smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

Scarcely has the hen sat upon the eggs
twelve hours before some lneaments of the |
head and body Of the chick are discernable in |
the embryo at the end OF forty-eight hours
the heart begins to beat, but no blood is to
be seen. In little over tOrty-eight hours, We
may distinguish two visicles with blood, the
pulsation of which is evident, one Of them be
ing the left ventricle the other the root of the
great artery; soon after, one Of the auricles Of
the heart is perceptlble, in which pulsatiOn
may be remarked as we'll as in the ventricle.
SO early as the seventh hour, the wings may
be distinguished, aud, on the head, two glob-
ules for the brain, one for the beak, and two
others, for the front and back part of the
head. Toward the end Of the fourth day, the
two aurices are distinctly visible, and approach
nearer the heart than they did before about
the fifth day, the liver may be perceived; at
the end of one hundred and forty eight hours,
the lungs and stomach become visible, and, in
few hours more, the inteStines, the veins,
and the upper jaw. On the seventh day, the
brain begins to assume amore consistent form
and in one hundred and ninety hours after in
cuoation the beak opens, and flesh appears on
the breast In two hundred and ten hours,
the ribs begin to form, and the gall blad
der is visible. In a few hours more the
bill Is of green COLOR and if removed from
! its covering is seen to move. The feathers
begin to shoot about the two hundred and
fOrtieth hour, and, at the same time, the
head becomes cartilaginOus; in twenty-four
! hours more the eyes appear; at two hundred
and eighty hours the ribs are perfected !;
and at the three hundred and thirty first hour
| the lung, stomach, and heart assume their
natural appearance On the eighteenth day
of incubation, faint pulsing is heard. 1t
then increases in size and strength till it emer
ges from its prison. BY so many gradations
does the wisdom of God conduct these crea
tares into lie. All of their progressive evolu


tions are arranged in this perfect order. Il


the liver is formed on the fifth day, it is from
the preceding state of the chick No part o


its body could appear sooner or later without


some injury to the embryo, each of its mem


bers appearing at the most convenient moment


How admirable is that principle Of life, the


source Of a new being contained in an egg, al


parts of the animal being invisible until they


become developed by warmth


Another remarkable fact is that the chick


when it breaks from the she'll, is heavier thai


the egg was at first, and that all of these form


OF blood feathers, and muscle, are seemingl!
one liquid body, until heated to a proper TEN
perature and to a certain time, to make thei
, organism perfect. So much for microcopi


investigations of the curious Much might B.


asked concerning the formation Of anima


bodies, which at present is impenctrable. LIE


this not discourge Us, but let us make goo(


use of the knowledge we are permitted to ac


quire and by this we shall discover the wis


dom of God, who employs US for the bene6


of ourselves and our fellow-men.
Year: 1871

Do you know you have asked for the sostliest thing
Ever made by the Hand aboveP
A wOmans heart and a womans life
And wonlans wondrous lover
DOyou know you have asked for the priceless thing,
As child might ask for a toy2
Demanding what others have died to win,
With the reckless dash of boy
You have written my lesson of duty out
Man-like have you questioned me-
Now stand at the bar of my woman's soul
Gntil shall question thee.
You require ysur mutton shall always be hot
Your socks and your shirts be- whole;
require you heart to be true as Gods stars
And as pure His heaven your soul.
You require a cook for your mutton and beef;
require far greater thing
seamstreSs you're wanting for socks and for shirts
look for a man and king.
king Tor the beautiful world called home
And man that the maker-God--
shalllOok upon as1he did on the frst
And say " it is very good"
am fair und young, but the roses will fade
From my soft young cheek one day
viii you love them md the falling leaves
Asyou did mOnE the bloom of Mayr
Is your heart so strong and deep
may launch my all on its tide?
loving woman finds heaven or hell


On the day she is made bride.
require all things that are grand and true
All this that man should be;
fyOu give this all, would stake my life


