smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

Place Il tobacco-pipe in such position
on the edge Of the table, that if it were left
unsupported it would fall to the ground


A poker may now be suspended from the
pipe IN such a manner that the weipht Of
the poker will be sustained by the pipc.


The looped ring on which the poker hangs.
should be as clos" as possible to the bowl
OF the pipe, and the end Of the poker must
fall under the edge Of the table. The cen.
tire OF gravity i'll this case is below the centre
OF suspension, and the pipe consequently.
supports the poker.


II little thread be well soaked in a
strong solution Of salt-and-watcr. and then
dned and tied to a ring not much larger
than wedding-ring, you NAV al,,ly the
fiam" OF Il candle to til" thread. which Will
burn to ashes. and yet it will sustain the
ring. Tn" cohesion of the fbrous particles
OF thread having been destroyed bv the
action of the flame the ring is now sus.
pended by the cohesion of the particle, of
salt


wrap piece Of clean writingpapcr
tightly about the cylindrical handle Of the
poker, and the paper may be held over the
flame of lamp or candle for some time
without being i'll the slightest degree injured
or burned. Now wrap simuar piece Of
paper around a cylinder of wood, and hold
1t over the flame, which will burn il almost
lmmedQtely. This experience shows the
difference between the conducting powers
OF metal and wood-the heat hcinr con.
Quoted away from the paper by the iron
almost as rapidly as communicated: while
wood. being bad conductor Of heat. takes
fire almost Immediately.


suspend poker by two strings. and in.
scrt the eXtrenitios of them into the cars.
A blow given to the poker will now produce.
through the medium Of the strings. = sound
equal to that of Il great bell. This shows
that tn" vibrations given to the metallic
mass OF the poker by the blow are much
more readily communicated to the ear by
the strings than through the air. Thu,.on
the same principle, the boiling of kettle.
maudlble in the air, NAV be distinctly
W even rom thc beginning, 10y resting
one end Of the poker on the vessel and an.
plying the other to the ear.


So, also, the beating of a watch, placed
at one extremity of a long beam of timber,
may be heard through the timber at the
other end of the beam by person who
holds his ear to the wood, although it is
totally naudblc in the air.


Place in small ,2lass bottle, hot water.
near the boiling point, colored deep car
mlne with cochincal; place the Same at
the bottom of glass j.: of cold water.
Immediately the light, hot colorcd water
IN the phial will be displaced by the heavier
cold water in the jar, and will ascend in
beautiful crimson clouds to the top of the
jar.
Year: 1875

-"While the Indiana legislature was
In session the Sentinel i'm one of its daily
Issues stated that there was certain
senator In attendance whose wife ought
TO lead him home by the ear, and that
the Sentinel would not ellow him to car
ry on another forty days as he had been
doing without notifying the sorfiding
creature whom lie left in charge Of the
senatorial homestead The paragraph
WAS published on Thursday morning,
and was read by the various members
OF the Senate at their breakfast tabl es,
and all that day senator's filed up the


Seutincl stairway, paid in years sub
scrirtion Inv advance, and begged the
proprietor for Gods sake 10 cay nc more
about it,"


Now this story which Is going the
rounds Of the press Is true rs to fact, but
false as TO inference. The Sentinel pub
lishcd that paragraph TO f1ghten the
Senators, but with mo design Of makiRg
them cut short the special session. The
thing worked 10 a charm, for the legisls-
tnre, which was entitled 10 y session of
forty days, did it's work in five, and de-
camped. The majority OF the Senate.
previous to the publication Of this little
notice, favored staying the full term OF
forty days, both for sake OF the eight
dollars per day involved, and as q piece
iof political strategy. After that gentle
hint they weakened, and stood NOT upon
The order OF their going. but went at
once. Ii had been the general opinion
when the special session was called. that
they would siic1 il out: nut we freely
predicted that they wouldn't and were
determined To do our level tcst To verify
the prophecy. The only pecuniary stake
involved in the matter was wager OF a
glass of lager beer with tie leading fe-
male journalist of the West thar tie
Legislature wouldn't siay more Tran a
week. and, lad Ia say, that bet has not
yer been paid. = Indianapolis Scuiine'.
Year: 1875

grand and enjoyable excursion and visit the
church Of the Dominican Fathers, at Newark, n. j.,
will take place on Thursday, August 20. To accommo.
date the thousands of New Workers who anxious to
be present steamboat and barge have been chartered
10 meet them at the foot Of East Sixty second and
Twenty third streets They will proceed thence through
Newark Bay landing near the cars that Will bring them
to the grounds where all kinds of innocent amusement
will he engaged in The grounds consist Of about
twenty acres and have been lately purchased by tho
Rev Father Byrnes, 0. p, who will be the pastor of
the new church.
Year: 1875

