smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

Statistics kept by occulists employed
in infrmaries for eye diseases have
shown that the habit of some persons
in facing a window from which the light
falls directly into the eyes, as well as on
the work, Injure their eyes in the end.
The best way is to work with side light,
or, if the work needs strong illumina-
tions, so that it Is necessary to have the
working table before the window, the
lower portion of the latter should be
covered with a screen, so as to have
top light alone, which does not shine in
the eyes when the head is slightly bent
over and downward toward the work.


In the schools in Germany this mat
ter has already been attended to, and
the rule adopted to have all the seats
and tables so arranged that the pupils
never face the windows, but only have
the side-lights from the left; and as
light simultaneously thrown from two
sides gives an interference of shadows,
It has been strictly forbidden to build
schOOl-rooms with windows on both
sides. such illumination having also
proved injurious to the eyes Of the
pupils.


we may add to this the advice not to
place the lamp in front Of you when at
work in the evening, but a little on one
side: and never to neglect the use Of q
shade; so as to prevent the strong light
shining in the eyes. This is especially
to be considered at the present time,
when kerosene lamps, with their IN
tensely Unanimous flames, have become
so common.
Year: 1879

1t is really difficult not to be struck
with the contrast existing between Prince
Bismarck's terrible reputation and the
patriarchal picture represented by the
family of which he is head when he
returns home to rest from tie ardent
struggle in which he has so long been
engaged. Nothing is more simple and
touching than the respectful and silent
enthusiasm with which his wife and
children surround him and the devoted


.ess they show to him. In his family
circle he lets himself be governed by
their anxious tenderness. When he
leaves the table his wife or son brings
him his long clay pipe and lights 1t for
him. This first pipe smoked, second,
all ready, is handed to him, and this is
afterward gently taken from him with
out third being brought. The Prince
yields to this silent tyranny, which
relieves him of a portion of his personal
cares. His son Herbert told me, II have
put my father to bed, for he, too, you see,
ends by being tired" He is treated,
indeed by his family as a demigod, and
cared for as an infant. On hearing him
chat with his family one is struck by the
clearness with which he expresses him
self, the grace with which he stoops TO
familiarity, and also by the feeling of
irresistible force which he inspires, SO
that when once he has said anything 1t
becomes law. Even when he unbends
the most naturally you are conscious
that he has only to clinch his fingers to
crush an adversary.
Year: 1879

Inan interesting series of experiments
recently made on the farm of the Royal
Agricultural Society of England, the
manurial value of salt was Enthusiastically
indicated. An acre of wheat dressed
with three hundred pounds of common
salt yielded thirty-nine bushels of grain,
with a prOportionate amount of straw,
while an adjoining acre, unmanured,
produced only tWenty-nine bushels per
acre, with the straw imperfectly de-
veloped. The entire cost of the crop is
not stated, but this experiment shows
that the additional ten bushels resulting
from the sale we're produced at a cost of
thirty cents each. In another case a
piece of ground intended for wheat was
ploughed the preceding fall, and again in
May when it was sowed with salt,
and afterward plOughed before seed
ing. On the IsG and End of September
wheat was sown at the rate of two
bushels to the acre. The crop when har-
vested, yielded, according to the estimate
of the owner, Mr.. John Parke, not less
than forty bushels of grain to the acre,
with luxuriant growth of straw. From
these and many similar cases the infer
ence seems to be that salt is a specific
for the wheat crop, imparting sohdity to
the grain and frmness to the straw. But
it must not be concluded that equally
good results will always follow the appli,
cation of salt
Year: 1879

A German has Just discovered q pro-
cess which he has patented, and by
which he claims to be able to preserve
coffee in all its perfection, and at the
same time to render it more portable
and unalterabIe for a length of time
To effect his obejCt, he subjects the
freshly roasted and ground coffee to a
pressure of from 40 to 20 atmospheres
(33 pounds to the square inch each) in
suitable cast iron mOlds. The coffee is
thus made into cakes, and comes into
the market in form resembling choco-
late, divided like the latter by lines, to
facilitate breaking into pieces for use.
The interior portion of the mold is
highly polished, by which means the
outer crust of the compressed coffee Is
made sufficiently smooth and hard to
prevent the tendency of the ethereal
oil of the berry TO escape from the IN
terror of the cakes. The volume os the
coffee thus prepared is reduced to less
than one-third of that of the original
The inventor claims that the operation
does not in the least affect the good
qualities of the article, and that it can
be packed and transported in tin-foi, or
otherwise, preserving its aroma in
definitely.
Year: 1879

