smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

Authors generally think that the mon-
key race is not quite capable of retaining


lasting impressions, but their memory is
remarkably tenacious when striking
events call it into action. A monkey that
was permitted to run at large had fire.
quently seen the men servants in the kit
chen. with its huge fireplace, take down
u powder horn that stood on the chimney
piece. and throw few grains in the fire.
to make JENNA and the rest of the maids
scream, which they always did on such
occasions very prettily. Pug waited his
opportunity. and when all was still, and
he had the kitchen tc himself. he clam
bered up, got possession of the well filled
powder horn, perchei himself gingerly on
one of the horizontal wheels, placed for
the support of saUepans, right over the
warm ashes of an almost extinct wood
fire, screwed off the top of the horn, and
reversed il over the CRATE. The explo-
sion sent him half way UP the chimney


Before he Wa blown up he was snug, trim
and well conditioned as You ever could
wish to see on q summer day; he came
down tarbonated niggerin miniature. In
an avalanche of fburning SCOT. The weight
with which he pitched upon the hot ashes
In the midst of the general flare up.
aroused him to a sense of his condition


He was missing for days. Hunger at last
drove him forth, and he sneaked into the
house. close singed. begrimmed andlook-
ing SCARED and devilish but. like some
other great persOnages, he never got over
his sudden elevation and fall, but became
a sadder and wiser monkey. Ifever Pug
forgot himself one was only to take down
the powder horn in his presence, and he
was off to his hole like shot, screaming
and chattering his jaws like a pair Of cas-
tallets F- sts ..,-f 80. -lt+-
Year: 1872

LONDON has always filled for men the
position that Paris does for ladies, and
fashions for the sterner sex inaugurated
there have always found their way out
to this Western world in the end. The
New York Nal has advices of change
in the costume of the London fashiOna-
bles which is quite interesting as an indi-
cation of what is coming The CORE
spondent says: "The style Of dress most
worn here by gentlemen of fashion, and
especially noticeable at all fashionable
places Of morning resort, is light-col-
ored frock coat, usually drab or gray
twilled cashmere or fine angola, rather
long in the waist and skirt, silk breast
facing, and bound with silk. ribbon to
match, or a velvet collar, plain facings
and double stitched edges, and to wear
buttoned with three buttons. Waistcoat,
white or striped Marseilles, and trow-
sers of dark blue diagonal or ribbed
"worsted" cloth, with broad, black mo-
hair braid laid on fiat on the seams. This
is decidedly reversing the order of the
dress, dark coat and light trowsers, to
which the habits Of the last few years
have accustomed us, but is nevertheless a
very stylish and effective costume, espe-
cially adapted and certain to be much
worn during the early autumn. A large
Stanley" or tied sailors knot is usually
worn, the made sailors knot appearing to
have got out of fashion. Patent leather
Oxford shoes, with brown striped hose
and buttoned boots of the same leather,
with cloth uppers, are much affected.
Morning coats are made to wear two or
even three buttons, buttoned and cut
away sharp from the lowest one, but the
style is very difficult to adapt with good
effect to many figures. The latest styles
of dress coats are noticeable for an entire
absence of all angles, the collar forming a
complete roll, usually faced with silk, the
lower front edge of the forepart, which is
usually made without what is technically
called 'back strap, and the top and bot
tom of the skirt being slightly and grace
fully rounded off, which gives the coat
tighter and more elegant appearance than
the old styles, and is a step toward that
more appropriate and consistent style of
evening dress for gentlemen SO much to
be desired"
Year: 1872

If cold settles on the outer covering
of the lungs it becomes Pneumonia, in
hammation of the lungs, or lung fever,
which in many cases carries the strongest
man to his grave within week. If cold
falls upon tie inner covering of the lungs
it is pleurisy, with its knife-like pains and
its slow, very slow recoveries. If cold
settles in the joints, there is rheumatism
with its agonies of pain, and rheuma-
tism of the heart, which in an instant
sometimes snaps the cords of life with
no friendly warning. 1t is of the utmost
practical Importance, then, in the wintry
weather, to know not so much how to
cure cold as to avoid it. Colds always
come from one cause, sometimes part OF
the whole of the body being colder than
natural for time. If a man will keep
his feet warm always and never allow
himself to be chilled, he will never take
cold in a lifetime, end this can only be
accomplished by due care in warm cloth
ing and the avoidance of drafts and un-
due exposure. While multitudes of colds
come from cold feet, perhaps the major
ity arise from persons cooling OIL too
quickly after becoming little warmer
than is natural from exercise or work, or
from confinement to warm apartment.
- Woods Household MdgG2ia,e.
Year: 1872