To be all you demand OF me-
fyou cannot be this-a Iaundress and cook


You can hire for little to pay
But a w0Dans heart and a woman's lite


Are never won in that way
Year: 1871

Whenever we hear of the noble deeds of
women in the supreme hour of peril, when
death stareS them and their little ones in the
face, we never pass them by without notice
Mrs. Van Harmon resides on Running Creek,
60 miles from Denver Early in the morning
of the llth of July the Indians made their ap-
pearance, and her husband and several other
men went in pursuit. Mrs. Van II. was alone,
busily engaged in household duties, when sud
dealy the two children, aged five and eight,
ran into the ranch crying, Mamma, mamma,
the Indians, the Indians" Two shots fired at
the children struck the thick oak door Just as
the young mother shut it in the face of three
Cheyenne warriors. After boiling the door
and piling bed, bureau and stove before it, the
mother sent her little ones into the cellar and
shut them in. Taxing a revolver and an cid
rusty rifle, the heroic young woman stood near
the open window, shooting only when a
painted face made itself visible in the brush.
Although the rifle was rusty and out of order,
the sight of it at the window with the dra-
COON revolver held the three sneaking red
skins at a respectful distance. For two hours
did Mrs. Van II. watch and wait the return of
her husband and the men with him. Twice
the Indians attempted to parley and beg en-
trance to the house, but the young mother
had heard of their atrocities in the country
and knew a knife and tOmahawk awaited her
little ones and captivity for herself Finding
the house impregnable, and having q mortal
dread of the rifle and pistol in the hands of
the determined woman at the window, the
party left after setting fire to the hay and barn.
The smoke attracted the attention of the
scouting party, which returned to find the
brave little woman still on guard with her lit
tie children shut in the cellar.
Year: 1871

At one of Peter Cartwright's camp mp-meetings
he was much annoyed by noisy sister, who
took part more frequently than was accept
able He had called on all to kneel while
some one should lead in prayer She struck
off at once with much feeling and power.
out, "Amen!" A brother kneeling close by,
whispered, Its Ann Jordan praying"
Cartwright looking round and seeing it was so,
cried out, Il take thatAmen back"
Year: 1871

a man who married buxom Irish girl,
greatly to the horror of his mother and
sister, made the following defence: "If l
marrd an American girl must have an Irish
girl to take care of her. and l cannot afford to
to support both of them"
Year: 1871

The New York Commercial thinks that
President Grant salary ought to be advanced
to 100000 year. President Theirs is to re-
ceive that sum, and it is of opinion that the
American President is quite as valuable as the
French,
Year: 1871

An uptown youth, who has a turn for
practical joking, recently tried to impose upon
an honest lager beer vender by leading a mule
into his saloon, and taking him up to the bar,
as if for drink. Mynheer looked steadily at
the pair for few moments, as if collecting his
stray wits, and then broke out as follows


See here! Vynce, know what dis is here
your own brudder-but he be one you call
glass lager it is not for the law in no place,
nor not NIT my saloon. lie look like you !;
you may be one family, as you call it, but if
you ever bring dat young brudder here again,
| will shust tell you old fadder jackass of you
both. Now you shust 90 along nit yourselfI'


The young man and the mule went along.
Year: 1871

A wise old gentleman, who knew all about
it, on retiring from business gave the follow
ing sage advice to his son and successor:
Common sense, my son, is valuable in all
kinds of business-except love-making."
Year: 1871

Two years experimenting has demonstrated
that the poppy culture in California is sue
cess. The opium contains an unusual percent
age of morphia, and is considered far superior
to the ordinary opium Of commerce.
Year: 1871

THE BANGOR smash-up is beyond question
the most serious railroad disaster that ever
occurred in Maine. The details read like
those of accidents that we have always been
led to conclude were exclusively confined to
the Western and Southern railroads. If the
list OF the killed and manned do not equal
that of New Hamburg last February, it only
wanted fire to make it as fatal 1t has always
been matter of congratulation that our
Maine roads and prominently the Maine
Central, have been specially vigilant in guard
ing against such accidents as this-for which
it seems there can be hardly as much excuse
as for the explosion OF the Westfeld.


The bridge that broke down was a common
trestle bridge of about fifty feet span and
twenty teet above the roadway. It was built
eighteen years ago and the treste work has
not been covered more than eight years. The
Wing says the timbers seem much decayed.
and it would be quite natural they would be
after so long exposure to the weather. It is
asserted that the Railroad Commissioners
have examined this bridge this season.


