smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

Bismark is said TO have kept complete


diary of all public events and his personal
relation thereto for the last thirty years,
and he intends to prepare, as soon as the
Continental troubles are over, history of


his own times. He is clear, terse, and
and foroible writer, and his style is well
adapted TO such work.
Year: 1871

THE American Builder believes that
there is much labor in vain in the orna-
mentation OF houses, especially wooden
houses. 1t tells carpenters, before making
and fixing quantity of ornament, 10 be
sure that it is good, and goes on to say /;
There are many things that you do, and
many others that an architect--if there be
one in the case-will often instruct you 10
do, which are neither tasteful nor In good
construction. OF course there are excep-
tions. You may be sure of this, however,
that the more elaborate and covered Win
ornament building is, the more you are
ooino on the wrong track. Real beauty
consists not in added features but in the
body of the work itself aud this fact
should always be borne in mind.


| The principle of carving wood for out
Year: 1871

Some years ago, when the writer was re
porter upon an Eastern paper, it devolved upon
him to write for the same edition an account of
the presentation of a gold-headed cane to the
Rev. Dr. Nudge, the clergymen of the place,
and the description of patent hog-killing and
sausage machine that had just been put in op-
Grafton at the factory. Now, what made DR..
Nudge mad was this: The inconsderate buc-
cancer who made up the forms got the two 10
calls mixed up in frightful manner, and when
we went to press, something like this was the
appalling result


Several of the Rev. DR.. Mudge's friends
called upon him yesterday, and after brief
conversation the unsuspecting hog was seized
by the hind legs and slid along beam until he
reached the hot-water tank. His friends ex-
planned the object of their visit, and presented
him with very handsome gold-headed butcher
who grabbed him by the tail, swung him round
cut his throat from ear to ear, and in less than
a minute the carcase was in the water. There
upon he came forward and said there were
times when the feelings overpowered one, and
for that reason he would not attempt to do
more than thank those around him, for the
manner In which 50 huge an animal was cut
into so many fragments was simply astonish-
ing. The Doctor concluded his remarks, when
the machine seized him, and in less time than
it takes to write it, the hog was cut into frag-
ments and worked up into delicious sausage,
The occasion will long be remembered by the
Doctors friends as one of the most delightful
of their lives. The best pieces can be obtained
for fifteen cents pound, and we are sure that
those who have sat SO long under his ministry
will rejoice that he has been 30 handsomely
treated"


Mad? Well, about o'clock that morninS
the Office had been abandoned by every man
but the advertising clerk, and he assembled to
the roof and robed himself in boiler iron. so
that he could watch the venerable clergyman
tearing round down there in the street with his
congregation, all wearing the panoply of war
next day we explained and apologized, but the
Doctor stopped his subscription and began to
take the rival paper.
Year: 1871

THE PRICES OF FooD-0n this very impor
tant subject, the Commercial AdUertiser makes
the following sensible remarks:


The middle men in the food trade must be
making pretty good profits. Although the
wholesale prices of nearly every article of food
has approximated near to that prevailing before
the war, and some actually gone lower, there is
but little difference made in the rates charged
to the consumer. Plain mess beef is now quot
ed in the wholesale market at the same figures
ruling in 1860. namely 50 per barrel. Old mess
pork is considerably lower, $13.37 being the
price demanded now, against $16.S7 in 1860.
The quotation for rye, per bushel, is but one
cent higher, and corn is eleven cents lower than
in ante-bellum times. Lard is cheaper. while
butter is five cents per pound dearer. The last
commodity could be procured by housekeepers
before the war at twenty cents per pound. Now
they have to pay for the same quality forty and
forty-five cents, although the extra cost to the
middle men is but five cents. If the consumer
could deal directly with the producer, the great
discrepancy between the cost of production and
the retail selling price would not exist. The
middle men are quickly sensitive to the slight
est advance in the wholesale market, but re-
main terribly oblivious of a falling market. II
seems outrageous that we should still have to
pay for many important articles of family use
the same rates that obtained when gold was up
to the highest notch, just to fill the pockets o.
the middle men.
Year: 1871

The versions of the popular poems of the
day, which relates the startling adventures
OF Mary and her lamb, are as numerous as
leaves ln autumn. We take the following
from the New York Sum-
Year: 1871