CANAL BOAT sUsK BY TUa-A WOMAN AND
GIRL LDRowsED-HEARTLEss CONDUCT OF NKaII-
GENT MEN.


New YORK, Oct II.
As the propeller u s. Grant was proceeding
up the East River, on Saturday evening" with \
tow of four canal ,ata, laden with coal one Of the
latter, the N L. Lee, was struck by tug which
was afterwards ascertained to be the Jno. M
Parker and Immediately sunk of the Battery.
Herbert Cooper, tho master Of the Lee, was just
before the accident standing talking with
the captain of the Grant, but seeing
the collision inevitable he ran to
his boat to save his family. By prompt ac-
ton the life OF one daughter was saved, but the
mother and younger girl persisted in his very
presence, his wife screaming and begging to be
saved, The collidlng tug went on her way down
the river without offering the least assistance.
The name of her captain has been ascertained
as Commodore Boggs, of Paterson, N. j., and
he will be arrested on his return to New York.
Year: 1875

EVERYBODY is feeling happy over the pros
pect of good crops. In this city the change
has been very great, and yet visible only a
short time. \ few months ago our citi-
zens We're growing and complaining OF
hard times. They said, "kansas is lost, and
Leavenworih dead" but to-day they feel
and talk differently. Business men are be-
ginning to advertise, the farmer comes to
the city with some money, and the mechan-
ic or laborer is now able to earn enough 10
support his family. New manufactures
are talked OF, and the probabilities are
that the Kansas Central will be extended
until it makes. the finest country the sun
shines upon, tributary to Leavenworth.
Many of those who sought the golden
smiles Of the Pacific coast have returned,
satisfied that no better place can be found
for an industrious man than Kansas. We
must only wait, at the same time feeling
confident that a bright future is in store for
our city and State.
Year: 1875

The Chicago Tribune repeats an old, but
nevertheless very good joke perpetrated on
"Bull Run Russell" BY OConnell. One of the
most effective weapons OF O'Com ell was his
wit, which was always at his command.
There are hundIeds of stories detailing in
stances of his power in this respect. On
one occasion, when OConnell was TO ad-
dress monster meeting in Ireland, Russell
was sent over by the London Times to re-
port O'Connell's speech, the purpose being
to get evidence that could be used against
him in case he should utter language capa-
bic OF being interpreted as seditious. BY
O'Connell's advice, Russell was provided
with every possible facility for his work.
lie was assigned 4 seat near OConnell,
where he could hear every word.
OConneil, before beginning his speech
informed the thousands of people
present that there was a very able English
man present, whe came all the way from
England to report his speech that it was to
he printed in the London Times, and that
the gentleman was very desirous to get an
accurate report, so that he could swear to
it if necessary. He therefore appealed to
the Irish present to be quiet and orderly
to make no noise, and TO do nothing that
could disturb the English gentleman, or
cause him to lose word of the speech to
which he was to swear. During these re-
marks he pointed out Mr.. Russell personal
ly, who was placed so consciously as TO be
easily seen by all. Then, turning TO Mr..
Russell, he asked him ii there was any
thing lie needed, if he was comfortably
seated, ii his pens were in order, and if he
was ready to begin. BY this time Rus
sell had become the most interesting and
conspicuous man in the crowd. Again
appealing to the crowd to become quiet and
let the gentleman get such a report as he
could swear to, he informed Russell that he
was about to begin. Russell dipped his pen
in ink, and OConnell began his Grafton, IN
Irish. The multitude saw the joke, and
Russell was painfully impressed with the
knowledge that he was laughed at. AT in
tervals O'Connell would appeal in English
to the crowd to be silent, as the English
gentleman did not seem to get along very
well, and would not be able to swear to the
accuracy of the report. Every moment
made Russelrs position more painful, until
at last, mortified and humiliated at the ex-
posure Of the real purpose of his visit, and
at its defeat, he rose from his seat, left the
meeting, and quilted Ireland.
Year: 1875

