smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873




Now we have been studying this fnan-
cial business over and we think we
understand it. Have read the quota
tions, eight columns solid nonpareil,
every evening just before bedtime. If
we wasn't dead broke we'd be broker.
Our half that wears a redingote woke
up the other night and, being a little
restless because we had no funds with
Jay Cooke & Co., asked what they
meant by saying gold was weaker.
Here was our opportunity to show that
the eight columns solid nonpareiI had
worked. Turning over and planting
our feet against the footboard, We COM
menced at the beginning, and, review
ing the spirit of the times, explained
how money was required to move grain,
remarking at some length on the expe-
diency of an early resumption of a
more substantial circulating medium.
and winding up with the present strin-
gency when every thing is tied up in
worthless and depressed stocks, and
showing how, while petroleum was easy
and whisky steady, and gold very much
down in the mouth, all that was neces-
sary was plenty of currency to move
grain, you know, and it was all right
again. But women never can under
stand finance, though my wife knows
dollar when she sees it, as quick as
anybody. Then we took a supposi-
tious case which we thought sufficient
ly near the point. 'I draw my salary,
for the time being, am long on cur
rency. Then I pay board and wash
bills, and by borrowing a little manage
to buy very decent overcoat. I am
then short. Nothing could be more
simple. When my paper has matred
I go into the street and run all over the
treasury building for a loan. I bull
the market and throw out more paper
to cover my shorts. [ bull it because
am not in a condition to bear If. Not
having any available securities, as q
gold watch or a diamond pin, fail to
cover. I am panicy. Then my wife
duns me for money to buy a cord of but
ton-mOulds. Then I suspend. Per
fectly plain. Now why do 1 fail ?''
What do you suppose she said ?-No
the fact is, she was asleep all the time.
But she intimated the next morning
that I had talked too much.-Dan6alTy


Means
Year: 1873

The season approaches, says the Dan
bury News, when the boy of the period


turns his mind to meditation. As the


hour of eight P. N. strikes, he softly


withdraws from the table where he has


been engaged in digging the putty


from a nail head, and unostentantiously


deposits himself back of the stove to


think. We are particular to, emphasize
this wold, because there is an impression


on the part of his parents and his elder
sister, who has the honor of escorting
him to bed nights, that he Is going to
sleep. They go 80 far as to openly ex-
press this belief, but he stoutly denies
it, and Immediately proceeds to demon
strate the gross injustice of the in
sinuatiOn by humming some familiar
piece. Pretty soon the humminR
ceases there is a significant movement
at the table, and then it is resumed
again, and continues for five minutes,


when it gradually dies out, and all is
silent back of the stove. When the boy
comes TO again, he is being lifted TO his
feet by his wristband, and cuffed on the
head to indicate that it is after ten
o'clock. He makes a desperate attempt
to find where he left off on the tune,
but ignominiously fails, and FIVE minutes
later is stumbling up stairs, with an in
terested and active sister IN his rear,
and firmly but family maintaining that
he was not asleep, but only thinking.
Year: 1873

of no strength. But thought, insight,
clear, sound vission of the truth, wis
dom at once piercing and comprehen-
sive, the noblest and divinest achieve
ments of the reason, demand serenity
of soul as their imperative condition.
Passion clouds the mental eye; emo
tion disturbs the organ of discovery
as the astronomer can only rely upon
his observations when the air is still
and the telescope isolated from all the
tremulous movements of terrestrial sur
rOundings, so the thinker can only see
justly and penetrate far when all that
could agitate his spirit is buried deep,
or laid eternally at rest.-G. r. Grey.
Year: 1873

