smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

Only little mound of earth


Ger which the sweet flowers grow
Where the gay leaves drift in the Autumn ume,
And the Winter wreathes its snow and rime;
'Tis a hhle grave knOW.
Only little grave, you say.


Yet under the fiOw'Tets fair
Lies a cherished form of winsOme grace,
My Angel darling with sweet pale face


And wavy golden hair.
Only little grave, you said


As you cOldly turned away;
All we'll! il may be you will some time know
How lonely and sad ones heart can grow,


As mine has grown to-day.
Some time you may know too well,


As you kneel where the grasses wave.
While the world seems empty and cold and


drear,
How much Of your joy and happiness here
Can be buried in one liHie grdre.


Sidney Centre, N. Y.
Year: 1878

New York Corr. Boston Saturday Gazettel


1t was not so long ago that the art
lists in this city had as hard time to
find models as they sometimes have to
find gold. Nude models, mean.
There used to he but two female
models-one great fat woman and
another very thin. For q long time
the Academy of Design fought against
lite class but finally had to give in.
The Cooper Institute school of art still
hold out against the innovation. l
think to propose nude model to Peter
Cooper would be enough of a shock
to cause his death. The Art Students
League has life models, and the
artists find no trouble in getting them
for their studios.


Another hard struggle WAS for lady
artists 10 get models Women who
would pose for men would not pose tor
women. know of an instance OF a
model who always wore a vail over her
when she set for ladies, but took it etf
when she sat FIR men. Her reason for
this was that women would point her
out on the street. if they CHANGED to
meet her, as 'our model while the men
would not think OF her at all.


Models are not necessarily depraved
women Some of the best in this city
are quiet. modest girls, who have been
brought up 10 the profession, as were
their mothers before them, and they
look upon it merely in business light.
They are mostly Germans and Italians.
American models. as a general thing,
come from a lower order of society.


1t is no easy thing to be a model


Try 10 stand in one position for half
or three quarters Of all hour, and see if
you can do it, You would break down
in less than quarter of that time.
Models are allowed rest of twenty
minutes between their sittingS, and
during this time they generally wrap q
shawl about them and retire to another
room. One model | know of is an ex-
ception To this rule. She poses for a
class of ladies, and when her resting
time comes she steps down from the
platform in all the simplicity of Mother
Eve. and rakes the fire and puts on
coal. Then she sits cross-legged on the
edge of the platform and reads story
paper. A friend of mine wanted to
get some private sittings from her; so
She said: L wish you would come to
me after you are dressed, | want to
speak tn you 1t amt worth while
waiting for that. replied the amiable
model, I'll come to you now, and with
tha, she tripped jauntily across the
floor, threading her way IN and out
among the artists without an article OF
clothing on. Il want to have you sit
for me at my studio, what are your
terms for private sittingsT inquired my
friend. little nonplussed. 20. We
won't quarrel about terms, said the
model with jaunty air. But l wish
TO know before hand" insisted my
friend. Well, then said the model
with an indescribsble toss OF her head
fifty cents an haur to ladies and dot
lar an hour to gentlemen, The bargain
was AT once sealed. aud she skippe1
lightly back to the platform, hnmming
q tune.
Not long ago a we'll known and
Year: 1878

favorite model made her debu. upon
the theatrical stage. playing q leading
role with great deal of promise. 1t
Is not such an uncommon thing as one
might suppose for an artist to marry
his model. know of several instances
where this has occurred. and they made
model wives.
Year: 1878

I heard story the other night which
goes long way to explain the Duke
of Connaught's popularity in the army.
One of the Princes fellow officers was
about to leave his regiment. Calling to
bid him farewell, His Royal Highness
was induced to promise him his carte


1t was TO arrive on the night before the
officer took his leave, but it did not
come Early next morning the officer
was riding out of barracks, when, just
as he reached the gates, he heard his
name shouted by a breathless runner.
Turning round he saw Prince Arthur,


flushed and painting, rushing along at
full speed, and holding up, in explana-
tion OF his unprincely haste, the prom
ised photograph. Something had hap
pened to prevent its presentation on the
night, and the Prince had turned out
early in order that with his own lips he
might make apology for the apparent
breach of promise. Very few men, J.
imagine, would have taken that trouble
about portrait which could be sent by
post, and / doubt if there is another
prince OF our own or any other reigning
family who would have done so. No
body except prince could have done it
without appearing fussy and undigni-
fed. But his thoughtfulness and del
icacy made his comrade- in-arms all the
prouder. 1t is no wonder that he is
spoken Of not only kindly but enthu-
siastically London Correspondent.
Year: 1878