thoughts wandered of to blue.eyed girl
/ had loved for many a year-~a girl who
was not satisfied with the small triumphs
OF the crequet. ground, but who could
send an arrow straight home to the mark
and climb the hills v ith me, her step light
and free as the deer's in the glade below;
and hold steady oar in our boat on the
river; and swim ashore, if need should
be; and then, when walk or row was
over, who could sit down to a lunch of
cold meat and bread-and-butt with an
appetite keen as young Indians after
days hunt; yes, and who knew how to
be efficient in the kitchen and the rarest
ornament of the parlor. How impatient
/ was to see her, the bewitching maiden
whom prince might have been proud to
marry. And again I said to myself, as |
went up the Parker House steps: 81 do
hope Tom hasn't made fool of him
self m
Year: 1872

Have you got your ticket in the grand
single number drawing of the Louisiana
State Lottery for Saturday. Remember
the capital prize Of $4,000 was won at the
last drawing. Now is the time to buy
tickets. We call on every one to take
chance
Year: 1872

Have you got your ticket in the grand
single number drawing of the Louisiana
State Lottery for Saturday! Remember
the capital prize of $4,000 was won at the
last drawing. Now is the time TO buy
tickets. We call on every one 10 take
chance.
Year: 1872

There are nearly rs many bad wives
as husbands. Many men who work
hard and try to do well in life are ne
elected and abused 10y imployident wo-
men.


They are condemned t. eat the poor
est dinners when they provide the b.s,
the market affords


On heavy bread, soggy vegetables,
muddy coffee and tough pie crust, how
can woman expect her husband TO be
pleasant and loving.


Such men often drink whisky because
their food distresses them, as would any
one who had cast-iron stomach-and
the habits Of temperance are sometimes
in this way begun, through the fault of
a wife.


1t costs more to cook poorly than to
make food good and palatablc.


If woman runs home from neigh
bors just in time to throw a pie togeth-
er, bake it, and bring it to the dinner
table hot she commits great otiense
against the health of her family.


Ii a man has only an hour TO go home
to get his dinner and return to business
it should be ready promptly on time, or
else he will eat very hot food in the
greatest haste, and start off for a rapid
walk, all Of which is very bad, and will
soon show its effects upon the strongest
man.


When her husband gets peevish, low
spirited and forgetful of the little acts
of love and kindness he taught her to
expect in days gone by, woman who is
such housckecper need not sit in the
twilight and wonder ut such changes.


Dyspepsia is not conducive TO ten
der thoughts or happiness.


Had she acted her part with half the
zeal and industry of her husband, all
would have been well, aad she could
still sit in the sunshine of earlier days.


1t is very hard for man to caress
the hand which for years has been feed
ing him with slow poison
Year: 1872

On Thursday night, III New York,
Miss Tennie G. Clafin was elected colo
mel of the S5th colored regiment of that
city by a vote of 1913 to so. This regi-
ment, composed of the wide awake
young colored men of New York city,
numbers 600 men, 250 OF whom have
uniforms. Since the fact has became
known that Miss Clafin has signified
her intention to lead it on 10 victory if
she was acceptable to them, great addl-
tions have been received TO its ranks
The great desire among the members
is to have the regiment uniformed, and
one of the captains at the meeting which
elected Miss Clafin said that he was
willing to be led by man or woman il
either would uniform the regiment.
Miss Clatiiu occupied conspicuous
place on the platform while her claims
We're presented. One opponent only
spoke against her, and he, the senior
captain, was hooted out of the armory.
Miss Clatlin made the closing speech,
after which she was elected amidst con-
siderable confusion, the lights being
put out at the end, making everybody OF
one color truly. Miss Clatlin, in the
course of her remarks said when she
wrote to the 9th regiment, late Fisk :,
white, offering herself as candidate
for the colonelcy of that body, she did
not expect to be elected. She put her
self forward because she could GO TO
the front with the regiment, and lead
them on to victory on the field of battle.
She was well verscd in military tactics,
she said, and she would rather accept
the colonclcy of 4 colorcd regiment
than that OF one composed of white men.
T Applause She had faith in the fight
ING ability of the colored race, but very
little in that of one composed of the
white soldiers. She could pick out
more white men than blacks who would
run from the field of battle. Long
and continued applause. She was,
she said, warml y refused the entrance Of
the hotels of this city because she ad-
yocated certain principles for the good
of women.
Year: 1872