There is an ingenious Comstocker
Who, whenever he goes down to San
Francisco, stufis his valise with empty
champagne bottles. He then gets a
room at the Palace hotel for one dollar
and fifty day, and Whenever a visitor
sends up card he piles the empty bot
ties around the door, so as to give the
impression that he has Just been lndulg-
ing in an expensive revel. If SAe visitor
makes any remark about the bottles, he
replies: "The governor and some Of his
friends were just in, and, of course. I
had to set up the wine; but / enjoy a
quiet cocktail with friend much better
than all their hollow display. Let's go
down and get an old fashioned drink
All by ourselves"
Year: 1879

The telegraph informs Us that the advocates of the Texas Pacific Rail road Bill are confident that their at tempt to get their hand into Uncle Sam's pocket will bc successful ihIS session of Congress. If they will delay its passage few months the South crn Pacific Railroad will Ec at Tue son, q distance of 3O0 miles from Yuma, which they will have built with their own coin. but for the same work Tom Scott asks millions of the peoples money. We hope inc state ment made by the telegraph will prove incorrect. Scott las always been unsuccessful in all lis undertakings, and he is too old now to change his mode of conducting his affairs.
Year: 1879

"HOw to break up setting hen" was a recent query before a farmers club. For hens afflicted with that form of insanity sledgc hammer is the only efTeetual remedy. Any one who recommends milder method is a quack.
Year: 1879

The Elmira Advertiser mentions a peculiar
case OF diphtheria In little girl In that city.
In looking into the child's throat the mother
saw micrococcus moving, which she refnov-
ed, together with another, and both are now
On exhibition In city drug store, and being
are easily seen by the naked eye. The largest
one Is fully one-auarter of an inch long, coy-
cred with hair, with head something lfke a
caterpillar, ,tapering body and long, hairy
tall. Its body Is formed in rings. It's color Is
about that of one of those dark yellow
Thousand legged" worms found under old
boards and stones. The smaller one is about
one-sixteenth Of an inch long. being whitish
IN color, and requiring the glass to bring s-out
its beauty" OF conformation. 1t is not a
pleasant thought to imagine such things In
your throat, but they get tnere and from
there into the blood, heart and other organs
producing paralysis and sudden death when
least expected.
Year: 1879

JERSEY CRY, March 2d.-Ex-Pastor vos-
burgh turns up In a Dakota district court as
plaintiff In divorce suit. The charge he
brings against his wife Ii extreme cruelty,
the chief specification being that she circu-
lated story about his having tried to poison
her, which made such stir In this city and
finally resulted in sensational trial. Fur
thermore, he complains that she has told
scandalous stories about him to newspaper
reporters and others, and by her malice and
wicked ingenuity has driven him out of the
pulpit and into Dakotan exile. Mrs. Vos-
burgh's answer to this confused arraignment
has not yet been made public.
Year: 1879

People are dying every day Of throat and lung
complaints who might be saved by timely and
persevering use Of the New Louisiana Remedy.
Tnat remarkable product of our swamps L.
everywhere winning golden opinions.
Year: 1879

adventure. In short stories, sketch
es, and general literary miscellany
the Inter Ocean will pander to no low
taste, but will give the best.


In these times of depression and
scarcity of money,.people will turn
to the paper that is the cheapest. To
meet this demand the the price of
the Inter Ocean has been reduced to
S1.15 for The Weekly. 81 so for The
Semi-Weekly, and $40 for The Daily.
In short the Inter Ocean will be a bet
ter paper than ever before, and will
be furnished for less money.