THURSDAY, Oct. 1872. NJ


The stock market opened steady at about
Yesterdays prices and with confident tone. slight
Improvement was visible, which lasted with trnlng
Interruptions through the day. but was more marked IN
the late transactions 1t Is generally believed that the
scare is substantially over and people are beginning 10
look soberly at the reality Of the situation, which Is ad
mitted to be bad enough but stu not so bad but that
might have been worse. While the chques have un
loaded TO some extent st largo holders of stocks are
confident shape their movements accordance win
the belief that after the close of the month the market
win be more buoyant There little or no pressure
among the commission brokers' and the aspect OF the
market ia generally more encouraging. As an indiea-
ton of the improved feeling in the street. Ia stated that
prominent bear speculator this morning covered his
short interest and went very largely for quick
turn but we must not expect after severe none
tary shock az that inauguraed by the terribly destruct
i've fire at Chicago, that everything will suddenly De-
come and remain rosecolored Hence, we must not be
SURPRISED 10 see the advance Of to-day balanced by re-
action tomorrow, or on some day In tne
not distant future. As we have aLreaoy
said the stock ruled strong with the exception OF
downward reaction, caused by reported empe1&e
ment in Philadelphia throughout the day; and 1t be-
came buoyant in the afternoon, under the lead OF Read
ing (which went up per cent?, and advanced from to
per cent the prominent list We understand that
there has been during day. considerable accession to
the street outside buyers who have been attracted no
doubt by the low figures at which hrsclass dividend
paying stocks have been quoted. Dealings have been
well distributed over the prominent railway list Mis-
ceIaueous shares quiet and Express stocks firm
The following table shows the highest and lowest prices
.1lA lawx
Year: 1871

No man ever took his place in the barber s
chair who was not informed by the barber
that We will have rain soon. or that the
weather would soon be pleasanter The
reason of this is that a barber is profes-
sional bayrumeter
Year: 1871

MANSION HOUSE. Clearfeld, Pa This


WI well known hotel near the Court House, is
worthy the patronage of the public. The table
will be supplied with the best IN the market. The
best of liquors kept. JOHN DOUGHERTf-
Year: 1871

Above all things, if a wife wishes
to make home attractive to her mate
let her keep sharp eye on the cook
nothing makes male creature more
discontented with his house than
bad dinners, ill-served; if there is
anything that will make him swear
it is cold plate with hot meat, or a
hot one with cheese. Neglect OF
this sort is objectionable.


Again, it may not be possible to
give him dainties, but it is easy to
avoid monotony by careful study
of the cookery book land it is quite
astonishing how the monster man
can be subjugated and assuaged by
a judicious variation of his meals.
The creature may be alIegorically
pictured lightly led by a fair lady
with wedding ring through his
palate.


Indeed their are a thousand WAYS
to lead him, if women show little
tact, with which they are so falsely
credited. Opposition, contradiction
makes him furious; he stamps, he
roars, and become altogether dan
gerous.


Whereas, treat him tenderly, o
wife, and you shall wind him round
your marriage-inger. f


Many wives miss their chance of
gaining what they have set their
eyes on a thousand times through
sheer stupidity; they know that a
certain line of conduct is sure to
anger him, and yet they willfully
pursue it, when smooth and easy
victory awaits them in another di
rection. Tact! Such women, 1 say
have not even instinct.
Year: 1871

only effectual check to the extra
ordinary increase attainable by the
ten lived spearman, will be found
in its natural cannibal and parasitic
insect enemies. -- --'s-4
I 1 have found the common lady
bird feeding upon its eggs, and there
are said to be four distinct species
of the ladybird which do so, both in
the larvae and perfect state. Sever
al species also of the soldier bug
prey upon the potato insect when
in the Larvae state Great care should
be taken that we should not injure
these, our allies and friends, whee
carrying on a common warfare
against our enemy. The eggs of
the ladybird are laid nearly in the
same manner as those of the potato
beetle, but they are smaller in size
and fewer in number.


