smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

LARGE ORDERS TO LEADING COMPANIES = OTHER


REASONS ron HoPEFULNKss-vIEws BOTH OF


DEsPoHDENT AND CONFIDENT DEALERS.


There is great diversity of opinion among
iron merchants with regard TO the immediate future Of
the iron and soe trade Many the hopefully inclined
believe that time Of prosperity Is ut hand whe
the less conhdsnt predict several Of CONNER
ca stanaon and depression. The iron business these
merchants say, has not been more nat at any time
for the past three years slan 1t win % for
three (some declare EIl years to come 1t 10
true they admit that there 10 improved feeling In the
market at present. but they ASSERT that It La only she
usual Fall demand and nothing Of permanent eharao


r They say that blast furnaces have been blown out
Year: 1876

The winter Of lS7l.72 was unusually
severe in Arkansas. The ponds and the
smaller streams to the north were frozen
solid, and the buffalo were forced to the
river for water, The Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railroad was then in pro.
cess OF construction. and nowhere could
the peculiarities Of the buffalo be better
studied than from its trains If a herd
was on the north side of the track it
would stand stupidly gazing, and without
symptom OF alarm, though the locomotive
passed within one hundred yards. II on
the south side OF the track even though
at distance of one or two miles from it,
the passage Of train set the whole herd
in the widest commotion. AT its full
speed and utterly regardless of conse-
quences, it would make for the track on
its line of retreat. Ifthe train happened
not to be in its path it crossed the track
and stopped, satisfied. lf the train was
in the way, each individual buffalo went
at it with the desperation Of despair,
plunging against or between locomotive
and car, just as the blind madnes,
ohanced to take them. Numbers were
killed, but numbers still pressed on ts
stop and stare as soon as the obstacle wal
passed, After having trains ditchet
twice in one week. conductors learned t
have very decided respect for the lido
syncracies of the buffalo, and when ther,
was possibility of striking a herd "ol
the rampage" for the north side of tn


track, the train was slowed up, and some
times stopped entirely.
Year: 1876

In a "Book Of Curiosities" we read :
There was an srtifcer in Rome who
made vessels Of glass Of so tenacious a
temper that they were as little liable to
be broken as those that are made Of gold
and silver. When, therefor, he had
made vial Of the purer sort, and such
as he thought present worthy Of Cesar
alone, he was admitted into the presence
of the emperor Tiberius, The gift was
praised, the skilful hand of the artist ap.


plauded, and the donation of the giver
accepted. The artist, that he might en-.
hance the wonder of the spectators and
promote himself yet further in the favor
Of the emperor, desired the vial out of
Cesar's hand and threw it with such
force against the floor that the most solid
metal would have received some damage
or bruise thereby. Caesar was not only
amazed but affrighted with the act; but
the artist, taking up the vial from the
ground (Which was not broken, but only
bruised together, as if the substance Of
brass), drew out an instrument out of bis
bosom and beat it to its former figure.
This done, he imagined that he had con.
quered the world,as believing that he had
merited an acquaintance with Cesar and
raised the admiration Of all the behold.
ers but it fell out otherwise, for the EN-.
peror inquired if any other person besides
himself was privy to like tempering glass.
When he told him No. he commanded
his attendants to strike off his head, say.
ing, That should this arti6ce come once
to be known, gold and silver would be
ofas little value as the dirt in the street."
Long after this-viz., in 1610--we read
that, among other rare presents then sent
from the Sophy Of Persia to the King Of
Spain, were six mirrors Of maleable glass,
so exquisitely tempered that they could
not be broken. - London Times.
Year: 1876