Sample copies sent free. All COM
munication should be addressed
THE INTER OCEAN,
Chicago, Ill.
Year: 1879

A liquor dealer applied to custom
er for letter of recommendation Of a
certain brand of whisky he had al
ready sold him. The customer wrote :
II have tried all sorts of finsect-poison
and find none equal to your Old Cab
met Whisky"
Year: 1879

The telegraphic abstract of the report of
the minority of the Potter committee failed to
give an adequate idea of tie strength of that
document, especially of that part of it which
relates to the cipher dispatches. The full
report which has now come to hand puts
the Republican case in very clear light and
shows how weak and fimsy was the testi


mony relied upon by the Democrats TO prove
fraud on thelpart of the returning boards in
the disputed States. Its great length pre-
cudes the publication of the whole of it but
we are able to lay before our leaders so much
OF it as deals more especially with the cipher
te'egrams. Those of our readers who have
heard Representative Reed present case to
jury or have llstenedi to his speeches
on the political platform will, we
think, find abundant internal evidence
that this portion of the report is his
Year: 1879

The renewed contest of Caldwell of Ala
bama for clerk of the House, has brought out
from those interested very curious story OF
frand On the ballot box perpetrated in the
Democratic caucus held in the house of rep
resentatives, to decide on the organization of
the forty-fflh Congress. The statement is
altogether from Democratic sources, and is to
the following effect: That a member who re-
garded himself as under special obligation to
one of the principal candidates had printed a
lot of cards bearing the name of Caldwell.
These he took, and with very hard pencil
made line through the name aud wrote be-
low with the same pencil the name of anoth-
er candidate. The pencil was SO hard and
made so light line as not to be noticed in
the subdued light of the hall by the friends of
Caldwell, to some OF whom they were distrib-
uted. When the ballots were counted, care
was taken to direct the attention of the tel
lers to these scratched tickets. CaldwelPs
friends now claim that enough Of these were
in the box to have changed the result aud
nominated him had the fraud become known
in time. The number OF thes g trick tickets
Is given at fifteen. The Democrats evidently
need supervisor law for the protection oi
those inside the party.
Year: 1879

IF the stories told are true the council
chamber at Augusta is daily the scene of
most disgraceful squabbling. Already one
appointment of the Governor has been re-
jected and there is a fierce contest going on
over several others. The Greenbackers and
Democrats both complain that they are not
getting fair share of the plumber, The
loud mouthed reformers of last fall are
throwing aside their disguises and appearing
in their true role of hungry place hunters.
Year: 1879

THE argus insnuation that it was the
Republicans that forced an extra session
is too thin. 1t wasn't the failure of the post
office bill or the sundry civil bill that COM
PEELED the early assembling of Congress, be-
cause they did not fail, but of the army, and
legislative, judicial and executive bills. The
two houses agreed upon the two former aud
the fiual disagreement was entirely on the
two latter
Year: 1879

IT is said the most pointed and ultra-rebel
portions of the remarks of the Democratic
Senators in the JEFF. Davis debate will not
appear in the Congressional Record. Many
OF the speeches are withheld for revision
which means that they are to be toned down
probably some portions eliminated entirely.
Year: 1879

Ws do not read anony nous lstters and commun.
cations The name and address OF the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessary for publication
but as a guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return Or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

NEPHEW PELToN is so proud of the story
he told the Potter Committee about his ne
gotiations TO purchase electoral votes that he
is going round repeating it. By and by we
shall find him in the lecture field.
Year: 1879

THE new nominee for Warden Of the State
Prison is Democrat OF the strctest sect.
Now that the legislature has adjourned
Greenbackers will get little consolation in
the vvav of Offices
Year: 1879

The Army Bill passed the Senate this
morning after an all-night session, with
out amendment, and just as it came from
the House. 1t will soon be in the hands
of the Presi lent awaiting his signature
or his veto. He has already in his pos
session the legislative bill the judicial
bill is yet to be acted on by committee
Of conference, deferred because Of un-
reasonable objections from the Stalwart
Republicans, whose factious efforts, ac-
cording to the correspondent of the New
York Herald in another column, were to
secure Grant and bayonets for 1880 and
1881. 1t is now said the President will
sign these bills, and from the way the
Herald and other Independent papers
have shaped their editorials, we presume
they have had all mkling to that effect.
The Philadelphia Times says: at would
be an insult to the intelligence of the
President to suppose that he would do
anything but sign these bills, and that
without moment of unnecessary delay
Any objection that has been made tC
either of them has emanated from tn,
most contemptibly partisan spirit, and i
entitled to no consideration whatever
The President has it in his power to dt
the country great service by bringing