One of the best informed agri-
culturists in Illinois has estimated
the damages arising to the. citizens
of that State from the ravages of
Of this bug since his first appearance
at $50, ,OO0, 900, and it has seemed
well to me, in view of the facts. to
have public attention directed to its
presence here, its habits, its foes,
&c., in order that we in Ohio may
take some steps to guard against
its depredations, before it is too
late. Eternal Vigilance" will be
the price of potatoes with US this
season.


A. B. BUTTLEs.


Nav 10. 1871,
Year: 1871

The old-fashioned way of cult.
waiting celery in trenches dug deep
with the spade has been abandoned
by market gardeners, and is now
considered a useless expense. 1t is
found to do much better grown on
surface, making a quicker and a
greater growth, on which the quail
ty SO much depends, and the labor
of digging the trenches is saved.
We hope, therefore, it will be found
more easy to grow it, and that it will
come into more common use.


Celery does best in a deep rich
loan. If the land is not sufficient
ly rich, apply old and well rotted
manure. 1t may be sOwn from the
10th of June to the 1st of August,
or even later, according to the OBJ
ject in view. Planted about the
middle of July, it would be large
enough to "blanch" by the middle
of October, and be ready to use
about the 1st of November. 1t has
always been regarded as an expen-
sive and troublesome plant to raise,
but it is a great luxury.
Year: 1871

Make few promises.
Always speak the truth.


Keep good company or none.


Never speak evil of any one.


Live up to your engagements.
Be just before you are generous.
Never play at any game of chance
Drink no kind of Intoxicating IL
quors.
Keep your own secrets if you
have any.
Never borrow if you can possibly
help.
Do not marry until you are able
to support a wife.


Keep yourself innocent if you
would be happy.


When you speak to a person look
him in the face.
Make no haste to be rich if you
would prosper.


Ever live within your means.


Save when you are young to
spend when you are old.


Avoid temptation through fear
you may not withstand it.


Never run in debt unless you see
way to get out again.


Small and steady gains give COM
potency, with tranquil mind.


Good company and good conver-
sation are the sinews of virtue.


Your character cannot be essen
TALLY injured except by your own
acts.


If any one speaks evil of you,
let your life be such that none will
believe him.


When you retire to bed think
over what you have been doing
during the day.


Never be idle; when your hands
can't be usefully employed, at
tend to the cultivation of your
mind.
Year: 1871

Too many persons display moral
carelessness in passing doubtful
bills. If they are taken in by a
worthless bank-note, they get rid of
it the first opportunity, letting it slip
to some one else.


An incident in point is said to
have occurred lately at Buffalo.


An enterprising merchant of that
place runs both a grocery and fish
market, the latter by deputy who
every night returns the days pro-
ceeds to the proprietor.


A day. or two since the grocer
found in his fish market returns a
counterfeit So. He didn't like to
lose it and he did not like to take
the chances of trying to pass it.


SAM said he to a fifteenth
amendment citizen hanging about
the premises, here is a five dollar
bill that is little doubtful; if you
will pass it, l will give you a dol
lar out Of the change


'BerrywelF said Sam.


And took the bill and went off.
Later in the afternoon he returned,
having accomplished the feat, and
handed over the four dollars in
good money to the grocer. That
night in looking over the cash re-
turns of the fish market the grocer
was more surprised than delighted
to find the identical bill in the
pile.


Look here said he, to the mark
ct clerk.


Here's 4 bad bill; who did YOU
get it of; didn't you know it was
counterfeit?' .l-


That billp said the clerk.


Il took it of old Sam, the nigger,
L thought it looked suspicious at
the time, but he said he got it of
you, u,and of course i concluded it was
all right
Year: 1871

We find the following in the Ru-
ralist by correspondent: 4 can
instantly on a general principle de
termine the sex of eggs and of other
things. In walking through your
gardens please notice the acute
pointed buds and the obtuse ones
on your cherry trees and other fruit,
and when the season of efflorescence
occurs, in every instance the obtuse
from produces the flower the Others
the leaf. So also with the straw
berry vine, the roundish form OF
leaf is producing, and the pointed
leaf non-producing; and so with
eggs, in every Instance the roundish
form produces the female, and the
long eggs are invariably males.
Year: 1871