The Herald's Washington special says that
Grover says, in explanation of the bill
introduced by him yesterday prohibiting G
the employment on the government
works Of any person who is not q citizen
Of the United States or who has not de-
Year: 1878

THE retrenchment programme Of the Ban
gor Commercial does not meet with unquali-
fed appreciation in Democratic circles. The
State Democrat while holding that all useless
expenditures should be cut off and every de-
partment of the State Government over
hauled, does not agree with "Bro. Emery"
as to the point where the fun shall begin,
and says:


We do think that be las been particularly
unfortunate as to his selection OF ex xpenditures
to bs entirely cut off. For instance we think
that the agricultural interests of our State are
the most important of any, the encouragement
of which would keep our young, temperate and
industrious men at home. OF late, great III
terest has been directed to our rich fields in
Aroosto0k, and from almost every county q
disposition has bson manifested to enigrate to
that section, which is full as enthusiastic as
the fever that has caused previously an ex-
odus to the far West. This feeling was DO
doubt increased by the recent visit of the
Maine Board of Agriculture to that section
for which too much credit cannot be given
to our present popular and efficient Secre
tary, 8. L. Boardman, Eco, and the whole
expense Of the Board to the State was but Q
trifie, considering the vast amount Of good
Year: 1878

Mr.. KENNA of West Virginia declares that
the committee on enrolled bills were not
drunk at the close of the last session. Mr..
Kenna ought to know, but the affair hap
pened long ago, and his memory may be i'm
paired. The general belief at the time was
that the white members of the committee
were jointly and severally drunk, and that
the South Carolina negro was the only man
In fit condition to transact business. His
eccentriclty has been sternly rebuked by his
constituents. They do not consider sobriety
chivalric.
Year: 1878

NAsT's latest cartoon pictures negro, hat
in hand, begging the right to vote from a
white Southerner with the face of Lamar,
while in the background stands New York
striker with his hand clutching his short
stick, and muttering, eff Misther Lamar
lived up our way I would be afther showing
him that am one of the people,
Year: 1878

accomplished. We hope and desire to see
thorough oyerhauling of every departm ent
no doubt II will be, we think that large
amount OF money can be saved to the State,
and that the agricultural interests of the State
will be fostered and cherished with more liber-
al appropriations
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address Of the writer are In
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as 3 guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

Ksokuk Constitution: If the postmaster
general had any sense at all be would issue
postage stamps like cards with double heads,
so the post-cffics clerks would not be compelled
by people who will persist in pasting stamps
upside down on their letters, to turn hand
spring every time they stamp letter in order
to get the thing straight.
Year: 1878

A man can always tell exactly how tall he is
by walking through low door in the dark.
Next morning be can measure the hight of the
door, and then measure from where IL struck to
the top of his head, add the two together, sub
tract the swearing, and multiply by what
O'Clock it was when he got home, and the re-
suit will be his net hight.
Year: 1878

Turner'S Falls Reporter: The time approaches
when the thoughtful husband gives his wife
some money, which goes to buy dressing
gown that all the worlds riches couldn't hire
him to wear in the presence of his male friends.
Year: 1878

Norristown Herald: A cats eyes are said to
bs the largest at midnight. We never made
an examination, but we are positive that its
voice is about seventeen times larger at that
hour than at any other period during the
twenty-fOur.
Year: 1878

Wheeling Leader: Our Wheeling inventor
is getting up q rev patent chair for dentists
A concealed spring in it runs tack up through
the seat, and while the patient is bowling, and
his attention is diverted by the attack below,
the. tooth is yanked out.
Year: 1878