about peace upon the honorable term'


now offered
Year: 1879

THE late election in California is one
Of the marvels of politics. All the wealth
of the mines and great miners and
bankers, and all the professions were
thought to be on one side. And it was
anticipatinp a tremendous victory over
the s.nd-lot orator and his party. But
the result showed to the astonishment OF
both sides that the victory was not where
the newspapers predicted it would be,
and q majority of ten thousand was
found 10 be in favor of Kearney's party,
who are now arrayed again for another
trial at the polls.
Year: 1879

whether a particle Of guilt attaches or
not. They must have victims-Demo-
cratic victims-they have all the Courts !;
all the Juries; all the Marshals, and all
the Bayone.s. They have not feared to
use them, and so long as they can con-
troll the public press and smother the
public voice, they will not fear to use
the bayonets, for they have been voted
enough of them and well they know re-
sistance would be useless, and result in
nothing but defeat and injury. Moth
ing but reliance on the votes OF the
people is left to the Democratic masses
as has been we'll shown by the discus
sions Of Congress and His Fraudulency's


yetOes,
Year: 1879

CApB MAY, n. j., June 19.-The in
yestigation in regard to the burning of
ihe New Columbia hotel, on Thursday
last closed this afternoon. Forty per-
sons were examined and large amount
of testimony was taken showing clearly
that the fire was incendiary and justify
ing Mayor Williams in ordering the ar
rest of Arthur Pusey, young man who
has been living here about eight months
and who was employed by the city as a
Watchman at the time Of the fire.
Year: 1879

LADY LAWYERS. - The House bill
which passed the Senate on Friday, re-
lating 10 lady barristers, by two-thirds
majority, will almost certainly receive
the Presidents approval and become n
law. All that any woman of good moral
character has to do under it to be admit
ted to practice in the Supreme Court of
the United State is to qualify herself by
sufficient legal knowledge for practice in
'the highest court of any State or Terri.
tory, "anG secure admission in such court.
Wyoming, we believe, allows women to
practice law in the highest courts or an
equality with men. and that territory
will be the Mecca for some time of all
lady aspirants to the honors Of admission
to practice in the Supreme Court of the
United States. 1t will raise the somewhat
question delicate in many State Supreme
Courts which do ret favorably re-
gard the right or privilege of women to
practice law, whether license from the
highest court IN the Fedora Government
shall or shall not compel recognition in
all the State courts. There is no question,
however, that lady barrister holding q
license from the United States Supreme
Court will be entitled to practice in all
the United States Circuit and District
Courts. - ChTOnicle.
Year: 1879

TILDEN's STATEMENT. - The New
York Titbune'S editorial on Tilden has
the following points The whole world
sat at the reporters tables to catch the
faint whispers that fell from the worn and
haggard old man. With the lock of a
corpse, except in moments of excitement;
with slow, far away voice, ard slow,
painful movements, dropping the lett
eyelid, the parchment-like cheeks and
quivcring hand, Tilden repeated his state
ment-evidently prepared with great care
in a voice much of the time hardly au-
dible four feet away. His manner showed
Intense and increased nervous excitement,
by great effort restrained his body rose
and fell in the seat INCREASINGLY, as if he
were try ing in vain 10 rise, and his seem
ingly half useless left arm. shook like n
leaf. Then his excitement burst all
restraint his face flushed almost purple;
his lip quivered; bis right arm repeatedly
smote the table with great force and pas.
sion, and his voice rang through the
room with most painful intensity, like the
shrek OF drowning man. After every
such effort the sentence died away, as if
the voice WAS stopped by closing waters.
The effect was almost that of death bed
declaration. Had tie matter thereof
equalsd in force the solemnity of manner,
this deelarOtion would have had great
effect net, indeed, that the people would
have been more ready to lift to the Presi-
dency a man so broken and so manifestly
living only in bitter and torturing memo.
ries-but the matter wGs by no means
equal to the manner in impressiveness
nor could an unprejudiced hea rer avoid
contrasting the declarations of Tiden
with his own admitted conduct towards
men whose deeds Gil dark page in the
history of the country. Tiden's testi-
mony was doubtless as strong as, after
four months of preparation and consulta-
tion, it was possible to mako it. That
1t was not exceedingly strong was due to
the inherent and insuperable difficulties
of his position.
Year: 1879

