we were all atten-
tive and critical in the use of words
what marked Improvement there
would soon be in the refinement and
expressiveness of our conversation
How much more pleasant an refn-
ing to the ear, heart and soul,
to hear, feel and perceive ideas
expressed in select, varied and sym
phonious language! And if we were
more precise and critical how much
more refined and cultivated in the
use of language would the rising
generation be!


A short time ago L met a little
boy, only five years of age, who won
my admiration. He could talk so
precisely and sweetly of one and
another of the many things to be
seen in his neat little home. Now
be would talk pleasantly of "these"
and then of ''those" things of inter
est, and again he would speak of the
transfer" pictures hanging on the
wall, seeming to have clear and
comprehensive idea of what trans |
fer picture was. was highly de
lighted and entertained, and at once
understood the primary cause of
his attractiveness. His parents
were both precise and exemplary in
their words and conduct.
Year: 1878

The Pulaski CITIZEN is by NO
means a partisan paper; but il
would be recreant to Itself and TO the
country if it did not raise it's voice,
feeble though it be, in behalf OF
those great financial reforms which
are essential to the general prosper
ity and absolutely necessary to save
the working classes from the grind
inG j.. = heel heel OF the money power and in
many localities from actual starva-
ton. We believe the Democratic
party is the only power beneath the
sun that can achieve this end. We
would cooperate with any party,
no matter what it may be named,
whether democrat, republican or
greenback, to accomplish this re-
suit. Hitherto the democracy has
had life and death struggle with
the radical military-aristocratic-
centralizing mobocraoy under Grant
to restore civil government, and has
not devoted as much attention to
financial legislation as she should
have done perhaps, but she has
won the battle for freedom in the
Southern States, and now she can
turn her attention to the great re-
forms so much needed. But, in the
language of a Virginia paper,
"whatever may be the name of the
party or political organization which
will be placed in charge of the ship
of state, by the present great reform
agitation, one thing seems certain;
Democratic principles are rapidly
gaining ascendency. "a rose by
any other name would smell as
sweet and as long as we have the
essential thing itself, what can il
matter by what name it is called.
Party organizations are intended to
practically carry out certain princi-
pies, but when the organization is
untrue to the principles under
which 1t was organized, the organi-
zation is practically dead as repre-
senting those principles. Demo
cratic principles are diametrically
opposed to class rule and class leg
lSIatlOu, IuSy are OPPOSSN W AO
nopoly and GENERALIZATION, they fa-
yor "the greatest good to the great
est number" and all legislation
which will guarantee an equal op-
portunity to all citizens in the pur-
suit of happiness. Therefore no
man can be true to Democratic
principles who is not opposed to
the National Banks, not opposed 70
bondholders and all attempts to
bleed the people in their Interests,
not opposed TO a control of the gen


eral financial policy in the interests
of money lenders, in fact does not
stand to-day on the green back ques
tion where John c. Calhoun stood
in 1912 on the same issue, only il
was then called the Independent
treasury note. voorhees,, Pendie-
ton, Thurman, Ewing, in fact al
true Democrats stand true TO old
principles"
Year: 1878

Too hot to walk, too hot to lay;


Too hot to stand, sit, kneel, OF pray.
Too hot to feast. too hot to fast;


Too hot TO lead, too hot to last.


Too hot for home, too hot for church,
Too hot, seeking place, to bo left in the lureh
Too hot to dun, too hot to pay;


Too hot to borrow and return the same day
Too hot to dress, TO be in the breeze;
Sans ything-shirt If you please.
Too hot TO ride, too hot to rest;
Too hot to run for an Office out West.
Too hot for love, too hot for lawns:
Too hot to propose to tho Colleen Bawns.
Too hot for friendship, for coldness is now
The JOY that exudes from the face to the brow
Too hot for fun. too hot for joy,
Too hot to carry the bady boy.
Too hot to hasten for down town walks,
Too hot to listen when the curtain talks.
Too hot for anything under the sun;
Too hot 70 breathe whom the day is done.
Year: 1878

And rising from her knees in wild
heart-rerding frenzy, she held aloft
her hands above the child as he lay
almost unconscious, with her head
thrown back as if trying to pierce
with her firery black orbs the abode
of heaven, and demanded the life of
her boy at the hands of our Re-
deemeri


Every face in the room was
blanched to the paleness of death ;
and strong limbs that never quailed
in the heat of battle, smote together
as with an aguel and the beautiful,
grief stricken, wicked woman lay
with clenched hands PROSTATE in a
spasm on the floor!


