smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

Tie lately revived custom of throwing
shoes sfter a 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-
tive abodes, but the ceremony is generally
performed elsewhere upon the departure
of the hero and heroine of the day fer the
honey moon trip. In some paris of Kent,
Ehoe throwing does not take place until
after they have gone, when the single
laties range themselves in one line, and
the bachelors range themselves in another.
An old shoe is then thrown as far as the
thrower's strength permits, and the ladies
race after it, the winner being rewarded
by the assurance that she will be married
before any OF her rivals. She then throws
the shoe at the gentlemen, the one she hits
laying the same pleasing JUNCTION 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 its possession,
the successful he or she being destined to
be speedily married and settled. In some
places the threshold is kept warm for
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
welded couple passes over the same
ground. Ia Prussia, the method of in
voking blessings on newly-married pair
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

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 CONFUSION pro-
duced by heartylaughter, shaking the CEN
tral man. The blood moves more lively
probably its chemical, electric or vital
conditionis instinctly modi6ed-it conveys
a different expression to all the organs OF
the body, as it visits them on that partlcu-
lar mystic journey, when the man is laugh,
ing, from what it does at other times ana
thus it is that good laugh lengthens a
mans life, by conveying distinct ana al
ditional stimulus to the vital forces. The
time may come when physicians, attending
more closely than they do now to the IN,
Vulnerable subtle influences which the soul
exerts upon its tenement OF clay, snail
prescribe to a torpid patient $50 many
peals of laughter" to be undergone at
such and such time," just as they do
now that far more Objectionable prescrlp-
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

THE Salt Lake City Nsaos says that,
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 two,
year.old heifer, in an advanced state OF
petrifaction.
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

WREN the new years come and the old years go,
How, little by little, all things growl
All 0ings grow-and all decay
Little by little passing away.
Little by little, on fertile plain,
Rlpen the harvests of golden grain,
Waving and flashing in the sun,
When the summer at last is done.
Little by little they ripen so,
AS the new years come and the old years 60.
Low on the ground an acorn lies,
Little by little it mounts to the skies,
Shadow and shelter for wandering herds,
Home for hundred singing birds
Little by little the great rocks grew,
Long, long ago, when the world was news
Slowly and silently, stately and free.
Cities of coral under the sea
Little by little are builded-while so
The new years come and the old years 60.
Little by little all tasks are done;
So are the crowns of the faithful won,
So is Hesyen in our hearts begun.
With work and with weeping, with laughter and


play,


Little by little, the longest day
And the longest life are passing away,
Passing without return while so
The new years come and the old years go.
Year: 1871

CIDER A HEALTHY BEVERAGE
Somebody in writing about cider says:
If most people would manage 10 drink
a barrel or two of cider during the
winter, they would come out in better
health during the spring than if con-
fined exclusively to cold water. Dys-
pPpsia was disease unknown among
our fathers, who used to make cider
a drink in winter. Now. about every
fifth man is in trouble with the liver
complaint or Indigestion. Vcgetshs
acid is just what the stomach Graves
at times, and nothing suits it better
than good draught of cider. Indeed,
it is often recommended by some ply
sieiaus, and is about the only thing
that will cure some diseases. Few
men drink cider to excess in fact, it
is not often plenty enough for that,
and people who have taste for sOme-
thing that intOxicates do not stop to
drink cider.
Year: 1871

It was the boatman R0nsalee,


And be sailed through the mfsts 30 white
And two little ladies sat at his knee,


With their two little heads 50 bright;
And. so they sailed and sailed-alI TIRES
On the golden coast o. the night.
Young Ransalse had handsome fare,


And his great beard made him brown;
And the two little ladies in girlish glee,
They Kept their eyelids down
The one 10 her Eflkeu veil Of lace,


And the one IN her wcolsey gown.
For one little lsdy lived IN the WOOL,


Like a q Iwsrtbat hides from the day
Her name vas Janny--they called her the good ;
And tha nameof the other was May,
And her psiase window looked On the aOvd,
Where they softly sailed away.
Long time the balance even stood


