smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

As WILL BE SEEN from the report a
committee of the petitioners for new pave
ment on Pennsylvania avenue had pleas
ant interview with the Commissioners on
the subject yesterday. The Commissioners
promised to give the matter that direct and
early consideration its importance demands.
We must congratulate the merchants and
business men of the Avenue upon the sue
cess of the movement thus far. No obstacle
of q serious nature has been encountered,
and all influential opinion seems to be de-
cidedly in favor of having a new pavement
as soon as possible. The way in which
the general beauty of the city is marred
by this unsightlY pavement, and the utter
destruction of all pleasure in driving on
the Avenue are by no means the most i'm
portant considerations. Its condition is
such as to actually drive away much of
the legitimate and natural business belong
ing to the principal street of the city, and
the longer the remedy is delayed the more
manifest will this loss become. There is
hardly merchant on Pennsylvania avenue
z
year if the new pavement is not laid than
his ratio of taxation for the proposed i'm
proveme2t Then, again, it is the first
great thorOughfare a stranger sees on en-
tering the Capital, and all are aware of the
force of first impressions. 1t is fair to
estimate that during the year of 1876 seve-
raj hundreds Of thousands of strangers will
visit Washington, and very many of these
visitors will be from the old capitals of
Europe. The pride of our citizens revolts
at once from presenting Pennsylvania ave-
nue., especially as it will look in a year
from now, if not repaired, to the inspection
of the courtly representatives of the Old
World We trust that there will be no re-
taxation on the part of those interested,
and that the Commissioners will heartily
second what seems to be an absolutely ne
cesSary measure.
Year: 1875

1t is already apparent that Ohio will be.
come the battle ground for the preliminary
Presidential contest. Pennsylvania NAV
be safely counted upon as Republican.
With Hartranft at the head of the ticket,
and the campaign cleared of all possible
Third Term complications, there is every
reason to believe that the regular majority
of the party will be increased. In fact, it
is now confidently predicted that large
numbers of Democrats, satisfied that no i'm
proVement of the condition of affairs would
follow the election of one of their own
party to succeed the present popular and
efficient Governor, will vote for General
Hartranft But Ohio offers so many posi-:
BILE Presidential candidates to the Democ-
racy that the efforts of that party to retain
control of the State administration will
SAVIOR of personal as well as general inter
est. Allen, Thurman, Pendleton and other
Democratic leaders reside in the State, and
while they may have diverse individual OBJ
jectS in view, they will combine to secure
the success of their party at large, each one
hoping that such success will strengthen
him as q candidate before the national con-
vention. In fact, with the exception of
Bsyard, of Delaware Hendricks, of IRdi-
ana Tilden, of New York, and few
others, the foremost leaders of the Demo
cratic party are citizens of the Buckeye
State. Divided as they may be regarding
the public school question and other vital
issues, they are able to agree upon the
main principle which holds their party TO-
gether. They one and all deny that the
original States oftheU Union relinquished any
part of their sovereignty when the Nation
al Government was organized, and insist
that the States admitted to the Union since
then are entitled to recognition by citizens
as the superior power to which allegiance
is due. Mr.. Thurman has repeatedly an
nounced this doctrine, both in and out of
the Senate, and the other gentlemen whose
names we have mentioned are equally
earnest In their devotion to the same fall
lacy. 1t is therefore fair to presume that
the platform to be adopted by their State
convention will have for its most promi-
nent plank declaration of the infallibility
of State Rights. This plank will subse.
quently, at the dictation of the same men,
be introduced into the National Democratic
platform. In short, the Ohio leaders of
that party will mold the policy of the ma
tional party, and their struggle in the State
will be, as we have said, invested with all
the importance of the first battle Of the
of 1876.


