smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

The first mistake which is made by
most men is in making wealth the OBJ
iect of their lives. But wealth, as we
know, does not give happiness. Veal
thy men do not because of their wealth
get happiness. The Vanderbilts, the
Stewards, the Astors, have not been our
happiest men. They are not the typical
men in the house they are not the typ
ical men in social life; they are not the
typical men in the delights of life, or
in the profession e88U Joys Joys men can know.
We can go down lower still, and find
the men who have only one million or
so. or half million, and they do not
type the happiness of American homes.
Go into their homes. How splendid,
how gorgeous, how gaudy they are, and
yet they cannot rival the little homes in
the love of husband and wife, in the
reverence of children for parents, in the
parents guardianship over children in
all the sweet happiness that affection
spreads about like fragrance through
the chambers of our homes. You know
that almost every American gets wealth
who chooses to, though he loses it again
perhaps; but he gets it. It is not
great proof of ability nor evidence of
success for man to get wealth in this
country and this age. Now, then, it
seems to US that if a young man should
picture to himself rather quiet house,
sunny place on some hillside, with
stretch of meadow in front, through
which courses a running stream, shad-
ed by pleasant trees, with loving wife,
a group of pleasant faced and virtuous
children, quietude of days and peaceful
ness of nights, health and cOntentment
of mind, that would be much better
than to set up fictitious standard and
to strive necessarily for it as though
you must reach it or be utterly undone.
Golden Rule.
Year: 1877

Never use anything but light blankets
as a covering for the sick. The heavy,
impervious cotton counterpane is bad,
for the reason that it keeps in the ex-
halations from the pores of sick persons,
while the blankets allow them to pass
through. Weak persons are invariably
distressed by great weight of bad
clothes, which often prevent their get
ting any sound sleep whatever
Year: 1877

A barber turned his new apprentice
loose with a seven by-nine razor on a
fat man. After the apprentice had
made several attempts at subsoil plough
ing on the fat mans face, and the latter
began to look like map of Peru after
frst-class earthquake. the Boss remarked
that it was all nonsense to find fault
because the boy was such little bit OF
a shaver.
Year: 1877

The friends of tho silver bill in tho
Senate are very confident that it will
pass that body by a decisive majority.
Senator Jones sAys that he knows
forty-four Senators who will vote for
it's passage; that he believes it will go
through when vote is reached, by over
a two-third's vote. Opponents of the
bill assert they can prevent any action
At this session. 1t is very probable thu
tho finance committee will dispose OF
the measure at their meeting to.dny.
Year: 1877

THE STRIKE on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad has become general and
extended to all along the roads from Mar
tinsburg to Chicago. The leaders appear
to be men of the worst character and
following the course of the most violent
of the French and English communists.
have raised the cry of bread aud starva-
tion. 1t is perfectly ridiculous that this
cry Of starvation should be made to co7er
violence and bloo1shed at such time as
this, in the region of country where it is
raised, in the face of the fact that the
crops of vegetables, grain and fruits
were never more abundant, nor so cheap
for many years. The voice thai raise
the howl of starvation and at the same
time points to the high price of fieur, is
sure to be that of demagogue.


Strikes are injurious to all classes and
they damage the laboring people more
than any other. The present one should
be put down at once. The sooner this is
done the better it will be for the men en-
gagged in it. If they keep it up until
they expend all they have made, they will
then have to succumb, and it is far better
that they should make terms before they
are SO much reduced as to be unable to
do anything but take service for just what
is offared.
Year: 1877

AtAnchi, II, 600 feet above the Pacific,
the hand-car is loaded with its freight
of six adventurous sight-seers, closely
braced together. 1t is of the ordinary
construction and appearance, and does
not offer any temptations to a pleasure
excursion down the precipitous and
tOrtuous gorge of the Rimac, except
that it affords an unobstructed view Of
the shifting grandeur and terrors of the
route. As we descend in our rough
vehicle, at the rate of go miles an hour;
flying across aerial viaducts, or dashing
through sepulchral tunnels threatened,
now, to be crushed between converging
mOuntain-walls, or precipitated from
pendulous terraces, the foaming Ri
mae emulating the maddening speed;
now glancing back to take last look at
the glistening pinnacles of the receding
Andes; or, straining eagerly forward,
to catch the first glimpse Of the royal
city of the plain and the shining ocean,
the magnificence of the scenery and
the magnitude Of Mr.. Meiggs's achieve
mcnt break upon us with fresh force,
and not for any peril of the way would
we forego the eXhilaration and novelty
of the trip. Far otherwise was it with
one of the party,-a stately commodore.
He, who could face unfinchingly Il
whole broadside of murderous missiles,
sprang from the car after ten miles over
the widest part of the route, declaring
that nothing would tempt him to repeat
such fool-hardy experiment. For the
rest of MS, the excitement and eXhilara-
ton of this mode of travel became so
attractive, that we often went up to
Anchi for the sole purpose Of making
the down trip.-ScribRer.
Year: 1877