Take a sheet of stiff writing paper
and fold into a tube an ipch in diam.
ater. Apply it to one right eye and look
steadfastly through it, focusing the eye
on any convenient object keep the eye
open. Now place the left hand, held
palm upward, edgeways against the side
Of the paper tube, and about an inch or
two above its lower end. The astonish.
ing effect will produced Of hole, appar.
emily Of the cross section of the tube,
made through the left hand. This is
a hole in which We propose to materialize
another and smaller hole. AS we need o
genuine aperture, and it would be incon.
venient to make one in the left hand, let
sheet of whito paper be substituted there.
for and similarly held. Just at the part
Of the paper where the hole equalling in
diameter the oriice of the tube appears,
make an openingone.fourth Of an inch in
diameter. Now stare intently into the
tube and the second hole, defined by
its difference Of illumination, will be seen
floating in tho Grst hole, aud yet both
will be transparent: The illusion, Tor
Of course it is one of those odd pranks
our binooular vision plays upon US, is
certainly one Of the most curious ever
devised. Besides, here is the actual
hole clearly visible, yet there is no solid
body to be seen to define its edges. 1t
is not a mere spot of light, because, if a
page of print be regarded, the lines with
in the boundaries of the little hole will
not coincide at all with those sur
rounding it and extending to the edges Of
tho large apparent aperture. Each eye
obviously transmits an entirely differently
impression to the brain, and that organ,
unable to discntangle them, lands us on
the palpable absurdity Of materialized
hole - Scientific American.
Year: 1876

Who does not love faithful, honest
dog, mans faithful friend2 And yet who
is there, stretching out in the shade for o
quiet nap. who has had mans faithful
friend come painting up, and in an excess
Of honest affection, laying great broad,
hot tongue all over ones cheek, from
chin to eyebrow, that does not get up and
seize mans faithful friend by the tail and
one ear and try to throw him across Q
prairie fifteen miles wide3
Year: 1876

A Southern freedman, when rebuked
for coming from neighbor's poultry yard
to the communion table, replied that he
would not let q miserable goose stand
stand between him and his blessed Lord
Year: 1876

4 party Of four hundred men has been
organized at Philadelphia to start for the
Black Hills early next month


Chas. X. Lands, recently acquitted on
the ground of insanity Of the murder of Car
ruth, the Vineland, N. Y, editor, has been
pronounced sane by Judge Reed after cHnm-
nation Of witnesses and discharged from
arrest.


A bill to abolish the death penalty in
Maine, and substitute Imprisonment and
hard labor for life, passed the senate by Il
vote of Is to II. The measure had previously
passed the house. An attempt to have the
question settled by the people at the next
election was defeated in the senate by vote
of ~ to T..
Year: 1876

CAPT. JAMES b. EADs publishes a
card in Washington paper, in which he
states that the dispatches from his work
are of most cheering character, and
that his grant will be scarcely one year
old before the channel over the South
Pass bar will be the deepest outlet of the
Mississippi, although only half the depth
of the best when they began work.
Year: 1876

A GENTLEMAN in New York has con-
verted an old church, no longer used for
the purpose of worship, into lodging
house for trampS, the beds in the pews
on the ground floor free TO their occu-
pants, and those in the gallery let at a
triHing cost. In this way he accommo-
dates three hundred vagrants nightly,
two hundred and filtyOf them absolutely
without charge. In the morning each
guest is given hot breakfast of mush.
Il is entirely at the option Of the tramps
whether they acknowledge the kindness
extended to them, by chopping wood in
the basement of the building half an hour
before taking their leave, or not. 1t is
gratifying that a large quantity is
chopped, which indicates that the much
abused tramp is not altogether destitute
Of honor. No drunken men are ad-
Aitted.
Year: 1876

If there is. any subject upon which the


Free Press can publish an article without


using misrepresenia aiions as It's chief ar
gument, we would like to know what it


was. We have this week shown how it
pnrposely ga.bled the extract from the
New York Tribune, to deceive its readers
upon the income relurn OF Samuel j. Til
den. We have shown that it purposely
parades the statement that Gov. Hayes is
a KnOw-Nothing, after it knows the
charges are false. We have shown that
it charges neglect of duty OH the part of
the Secretary of State, when the neglect
was, probably, nearer home. The paper
now comes out and makes charges
against this journal Of publishing state
ments regarding Democratic citizens that
we never made. We shall not take
the time, trouble or space to prove the
the charges false, i'm detail. We are will
ling TO leave the matter to the judgement
of our Democratic readers. The charges
and insnuatiOns are on par with most
of those which we have exposed, and ev-
cry candid Democrat when he reads the
charges, and we hope they will all read
them, will know that they are false, and
condemn the spirit that prompted their
publication.
Year: 1876