ITO be Continued.)
Year: 1878

Don't tell a man you sweat. 1t
is Vulgar. Inform him that you are
being deprived of the saline and
oleaginous fluids of your material
substance through the excretories
of your pellucid cuticle, with SEN
sible condensation of moisture upon
the superficial exterior.
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you sec around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested TO pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone win yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere 70 a strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


tB- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1878

The Texas Pacific stockholders
at the annual meeting in Philadel
phia on the 18th, heard the report
of the officers and adopted resolu-
tions expressing a high degree of
satisfaction with the report, con
graduating the stockholders upon
past results, and the prospect for
the future, and thanking the Presi-
dent and Vice President of the
company for their earnest efforts
during the past year to call public
attention to the great advantages
which can be secured to the govern
ment and the country by the final
completion of the Texas Pacific
Railway to the Pacific ocean, thus
furnishing one of the grandest ave
nues for Southern and Southwest
ern travel and to add largely to the
business interests of the, entire
country.
Year: 1878

There will be a grand reunion of
ex Federal and Confederate sold
iers in Louisville on the fifth of
next month. The Governor of
Kentucky, all the military compa-
nies and many distinguished per-
sons will be present. Invitations
have also been extended to a large
number Of military companies
North and South, and many kindly
and approving responses have been
received by the committee,
Year: 1878

FRIDAY Feb s-6P. MI


1t seems like anomalous statement to assert that
speculation upon the Stock Exchange Is kept alive by
Of the bankrupt condition OF It's members, but
such 10 nevertheless true and is easily explained
About enehalt OF the Board s in debt to the other
half for money loaned stock differences unsettled
state OF things which the disastrous times and tho
dearh Of business have forced upon many honest and
deserving men. 1t Is highly praiseworthy. however,
that with few EXCEPTIONS the creditors are inclined
70 relieve rather than squeeze their crippled brethren
and willing to do SO by throwing commissions In
their way even though the payment be nothing more
tangible than an entry upon the credit side Of the
account Still, speculation beges speculation, and
many transaction made in sluggish mar
ket because cash has be paid out for brokerage
Induces others when the cash Is PAID out In kind The
extcnt to which this liquidation Is going on aud the
amount OF trade engcndered by It only be guessed
A. but It undoubtedly makes up large proportion Of
zach days business To.days dealings could have
stood good deal OF both kinds, cash and credit
without reaching respectable average for they
turned out to be among the slimmest OF the season.
Lake Shore recovered Its prestige so far as taking the
head OF the class goes, but 1t deserved little credit In
view of the dun and stupid list OF stocks that were
upon the form below 1t. In fact. business Is para.
yzcd and IL would to require the galvanc bat
terry OF extraordinary event 10 set It Its legs
again. This may come In the nnal disposition
OF the Silver bill or IN definite shap-
ing Tor war or peace, OF foreign politics
At the present moment the uncertainty which befogs
both OF these questions lies like wet blanket upon
Inc Market chilling the LIE out Of IT, and utterly bar
rem of any bydropathic benefit single per cent
was the sole margin for profit afforded by tho extreme
limits OF the day-a margin small enough In all con-
science, out, the principle OF half loaf being
than bread, ono gratefully received by the
trader even though he saw moiety OF his gains
sw sllowod up by the cormorant commission law.
Such interest not sopped up by Lako Shore
dribbod into the grangers and coal stocks, though
lhero not shares enough bought and sold to form
q corporas guard for fair days business. Tho rest
Of the list simply nowhere and as dflcut to
sover as to It's Whereabouts Charley Ross kid
mapped broker


OPENING, HIGHEST AND LOWEST.


Tho following table shows the opening highest and
0f ho
Year: 1878

NEXT week our readers will get treat
in the way of an account Of a thanksgiv-
ing visit TO Dungeness. Its author Judge
Swan, is go well known for literry abil-
ity that advance cOnmen: is unnecessary.


The production arrived in time for inser-
lion this week. but our columns were al
ready so densely crowded that we could
not insert It entire without waiting for
next isaue. so the delay will be rardoned.
Year: 1878

PARTIES just from Port Discovery con-
firm the report that n very pleasant time
Is anticipated there on Christmas. Ar
nngements are being completed by which
1t is expected THAT the full gross receipts
OF the occasiOn will b. donated to the
school fund.
Year: 1878

the service, and make it entirely
independent of the engineer, is the
lesson he desires to impress on the
professional reader.