We do not pretend to know who the
Year: 1875

PRESIDENT GRANT did not seek his first
or second nomination. His enemies raised
the alarm about his seeking it for the third
time. He has explicitly denied that there
is any foundation for this alarm. The
country will accept this denial as sufficient;
but his enemies continue to deride him,
and profess to believe that he is still en-
gagged in an intrigue to secure his re-elec-
ton. The real cause of their chagrin is
that they have not induced him to ask for
what they claim he desires. If he had
done this they would have been satisfied.
Year: 1875

quotations of the stock in Wall street. If
he can make the road earn dividends by
careful attention to its traffic and the true
economy ofits running expenses, the value
of the stock will soon take care of itself.
Moreover, just as soon as the Wall street
operators find that he discountenances all
tricks for the purpose of stock speculations
they will turn their attention to other fancy
stocks upon which to practice their arts,
and let the Erie alone. 1t is to be hoped
that Mr.. Jewett will be able to redeem the
Erie management from the cloud of scandal
which has heretofore disgraced it.
Year: 1875

AT THE afternoon session of the National
Temperance Association Convention in
Chicago yesterday the nomination of Vice
President Wilson for the Presidency was
received with much commentator. There
is little doubt that Wilson and Colfax
would make the strongest temperance
nominees in the country.
Year: 1875

Henry Ward Beecher thus describes
an autumn day But the holiday hills |
Have the evening clouds, suffused with
sunset, dropped down and become fixed
into solid formsa Have the rainbows
that followed autumn storms faded upon
the mountains and left their mantles
there2 I stand alone upon the peaceful
summit of this hill, and turn in every
direction. The east is all aglow the
blue north flashes all her hills with
radiance the west stands in FURNISHED
armor; the southern hills buckle the
zone of the horizon together with
emeralds and rubies, such as were never
set in the tabled girdle of the gods
OF gazing there cannot be enough. The
hunger of the eye grows by feeding.
Lifted far above all harm of fowler or
impediment of mountain, wild fowl are
steadily flying southwark.
Year: 1875

When child is hurt. never hush its
cries. 1t is inexcusable barbarity i
is repressing its instincts ; and for this
reason, if physical punishment is in
ficted upon child it is perfect bru-
tality. A thousand times better is it to
soothe by kindly words and acts, divert
the mind by telling stories, by explain
ing pictures, or by providing it with
new toys. We have many a time, saysa
famous doctor, in our professional ex-
perience as to sick children, found more
benefit to be derived from beautiful or
interesting toy than from dose of
physic. The greatest humanity q moth
or can exhibit in respect to her sick
child is to divert it, divert it, in all pleas
ing ways possible. We are sometimes
children ourselves, and feel sometimes
really sick, when cheerful face and
much loved friend has come in, and be-
fore we know it we have forgotten what
was the matter with us.
Year: 1875

The process of making ice at the
great manufactory at Montgomery is as
follows: The water is distilled, put
into rectangular tin cans, thirty inches
long and nine and half inches wide
and three-fourths of an inch thick.
These are placed in rows in tanks filled
with salt water, coming not quite to their
tops. Ether, which has been iquidized
in an adjoining room under pressure
of from seventy to one hundred and ten
pounds to the square inch, is then
forced into about one hundred pipes in
each, filling all the tubes as it expands
into a gas. The ether extracts the
caloric from the water surrounding the
tube, equalizes the temperature, and
brings the whole below freezing point.


The distilled water congeals readily,
and the salt is brought down several de-
grees colder than ice, without freezing.
The gas passes on to receiver, and is
again made to do service. It is difficult
to confne it, but if allowed to escape,
the same quantity can be used continu-
ally. It is said that ether is better than
mercury, as the latter eats out copper
and iron pipes quickly, while the for
mer does not affect the metals. Three
times day the cans are taken out,
dipped into hot water, which loosens the
cake inside, and slabs of ice are pro-
duced weighing twenty -fvep pounds each.
-Four of these are piled on top of each
other and allowed to freeze together,
making one hundred pounds to the
block.
Year: 1875

1t is seldom that any one harnesses Oh
to the subject of crows, but nevertheless
there is grand opening FOR some healthy
writer 10 do honor 10 himself and tho
Congressional district in which he lives,
by saying a lew words regarding this
bird. The crow is bird that is set up
on two pieces OF underpinning, as is
common with all bipeds. lie is dressed
in black, in q close.iitling tailed coat,
and his garments are always cut The
same pattern, and he looks as neat as
black.leg. lie is IS moderate as strain.
ing cold tallow through fine sieve. He
never hurries any more than policeman,
bat always starts in season to get out OF
the way before any danger is nigh. He
walks as if he was troubled with corns,
and rolls like an old salt on his sea legs.
There is generally about dozen OF him
in flock, and tho chief end OF liie is to
get something TO eat.