1t this statement is true, it indi
Gates that the member of the Board that
reported favorably upon this rotten trap, has
not appreciated the Importance of his position
nor the great responsibility that rests upon
him as the agent of the people of Maine to
save them from this most fearful enginery of
destruction. 1t does not require "a great
amount of professional skill to ascertain if the
tlmbers OF bridge are decayed, but it does
demand care and attention, and that the peo-
pie have right to expect. 1t NAV be that
the terrible responsibility rests elsewhere bnt
wherever it does, let il be known. The rot
ten timbers are swift witnesses against some
party or parties.
Year: 1871

A CORRESPONDENT of the Home Journal,
from Auburn, signing himself as "H. G. p"
says it is now too late TO call Convention to
to nominate candidate upon which to con-
centrate the vote of himself AMI his friends.
averaging perhaps hundred i'm each county
in the State; but instead proposes that Gov.
Perham's majority be reduced by the same
by voting scattering tickets. municipal clerks
would be filled with alarm if they did not
know that the attempt has generally failed be-
fore. Last year we found man who would
not vote for Gov Perham because he is a be-
lever OF the Universalist faith and there was
large number of Republicans who did not
vote for him, because by the aid of their vivid
imaginations, they saw the State overrun
with an armed State police that absorbed
large per cent. of the patriotic and able
bodied men of the state, and some very
nervous ones saw every sour apple tree in the
state laid low. Mr.. Perham has been, is, and
will be in 1872 an excellent Governor, careful
discreet, straightforward and industrious con-
sequentlya few men in every county who
would have a Governor otherwise, are dis
pleased. The writer is a temperance man
and naturally desires to see imtemperance
banished. Living in the immediate vicinity
OF Lewiston where Democratic Mayor has
cast his influence and even issued his orders
against the execution of the law, he very
naturally thinks that the great curse of civili-
zation has not lost, but rather gained ground.
NOW he proposes romedy- IT is simply tC
give the State into the hands of the Democ-
racy for one year and make free rum odious.
1t may be a good remedy, but this particular
application of the medical maxim, "Similia
simiK9lts carantatr," the people ofMaine have
no faith in.


The courts are open to all; yet we doubt if
this III. G.. p" has made single complaint
of violation of the law Ur could be induced
to sign warrant or be one of three persons
persons to sign petition to tn. municipal
authorities compelling them TO enforce the
law. There never was time when the liq-
uor law could be so easily and thoroughly en-
forced by the local officers elected by the peo-
pie and in the Supreme and other courts as
at the present time. If The people of Maine
desire to rest more power in the hands of the
Executive of the State, let them restore the
appointment OF sheriffs and county ATTORNEYS
to that officer.
Year: 1871

What Lawyer Thinks Of the Testator's Sanity
Love and Affection as Viewed Through "a
Hole in the Walr'-What the Propo-
nent Swore to When He Dodged


His Tax Bllls-An Undutiful Son


and a Sorrowing Parent
Year: 1871

The Commerce Committees OF the House ana SEN
ate have agreed not TO hold any more meetings this
session, except on special call for the consideration
OF special bills. Neither committee now regards any
Of the bills now before for steamship subsidies
having any chance at this session.


Iiems of the Miscellaneous Appropriation Bill.


The House COMMITTEES on Appropriations at their
meeting today agreed 10 insert IN the Miscellaneous
Appropriation bill the following amounts for the
construction OF new public buildings and the COM
pieiion OF those already commenced in the several
Year: 1871

AT first the committee was not disposed to appro-
pirate for the construction OF public buildings,
bn they nnally agreed, upon the urgent request of
the Secretary of the Treasury relax their econo
mical rules IN this respect.
Year: 1871

