smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

A correspondent wishes the receipt
given some years since for the white
wash used on the east end of the White
House. For her benefit and the benefit
of others, it is repeated:


Take one half bushel of unslacked
lime, slack it with boiling water; cover
it. during the process to keep in the
steam. Strain the liquor through a
fine seive or strainer, and add to it a
peck of salt, previously well dissolved
in warm water, three pounds of ground
rice, boiled to thin paste one-half
pound of powdered Spanish whiting,
and one pound of clean glue, which has
been previously dissolved by soaking it
well, and then hang it over slow fire
in Il small kettle within larger one
filed with water. Add five gallons of
hot water to the mixture, stir it we'll,
and let it stand few days covered
from dust. 1t should be put on hot,
and for this purpose it can be kept in a
kettle on portable furnace. 1t is said
that about pint of this mixture will
cover a square yard upon the outside
of house, if properly applied. Fine
or coarse brushes may be used, accord
ing to the neatuess of the job required
1t answers as well as paint for wood
brick or stone, and is cheaper. 1t re-
tains its brilliancy for many years
There is nothing of the kind that will
compare with it. either for inside OF
outside walls. Buildings OF fences COW
cred with it will take much longer tC
burn than if they were painted with oil
paint. Coloring matter may be put in
and any shade desired. Spanish brown
will make reddish pink when stirred in
more or less deep according to the guam
tity. A delicate tinge of this is very
pretty for inside walls. Finely pulver-
lied common clay, well mixed with
Spanish brown, makes reddish stone
color; yellow Ochre stirred in makes
yellow wash, but chrome goes further
and makes color generally esteemed
prettier. 1t is difficult to make rules
because tastes are different; it woult
be best to try experiments on IA shinglC
and let it dry. Green must not be mix
ed with lime; it destroys the color ant
the color has an effect on the whitewasl
which makes it crack and peel.
Year: 1877

Smiling, bright-eyed seraph bent
Over an infants dream;
To view its mirrored form he lent
As in the crystal stream.
Fair infant, come" he whispered low.
And leave this earth with me;
To bright and happy land Wen 60
This is no home for thee.
Each sparkling pleasure knows alloy,
Nor clOudless skies are here;
A care there is for every joy,


For every smile, a tear.
The heart that dances free and light
May soon be claimed by sorrow;
The sun that sets in calm tonight,
May rise in storm tomorrow
Alas! to cloud brow so fair


That griefs and pains should rise
Alas that this dark world of care
Should dim these laughing eyesl
ITO seek brighter land with me,
Infant thou wilt not fear;
For pitious heaven the sad decree


Recalls, that sent thee here"
1t seemed on him the sweet babe smiled,
His wings the seraph spread,
They're gOne-the angel and the child!
Poor mother! she is dead


From Hymns from the Land of Luther
Year: 1877

NAsT's HAND.-The disappearance of
Thomas Nast's work from the pages of
Harper's Weekly has given occasion
to very general remark. A well-known
artist, whose work frequently appears
in the Weekly, conjectured that the af-
fectiOn was not caused by the use of
chalk hut by white lead. He explained
that MI. Mast differed in his method
from other artists, in that he drew his
sketch on the block in the first place,
instead of on paper. To do this he had
the CLASSY surface of the block covered
with a coat of white lead mixed with
gum. When this had dried the sketch
was put on it rudely with pen. Then
the white lead was washed off, the ink
in the meantime having soaked through
the thin film and stained the block.
Then the artist gave it another coat of
white lead. After this had dried the
ink lines showed family through it.
Then Mr.. Mast finished the picture with
a pencil, and passed the block over to
the man who was to cut it. As often
as line was made over the film of
white lead with IA pencil some of it was
scratched off. 1t thus happened that
the tender skin of the wrist was fire.
quently rubbed over this poisonous
dust, and that some of it was absorbed
through the pores. Mr.. Nast's double
application of white lead to the block
exposed him more than other artists to
It's deleteriOus effects.
Year: 1877

