smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

In the following paragraph "Ik
Marvel" condensed q whole volume
on the poetry Of life /:


II have no coaches and horses,
can at least hang q tracery Of vine
leaves along nay porch, so exquisite
and delicate that no sculpture can
match it (; il have no conservatory
with its wonders, yet the sun and
together can build q tangled copice
Of some blooming things in my door
yard, Of which every tiny leaf
let shall be q miracle, Nay,
make my home, however small II
may be, so complete in its simplicity,
so fitted to its Offices, 80 governed by
neatness, so embOwered by wealth OF
leaf and flowers, that no riches in the
world can add to It without damag-
ing its rural grace; and my gardeners
sunshine, frost and showers, and
their names-shall work for me with
no crusty reluctance, but with an
abandon and zeal that ask only
gratitude for pay.
Year: 1875

Some commercial authorities and
dealers express the opinion that the
stock of hogs on the farms in this
country Is now less than at any time
in the past ten years. Whether this
be true or not, there can be no ques-
ton that the supply is very small,
and this indicates good prices next
season.


1t seems to Us that, this season
especially, it Will be wise for farmers
to give more than ordinary care to
their breeding sows and pigs, and that
1t will be safe for most farmers 70
raise all the pigs they conveniently
can, keeping them growing rs rapidly
aspOssible during the summer, so as
to have them ready for market In the
fall, should the prices open high
Western Rural.
Year: 1875

The Parisians say that they have
had enough OF the high heel boot
fashion for ladies. They assert that
it filings them too much forward,
hurts the spine and reduces the size
Of the calf The doctors recommend
the reverse fashion, very low heels
indeed, and high soles, for 3 time, 80
as 70 fling the body backward from
the hips upward.


And-and improve the calves,
Year: 1875

HAVE CoURAGE.-It conduces much to our
content if we pass by those things which hap
pen to our trouble, and consider what is pleas
ing and prosperous, that by the representation
of the better the worse may be blotted out. If
l be overthrown in my suit at law, yet my
house is left me still, and my land, erI have
virtuous wife, or hopeful children, or kind
friends, or good hopes. If have lost one child
it may be have two or three still left me. En-
Joy the present, whatsoever it may be, and not
be soicitous for the future; for if you take your
foot from the present standing, and thrust it
frward towards to morrow's event, you are in
a restless condition it is like refusing to quench
our present thirst by fearing you shall want
drink the next day. If to morrow you should
want, your sorrow would come time enough,
though you do not hasten to it; let your trou
BILE tarry till its own day comes. Enjoy the
the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly, for
this day is ours. We are dead to yesterday,
and not yet born to the morrow.
Year: 1875

MORAL LESSONS FOR ALL None are so dis
tinguished but they may become obscure
none of us may be SO exalted in this world as
to be exempt from the possibility of fall
Bonaparte never dreamed of Waterloo; and
Francis Joseph could not have realized Sol


erino. Little did Pitt think when, in his
pride of place, he shut himself up to ponder
in his house at Putney Heath, that he should
die there neglected and alone-not a servant to
wait upon his call-not friend in his last mo
ments at his bedside. And though we do not
expect to be Bonapartes, or Francis Josephs,
or Pitts, little events take their color from
great ones, and every mans private life has,
upon diminished scale, its incidental resem-
bance to the lives of the more notable.


MORAL Never grow too expansive for your
own security; never fancy you are beyond the
reach of adversely; never look arrogantly
down upon the humble, lest some day you
have need to envy the solace of their humli-
ty; never suppose that because you have been,
perchance, more fortunate than other men, you
must be made of better material, and are. CON
sequently, more precious in the sight OF Provi-
dence. The clay that makes the beggar makes
the king; and it is only the outside garment
ing that makes the difference in their appear
ance. Be modest. Keep on the safe side of
fortune, for she is an incorrigable coquette.-
Never trust to her fidelity because she smiles /;
and when she smiles most always prepare for
a coming hurricane.
Year: 1875