With our Ronsalee that day
But what was little house 10 the wood
To palace grand and gay
So be gave his heart 10 Jenny, the good,
And his hand he gave 10 May.
Year: 1871

The Ku-KIux are nearly as bad in
Kentucky to day as at any time since
the war. Who can tell why it is that
when Democracy reigns unrivaled that
then the Ku-Klux and terrorism in
general have sway ? Is it because
Democracy is within itself demoraliz-
ing, or is it because it finds its home
and appropriate field of action among
the demoralized ?
Year: 1871

THE PATIENCE OF JOB. Every
body il in the habit of Dragging on
Job, and Job did have considerable
pashunce; but did he ever keep dis
trick skule for 8 dollars a month, and
board around, or run country news
paper?


Did he ever reeP lodged oats down
hill on a hot day, and have all his
gallus buttons bust Oph at once?


Did he ever have the jumping tooth
axe, and be made to tend the b b Y
while hiswife was over to Parkins' to
a tea squall j.?


Did he ever get up in the mornin-
awful dri, and tuff it 3 miles before
breakfast 10 get drink, and find that
the man kept u temperance house?


Did he ever undertake to milk a
kicking heffer, with bush tale, in fly
time, and in lot?


Did he ever set on a litter of kittins,
in the old rocking chair, with his sum
mer pantaloOns on?


If he could do theze things, and
praise the Lord at the same time, all
| / have to say IL, bully for job Josh
Billings.
Year: 1871

The widow of Thomas Darcy Nc
Gee, died while on her knees at pray
er on Tuesday night of last week, at
Montreal. Her daughter, who had
been out at i party, returned about
midnight, and seeing her mother on
her sknees at her bedside, remarked to
her that it was late, and receiving no
reply took her hand, and found that
she was dead. Her spirit had gone to
heaven In a chariot of prayer.
Year: 1871

whats the difference between the North Pole and
south Pols?' "why, all the difference in the world
replied lady, unwittingIy and that's the answer
Do twenty musicians constitute musical score
"If Titau's wife had been named Polly, would that
fact have made her politician p


Can man make a square meal on round steak


What is the Oldest revolver knOwn7 The Earth.


why ia man who owes his shoemaker more timid
than other men2 Because be can't say bis sole is his
Year: 1871

While Cox was Secretary of the Interior he used to
give the following example applicants for places IN
his Department. they say, and it sent so many the
spout that it got to be called "COx's Cow-catcher:


"a sold COW for SIS and by the transaction lost 1875
per cent He sold another at advance of l6 per
cent for just enough by the profit the loss
upon the arst COW. What did the second COW sell
E,r -
Year: 1871

Some clever fellow has manufacture
ed haudkerchiets upon which a map Of
the war in Europe is stamped. They
have proved an immense success, every =
body wishing to poke his nose into
the scene of conflict without personal
DANCER.
Year: 1871

Il have lost my Appetite" said Il
gigantic fellow, who was ar eminent
performer on the trencher, to friend
81 hope" said the friend, "no poor
man has found it for it would ruin
him in week"
Year: 1871

A STRANGE SCENE AT A WEDDING
AT Leominster, not long ago, strange
scene occurred at wedding, which really
proved no wedding at all. When the
clergyman inquired whether any cause
existed why ithe marriage ceremony
should not be completed, the bridegroom
remarked that six months before he asked


the lady to release him from his engage
ment. she declined, and afterward stat
ed tsat her father would not consent to
it's being broken off. He went on to say
that coercion had been used to bring her
to the ceremony, and SO he should marry
her because he was bound by law to do
so. The service was then continued, hut
when the bride was asked whether she
would take this man to be her husband,
she replied, emphatically, "No, / will
not ~ which caused intense excitement in
the chapel This, of course, brought the
service to an abrupt termination. The
bride Immediately left the chapel, and the
bridegroom (who seemed parfec ly satis-
fed with the result) drove way, followed
by an immense number of persons, who
oheered him heartily. -
Year: 1871