"a Pay your mechanic good price
if you desire good job, and be sure
that you pay it to your home mechanic.
Do not send abroad for an article that
can just as we'll be manufactured by
your neighbor and fellow townsman,
the industrious and worthy mechanic.
He has right to claim your patronage.
He pays taxes, helps to support schools,
assists to sustain preaching and build
churches, and is live, active member
of the community. He lightens your
burdens, spends the money he earns by
honest industry for the support of his
family, among those who patronize him
He has a right, if he is a good workman
and citizens, to expect your aid and
patronage, for you are each dependent
upon the other as citizens of the samt
place.-BrOcktOn Gazette.
Year: 1877

LIFE.-If we die to-day, the sun will
shine as brightly, the birds will sing as
sweetly tomorrow. Business will not
be suspended Il moment, and the great
mass will not bestOw thought upon
our memories. ''Is he dead ?" will be
the solemn inquiry of a few, as they
pass on to their work. But no one will
miss us, except our intimate connec-
tions, and in "A short time they will for
get and laugh us merrily as when we
sat beside them. Thus shall we all,
now active in life, pass away. Om
children crowd close behind, and they
will soon pass away. In few years
not living being can say, 81 remem-
ber him." We lived in another age.
and did business with those who slum-
ber in the tomb. Thus is life! How
rapidly it passes.
Year: 1877

AN ARTFUL DoDGE.-A person was
recently sent to a bank for the purpose
of drawing money. Two men stood near
the place where he was counting over
the amount he had received, some s6OO.
One of the men remarked to him,
you've dropped five-pound note"
pointing to paper on the floor. "All
right, sir" was the reply; 'T'n just put
my foot ON it for the present." which he
did and continued counting his money.
1t was not till the sharpers learned that
Year: 1877

The COLORADO BEETLE.-At the
Richmond Surrey petty sessions yes
terday, the clerk (Mr. Josiah Cal tledge)
said that last week he laid before the
bench an Order in Council with refer
ence to the Colorado beetle. He asked
if the police had received any instruc-
ton on the subject. Acting Inspector


Clarke said that they had received in
structions to the effect that any person
finding Colorado beetle should give
notice thereof, to a police-constable,
the constable should give notice there
of, with all practical speed, to the local
authority, and the local authority should
give notice thereof by telegraph to the
Privy Council. "a laugh.) He asked
who was to be considered the "1ocal
authority" The clerk said he thought
the magistrates were. He observed


that while the Act prohibited keeping
the beetle, it did not state that it was
to be killed. He suggested that while
the "redtapeism" referred to was be-
ing carried out, the police should also
be instructed to kill the beetle if the
person finding it had not done so. The
magistrates gave instructions to that
effect to the acting inspector, adding
that the beetle should be destroyed in
such way as not to prevent its being
identified afterwards. London Paper
Year: 1877

A correspondent of Our Dumb Ami
mails writes as follows:


The most merciful way for both
mother and children is to take away all
the kittens as soon as born. The secret
is in taking them away Immediately.
If not allowed to nurse them, the cat is
not injured at all, and the kittens being
so young are dead almost as soon as
they touch the water, not making Il
sound or movement after being put into
pail of cold water. We have three
splendid female cats, one of them more
and three years old they never raised
kitten, and l am very sure that three
healthier happier cats could not be
found in New England. Within the
last week we have drowned thirteen
kittens but, being taken away so soon,
their mammals have not missed them,
either physically or mentally, and the
kittens were dead before they knew it.
How much better, we think, than keep
ing even one kitten to run the risk of
being tOrmented while young, and then
turned out to become a homeless wan
derer, or, peradventure, to be left to
"shift for themselves while the family
are from home in the summer. Some
of our friends and neighbors, during the
last two or three years, have adopted
this plan, and have been as successful
as we have, and believe with us that it
is far more merciful than the old-fash-
ioned custom of excepting one for the
mother" There is no fear of the feline
race becoming extinct in consequence
of the universal adoption OF this plan
the hope that the number of the un-
fortunate "wanderers" will be dimin-
ished.
Year: 1877

