smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1879

The American Association for the adj
vancement of Science, recently in session
at Saratoga, is composed of a body of dis
tinguished scientific and learned gentle
men whose special business seems to be
the hearing and discussion of all new
themes and projects which advancedthink-
ers and inventors may bring before it.
The other day Edison, the noted inven-
tor, went to Saratoga and explained to
these gentlemen as well as he could his
new electro-chemical telephone. Those
who have been counting Edison as among
the conspicuous failures of the day. may
wake up some fine morning and find
they have been reckoning without their
host. A dispatch from Saratoga to the
New York Herald says of this new inven-
ton:


The telephone was operated from an
apartment in the building at some dis
tance from the hall. The difference be-
tween the new instrument and the Ordin
ary telephone consists in it's capacity to
convey the voice to a room full of persons
without any ear piece. The sounds of
the voices were very distinct, and one of
the most curious features ssof the expert
ments was the conveyance Of two voices
distinctly at the same time, the one sing
ing and the other repeating the al phabet.
Mr.. Edison stated that he could not at
tempt to explain the reasons for the re-
markable results obtained, as he did not
fully comprehend them himself. The
features of the instrument are the use of
carbon points, and, in obtaining the
wave, he explained that the current was
broken by the friction occasioned by the
revolution of a piece of chalk against the
metallic bar attached to the diaphragm.
Several thousand Vibrations of this were
produced in a second of time. The re-
volutions are produced by the turning OF
a crank worked by person in the room
to which the sounds are transmitted, thus
placing the transmission of sound in the
hands of that person. The chalk used is
saturated with solution of phosphate of
potash, which rather than any other salt
produces the required result. Mr.. Edi-
son could not explain why. He only
knew that he could not obtain results in
any other way. Mr.. Edison asserted his
belief that before long person making
speech in New York may be heard
through the electlo-chemical telephone
by hall full of people in Saratoga, or
that concert may be given at any place
by artists in another city. During the
experiments, the cornet was played, and
"John Browns Body''was sung and trans
mitted with perfect distinctness and
heard as plainly by all as if the instru-
ment and voices were in the room.
Year: 1879

A young gentleman happening to sit
at church in pew adjoining one which
a young lady occupied for whom he con-
ceived a sudden an violent passion, was
desirous Of entering into a courtship on
the spot, and the exigency Of the case
suggested the following plan: He polite
ly handed his fair neighbor Bible, open
with pin stuck in the following text
second Epistle of John, verse 5-"And
now beseech thee, lady, not as though
wrote a new commandment, unto thee,
but that which we had in the beginning,
that we love one another" She return
ed it, pointing to the second chapter Of
Ruth, verse 10-"Then she fell on her
face and bowed herself to the ground and
said unto him, Why [ found grace in
thine eyes, seeing that am stranger?"
He returned the book, pointing to the
thirteenth verse of the third Epistle Of
John-"Having many things to write
unto you, would not write with paper
and ink, but | trust to come unto you
and speak face to face" From the above
interview marriage took place.
Year: 1879

WERE THE APOSTLES MARRIED MEN.
Some of the highly cultivated Boston
people who have theory that entirely
too much attention is paid to women in
this day of civilization, are coming to the
front with some puzzling facts. They
want to know whether any of the twelve
Apostles ever married, or whether there
is any record in the Bible or elsewhere
of any of their children. If there was a
Mrs. Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John
nobody ever heard of her. They point
to the fact that Christ had brothers and
sisters but no wife or daughters; there is
no woman in the Trinity. Women were
not permitted to speak in the early Chris
tian churches. The Bible takes no more
account of woman generally than the Ko-
ran or any other oriental book, The an
cient Greeks were the only people who
gave women in those days partnership
in the affairs of life-and they were pa
gans and idolaters. This is really horri-
tying, and the ladies should call an in
dignation meeting in every city in the
land. They might establish the fact that
one of the Apostles was a married man,
for we are told that one of the relatives
of Simon Peters wife was sick of a fever
on certain occasion.-Baltimore Gazet-
Year: 1879

