smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

TURNING THE TABLES" Halt Your money
or your life Throw up your hands - ex-
claimed stranger stepping out from a shadow,
while accompanying the words might have been
heard the click of pistol. The person ad-
dressed was a weary newspaper man vending
his lonely way homeward, in the outskirts of the
city, about three o clock in the morning.


"Oh, yes, certainly, I'm in no hurry. Only
walking !or exercise. Just as soon hold up nv
hands as not. But not armed. Please turn that
pistol to one side, it makes me nervous"


" Hand over your cash"


Haven't nary cent with me. You see they
took all that away from me when they entered
my name upon the books"


"What did they take your money away p


"Oh, yes at the pes. house. You see am Il
smallpox patient, just out for exercise. They
won't let me walk about in the day time with
my face in this condition, so l have to go il
after dark, and late at night, when the streets
are empty. By the way, stranger, the wind is
rather in your direction, and unless you ain u
particular about it, it might be just as we'll to
stand on the other side. I've got my silver
watch, though. If you like it come and take it.
You are at perfect liberty to search me, if you
like, only don't point that pistol this way it 5
uncomfortable. Dye want the watch +"


emo thank you," said the robber, backing
away and around toward the other side Z"
couldn't take anything from man so unfortu.
nate as you are. Here-theres half dollar for
you, poor fellow. Go and get something to
drink" and he threw the coin toward him. back
ing off. GAS you're only walking for exercise,
it won't incommode you"


ooh, not a particle. Id Just as soon walk
with you if you desire it. Either way, tho its
all the same to me. Thank you for your half.
Won't you join me and drink to my recovery


We'll, you go around the block the Other
way as | haven't hurt you, say nothing about
having met me. | guess III go this way" and
then watching till the supposed smallpox pa
tient had turned the corner, he started of a
full run in the opposite direction.


Mr.. Newspaper Man proceeded on homeward
undisturbed, ard slept the sleep of one who en-
joys the consciousness of having done good
thing, and four bits better off for having met Il
highwayman
Year: 1871

A Fowl TRANsACToN.-The Vallejo Chronicle
relates the following: Everybody familiar
with Mark Twain's writing has laughed over the
story of the Jumping Frog of Calaveras, which,
after being crammed full of shot, couldn't Jump
similar joke was played off on the owner of a
game cock who lives hereabouts. Having a bird
of fine strain, he was perpetually bantering
neighbor who possessed lot of dung hill fowls,
to put up one of the latter against his game
cock The absurdity of such proposition led
to the conception of plot to take down the
growing propensities of the man of game, and it
was agreed that a combat should take place
One evening, recently, the birds brought
together, the game cock pumed his wings crow
ed in exultaton, and with the proud head of
conquerer stalked up to rooster No. 2. The COM
bative nature of the latter was provoked, and
with defiant crow he raised at No. /. The two
struck at each other with their spurs, but game
tumbled over on his back Gathering himself
up, No. again few into the ar, met the spurs
of No. 2, and once more tumbled over on his
back. After repeating the experiment half
dozen times, with the same result, the owner of
the game cock, considerably crestfallen, admitted
that his bird was getting the worst of it-he
didn't see why the latter should be topped over
so easily, and acknowledged the game cock to be
beaten. Puzzlng over the matter, the owner of
No. examined the fowl, and to his CONSERVATION
discovered that he had been stuffed full of large
sized bullets, how and in what manner it is not
TO En- oh tI,o
cock was too heavy in the part of the body that
gets over the fence last, and hence could not pre-
serve his natural equilibrium"
Year: 1871

THE Next TnNG.-Some ingeniout Yankee
has invented n process by which maple sugar
can be made out of common New Orleans mo-
lasses, navoring it by steaming maple wood. A
cotemporary says The next thing we are
looking for from that land of prolific ideas is n
process whereby they will make honey from cod
liver oil, Aavorng it with beeswax"
Year: 1871