In one Of the debates in Congress, which
suddenly called Daniel Webster to his feet, he
made brief but most eloquent speech, appa-
rently without opportunity for previous prepa-
ration. In the course Of his remarks, he threw
out the following sentence, which has ever
since been admired as one of the most harmo-
NOUS and expressive In the English language.
He was speaking of our military conflict with
Great Britain: ''Our fathers raised their flag
against power to which for purpose of foreign
conquest and subjugation Rome, in the height
of her glories, is not to be compared power
which has dotted over the surface OF the whole
globe with her possessions and military posts,
whose morning drum-beat, following the sun In
its course and keeping pace with the hours,
circles the earth with one continuous and un-
broken strain of martial airs Of England. -
As he sat down one of the Senators congratu-
| lated him upon his speech, and alluding to the
above passage, said that to him it was incon-
ceivable how MIR. Webster, in speech so man.
ifestly unprecedented, could have formed SO
| perfect and so beautiful sentence, which with
hours of study he could not improve. Mr..
| Webster replied that the passage was not ex-
| temporaneous; that 10 his summer vacation
he had visited Quebec and while standing on
the massive and almost impregnable citadel
there, looking out upon the wondrous scene of
national grandeur and of natures loneliness
spread before him, the idea occurred to his
mind. He Immediately took his seat upon a
gun, and with pencil and paper, sketched in
the most appropriate language he could at the
moment command. Upon arriving at his hotel
he sat down at his leisure, and wrote it, and
rewrote it, with many nterlineations and era
sures, until he had modified it in the form of
words which satisfied him. He then laid it
aside in his retentive memory, to be used when
occasion should offer. The opportunity arose
| upon that day.
Year: 1871

INCIDENTS OF THE MOBILE EXPLOSION
The explosion Of the boiler of the steamboat
Ocean Wave, near Mobile, Alabama, on the
9th ultimo, involving loss of some fifty lives,
has already been fully reported by telegraph
The mail accounts furnish the following two
touching incidents of the calamity


Little Harry Muldon was badly scalded.-
When the people gathered around him the
brave little fellow said Please do go and
help those who are sufferin can wait Don
let them startle my poor mother


"a babe about seven months of age was found
Immediately after the accident tightly jammed
in between two heavy beams, kicking up its
little heels and smiling amid the dreadful car
mage, perfectly happy and unconscious. In
this condition it was found by its agonized
mother, who was rushing frantically about sup.
posing her infant to be lost
Year: 1871

STRANGE FREAK OF NATURE "A CORES
pondent Of the Baltimore Sun, writing from
Rockingham county, Va, says:


"A strange freak OF nature has taken place
in the track of the severe hailstorm that occur
red in this region some three weeks ago. We
are not aware of anything of the kind occur
ring heretofore. 1t is this; that all the Or
chards in the track OF the hailstorm have come
out in full bloom. Some orchards are in as full
bloom as they ever were in the spring Not
only the apple trees are in bloom, but the 10.
Gust trees in many places are also In bloom.
A gentleman came to my house last week and
told me on his road here he saw an apple tree
with several bushels Of ripe apples on it, aDc
thousands of bloom on the same tree. 4 very
pretty hut strange sight.
Year: 1871

An officer on review day happened to be
thrown from his horse As he lay sprawling
upon the ground, he said to friend who ran
to his assistance, Il thought l had improved
in my riding, but l find 1 have fallen of.
Year: 1871

three thousand dollars contained
therein.


In a perfect thrill of excite
ment | baGe my friend hasty
good-by, and telling him l would
more fully explain at some other
time, ran back to the depot and
took the night train for home.
AS we whirled onward in the
darkness, [ revolVed the whole
matter over in my mind, and
came to a decision as to what plan
Ishould pursue-which will be
better illustrated by the actual
facts as they occurred.


Going directly to the police Of
fee, communicated my discovery
to the chief, who set a trap by
means of which the burglars were
caught in their nefarious schemes.


The depot was watched, and
stranger, carrying IN his hand a
large satchel, was observed to get
off from the halfpast eleven O.
clock train frem the city, who,
after lettering about in by-ways
and alleys for nearly two hours,
finally took his way to my Office,
on the door of which he gave a
peculiar knock and was at once
admitted by Gamnett.


The officers waited on the out
side a sufficient length of time
for them to get fairly at work, and
then, breaking into thestore, found
one man engaged in blowing pow
der into the key,hole of the safe,
aud the other (my clerk looking
over the burglars tools that the
satchel contained. .....


Both Gamuett and his bosom
friend Jackson were provided for
by the authorities Of the State of
New York. -rs-
Year: 1871

NSfs~ - go - - ~ ...... ......
The Cleveland Herald, ma es
the following truthful observation
concerning country papers, and the
duty of giving them wholesome
support: 81 ..s


The local paper is an absolute
necessity to the county and com,
munity where it is published
All the city papers cannot supply
the place Of the home paper
That should be the first love of
every man and woman, for with
the paper, is the locality identified.
The paper gives the country and
town where printed much Of their
Importance in the world and gives
in detail the local news. Which
cannot be gained by any other
source. Every weeks issue Of
the paper is so mueh-loeal history,
and the rise, growth and develop
ment of the town and county can
be measured and recorded only bv
the local newspapers that con
stantly gather in its items. Peo-
pie do not properly appreciate
their home newspapers. They
measure the value of a paper too
much by the number of columns
it contains The home paper, st
any price is the cheapest paper,
one can take, for in it is found the
information to be obtained from no
other source. ... ....