MYRoN w. REED.-A good story is told
of Rev. Myron w. Reed which has never
yet beer published so far as we know.
While out with hunting party several
years ago his comrades insisted that he
should cook the dinner, and left him in
camp for that purpose, somewhat against
his wish. In fact, he had given evidences
of education and ability as culinary art
list that made his cookery highly popu-
lar with his companions, and led to the
imposition on him of rather more of this
sort Of work than he thought was con-
scionable. So he considered how he
might perpetrate practical joke i'll the
preparation of the dinner and thus get
even with the majority. Providence
favored him, as it always does those who
are trying to do their duty. A large
hawk alighted in the top Of tree hard
by; moment afterwards the sportsman's s
gun had brought him to the ground. He
was ancient and tough and suited
admirably the compulsory cooks pur-
poses. He was duly disrobed and put
in pot with couple of ducks. In due
time the dinner was served and was pro
ncunced excellent with single qualif-
cation that there seemed to be "deuced
big difference in those ducks" But the
innocent looking cook held his peace and
made his own selections, and duck and
hawk quickly disappeared from the table.
'Did you tell them about it?" asked he
who heard the story. 'Tell them!'' an
swered the reverend gentlemen, with an
emphatic shrug, ''they'd have drowned
! me" e."-Indianapolis Herald.
Year: 1879

Second Door East of Post Offer, WatertoWn,
Wis Teeth extracted without pain; Artlnclal
teeth inserted on gold, silver and rubber plates.
Teeth filled with gold and silver, and all work
warranted to give entire satisfaction.
Year: 1879

Telegraph wires are risky neighbors in a thunder storm. Not many years since, Q tele- graph pole down East Hill was struck by lightning. There was such cracking of electricity at the postofflce that the employees skedaddled out of it pell nell. We have have heard of many similar cases. Satur- days Tribune gives tho following.

 It was temperance lecturer who was struck by Tightening while descendlnd Pike's Peak ten days ago. His wife who was riding beside him, heard what she at first supposed was a pistol-shot, and then saw stream of fire run from the telegraph wires to his head The horse stumbled and the man fell heavily to the ground. Her own horse threw her backward and then plunged down the mountain side. She went to the assistance of her husband, and found the mark of the lightning just above his left ear. He was unconscious for an hour, but his wife was finally able to set him on his feet and to lead him along the trail until they could find their horses. | When the electricity of the earth is rushing to it's point of combination with the electricity of the heavens it takes the line of best conduc- tors that is most available. Long lead water pipes are favorite lines, of transit, as, we can testify from personal experience D. af .s
Year: 1879

The Catholics who are now in league with Bisrnark are to have something more than a suspension of the laws against them. These are to be greatly modified if not repealed An arrangement has been effected between the Pope and the German Chancellor which will grant these notifications.
Year: 1879

Speaking of yellow fever. member of the New York Board of Health remarked that ''the number of cases pf yellow fever last year did not exceed the number of cases of scarlet fever; and yet, while the first pestilence at tracted the attention of the whole civilized world. the latter does not even arouse the peo- pie who are suffering from it to the adoption Of any adequate precautions against it's in- craoaa
Year: 1879

The expenses of the English Mission are said to exceed the salary by about S24, 900 a year. Obviously no one will be likely to take Mir. Welsh's place from mercenary motives To very wealthy men, however, the social dis tinctiOn attendant upon the position may be worth what it will cost them.
Year: 1879

The NOgthern Pacific railroad counts on the shipment of three and a half million bushels of wheat raised on its line, this year. A few years may make that valuable road, after all is had luck
Year: 1879

Crop reports continue favorable ; also the chances for good foreign market for our sur plus grain. Last year our excess of exports Ooer imports was about 265 millions A like balance in our favor. this year. would bring back something more than our own bonds.
Year: 1879

The Denver News does not look upon the West as the place of most success, after all

 ''This is conspicuonsly good country for brainy and energetic young men, just starting in the world but to succeed here they must have the ability that would assure success at home. With that, their progress with us is likely to be moro rapid. But middle-aged people who have had start, especially in the professions, and failed, seldom get on their legs again in a new state. There is a screw loose about them, as a general rule. All they can do is to drift from pillar to post, hunting for a community that will appreciate them un- til the grave closes upon their disappointed and embittered lives"

 need not emigrate those who have failed here will fail there hence emigration will in most cases prove blunder.
Year: 1879

THE WEATHER YESTERDAY.