There are hundreds of young men
that should be married who are not
married. To marry early is discreet
and wise. And when men and women
are of a manageable age, I think it to
be, in general, true, that it Is whole
some for them to be married. It is not
necessary that they should remain sin
gle because they stand in poverty; for
two can live cheaper than one, if they
live with discretion, if they live with
cooperative zeal, if they live as they
ought to live. If the young man is
willing to seem poor when he is poor :;
If the young woman, being poor, is viii
ling to live poorly; if they are willing
to plant their lives together like two
seeds, and wait for their growth, and
look for their abundance by and by,
when they have fairly earned II, then it
is good thing for them to come early
into this partnership. For characters
adapt themselves to each other in the
early periods of life far more easily
than they do afterward. They who
marry early are like vines growing to-
gether, and twining round and round
each other; whereas, multitudes of
those who marry late in life stand side
by side like two iron columns, which,
being separated at the beginning, never
come any nearer to each ether There
is no school which God ever opened, or
permitted to be opened, which young
people can so i'll afford to avoid as the
school of care and responsibility and
labor in the household; and a young
man and young woman marrying, no
matter from what source they came to-
gether, no matter how high their
fathers have stood, one of the most
wholesome things that they can do, hav-
ing married for love, and with discre-
ton, is to be willing to begin at the
bottom, and bear the burdens of house
hold life, so that they shall have its
education. I tell you, there are pleas
ures which many young married people
miss. [ would not give up the first two
years of my married life for all I have
now. I live in a big house, with a
brown-stone front, and very fairly fur
nished; but, after all, among the
choicest experiences of my life were
those which I passed through in In
/ diana, when hired two chambers up
stairs when all my furniture was given
/ to me, and was secondhand at that
and when the very clothes which had
on my back had been worn by Judge
Birney before me. We were not able
to hire a servant. We had to serve
ourselves. It was a study every day
how to get along with our small means,
and it was study never to be forgot
ten. owe many of the pleasures
which have run through my life to be
ing willing to begin where had to be-
gin, and to fight poverty with love, and
to overcome it, and to learn how to live
in service and heIpfulness, and in all
the thousani ingenuities which love
sweetens and makes more and more
| delightful. Beecher,
Year: 1873

New York engineers and machiuists in
view OF the panic, propose settling all dis
putes with employers by arbitration.


New York The Times says: The ques-
tion Of general currency payments in green
Backs and national bank notes is about to
solve itself. Most of the banks are paying
AL demands when preferred to the certifca-
Sion Of checks, and the difference against the
cnecks OF other banks that from their position
decline to pay out large sums of currency. ia
only q and = per cent. Some first class banks
ara not only helping their neighborn to green.
hScAs and sending currency to their country
correspondents, but they are paying their
debtor balances at the clearing house in green
backs in place Of relief certificates. The prac-
teal condition of the question is in favor Of
the voluntary resumption of currency paw
ments in very few days. No bank that
hopes to retain their old accounts of value or
expects to acquire new accounts Of desira-
bic character, city or country viii deem it
prudent to have it known that It is behind its
DaPt thDOTs.
Year: 1873

The Boston Globe is vexed to see the
statement going the rounds of the press
that beetle is capable of lifting 315
times its own weight, while a man of or
dinary muscular power is fully 100 times
feebler. Why should a mBn forever, it
asks, be brought into unfavorable COM
parison with beetles? Has it ever struck
anybody how many beetles a man can
lift ? We are also told for the thou
sandth time that the flea, g scarcely
three-hundredths of an inch in height
manages to leap without difficulty over
a barrier fully 500 times its own alti-
tude. For a man six feet is an unusu-
ally high leap. Imagine him Jump
ing 5000 feet, or nearly three-ffths of
a mile" We shall imagine no such
thing. It is we'll enough for a flea to
jump. He never does anything else,
except to make a dogs life a burden to
him. He never leaves his footprints on
the sands of time, or sounds the light
guitar. He never hired himself out to
turn a derrick in Chicago, or gave us
the least assistance during the great fire.
He has done nothing but jump 500
times his own altitude ever since he
was first created, and he Will continue
to do nothing else until his race becomes
extinct. 1t is ine1pressibiy painful to
us to be continually taunted with the
fact that mankind are not feas. ants,
beetles, or something of that sort.
Year: 1873

and an eyewitness describes the whole
appearance of the vessel as he saw it re-
Gently in the harbor of southampton as
that of an ordinary ocean steamer
pearched on the back of a whale" Mr..
Winans hopes to obtain a speed of
twenty miles an hour by propulsion
alone with his strange craft.
Year: 1873