WHY They OFTEN FAIL.-YOung
men often fail to get on in this world
because they neglect small opportuni-
ties. Not being faithful in little things,
they are not promoted to the charge OF
greater things. A young man who gets
Il subordinate situation sometimes
thinks it is not necessary for him to
give it much attention. He will wait
till he gets place of responsibility,
and then he will show people what he
can do. This is very great mistake
Whatever his situation may be, he
should master it in all its details, and
perform all its duties faithfully. The
habit of doing his work thoroughly and
consicentiOusly is what is most likely
to enable Il young man to make his way.
With this habit, person of only ordi-
nary abilities would outstrip one of
greater talents who is in the habit OF
sighting subordinate matters. But, at
ter all, the mere adoption by a young
man, of this great essential rule of sue
cess, shows him to be possessed of su-
perior abilities.
Year: 1877

A NUIsANCE.-There is a class of crit
les that might with propriety be called
dog-in- -themanger critics-those who
do not do anything themselves or allow
others to do anything in peace. Almost
every community has specimens of this
class, and their lawful game are the
workers of the community. In theii
opinion, after thing is done, it is all
wrong. Ask their advice beforehand
and they have none to give, nor are
they willing to cooperate in advancing
an enterprise, but at every point they
can bark disapproval, always know
afterward that all the wrong
things that happen were going to
happen. IA cat may look on a
king" We can all criticise the Admin
istration, the conduct of a great news
paper, the policy of Bismarck and the
Car, and even the economy and wis
dom of the Divine Providence, but a
good maxim for everybody to bear in
mind is the ancient one: Ne sutOr su-
prd crepiddm, LET not the shoemaker
go beyong his last.'-TTibune.
Year: 1877

they were trying their game on a smart
fellow that they informed him that the
five-pound note was dropped by one of
them. Any thoughtless person would
have stopped for the note, and in all
probability have lost the best part of
f600,
Year: 1877

A Stove dealer in Hartford has died
of a slight cut made in one of his fingers
by piece of ordinary oxidized sheet
zinc. The zinc inflicted a poisonous
wound that in few hours affected the
whole circulation, and baffled the efforts
Year: 1877

of this idea, and in order to hold the trade of the United States at his command and control, ,gand for no other purpose; Lela nd Stanford and bis associates have built a road, with money they stole by mortgaging their Central Pacific road, from Los Angeles to Fort Yuma, and. from San Francisco to Fort Yuma, on the Colorado. Stan- ford & Co. knew when they built the road that it would never pay, and that in time it would have to be taken up and located in some different manner, and Stanford & Co. to-day know that they have got an elephant on their hands when it is known that by rail and steamer they cannot altogether carry into Arizona over 2G'OOO tons of freight, and they cannot expect to get, in the present crude and undeveloped state of the Terri tory, over W,o0C.

 They have bilked themselves and their bondholders deliberately and solely for the purpose of go- ing into Congress in a common pool with Thomas A. Scott-the most stupendous fraud that ever attempted to swindle a whole community, as he did San Diego, ! but, happily failed - and there humbugging the southern mem- bers, and those well disposed to a southern competing line of road to a free harbor on the Pacific coast into voting them forty mil lions of the peoples money, to go into the pockets of these frauds, and save them from insolvency, or at least one of them from open insolvency, the other having col. lapsed in '73. But the people of San Diego, few and weak as they may be, say the vile thing shall not be consumated. and they Will fight Leland Stanford, tooth, toe nail and hair, until his financial suicide is openly declared, his rot tenness being already. apparent. aud we have the means to fight with, toos AS long as there Is a fish in this bay or honey bee storing wealth for us, and the cattle and sheep of our mountains furnish this little people with a subsistence, so long shall we scorn an unholy alliance to rob a nation out of an open direct and com peting high way to the free port of San Diego, on the Pacific.

 Here is another vail from San Diego, published in the Ne'es. and also signed "Vox "- three articles by the same "Vox."

 The only way under heaven whereby San Francisco can ever hope to save the trade of Arizona is by assisting San Diego to build the one hundred and eighty seven miles of road to Yuma, ship goods here by water from all parts of the word. and we can save the territorial trade to this coast. As Stanford & Co. would have it, they ruin themselves and poison and stunt the growth of the Ter ritory. In the mean time eastern men and roads steal the trade.
Year: 1877

The following is from the San Diego News. The story about Hendricks we are surprised tosee printed in this Democratic journal at the time we thought it rather told against MT. H. or at least showed his ignorance of silver ores.