THERE has been much talk ard not
without some reason, rs we are assured.
of union between the Workingmen and
the Democrats, on the condition that the
latter may have the Congressman and the
former the Legislature, Governor and
other State officers and it is intimated
in certain quarters that the Republicans,
fearing such coalition. may themselves
offer somewhat similar terms .--,Sdc. Bee.


We are of the opinion that the intima-
ton above referred to will not meet the
approval of any considerable number of
Republicans in this State. AS an humble
member Of that great party, having its
interest and success at heart, we enter our
protest against any fusion or coalition
Whatever. If the Republican party can
not win on its merits, with Republican
candidates, let US rejoice in defeat.
Year: 1879

PLEASE E'T.-The Sacramento Bee
says There are many who urge that
Greed Raymond should be selected to head
the Republican ticket which, rs thoy say
would insure victory 20 that patty, while
MS it is il looks doubtful at least." WhiIo
We personally entertain feelings Of great
respect for Mr.. Raymond and bow in
recognition of his ability as an attorney
and an advocate, nothing would do moro
violence to our political feelings than TO
see man of his previously pronounced
ultra Democratic views placed at the
head ofthe Republican State ticket. Such
suggestions are SIMPLY ridiculous and
must not be entertained for n moment
California is n Republican State and
nothing short of stra ;ght and unquestion-
able partisan nominations will secure the
united and enthusiastic support Of the
voters of our party.
Year: 1879

THE Chicago Nc'eS, little one-cent
daily, bat as full Of spiced meats as II
cocktail is Of comfort, reduces the thing
to its essence thus: "a burglar enters
your house in the night time and says
Now I've got you Don It move If
you move I'll knock your brains out !
Give me all you possess, and be quick
about it, You defy the burglar, and in


vite him TO come on anl try his hand at


it. For n time the burglar has the best


of the fight, but finally you get your
work in on him, so to speak, and before
he can say Jack Robinson, his nose is
BACKED, mis- sides are punched in, and he
retires from the house feeling quite un-
well. Next day the burglar calls upon
you and presents claim Of $4,000 for
damages sustained by him while he was
endeavoring to rob your house. OF
course you kick him out. This is the
Southern war claim story in a nut shell. -
Year: 1879

MR.. SHAFTER said that before lie came
into tho Convention he had been solicited


by the authorized agent Of the Central


Pacific TO support this Commission scheme
and he had declined. He said the men


who were bowling the .oudest about this
measure were the enes who were doino
The work Of the railroad, and they were
doing it well. He believed it was in the
interest of the railroads. He said those
ot the sand lots who had at first opposed
!: are nowin favor of it. and it is wei


known fact that the king OF the city o
San Francisco and LELAND Stanford haC
been known to have consulted together
upon this subject. He did not know
what connection this m ight have with The
subject. but If there was any DEVILS wor,
in IL, the gentlemen might look TO that
quarter for it.-Record- Union reports.
Year: 1879

Nor A CANDIDATE.-W We desire TO
say once and TOR all, that we are not a
cand date for Secretary Of State, nor for
any other office before the Republican
State Convention. OF which we do hope
every one interested W i'll take due notice
and govern themselves accordingly
MGTcuS /. BOTuck.
Year: 1879

MANY of our exchange object to the
Convention limiting the session of the
Legislature to sixty days. 1t occurs to
us that the large quantity of legislation
enacted by the Convention leaves very
little for future Legislatures to do. The
New Constitution is veritabe multt,n
IN Fa'ro, and its adoption will render
even the Codes unnecessary.
Year: 1879

THE State Of Nevada is the only one in
tho Union with no debts and money IN
the treasury. Stale Treasurer Crockett
bought the last of the State bonds last
week, paying n small premium for them
Reno Gazette.