A FASHIONABLE REcIPE.-Take young wo-
man and turn her once in breadth OF satin,
twice in a gauze scarf, and three times in puff
of tulle; add twenty yards of howery garla
wherewith to season the whole. The dish is
then trussed up, but has not yet sufficient dress
ing. Something heavy in the shape of train
is needed. II may be made OF matelasse, with
raised flowers or Of brocade. Skewer it on we'll
behind, and garnish with gauze butterflies, lace
birds, or gilt beetles. Keep very warm at the
Lase and very cool at the top Remove the
dressing as much as possible from the upper
part and pile it on below. Season with dia-
monds and serve up warm.
Year: 1875

ns-A ton of perfect pain can be more easily
found than an ounce of perfect happiness; /; he
knows little Of himself or OF the world who does
not think it sufficient happiness to be free from
sorrow.
Year: 1875

A BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT-When a Hndoo
priest is about to baptize an infant he utters the
following beautiful sentiment: "Littie babe,
thou enterest the world while all around thee
smile contrive so to live that thou mayest de-
part in smiles while all around thee weep
Year: 1875

HOME MADE SHIRTS. The Troy Times says:
"A day or two ago, while crossing the ice, we
overheard two ladies talking about new dress,
and one of the ladies remarked that, when l
tried it on, asked Bob if it was good I'll about
the waist and he replied, well, I should say
not 1t about as we'll as home made shirt
There was volume in Bob's reply. AS a rule,
home made shirts don't fit at all. They will
draw in at the back and over the shoulder to
that extent that fellow don't know whether
he is incased in a shoulder brace or strait
jacket. The neck band may not go twice around
and tuck in behind, but it usually laps about
three inches, or else it is cut so low in the neck
that a twenty -four-inch collar is required to
reach the collar button. In leaning forward,
when sitting, the bosom crushes in at the sides
and projects in the middle, looking more like
ly-demoralized dust pan than an thing else.
The sleeves are so short that the large twenty


ive-cent cuff buttons, selected with great care,
either tickle fellows elbows, or dangle around
his finger nails, never arriving at compro-
mise between the extremes. The shirts are
generally of an abbreviated character, making
the affair resemble an overgrown roundabout.
Men do not like to find fault, knowing that
their wives meant well enough, and worked
hard in making the garments, they do not hes
itate to say that the desire of their hearts is
that their wives should 60 out Of the business"
Year: 1875

1t is'estlmated by the Mime
sofa Commissioner of Statistics
that the wheat yield of that
State the present year will be
far greater than ever before. =
lie estimates the surplus over
home needs at 24,O0O,O0O BUSH
els, which figures exceed those
of the total crop of last year.
Year: 1875

The independence of our States
and the service which each renders
to the ether find most homely illustra-
tion in subject not fitted for poetic
treatment, nor likely to appeal to the
imagination--commerce in hogs.


The great prairies of the West
grow corn in such abundance that
even now, with all our means of in
accommodation, it can not all be
used as food, and some of it is con
sumed as fuel.


1t often happens that the farmer
upon new land, remote from railroads,
can get only from fifteen to twenty
cents per bushel for Indian corn, at
which price, while it is the best, it is
also the cheapest fuel that he can
have. and its use in an evidence OF
good economy, not Of waste. Upon
the fat prairie lands of the West the
hog is wholesomeiy fed only upon
corn in the milk or corn in the ear;
thence he is carried to the colder eli
IlidlG vi 4haeSdt1loCtNS. H3tiG b1 lHG
use of that one crop in which New
England excels all others--ice the
meat can be packed at all seasons OF
the year; there it is prepared to serve
as food for the workman of the North,
the freedman of the South, or the ar
tisan of Europe; while the blood, dried
in few hours to fine powder, and
sent to the cotton fields of South Car
olina and Georgia to be mixed with
the phosphate rocks that underlle
their coast lands, serves to produce
the cotton fibre which furnishes the
cheapest and fttest clothing for the
larger portion of the Inhabitants of
the world.