Catskill Recorder: 1t is not generally known
that whoever maliciously poisons dog or 9th
er domestic animal is liable to Imprisonment
In the penitentiary for one year and fine Of
$3.50. 1t is dangerous business to poison your
neighboI's dog. The cheapest way is to give
colored man fifty cents to do it for you.
Year: 1878

1t is rather unusual for women per-
sonally to participate in war. We live
in an age of strange developments, how
ever, for the last account from the seat of
war, in South Africa, where England is
sorely pressed by the Caffres, who are so
blindly infatuated as to desire not to
have their country and themselves
absorbed by British colonization, is that
in one engagementthe British troops had
to retire, owing to the superior number
of the enemy, and that, in second and
severe fight, one officer was shot dead
and another seriously wounded, while
the enemy marched off in good order,
through the cunning of body of four
hundred women, who can scarcely be
called the fair sex,p who threw them
selves between the Caffres and the Brit
ish soldiers, in the conviction that the
latter would not fire upon them. Moth
ing like this has been recorded by his
tory since the memorable day, two thou
sand six hundred years ago, when the
Sabine women, who had been forcibly
seized by Romulus and his adherents,
and were the cause of war, rushed
down from Palatine hill with disheveled
hair, and, throwing themselves between
their Roman husbands and their Sabine
kinsmen, induced a peace to be made
which ended in the union of the two
races.
Year: 1878

The Syrians have good many stories
concerning their priests. whom they
laugh about, and yet obey, no matter
how ignorant they are. Abu Selim in
the Meena used to tell this story, says
DR.. Jessop, in his recent work on the
women of the Arabs: s,;s.7z.


Once there was priest who did not
know how to count. This was great
trial to him, as the Greeks have so many
fasts and feasts that it is necessary to
count all the time, or get into trouble.
They have q long fast called Scum el
kebri, and it is sometimes nearly sixty
days long. One year the fast COM
menced, and the priest had blundered
so often, that he went to the bishop and
asked him to teach him some way to
count the days to the Easter feast. The
bishop said it would be forty days, and
gave him forty kernels of humn,us or
peas, telling him to put them into his
pocket and throw one out every day,
and when they were all gone, to pro-
claim the feast. !F


This was happy plan for the poor
priest, and he went on faithfully throw
ing away one pea every day, until one
day he went to neighboring village In
crossing stream he fell from his dom
key into the mud, and his black robe
was grieyously soiled. The good woman
of the house where he slept told him to
take off his robe, and she would clean il
in the night. So, after he was asleep,
she arose and washed it clean, but
found, to her sorrow, that she had de-
stroyed the peas in the priests pocket.


"Poor priest" said she; :" he has lost
all his peas which he had for lunch
On the road! But I will make it up to
| him." ,-f
So she went to her earthen jar and
took double handful of peas and pui
them into the priests pocket, and said
no more. He went on his way, and
threw out pea every morning fol
weeks and weeks. At length some o1
his fellaheen heard tnat the feast
had begun in another village, and told
the priest. -


"fmpossiblep said he. g Ny pocket
is half full yet"


Others came and said:


"Will you keep us fasting all the
yearT


He only replied:


4 "Look into my pocket. Are you wise
than the bishopT


At length some one went and told tn,
bishop that the priest was keeping hi
people fasting for twenty days after tn,
time. And then the story leaked out
and the poor woman told how she hat
filled up his pocket, and the bishop sav
that there was no use in trying to teacl
the man to count.
Year: 1878

Prof. w. K. Brooks writes it st. Mich-
olas for July: No subject connected
with the history of birds furnishes more
interesting material for study than that
of instinct. Young birds of different
species show that they have very differ
ent degrees Of instructive knowledge.
Some are able to take entire care of,
themselves, and do not need a mother to
watch over them; others, on the con-
trary, are perfectly helpless, and need
teaching before they can do any thing for
themselves, except breathe, and swallow
what is put into their mouths. The
young chicken, short time after it
leaves the egg, knows how to take care
Of itself nearly as well as does the year
old bird. 1t can run after its mother,
use its eyes, pick UP food, and answer
the call of the old hen; and it dses all
this without instruction. How different
tits in all these respects from the young
barn-swallowl Thisis blind and unable
to run, or even stand, knowing only
enough to open its mouth when it hears
the old bird return to its nest, and to
swallow the food placed in its open bill.
Far from knowing by instinct how to use
its wings, as the young chick does its
legs, it does not learn this until well
grown, and has had several lessons in fly
ing; and even then it flies badly, and
improves only after long practice. After
it mas learned to fly, it is still very help
less and baby-ike, and very different
from the active, bright-eyed, indepen-
dent little chick of the barn -yard-and,
indeed the young of all the Rasores, OF
scratching birds, such as the hen, the
quail, the partridge, the pheasant and
the turkey. 90 31i' i,i'4