The Boston Globe of Monday, in calm
and sensible article on the Fall River strike,
says: "The operatives of Fall River con-
clude that they would rather have the mills
stop for month than to accept another re-
duction OF wages, and the managers of the
corporations appear to feel certain that it
would be for the interest of the stock
holders to shut down rather than to keep
running at the present rate OF expense


Whether this sor; of remedy is likely to
effect permanent cure Of the difficulty
which distresses manufacturers and their
employees alike, is a question calling for
very careful consideration from both. 1t
depends largely on what is to be regarded
as the real cause of the depression from
which they are suffering, and what is the
natural mode of relief. The question re-
solves itself into this: Whether it is better
for both employers and employed to have
spasmodically, for a few months at time,
better profits and better wages, or to have
continually; smaller profits and smaller
wages. The matter is certain TO equaline
itself in the long run, and the
reduction and loss will be made,
taking the year through. Idleness cannot
create anything, and the same amount of
work will produce no more BY being done
in spasms of activity. The spasmodic meth
cd will, in fact, be the losing one, in case it
is possible to come down to the minimum
price, which shall secure wider market,
for that certainly cannot be secured BY the
policy of shutting down. If it is not possi-


ble to come down to that minimum and Sc
cure operatives who viii work at the wages
which it would necessitste, and if, at the
same time, it is to be admitted that the
bottom prices for cotton fabrics have not
been reached, and there is not to he a per-
manent recovery from the present prices,
Why, then, the oaly oonclusion i, the busi-
neB Il oyerdoae. - - e a. es,su.
Year: 1875

colored men, has at last not one colored
man connected with its management; that
the Howard University, built Of money due
to the dead black soldiers of the Republic,
was likely to be used for sectarian and SELF
ish purposes. Give the colored man equal
rights; give him the same chance for edu-
cation in the educational institutions which
are given to tie people OF all other nations,
ard if he then fails to avail himself Of
their advantages, then let him 60 down. II
the black man can't live with fair chance
in the race OF lie, then he has no right to
live at all. At the same time abate no
jot of the black mans claims upon the
white race for indemnity for the century Of
slavery to which he has been subjected"
Year: 1875

THE Fort Scott Monitor is incensed be-
cause the call for the next annual meeting
of the State Teachers Association was pub
lished in the Kansas City Tunes, with the
request, @Kansas papers please copy
This was rather insolent but the Monitor
should not blame Mr.. Speer, the Secretary,
as we are confident that the request was
tackled on in the Times Office.
Year: 1875

WHILE in many States, the earth is be-
coming as wet as soaked sponge, in the
South the drouth is seriously affecting the
corn and cotton crops. In some places
there has been no rain since May, and
crops are consequently failures. In the
greater part OF the cotton belt no rain has
fallen in from four to six weeks.
Year: 1875

McCREARY, the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Kentucky, made it great
point to dwell upon the fact, in ali his
speeches, that the debt Of this country is a
great deal larger than it was before the
war. Of course it is. And so it was after
the Revolutionary war. Yet no one con-
sidered that an argument against those who
carried on the Evolutionary struggle.
Year: 1875

must fail and shut down permanently. Then
both employers and employed viii be
thrown out of their presen. business to seek
some other, which viii be but another meth
cd OF reaching the equilibrium which must
Year: 1875

Mercy to him that shows it, is the
rule.


Sweet mercy is true nobility's true
badge.


The only amarantbine flower on earth
is virtue.


Reason is an historian, but the pas
sions are actors.


Human life is "A constant want, and
ought to be constant prayer.


Men are contented to be laughed at
for their wit, but not for their folly.


No wonder the egotists find the world
so ugly. They only see themselves in it.


Every inordinate cup is unblessed,
and the ingredient is a devil.-Shak
speare.


Temperance is reasons girdle and pas
sion's bride, the strength of the soul,
and the foundation of virtue.


In seeking wisdom, thou art wise in
imagining that thou hast attained it,
thou art fool.