Mr.. G. II. Spear, a young man who was
quite well known i'm this village, died at
the Spencer House Yesterday. For some
months past he had been living alone
upon some property he had purchased at
Long lake. A few days since he was
found in his house alone and very sick.
He was brought to the village, but the
disease had taken such hold of his sys
TEN that all the efforts of his physician
or the care of friends was unavailing, and
he died as above stated. Could he have
had proper care and medicine when first
taken, probably his life could have been
saved. His father, who is Il professor in
Hamilton college. New York, has been
notified OF the sad event.
Year: 1876

The navigation of Indian river is eff
fectually suspended for the season to all
steam crafts of greater draft of water
than the 'Mud Hen," by the sand bar
which has been forming at the mouth of
the Sturgeon. This is virtual blockade
of the stream. Capt. Sammons attempt
ed to 60 up to Indian village Monday,
but found only about two feet and a
half of water on the bar so that passage
was impossible. He therefore was COM
PEELED to turn around and come home.
This will be felt as quite an inconvenience
now for the route as far as it had been
opened had just begun to be appreciated.
Commissioner Haviland will report the
condition Of affairs to the Board of Con-
troll, and it is probable that they will take
some action to relieve the difficulty DUR
ing the winter or spring.
Year: 1876

l will go like lamb.-Free Press
How strange that the editor of the Free
Press should call himself nuttOo-lIedd
and yet some articles in this weeks issue
must have eminated from just such
head. When this lamb takes to his horns
he will bleat forth another ponderous ar
ticle on "How Lager Beer is made"
Then let everybody make way for the
Democratic ram. sb ~ -
Year: 1876

pass some houses in every town
whose windows might as well be seal
ed with the walls for any purpose they
have but to let in the light. They are
never open summer and winter. In
the winter it is cold; i'm the summer
the flies get in, or, if netted, the dust
sifts through the nets. Now can tell
a person who inhabits such chambers
when / see him i'm the street-there is
such smell about his clothing | al
ways wish for a sniff of cologne or
hartshorn, or burnt leather, or some
thing of the sort to take the taste out.
A house that is never aired has every
nook and corner filled with stale odora
of cooked meats, boiled vegetables,
especially cabbage and onions, which,
as the weeks go by, literally reek in
their hiding places. The very gar
ments of the children tell the same
story of uncleanliness. 1t is bad to
have unwashed clothes, but there may
be an excuse for it. But what excuse
can there be for unaired ones, when
air is so cheap and free? There is
death in such unaired chambers. Bet
ter swarm of flies or cloud of dust
better frost or snow in room than
these intolerable smells. The first
thing in the morning when you are
ready to go down stairs, throw open
your windows, take apart the clothing
of your beds, and let the air blow
through it as hard as it will. There il
health in such a policy.
Year: 1876

The long autumn evenings are upon
us again, and many a stupid or dull
hour can he innocently whiled away
in pleasant recreation in the farmers
homes If the means for such enjoy
ment be at hand. Great changes have
taken place within the past twenty
years in the sentiment respecting
home amusements among the descend
ents of the Puritans. Chess, checker
historical cards, backgammon, and
many other simple games are now
encouraged among children where
they were once forbidden. In short,
home life il more enlivened in these
days, and made much more attractive
Reading aloud in the family has al
ways been favorite and profitable
amusement in the homes of many
farmers, but we must bear in mind
that relaxation is as necessary rs labor,
and that we cannot be continually
bearing in mind that eternal vigilance
is the price of liberty. Give the young
folks amusements at home, and they
will not seek those that are less inno-
cent elsewhere.
Year: 1876

Judge not according to appearances,
but judge righteous judgment.


Ifany body thirst let him come unto
me and drink. He that believeth on
me, as the scripture hath said, out Of
his belly shall flow rivers of living
water.


Lay not up for yourselves treasures
upon earth, where moth and rust doth
corrupt, and where thieves break
through and steal:


But lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust
doth corrupt, and where thieves do not
break through nor steal:


For where your treasure is there will
your heart be also.


The light of the body Is the eye; il
therefore thine eye be single, thy whole
body shall be full of light.


The Pharisees therefore said unto
him, thou Dearest record of thyself,
thy record is not true.


Jesus answered and said unto them,
though / bear record Of myself, yet my
record is true; for / know whence /
came and whittier go.


