smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1877

used cold water but warm air In their
rooms for setting milk.


The Western Rur0I, on the butter
question, says:


The first thing requisite to making
good butter is to have good cows, and
pasture. good water, and salt for the
cows twice week. Next, good man
agement ofthe milk. The milk should
be cooled Immediately after milking,
that it may keep sweet longer and
yield more cream. The pals used In
milking should be of tin, as 1t is I'M
possible to cleanse wooden pals so
perfectly that they will not impart
some degree of acidity to the milk
Nothing receives a taint more easily
than milk or cream, and all bad odors
absorbed by the milk will be retained
by the butter. A cool spring-house is
best to keep milk in, or cool cellar
mot too damp, having all decayed
vegetables removed. Washing the
walls with lime will greatly aid In
keeping it pure. Wash the vessels
used In warm water inside and out,
then scald with boiling water and
place in the sun. The churn, butter
bowl, and ladle should be washed and
scalded with equal care. Sunshine
and pure air is all that ought to stand
in the churn between ohurning times.
The milk should be skinned as soon
as the cream has risen. If left toe
long the surface will become watery
while underneath the cream Is rapid.
ly yielding to the corrosive acid in the
milk. and becomes thin, watery sub.
stance, neither cream nor milk. The
best plan then is to give IL to the pigs
A good plan is to save stripping, say
a pint from each COW, cooling it per
fectly before putting in cream-jar
stir we'll each time new is added.


In regard TO working butter there il
a great difference of opinion. Exper
ience has taught US 1t should be work
ed but once and then gently. 1t Il
composed of minute globules which
are crushed By too much working.
Year: 1877

The spoils do belong to the victors.
The work of politics should be done
by the official class. The expenses of
that work should be done by that
class. The offices of the Government
should be filled by those who belong
to the party In power, and all who
have supported it in the field. These
should be the governing class. for as
long as the people have voted, or as
sented to, the incum bency of the par.
ty they belong to. the rewards should
be proportionate to the ability and
success of the Brooklyn
Eagle, (Denl.)


This is the true emocratio doctrine
stated by authority. 1t is the expres'
sion of the leading Democratic news
paper in the third city In the Union.
1t is an open and candid avowal Of
the Democratic devotion to the spoils
system and machine politics. Chica.
go Tribune.
Year: 1877

prosperity depends the other
can consistently he prosperity of all.



reading possible we invite attention
paper quantity and quality with
weekly made from the matter of daily We
the people will
seek for money invested in
Year: 1877

TT ANlNG bought ont the interest Of
1l- W. ID. LOVE, wo will make positive
sale of our entire stock for cash at prices
lar below cost, to maze room for q choice
and elegant stock Of
Year: 1877

BUFFALO, March I2-About o'clock
Saturday evening, twenty compositors left
the Courier office by order of the president
of the typographical union, owing to the
refusal Of the Courier to accept the scale
of prices prepared by the union.
The movement caused but slight
inconvenience as tne vacant places were
soon filled by non society men, ,snd now the
Courier company has ordered that nc
striker shall be RET ngaged.
Year: 1877

and in getting dinner for her husband she attempted 10
hasten the fire with kerosene when the oil In the can g
nited aud an explosion followed In moment thc
woman was enveloped IN flames. She ran screaming IA
agony 10 the rear yard where she sank the ground
Dr. Corwn stated that in all his experience he had never
seen a person horribly burned.
Year: 1877

DIR. LELLI, having met with case in
which dose of strychnine was admin
istered in coffee without fatal conse-
auences, was led TO some experiments to
determine whether it possessed antitoxic
power against this drug. The expert
ments were made upon rabbits. He
found that dose Of five centigrammes
proved fatal in short time. When the
same or larger dose was given in a very
strong infusion of coffee, he found that
the coffee either acted as complete
antidote or that it materially diminished
the violence of its action.
Year: 1877

An ingenious use of carrier pigeons is
on record. They were employed in Bel
gium TO smuggle tobacco into France.
Each bird carried from ten to fifteen
Rrammes Of the weed, and two dozen
pigeons per day were regularly dis
patched. How long the new industry
had been established is not stated; but
one day it came to grief. A bird was
too heavily loaded, and he dropped with
his burden, exhausted, into the Seine. A
public inquiry resulted, and the whole
business WAS exposed.
Year: 1877

