smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

OF life being uninterrupted. The gradual
union OF the parts was shown by faint
but gradually increasing movements of
the limbs of the jaws and of the muscles
of expression in the face Speech did
not become possible until the close of
the third week, and then it was hesitat-
ing, stammering, as child learns AL
though it was evident that the patient
tried to utter words and sentences, it
was very gradually that the power of in
telligible articulation returned


The Gazette contains the report, in a
tabular form, of the increasing voluntary
power over the arms and hands, as meas
ured from day to day by the dynamome-
ter, the measurement given in kilogram-
mes, also, the daily temperature of the
limbs. as shown by the thermometer in
degrees of centigrade; ALSO the return
ing sensibility of the fingers and lips, as
given by an instrument called Psthesi-
ometer; but l omit these, as your read
ers will be interested in the main facts
only.


When speech became ineligible, it
was found that the soldier, as he seemed,
had forgotten entirely his military train
ing and disciplIne on the other hand,
he told at formal examination, in the
presence of witnesses, the prices of all





keeper had been in the habit of buying
and selling, manifesting the unimpaired
cerebral activity of the latter. His mem
ory recalled the saloon-keeper's relatives,
friends and customers whom he called
by name. The soldier had been ugly,
taciturn revengetul; he now had the sa-
loon-keeper's frankness and even garruli-
ty, in spite of his stammering utterance.
He was totally blind Although the
nerves of smell and sight had been ap-
proximated in the operation, they failed
to unite. II was both sad and strange to
hear the soldier cropping iE his infirmity
of blindness and giving proof of all the
patient endurance and goodness of heart
Which had made the saloon-keeper de-
servedly esteemed and prosperous. These
are the main facts in the case as fa- as
detailed in the Archioe, but the subject of
experiment presents so many important
problems of the relation between blood
and brain, of heart-power and nervous
energy, thatwe may be we'll assured that
no facts of interest will be permitted to
escape notice and record
Year: 1873

There is no end to the evils of Aagi-
tious example. We must believe there
were a few men who voted for the salary
robbery who would not have done it if
they had reflected upon their act.


Think of what it means It is not only
robbery in fact. But to the public mind
it is robbery. II is known and regarded
as just one big steal. The tutored and
the untutored mind alike consider it
public stealing; bold, defiant robbery.
What an example! 1t is stimulant to
every scoundrel in the land 1t keeps
vlllainy in countenance everywhere. 1t
prompts men to take money they have
not earned and do not own, wherever
they can get chance. The bank officer
or the clerk of every grade, in every pro-
tesslon and every pursuit, who thinks he
IS insufhciently paid, under the shelter
OF this example, will consider he too may
rob his employer at will The slave was
q thief, because his master stole him and
all his earnings and all his. belongings.
1t Congressman may march up in a body
to the Treasury and rob it of $4,000
apiece, because there is nobody to pre-
vent them, then anybody and everybody
else in circumstances of temptation may
do the same. And, stimulated by this
high example, they will do the same.
Congressman will thus infuse fresh vital
ity into thievery and corruption all over
the land. All the garroter wants is your
money. He garrotes for money All
the carpet bagger or South Carolina ne
gro is after is money He lies. to get
money. He steals to get money. He
wrecks q State to get money Are not
he and everybody kept in countenance
and inspiration by the example of q ma
jority of United States Congress, who
rob treasury and disgrace a nation in
order to get money!


1t is the great industry-em pub
lie that is most affected by the shocking
example. 1t is the men who employ la
Dor and require integrity 1t is the men
who know and feel the value and the
necessity of honesty that are more inter
ested in this business than anybody else.
1t isn't moral question only, by any
means. 1t is question of safety to the
indispensable morality of the commun;-
ty. Men in private life must have
standard OF integrity, and of. honor, and
of truth, which must be maintained, or
their affairs, and even society itself go to
ruin. If financial -looseness in public
life is to pass unrebuked and unpunished,
why not in private as well2 Every pull
lie mans detection or detection from the
paths of honesty is public calamity, in
somuch as it is an authoritative example.
One public villain is the father of thou
sand private ones. Hence the alarming
progress of demoralization in any society
in which it once gets headway.-N 7.
Tribune.
Year: 1873