MOUNT WASHINGTON IN WINTER
How Mount Washington appears in win.
ter is thus described by one of the party
now on the summit: "Above the limit of
the trees the railway is covered with ice
of every fantastic shape, and the frame
work OF the gulf tank is now so ornament
ed, that one can hardly believe that it is
the rude structure we see in summer. The
Lizzie Bourne monument, which we have
been accustomed to see only a rough pile
of stones, is now an object of architectural
beauty such as no sculptor can carve from
marble Immediately above the monu-
ment the timber trestles are completely
covered with deposits of frozen mist, ex-
tending two or three feet horizontally
from the timber on which the track is
laid, and every piece OF timber which
forms the trestle is ornamented with bean
tiful forms of frost work, deposited in
graceful curves as the wind sweeps
through the trestle. On the summit, the
buildings, the piles of rock and stones, so
rough in summer, are now completely
covered with frost, while the snow fills
the spaces between the jagged rocks. On
the sides of the buildings toward the
northwest, the frost has accumulated SO
that now it is more than foot in thick
ness. The frost work on the depot, while
it has everywhere the same general ap-
pearance, the points show exactly the
direction of the wind as 1t came into
every nook and corner of the building.
The frost on the braces and timbers that
extend outward seems like one triangu-
lar mass, and on the chains it is often two
feet in diameter"
Year: 1871

ATTEMPTED SAFE ROBBERY. - On
Wednesday night an attempt was made
to break open the safe of Messrs. Ross
& Forbes at the Lincoln Iron Works.
An entrance to the building was effected
by unlocking the door by means OF a
SHELTON key made. of wire. The office
within the building was entered by
taking a large light of glass from the
window sash by cutting out the putty,
and taking out glass without breaking it
and depositing it in safe place. With
a hammer and chisel taken from the shop
the silver ornaments of the safe hinges
were removed, and an effort was made to
cut off the hinges which proved unsuc'
cessful. The safe was uninjured- save
being shorn of its ornaments. The party
was evidently blunderer. ......
Year: 1871

LIFE INSURANCE. = The managing
agents of the life insurance companies
doing business in Boston are forming an
organization with the purpose to unite the
companies who do business at an expense
under 20 per cent. of their receipts; to
resist the efforts of managers who place
canvassers in the field at the ruinous COM
missions of from 90 to go per cent, and
to clear the business Of irresponsible and
unreliable men.
Year: 1871

WIFE MURDERs.-Wifs murders are
becoming alarmingly frequent, especially
in the vicinity of New York. A little
halter might be judiciously expended on
few of the murderers. 1t would doubt
less tend to break up the the unpleasant
practice.
Year: 1871

"Mary had a little lamb"
We've heard it o'er and DER,
Until that little lambs become
A perfect little bore!
So l propose there shall be dug,
A grave both deep and wide,
In which that little lamb and all its


barb's
Be buried side by side.
Year: 1871

LONDON, jan 8, 1871.
am enabled to specially inform the HERALD to-
day by cable telegram that it is still regarded as
being quite impossible to name not to say fix, the
period Of meeting OF the European Congress, should
such an assemblage take place at any immediate
moment, or at all.


have this intelligence from q very excellent
source. 1t may be accepted as semi-oliicial.
WHY


This public and pressing difficulty is experienced,
as we told by British authority in consequence
of the certain absence OF the French representative
from the Congress, but the real cause.-the fact and
truth OF the matter-is to be found in the embar-
rassing position In which England Is placed by the
formal notification which has been given her by tile
Russian government. 10 the effect that the clause OF
the Treaty OF Paris OF 1885, which attempts to
late the navigation OF she Black Sea, has been
already abrogated by the act Of the Czar Alexander
and that 1t is "out OF the power OF q Congress 60
alter his decision" In this respect


BRITISH HOPE OR CERTAINTY.