IT would seem that not only is the
climate of Iceland growing so cold that
grain can not ripen there, but that of
Scandinavia and Western Europe is be-
coming more severe. This is due, it is
supposed, TO the steady descent of the ice
of the far North upon the shores of Ice
land. 1t has been ascertained that the
temperature of Greenland was once
much more mild than at present. Plants
have been discovered in fossil state
there which can not now present sigr
of life. In the Atlantic, also, ice has
been found much further south thar
formerly. Is another ice age slowl!
making its approach?
Year: 1877

Ir is now becoming a question whether
the original purpose of boarding schools
was to fit young ladies to keep boarders
after they marry, and assume the sup
port of husband, OF to fit for boarding
house life those who dislike the response
bility Of housekeeping.
Year: 1877

WE thought the last of the female
officers disguised in mems clothing died
with our late rebellion, but we have
trustworthy account by telephone of a
Russian girl who commanded a company
and fell before Rasgrad. The boys never
suspected her sex until after her death.
Year: 1877

AND now the relics of the Ashtabula
disaster are Ia be sold at auction by the
Coroner, in the hope that enough may be
realized to settle the costs of the county
in the inquest. Talk about vandalism.
1t was gentility compared with this.
Year: 1877

CHICAGO Journal: Drive out with a
horse and he will switch his tail one
hundred and fifty times rod, to force
away troublesome flies, but let him once
get his tail over line and the old quad
ruped will wander on for miles without
thinking of the flies which revel unmo-
Tested in the living gore. What a horse
loves above all things is to do the driv-
ing himself.
Year: 1877

THE Supreme Court at Washington
has Just made a decision in the case OF
Shields VS.. the State of Ohio; error to
the Supreme Court of Ohio. In this case
the plaintiff in error, who was conductor
ON the Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern Railway, between Elgin and Cleve-
land, put one Ulrick off the car for re,
fusing TO pay more than three cents pei
mile, under the general law of the State
limiting fares to this rate. Suit for as
sault was sustained against the con
ductor, the Courtinstructing the jury tina
he had no legal right to demand NOR
than was rendered by the passenger, ant
the judgment below is here affirmed.
Year: 1877

ATLANTA Constitution: A North Car
olina WAGNER sold his dog to Laurens
County man the other day for hall
barrel of sorghum syrup. The dog
however, refused to be sold, and took
refuge under the wagon. The Laurens
County man crawled after him with a
niece of meat in one hand and rope IN
the other. Although there were several
SPECTATORS of the scene that ensued, 1t Is
difficult to get at the facts. All agree
that there was scuffie under the
wagon, accompanied by yelps and yells;
but no one is willing to affirm that the
man had the dog or the dog had the
man. Finally the dog, as it would
seem, brushed up against the hind legs
of the off mule, and then all was still.
II is not certain what killed the dog.
One of the spectators said he thought he
heard a trace-chain rattle, but when ne
went around to examine the mule she
was asleep. The man had lost his hat,
his coat and the greater part of has
trowsers, and subsequent examination
proved that the dog died with one ear
and handful of hair in his mouth.
Year: 1877

COLUMBUS, Aug. lO.


A meeting of anti-administration repub-
licans last night adopted resolutions bitter
ly denouncing the presidents southern pol
icy in failing to sustain Packard and Cham
berlain, declaring the second resolution
adopted by the Cleveland convention incon-
sistent with its professed declaration Of
fidelity to the principles of the republican
party, falsehood adopted solely for party
expediency, libel upon the republicans Of
Ohio. and unworthy of the grand record OF
the party. A resolution was also adopted
inviting republicans throughout the state to
correspond with them and advise as to the
course to be pursued during the present
campaign.
Year: 1877

AT the cabinet session to-day it was de-
termined that a commission of three per-
sons be appointed to act in connection with
similar commission on the part of Canada
and arrange for the return of Sitting Bull
and his followers to the United States.
One member of the commission will be an
army officer selected by the secretary of
war, the second, representing the Indian
department, will be selected by the secre-
tary of the interior, and the third member
will be selected after conference with the
president.
Year: 1877