SOMETIMES mere item will throw more light
on a subject than a column of argument. The
elegant and immense Treasury building at Wash
ington cost Sc, 900 900, and is five times as large
as the " new y unfinished Court house in New
York city, which latter structure has already
cost $40, 900 900. 1t has never yet been sup
posed that the United States paid for any work
less than its worth, but here the New York tax
payers are subjected TO an imposition which
throws in the shade all government contracts.
And this is a specimen of the New York frauds.
Year: 1871

YOUNG British officer in India, who was
shockingly mutlated and dishgured in battle,
after mature reflection, requested a comrade to
write to his betrothed in England, and release
her from the bridal engagement. Her noble re-
ply was worthy o: true woman "Tell him
that if there is enough of his body left to contain
bis soul, shall hold him to his engagement"
Year: 1871

DARKgY EooNoMY.-A Georgian negro thought
he would economize by sending his son to school
and then make the boy teach him. The plan
worked well until the young teacher, following
the custom of the seminary where he was taught,
gave the old man a thrashing for spelling dog
d-o-r-g
Year: 1871

IT is stated that there is hardly a man in Cor
sca who would not gladly give his last drop of
blood for the advancement OF any person bearing
the name Of Bonaparte. The Corsicans still rev.
erence the name Of the first Napoleon, whom
they speak of as " our god-ike fellow country
man, and the greatest of all Corsican heroes"
Year: 1871

Michigan has an ironclad liquor law. The
first drunk costs 50 the second, $50 and the
third 500. Rather expensive luxuries. Besides
the fine, the saloon keeper and the owner of the
building in which the saloon is located are made
responsible for all damages Inflicted by the
drunkard. Michigan must be nice State to
live in.
Year: 1871

GREAT progress has been made toward arriv-
ing at what may be called Respectable journal
ism. Still it is folly to expect good newspapers
from had men. If paper has no conscience
IL il because the editorial heart is corrupt.
Year: 1871

WHAT is A MILLION DOLLARS People say
The steamer took away million dollars"
just as complacently as though a million dollars
could be picked up like dirt. An anonymous
writer remarks that but few people have any
more idea what millions, billions and trillions
are than they have of the brogans worn by the
cobblers who inhabit the moon. A million of
silver dollars possesses vastness that is rather
startling to man who has never faced such
pile. To count this sum at the rate of one thou
sand five hundred dollars an hour, and eight
hours day, would require a man nearly three
months. If the said dollars were laid side by
side, they would reach one hundred and thirty
six miles, while their transportation would re-
quirc fourteen wagons carrying two tons each.
If millions become thus overpowering in their
magnitude, what shall we do with larger sums
The seconds in six thousand years seems almost
incalcuable, and yet they amount to one-ffth
less than rillou. quadrillion leaves each
the two-hundreuth part of an inch in thickness,
would form pile the height of which would be
three hundred and thirty times the moons dis
tance from the earth. A cannon ball flies swift
ly but if one were fred at the moment that one
of our National Presidents takes his seat in the
White House, and were to continue with una
hated velocity twelve hundred feet second dur
ing his whole term Of Office, it would not travel
three millions of miles. We never hear of the
Wandering Jew but we mentally inquire what
the sentence Of his punishment. Perhaps he
was told to walk the earth till he counted
trllion. Suppose man to count one in every
second of time, day and night, without stopping
to take rest, eat or sleep, it would take him
thirty-two years to count u ;rlion, even as the
fore, what n limited idea men have of the i'm
mensty of numbers
Year: 1871

trees. But they did not know, any more
than we, Of the dangers that hourly beset
US. Some few dangers We are aware off,
and we do what we can to provide against
them; but for the greater portion our eyes
are so blinded that We cannot see. We walk
securely under His guidencc, without
whom not sparrow falleth to the ground ;
and when we have had escapes that
the angels have admired at, we come home
and say, perhaps, that nothing has happen
ed--at last, nothing particular. 1t is not
well that our minds should be much exer.
cised about these hidden dangers, since
they are so many aud so great that no
human foresight can prevent them. But
it is very we'll that we should reflect con.
stautly on that loving Providence which
watches every footstep of track, always
balancing between time and eternity; aud
that such reflections should make US both
happy and afraid-afraid of trusting our
souls too much to an earthly guide or
earthly security-happy from the knowl
edge that there is One with whom We may
trust them wholly, and with whom the
very hairs of my head are all numbered.
Without such trust, how can we rest or
be at peace? but with it we may say with
the Psalmist, II will both lay me down
in peace and sleep, for Thou, Lord, only
makest me dwell in safety"
Year: 1871




