smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

It is high time that the honest, orderly,
1aw-nbiding, and tax-paying people OF Chlca-
60 should organize for the spring campaign
or they will find when it is too late that
thew are. once moro in the hands of the
bu1nmers and at their mercy. There is a
movement already on foot in this city, in
nugnrated and organized by the hummer
element and its leaders, to run CoLv1S into
the Mayoralty again. They think, now that
the city finances have been restored to
somewhat healthy condition, that things are
beginning to move smoothly again, and that
the people, having had long rest from
= their thievery and p1under, will have for
gotten their past miserable condition, that
they (the bummers) caa quietly slide into
office again if they take time by the forelock
and have another good year of stealing


They are seeking to make headway BY going
to the police, the hremen, and other city
employees whose wages have been re-
duccd owing to the former stealinss
of these very bummers, and saying to
them: '*Put Co1vM into Office and elect his
old crowd, and we will put up your salaries
again. We will re-employ those who have
been discharged. We will re-establish the
sinecures. We will make more offices. We
will issue scrip, levy additional taxes, and
We will all have good time together" :"
This is the substance OF their argument.
CoLyN is to be the fgure-head, and the old
ring and regime are to be replaced in power
and renew their high old times. It is diff
cult for them now to raise money for the
wine suppers and jamborees which they en-
joYed in CoLv1N's time. They are hungry,
dry, and anxious to get once more at the
pickings and stealings. When they were
driven out Of Office by the indignant tax
payers and honest people Of this city, they
had shipwrecked the city's credit and left
everything in confusion and almost in ruin
Now that the credit has been patched mp by
our business men, and the pressure upon
the Treasury has been relieved somewhat
by economy and honest management, and
choking off the thieves who had been plum
dering it, CoLvu and his crowd are making
a desperate effort to get into power again II
the people of this city do not want repeti-
ton Of Gowns disgraceful. dishonest. scan-
dalous Administration if they do not want
their taxes piled up On them to be squandered
among these ravenous bummers, if they do
not want the city credit damaged again and
the City Treasury drained, they must be up
and doing, for the old gang of thieves and
scoundrels are already in the field.
Year: 1877

Keep the hair clean, in the first place,
and avoid the use of ponades and hair
oils. Nature provides all the OIL re-
quired to develop its natural gloss and
inherent beauty. But she does not open
the oil glands without demanding some
effort on the part of the recipient of the
treasure Continuous brushing is the
price to be paid, and this requires moth
ing but patience and perseverance,
Neither should the time devoted to this
purpose be looked upon as wasted, for
air-brushing has specially soothing
and quoting influence. Fifty strokes of
the brush before retiring Will make the
stiffest and dryest hair plant and glossy.
The experiment is worth trying, and, if
persevered in, will doubtless prove sue
cessful, while the dose may be increased
with still more decided effect.
Year: 1877

RoBBING CABBAGE OF ITs ODoR.-It is
said that linen bag containing a large
morsel OF the soft part OF bread viii, ii
boiled with cabbage, deprive the latter
of its acridity and disagreeable odor.


RHUBARD PR.-Peel and cut the
stalks quite small into rich paste, put
a layer OF rhubarb, then a deeper layer
of sugar, sprinkle with nutmeg or cinna-
mon, lay on several small pieces OF but
ter and cover.


To Cook SPINACH free from
dirt and grit and boil twenty minutes IN
salt and water Add small lump of
soda to give handsome color. Drain
well and chop as fine as powder. Add
butter, salt, a little pepper and nutmeg,
and garnish with hard-boiled eggs, cut
up III various shapes.


STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE.-One quart
OF -four, half a cup of butter, two spoon
fuls Of sugar, two teaspoonfuls OF yeast
powder, -four to roll. Split open, spread
with butter, then thickly with strawber-
Year: 1877

[ was breakfasting i'll restaurant
when all on a sudden the door opened
with loud noise and Cossack rushed
in like hurricane. After promenading
noisily around the tables he pulled up
his horse before one of the guests, and
placed the animals nose on a plate of
green salad which had just been brought
out and which the horse ate with great
CELEBRITY Then man and horse departed
just as they came, without any person,
not even the proprietor of the establish
ment, saying a single word. Perhaps it
was because the Cossack held in his hand
the kinjat, whose strokes would cost him
nothing. Later on L spoke of this Incl
dent to the ald-de-camp of an ALBANIAN,
who simply laughed and said, "What
surprises me is that the Cossack did not
make his horse get up on table" See
ing that [ was astonished, he called a
Cossack who was waiting in. the yard.
The soldier came in on horseback with
out hesitating. The officer spoke but a
single word, and, in less time than it
takes me 60 write it, the Cossack made
his horse mount the billiard table [
insisted on no more, for this experience
was enough to edify me.-KischeneD
Cor. NeaU York Herald.
Year: 1877

The poorest girls in the world are those
who have never been taught how to work.
There are thousands of them. They
have been taught to despise labor, and
depend upon others for living, and are
perfectly helpless. The most forlorn and
miserable woman on earth belongs to
this class It belongs to women to pro-
tect their daughters from this deplorable
condition. They do them great wrong
if they neglect it. Every daughter
should be taught to earn her own living.
The rich as well as the poor require this
treatment.
Year: 1877

fies, then sprinkle with sugar. then put
ON the upper half, crust down, spread
with butter, berries and sugar, and cover
all over with large pad, to steam and
soften while hot. Eat with cream.


MUFFINs Three pounds of flour, one
quarter pound of yeast powder, three
eggs, half pound of sugar, three ounces
of butter. Mix the powder dry in with
the flour; in another pan rub the sugar
and butter well together, then add the
eggs and beat to thin batter; then add
the fvs,r and wet with milk; beat thor
oughly; fill the rings and bake in a quick
oven. These mullins are good cold as
well as hot.


TO MAKE PAsTE.-A fine paste for
scrap-books can be made from alum
water and flour. A teaspoonful and a
half of pounded alum dissolved in
enough cold water to make q pint of
paste. Pour the water, when the alum
is all dissolved, on to enough -four to
thicken it as stiff as common paste,
bring it to a boil, stirring all the time,
and, when done, add few drops of the
oil of cloves.


VEAL LoAF.-NIince cold roast veal as
fine as possible, add one-fourth fat ham
chopped very fine, one cup grated bread
crumbs, one grated nutmeg, two beaten
eggs, little salt and Cayenne; mix
well, form in loaf, glaze over with eggs
and sprinkle with bread crumbs; bake
half an hour; serve with roast veal
gravy, heated, and thickened with a
beaten egg put in just before serving.


AsPARAeUs-Th fresher the better,
and all stalks not crisp and tender should
be thrown aside. Cut off the white
parts, tie the rest in punches and boil,
with little salt in the water. for almost
twenty minutes then take out and drain
q minute, lay in deep dish Oh slices
of buttered toast, the heads all one way,
covered with a rich drawn butter. Or
the stalks may be cut in inch pieces,
boiled tender; then seasoned and cooked
for a few minutes longer in thick
cream.


COFFEE CUsTARD. one quart OF
milk with five spoonfuls sugar. Add one
cup very strong hot coffee, four beaten
eggs, one half cup corn starch, rubbed
very smooth, in a little cold milk. Stir
well till smooth, put into cups, and when
cool ornament with the beaten whites,
just before serving. Another good
method is to crush the coffee grains
coarsely, and add one spoonful to the
boiling quart of milk; then proceed as
in an ordinary boiled custard, and, strain
into cups.


To DRY CHERRIES. cherries will
soon be here, those wishing to dry them
will doubtless be satisfied if they follow
this plan: Cherries intended to be dried
must first be stoned, then spread on fiat
dishes, and dried in the sun or warm
oven pour whatever juice may run from
them over them, little at time stir
them about, that they may dry evenly.
When perfectly dry, line boxes or jars
with white paper, and pack close in lay
ers. Strew little brown sugar and fold
the top OF the paper over them, and
keep in a dry, sweet place.
Year: 1877

Much of the charity that begins ut
home is too feeble to get out of doors.