Make no vows to perform this or that;
it shows no great strength, and makes
thee ride behind thyself.


He that will not reason is bigot he
that cannot reason is a fool, and he that
dares not reason is slave.


The wise man is but clever infant
spelling letters flom hieroglyphical
prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies
in eternity.


It is pride which fills the world with
so much harshness and severity. We
are rigorous to offenses as if we had
never offended.


Worldly riches are like nuts; many
clothes are torn in getting them, many
tooth broken in cracking them, but
never belly filed with eating them.


Men live best on moderate means
nature has dispensed to all men the
wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did
but understand how to use her gifts.


Cheerfulness is the daughter OF en-
ployment, and man has often come
home in high spirits from funeral,
merely because he has had the manage
ment of it.


1t belongs to every large nature, when
it is not under the immediate power of
some strong unquestioning emotions, to
suspend itself and doubt the truth of its
own impressions, conscious of possibili-
ties beyond its own horizon.
Year: 1875

A correspondent of the st. Louis Re
publican, writing of her observations
on the rail, let's out her Western spite
thus: In the center of the car, with one
hand under her coat-tail behind in the
favorite attitude of Daniel Webster stood
a middle-aged woman. Her hair had
once been sandy, perhaps red, but time
had shook his four-dredger pretty
thoroughly over it and basted the face
with the brown gravy so frequently that
there was drab shade on the hair and
complexion one and the same. There
was about her stern contempt for the
lines of beauty often observed in the
Boston woman. It's the geological
formation of the mind, it's the theologi-
cal contraction of the soul, and it's the
mighty algebraical properties of the
female Boston stomach that makes th
true daughter of Beantown SO conspicu-
GUS for rugged grandeur and spectacled
sublimity, and denudes her of little
UlUS VI luU w 0AuOW AC1 Will
knobs on her knees and elbows that know
no fear This particular sister as an en-
couragement to chess clubs was gotten
up in huge checks of brown. There was
a skirt and sack coat, cut as only
Boston cuttist can cut. There was
drab bonnet on her head, with drab
ribbons tied under her chin, and as she
sat down she disclosed pair of gaitefs,
minus heels, that brought before me
Bunker Hill monument, and the State
house and the battle of Lexington, and
all the other big things that ever trans
pired down East. All o feast indeed
was the outward woman, but sickness it
self was her conversation, and she con-
versed uninterruptedly with almost every
one from New York to Hartford, when
1 reluctantly tore myself from her so
ciety, feeling as if I was whole normal
school just graduated.
Year: 1875

A writer in the Pail Mall Gazette says
of Madrid To find Madrid even toll
cradle it is necessary to have been born
there, and to be unacquainted with any
thing better. Not only is it 50 unhealthy
that in life you are always in the shadow
of death, but many of the necessaries
of existence are deficient, while most of
its agreeabilities are wanting altogether.
There is a superabundance of dust, but
SO little water that the Galicians retail it
by the pint. After the first fresh days
of spring the vegetation in the urban
promenades begins to sicken and to
parch up; and broad as is the view from
the commanding heights in the town,
nothing can be more depressing than its
glaring nakedness. Not that you have
many opportunities of looking over it in
the long hot season, unless you are a
very early riser indeed. The sun is un-
bearable in the heat of the day, and the
dense clouds of dust cling round the
city like sitting wells. Most luxuries
are either imported or produced by
foreign labor, and therefore are very
dear. The native cooking is excellent in
its way but pork and beans are scarcely
preferable when the palate is in need of
tempting. The wines of Xeres are too
fiery those of France are extravagantly
dear; the Val de Penas and other native
vintages are very apt to taste of the pig.
skin. Moreover, you are thrown chiefly
on your own resources for entertain
ment, for hospitality has always been at
a discount in the peninsula. A wealthy
financier may occasionally give o state
repast, but most of the aristocracy are
blue-blooded hidalgos, who, secluding
themselves in contemplation of their
hundreds of quarterings, set an inhos-
pitable example within the walls of
their convent-like palaces. The minor
nobility, the gentry, and the commoner
are scrambling to live at the cost of each
other or the country and when one OF
the place hunters has the luck to get q
place he sets vigorously to work to make
hay while the sun shines. The drive OF
ride in the Retro, the lounging round
the evening bands among the shriveled
foliage in the Prado, are the excitements
of your day, and the solace of YOU
monotonous existence. There is the
grand Sunday bullfght, it is true, or the
quieter cockpit, if your taste lie that
way there is the stall in tho theater OF
opera house if you choose to risk suffo
cation.
Year: 1875

ALondon gentleman writes to Nature
In the recently published edition of the
descent of Man" there is some
additional matter concerning the sense
of humor in brutes, and as the following
illustrative cases fell under my own OBJ
servation, I think it is worth while to
publish them as supplementary to those
adduced by Mr.. Darwin.