 And when San Diego speaks of her hitherto idol Tom Scott in such terms what are we to think of it's former advice to us to advo- cate his interests and the enc Mexican with his WheelbarrOW at work on our hill:

 Have you made. 8 pool with the virgin Tom Scott to com bine and steal an enormous subsi- dy, and leave San Diego and a compelling line out in the cold? Has thomas given you his right of way and land grant across Ari- zona, and the lands he tried to steal from San Diego to boot, in consideration of half the bonds to be guaranteed by Congress? If so, San Diego, in the interest of the nation and of competition will undertake to see that you make no delivery of the goods promis- ed. No nore fraud or sinking Credit Mobilier swindles in ours, if you please. Give us an honest bill for direct national highway to free port at the nearest point on the Pacific. by the most prac' ticable and direct route, is all we ask and all the nation will give. "A naked Indian passing, one of the railroad magnates said, that's the way we'll be going round af- ter we've put all we've got into steel rails" Many is the true word spoken in jest; and if they had spelled the word Stedi, and waited a year from now, when the next Congress shall have re- fused to sanction their big steal, and when all their notes had gone to protest as their partner Scott's did in Texas in 73, and the sheriff of San Diego county was flying up and down their desert railroad with a gang of vaqueros to try and lasso a locomotive to levy on, then the words of the gentleman would fit; and. we think, at about that time the breech clout of the poor Indian, at Yuma, will fit either one of the great desert steal railroad kings.

 How Poor San Diego with its brains" fish " and "hOney bees" does Writhe in its death throes.
Year: 1877

UNDER the head of [" local mat. ter" The Arizona Star has an article about eating jackasses J calls it "spicy morsel." This may be 8 fact thongh having seen it in the Stdr leads us to doubt it, nor did we know that 6asrros were a local dish at Tucson though thoroughly convinced that there are many there. Another local statement of the Star is; that uthe SENTINEL don't like military mo. nopoly" this much is true, we don't like any monopoly, but it goes on to say. "It likes private telegraph monopoly" This is the reverse of truth, we do not like it, though the chances are we should be better served than we have been hitherto - There being two lines of telegraph at present to Yuma from California. supple mented by the private wires of the s. P. R. R. Go. with a pros- pect of the western Union running in it's wires also, we are free from the baleful effects of a monopoly west of us; and we trust soon 10 be better served than we have been for the past month from the Eastward or that competing line will be pushed forward, and let us whisper it, we are informed there is good reason to hope there soon will be. Only this week a telegram from Prescott was twen- ty four hours in reaching us. <

 What makes the Star so fond of every thing military? we would suppose it had had enough before this. Its allusion to- our law know ledge is beyond us, we have never pretended to be posted, and per fectIy agree with the Star that we fought to be we'll posted in the law" we even wish the Star were also, for every newspaper ought to be.
Year: 1877

Any one who supposes that pilgrimages
are only made by persons who are fixed in
some religious faith will be speedily unde-
ceived if he consults railway ticket agents
whose trains make connections for Colum-
bus, Ohio Doubt may rear it's horrid front,
scientists may trample upon revelation, but
a large and energetic class in our midst re-
mains firm in it's belief in prophet and
though there is q trihing disagreement be-
tween them and us as to how the
word should be spelled no one
for that reason is less Industrious
in obtaining clean bills of orthodoxy
and hurrying off to Columbus to make their
calling and their election sure. 1t is barely
possible that this is one Of those cases in
quest is all that he will get fer his pains for
in the present imperfect condition of mathe-
matical science it is impossible to ascertain
how nation which has but q paltry
hundred thousand to fill can provide
places for the several millions of patriots
who long to loiter within reaching distance
of her Treasury. All of the pilgrims have
found the ''holy stone," for all of them
have found Governor Hayes doorstep, and
though none of them have seen the
prophets coffin most of them will have
had the consolation of seeing the burial
Of their own hopes. They are to be pitied.
These are hard times, and the government
is the only concern that thinks Of changing
help just now but those Of the pilgrims
who are condemned to the cruel fato Of
serving their country by finding work which
is paid for only according to the quantity
accomplished may get some consolation by
proving the accuracy of the announcement,
doubly applicable to those whose ''calls"
are issued only by themselves, 'Many are
called but few are chosen"
Year: 1877