The Boston committee on sugar draw
backs in their report cay they are informed
that large contracts have already been made
In Europe for beet sugar to be delivered
this autumn artinoially colored so as to be
entered aud passed at the lowest rate of
duty. In order to protect the revenue
from this evasion of duty the committee
recommend that at the extra session of
congress a special act be passed that 33S
per cent, be assessed over and above any
existing rates Of duty on all artificlally col
ored sugars.
Year: 1877

A little plant was given to SICK girl
In trying to take care of it, the family
made changes in their way of living
First, they cleaned the windows. that
more light might come to It's leaves;
when not too cold, they wonld open
the window, that fresh air might help
the plant to grow. Next, the clean
window made the rest of the room look
so uhtidy that they used to wash the
floor and walls, and arrange the turni>
ture more neatly. This led the father
of the family to mend broken chair
or two, which kept him at home sever
al evenings. After the work was done
he stayed home, instead of spending his
leisure at a tavern, and the money thus
saved went to buy comforts for them
all. And then, as the home grew at
tractiye, the whole family loved it bet
ter than ever before, and grew health
ier and happier with their flowers
Thus the little plant brought real as
well as physical blessing.
Year: 1877

When the sea-shell is held up to the
ear there is peculiar vibratory noise
which children assure each other Is the
roar of the sea, however distant they
may be from it. Philosophically lnves-
tigated the peculiar sound thus recog-
nized is phenomenon that has puzzled
scholars for long time. The expert
ment is easily made by pressing spiral
shell over the cerebra Of either ear. Ii
large shell, the sound is very much
| like that of far-of cataract. Now.
what causes it? Every muscle IN the
body is always in state OF teusloh.
Some are more on the stretch than
others, and particularly those OF the
finger. 1t is conceded that the vibration
of the fibers of those in the fingers beng
communicative to the shell, it propagates
aud intensifies them as the hollow body
of the violin does the vibration OF ifs
strings, and thus the acoustic nerve
receives the sonorous expressions.
Muscles of the leg below the knee are :
said to vibrate in the same way; aho' II
conducted to the ear, produce the same
! result
Year: 1877

S1r. Anthony Trollope delivered an
address on the cart OF Reading be
fore the Quebec Institute recently. Re>
fsrrirg to the reading of novels, he said
i was much better that they should
read no novel than that they should
devote themselves exclusively to them;
but if they were readers he was sure
they would find it advantageous so to
mix light reading with serious reading
that the one should not engross or the
other weary them. He recommended
them to acquire the art of readlng-a
never failing source Of enjoyment, but
only to be obtained by practice, and
not. he impressed on his audience.
when middle life had come ON them.
As to what they should read, he would
sav. good books. Ao.ve all things he
would advise them not to deceive them
selves in their choice. If they could
make poetry a delight with them, it had
q charm which could not be found i'll
any other literature, but if poetry was
distasteful there was world OF
prose. They must read for amnse


ment, but they need not ON that ac


count eschew acquiring information


Instruc i've books, indeed, were th'
books to get hold of. Magazine read
ing unfortunately left too little behint
it. and as to novels there were, o.
course, novels and novels, but he die
not think that Scott, Thackery, ol
Dickens ever wrote anything impure.
Year: 1877

Willard's Practical Butter Book
gives the process Of making the cele-
brated Philadelphia butter as follows:


The milk is SKINNED after standing
twenty-four hours and the cream is put
into deep vessels having capacity of
about twelve gallons. 1t is kept at u
temperature of fifty eight or fiity-uiue
degrees, until it acquires a slightly
acid taste, when it goes to the churn.
is barrel, revolving on horsepower.
The chnrning occupies about an hour,
and after the bUttermilk is drawn of,
cold water is added, and few turns
given to the churn and water, and water
then drawn Of. This is repeated until
the water as it is drawn is nearly free
from milkiness. The butter is worked,
with butter workers, dsmpened cloth
is meanwhile being pressed upon it, to
absorb the moisture and free it of but
termilk. The cloth is frequently DIP
ped in cold water and wrung dry dnr>
ing the process of "wiriug the butter. "


1t is next salted at the rate of an
ounce of salt to three pounds OF butter.
thoroughly and evenly incorporated by
means of the butter-worker. 1t is then
removed to table, where it is weighed
ont and put into pound prints. After
this it is put into trays, and is set in
the wafer to harden.
Year: 1877