Here, then, is commerce, or men
serving each other on grand scale.
all developed within the century, and
undreamed of by our ancestors. The
vast plains Of the West, enriched by
countless myriads of buffalo,can spare
for years to come a portion of theil
productive force. Commerce sets il
motion her thousands wheels, food is
borne to those who need it most, and
they are spared the effort to obtain il
on the more sterile soil of the cold
North. Commerce turns that very
cold to use. The refuse is saved and
commerce has discovered that its use
Year: 1875

Twelve bald headed men were
drawn on jury at Cairo, and the
Judge refused to go on with the case
till six Of them were replaced by good
and true men. He said that his
count room couldn't be made circus
Of, nohow.
Year: 1875

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN TO PAR
IN ties having street work done by the con-
tractor either on Spring or Commercial street
not To pay him any money until they see the
said work, and ascertain whether said work
has been accepted by them.


By order of the Com. Council.


mrl03t NJ. KREMER, Clerk,
Year: 1875

Moody had refused absolutely to receive
anything from the committees who had
invited him to different cities. Sometimes
persons sent him small sums privately.
They were generally those who had been
benefited by his meetings, and who desired
thus to express their gratitude. Such gifts
he felt at liberty to receive. Then he had
made little collection of the hymns sung
at their meetings, on which he had a copy
right, and this he received for a time, but
after few months, just when the sale had
increased so that it amounted to something,
he began to feel uneasy about it, lest it
might seem as if he were turning the pub
lie excitement to his own personal advant-
age" So he declined to use it any more,
and turned it all over to Mr. Matheson of
the Central Committee, to be devoted to
some religious purpose. The amount thus
received by Mr.. Matheson is stated to be
r5 nm
Year: 1875

AS to the classic and the scientific
quarrel, The Philadelphia Telegraph speaks
thus: "Any kind of study is good mental
discipline if it is pursued with thorough
ness, and what most of our colleges need
is not Greek and Latin, but we'll qualified
teachers who know what thoroughness is,
and who are willing and able to insist on
having it. The great object of any educa-
tional system is to fit young men and young
women for the work they will have to do in
the world, and it is the business of educa-
tors to fill their minds with knowledge that
will be of some use to them after they leave
college, and to train them in habits of exact
thought and thoro ugh methods of doing
whatever they at tempt to do. For practi-
cal purposes mathematics science, and the
modern languages are beyond all compari-
sion of more value than Greek or Latin,
while, if properly taught, they are superior
to the dead languages for disciplinary pur-
poses."
Year: 1875




While the method of Mr.. Moody and
MIR. Sankey has been subject of criticism,
the opinion of the general public where
they have laborcd has been mainly of
favorable character. They have had the
hearty cooperation of ministers and lay
men of all denominations, and the press,
both religious and secular, has in the main
commended them and acknowledged that
they have done much good. The Arch
bishop of Canterbury is among those who
have testified their sense of the Importance
and extent of the work Of the revivalsts
The public prints have devoted much of
their space to the question-What is the
secret of their great success? Some have
ascribed it to Mr. Sankey's singing, others
to Mr.. Moody's plain, practical, and scrip
tural sermons. The following abridgment
of his celebrated discourse on "The Blood'
will show some of the characteristics of
his preaching:


"Unto Adam also and to his wife did
the Lord God mako coats of skins and
clothed them" In this verse we get the
first glimpse Of blood. Certainly the Lord
could not have clothed Adam and Eve with
the skins of beasts unless He had shed
blood. There we have the innocent suffer-
Year: 1875

Some anxiety having been shown
by foreign exhibitors and others as to
the alleged possibility of the seizure
for debt of articles on exhibition at
the Centennial Exposition by the credi-
tors of the Centennial Commission, or
of the Centennial Board Finance, tic
Centennial authorities are now having.
printed circular containing the opin-
ions on this head of the Attorney
General of the United States, and of
Mr.. John L. Shoemaker, Solicitor of
the Centennial Commission. The fol-
lowing is in substance the opinion of
the Attorney General:


II am clear in the opinion that the
goods of those who shall appear as ex-
hibitors at the international Exhfbi-
ton will be entirely free from liability
to seizure for debts, claims or demand
against the Centennial Commission. |
cannot conceive of any risk from this
source of the loss of their goods by for
eign exhibitors, nor of any difficulty
they will meet with in removing their
property"
Year: 1875

j.. SMALLPOX CAsEs.--We are author
lied to say that physicians who fail to
report promptly all eases OF smallpox
at the office of the Board of Health, as
required by the city ordinance. will
have the penalties of the law enforced
in every case of neglect.
Year: 1875