Wood, being vegetable matter, is of
course liable to decay; but how to turn
it to the best account with this known a.
tribute to contend with may be worth
inquiry The closer the grain and the
heavier the wood, the less liability there
is to decay; but for building purposes, as
at present carried on, light and open
grained woods must be used We cal =
not, in these times Of excessive compet' :
ton, go back to the old oak timbered
and foored houses of our ancestors 1t
would, however, pay landlords to build
solid, substantial houses, and let them
even at the present scale of rental For
instance, in digging away the foundations
of the Savoy Palace, built upwards of six
centuries ago the oak piles were found
perfectly sound, as was the planking
which covered the pile heads. But hou :
es are built on very different principle
now, namely. to sell again, and perhaps
again, before the permanent owner in
vests in them, and then coat of paint
and judicious use of putty cover all
imperfections.


The flooring boards, being kept in
sheds, present quite a different appeal
ance to the same quality of wood expose d
on the quays. Putting on one side Il @
question of expense, the practice of ma :
ting up the end of the piles, as practiccd
in the north of England, cannot be rec
ommended. 1t certainly preserves the
fresh appearance of the wood, and max,
it appear as if just discharged from IL e
ship; but it impedes the tree circulate N
of air. and anything that does that is
strictly to be avoided. Better by far
have the wood shaken at the ends th; n
sweating inside. with here and thel g
places where the penknife blade sinks in
with hardly any pressure.


The decay of wood arises from intern,
and not external moisture; hence tie
danger of s--akes, as they admit it often
to the very centre; and so long as free
evaporation is allowed, decay will not
very readily set in. 1t would be very al
surd to say that no paint ought to be
used in the interior of house, but it is
certain that a piece of wood painted n
both sides viii not last nearly so long as
one not painted at all. The reason is
evident. The paint etfectually closes all
the pores and prevents the evaporation
of the moisture, which even the best sea-
soned plank will contain, and hence de-
cay sooner sets in, in one shape or other.
For the same reason wood painted on
one side only will last longer than that
painted on two sides. Thus in an old
building, the wainscot, doors, windows,
etc will be found TO be affected when the
staircases will be sound, because never
painted. The old houses in the quaint
city of Chester prove the truth of this.
Some years ago, a Liverpool builder who
had some contracts there told the writer
that the numerous exposed beams were
generally sound, and they are all unpaint-
ed, but the inside work had apparently
been renewed. The best that can be
done, under all circumstances, is to give
n coat of paint before leaving the work
shop and this is generally done, at least
in the large establishments- Buiitlinq
NetcS.
Year: 1873

Some physiologist has been giving a
contemporary the results of some inves-
legations and calculations in this field of
diet. His statements are curious enough


When we pour milk into a cup of tea
or coffee, the albumen of the milk and
the tannin Of the tea instantly unite and
form leather, or minute flakes of the
very same compound which is produced
in the texture of the tanned hide, and
which makes it leather as distinguished
from the original skin. In the course Of
a year a tea-drinker of average habits
will have imbibed leather enough to
make a pair of shoes, if it could be put
into the proper shape for the purpose


A great many things go into the mouth
This is not an original remark We have
seen it somewhere. But it is an alarming q
fact. We drink, every one of us, a pair
of boots year. We carry iron enough
in our blood constantly to make horse
shoe. We have clay enough in our
frames to make, if properly separated
and baked, a dozen good sized bricks
We eat at least peck of dirt a month
no, that is not too large an estimate
The man who carelessly tips a glass of
lager into his stomach little reflects that
he has begun the manufacture of hats,
yet such is the case. The malt of the
beer assimilates with the chyle and
forms sort of felt-the very same seen
so often in hat factories. But not being
instantly utilized, it is lost Still fur
ther: it is estimated that the bones in
every adult person require to be fed with
lime enough to make marble mantel
every eight months.


TO sum up, we have the following as
founding aggregate of articles charged to
account of physiology, to keep every poor
shack on his feet for three score years
and ten:


Mems shoes, 20 years, at l


pair a year,.................... 70 pairs.
Horse-shoes. 70years, at one


q month, as our arterial


system renews its blood


every new moon............ $40 shoes.
Bricks, at ~ per 7 years.. 12O bricks.
Hats, not less than IA


year,. ..................... $50 hats.
Mantels, at 3 a year......... 105 mantels.