Yejudge after the flesh; judge no
man.
Year: 1876

Nails driven into fruit trees, as near the
ground as possible, are said to have the
effect to make such trees more healthy,
vigorous and excellent fruit bearers than
those into which no tenpenny nails have
been driven. The reason why the nail in
the tree are so beneficial in fruit bearing Is
thus explained: The reason why the worm
will not attack the tree is because the oxy-
dation or rusting of the iron by the sap in
wolves ammonia, which, us the sap arises,
will, of course, impregnate every party Of
foliage, and prove too drastic dose for the
sects. The salt or iron afforded by the
nails Is extremely offensive to the worms,
while 1t is not only harmless but beneficial
to the foliage and fruit of the troe.
Year: 1876

A paper by Captain J. s. Hay, on the
horned men of Africa, was read at the
recent meeting of the British Associa-
tion. He also exhibited sketches of two
Africans with horns. Mr.. Hyde Clarke
said it was very difficult to assign any
reason for the appearance of the horns.
but there was no doubt that Captain Hay
had seen them. One way might be that
they had been inserted or inoculated
into the face; but Captain Hay informed
them that twas the object of the parents
to remove the horns, which he regarded
as natural growth. One suggestion
was that this was class Of malforma-
tion, of which there was a memorable
example in the case of the "porcupine
man" who had horny plaits ON various
parts of his body. He had not heard
from anybody any sufficient explanation
with regard either to it's being a natural
phenomenon arising at birth or its being
artifcially produced in the manner to
which he had referred. 1t was remark
able that the horns were peculiar to the
male sex. The subject was very OBJ.
scure and had not been sufficiently in
vestigated by anthropologists, because
there were great preiudices to taking it
up,
Year: 1876

A country gentleman was in the habit
of entertaining his friends almost
weekly. and discovered that regularly
some small article of plate was missing,
caster top. salt spoon, a napkin
ring or something of the kind. He sus-
pected his servants, and to make sure
one night, when the guests had as
sembled, he said


81 tell you what Let's do without
servants tonight and wait on ourselves /"


The odd suggestion was greeted with
applause and peals of laughter. The
servants were turned out h; the meal was
seasoned with sparkling sallies at the
expense of the clumsiness of this OF
that guest, and when they had all gone
the host took stock and discovered that
two thirds of the spoons had gone too
Year: 1876

A terrible onslaught was made upon
the Catholic Christians at Ming Kuoh
Flu, in the province of Ngan-huwy,
China, when a crowd of about 1000
soldiers and ruffians, under the guidan ce
of officials, burst into chapel during
service time and Drained members of
the congregation. The men entered
the chapel, interrupted the service,
forced the officiating priest upon his
knees, and demanded that he should
cease promulgating the doctrine of the
Tien chu sect. The priest declined to
make the promise, whereupon scene
of indescribable uproar ensued, during
which frightful outrages occurred. The
priest was tortured and eventually put to
death, being hacked to pieces lit lie
child whom he had adopted was torn
limb from limb, and the corpse of an
other father was taken from its grave
and brutally ill-used. The members of
the inland mission have all left the
neighborhood, and the Roman Catholics
have now guard around their house.
The chief conspirator was military
mandarin named WI, who has openly
expressed his malignant hatred of the
Christian religion.
Year: 1876

The Northwestern Christian Advocate
regards the custom of drinking healths
and vindicating ones self by violence as
absurdities. 1t says: Why should it
be en- honor to gentleman or lady to
have company around dinner table
fill their glasses with wine, when his or
her name is mentioned at a particular
moment, and drain them simultaneous.
ly9 They drink ones health professed-
lys The act really promotes the health
of no one. Physiologically it cannot
have that effect, but rather the contrary,
In the mass of cases, while it can hardly
be recognized as a religious exercise, in
which the wine drinking is kind of
hbation, or sacramental accompaniment
of a prayer for the welfare of the person
named. Fashion renders it possible to
do what is simply ludicrous. Thus, at
large dinner party, gentleman will
send word by waiter to lady at dis
tant part of the table that he would like
to drink wine with her. Perhaps she is
on the same side with himself, so
that he cannot well see her motions. Ac-
cordingly he relies on the waiter to tell
him when she has her glass in hand and
is prepared to exchange compliments,
and at a given signal, having asked
"Is she readya" swallows his wine
And then both feel quite complimented
and indebted to one another