The London Observer says the conference OF the
Powers VIII certainly meet before the end OF Janu-
ary.


1.-The refusal OF M. Favre to attend Is not con-
sidered final. but whether France Is represented or
not the conference will assemble"


The very latest report which is being made current
In political circles is to the effect that NJ Jules Favre
Is merely awaiting an invitation on the part OF
England to attend the Conference.
Year: 1871

Officers and Men Landed and Placed on Quarter
Rations-Steamer Goes to Pieces-Departure OF
the Gig for the Sandwich Islands-Terrible
Suffering in an Open Boat for One Month
The Boat swampsd in Attempting to
Land at One Of the Sandwich Ia


lands : First Lieutenant and


Three Men Drowned
Year: 1871

the suburban villages by the bombardment; and a
few men have been wounded


CONSOLIDATING THE GARRISON.
Council or War has approved OF measures for
associatng the National and Mobile Guards with the
regular army for the more vigorous defence OF tho
Year: 1871

VIEWING the immense piles of new
spring and summer goods being daily re,
ccived by Gundry * Gray, one is led to
think there must be some mistake about
the hard times The fact is, this firm is
bound to sell goods, be the times tight or
loose The goods they keep are such as
the people want and must have; and be-
ing of the best quality, at the very bot
tom prices, their goods are sure to find
ready sale. Important features of their
heavy business are, the men $ and boys
clothing-ready made and made to or
der; tho carpet department. embracing
almost every variety, and ranging in
price from 40 cents per yard upward


OF ladies dress goods, and Of gents' bats
and caps they have the most magnificent
stock ever seen in Iowa County. 10
Year: 1871

No ONE will fail to notice the attract
tive advertisement of Peter Noble Il Co.
successors to John Strachan, The great
machine agent of this city. 1t has been
our pleasure to know the men compris
ing this firm for many years, and with
every confidence. we recommend them
to the public as worthy Of n liberal pat
ronage. Mr.. Peter Noble, the senior
partner, is a man Of wide acquaintance
in Southwestern Wisconsin, and where
yer known is highly esteemed for biz
manly, upright qualities His word Is
as good as his bond which, in n machine
man is valuable quality, and sure to
bring success.
Year: 1871

nS- In accordance with the above notice o
the Mayor Of the city Of Mem phis, I VII
open and hold the Charter election TOR Al
dermeu and COunCilmen Of the city Of Mem
phis, as above set forth, on
Year: 1871

The signs of the times are bad for the Glad
stone administration In England. So far as
we know there have been but two important
elections since Premier Gladstone made use
of the royal warrant for the abolition of pur-
chase in the army. To the aristocrats gem
orally the policy Of Mr.. Gladstone was offen-
sive. To the House of Lords 1t was an open
insult To both houses of Parliament, and,
indeed, to the whole body Of the people, it was
a surprise. The surprise has not been con-
vincing. The people are attached to the
Crown, and the general feeling was that Mr..
Gladstone made use more bold than wise Of
the royal prerogative. The people in all
lands do love change; reaction will set in
against even the best administration and it
does seem as if the author of s'Coningsby"
and 'Lothair" might be once again Prime
Minister of Great Britain. Some weeks ago
the government lost East Surrey. Now it has
lost Truro. 1t is bad sign for Mr.. Glad
stone. 1t is good sign for Mr.. Disraeli.
The tide may turn, but it now runs in an anti
Ministerial direction. For the moment tory
ism is looking up.
Year: 1871

Tho state Cnmpa1gn In NOW Sok~oys


The New Jersey democracy, IN Joel
Parker-who has accepted the nomination
have secured their strongest eligible man in
the State as their candidate for Governor, for
in several contests lis strength among the
people has been established. He was elected
Governor in 1862 by fourteen thousand i've
hundred majority, and he lost nothing OF popu-
larity by his hearty support Of the war for the
Union. BY the year 1868 he had achieved q
national reputation as leading man in his
party, for he was not the least or the last of
the distinguished men voted for in the National
Democratic Convention of that year for the
Presidency. The republican candidate, Mr..
Walsh, is popular and well known man, but
he is comparatively new in the political field
and has hard fight before him, considering
the close division Of the State between the two
parties on fair trial and full vote.