Why is a soldier like vine? Because
he is listed, trained, and forced to shoot


THE happy days at last have come,


The weather is getting warmer,


The Ulster now is laid aside,


And you yourself on the corner.


ALL other signs may fail; but when
you see woman with a straw hat on her
head, drop of whitewash on her nose,
and an expression of great executive
ability on her features, you may bet that
the season of ethereal mildness is at
hand.


The present elevated system of bon
nets has the great drawback that man
who sits behind one in the church thinks
he is hidden from the rest of the
congregation, and never puts anything
into the contribution box-NOr,Uich
Bulletin.


A MINISTER was telling a young girl
who was about to become a bride that
she must remember that the man
and wife are one. "Lord !" said she,
eff you were under my father and moth
ers window when they were quarreling,
you'd-think there were at least Dozen"


Up in GIen's Falls they are discussing
the question "In social gatherings,
what lntueement can be substituted for
dancing and card-playing 2" Why,
plenty Trot in half dozen absent
peoples regulations for instance, and
the evenings enjoyment will be simply
perfect.


An exchange says editorially: ga
woman is superior to man in all those
operations which bring the emotional
nature into play Any one who has
witnessed the operation of a flank attack
on an urchin by woman with slipper
will readily acknowledge the truth of the
observation.


The kind and gentle breeze that fans
our cheek, and moves the timid violet to
our notice, is the same power that lifts
the coat-tail of the youth of the land and
bctrays ight-colored patch set in the
seat of black pair of pants-a monu-
ment to remind us OF mothers love and
the hard times.


A LAWYER and a parscn were talking
about which way the wind was. The
former said, "We go by the Court
House vane" ''And we," replied the
parson, ego by the church vane. p"
"Well," said the lawyer, "in the mat
te1 of wind that is the best authority p
And the parson went home to cogi-
tate.


PEOPLE are never satisfied with things
as they are. Give them one and they
ask for two; give them two and they
wonder why you didn't give them three.
They are like the boy who thought he
could improve the Lords prayer by
making it read, "Give us this day our
daily bread-and butter, with a little
cake and some apples for dessert.
Year: 1877

THE TRIBUNE Office is the only one in the CITY
run by steam power, and has the largest and
best appointed Job Printing Department. Par
ticuiar attention paid to orders for fine work.
Year: 1877

The sequel Of this ghost story has come out.
The yeung lady was taken sick, and the
father, very much alarmed, took counsel with
his fears, and went to consult an old woman
in the neighborhood Who had the reputation
Of being fortune teller in regard to the mat
ter. This dispenser of fate, after much i'm
pressive ceremony, feeling of pulses, and ex-
amining of hands. together with operations
of stars, and of the state of the weather,
finally decided that it was the Devil himself
who had put in an appearance. She advised
Year: 1877

"irresistible,") y "and she speak German
to break my heart. She should not ought
to, with her husband not dead"


Evidently he could not divest himself
Of the idea that Mary was in some way
to blame for AIr. Murphy's unexpected
appearance.


Brunhilda actually cried for sympathy,
and took a melancholy pleasure in run
ming to the door for our letters. But
such is the ingratitude Of human nature
that she was probably compared, some
what to her disadvantage, with the lost
one.


About six months elapsed, when we
one day encountered our blighted friend
with a fair haired little woman clinging
to his arm, and looking very happy. She
was evidently German, and as evidently
his Wife; and he subsequently informed
us that she was an old sweetheart who
had followed him from home She had
arrived Just at the right time to act as Il
poultice for wounds inflicted by "that
little woman with the dreadful smile


This arrangement naturally "made
things comfortable all around with the
exception, perhaps. Of two lone women
who had lost treasure that could not be
rtplaGtd.
Year: 1877

A very wicked man killed himself in the
lower level of a Nevada mine, and west
ern exchange very coolly concludes an
account of the suicide with: "Thus his
alleged soul was saved over half mile of
transportation"
Year: 1877

A Hoboken lady, in yawning, recently,
put her jaw out Of joint, and it was two
days before the doctor could put it in its
place again. Her husband said he hadn't
had such a vacation before since he was
married
Year: 1877