"DEAD HEADS There are more
classes OF dead heads" than those who
receive flee tickets to concerts and cir
cuscs, aud travel on free passes overall
roads, as we think We can prove in a
few lines. Newspapers, no matter how
indifferently conducted, are help TO
any town. aud business amounts to but
little in places that don't support one or
more Of them. Absence of newspapers
is as bad a sign for a place, in bust
ness point Of view, as absence of church
es is in morals, or school houses in edI-
cation. In every town there are live
90 ahead business men, who advertise
literally These men support tho pa
per, and thereby do more to build up
the place and make it prosperous, and
draw trade there, than all other infuen-
ces combined. Therefore the merchant
or the business man, who comes into
the place and takes the benefit Of that
prosperity, without contributing in the
least to sustain it, is nothing more
nor less than dead head on the rest
Of the business men. However this NAV
be taken, whether az a word for our
selves OF our business patrons, 1t Is
nevertheless undeniably true.
Year: 1872

Some incendiary tried to fire Hagers-
town, by setting fire to some tar in a
mustard box. The box was placed In
recess of a basement door, of an old
house, nearly in the centre of the town.
Luckily, some boys playing near by,
discovered it in time to prevent what
may have provedageneral conaagration.
Year: 1872

ARcuBIsHoP BAYLEY, in the course Of
a dinner speech delivered at the archi.
episcopal residence in Baltimore on Sun.
day, said that he never did believe in op.
posing liberty Of conscience, and was an
advocate its fullest exercise, and that
he supposed his appointment was in a
large degree due to the fact that he was
opposed to the materialistic spirit Of the
age and to intemperance in the use ot in.
toxicatiug liquors. Archbishop McClos-
key, OF New York, who was present, re.
ceiyed the remarks about the liberty of
conscience in rigid silence.
Year: 1872

TUE NorldcutSche Augemsine Zcitung
denies the current report that Prince Bis.
marck's health Is so bad that his leave Of
absence has been extended three months.
That journal says that the physicians Of
the Prince do not regard his illness as at
all Serious or as likely TO render long
residence abroad necessary.
Year: 1872

PROBABILITIES.


The barometer will continue to fall
slowly over the lower lakes and in the
middle and eastern States, with south
westerly TO southeasterIy winds. Warm
and generally cloudy weather with belts
OF rain In the south Atlantic States. Fall.
ing barometer, southerly to easterly
winds and considerable cloudness on Fri.
day with possibly rain in the Gulf States.
PARTLY cloudy weather and northerly to
easterly winds and clearing weather in
the northwest and thence to the lower
Ohio valley and Michigan. The upper
Ohio will probably continue to rise.
Year: 1872

FELLOW CITIZENS: I take this method of an
nouncing myself candidate for seat in the
lower branch of the next General Assembly of
the State of Tennessee.