On the first of next month, the fol-
lowing provision in the merchant ship
ping act Of the United Kingdom, passed
last session of parliament, as TO the du-
ties of masters of British ships in case
of collision will come into operation ::
" In every case of collision between
two vessels it shall be the duty of the
master or person in charge of each YES
gel if, and so far as he can do so with
out danger to his own vessel, crew, and
passengers (if any to stay by the other
vessel until he has ascertained that she
has no further need of assistance, and
to render to the other vessel, her mas
ter, crew, and passengers (if any such
assistance as may be practicable and as
NAV be necessary In order to save them
from any danger caused by the collision
and also to give to the master or person
in charge of the other vessel the name
of his own vessel and of he port of
registry or place to which she belongs,
and also the names of the ports and
places from which and to which she is
bound. If she fail to do so, and no
reasonable cause for such failure is
shown, the collision shall, in the alb
sence of proof to the contrary, be
deemed to have caused by his wrongful
act, neglect or default. Every master
or person in charge of British vessel
who fails, without reasonable cause, to
render such assistance or give such in
formation as aforesaid, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanOr, and, II he Is
certificated officer, an inquiry into his
conduct may be held, and his certificate
may be cancelled or suspended"
Year: 1873

SWEENEY RElKDY.-An Indianian
says he has cured a valuable horse IN
this way: Take an old stocking: make
little bag out of some part of it four
or five inches long; I'LL it with salt
sew the end up; take bucket with
some water In it dip ia the bag with
salt; now double up your shirt sleeves,
and rub the sunken part for fifteen OF
twenty minutes. Rub freely, occasion
ally pulling the skin 50 as to loosen 1t
after rubbing. Grease it fresh butter
is best, although other grease will do.
Rub it In also. By so doing several
mornings successfully, no doubt the
mare Will get we'll. 1t will take two or
three months for the sunken part to
grow out even with tire other parts II
the hair rubs on, it will grow again.
Year: 1873

The GERM OF GREATNEss.-He that
can understand and delight IN greatness
was created to partake of it; the germ
is in him and sometimes this admira-
ton. in what we deem inferior minds,
discovers q nobler spirit than belongs
to the great man who awakens it; for
sometimes the great man is so absorbed
in his own greatness as to admire no
other and should not hesitate to say
that a common mind. which is yet capa-
BILE of a generous admiration, is des-
tined to rise higher than the man of
eminent capacities, who can enjoy no
power or excellence but his own.
CbanHilto.
Year: 1873

TIE two cigar steamers of Mr.. Ross
Winans of Baltimore make frequent
trips in the British channel, although
their officers taken pains to prevent any
knowledge of their capacity for speed
from becoming public. One of these
steamers was built at Cherbourg and
the other on the Clyde. The latter Is
about 400 feet long, and is built on
different plan from the original cigar
steamer, which now lies at her wharf In
Baltimore. Instead of a wheel IN the
center the vessel has two propellers at
the extreme points Of the cigar The
cigar portion of the hull Is submerged,
Year: 1873

SERENITY OF sOUL.-Peace is necessa-
~ to all the higher intellectual opera
tiOns. Great feats may be done while
the soul is tempest-tossed; great nights
achieved-no poets may strike out
splendid passages, sparkling with a pas
sionate beauty and a sort of gorgeous
and turpid inspiration, and orators may


astonish us with brilliant flights Of
power and pathos redolent of the ex-
citement which gave them birth; and


all this may be done while the heart IS
torn by internal conflict, or by Wild


emotion, or yearning with unanswered
love, or sick and faint with passionate
desire nay, it may be done while the
conscience is heavy with the load OF re-
cent sin, OF distracted in a danger
wherein it sees no light and Is concious
Year: 1873