The greatest light house in the world
one Of the seven wonders OF human
creation, was the Colossus of Rhodes, an
immense brass statue erected before the
Christian era. 1t was so large that the
legs extended to either side of the port
mouth, and the largest ships could pass
between, with full sails set. Its right
hand was a furnace for fire, a sea light,
for the benefit of commerce, which was
reached by winding stair case. 1t was
simply enormous in height and all its pro-
portions on a grander scale than has ever
been attempted since Like the pyramids
of Egypt, it leaves us to wonder how the
ancients were able to raise such stupen-
dous weights; for when it was shaken
down by an earthquake it required 800
camels to remove what fell upon the land,
while what fell into the sea remains there
vet, so far as we know
Year: 1877

How II ta CuItiVAled I'm France, and


the sort OF YOung Men who FuT-


chase American HeiEesses with


their Titles.


The Paris correspondent of the
New York Tribune writes: AS
Partisan civilization has exercised
so strong an attraction over a large
portion of the American public,
and as the female part Of that pub
lie has certainly not improved by
its admiration for the brilliant APP
pearance of the supper ten thous-
and in France, perhaps it might
not be altogether uninteresting to
show what the fashion is after
which a so-called gentleman" is
brought up now in the country of
Voltaire. 1t is just within posi-
bility that had American fathers
known q little more of the train
ing of the young gentlemen in this
country they might have been less
eager to purchase aristocratic names
for their daughters at the cost of
fortune, good fame, and happiness.
Let us take, from his earliest age, u
son of some family with a high
sounding title, and let us chronicle
impartially what the process is
which is gone through to "make a
man of him." He is, first of all,
as soon as he can talk and walk,
made a show of, and drilled to be
an actor in the midst of other ac-
tors, He is a great deal with SER
wants who tlatter him, and teach
him to think that the externals Of
life are alone Of any importance,
He opens his eyes to acts Of busi-
ness, and his ears to words Of false
hood from the moment when he
can observe anything. He sees his
own attendants cringe to his pa.
rents and abuse them loully behind
their backs. He learns no good Of
his parents from those around him
and when he comes to study thos,
Year: 1877

BoAOANo buOlAoClNNc, NOSo llC uuQ III
them anything to correct the esti-
mate in which they are held by the
hired menials of their household?
There is the one great question, and
it must be answered in the negative.
No. He finds nothing in those of
whom he is born that should induce
him to think they have been cal
Illuminated by their hirelings. The
first thing that must strike him is
the identity of tone and feeling
between the salon and the ante
chamber-as also the fact that i'm
presses any student of modern
France, must necessarily be, that
all so.called "high" society has
been turned into one vast ante
chamber, with the same peculiar
feelings and habits, and the same
vices belonging to those whose trade
it is to live upon the master whom
they hate. This explains much of
the facilities of arbitrary rule.


The next stage in the young gen.
tleman's life is the stage tuition;
but here begin the complications
which unavoidably unfit him from
ever being a citizen-a man. If
not educated at Rome by a priest,
he is sent as an outdoor pupil to
some college which is under eccle-
siastical rule; or if made a perma-
nent indoor pupil, he goes inaIlibly
to one of the Jesuit's establish
ments. Wherever it may be that
he is sent or trained, the basis of
his education is hostility to knowl-
edge. Let this never be forgotten,
for it explains almost everything.
From two points of view he is led
to condemn and despise instruction;
from the point of view Of religion
he is taught that science is impiety
it is the work Of the devil; from
the point of view of society, it is
subverSive, demagogical, revolu-
tionaryl The real mark of a per-
feet gentleman, of one of those in
contestable "chiefs" such as were
the forefathers of the youthful stu
dent, is to do nothing aud learn
nothing, and to govern all the
inferior mortals whose condition
obliges them to act and to acquire
knowledge. The great principle of
the priestly education, now nearly
universal in France among the up
per classes, is that of sequestration
from the public, Whatever is pub
lie is looked down upon. The
public is vulgar, it is noisy, rough,
meant only to be governed by force.