AN observation he drops Incl
dentally is likely to be the most in
teresting of all to the general pub
lie. If the last few wars have been
speedily decided, this was chiefly
owing to the railroads permitting
large masses of troops TO be rapidly
concentrated at one or two given
points. Decision being thus made
dependent upon the issue of CON-
paratively few battles, fought in a
proportiOnately small area, the mis-
takes of the losing party were ire
mediable, and the brilliant results
wrought by the victor's skill not to
be nullifed. The fate of nations
and empires literally depended up
on the intelligence Of a few generals,
as displayed within a few days.
This will be different in future.
The strength given to the defensive
by the alliance bewteen breech-
loader and spade is likely to prolong
wars, and give fresh opportunities
to the losing side"
Year: 1878

AHo N"NOAVJ VI AhAhAuB 10 AZ.


A writer in the Popular Science
Monthly says: When we begin to
use a telephone for the first time
there is a sense of oddity, almost of
fOolishness, in the experiment. The
dignity Of talking consists in hav.
ing a listener, and there seems a
kind of absurdity in addressing a
piece of iron, but we must raise our
respect for the metal, for it is any
thing but deaf. The diaphragm of
the telephone on the thin iron plate
is as sensitive as the living tym-
panum TO all the delicate refine
ments of sound. Nor does it de-
pend upon the thinness of the me-
tallic sheet, for a piece of thick
boiler plate will take up and trans
NIT the motions Of the air particles
in all the grades of their subtiliiy.
And not only will it do the same
thing as the tympanum, but it will
do vastly more: the gross, dead
metal proves, in fact, to be a hun-
dred times more alive than the
living mechanism of speech and
addition. This is no eAaggera-
tion. In quickness, in accu-
racy, and even in grasp, there
is a perfection of sensitive capacity
in the metal, with which the organic
instrument cannot compare. We
speak of the proyerbial "quickuess
of thought" but the telephone
thinks quicker than ths nervous
mechanism. Let q word be pro
nQnnced for a person to repeat, and
lhe telephone will hear and speak it
a hundred miles Syay in the tenth
part of the time that TIE listener
would need to utter it. Give a man
a serieg of half a dozen notes 10
repeat, and be cannot do it accu-
rately to save his lihI but the iron
plate takes them up, transmits
them to another plate hundreds Of
miles Off, which sings them forth
simultaneously with absolute pre-.


lsion. The human machine can
hear and reproduce, in its poor way,
Year: 1878

Beau Hrummel's Aust Receptions.
Chambers Jourral.l


A poor neglected imbecilc is liv.
ing in squalid lodgings at Calais.
1t is scarcely possible to recognize
in this unhappy being the once gay
and elegant Beau Brummel, the
glass Of fashion and mold of form
to the men and women of his gene
ration, whom he ruled with the
despotism Of an autocrat. Yet this
is the poor Beau and no other. He
is holding a phantom reception.
Having cesired the attendant to
arrange his apartment, set out the
whist-tables, and light the candles
-alas! only tallow-he is ready at
s o'clock to receive the guest, which
the servant, previously instructed,
now announces. First comes the
Duchess Of Devonshire. On hear
ing her name the Beau leaves his
chair, and with the courtlest bow,
the only reminiscence of his de.
parted glory, he advances to the
door and greets the phantom duch-
esS with all the honor that he would
have given the beautiful Georgiana.
He takes her hand aud leads her to
a seat, saying as he did sol "Ah,
my dear duchess, how rejoiced / am
to see you; so very amiable of You
to come at this short notice. Pray
bury yourself in this arm m-chai-. Do
yon know it was the gift to me of
the Duchess of York, who was a
very kind friend of mine; but poor
thing, you know she is no morep
AT this point tears of idiotcy would
fall from his eyes, and he would
sink into the armchair himself,
awaiting the arrival of other guests,
who, being duly announced, were
similarly greeted. With these
ghosts Of the past he would spend
the evening until 10 o'clock, when
the servant, telling each guest that
his or her carriage was waiting,
would carry his poor old master OF
r. bed. We eamot wish him good,
night without the payment of a
sigh for the paptomime he has acted,
and the sad lesson it pQnyeya,
Year: 1878

only a single series Of notes, while
the iron ear of the telephone will
take up whole chords and strains of
music, and, sending them BY light
ming through the wire, its iron
tongue will emit them in perfect
relations of harmony.