People should give to their own
good country paper, vigorous and
substantial support.
Year: 1871

The Kansas City Bulletin tells
a story of a young man named
COnover Ainsworth who belonged
to band of jayhawkers during
the rebellion, and who on one oc-
casion burned the house of reb-
ell farmer which had been used as
the headquarters of a band of
guerillas. While the house was
burning Ainsworth amused him
self ridiculiug the distress of a
little girl, the daughter Of the far
mer, preventing the poor child, out
of sheer wantonness, from saving
some trifling trinkets from the
flames. Seven years .afterward
he met the little rebel girl, then
grown up to a handsome rustic
maiden, and fell desperately in
love with her; but she recognized
him at once as the unfeeling maD
who had made sport of her child
ish suffering, and repulsed his un-
welcome attentions. For two
years be persevered in his attempts
to gain the affections of the beau
tiful Missouri girl without avail,
and at last, in q moment OF des-
pair, committed suicide within
sight of the ruins of the farm
house where he had first met the
object of his passion.
Year: 1871

The strong attachment of sub
|scrlbers to well-coLducted news
paper is fully conformed by pub


fishers. Stop my paper" words
of dread to ney beginners in the


business, lose their terror after a


paper has been establish ed for a


term Of years. So long as a pa
per pursues a just, honorable, and


judleious course, meeting the


wants Vt It's customers in all res


poets, the ties of friendship be-


tween the subscribers and the pa
per are as hard to break by an
outside third party as the links
which bind old friends in business
or social life. Occasional defeats
and errors in newspaper are over
looked by those who have become
attached toit through itsperusaI for
years. They may sometimes be.
come dissatisfied with it on account
of ofsomething which has slippedinto
its columns, and may stop taking
it: but the absence of the familiar
sheet at their house or office for a
few weeks becomes an insupport-
able deprivation, and they hasten
to take it again, and possibly apollo
gize for having stopped it. This
we believe to be the common ex-
perience in the history of all e.
tablished newspapers. No friends
ship on earth is more constant
than that contracted by the read
er for a journal which makes an


honest and earnest effort to merit


bis continued support.
Year: 1871

A physician being asked by
a patient if a little spirits now
and then would hurt him much,
replied, ''I do not know that a
little occasionally would hurt
you much; but if you don't take
any it won't hurt you at all. -
Year: 1871

A gentleman at Fremont, Obios
bad reception at his house the
other evening, and when the
guests went away it took the host
all night to wash the tar and pick
the feathers off his person.
Year: 1871

An excellent New York lady
has lost Rei husband-''a good
man. to whom she was tenderly
attached A few days after the
funeral the sexton brought in his
bill. For digging grave, two dol
lars" "My gracious" said the
widow, "you don't charge two do
lars for digging grave in such a
soft spot as that / would willing
ly have dug it myself for one dol
lar !"
Year: 1871

A family OF Oswego, consisting of five
persons, were taken suddenly and severe
1y I'll. the syrsptoms being similar to
those experienced from the action of
some violent poison. The physician who
was called pronounced their illness the
effects of poison from mooDstruck fsh.
lie explained that fish are fhus rendered
q dangerous article Of food by being
exposed to the light OF the full moon
while dying. and he had noted numerous
cases of illness with precisely similar
symptoms. originating from the cause,
in Scotland and some other countries
The illness produced, though rarely ia.
tai. IL very severe, and its effects contin
ue for some days. The common symp-
toms are headache, nausea, with severe
and exhaustive etching, heat in the face
and head, and sensation as of the head
and face swelling greatly, and not un-
frequently attended with delirium. Per-
sons who have any desire to experience
the effects of this singular illness, can
crafty their curiosity by simply expo
sing freshly caught fish Of any species
to the rays Of the moon for short time,
and the indulging of their appetites
thereon.