The following record will show the changes in the
temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in
comparison with the corresponding date of last
year. as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's
pharmacy. HERALD Building 218 Broadway
Year: 1879

These good. natured people are not so
disagreeable as they have the reputation
of being, and their disagreeableness
would sink to a minimum did those who
are afflicted with them know how to get
rid of them after reasonable interval.
All that you have to do is to let the
buzzer run on at random. 1t is un-
necessary to say anything yourself.
Give him rope enough and he will tell
you everything he has been,
what he has done, whom he has seen,
and all about it. All that you have to
do is to grant an occasional yes or no,
and ply question here and there. He
is an indubitable bore, but he must be
endured, for in polite society it is not
permissible to pick quarrels with people
merely because they get us into corners
and talk to us overmuch.


The buzzer has his reward. 1t con-
sists in his estimate of himself. 1t
pleases him to think that he knows
everybody and that everybody knows
him; that his memory is stored with
anecdotes and that his tongue is never at
loss for words; that he can accustom
himself with sort of vulgar case to
any society he happens to be in and that
his incompatible cheek knows not what
blushine means. A man thus favored
by nature may make the world his home; /;
he would not be "silent upon peak in
Darien." No grandeur, no sublimity
would have the power to thrall him.
He makes good gabble, and on that ac-
count is acceptable ut lar e dinners or
small tea parties, ,-Neao YORK 1etegra'a'
Year: 1879

NEW YORK MERCHANTS BODY FOUND Al NEW HAVEN.

 The body of George Trull. well-knowI merchant of this city, was found In Long Island Sound, near the railroad depot at New Haven, yesterday morning. Mr. Trull had been engaged in the dry goode 1 trade in this city for a good many years, and since his marriage, about fifteen years ago, had lived at Elizabeth, N. J. For some time past he had been suffering from malaria, and his wife was an invalid also. On Saturday last they broke up housekeeping, Mrs. Trull going to Balti- more with her two children, intending to spend the Fall and Winter at the home of her parents.

 MT. Trull was to take lodgings in this city and continue his business. On We'd nesday last he lett Elizabeth for this city at the usual hour, and ill tha afternoon of the same day took Sound boat, but whether for New Haven CT Boston is not at present known, although his brother, Mir. William E. Trull, who lives in this city, left for Boston on the same day, and is expected back this evening. MT. George Trull also left word with his friends at Elizabeth that he would return to day. Nothing has been heard from Mir. William E. Trull concerning the fate of his brother, and it is not definitely known, therefore, whether the two men left this city together or not

 MT. Trull's body was identified by the articles found in his pockets. Besides a gold watch and some money he had a communication ticket between New York and Elizabeth on which his name appear ed He also had a business card which read George & William E. Trull, dry goods on commission, 56 Worth street, New York" The body had apparently been in the water two days and bore no marks of violence. From this iatter fact it was generally supposed that the man had either fallen accidentally or leaped from Sound steamboat,

 corners inquest was held, and a sur gical examination of the body made. This examination revealed two small wounds in the back ot the neck, They were of an insignificant character, however, and the doctors decision was that death had been caused by drowning. How he came in the water is mystery. A man in his senses could hardly have met with such an accident, as the water of the harbor is several rods from the depot, and a num- Der of railroad tracks have to ba crossed to reach 1t.
Year: 1879

The publishers of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN beg to announce that on the Fourth day of Jauu- ary, 1879, a new volume will be commenced It will continue to be the aim of the publishers to render the contents of the volume as or more. attractive and useful than any ot it's predecessors
Year: 1879