But how would it seem, were slight
change made in the customs Let it be
supposed, that the master of cere-
monies should say: "I propose that
we should eat the health of the lovely
Miss Smith, the queen of beauty y and
that, thereupon, each should take a bit
of roast beef, or q morsel of turkey, on
the top of his or her fork, and, at O
given signal, all the bits should stimuli.
taneously be conveyed to their mouths,
with general Interchange of smirks.
Or when the dessert and fruit comes on,
suppose gentleman to send word to 8
lady that he proposes that they eat one
another's health in slice of orange In
these cases there would be compliment
of the personal attention, and the actual
taking of something nutritious and
healthful but to drink one's'health in
glass of ordinary wine--in three in.
stances out of four, compound Of
whisky and poisonous drugs-is very
contradictory proceeding.
Year: 1876

The most prominent fact about bird
is faculty in which it differs from
every other creature except the hat and
insects-its power of flying. For this
purpose the birds arms end in only one
long, slender finger, instead of foil
hand. To this are attached the quills
and small feathers (coverts) on the up


per side, which make up the wing.
Observe how light all this is 4: In the
first place, the bones are hollow then
the shafts of the feathers are hollow,
aud, finally, the feathers themselves are
made of the most delicate filaments, in.
terlocking and clinging to one another
with little grasping hooks of micro
scopic fneness. Well, how does bird
fly? 1t seems simple enough to de-
scribe, and yet is problem that the
wisest in such matters have not yet
worked out to everybody's satisfaction.
This explanation, by the Duke of
Argyle, appears to be the best: An
open wing forms hollow on its under
side like an inverted saucer when the
wing is forced down, the upward pres
sure of the air caught under this con-
cavity lifts the bird up, much as you
lift yourself up between the parallel
bars in a gymnasium. But he could
never in this way get ahead, and the
hardest question is still to be answered.
Now, the front edge of the wing, formed
of the bones and muscles of the fore
arm, is rigid and unyielding, while the
hinder margin is merely the soft flexible
ends of the feathers SO when the wing
is forced down, the air under it, finding
this margin yielding the easier would
rush out here, and, in so doing, would
bend up the ends of the quilts, pushing
them forward out of the way, which, Of
course, would tend to shove the bird
ahead. This process, quickly repeated,
results in the phenomenon of fight.
Year: 1876


When csnnibal savsges after fight
Make feast OF the bodies Of those they


have beaten,
The grisly repast yields keener delight
From the knowledge that every unfortunate


wight
Would have deemed it the deepest Disgrace to


be eaten.
Though the custom Is fast dying out in Fiji
AS the influence Of Western example in


creasee,
In civilized countries you often may see
A circle OF friends in the highest Of glee,
All busily picking some peighbor to pieces.
And the best OF it is tie neighbor is not,
As in islands bsrbaric, a person deceased
His flesh has been baked in no caldrons or


pot;
They done even trouble to serve them up hot
For the victim still lives in the midst of the


fest.
Some coed natured friend p'r'aps, may make


him aware
or the nature of these hungry monsters


employment;
And, though in reply he may stoutly declare
That such vivisecion won'G hurt HIM hair,
Yet he writhes at the thought Of theil


fendish enjoyment,
Still one comfort remains. In the isles Of


FIJI


No possible vengeaIc9 is left for the victim.
He is cooked and efunct. But in Europe her


free
To seek satisfaction; and sometimes we see
That he wounds in exchange for the wounds


which have pricked him.
Then beware, Mrs. Smith beware, lovely


Miss Brown;
Young Jones, whisper nothing that ISM


quite true;
Be a little more careful of others renowp,
For Thompson in yonder recess has sat dowr
With Miss Green, and is quietly cutting W


you -BelgrdUid.
Year: 1876

T LONDON, February The details Of
the proposed international rifle contest
are not capable Of so easy an arrange
meDt as at first supposed. There was
an implied understanding when the ma
tional association accepted tie Ameri-
can challenge thai the team selected
would be the only one from Great Bri-
tain. The attempt of the Americans to
induce teams from Scotland and Ireland
to go ont will lead to a reopening OF the
the rife association from the field alto
gether. A meeting will be held to re-
consider the matter, aud unless the team
Is strong enough to satisfy Sir Henry
Haleford, it can be relied upon that the
association will certainly not send any
Representatives.