Crows are raised from the seed. The
crow plants more or less OF
them in hili, as potatoes are planted,
and instead of covering them with dirt
she covers them herself, and sets on
Year: 1875

Sir Samuel Baker, in his interesting
work on Ceylon, tells us that the leop-
ards in that country cause no little loss
among the cattle. They are SO daring
that they will get to the sheep and cows
by scratching through the thatched
roofs of the sheds in which they are
kept. Sometimes, however, they meet
with their match in the small but active
cattle, as in the following instance:


About three years ago leopard took
it into his head to try the beefsteaks OF
a very savage and short horned COW,
who, with her calf, was the property OF
blacksmith. It was dark, rainy
night. The blacksmith and his wife
were in bed, and the COW and calf were
nestled in the warm straw in the cattle
shed.


The door was locked, and all was ap-
parently secure, when the hungry leop-
ard prowled stealthily around the COW
house, shifting the prey within. The
strong smell of the leopard at once
alarmed the keen senses of the COW,
made doubly acute by her anxiety for
her little charge, and she stood ready
for the danger, as the leopard, hav-
ing mounted on the roof, commenced
scratching his way through the thatch.
Down he sprang, but at the same IN
stant, with a splendid charge, the COW
pinned him to the wall, and battle en-
sued which can be easily imagined.


A coolic slept in corner OF the cat
tie shed, whose wandering senses were
completely scattered when he found
himself the unwilling umpire of the
fight. He rushed out and shut the
door. In few minutes he succeeded
in awakening the blacksmith, who pro-
ceeded to load pistol, the only weapon
he possessed.


During the whole of this time the
believing of the COW, the roars OF
the leopard, and the humping, tramp
ling and shufling which proceeded from
the cattle. shed, explained the savage
nature of the fight.
The blacksmith, who was no sports
man, shortly found himself with Ian
tern in one hand, pistol in the other
and no idea what he meant to do. Id
waited, therefore, at the shed door, anc
holding the light so as to shine through
the numerous small apertures, he look
ed in. The leopard no longer growled
but the COW was mad with fury. Sh'
alternately threw a large dark mas
over her head, then quickly pinned i
to the ground on its descent, and thel
bored It against the wall as it crawlee
helplessly toward corner of the shed
This was the beef. eater in reduced Cir
cumstances. The gallant little COW ha'
nearly killed him, and was now givin|
him the finishing strokes.


The blacksmith perceived the leop
ards helpless state, and, boldly openini
the door, discharged the pistol, and th
next minute was bolting as hard as b
could run, with the warlike COW afte
him. She was regularly cup" and wa
ready for anything or anybody. How
ever, she was at length pacifed, and th
dying leopard was put out of his misery
Year: 1875

The secret of a great talker is in his
courage and presence OF mind. The
god of gabble helps those who help
themselves to our ears and time. 0
tongue-tied friend what fool you are,
with your stammering and your rush OF
blood to the cheeks, your mlstlmed
modesty and miserable struggles to be
accurate! Shall we tell you little an
ecdote? The scene is library. The
| subject is an edition of the Greek tes-
lament just put out. The interlocutors
are two gentlemen who have written
for newspapers until they have forgot
ten all their Greek, and another gentle
man lust from Oxford and dreadfully
fresh in his Alpha -Beta-Gamma. He
at once points out an error in the text
a wrong particle and not of the least
consequence, so far as the salvation OF
the world is concerned. He wakes in
| dignant at the criminal carelessness Of
proof-readers. The two also wax indig-
nant. "Good heavens !' they cry,
"what are we coming to?" So the Ok
ford man goes away, with great re-
spect for their exegetical powers, and
then-they look into each others faces
and laugh. lawful carelessness, they
say as they smoke over it-"Basker,
vile would never have r1ade typo
like that" and then they smoke and
laugh again. There is nothing like
assuming erudition, though you have
it not. Besides, it is usually safe,
especially in this country, to take the
ignorance Of the other party for
granted, unless you happen to know
your man too well to try it on. II you
are a fool, you will sometimes get
caught; bat, being fool, you will not
feel it. Accurate knowledge of any
thing is the rarest acquisition of this
superficial time. Don't be scared