A sure, safe and reliable method
of getting rid Of lice on hogs or poultry
is to take coal-oll sufficient for the
number Of hogs, sprinkle thoroughly.
and every insect the oil reaches will be
dead. Repeat several times during the
year and you will not be troubled with
lice. 1t has been tested in this vicinity
and has never failed. A watering pot
is generally used in sprinkling tho oil
over the h6gs.-Courier Journal.
Year: 1877

There are many people IN this world
Who gre afraid to be happy, who go
mopiug about with the accumulated
mould Of sourness clinging to them so
closely ,hat nothing short Of an earth>
Quake OF resurrection could snake it
off, thereby denying themselves the
pleasure of seeing the laugh hside OF ma
ture tl.Gt tr;l!s and ripples al over.
lust Ike the sunshine. Surely there is
enough JOY il Gods workshop to sweep
out all sadness if We would but seek it.
Shall tell you when you may hope to
find this antidote for sorrow? When
the angels have enlarged and purified
vour own heart. When pain, fear, woe,
anguish, hunger. thirst, has penetrated
through every corner. When you have
WINGED under the necessity Of Q lifes
time. When you have lived long
enough to detect the mockery IN the
key note of living. When you de-
pend less upon The disposition and acts
of others than Oh your own. When the
rooms in your head and heart are all
rented to respectable tenants. whose
articles of agreement will be to keep
the furniture and drapery in repair, and
whose lease will only expire with life.
When forgefuluess, selfshness. envy.
malice, hatred and all the catalogue OF
deadly sins will be rare visitors instead
of fixtures. When love, Joy, hope, care,
thoughtfulness, and above all, charity
have taken possession and will thus
secure to You the full and unabridged
edition of happiness in this world. as
we'll as in world No. Q, and will open
up a thousand avenues-a thousand out
let's toward Gods suffering children,
and the poor, whom ye have always
with YOU.
Year: 1877

There is now on inspection the ofce Of the Board
OF Underwriters, In Wall street, very simple aud ap-
pareny very good contrvanco TOR use as log signal
sailing vcsscls II consists OF an oval iron retor
with a valve on top and . lever on one sde BY
working the lever back and forth lew times con-
siderable quantity OF compressed air may be pumped
INTO the reorI On turning Key In tho valve ON Top
the air rushes out, striking the edge o tunnel with
great force and making noise almost as lou as The
log whistle OF an ocean steamer IL IL claimed that
this sound can bo heard four miles of A. sea
Year: 1877

Mansfield Island, in Lake Erie, has
been bought by man who intends to
stock it with black cats, and kill their
progeny for their fur, be will feed them
at first on fish caught off the shore by
men who will live on the island; but
after the enterprise is well started he
will utilize the meat of the slaughtered
cats as food for the living cats. We
also read that Georgian is making an
extensive business Of raising dogs, tan.
ming their hides, and selling the leather
for glove making and other purposes.
Year: 1877

The postal officials believe that the
Government is swindled in the aggre-
gate to large amount by the washing
and second use of stamps. To check
the practices a new three cent stamp, so
made as to show any attempt to efface
the cancelling mark, is soon to be
icSnad tN
Year: 1877

Judge Davis gives, as reason for
resigning life position of honor and a
salary of ten thousand year to accept
aplace in the Senate for six years with
only half the salary, shat he desired to
go back into active politics again." 1t
would seem that the Presidential mag
got Is still working in his brain.
Year: 1877

Is very complete. and to those intending purchas as ing can offer great bargains in SpECTAS SLES and EYE GLASSES. have full line, and can warrant perfect it and satisfaction at prlces lower thar ever before offered.
Year: 1877

FY It will cure loss of Voice, Night Sweats. Hectic fever. AND ALL symptoms of Con- sumption. TRY IT. For every affection of the Throat and Lungs it only needs trial to convince the most skeptical of its wonderful curative nrOperties
Year: 1877