If you have something to attend to,
go about 1t coolly and thoughtfully, and
do it just as well as you can. DO 1t as
though it we're the only thing you had
ever to do in your life, and as If every
thing depended upon it. Then your
work will be well done, ard it will
afford you genuine satisfaction. Often
much more depends upon the manner
In which things, seemingly trivial, are
performed than one would suppose, or
than it is possible to foresee. DO every
thing well, and you will find 1t condu-
Give to your happiness, and that of those
with whom you come In contact.
Year: 1877

Well do | remember am inn of this


sort in the little seaport of Phocis, on


the coast of Asia Minor, formerly


PhOcaa, which sent a colony to found


Massilia, or Marseilles. We ran in


there to make a lee in a heavy gale, just


making the entrance to the harbOr al


nightfall, and very nasty, uncanny


night it was. We mOOred close to a


small, dilapidated quay, that jutted out


in front of coflee-hOuse, which al
though scarcely visible in the gloom,


we knew must be dirty, dilapidated,
and picturesque, like everything else
in a Turkish town, as it proved on
further inspection. 1t was dusky as a
cavern, except in the centre, where a
pan of Goals threw red CLEANS on the
grotesque features of a group of sailors
lying on tattercd mats around the fire,
wrapped in cdpoteS, and enyeloped in a
haze of tobacco-smOke. A few leaky
wine-skins and casks, two or three old
flint-lOcks, a number Of pipes, ndrgileS,
cOtiee-cups, and broken mirror set in
mOther-Of-pearl, seemed to complete the
outfit of the primitive hostel, which,
as indicated by the mirror, served also
as barber-shop and a surgery. In the
East the keeper of such hostel is eX


pected to act also as barber, and bar


Der is invariably practitioner of local
Importance, versed in phlebOtOmy, the
application of leeches, cupping, binding
up of wounds, and the lake. A COM
mon way of shaving in these shops is
for the barber to lay the head of his
customer on his knee, and, having
scraped one side of the face, to turn it
over and shave the other side. The
man who combines i'm one establishment
a tavern, barber-shOp, and "A surgery,
is naturally character of consequence
in his neighbOrhoOd, as one may often
see illustrated in the "Arabian Nights"


Equally entertaining in the retrospect
is the recollection of night spent at
small khan in the mountains Of
Arcadia. All of Saturday afternoon
we toiled up the gorges in Il terrific
thunderstorm, the lightning leaping
from crag to crag, accompanied by the
thunder's ceaseless roll. Across our
path rushed mOuntain-tOrrent, so
tOrtuOus that we fOrded it twenty times
between noon and night. Its bed was
dry when we first came to it, and the
last time we crossed it a furious, turbid
flood reached to the saddle-girthS,
threatening to sweep pus away. Drenched
to the skin, at dusk we reached little
hamlet, and Immediately took possession
of the wretched inn, consisting Of two
apartments, the stable, and, directly
over it, the room we slept in. A roar
ing fire was built; around it we dried
our bedding, as our eyes filled with
smoke, and our nostrils with the odors
of the steaming horses below; discussed
cold chicken, black bread, tea from our
tea-caddy-the faithful companion Of
our travels-and then to bed on the
floor, where, in spite of various other
Inconvenience, we slept as only the
weary can sleep.-Appletons' journal.
Year: 1877