The news by mail to the OH instant from
Mexico is reassuring. In view of the contra
dctory reports reaching here from time to
time announcing the suppression of the rebel
lion or its being on the verge of success, it is
satisfactory to learn that the government of
Juarez is fully equal to the task of putting
down the revolt and that he is backed in his
position by the Mexican Congress and the
public opinion of the citizens, who remember
that under their present constitution the French
were forced to withdraw and that Max ximilian
fell under constitutional bullets. The inactivity
of Porfrio Diaz proclaims his impotence,
and Treviho, at Oaxaca, is only waiting for
the approach Of General Allatorre or General
Rocha, so as to have good excuse for run
ming away. The disbanded soldier seems to
be the curse of Mexico, and until the whole
people set themselves determnedly against
the ''good old plan" Of settling every political
difficulty by pronunciamento and an attack
on the Golfers of the nearest Custom House,
we may look to see one Diaz succeeded by
another, until the inevitable fate of annexation
overtakes them. The support freely rendered
to the President in the present crisis is bet
ter omen for the stability of the government
than fortuitous victory in the field under the
old style of things
Year: 1871

through q great organic revolution. Its work
is accomplished, tho issues of the war are
settled, and we are entering upon new
political epoch. The democracy, in their ''new
departure" accepting the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments have settled all this
business As they now stand the republicans
have nothing to fight for and nothing to rally
upon but the administration, and the only
general bond of cohesion among the demo-
Gratis is opposition to General Grant And
80 1t is with these anti-Grant republicans.
But against the compact organization of the
administration party the denomination and
reelection of General Grant are morally GER
tain. The anti-Grant radicals still entertain
sort Of hope to juggle Grant out of the
regular party Convention but in this they
will be as sorely disappointed as were the
auti-Lincoln republicans in their Convention
of 1864. The democrats still entertain the
idea that they may do something in this COM
ing election in coalition with the republican
boilers, when it is evident that in this direc-
ton they can do nothing. In short, we have
never had in advance clearer case than the
reelection of General Grant in 1872.


General Grant will be renominated and re-
elected according to all the facts and the signs
of the times; but what then? Then the
active reorganization Of our political parties
will begin. Grant being out Of the way with
his second election there will instantly spring
up score of republican candidates for the
succession, each with his little clique or fac
ton at his back. But, as Jackson dictated his
successor in his partiality for Van Buren,
Grant may have his favorite among these
republican aspirants. Otherwise, in 1876 we
may have the scrub race of 1924 over again,
and, as in that case, the election may be
carried to the House of Representatives for
settlement. Meantime, with the return of the
two houses Of Congress to business after New
Year, we expect another new departure from
the democratic members; and this new de-
parture will most probably be the call at an
early day of q national convention for party
reorganization. This is certainly the best
course they can pursue for, within a fort
night, we believe, the republican national
committee will meet to appoint the time and
place for their Presidential Convention, and as
it will doubtless be appointed to meet early in
May, In order to have settlement with the
anti Grant faction as soon as convenient, the
democrats will have no time to lose, unless
they are prepared to let the election go by
default
Year: 1871

THE LATE LORD BROUGHAM AND PRESIDENT
GRANT were cited as authorities on subjects
connected with government taxation and free
trade during debate in the French Legisla-
ture yesterday.
Year: 1871

THR FRENCH REPUBLIC AND THE PRESS. -
The French press has become somewhat dis
ageeablc to the government Of President
Theirs. Journalists in France are moth
ing if they do not bite. Napoleon felt and
confessed their power, and while he humored
them and gave them long tether he some
times found it convenient to gently remind
them that they had exceeded their privileges.
President Theirs, 1t seems, is finding the press
quite as dangerous as ever did Napoleon; and
the Minister Of the Interior, with, 1t is UNDER
stood, the consent of the President, proposes
to increase the etringency of the laws which
have for their object the restraint of the
press. This is a bad sign. The fact Is that
time is not improving the condition Of things
in France. Since, however, the President
has no power to dissolve the Assembly, and
since the Assembly cannot remove the Presi-
dent, il is to be seen how what is already felt
10 be a deadlock is to be got over. A coup
dftat seems the only solution. Is the blow to
be struck orc. M in the interests OF the
empirc2
Year: 1871