Here we are surprised to observe that
we eat as many shoes as we wear, and a
sufficient number of hats to supply a
large family of boys; that we float in our
blood-vessels horse-shoes enough to keep
a span of grays shods all the while; that
we carry in our animated clay bricks
enough to build modern fireplace, and
in our bones marble enough to supply all
our neighbors with. mantels. We have
not figured on the soil, at the rate. of a
peck month; but it is safe to say that
the real estate that hearty eater masti-
Gates and swallows in the course of a
long and 'eventful career would amount
to something worth having, if sold like
the corner lots on State Street, at So, 600
front foot.-PhrenOlogicat Journal
Year: 1873

To the Editor Of tic Standard


Some time since several physicians tes-
tilted in the Burchfeld case that nervous
tissue would not heal They went so far
as to sneer at my testimony when stated
that nervous tissue healed as readily as
any other tissue, and that all Physiolo-
gists agreed upon this point The fol-
lowing experiment by Professor Muller,
one of the most able Surgeons and
learned Psychologists in the world, con-
firms my statement, and proves that
those Physicians who testified otherwise,
was ignorant of their profession, or will
fully stated what they knew to be false.
VIII you please publish the statement
for the benefit Of your many readers.


l. T. MoNAHAN.
Year: 1873

IN another place win be found an ex-
cellent communication from Major Ross,
superintendent of the Memphis and
Charleston railroad, which corrects
errors into which a correspondent of the
New York World has surely fallen.
Very certainly there are not in the
country two more thoroughly skilled
railroad managers than Messrs. Jaques
and Ross, who represent the Southern
Security company in conducting the
affairs Of this road.
Year: 1873

At last it pleased God to show
them a great mercy, and He took
them to Himself both in one light.
Children and grandchildren stood
weeping around the cofins, and,
as one of them tried to withdraw
the ring from the dead mans fin
ger, his eldest son said |:


"Let our father take his ring to
the grave. There was some mys-
terry about it. Probably it was
some love token, for our mother
often looked at the ring, too; per-
haps she gave it to him when
they were young"


So the old farmer was buried
with the ring which should have
been a wishing ring, but was
not one, and yet had brought
as much good luck to the house
US man could desire. For it is
strange, as regards the true and
tue false, that q bad thing can
be turned 10 better account in
good hands than good thing in
bad.-Good Words for the Young.
Year: 1873

A young farmer whose farming
did not prosper particularly we'll,
was sitting resting on his plow
for o moment as he wiped his
brow, when an Old witch crept up
to him and said: "Why do you
toll so hard, and all for nothing l?
Walk straight before you for two
days and you will come to large
fir tree, which stands alone, tower
ing OYER all the other trees Of the
forest. If you can but fell it your
fortune is made


The farmer did not wait to. be
told twice, but, taking his axe on his
shoulder, started on his way. After
walking two days he came to the
fir tree, and Immediately set to
work to fell it. Soon it toppled
and crashed to the earth, when
from the top branches dropped o
nest containing two eggs. The
eggs rolled on the ground and
broke; as they broke, forth came
u young eaglet from one, and a
small golden ring from the other.
The cag!et grew visibly, till it
reached the height ofa man, shook
his wings, as if to try them, raised
itself from the ground, and then
cried: "You have released me |!
as token of my gratitude take
the ring the other egg contained
tits a wishing ring. Turn it on
your finger, speak your wish
aloud, and it will Immediately be
granted. But the ring has only
one wish ; when that is accom-.
pIished it will lose all power and
become no more than any other
ring. Therefore reflect we'll on
what you wish for, so that you
may not have to repent after
ward"


Having spoken: the eagle rose
high into the air, swept, for some
time, in wide circles over the
farmers head, and then, like an
arrow from a bow, shot swiftly to-
ward the east. The farmer took
the ring, put it on his finger and
started homeward. Toward eve.
n:ag he reached a town. At the
door of his shop goldsmith stood
who had many valuable rings for
sale. The farmer showed him his
ring, and asked him what was a.
bout the value of it.