We give our readers to-day an. other batch of the testimony taken before the committee appointed by the General Assembly to investigate the alleged bribery in the recent Senatorial race. The testimony giv- en in this issue is more direct aud pointed than any yet elicited, but there is evidently disposition on the part of all the witnessed exam ined to keep back all they can, and to tell as little as possible. The tes- timony of Furbush and Dawson is startling, and leaves very little room 60 longer doubt the truth of the ale gations that there was strong ef- fort made to use morey corruptly in the election of Col Johnson. IL is humiliating and disgracetul specta. cie, and we regret exceedingly that the thing could not have been clear ed up without leaving the stan up on our State which such transactions attach.

 The best and only thing that can be done now is for the State to purge herself of the disgrace by thorough investigation, and by fixing the foul stigma just exactly upon the parties who have been interruptions enough to attempt this unlawful method of making U. :. Senator, and then let them take the consequences.

 It is matter about which our Legislature cannot afford to evince any indifference, and we trust for the sake of our reputation, that there will be no weakness or squeamishness displayed on the part of the committee or the Gener al Assembly in handling this matter. We are now into it, and disagreea' blc as it is we must go through with it.
Year: 1879

A hIIN5, T VUs xU, ICTvs

 EDITOR DEMoCkAr: l am forty i've years old, never rode on a steamship nor wrote-for newspaper nor asked for an office from the people and have not seen my name in print very often. But in receut number of your very valua- ble DEMOCRAT and from your witty cor respondent Dover Scraps, from the great big town of Dover. the county seat of Pope, I see where Mr. Dickey and two other bales of cotton lief and this will show the writer that Dickey paid his fare as an honest man and Is in port safe and sound and req ly for market but not sold yet. Have no news. Mud plenty. Cotton dull.

 Yours, D.
Year: 1879

A Pensvlvauia girl waite . whole year before bringing suit for dam ages against man who kissed her without warning, and the crushing verdict of one cent damages took her breath away.

 Yes, Job suffered some" said an Illinois dcacon,' but he never knew what it wns to have his team run away and kill hIs wife right in the busy season when hired girls want three dallars week.
Year: 1879



 1t seems to us, that we are wander ing far from oar text, We did not ia- tend to write sermon. we are not of the clerical cloth, never expect to be though we must confess, that when we sometimes hear so called preach CT mangle and butcher good text, we feel kind of hankering to ask him to come down out of the pulpit, and let us try for once. We mean nothing personal or general in this remark. We are embarrassed--we are running between Scbilla and Charibdas. In trying to avoid the ire of the mother of babies, we are, wcsfeaf, rubbing too hard against the ministry. 'Tis the former, we fear, most however, not the latter. Don't, never, Mir. Editor, say anything re- motely or directly refecting upon woman's rights generally, most es- pecially her right to take her baby where she .pleases; and we have been very, very careful in all we have said, mot to intimate. that babies ought not to be taken to church. Whenever we drift around to that point, no matter what it was in our minds to say when we commenced writing, we feel kinder timid-yea, our cour age like that of Bob Acres -begins to ooze out at our fingers ends. It is not conscience. as Shakespeare says, that makes towards of us all, that makes me fear to say what 1 want to say--not at all--it is just well prudence and sound discretion is better than valor on general prin- .ciples.

 But we have consumed much of your valuable space, and we have said very little if anything. and es- pecially of what we wished To say, and now before we close, we just wish to repeat a remark we once heard a civilized man make in this village. It was last fall, on bright Sabbath morning, and the Bishop had preached that day about Zacheu the publican and sinner, and a grand, plain instructive sermon it WAS. The remark that was made, was not remotely gernane to- our subject. We did noJ endorse the remark then, nor do we do SD now. Tine man who made it was in good humor; he had enjoyed the sermon. lie was perhaps, we de not wish to .indge, q first class Christian He is fond of little babies and still fonder of big babies. Well, he said in our hearing and we opened :.ot our mouth, nor endorsed 1t as We said before. That he thought mock ing birds could as appropriately be brought to church as babies"

 For the information of all concern ed, the writer states that he hands this to the editor of the DEMOCRAT as he steps on the train, and by the time it is read, he will have his body, he hopes, safely deposited on the east side of the Misslssippi river. NoN EsT.
Year: 1879

 If u rational, progressive spirit an imates our present Legislature, we will have two more railroads in our State at least. One from Hope ta Washington, in Hempstead county, and one. from Camden to Arkadcl 1 phia.- Ashley County Times.