These LipOvans, poor mutilated be-
ings, have resigned the joys Of home
and family, in obedience to rules of
their fanatical sect, and in exchange for
100 golden ducats, a carriage and pair
of horses presented as reward for their
self-sacrifice by the Starost and Synod
of their community. Honest, sober and
industrious, but stupid beyond express
sion, they have piled their trade for
years in the capital without learning
the names of the streets, not infre-
quently without acquiring word of
the language. DO you want to go any
where? Any attempt to explain would
be fruitless, even did you speak the
purest Russian; they look at you with
a vacant stare upon their broad, beard
less, Kalmuck faces, the only resource
left to either Roumain or foreigner Is to
pinch them on the side when you would
turn corner, in the back when you
have reached your destination. 1t is
not an encouraging element of progress,
and it is not surprising that the fierce
old Empress should have tried to stamp
out the heresy by the wholesale de-
structiOn of its disciples.
Year: 1877

1t is great misfortune to- have fret
ful disposition. 1t takes the fragrance
out of ones life, and leaves only weeds
where cheerful disposition would
cause flowers to bloom. The habit of
fretting is one that grows rapidly unless
it be sternly repressed; and the best
way to overcome it is to try always to
look on the cheerful side of things.
Year: 1877

done in return. people engaged in
such war as has occupied the Spanish at-
tention IN Cuba for SO many years Is In
somewhat anomalous intellectual condition.
1t is oblivious of every possible effect Of its
acts except the one it intends. There is a
somewhat musty anecdote of an Irishman
who, intending to strike salmon with the
spike on the end Of his scythe handle,
failed to observe that in handling his
implement in that way the blade OF his
scythe must inevitably reach his own neck
before the spike reached the salmon, and
who consequently decapitated himself with
the blow aimed at his game. Equally in
tent on the purpose aimed at by certain
foolish administrative measures of their own
government the Spaniards have not per-
ceived that those measures might have an
other effect, and it will be salutary opera
tion of our discrimination that they will
have their attention directly called to the
occasion that gave rise to it.
Year: 1877

In the effort to extend the sphere of use-
fulness of his department. General Myer,
Chief Signal Officer of the Army, has sue
ceeded in securing the cooperation of the
Navy Department. By this Arrangement
the officers Of all national vessels, in all
parts of the world, are required to make
regular meteorological observations at such
times during the day or night as
will correspond with the regular 1880
A. NJ observation at Washington. Thus
an enormous amount of valuable data
can be secured and forwarded to the Chief
Signal Office for study by its officers. We
are pleased to learn that this useful work is
about to be shared by the officers of some Of
the foreign navies, and that in q little time
most extensive system of observations at
sea will be made. Our Washington de-
spatches announce that the Spanish, Portu-
guese and Dutch navies have signi-
fed their intention to cooperate with
the Chief Signal Officer The HERALD
has persistently advocated the organi-
zation of such system. Indeed, we have
had for some time such one in operation
in connection with the HERALD weather SER
vice, and can earnestly recommend it as the
most practical means Of securing meteorolo-
gical data at sea. The fact must be recog-
nized that all nations have an equal
interest in the success Of such enterprises as
those inaugurated by the HERALD and the
Chief Signal Officer, and that every possible
aid should be extended to both the national
and the HERALD weather bureaus in the work
they have undertaken. By extending the
system of synchronous observations, SO as
to embrace all the countries and oceans of
the northern hemisphere between the Equa-
tor and the sixtieth degree of latitude, it is
certain that the most trifing disturbance
could not arrive at any point within the
area of observation without being announced
several days in advance. If we estimate the
advantages OF such system correctly, it is
worth oil the time, trouble and money that
it will cost to perfect.
Year: 1877