"Mere trumpery," answered the
goldsmith. The farmer laughed
heartily telling the man it was q
wishing ring, and of more value
than all his rings put together.
Now the goldsmith was a false,
designing man, so he invited the
farmer to stay all night at his
house, saying: ''lt must bring
one good luck to entertain q man
who is the possessor of such q jew
ell, so pray remain with me-" He
accordingly entertained him well
with plenty Of wine and civil
words, but when he went to sleep at
night be drew his ring stealthlly
from his finger and put on in
stead o common ring quite like it
in appearance. The next morn
ing the goldsmith could hardly
wait, with any degree Of patience
till the farmer had taken his de-
parture. He awoke him in the
early dawn, saying: You have
50 far to go, you had better start
early" As soon as the farmer was
safe on his journey the goldsmith
went into his room, and having
+ shut the shutters that no one
A.might see, he bolted himself in


nd standing in the middle Of the


pm. and turning the ring on his


ger, exclaimed:


wish to have 6 hundred thou
silver crowns immediately


srdly were the words spoker
Year: 1873

AN ACT CONCERNING SCHOOL FUNDS.


Be it enacted by the Senate and


House of Representatives Of the
State Of South Carolina, now met
and sitting in General Assembly,
and by the authority of the same


Section !. That the General
Assembly shall levy, at each regu-
lar session thereof. an annual spe-
cial tax, to be known and designa-
ted as the school tax, on all taxa
Bile property throughout the State
for the support and maintenance
CT the free common schools; which
tax shall be collected at the same
time, and in the same manner, and
Year: 1873

they need know. Guard against
the wreck and ruin that destroys so
many Of the young. "Train up
child in the way he should 60 and
wheD be is old he will not depart
from it."-The Christian.
Year: 1873

How Mark Twain Got his Rich wife.


Mr.. q. s. Noyes. in Buffalo letter to the Wash
ington Star, says: Buffalo has many reminiscen-
COS Of Mark Twain, and Of his remarkable at
tempt at publishing newspaper on an entirely
new plan. After his return from the Holy Land,
(per Quaker City) Mark took wife, and pur-
chased the third interest in the Buffalo Express,
owned by A. M. Olapp, Public Printer. They
say that Marks style Of newspaper work was
unique He is not an early riser and is as slow
OF movements as of speech, consequently he
didn't get to the office very early in the morning
And whom there his movements were not oharac-
terized by nervous haste.


Seating himself in ctpacious pivot chair, his
fret move was to deposit his boots in the waste
basket and replace them with roomy slippers
Then elevating his slippered feet to a eomfort-
able cushion on the exchange papers (their only
legitimate use in his estlmatlon) 1t was his wont
10 lay back in his chair, swinging himself lazily
on its pivot and tell stories of wit and wisdom
by the hour to the associate editors. This was
vastly pleasant to all concerned but some how it
did not work in the way of newsy paper, and
at the end of six weeks Mark came to the con-
cluslon that publishing a newspaper was not
Ills forte.


He however, retained his interest in the Ex-
press for about year and a half, though as
aforesaid he did not take part in the "active"
management for more than six weeks. Mark
married the daughter of Jarvis Langdon, of Ell
mira, N. Y, the heaviest coal operator in the
west His property was valued as high as ten
million dollars in his life, and had he lived to
get all his irons out OF the fire, perhaps that
amount might have been realized but leaving
everything by the ends, there has been a great
"shrlnkage" 0the word believe) in the value of
assets.


Still there is enough left to divide trifle of a
lew millions between Marks wife and her broth
or, Charles Langdon. 1t was through this
brother, by the way that Mark got his wife.


Charley" was one of the "Innocsnts Abroad
Who accompanied Clemens on his famous trip
ON thesQuaker City, and wrote home so enthusi-
astlcally about Mark Twain that Mr.. Langdon,
Sr sent him cordial invitation to visit them at
Elhlra. The result was the meeting OF Mark
and MISS Langdon, case of love at first sight,
and the twain becoming one.
Year: 1873

THE OATES TROUPE, THIS EVENING.


1t will be surprising il, without regard to the
weather, there be not a large audience at the
Opera House, this evening, to see the new comic
opera Madame Angors Child, effectively rendered
-as it will be--by Mrs. oates and her Company.
This is by all who have seen it reported a very
entertaining performance and frLm the success
achieved by the former visits of this Company
we predict fresh one now.
Year: 1873

RAILROAD EARNINGS.