Several years ago I used to watch
carefully the young orang-outang at the
Geological Gardens, and 1 am quiet sure
that she manifested sense of the ludi-
crous. One example will suffice: Her
feeding tin was of somewhat peculiar
shape, and when it was empty she used
sometimes to invert it upon her head.
The tin then presented eomical re-
semblance to bonnet, and as its wearer
would generally favor the spectators
with broad grin at the time of putting
it on, she never failed to raise laugh
from them. Her success in this respect
was evidently attended with no small
qualification on her part.


1 once had a skye terrier, which, like
all of his kind, was very intelligent.
When in good humor he had several
tricks which know to have been self
taught, and the sole object of which was
evidently to excite laughter. For in
stance, while lying upon one side and
violently grinning, he would hold one
leg in his mouth. Under such circum-
stances nothing pleased him so much as
having his joke duly appreciated, while
if no notice was taken of him he would
become sulky. On the other hand,
nothing displeased him so much as being
laughed at when he did not intend to be
ridiculous. Mr.. Darwin says: "Several
observers have stated that monkeys GER
tainly disliked being laughed at" There
can be little or no doubt that this is true
of monkeys; but I never knew of really
good case among dogs save this one, and
here the signs of dislike were unequivo-
cal. To give one instance: He used to
be very fond of catching flies upon the
window panes, and if ridiculed when un-
successful, was evidently much annoyed.
On one occasion, in order to see what he
would do, I purposely laughed i'm
moderately every time he failed. 1t SO
happened that he did so several times in
succession-partly, I believe, in conse-
quence of my laughing-and eventually
he became so distressed that he positively
pretended to catch the fly, going through
all the appropriate actions with his lips
and tongue, and afterwards rubbing the
ground with his neck as if to kill the
victim; he then looked up at me with a
triumphant air of success. So we'll was
the whole process simulated, that 1
should have been quite deceived, had 1
not seen that the fly was still upon the
window. Accordingly drew his atten-
tion to this fact, as well as to the absence
of anything upon the floor; and when he
saw that his hypocrisy had been de-
tected, he skunk away under some furni-
ture, evidently very much ashamed of
himself.
Year: 1875

A local paper at Niagara Falls has
been having o conflict with the hack
drivers there, and daily publishes list
of places the sight-seers should avoid.
To compel the traveller to look at the
falls from five points of view at fifty
cents each, when at least two of them
present nothing different from two of
the other three, or to pay fifty cents for
going into place for no apparent reason
than to have to pay as much more for
getting out of it x; to lure him to buy
goods on the other side of the line
which are neither cheaper nor better
than he could purchase in the United
States, by suggesting the possibility of
smuggling them, and then to denounce
him with Judas wink) to the custom
officials-this is, an exchange says, to
do as they do at the falls, and this is
not to do well. We can, of course, un
derstand that in some limited measure
the same rule must apply to watering
places that was originated and startling



ly exemplified by the Arkansas hotel
keeper who collected $700 from hap
less traveller as the price of his bed and
breakfast, alleging that this was his first
traveller in five months, and he had to
keep up the house. The season being
limited, those who do business at the
watering places must gather their tray
elers while they may. Admitting all this,
it is desirable that though high prices
should be charged, they should not be
charged more frequently than necessity,
as indicated by the travellers reasonable
and intelligent preference, demands.
We sincerely hope that our contempor-
ary's crusade may be successful and pro-
woke imitation elsewhere. AS things are
now, Niagara Falls is only tolerable to
the newly married, who are precisely the
people who care least for it's sights,
those who in the glow, glamour and gush
of life for two, think


1.-THE world is all before them, where to choose


A watering-place, improvidence their guide