smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

On any sum for any number of days
at various annual percentage. The
answer is in cents.


-Four per cent.-Multiply the princi-
pal by the number Of days it is to run;
separate right hand figure and divide by
nine


Five per cent.-Multiply BY number
Of days and divide by -.


Six per cent.-Multiply BY the num-
her of days separate right-hand figure
aud divide by six.


Eight per cent Multiply the nun
ber of days, and divide by As.


Nine per cent.-Multiply by number
of days, separate right hand figure, and
divide by 4.


Ten per cent.-Multiply number of
days, and divide by SO.


Twelve per cent.-Multiply by number
of days, separate right-hand figure, and
divide by 3.


Fifteen per cent.-Multiply by num-
Der of days, and divide by twenty
four


Eighteen per cent.-Multiply by
number of days, separate right hand
figure, and divide by 2.


Twenty per cent. = Multiply by
number of days, and divide by Is,


Twenty-four per cent. - Multiply
by number of days, and divide by
fifteen.
Year: 1876

A new town has been laid out in the
Black Hills, about eighty miles north
west # Spring Creek Not only have
the settlers found guleh diggings; but
a number of very rich gold and silver
leads have opened. There are from 5G0
to eight hundred men at Custer Park
who experience no trouble from the SOL
dicrs or Indians.
Year: 1876

HERE is an item of society gossip
from the Indianapolis Sentinel: The
way some of the grangars waltzed their
gaily dressed girls up to the bar Of the
Occidental hotel last night, and threw
ale into them, would have astonished a
camp meeting and made a lemonade
stand at circus sick,
Year: 1876

which Nelson with fatal perversity, insisted
on wearing over his full Uniform on the
day which was the cause of so much pride
and so much sorrow to bis countrymen,
but which endowed his name with inner.
ishable glory.
Year: 1876

The blackcst rain-clnudS muffle fire:
Between du'y and desire


There lies 70 middle way or land
Take thoa the right or the left hanI
And So, pursue nor hesitate


To boldly give your hand to fate.
In helpless indecision lie


The rocks on which we strike and die
'Twerc better far to choose the worst
OF all life's ways than to be cursed
With indecision. Turn and choose
Your way; then all the world refuse.
Year: 1876

THE elephant howdah in which the
prince of Wales made his entrance into
Baroda was of fine gold, worth $40, eco
The elephant trappings were of cloth of
gold, and the animal, like the fourteen
others in the procession, was beautifully
painted and otherwise decorated.
Year: 1876

LONDON GAS STArIsTICs.-We
give some statistics in relation to
gas that may prove interesting
1he manufacture of gas is conduct.
cd in London by eight companies,
having seventeen gas works. The
aggregate capital of these compa-
MES amounts To more than eleven
millions pounds sterling, The IL
Eliminating power of the gas man
uiactured is sixteen sperm candles.
The annual consumption of coal
used in making gas is one million
and a half oftons. The quantity
of gas consumed in 1879 was about
thirteen millions Of thousand of
cubic feet, which would make the
average about nine thousand cubic
feet to the ton. The gas mains va
ry from four feet to three inches in
diameter, extend with their bran
chcs two thousand miles, and fur
nish gas to fifty-four thousand,
one hundred and nineteen lamps
in the public streets. The price
of gas at this time in London to
private consumers is about one
dollar per thousand feet, yet the
manufacture is SO profitable thai
the maximum rate of dividend an
nually declared by the companies
is restricted by act of Parliament
to 81 per cent. on the total share
capital.
Year: 1876

the farmer is often inquiring
into the best way to make his
land rich, SO that it will yield him
the greatest amount of profit.
One will say,I use guano; an
other, phosphate; another ashes
and plaster, ect.; and all claim
they have the best of crops from
each. Now experience is a good
thing, and as it is different ou
different kinds of soil, l will give
you my views. If | wish to
fatten pig | do not give him
just one ear of corn or a spoonful
of corn meal, but it gets good
square meal, and that brings the
fat, just so with the land. If
l wish to raise good crop of
onions, corn or potatoes, or any
other crop, l put on from twenty
to forty tons of good stable man
ure to the acre, and it never fails
to show itself in a rich return.
But some may say, put on one
ton of phosphate or guano and
you will save time and trouble in
hauling, and will get just as good
q crop. But 1 don't believe that
statement, tor when I plow under
thirty to forty tons of good stable
manure l have a body there, and
when plow it again the soil has
a different color and richness that
you don't see when you use
phosphates and other fertilizers in
homeopathic doses. But some
may say, suppose you live where
you cannot get manure-what
would you do then? Circumstances
altes cases, but in that l would do
the best Icould. l would plow
under clover or something else,
so as to get body, and then
perhaps use q little stimulant, if
l could do no better; but always
use the one that is good and the
least expense to you. If you
wish your carriage to look we'll
first get two or three coats of
good paint put on it; that makes
u good foundation; then comes the
varnish, and though it shines well
it is the first to pass away; so
with guano, phosphate, ashes,
plSSter, ect. They do well in tho
hill, and as top dressing, and
should be used when they don't
cost too much. But to see mon
ey in fertilizers at big price,
requires larger opticst than l
p )ssess. Now if there are any
who read this, and think my rea-
soning in correct, and will give us
the other side, 1 shall be greatly
pleased and perhaps benefited
l.. G.. F.. an Proticdt Farmer.
Year: 1876

ter Of 1858 man named Hahn found q
prospect on Union Bar and believing the
lead ran the length of the bar, went to
Sacramento and hired n company of for
ty-six Chinese TO work his claim for him.
They were to be paid two dollars and a
half each for their days work. Hahn's
lead gave out in day or two and he dis
appeared in the night, taking with him
the proceeds thus far. The III bject of Chi
nese labor was even then beginning to
engage attention in the mines, and
Hahn's action was strongly condemned
by the few miners at the bar and vicinity
which may have had something to do
with his hurried departure.
Year: 1876

SOLEMN occasions are sometimes ruth
iessiy mnrred. A wedding party in Bos
ton, far example, was broken up by the
arrest of the bridegroom and three of his
friends for robbery. And at burial in
Mackville, Ark, the men who had been
hired to ill the grave fought over their
work and used revovers, two being kill
cd in the presence of the mourners.
Year: 1876

The Training Ship jamestown carries
about one hundred boys on her present
sea cruise and calls at the Sandwich Is
lands. Many parents are availing them
selves OF the opportunity which the course
of this school ship offers for the di-cip.
line and instruction of their boys in the
science of Navigation and practical
knowledge of seamanship.
Year: 1876

ORIENTAL justice and oriental rapacity
are curously illustrated in the case of
the late octogenarian governor of the Per
sian province Of Ears, who upon retiring
frcm Office had his sole beaten till he dis
gorged 100000, and promised to return
100000 more OF his ill-gotten wealth.
Year: 1876

THE Chinese population amounts to at
least one-sixth of the whole population Of
the State, but pays less than one four
hundredth part of the revenue required to
support the State Government.
Year: 1876

THE Contra Costa gazette says There
is no relief yet from the uncertainty in
which the result of the Presidential cleo
tion is involved, and we are yet inclined
20 believe that the only solution will be
found in having new election held un-
der the law of 1892, with possibly such
amendment rs to time OF holding it as
the two Houses Of Congress can agree
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