am and have been Republican since the
organization of the party in the State, and voted
for General Grant at his first election, for Chief
Magistrate of the Government believing that q
man who had manifested so much patriotism
and ability in time of war, would not fail in ma
king good and wise ruler in time of peace.
have had no cause to change my views since his
election, and shall support him for a second
term, though 1 am not in favor of arousing
and keeping alive the prejudices engendered by
the late war. Rather let us appeal to the bet
ter sensibilites of our nature andsstrive IN COM
mon to develop the immense resources of our
once noble State, and restore her to her pristine
greatness among this galaxy of States COM
Drising the Union of our.fathers. Let "the dead
past bury its dead" and looking forward to q
higher end, than mere personal and party ag-
prandizement. let US stimulate each other to a
as a science, which shall erect in our midst the
golden horn of plenty, and from which shall
spring the blessings Of peace, education,
christianity and civilization. Let. US build
churches and school houses, and open
UP the inexhaustible mineral and agricul-
tural resources of our State, and flood
the the marts of the world with the results of our
energy and enterprise, instead of filing. the
public prints With the chickering's and billings
gate of party strife. In my humble opinion
this and this only will restore us to quiet and
harmony and relieve us from the onerous bur-
dens of taxation now pressing us so heavily.
Upon other questions affecting the Interests OF
our country at large. fellow-citizens, hope to
meet and address you before the election.
For your support can only pledge you an
honesty of purpose and the best services of my
humble ability in subservience of your inter-
ests in case Of my election.


/ have the honor to reman,


Respectfully.
JOHN NJ. MEEK.
Year: 1872

TO the Public:


The Trustees Of the Public Library of Kentucky be-
ing satisfied from the large sale of tickets already made
and the daily increasing demand for them, that there
will be occasion for postpoDng the second drawing
in the Gift Concert in aid of the Public Library of Ken
tucky. have instructed me. their agent and MAJ
of the Gift Concert te to the public and ticket
holders that the drawing will positively take place
September 2Sth prox, and will not be postponed An
active demand for tickets from every State and
Territory of the United States and from the Canadas
giving to the Trustees that circumstances
can prevent drawing at the appointed time.


sufficient clerical force is engaged to keep rp with
the orders for tickets and in order that this Office
be relieved of the immense pressure incident to the
business for the week or two Immediately preceding
the drawing. agents especially and those desrous Of
procuring tickets requested to send in their orders
immediately sales will have to be closed in time to
make the necessary preparations for the drawing. 1t
is the wish of the management to fill every order for
ticket as well to sell all the tickets but those who
app first must be supp d. and, il those who put of
buying until sales closed have their money return
ed instead of the tickets ordered, in the first Gift
Concert in December last when thousands of dollars
that too late sent back that they will have
none to blame but themselves.


THOS E. BRAMLETTE.


Agent Public Library Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE. KY. August 10. 1S72-eod12tw2t.
Year: 1872

From its neutral standpoint the New
York Saats Zeitung brings an article on
the Louisville Convention, which closes
as follows:


1.-THE further the campaign progresses
the palmer will it appear how strong the
stream is which is undermining the super
ficiaI or pretended Greeley enthusiasm
One may say that many Democrats, in
their jealous opposition, return to stand
points which they were ready to concede
and now they go too far-but it is the
truthu
Year: 1872

On Thursday evening Robert Smith, who
drives dray for Coffin, Martin g. Co., was
poisoned by eating fruit. While making his last
load. some one gave him two peaches, which
he ate, and proceeding home he put up his
mule and went into the yard and had scarcely
done so before he fell to the ground insensible.
He was taken up and carried into the house and
Dr. French called in. who pronounced it a case
of poisoning Smiths tongue had swollen so
that he was unable to speak, but his brother
having shrewd idea as to gave him the peaches,
asked if it was - manning certain person.
when he nodded his head in the affirmative.
Ii IT should really turn out an attempt at poi
sonng, the guilty party should be severely
punished.
Year: 1872

The Massachusetts School Ship, re- formatory vessel, to which for some years juvenile culprits have been sent, has failed as an experiment, notwithstanding the most kindly nursing by the State and by private phianthl opists. Judge Thomas Russell, Collector Of the Port of Boston, who has been always warmly in- terested ill the ship, admitted ill his evl- deDce before the Legislative Committee that the plan could not be made useful and effective. He said that our Ameri- cali foreign commerce had so decreased that it no longer created any demand for boys, or only 8 limited one. 1t was hardly worth while, he thought, to be at the expense and trouble of training lads for the sea, if most of them, after all, were to go into occupations on land. AL ready there is surplus of sailors in our ports if boys are shipped on coasters, they pass out of the jurisdiction of. the State; and if they are sent out in whal- CTS, they usually desert on the first oppor- tunity. Last year, out of 200 discharged, only 29 were shipped. Then it was complained that the Judges have been ill the habit of sending the worst boys to the ship, many of whom should have been put 1n the House ot Cofrec- tion. Nor does the life on board seem to be of character favorable to reform. The boys are crowded together any thing like separate system upon gen. eral scale is impossible; and the worst soon bring down to their own level the least degraded {; so that the influences of the ship, considered merely as prison, are bad, while the management is cum brous and difficult. The main value of the vessel seems to have consisted in the fact that it furnished 8 pretty toy to ex- hibit to strangers. In the present state of our commerce it does not even answer the purpose of getting troublesome boys out of the way and even if it did; he must be an uncommon lad who could with stand the demoralizing influence of the forecastle. N r Paper.
Year: 1872