THE WEATHER.-We can now fairly claim
the fulfilmcnt of our prediction Of the 18th
regarding the storm progressing toward the
Atlantic coast through the Ohio Valley. The
separation of the two areas of high pressure
which were in contact is now complete, and an
opening for the storm toward the Atlantic
along n line of least resistance is effected The
conditions of the weather at present are as
follows:-The depression which presented its
advanced isobars in Texas has moved
slowly northeastward over the Mississippi
Valley and Is now central in the Ohio
Valley, south of Lake Erie. The pressure ut
the centre is not remarkably low, but is de-
crcasing the storm advances. An extremely
heavy rainfall ,occurs along the northern and
eastern margins, and the rain area attending the
storm extends from the Upper Missouri Valley
to the South Atlantic States and from New Eng
land to the Lower Mississippi Valley. On the
northwestern and southeastern sides Of the de-
preston the barometer is high, the pressure in
the former direction being unusually so. Hence
gales prevail at many points westward Of
Buffalo, blowing from the northwest and
northeast toward the centre Of lowest
pressure. The movement Of the storm will bring
its centre over New York and the New England
States, and it is probable that great freshets
may occur in the latter section if the rains con-
tinuc as heavy as they in the lower lake
district. In any case precautions should be
taken at once against accidents along the river
valleys Of Massachusetts and Connecticut. The
rainfall Of the past iortyeight hours cannot fail
to cause rise nj the Mississippi and its tribu-
taries far above the ordinary levels. When on
the coast the storm will be followed by heavy
northwestcrly gale. The weather in New York
and its vicinity to-day will be warm and cloudy,
Uith probably heavy rains.
Year: 1877

CONGRESS YEsTERDAY.-In the Senate, which
was the only branch Of Congress in session,
there was short debate on the motion of Mr.
Thurman to discharge the committee from the
consideration of the credentials of Mr.. Eustis
as Senator from Louisiana, which was finally
ended by the withdrawal Of the motion. The
credentials of all three contestants-Spofford,
Kellogg and Eustis-arc now before the proper
committee, and report is promised at IN early
day
Year: 1877

TIE VIOLATIONS OF THE EXCISE LAW need not
expect any favors at the hands Of Recorder
Hackett In sentencing some of the guilty deal
ers yesterday he approved the objects of the
Society for the Prevention Of Crime and de-
clared that the full penalty of the law would be
inflicted upon second conviction. Recorder
Hackett always keeps his word.
Year: 1877

WHILE THE SUBSCRIPTIONS to the Seventh
Regiment Armory fund have reached very
handsome figure large amount is still needed
to finish the building The committees ap-
pointed for the purpose of raising the balance
among our business will, it is to be hoped,
be successful.
Year: 1877

THE OPERATORS AND BRoK ERs in Wall street
are becoming decidedly belligerent, and accord
ing TO the reports elsewhere printed a pitched
battle may occur there at any moment. The
bulls and bears should not let their angry pas
sions rise in this way. If somebody must be
shot every time somebody else is cheated it will
be perpetual slaughter from one end Of the
rear to the other.
Year: 1877

NINETEEN PERSONS arc reported at Police
Headquarters as missing. They average all
the way from five to seventy-six years old, and
have disappeared since the beginning Of the
month Nine Of them appear to be children, who
have probably run away from school,
Year: 1877

EXCURSION TO LYNCHBURG AND THE TIR-
GINA CoNFERENcE.-It will be seen by ad.
Yertisement that the ladies OF Trinity
Methodist church will give an excursion to
Lynchburg on Tuesday next to attend the
session of the Virginia Conference, which
meets in that city. The price Of the tickets
for the round trip will be only five dollars,
aud good until the 26th instant, to return
on any train. This is a pleasant season, and
this excursion affords an opportunity to
visit Lynchburg, whether on business OF
pleasure, at rate which is considerably un.
der half fare. This session Of the Conference
will be q very interesting one, and will
doubtless attract large number OF the
friends OF the Church. Proceeds for the
benefit Of the church. Tickets can be pro-
cured at places designated in the advertise.
mpnt
Year: 1877

Registering drinks in Virginia, in
stead of the old license system, seems
to work charmingly, and to give equal
satisfaction to both the Excise man
and the liquor dealer. Nothing is
said, however, of the sttoper" himself,
but it is probable he does not enjoy it
quite AS much as the other parties.


BY this simple operation the State
realizes three or four times as much as
by the former system-and the liquor
dealer, in order to meet the two-and-a-
half cent tax levied on each drink and
save himself the trouble of hunting up
impossible small change, adds five
cents to the price of each drink.