When we are exceedingly dignified
and moral, we express great contempt
for mere praters, and speak as if a gen
eral massacre of the whole crowd OF
them would shove us several thousand
leagues toward the millennium. Can
anything be more embarrassing than
the awful silence which sometimes falls
down like an enormous wet blanket
upon a company, left to look idiotically
in each others face, and horribly to
hem and haw? Your part of the work
| Is DuG SnA11-OA1t AC-o-co NAOPPoN
here and there to keep things bobbing.
Sweet then is the sounding brass
sweet the tinkling cymbol! Is it at
dinner? Is not any noise better than
clatter of knives and forks? Or, il
it be at tea, jingle-jangle of the spoons
Or in the evening circle, better by fan
than the thrums of the piano and the
chirp of the family soprano ?. Se
that when we are sometimes forewarned
that +" Miss Multiglott is coming" and
that she "will talk us to death. we are
not in the least frightened, but rather
consoled. We like her simple, honest
chat. She will tell us about our neigh


bors. And we like dearly to know al
about our neighbors. She will make
matters lively. She will sprinkle Wor


cestershire sauce upon the funeral


baked meats, and put little taste into
the cold tea of young g-lady-lisping. Il
is so pleasant to loll back in ones chail
and be all receptivity! And the best ot
it is that we shall really be told some
thing which we did not know before


for It is astonishing what queer, ode
things these petticoated fetchers anc
carriers pick up in their constant trots
Year: 1875

ARABIAN HEAD GEAR. "A correspond
ent with the Gordon expedition in
Africa, wri es: Scanty is the attire
OF our five Arab attendants. Bat what


ever want of attention is displayed as
to scarcity of raiment is made up by the
maqnificence Of their head d-qear. Golf
fures that would make the first OF Mr.


Truefitt's young men envious are pos
sessed by each of our Arab band, and
cosmetics in the shape of liquid fat be-
daub and beplaster the erection of hair
which is piled up some seven inches
over every mans forehead. Very
beautiful? i remarked to the Sheik of
the party, who accompanied us few
miles out of the town, OF th same tiLe 9
pointing to his hair. He was delighted
at my feigned admiration, but after
wards seemed somewhat disappointed
when I observed that probably he wore
it SO as q protection against the heat.
Gan the child of the sun fear his
father 2 was the slightly oontemptuous
answer, and the man turned on his heel
and strobe back to SouakiD, pensively
scratching his head with long silver
skewer which he wore as hair-pin. /"
Year: 1875

South from Jacksonville about two
miles in Alachua Lake. Formerly this
was a vast prairie of over twenty thou
sand acres of good grazing land. In
the midst of it was deep hole or land


sink, of which there are a great many
in the state. into which the waters of
McKinstry Lake, situated further north,
and the surrounding country used to
how aud find subterranean outlet to
the sea About four years ago the out
let got more or less choked up, and the
surplus water backing soon covered this
vast tract of country, in which aqueous
condition it has remained ever since,
increasing and diminishing IN area as
the season varies from wet to dry. This
lake is literally live with fish. I have
seen colored boys with an ordinary


pole cut from the woods. line not ovel
| four feet long, and fly, rudely con
strueted Of white and red flannel, catcl
Year: 1875

LoUDNEss OF THE LATEST PAR1s1AN
MoDR.-The latest mode of Partisan
lady's wear has been given out to this
measure: The lady is wrapped around
twice in q gauze scarf and thrice in a
tulle veil /; twenty yards Of flower gar
lands are next woven crossways around;
having thus become somewhat OF a
package, she is still not sufficiently
dressed, and something more is needed;
q tail, or train, or declivity (however it
may be preferred) is next attached be-
hind with diamonds or pearls, and must
be as heavy as the rest Of the costume
is light the said tail to be covered with
butterflies of gauze, birds of lace and
sarcabenses of lophophore (Which is not
cotton ieans), with their respective
claws tied by golden threads. The
lady thus clothed is kept warm down
below but her upper half is kept fresh
with no sleeves, scarcely any corset and
thighs prominent. The toilet is then
essentially complete. This looks as i j
the empire was under way again with
it's loudness.
Year: 1875