The scratching birds are not the only
ones which,take care of themselves at ar
early age. This is true of the running
birds, such as the ostrich; and the same
is the case with many of the wadine
birds, such as the woodcock; and among
the swimming birds, there are severa
kinds that take full care of themselve'
soon after leaving the shell.


Far from standing in need of instruc
ton, young ducks take to the water BY
instinct, even when they have beer
brought up by hen; and they know
that they are perfectly safe upon it
although the anxious hen tries in ever,
way to restrain them and to call then
back. r


There are. many ways in which SOM
of our young birds show their reall.
wonderful instincts, but there is nothing
more curious in this respect than tn
habits of the little chickens, which mos
of us have opportunities of noticing
we choose to take trouble. These littl
creatures, almost as soon as they ar
born, understand what their mothe
"clucks to them; they know that the,
must hide when hawk is about; the,
often scratch the ground for food befor
they see their mother or any othe
chicken do SO; they are careful not t
catch bees instead of flies; and the,
show their early smartness in man,
ways which are well worth watching.


| But, sometimes, brood Of thes
youngsters find something that puzzle
them, as when they meet with a hard
shelled beetle, who looks too big to ca
and yet too small for playmate.
Year: 1878

The Philadelphia Press says that
silver is getting to be an intelerable
nuisance. Men are loaded down with it.
We make no comment Oh this, but give
the statement for what it is worth.
Year: 1878

There passed down on the train the
other day and agaed but smart-look-
ing lady, between sixty and seventy
years OF age, having with her little
child about two years old, whose dark
complexion unmistakably betokened In
dian origin and naturally excited some
curiosity. The lady was communicative,
and told a story filled with romance. She
was widow, with an only son living in
Connecticut. Her boy grew to be a
young man, and, filled with love of ad-
venture, he forsook the parental roof and
came West His rovings at last led him
to Bismarck, Dakota Territory, where
he became interested with Indian traders
and finally married the daughter of q
chief, the fruit of their union being one
child. At length in an engagement with
the hostiles the young man was killed.
The sad news in due time reached his
mother. She was almost disconsolate in
her grief. With true maternal affection
she at once resolved to search for her
sons child, and, if possible, find in it an
object upon which she might bestow her
care and motherly love. Forthwith she
journeyed to Minnesota. The difficult
ties in the way formed no barrier to her
New England energy. Her diligent in
quiry along the Northern Pacific railroad
brought to her acquaintance a man who
had known her son. For fifty dollars he
offered to find the squaw who had been
the sons wife. Without going into de
tails of the search it is sufficient to say
that the tribe of Indians was found, and
with it the squaw and the child. When
the lady first saw her grandchild she
thought she could discern in his features
a resemblance to her son, but when the
little one was in the midst of a number
of Indian children, it was hard to dis
cover much difference. Nevertheless,
the grandmother of the dusky little half
breed was bent on having him brought
up under the gentle influence of Con.
necticut civilization, and she quieted
her compunctions of bartering in human
flesh by the exigencies of the case and
the gift of six sacks of flour to the be-
reaYed Indian widow. The old lady de.
parted with her new found treasure, as
happy as boy with new toy Wanono
(liinn.) Republican.
Year: 1878