 We do sincerely trust that our Legislature has the right view of thIs matter, and we hope the members will have s.back bone" enough to adopt liberal policy toward rail roads, and that they will not pander to the foolish popular prejudlce against railroadss

 The rapidity with which Arkansas will develop within the next ten or fifteen years depends upon the speed we make in building more railroads in the State. five can get plenty of roads we will shoot ahead at arate which will astonish the natives; but ifyou want to see Arkansas remain stationary, and stint her growth. just drive away all capital which seeks investment in railroads here.

 Not only do we need the Hope and Washington and the Camden and Philadelphia roads. but we need va rions other roads. We need them checking our State all over with a net work of gllstening iron bars, and we trust tue policy of the pres ent legislature will be such as to at. tract capital to our State to be in vested in railroad building.

 We have now the two trunk lines, and although they have had no effect as vet, compared 60 what they will have when they get feeders reaching out into the different quarters of tic State, they are, today, the great iron arteries which give us all the life blood we have. They have started the life blood and have seat it throb- ping and pulsatirg and wifi ing our. State with the first evidences of life and progress she has shown since I.she vas admitted to the Union. The Llttle Rock and Fort Smith road and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and  Southern railroad, have given n more progressive inpetas to our State than she would have gained in tine next forty years to come without them. In proportion as we increase our railroads we will increase oir prosperity, our growth and our i'm portance in gcometrical progress sion. &

 Were we member of the present legislature we would make strong fight for the most liberal policy to- ward railroads, even if we knew the present population of Arkansas would mete us out political damna tion which would consign us to pri vate life for the remainder of our term of existence on this mundane sphere. We would make the sacri. flee for the sake of the good which we know more extensive railroad facili- ties would bring our State, and would be perfe ctly willing to trust the vindication of our course to oth- CT days which the near future would bring, when oldfogyism would be dead and when our State would be teeming with it's five millions of wide awake, intelligent and enterprising population.

 Let the present legislature act wise in this matter and they will have done enough to atone for null titude ofblunders (should they make any).
Year: 1879

Macalister Cough Mixture now being
generally introduced through the western
country is meeting with good sale and is
giving better satisfaction than any other
remedy in the market.


It is boon to sufferers from Consump-
ton, Asthma. Bronchitis &C., and single
spoonful taken in time will prevent a
fresh cold'' from developing into some
thing worse.


It is also valuable remedy for whoop-
iug-cough and groups in children. For
sale in Rock Island by John Bengston
Druggist. I'd
Year: 1879

Is it disordered liver giving you a
kidneys refuse to perform their functions ?
If SO your system will soon be clogged
with poisons. Take a few doses of Kidney
W ort and you'll feel like a new man
nature will throw off every impedment
and each organ will be ready for duty.
Year: 1879

Frank Miller's Harness Oil and Backing
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured. The grade OF
these goods is always standard aud their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere. The
6rtn is one of the oldest in the country and
has the largest trade in its line. diff
Year: 1879

No use of having the chills. no use OF
headache ,or any of the ills that come from
disordered or inactive liver. One bot
tie of this old aud reliable family remedy
will cure the most stubborn casc-will
relieve the system and make you feel like
a new person. Try it aud be satisfied.
Year: 1879

YELLOW FEVER TO amehorate the
preadiul effects of Yellow Fever take
Simmons Liver Regulator. Let it be
given in large doses. that it may have an
effect upon the liver, and re-
move the accumulating bile. 1t so acts
upou the liver. stomach and blood as to
prevent The attack Of this terrible dis
ease