A few days since, says the Chicago
Tribune, a portly and patriarchal gen.
tleman might have been seen passing
along Leavitt street, pausing at each
house to ring the door bell. When it
was answered he always sighed heavily,
and, with mournful air, asked if gem
tleman who wasn't known in the vicinity
lived there. At last he stopped before
cottage which gave to the eye an impress
sion Of humble comfort and refinement,
if not grandeur, and rang. The mistress
of the house answered the ring promptly.
The old mans face lighted up with plea
sure, and taking from his finger a dia-
mond ring. the blazing solitaire in which
weighed nineteen and fve-sixteenth
carats, and was Of the purest water, he
said, in a voice husky with emotion:
" Take this, my dear, and this too, TAX
ing from his pocket q roll of parchment


THAT is the deed, in fee simple, to q
mansion and corner lot on Calumet ave-
nue., with blank for you to Gil with your
name. Nay, refuse 1t not. / am not
your long lost uncle, but have devoted
Year: 1875

The following is translated from the
French for the Chicago Inter-0cean:


Balloons are remarkable for an intelli.
gence superior TO that Of many of their
congeners. Their chiefs-for there ex-
lists with them a veritable hierarchy
have wonderful manner Of transmit
ting their orders TO their lieutenants,
and the latter to their subordinates.
They use kind of language composed
Of numerous and varied intonations. To
us they are cries, yelps, bowls and snarl-
ings; but what sincere observer will not
aver that sometimes foreign language
uncomprehended by him has not ap.
peared an uRcouth compound Of incom.
prehensible and ridiculous sounds. As,
in imitation Of the people Of the south
of France, they accompany their dis
course by quick animated gestures in
connection with the subject which occu-
pies them. Balloons are very capable
of having rudimentary language, if we
may judge of them by the following ad-
venture:


An Oriental had a baboon, well
trained and very intelligent, which he
had taught to watch his dinner while it
was upon the FIRE. Although man may
claim to be the only cook, our monkey
soon took a great interest in this occu-
patton, in which he became very expert.
But one fine day, when the Oriental had
put the fowl in the pot to boil, Master
Baboon, stimulated by curiosity, raised
the cover Of the vessel. The odor prob
ably pleased the fellow and made his
mouth water; he tasted the article; it
appeared geod to him; by dint Of testing
1.-THE chicken, the latter was soon admira.
.bly dissected, Before this result, our
gourmand must have calculated in
advance the remarkable chastisement
which awaited him. What was passing
in his monkey brain2 To what
reasoning, to what association of
ideas did he apply himselt2 We cannot
know; only that he did extricate him
sell, or thought to have done so in an
admirable manner, and this is how
he endeavored to do it, proving, before
Saying anything, that in order to invent
the expedient which we relate, the facul
ties of observation were brought into play
Nature had endowed part Of the body
of our baboon with red color, so like
that of uncooked beef, that in rolling
himself in the dust and curling up, ht
had the appearance, at a distance, of {
stone upon which piece Of meat haC
been put. Besides, there, as in all tn,
Orient, hover numerous birds of prey
easily attracted by the odors of tht
cuisine, and more voracious than per
spicacious. So, as soon as they saw
what appeared TO be a fragment Of
abandoned flesh, swooped down quickly
The first which approached paid dearly
for his gluttonous temerity, for, seized
Immediately by our quadruman, he was
Notwithstanding his cries, his blows
from beak and wings, thrust, feathers
bsak and claws, into the boiling pot;
after which the baboon again resumed
his post as guardian, with the quiet ease
which belongs to clear conscience.


do not relate what the master thought
when he wished to eat his dinner;
neither if he found chicken and broth OF
a delicate and agreeable flavor. The
readers Imagination can supply the
remainder of the narrative.
Year: 1875

the past seventeen years Of my life to
seeking the woman who, before answer
ing the door bell, did not strive to peep
through the window to see who was
there. Goodbye" and with the agility
Of boy he sprang into a magnificent
barouche that was drawn by two price
less horses, and vanished.
Year: 1875