Upon the full Presidential vote of 1868 of
one hundred and sixty-three thousand, in
round numbers, Seymour's majority over
Grant was three thousand, but Randolph, the
democratic candidate for Governor (present
Gevernor), over Blair, republican, had nearly
thirty-five hundred majority. If Governor
Randolph had not been ineligible under the
State constitution for another term he would,
doubtless, have been nominated for a re-elec-
ton, for his administration has been good, and
in nothing more popular than in his prompt,
decisive and popular course upon the great
question of equal rights in the matter of Orange
professions. The claims of Randolph's ad-
ministration will operate to the disadvantage Of
Parker. The republican majority in 1870 on
the Congressional vote was 3,400, mainly due
to the acquisition of the new element of the
colored vote under the fifteenth amendment,
fections in several districts.


In the present contest the republicans are
encouraged by their recent successes and
gains In North Carolina, Kentucky, Wyoming,
California, Maine, Colorado and New
Mexico, and by the general and local
unity Of their party on the plat
form Of General Grants administration.
On the other hand, while we do not sup
pose that the ''new departure" will be any
drawback to the harmony Of the Jersey dem
ocracy. or that even the terrible war upon
Tammany will materially shake the integrity
Of their local organization, they have nothing
but their own local unity and strength and the
popularity of the head of their ticket to depend
upon. Nevertheless, upon the strength of
Parker, and upon their acceptable platform,
embracing 'the constitution as it is," and
upon the thorough organization and discipline
of the party, we look for a sharply contested
fight in New Jersey, and the best on the part
Of the democrats of any fgbt of the year since
their electrifying victory Of March last in New
Hampshire.
Year: 1871

Tae Mexican Pirates-Necessity of Their


Punishment.


The attack on the American bark Brothers
by the greasers Of Santa Anna Bay, a
detailed account Of which we print to-day, is
one of those fagrant and inexcusable out.
RACES which cannot be permitted to go
unpunished. The consignee of the vessel
seems to have been the leader in the wrong,
and his clerk, Rippoll, led the attack upon
Captain Thurston and his crew. So far as
we can see there was no reason for their
course toward the American seamen, and
under any circumstances they would not be
justified in resorting to such high-handed and
violent measures. The case is one requiring
the closest examination and the most COM
plete reparation.


1t is in the nature of the Spanish American
population to offer the most wanton insults to
the United States. The Cuban authorities do
this habitually, and the Mexicans are little
behind the Spaniards in Cuba. If they were
only lacking in fair dealing in business matters
we might excuse them, but they interpret
impunity from punishment for every insult
offered TO Americans as an invitation to COM
NIT fresh outrages, and their arrogance is
beginning to be without bounds. Here
at last is case which cannot be over
looked, and which must be followed by the
swiftest punishment unless the wrong Is made
good.





The story which we print is full of interest.
II is in every way fair specimen of Mexican
valor. The attacking party, in the first in
stance, were completely vanquished, and the
hostile boats met with little better fortune.
Had the ship been supplied with arms 1t could
have been defended against all the odds which
came against it. This not being the case the
men were compelled to take to their boat,
and their sufferings till they were picked up
by the Harvest Home were fearful The cap
tain's account of the affair appears to be cor
roborated throughout, and taken as a whole
1t resembles the stories Of Spanish piracy in
the West Indies, which we thought could not
be supplemented by like outrages at this day.
But it is in every way characteristic of the
people by whom 1t was committed. aud calls
for the sternest rebuka