When the object of all these ter
rible mistakes comes to the age of
four or fye-and.twenty, he is sought
to be richly "placed." Then comes
the moment for transatlantic fa-
theirs and mothers. 1t is no longer
asked as Of yore, for English heir
esses. | scarcely know for what
reason, but the British female is
rather at a discount; and the enor-
nous demand is for American mar
riageable girls. A Frerch mother
walks into the salon of her friends,
whose "day" it happens to be, and
quietly, in a kind of half whisper,
says to the mistress of the house,
'Do you know Nine. So-and-so?
She knows all the American colony.
Couldn't she find me an American
heiress?" There is no disguise about
the transaction; it is all very rela-
lively frank and open.
Year: 1877

open space in front of the little
verandah, the body of young
man with his head half severed
by a sword cut. His name was
Jordon-oglon Geordi. l forgot to
mention that my friend picked up
two bullets in the house where /
found the blood-stained chemise,
fattened and with bone adhering.
They are on the table before me as
| write, and have been fired from
Remington. We then drove ont
into the country, and in the plain,
about quarter of a mile out, we
came across the body of a man
who had been apparently making
hay, or perhaps had been driving i
hay cart The condition in which
we found him does not permit of
description. His head was also
battered to pieces. After this time
failed us, and, amoreover, sicken-
ing horror had taken hold Of US,
which it will take a long time to
eface. But our guides were, and
are still, anxious to conduct us to
all kinds of places, guaranteeing
the like awful Spectacles. / may,
out of curiosity, prosecute my re-
searches further, but no further
evidence is necessary for me. What
matters it whether the number is
ten, twelve, fifty or a hundred? To
each of these creatures the ex-
treme agonies Of human life-death,
dishonor and mortal pain = had
been awarded; and what more
could they have suffered?


Having given in detail what our
researches lead to, | must now sum
up the evidence which has con-
yinced me that this massacre was a
d-blooded, undeserved attack by
the Bashi- Bazouks on the defense
less Bulgarians. To begin with,
not one single Turkish corpse has
been or, apparently, can be pro-
duced.


AS to the numbers OF the people
actually killed at Yeni Saghra in
the massacre of the 15th-16th
have no means Of forming an idea,
for many people that are now sup
posed to be dead will turn up again
when the troubles are over as they
did after the massacres Of 1876
Nor can the numbers given by the
people be even approximately true.
as they vary from ten or twelve tc
five hundred. 1t is quite true,
though, that a number of girls arc
missing who fled from the town
and as | went among the people
and my dragoman cross-questioned
a great many of them, | think that
We got at the truth about some o.
these things. Twas struck with the
singular look of despair and alarm
on many of the faces of the women
and of one in particular who had
received most brutal outrage shall
not easily forget the expression.
She was very fine woman of FIVE.
and-twenty, with a figure of great
beauty, tall and straight, with a
most remarkable face. When try
ing to discover any one authentic
case Of a woman having been out.
ragged, this woman was pointed out
to me by a man called Basilike
who had been one of the wealthiest
men in the town, an engineer and
architect. 1t appeared that from
this unfortunate woman's beauty
and social position, and from the
publicity of the horrible affair, il
was an impossibility to throw ovel
it that veil of silence with which
they all naturally strive to hide
their own shame. The woman un.
mistakably showed more despair
and a more painful expression ol
shame about her than almost any
of them.ss
Year: 1877

Insects Formed From Leaves.


A plant has been newly found IN LUX


hipur (f1indossan), the leaves of which
turn very much to the shape of grass


hopper in proportion as they grow old.


till all the parts of the insects so formed


become fully developed; and each leaf
forming, q separate insect issues OF very
beautiful appearance. This plant is known
to grow by itself, and no second plant has
vet b. en- seen to grow from it. A gentle.
man in whose house that plant was found,
noticed it from time to time. and care
fully watched the progress of the in
sects forming from the leaves. One day
seeing certain leaves In form of f.insects fly
|out from the plant, he resolved to gel
hold of some of them IT possible, IN order
that he might show them 70 his friends,
who would not otherwise believe him.
With this object in yiew he set about the
task in earnest, and IN . short time sue
(ceeded in producing two or thsees insseaa
Ito the utter astonishmsnt Of his friends