An English paper tells us that the
purchasers of lorses for the French army
always endeavor to obtain a first look at
the animal when he is in the stable,
noting if the animal supports himselJ
equally well on all his legs, and, if one
seems to yield, especially examining it..
Attention is then directed to the large
ness of the pupil of the eye, which ought
to be more dilated when in the stable
than when exposed to light. After the
animal has been let out of the stable, the
eye ought to be again examined to see
if the pupil has been contracted; if not,
the sight is feeble. Others, to test the
power of vision, feign to strike the fore
head with the hand. If the hollow over
the eye be profound and the temple
grey, old age is to be concluded.
Wounds about the temple suggest attacks
of staggers; and when the end of the
nose presents circular scars, it may be
concluded the horse has been twitched
with cord to insure his quietness while
being shod or having had to submit to
some painful operation.
Year: 1878

II ieeI ps IL AeeV'...'' '.''''''' '1N


A correspondent of O Philadelphia
paper says that milk set and kept at q
Temperature of forty degrees will not
sour, but the cream will become bitter
before it is ready to skim, and milk set
at high temperature, say seventy de-
grees, will sour in twenty-four hours.
A proper temperature for setting milk is
between fifty and sixty degrees, with
which fact, no doubt, the majority OF
dairymen are familiar.


To cure and heal up places of broken
skin on the shoulders of draft horses,
dissolve six drachms of iodine in half a
pint of alcohol, and apply it on the sore
with feather as sool as the collar is re-
moved, and when at rest, twice a day,
morning and evening. The article should
be in the stable Of every hostler, as it is
an excellent application on horses where
the skin is broken by kicks or other accl.
dents, and is sure cure for splints if
used in proper manner, says an e1-
change.


Household Hints.


The Juice of lemon will remove claret
stains from table linen.


Peel and bake ripe pears, with but lit
tie water. When cold, cover tho top
and sides with q cake-icing favored with
vanilla, and serve with cream and sugar.
This makes O delicate and healthful
desert, and but little time is consumed
in it's preparation.


Take full-srown tomatoes while yet
green, cut out the stems, and stew until
tender; press through seive; season
highly with pepper, salt, ground cloves,
allspice and nutmeg; boil the pulp until
thick. Worcestershire sauce may be
added if liked. This is nice with cold
meats.


Many do not know that hot fruit can
be put in cold glass jars without break
ing them. Place an ordinary table
spoon (silvcr plated, or pewter) in the
jar or can, before putting in the hot
berries, tomatoes, or anything that is
canned. Also, when putting jelly in
tumblers, place O tablespoon in the
glass, then pour in the hot jelly. Do
not be afraid, tho glass will not break if
sound. It saves much trouble in can
ming fruit. For an experiment, put a tea
spoon in tumbler, and pour boiling
water in and see if it will break it.


To whiten old flannel, make sllds of
hard soap and soft water; dissolve tea
spoonful of borax and put in the suds;
put the flannel in the suds and let 1t lie
a few minutes, then wash and rinse;
have ready some cloths dipped in melted
birthstone, and wound on sticks; two
will be sufficient, put them in candle
stick, or anything to hold them in an
upright position; hang the flannel in a
barrel, so that the smoke can come up
through the middle and around it; light
the birthstone candles and set them in
the bottom of the barrel and cover close
ly, If carefully done, they will come
out nearly rs nice as new.
Year: 1878

The lady conductor of q well.known
English magazine recently cut out a
leaf from an entire edition OF the period
ical because q novel running through
its pages contained reference of libel
ous nature.
Year: 1878

Much litigation is likely to grow out
the mill explosion in Minneapolis. The
insurance companies refuse to pay the
whole damage, on the ground that they
are liable only for the actual loss by
fire; but the mill owners held that fire
caused the explosion, and that, there
fore, the entire loss was in consequence
of fire.
Year: 1878

1t is noted by a New Jersey nursery
dealer, as feather in the crest of the
sparrow, that whereas formerly he en-
ployed two boys all summer long in
keeping four acres of rose-bushes clear
of the destructive slug, this season has
been wholly unnecessary since the
advent of the sparrow.
Year: 1878

PUGET SOUND BUSINESS COLLEGE,
This Justly meritorious institution, which
bids fair to supply Il vacancy heretofore
existing in our Territorial educational
system. this week finds the ear and atten-
ton of the public through the advertising
columns of lhe ARGUS. We believe this
college is in proper and efficient hands,
and that pupils who enter will be instruct
ed in manner at once creditable to their
teacher and profitable to themselves.