virgiriu responsible for the bushwhacking
dc-,e p the neighborhood. Won Steinwehr
commanded division of the Eleventh
corps on the first day at Gettysburg. IL
was Howard's corps, but Howard, until
Hancock came up, was in command
on the whole field. That left the
command of the Eleventh corps to
Schurz. His whole division was advanced
to the north of the town and was nearly oil
lost there. In the emergency he sent an
order to Steinwehr to support him with the
other division. Steinwehr with his division
then held Cemetery HILL He could SEQ
from that point that to advance as ordered
would be to throw away one more division
and to sacrifice the key to splendid line
of battle. This was pointed out to Howard,
and Steinwehr was ordered to stay where he
was. 1t was Steinwehrs coup d'pil that first
caught the possibilities of the position. The
line Of battle was formed on his division.
Year: 1877

''He was tried at the Old Bailey" This
is an important sentence in the biographies
of a large number of distinguished English
men, many of whom have been hanged. 1t
is characteristic weakness of the people, S
taste in literature that they devour with the
greatest avidity those high seasoned dishes
that arc found in the criminal calendar, and
thus it happens that an uncommonly large
proportion of the distinguished Englishmen
with whose names they are familiar arc of
the sort referred to. In the history of Lon
don Justice in the chronicles of its various
social and political disturbances, and in the
sensational Jack Sheppard literature of
English origin the Old Bailey is SO famous
name that the place is recognized by the
outside world as one Of the monuments of
the great city; and we fear, indeed, that
there are many readers oblivious of nice de-
tails who would not distinguish accurately
between the Old Bailey and Westminster
Abbey. But the Old Bailey is, after all,
only the edifce adjoining Newgate Prison,
in which the sessions of the Criminal Court
are held; and the destruction Of the roof of
the edifce by fire, as reported in the
kilograms, is of no great consequence from
any point of view.
Year: 1877

secured by the untenable objections of demo-
cratic flibusters will react against the party.
We rejoice to see that the wisest democrats
in the House agree with all the democrats in
the Senate in deprecating and condemning
factious attempts to fight off q foregone con-
clusion.


In view of what took place in the House
yesterday we have no longer any doubt
that the tilibusters will be foiled in all their
revolutionary plans. Mr.. Hayes will be
declared elected two or three days before
the close of the session, will be quietly in
augurated, and the democratic filibusters be
ashamed of their lunatic and futile attempts
to defeat the purpose of a law for which
majority of their members in both houses
voted. The larger and sounder portion of
the democratic party will have reason for
congratulation that the factious filibusters
did not succeed in running its future
prospects.
Year: 1877

'sThe Treasury Committee Of the British
Parliament has submitted a report on me-
genealogical observations in which it sug-
gests the adoption of the American meteoro-
logical system" SO says our despatch from
Washington this morning. This unmistaka-
BILE and complete recognition of the supe-
riority approaching to perfection OF the
Signal Service system of the United States
by a committee representing the British
Parliament affords us just grounds for con-
graduating the country and General Myer on
the success Of the National Weather Bureau
at Washington. We who have for a long time
noted the marvellous precision with which
the Signal Service forecasts Of the weather
have been fulfilled throughout tho country,
can readily understand why the system of
observations employed in the United States
should attract the admiration of the world.
We know that men of the highest scientific
attainments manage this most important
department of the public service under the
direction Of General Myer. We also know
that the non-commissioned officers and
men of the service, on whose intelligence
and steady devotion to duty the perfect
operation of the system depends,
possess the highest qualifications for
that purpose. The introduction of the
United States system into the English
service Will have the excellent effect of es-
tablishing uniformity of working between
the two most important weather bureaus
organized, and cannot fail to be productive
Of greater safety to shipping, by rendering
storm predictions more accurate. We also
look forward to the perfection Of system
of international storm warnings. such as
that initiated with so much success by the
HERALD. Our efforts shall always be de-
voted to increasing the efficiency Of Ameri-
can meteorological science, because it must
exercise the most beneficial influence on the
prosperity Of commerce and agriculture.