Be very careful not to pull down your
shirt sleeves, or up your collar, or, in
fact, to do anything to your costume as
you enter the ball room. It implies
nervousness or uneasiness with yourself
to do so; and your one great endeavor
in all societies, should be to thoroughly
at your ease, and satisfied, without van
ity and coxcombry, with your dress and
appearance. Do not stand idle; but do
not dance overmuch. The one implies
small number of friends, the other
wastes valuable time, and prevents your
keeping that constant lookout all around
you which is essential to success. Be
introduced to movable people quietly {;
there is no necessity to advertise to by
standers that you did not know them
before. Never talk much to a woman
you have only just made the acquaint-
ance of nor eagerly. She may be al
lowed to suppose you wished to know
her, but not that her acquaintance is
any particular acquisition to you. Above
all things, my dear boy, I entreat you
not to stand in the dOorways, nor herd
with other men upon the landing. It is
simply advertising yourself a failure
Tie yourself to the veriest wall flower,
gossip with the dowdiest mother, dance
with the most disappointed OF the
maidenhood, rather than sink to this.
Sitting Ia the corners comprises a very
large subject, or, rather, array of sub
iects. To know how to sit IN the cor
ners we'll and prudently, requires a vast
experience and a steady head so, until
you have much extended your acquaint-
ance and your knowledge of humanity,
I would recommend you to avoid that
most agreeable of the pleasures of ball
going. It is not for a novice at once to
penetrate to the inner depth of fashions g
mysteries, and I shall, therefore, put of
my advice on this subject until I come,
in future letter, to the great subject
of flirting, which, of course, comprises
the art of sitting in eorners.-LO7lotO7a
Year: 1873

The number of barristers IN actual
practice has through the extension of
the local courts greatly increased of late
years, and it is probably destined TO go
on increasing. But the men IN practice,
in steady, regular, continuous practice,
are still few compared with the number
of men who have qualified for the pro-
fession. There are many reasons why
ba11isters fail in their own line. They
may not possess the requisite amount
of ability or industry, or they may have
allowed themselves to be distracted by
literary or other occupations, or they
may have been unable to procure good
introductions at starting. The ordina.
ry work Of the profession makes very
slender demands either on the intellect
ual capacity or learning of those who
follow It. There are few really good
lawyers who know the law-that Is, law
yers who know the law-now at the bar,
and still fewer good speakers. The
great run of lawyers are content 20
scramble on with mOuthfuls of law
picked up from day to day as occasion
requires, trusting to textbooks and
luck for getting up the necessary in
formatiom when call happens to be
made for It. The c, mmon oratory at
the bar Is a deplorable exhibition. Tt
has reached a high average standard
when It is just articulate, and does not
too violently outrage the rudimeniary
laws of grammar. With the exceptions
Of the lord chancellor and the chief JUS
tice, there is hardly Judge on the
bench who, to say nothing Of elevated
thought and literary subtlety, can even
turn a decent sentence; and at the bar
Sir John Karslake and the attorney gen
eraI stand almost alone IN preserving
the old traditions Of forensic eloquence.
It seldom happens that If a barrister
has a fair chance Of getting into practice
/ he has not sufficient ability to take adj
vantage Of it. But many men break
down through want Of application, OF
through allowing themselves to be
drawn aside, during the duh years Of
waiting, into other grooves, and many
more through want Of the necessary in
Productions at the outset The key to
the profession hes, after all, with the
attorneys. When a man has made a
name. aud taken up q position, he may
I be independent of the attorneys. but IN
the first instance L is to them he must
look for m opening khe chances are
terribly against man iif only average
ability who starts without the open


sesame of their support Al English
lsarrister canHof, like aR American, ad-
yertiss in the newspaIers, he is for
Year: 1873