Republican supremacy in the Senate has
vanished. There will be many a hot struggle
and the Republicans will retain, for some time
AT least, their organization, the control of COM
mittees and bare majority upon many par
tison questions. But they have been rudey
awakened to the fact that their unquestiOned
and complete mastery has departed. The fact
is not pleasing to any Republican, and it
must be particularly CALLING to those who
formed the well-knOwn Senatorial group, who
dominated so long in caucus and whose die
tation in the Senate was for many years
nearly equivalent to an ownership of the Re-
publican organization. A generous people gave
them almost absolute power How strangely
complete was the trust in their patriotism and
sagacity! The House proposed but they dis
posed. They made and unmade laws
at theirpleasure. Onlywhen they were divided,
and then only once, was a Presidents veto
sufficient to thwart their will. Confronted by
them President Grants plans of independence
and reform melted away like frOst-work in the
sunlight. So completely was he suppressed
by the Senatorial majority that the world
will probably never know what his intentions
really were. Strong soldier, obstinate, high
! tempered man, he soon consented to become,
in many particulars, little more than the re-
cording clerk of the Senatorial will. The SEN
ators directed, and the President obeyed.
| The Senate ruled the country The caucus
ruled the Senate. Twenty men ruled the
caucus But what has become of their vast
powerP How comes it that an insignificant
creature ike COnover or Patterson can cry
"checkmate," if he chooses, to Republican
| Senatorial caucusf


The question is interesting, and the answer
ought TO be instructive. Vast power was in
trusted to a few men, by the people, for the
the protection of the peoples interests and
rights. As long as this power was used for
the public good, 1t was not curtailed. But IN
time it was used for the party, and not for the
people, and then for tAcuon, moi
Year: 1877

for the party. Senators were excluded,
not because they were not lawfully elected,
but because the majority saw fit to serve
party friends States were long deprived
of representation, not because they were
not States, but because their elections
did not please the Senatorial majority.
Millions of citizens who cared not much Tor
party, but very much for country, became IN
dignant Republican maiOrties melted away.
Far-seeing and just Republican Senators pro-
tested, and a majority voted them down.
Made drunk with unrestrained power, the
Senators of the majority acted as II 1t were
impossible that they should ever be checked I;
they drove out of the Republican party with
SCOTS and sneers, those who questioned their
methods they denounced as traitors all VINO
criticised the abuse Of power for partisan ends'


The results are known. Northern States, one
after another, have been carried by sheer disgust
into Democratic ranks. In ore State alter an
other the power of the Republican party has
been shaken or broken, until there is now no
working majority in the Senate. Is it not plain
that the Republican party, in order to
regain strength, must make new appeal
TO the conscience and intelligence of voters
Must IL not consent 10 pub lOltNtI p'hihh ~
the methods which have made its course at the
South oifensive7 Must it not put an end to
the abuse of power for merely partisan ends?
Must it not Danish personal feuds, and quiet in
ternal strife Must not the personal fac
tions within its ranks make mutual con-
cessiOns, and turn their warfare away from
each other upon the common enemy7 Must
it not take its appeal boldly to the
country as the defender of the public
honor and the National credit, and thus
reconstruct itself as the sole remaining bull
wark between the already completed alliance
of the Solid South and Tammany Hall on the
orc hand and the National Treasury on the
otherl What else is there to stand be-
tween the Treasury and such Onslaughts
for internal Improvements, if not also
for more direct repayment Of rebel losses,
as shall constitute or compel National
bankruptcy Can the Republican party in
such an hour tolerate within its ranks any
man, President or Cabinet officer or Senator
who fails to subordinate his personal theories
or private grievances to the National good
Year: 1877

Mr.. Bland used the highwaymans argument oil
Your money or your life" to the New-1ork bankers
who went to Washington to oppose the SILVER Blu
You bankers had better take my advice sald the
champion of cheap silver, "and accept my DlI' lor
warn you, that unless this bill becomes law we
viii come to the next Congress, and, as with a
spopge. we will wipe ont all your bonds" In other
words. he threatened to plunder them of their whole
fortunes if they did not quietly submit to the theft
of eight cents on every dollar of bonds That is just
the sort of statesman we suspected Mr. Bland Of
beng all along, He is rcpudatOr 1t is no use
to marley with politicians Of his sort. II they sue
cecd this year IN repudiating 3 per cent of the
Governments Obligations they will be just as eager
to cut off another slice next year, and will have
some new pretext ready. They must be fought
from the start
Year: 1877

The unprecedented circumstance of an ex-
Consul being convicted Of misconduct
by an American consular court in China, will
stimulate public curiosity regarding the affair.
1t is to be hoped that no honored names are
involved in the scandal.