eighty pounds of black bass in couple
of hours. These fish average from two
to twelve pounds. An eight-pound bass
is common. A few days ago gentle
man residing, i'll GainviIle caught and
weighed oA Fairbanks scales, in the
presence of a number f northern visit
ors here, a black bass weighing nine
teen and one-quarter pounds. Tradi-
ton says one was caught here last year
that weighed twenty-three pounds. All
the small streams flowing into this lake
are also full of bass. Day before yes
terday I saw three small boys standing
in stream, about three feet wide, and
may be foot deep, each armed with a
piece of hoop iron, with which they
killed, in the half hour I was present,
eight good sized bass. Another boy OF
the same party, with two-bushel corn
bag, made one haul in the same stream
of ten bass.
Year: 1875

A FLORAL OFFERER.- Liverpool
naper saws that an action involving the
question of the right (not to hiss butt


to throw bouquets to actresses, is about
to be brought against the manager OF a
theatre there. An elderly gentleman
almost nightly for some time took his
place in the stalls prepared with bou-
duets, and threw them with great reg
uiatity to certain of the actresses at
certain points of the performance,
sometimes rising On their acceptance
of the nosegays, and acknowledging
the honor done him by profound obies-
anees. The manager, finding that this
had assumed the character OF bur
lesque and nuisance, had to interfere
at last, and to take legal proceedings.
Year: 1875

with the pair captured, the progeny
would have been of the ordinary color.
They are evidently kind new to this
country. What is their proper name
and classification, and where did they
come from? Will some one who is
posted please inform us.--Merico (Mo.)
LnfellinRncer
Year: 1875

1orth. The company may petition the Supreme
Court FOR the appointment Of commissioners Of ap-
pralsa, and II the Court after hearing both sides,
thinks best, it shall order the appointment Of FIVE
appraisers. The persons whose lands to be ap-
praised may name six persons and the company six,
and the court shall appoint two of the appraisers
from each of the ak named. In making their
award they shall not make any allowance or deduc-
ton on account of any real OF supposed benefits
which the party in interest may derive from the
construction of the proposed road Provision is
made for reapprasal in case of appeal.


Every such company il 10 have, beside the powers
conferred by the General Corporation act the power
other road; to enter upon and underneath the sew
eral streets, avenues, public places and lands desig-
mated by the Commissioners 70 construct and ope-
rate the railroad in all restoring the surfaces
of the street to the condition in which they be-
fore excavations were made, but being denied the
right to acquire any portion of public park. They
given authority to raise all necessary sums of
money by bond and mort gage required to carry
the mails, compensation for the service in case of
disputes being determined by commissioners
Whenever the ruuta selected by the Commissioners
crosses or comedies with the track of horse railway
track the former company is authorized to remove
the tracks Of the latter bat they to be restored
to their original condition soon as practicable,
and the actual operation of the road s to be inter
ferred with little possible. Within one mont II
after the formation OF the corporation. The Commits
sones are to transfer AID deliver to the corporation
al plans, specifications, &c, in their possession.
Each of the Commissioners is to receive $1,000 an
| nUally, 10 be paid by the company.
Year: 1875

was said and generally believed that he was
in the constant habit of visiting the sentries
during the night, especially in the Crimea,
to sec if the men were at their post and on
the alert. The reader must be told that,
during campaign, the troops are often SO
much harassed and fatigued that sentries
will occasionally fall asleep as they stand
an act, however, which is looked upon as
one of the gravest of military offenses. If
Lufin found man asleep, he sat before
him in silence but the slightest sound of
approaching footsteps was sufficient to
make him apprise the sleeper of the danger
to which he was exposed. He would then
trot off to the next post, where he scarcely
halted if convinced that all was well.
am glad to be able to record the fact, that
his faithful services, in due time, obtained
for Lufin the respect of every member OF
the corps 1t would have been high
misdemeanor to offer him indignity.