WRIrING by SoUND-The time may
come, though it may seem premature to
expect it, when mans words viii! be
made to write themselves down automati-
cally as fast as they come from his lips
when speech will yield sound picture,
or songram, that we may gaze upon as
We now do upon light picture, and trans
late as we do u piece of music. Nonsense.
you say! 1t is no nonsense, no dream.
Go ask IL physicist if he can conceive its
possibility, aud unless he be very mar
row sighted member Of his community, he
will reply that he can. You who now say
''uonsense" would have said the same fifty
years ago if any one would have told you
that some day the imlse os your conte
nance would paint itself pho,oSraphcally
But before you repeat your dcrision, think
OF this: Light is a wave motion, and the
chemist has found substance which the
waves as they dash against it, can trans
form or transmute; and so we have got
photography. Sound is wave motion; its
waves are breakers, lights arc as rpp!es
the former large aud slow, the latter small
and rapid. Now, since we have got the
substance that is impressiblc by the little
weak waves, why should we despair of
inding substance that will alter under
the influence of the great, strong one
We can make glass lamp ring with the
voice pitched to u certain note soon we
may cause the same sound to vibrate II
body that will mark on paper rs it swings,
and then we can make another working
body vibrate to another sound; and SO on
up the gamut. Thus we shall &c, an appara.
tus which will mark the notes Of melody,
each as it is sung; and after this it is MT
difficult to conceive series Of vibrators
each attuued to one Of the separate aud dis.
tinct sounds that the human voice can ut
ter. Here will be an analogue to the pho.
tosrapher's camera; placed before speak
er. such an apparatus will sonosraph all he
las to say.


Some who smile at this will live to see
the thing done.
Year: 1871

Love, drunkenness and jealousy, all to-
gether, fred the heart of young man at a
fair in the Fourth District last night, and
prompted him to use the knife on an inno-
cent youth, his rival.


1t seems that the young man had been af.
fanced to fair damsel, and that she re-
monstrated with him on his first appearance
before her in an intoxicated condition, and
told him very plainly that if she ever saw
him that way again their engagement must
end.


He did not heed the warning, and she
firmly repudiated him.


Last evening they met at a fair, and each
returned ring to the other. The young
man asked her to allow him to accompany
her home, to which she replied that she was
engaged for the evening to another. The
first lover raved, and swore that he would
have the hearts blood of his rival; but the
interposition of policeman, who followed
the three from the fair, prevented the ex-
ecution of the threat. The moral is, that a
young man who wants to secure the lady of
his choice should keep sober.
Year: 1871

Last Sunday, We learn from the Times,
that while the family were asleep, fire
was discovered at the residence of Captain
Moore, six miles from Covington. So rap
idly did the flames over-spread the building,
that the Captain and his family barely es-
capped in their night clothes. A working
man, whose lsame we did not ascertain, who
was asleep in the back room, was burned to
a cinder. So sudden and destructive was
the fire that none could imagine how it
originated
Year: 1871

Miscellaneoue.


The newly constructed shell roads, under
the management Of Street Superintendent
Pearson. have not in the least been dam
aged by the late heavy rains.


Miscellaneous.


A refugee from Chicago yesterday
brought . letter of introduction to Mayor
Flanders, stating that he had lost his wife
and child and had no insurance.


Yesterday the contractor commenced
laying the square block pavement on Bour-
bon street, from Canal street to the Opera
House. The square Immediately in front
of the Opera House will he finished Oh or
about the twenty fifth instant.
Year: 1871

BY T Ell E G RAPh.


LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
MORE PENSION FRAUDS
SALT LAKE CITY AFFAIRS
RESISTANCE OR EMIGRATION
Governor BullOck's Resignation
NEW YORK PRESS COMMENTS
THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY
A NEW ORGANIZATION PERFECTED
DESCENT ON HoUsEBREAKERs
Year: 1871

represent the respective money markets as ex-
ceedingly easy. In this city there is a steady
accumulation of available funds. with an unusu-
ally light business demand for loans, from which
fact the inference is fair that general trade Is
Year: 1871

To-day.


The following is the meteorological report OF the
Signal Bureau OF the War Department for this
morning, all the observations be taken at 743
A. NJ, Philadelphia time. The barometrical reports
are corrected Tor temperature and elevation. The
velocity OF the wind is given in miles per hour,
and the force is an approximate reduction to the
BeaufOrt scale:-
Year: 1871

The lately revived custom of throwing
shoes after newly welded couple for
luck is very old one. In the Isle of
Man, the shoe is thrown after the bride
and bridegroom as they leave their respec-
i've abodes, but the ceremony is generally
performed elsewhere upon the departure
OF the hero and heroine of the day for the
honey moon trip. In some parts of Kent,
shoe throwing does not take place until
after they have gone, when the single
ladies range themselves i'll one line, and
the bachelors range themselves il another
An old shoe is then thrown as far as the
thrower's strength permits, and the ladies
race after it, the winns being rewarded
by the assurance that she will De married
before any of her rivals. She then throws
the shoe at the gentlemen, the one she hits
laying the same pleasing unction to his
heart. Something like this is practiced,
too, in Yorkshire and Scotland. In Ger
many it used to be a rule for the bride, as
she was being conducted to her chamber,
to take off her shoe and throw it among
the guests, who battled for it's possession,
the successful he or she being destined to
be speedily married and settled. In some
places the threshold is kept warm fo1
another bride by pouring a kettleful OF
warm water down the door-steps as
soon as the bride and bridegroom have
taken their departure; the fancy being
that before the water is dried up another
match will be made up, or flow on, and
that it will not be very long before another
wadded couple passes over the same
ground. In Prussia, the method of in
voking blessings on a newly married pain
used to be the more expensive one oi
smashing crockery against the door of the
house in which they were domiciled. -


Chambers Journal.
Year: 1871

WE know that domestic animals are
often compelled to take long journeys, in
obedience to the will of man but did you
ever know that whole companies of peo-
pie are sometimes compelled to take long,
wearisome Journeys because OF the migra-
tions of animals? The reindeer, in those
cold North countries where he is the main
staff and stay of the people, takes his long
JOURNEYS at the regular seasons in search of
the reindeer moss and the peculiar fchens
which are its main food. There is no help
for it; but the people who depend on it for
food, and clothing, and almost every other
necessary of lie, must follow its wander
ings Fortunately there is little portable
property to transport; and even the little
children are harder than most men with
us. A little thing of two years was seen
by Dr. Kane to take his knife and cut into
the walrus fat along with the rest of
the family, consuming quantity so enorm-
Gus it seemed almost incredible. They
early learn to take care of themselves. so
that little children are small hinderance to
their parents.


Those frozen regions could not be in
habited except for those hardy creatures.
Their keen scent shows them where the
moss is hidden even beneath six feet of
snow. Where every thing else would per-
ish of hunger, it finds sufficient food. In
turn il furnishes food for the poor inhabi-
tants, and when domesticated, gives them
milk, butter, and sort of cheese; while
its skin is put to innumerable uses besides
the common one of furnishing them with
warm clothing.


1t seems wonderful to us that people
can bear to live in such a region, and that
it seems a beautiful land to them No
doubt they would soon tire of the conven
fences of our enlightened homes, and
would think the most common customs oi
civilized life very irksome and disagree
able.-Pres6yteridn
Year: 1871