A singular bird is found in New Be- land. It is the sKea and belongs to the Parrot family. Up to the advent of the Europeans, it's food consisted main ly of the sweets of flowers and the ber- ries of mountain shrubs, with occasion ally such insects as are found in the crevices of rocks or beneath the bark of trees. But with the occupation of the country by the English, its habits in this regard have materially changed. Attracted by the meat -gallows of the back-country squatters, the bird soon learned, in the scarcity of other food, to tear its meal from the half-dried carcass of some slaughtered sheep, or failing to obtain this, the drying sheepskins stretched on the rails of the stock yard were laid under contribution.

 The bird now tears his food from the back of the living sheep. We are told by local paper that for the last three years the sheep belonging to a settler in the Wanaka district, (Otago), appeared afflicted with what was thought to be 9 new kind of disease neighbors and shepards were equally at a loss to account for having never seen anything of the kind before. The first appearance of this supposed disease is patch of raw flesh on the loin of the sheep, about the size of a man s hand; from this, matter continually runs down the side, taking the wool completely off the part it touches, and in many cases death is the result. At last sheperd noticed one of the mountain parrots sticking to sheep and pecking at raw place, and that the animal seemed unable to get rid of its tormentor. The run-holder gave direc- tions to keep watch on the parrots when mastering on the high ground the re- suit has been that during the present season, when mastering high upon the ranges near the snow-line, they saw sever al birds surrounding a sheep, which was freshly bleeding from small wound in the loin on other sheep were noticed places where the Kea had begun to at tack them
Year: 1872

An ex-army officer, who lost a leg dur ing the war, has been so impressed with the peculiar1ties of his situation and the move! adventures and incidents growing out of that situation that he has written book on the subject, entitled John Smiths Funny adventures on a Crutch. :" The author complains naturedly that he is looked upon as public proper ty, and almost bored to death by the many inquisitive strangers he meets in his travels.

 II can never," said he, "obtain a moments rest in any public place. I no sooner take Q seat in car, restaurant or lecture-room than some one near me, whom I have never seen before, intro duces himself with the stereoptyped re- mark, T see you've met with a misfor- tune, and on my assenting proceeds to ask the following questions i:

 Did you lose your limb in battle ? What battle ? Did a cannon-bal] take it off ? A rife-ball, eh ? Did it knock it clean off? Did it sever an artery |? Did t hit the bone Did it break it |? Did you afterwards find the ball ? Was it crushed out of shape? Did you fall when hit !? Did you walk off the field ? Who carried you off? Did you feel much pain How long after you were wounded till it was amputated? !? Who performed the operation ? Did you take chloroform ? Did it put you to sleep ? And didn't you feel the operation? Not even the saving of the bone? Could not your limb have been saved Was 1t taken off right where the wound was Can you wear an artificial leg? Would the Government furnish it if you could Do you draw pension ? How much How old are you? What is your name What did you do before the war Don't you often wish you hadn't lost your leg How does a person feel with a leg off Does it ache when the weather changes : Would you rather lose 8 leg than an arm have heard persons say that an ampu tated limb still feels as if it were on is that SO? How do you account for that {?

 All these questions, dear public, ] have answered thousands of times, anc may have to answer thousands of time: yet if my miserable existence is length ened out for many years. Imagine how 1t must torment me. The same ole questions, to me long since devoid of in terest, I must meekly answer over anG over again, day by day, hour by hour.