The OLD STATE HOUSE BELL.-Ths Joint
Committee on Public Buildings, appointed by
the Legislature, have made their report. In
referring to the old bell, which was taken from
the tower of the State House, when that build
ing was repaired, tho report, prepared by
Senator FIddsmsn, says: That relic is the
Old Bell, brought down from its long lodRmsnt
by the removal OF the old tower from whence
went out its mellow and sOnorous tones, sum.
mODng the Legislature aud the Courts of this
State to their several duties tor more than
hundred years. Upon this ancient instrument
are certain raised figures, showing its age to be
ono hundred and eleven years. Before there
was State in this Union, or hardly the ideal
germ OF one in the mind of the most sanguine
or farthest hted OF our revolutionary patriots
anywhere in the land, that bell was cast and
was doubtless hung in the tower of that ancient
public fabric, erect ID between 1000 and 100,
when Dover was first ordered to be laid out as
u county seat, and which gave way, for the
same uses, to the building whose alteration
and repair is the subject mostly of this report
1t was doubtless rung with spirit, though in tAe
reign OF King George, When the celebrated
non.impOr;ation resolutions were passed in


65, which aroused in America the spirit of
resistance TO the expressions OF the mother
country, only allayed when independence was
secured by the peace of 1888 and we may
well imagine that its tones were mingled with
the 'spirit-stirring drum and ear piercing fife "
OF that immortal regiment which mustered
upon the green beneath it for its long march to
tho bloody fields of Caroliaa, whence it
returned a single company, with the heroic
Kirkwood its captain There is no longer any
use for this old servant of the public, but il
should not be allowed to fall out OF men 8
memories. All Of the most eminent of this
States public men in the past and present
time, and in fact most of the humblest of their
fellow citizens, have, at some time or other,
been compelled to obey its calls to their duty /;
nay, some of the most grateful of the memo
ries OF most men of Delaware are associated
with its peals, 1t must not be permitted to
become prey to the neglect which falls to the
lot of too many objects at one time of great
interest, but should have conspicuous place,
although it is hereafter to keep silent Let a
niche ln the Library be prepared for it, and il
there be kept al . souuenoir Of the long past
such is our recommendation.
Year: 1875

The PRIMITIVE EPIsCoPALIANs. - Rev.
Kensey Johns Stewart, of Sussex county,
preached in Salisbury, Nd. recently in the
Episcopal Church. He was the rector fer that
church thirty.fve years ago. and in his sermon
be called up some "reminiscences of his ministry
at that period.


Thirty-fvs years ago, while quite young
man he took charge, as rector, OF Stspney and
Spring Hill parishes, consisting of four
churches, and some 0utstatioRs. They had
previously been under the charge of Bishop
Stone for a quarter of century until they
failed to provide his horse feed. The speaker
said the salary promised him was $4OO, and
out of that amount he had to keep horse and
COW, pay house rent and meet all the expenses
of family. There was not chimney to any Of
the churches; the stove pipes went out at the
windows, and the stoves smoked whenever the
wind changed. frequently during service he
was compelled to stop the services until one of
the stoves could be relieved of its fire and
smoke. The windows were broken, the doors
seldom closed and sometimes the fuel had to
be cut on Sunday morning while the people
waited in the cold. There was no Sunday
School, Choir, Christian School nor any asso
citation of the people for church work and the
speaker said he found it impossible to procure
a comfortable house to live in 10 Salisbury until
the later years of his residence He often
drove fifty miles a day and held two services.


AS Illustrative OF the habits and customs OF
church going people of that day, he said that
at Spring hi a common tub sat in the chancel
10 which was common gourd. The people
would 90 up and drink all through the service
and throw the water on the foor Women
would gather during prayers in large pew ia
the centre of the church to laugh and talk.


He gave the names of a number of aged
persons who were upon his Confirmation list
and stated that one time during his ministry
a. were confirmed in Spring Hill church by
RiShoD WhittinObam