Probably there is not the remotest cor
ner or little inlet of the minute blood-ves-
sci of the body that does not feel some
wavelet from the great convulsion pro-
duced by hearty laughter, shaking the CEN
tral man. The blood moves more lively
probably its chemical, electric or vital
condition is instinctly modified-it conveys
different expression to all the organs of
the body, as it visits them on that particu-
lar mystic journey, when the man is laugh
ing, from what it does at other times. And
thus it is that good laugh lengthens a
mans life, by conveying distinct and ad-
ditional stimulus to the vital forces. The
time may come when physicians, attending
moro closely than they do now to the in
Vulnerable subtle influences which the soul
exerts upon its tenement of clay, shall
prescribe to torpid patient $50 many
peals of laughter" to be undergone at
such and such time," just as they do
now that far more Objectionable prescrip-
tion-a pill, or an electric or galvanic
shock, and shall study the best and most
effective method of producing the required
effect in each patient.
Year: 1871

A MAN painting the cornice of a house
in Hartford, fell from ladder, and it was
supposed that he was badly hurt. Imme-
diately after the fall, young man ran to
to the store to inform the painter of the
misfortune that had overtaken his work
man. The boss" listened to thrilling
description of the fall, and, with the rui-
ing passion still strong within him, asked
anxiously, "Did he spill his paIntg
Year: 1871

THE Salt Lake City Neaos says that, a
short time since, while some men were
engaged in clearing out spring in that
region from which the people obtain
water for irrigation, they found, standing
erect, in the spring, what had been a two.
yearold heifer, in an advanced state of
Detrifactinn
Year: 1871

A GERMAN waiter at Bingen on the
Rhine has displayed talent for fraud
worthy of Saratoga A lady found a
chicken in her egg, and called his atten-
ton to the Circumstance. He charged her
for boiled chicken.
Year: 1871

Nedt'.-The branch meat shop Of James
kynaston, located on Commercial avenue,
next door TO the grocery store Of James
Carroll, is now in full blast, and this pop
ular butcher is supplying all the refined
meat caters Of that portion Of the Fourth
Ward with splendid meat. IL you have
not tried him give him q call. if
Year: 1871

Pay regularly and promptly what is
due to your employees. Read the Scrip
lures on this point :-'.The wages of him
that is hired shall not abide with thee all
night until the morning" Lev. xix; Is
'Woe unto him that useth his neighbor's
service without wages. and giveth not for
bis work." Jer. xxi rs. ii will be a
swift witness against the sorceress. and
against the adulteress, and against the
false-swearers and-note the company
against those that oppress the hireling IN
his wages" Mat. iii: 5.


What may seem to be small thing TO
you, may, in reality, be very great
thing to one whose whole living it makes.
Indifference and thoughtlesness in this
thing frequently causes an amount OF pain
which no man or woman should be willing
to inhict. Because the prompt payment
of the daily wages may involve momente-
ry inconvenience, perhaps mere breaking
through prescribed routine, or even be-
cause it may interrupt conversation,
with scarcely enough thought to look the
creditor in the face, the debtor-just as
truley debtor as if the man or woman
we're asking for million-crics out !:
"Call again." He complacently turns to
his paper, or his talk, as if he had done no
wrong. He has committed u crime. lie
has sent that man away sad AT heart to his
home. He has compelled him to see his
family deprived ofnecessities, perhaps put
to suffering he has forced him to make
excuses to creditors with shame of face /;
to endure the feelings of wrong and help
less indignation-simply because, for some
reason, he has chosen to deprive brother
man of his ,rightful dues. All this is
shamefully wrong and what is solemnly
to be considered by such is that God is
offended by it, and they need not wonder
if He, who cares for the poor, shall deal
with them for it. They may deem it a
small thing, but it is not small in His
sight, and shall not escape, the visitation.
Year: 1871

A glass of whisky is manufactured from
about seventy grains of corn, the value of
which is too small to be estimated. A
glass of this mixture sells for dime, and
if good brand is considered worth the
money. 1t is drank in minute or two.
1t fires the brain, deranges and weakens
the physical system. On the same side
board on which the deleterious beverage
is served lies the newspaper. 1t is cover
ed with half million type-it brings in
teligence from the four quarters of the
globe. The newspaper costs less than the
glass of grog, but it is not the less true that
there is large number of people who
think corn juice cheap and newspapers
dear The newspaper is source of pleas
ure and enlightenment to the home circle,
as the family are gathered around the
bright, glowing fire on al winter evening;
and the results of newspaper reading prove
beneficial through life.