The registering apparatus is a simple
machine, on which the saloon keeper,
by turning crank every time he deals
out a drink, records the number of that
drink and the key of the machine is
left with the Excise man who makes
daily rounds and collects every eve
ming the full amount of tho tax. The
tax in Richmond alone would amount
to one hundred thousand dollars Il year
and relieve the Safe from SO much con-
tribution toward the public debt. Un-
fortunately, there is Il formidable op-
position to the registry system on the
part of the manufacturers of malt and
fermented liquors, and a case is already
made up before the United States Cir
cult Court to test the constitutionality
Of the State law requiring the registry,
one ofthe principal grounds being that
the dealer himself is made forcibly II
collector for the State.
Year: 1877

beauty lNCo "ithiH nihoHSS'' Few people know how to be old. It is difficult to grow old grace fully.

 There will ever be place for virtue. Character is a perfectly educa- ted will.

 It is the height of an art to con ceal art.

 Virtues office never breaks mems troth.

 The eagle of one house is the fool of another.

 Books, like friends should be few and we'll chosen.

 The iron horse has but one ear > the engineer.

 They who have light in them selves will not revolve as satell- ties.

 The greatest truths are the sim plest; so are the greatest men. He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly.

 l. is good thing to learn eau tion from the misfortue of others. Beatty, unaccompanied with yir- tue is flower without perfume. The king is the least indepen- dent man in his dominions-the beggar most so.

 Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them, then, to bear with them.

 It is great eyIl not to be able to bear an evil.

 Be more prompt to go to afriend in adversity than prosperity.

 Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

 Many persons carry about their character in their hands, not a few under their feet.

 A man at church fair cried "I've got the oyster, give me the prizew

 Many q mans views have been at first nothing more than good qualities run wild.

 Anything may become natural to man; the rare thing is tofind a nature that is truly actual.

 Therearepersons who would be prostrate on the ground if their vanity or pride did not hold them up.

 They who do speak ill of them selves do so mostly as the surest way of proving how modest and candid they are.

 How few are our real wants, and easy it is to satisfy them. Our imaginary ones are boundless and unsuitable.

 Some goodness is like the glow worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes, except those of Heaven, are upon it.

 The first step to self.knowledge IS self-distrust. Nor can we at. tain to any kind of knowledge except by like process.

 Were all men Co bring together tAe.. 6ggdeGs of sorrow to be
Year: 1877

The letter of Mr.. Williams accepting the
nomination as candidate for governor rendered
him by the Democratic state convention is a
letter of explanation and apology. Mr.. vii
liams finds it necessary to apologize for the
fact that he stands upon Democratic plat
form and to reconcile his position to-day with
his position during the last twenty years. In
neither apology nor attempt at explanation
is he felicitous. His assurance that he has
tened to rejoin the Democratic party as soon
as it proved itself worthy of his company
will ill please Democrats who had rather die
than confess they have been politically wrong,
and his Interpretation of the second plank of
the platform will not commend itself to those
who delight to style Mr.. Hayes "his Fraudu-
lency the de facto President" and to call one
of the justices of the supreme court, cali
unde Joe.''


The letter of Mr.. Williams has not
changed the nature of the contest between
the two political parties in this State.
Indeed by his broad endorsement of the
st. Louis platform, with its call for the
repeal of the date clause of the resumption
act he emphasizes the action OF the
Democracy in uniting with the Somerset
greenbacSers and declaring against return
to an honest currency. By his gloss on the
second Portland resolution he avows his
belief that President Hayes did not carry
Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina at
the recent election and that the returning
boards in giving those States to the .Republi-
cans were guilty ofillegal and fraudulent acts.
There again he emphasizes the issue between
the two parties.


The people of Maine are called upon to
express their opinion on these points:
Shall we resume specie payments? Was
President Hayes chosen to his high office by
fraud? There is no doubt as to their
vardict
Year: 1877

THE shipment of dressed beef from this
tition at the start. The cattle of the Rio
Plata, which have hitherto been killed for
their hides and horns, now furnish cargoes Of
dressed meats for France, and it is hard to


say whether the cheapness of the South
American meat may not be more than an off
set for the odds of the longer ocean voyage
and the superior shrewdness of the Yankees.
Year: 1877

Upon the supposition that Mr.. Morton's
recent stroke might prove fatal, some of the
Democratic leaders in Indiana indecently be-
gan to plot for his place in the Senate. 1t is
stated that Blue Jeans Williams and Dan
VOORHEES, agreed between them that the latter
should be appointed. If anything could
rouse the sick lion to continued life, it would
be the knowledge that these jackals were
prowling around for his remains.