No one, says Won Humboldt, can fear
death less than I DO, neither am much
attached to life; but I have never
known the feeling of an anxious long
ing for death; and although it be no
bier one than that of an absolute weari-
ness of existence, it is nevertheless
blamable Life must first, for as long
n period as Providence wills it, be en-
ioyed or suffered-in one word, gone
through, and that with a full submiss-
ion, without murmuring, lamenting, or
repining. There is one important law
of nature which we should never lose
sight of mean that of the ripening
for death Death is not a break III ex-
istence, it is but an intermediate cir
cumstance-a transition from one form
of our finite existence to another. The
moment of maturity for death cannot
be decided by any human wisdom or
inward feeling, and to attempt to do so
would be nothing better fhan the vain
rashness of human pride That decis-
ion can only be made by Him who can
at once look back through our whole
course; and both reason and duty re-
quire that we should leave the hour to
Him, and never rebel against His de-
crees by q single impatient wish The
first and most important thing IS. to
learn to master ourselves, and TO throw
ourselves with peaceful CONFIDENCE on

Him who never changes, looking on
every situation, whether plersant or
otherwise, as a source from which our
interior existence and individual hars
acter may draw increasing strength
and hence springs that entire submits
ion which few attain to, although all
fancy they feel It
Year: 1873

A scheme is now on foot for running
a tunnel through the Rocky Mountains.
This may seem a prodigious enterprise
at first to the casual reader, but the
passes who have the matter in hand are
sanguine of the most complete success.
For some time past gentlemen have been
investigating this matter, and they have
arrived at the conclusion that the pro
iect is feasible in every particular. The
idea Is to tunnel the mountains from
point about one mile below Black Hawk
to the Middle Park, running in q north
westerly direction. The tunnel to be
run will, it is presumed, cut many rich
veins of gold and silver, and thus a
great mining interest be developed.
Money for the prosecution of the work
is furnished by English capitalists, who
are sanguine of the ultimate success of
the enterprise. Some idea of the mag
nitude of the task may be gathered
from the fact that the tunnel, if COM
pIeted, will be twelve miles in length
It is intended to make it large enough
to be used for railway purposes, and so,
if a road is ever to be constructed to the
Middle Park, it wlll find its most con
venient route through the tunnel.


Tt viii be called the Sierra Madre
Tunnel company, and the incorporation
papers for its organization have already
been fled.
Year: 1873




The following is taken from the re
port of the expedition up the Yellow
stone


The steamer stopped at Key West
falls, twenty-one and one-half miles
north of Powder river. These three
falls are the most difficult of any but
by the removal of two small rocks, with
about six square feet of surface and of
a thickness of two and one-half feet,
which lie Immediately in the middle of
the west channel, the river will be made
navigable for distance of from sixty
to eighty miles. beyond. Upon the crest
Of all the rapids the. water was from
four and one-half to eight feet in depth.
The distance was two hundred and
thirty-five miles, and the time from
Fort Buford to Powder river was made
in five days. The Yellowstone is full
of islands, well wooded along the banks,
and the bottom is generally a gravel
bottom, and cons equently the banks do
not wash as tLey do on the Upper Mis-
sour. The valley is from Two to twelve
miles in width, and much of the soil is
susceptible of cultivation.
Year: 1873

ternoon to the unspcakable JOY of her dis


treSsed relatives, who little imagined the ma
ture of the outrage From the moment the
young lady was kidnapped up to the time Of
her escape, not an insulting word waa spoken
to her, and she was treated with the greatest
respect by the few with whom she came in con-
tact. Superintendent Washburn was consulted
by the father of the lady on Friday night, and
measures are being taken to thoroughly invcs-
tigate this strange affair. Evidently some
young lady living in the vicinity named stands
in danger, but what may be the nature of the
designs against her must be left to conjecture.