The condition of railroads at the end of each
month is always important subject of considera-
ton to the many share and bond holders inter-
ested. 1t may be consoling fact to all such to
know that the reports lor August are generally
favorable. The grain movements have been early
and large, and other business indicates an i'm
provement at once profitable ana promising The
following are the gross earnings for August
Year: 1873

lated with great precision the eclipses of
Jupiter's satellites when that planet and
the earth were OH the same side of the
sun. To his surprise and perplexity,
however, the eclipses took place sixteen
minutes too late, when Jupiter was on
the side of the sun opposite to the earth.
Every obscrration and reappearance OF
these satellites took place exactly in the
order predicted, and at nearly the calcu-
lated intervals, but they were regularly
sixteen minutes behind time. The only
solution of the phenomenon was to be
had in supposing that light requires six
teen minutes to pass through the diam
eter of the earth's orbit, i. e., one hum
dred and eighty-four million miles. This
astounding fact was soon corroborated
by other testimony, until now there is
scarcely any fact in physical science
more firmly established than that light
travels with the enormous velocity of
one hundred and ninety-two thousand
miles second.


To form a conception, as near as pos
sible, of this degree of speed, let us put
two things together. We're the earth
girdled with speaking-tube capable of
conveying sound all its length, or at the
rate of five miles a minute, message
around would occupy five thousand min
utes, or eighty-three and two-third
hours, or nearly three and half days
for it's passage; whereas light, if it
could be sent around on the same track,
would encircle the earth eight times be-
tween each beat of a second-measuring
clock


Here, now, we are compelled to stop.
There is no greater velocity in nature
known to man. The transmission of
gravitative force is known to be greater,
but it is given up that that must be in
Simultaneous for, if not absolutely SO,
it must be ESQ Laplace calculated from
reliable data) at least fifty million times
greater than that of light.--Appletons
Journal
Year: 1873

A shameful exhibition has very re-
Gently taken place in London under the
especial oversight of the Marquis of
Oueensberry. The entertainment was a
prize-fght of the most brutal descrip-
tion. The arena selected was q disused
chapel, now known as Grafton Hall, in
Soho. The lessee of the building had
understood that it was to be a sparring
match, and did not know the real char
acter of the performance until he en-
tered the hall short time before the
opening. He says: 81 was told there
was noble Marquis, two noble Lords,
and three Colonels of her Majesty 8
army in the crowd. The persons form
ing the meeting all appeared to be we'll
dressed, well-fed men, with the animal
strongly marked in their features" The
prize to the winner was given by the
tional sum of 9100 was raised by sub
scription. This young nobleman is an
officer in the navy. The pugiists wore
gloves, but of a very different kind from
the ordinary boxing g-gloves. The agony
caused is greater than with the naked
fist, and man may be killed quite as
easily. One of the men was hammered
until insensible, after which, by the use
of stimulants, he revived enough to fight
several rounds more. The hackers OF
the loser tried to crowd in and break uE
the fight when they saw their money
would be lost. Nothing seems to have
been wanting to make the fight brutal
We are told these contests are now o.
almost daily occurrence in London
Only short time ago man was kllleG
in one of these glove-fghts after it hat
lasted about seventy minutes.
Year: 1873


All day long the stalwart woodman
Swings his glittering ak amain,
And the stricken mountain monarch
Means with heart-consuming pain.
Each incessive stroke is followed
by n clean and clear-cut chip
Tough enough to pin together,
Some Alaskan ice-struck ship.


Round about his feet collecting,
Reaching even to the knee
Two white heaps hewn from the bosom
OF that stout and stately tree.
And at length timid tremor
Steals upon each limb and leaf
And groan 80 very human,


Now wall akin to grief.


Hark! a sound as If of thunder
Shakes the hill and shakes the sky,
And the echoes catch each other
AS among tbs rocks they fly.
Now the woodman stands a moment
To regain his failing breath,
And with open, careless collar
Breathes in rosy, hill-born health.
Then he mounts the fallen monarch,
As a king might mount his throne,
And he triumphs in the conquest,
Which his arm hath won alone.
Log on log of lengthy sedgment
Down the hillside soon it rolled
Where the plow ere long will struggle
To explore the virgin mould.
Now the heaps are nightly kindled,
And the fires light up the sky,
And a more than boreal brightness
Beams about the hill-tops high.

New he builds his cribbed cabin,
Fences round about field,
Which no foeman e'er can conquer,
Which no freeman e'er will yield.
Sprihkled be our land with cabins;
Grandeur but provoked a groan-
And liberty is ever Graded,


In the cots that poor men own.