Open to the World. Ample Accommodations
for Stock. Fine hallmiic Race Track No effort
VIII be spared to make this second To no fair in
The Northwest Liberal premiums are offered in
every department. Opportunity will be given for
Sale and Exchange of Stock and Merchandise.
Year: 1871

If any Of our readers happen to
be Mt Dodgevlle and want to get shaved,
or have their hair cut or dressed, they
should call on &. F. Tanrath. He will DO
as good job as any barber in the west.
Year: 1871

UNDOUBTEDLY many subscribers to the
TRIBUNE will be in town tomorrow to see


the Circus. If those in arrears will step in


to the ''captains Office" and square up, we
wall thank them,
Year: 1871


One pint of cream is worth ten quarts
of skim-milk.
If editors and public speakers could say
just as much with half the number Of
words. We should know quite as much
and have great deal more time to sleep.
Those who deal in Patent Rights are
very apt to find out they have invested in
patent wrongs.


What is every day is common; what is
once in while is a rarity.


Set all your traps plant corn, potatoes,
beans; SOW rye. oats. etc.; keep cattle,
sheep. and hogs. Something will do we'll !;
you will get something somewhere.


No use to write for agricultural news
papers and neglect to feed your hogs.


Never say that you have done planting
as long as the bars to the field are not
put up.


It is an old saying that woman can
throw out at the window with spoon
faster than man can shovel in at the
door. It is more than half with the wo-
men whether men get rich or not. 5s
If man goes into any Kind Of an en-
terprise. and is successful. he win say he
was'smart; but his neighbors will say he
was lucky; but if he does not succeed
we'll. he will say he was unfortunate bnt
his neighbors will say he was-a fool.
Year: 1871

Life is so cheap and yet so dear


We prize it, but we scorn it too,
And plod our round from year to year


With little for to hope or do;
Each day brings fretful cares and coil,


And sorrows come, and joys depart,
And we grow old with weary toll,


Or else from listlessness of heart,-
What matters which what matters how?


Time heedeth not our fitful moods,
But stamps its signet on our brow


In city life or solitudes;
And we grow old; yet scarcely feel
The incessant whirling of the wheel,
Nor heed the traces that declare
We are not now what once we were;
The world has worn us to its ways,


''Do this" it says, and we obey;
There is no freedom in our praise


And little courage left to pray.
AT moments with d sudden pain
We gasp and cry for youth again,
And wonder whence the joy has gone,
Which we were wont to feed upon
When Love with Life walked hand in hand,


When twas boundless bliss to dare
The mighty peaks that guard the land


Where wisdom dwells serenely fair
Dear Heaven how strong and rich we were,
For joy breeds strength, and hope gives power
And knowledge is the young mans dover,
And youthful dreams are fair domains,
And happy thoughts are golden gains.
The dreams are gone, the rapture past,
Each year moves calmly as the last,
The sea that foamed with deaf ming roar
Creeps laggard-like along the shore,-
We tread the footsteps of our sires
With petty aims and mean desires,
And idly act our little part


Like puppets fashioned for show =
Teach us, Q Lord how great Thou art,


That we our greatness, too, may know.
Year: 1871

r HAVE removed my place of business to
Hamilton new store house, and respectfully
call the attention of my friends and the public
generally to my new and well selected stock of
Fall and Winter Goods,
all of which will sell at small profits for cash.
@ Call and examine for yourselves


j. H. ROBERTS.
Port Tobacco, Oct. IA, lS7O-tf
Year: 1871

Reflect TINT a sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connublal
happiness, Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes a weary pilgrimage the
prospect hourly darkens to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair, and filled with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
another is bIighted with our own.
Year: 1871

Especially. who have become the Victims OF
Solitary Vice, and dreadful and destructive
habits which annually sweep to an untimely
grave thousands of young men of the most eI-
allied talents and brilliant intellect, who might
otherwise have cntranced listening Senates with
the living Tyre, may call with full confidence.
Year: 1871

A WESTERN editor advertised that he
would take ga good dog in payment for a
years subscription. The next day twenty
three dogs were taken to his Office, and two
days later, score or more of farmers,
living at distances of from eight to twenty
miles, appeared to subscribe for the paper,
rendering dogs in payments. And, to cap
the climax, the Mayor of the city has notified
him that a tax of 81 must be paid on every
dog owned in the place.