smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

1t is law of organic life, traceable
from the lowest specimens of the animal
kingdom, through all the ascending Sc
ries, to the highest type of the human
being, that, in the ascending scale, the
softer and more fluid tissues gain on the
more dense and solid; and that the
cerebro-spinal nerve tissue gains upon
all other tissues. Thus man, the crown
ing work of organic creation (for the
present, at least) has brain substance
vastly disproportionate to that of any
animal. and the brain is composed
of only one part of solid matter to seven
or eight of fluid.


"A recognition of this law leads us to
some very important practical consider
atlons. The capability of any animal
or person to enjoy or suffer is in the ra-
tio of the cerebral development. Hence
large animal with powerful muscles
may struggle violently yet suffer little
pain; while human being with weak
muscles and large 'vitativeness,'' may
suffer excruciating pain without mani
testing much muscular effort


If this principle we're understood,
those praiseworthy "Societles for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, ="
might establish a branch or department
for the benefit of human beings; for
there is in every large city in the world,
more cruelty practiced on human beings
every day in the year, than ON all the
animals in all creation during the whole
year.


Another lesson deducible from the
premises is the mistaken notion about
overworked brains. They cannot be
overworked. They suffer little ''wear
and tear" because of exercise. Being
soft and almost fluid, and having nc
duties Lut thinking and feeling, their
motions are almost as free and friction.
less as the drops of water which may
toss and tumble forever without injury.


1t is the nutritive system that is al
fault-the assimilating and disintegrat
ing functions-and not the brain, wher
a person complains of too much heac
work. Let him only keep his vital ma
chinery in order, and he may work hi
brain to the utmost without harming it
From Science Of Health
Year: 1872

TH-To TIE ladies
FOR HOLIDAY GOODS, CALL AT FRANK s


LADIES AND CHILDRENs


FURNISHING GOODS STORE
Where you will surely get suited ard bargains you
may expect, as the stock is large and IT must be
reduced.


F. L. FRANK
Year: 1872

A bill is pending before Congress to
incorporate the Pneumatic Tube Road
Company" which proposes to construct
such road from New York to New Or
leans. As the incorporators number
among them several well-known lobby
lists, and as the proposed charter grants
many privileges and promises no return
therefor, it is probable that this particu-
lar scheme will be negatiyed. If it could
be intrusted to capable hands, great
good might result. London, Paris AMI
Berlin have pneumatic dispatch tubes
for the transmission of parceis, etc, and
New York has an incomplete pneumatic
railway. Itrequires but little moro trial
to devise system of sending men and
women as speedily and safely as we can
now send parcels; and its success will
revolutionize travel far more thoroughly
than did the introduction of the railway
Year: 1872

Fourteen years ago an Indiani-
an left his ludy-love for the land
of gold. During all these years
the faithful pair have each writ
ten and received two letters every
week, till a week or two ago, when
the swain returned to claim his
bride. They have a pile of two
thousand nine hundred and twelve
love letters TO begin housekeeping
with.
Year: 1872

Reflect that sound mind and body are the
happiness Indeed, without these TIE Journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly dsrkens to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair, and filed with
the melancholy reflection that tue happiness of
another is blighted with our OWL
Year: 1872

NEW YORK, March 27.-Since the
agitation In Congress of the repeal OF
the duties on tea and coffee, there has
been a stagnation in the trade In this
city. The bonded warehouses are
filed with goods, and there has been
eight million pounds less Of withdraw
al from bond this year.
Year: 1872

fire insurance companies @ are are f tie outgrowth q
incendiarism. The existence OF SO bold and
persistent an enemy to insurance capital has
neutralized all hope Of making underwriting 3
profitable field for the continuous employment
OF capital. A careful analysis Of the cause Of
fires In London, New York, or Philadelphia,
shows that nine-tenths of the fires originate by
carelessness or crime.


In q London police court the startling dis
hundred arson offences had been committed by
one individual, and in another case the 6rea
ceased in q district when 3 certain individual
was arrested. The person had set fire to sixty
or more houses merely to obtain the informer's
fee Of half q crown or ao*
Year: 1872

weight proved too much for the lads,
and the crank of the windlass slipping
from their grasp, the Learning of our
district went whirling to the bottom
with laundering noise betitting such
an exit. This was more than we bar
gained for. Had we really murdered
the master? Bob and Bill, assisted by
the stoutest, began pulling up the unfor-
tunate old fellow. 1t was hard work,
and tugging at the windlass they just
caught glimpse of his blonde head
when wild cry of &" fire |" caused them
to let go, and again the venerable Bangs
ratified down with splash in the
water.


The schoolhouse was on fire; the
chunks pulled out by the boys had COM
municated to the floor, and the dry old
concern was in blaze. A few neigh
bors, who just then arrived, gave the
alarm, and attempted to extinguish the
flames. To do this they called for water,
and the first bucket brought up con-
tanned the vanquisbed teacher of read
ing, writing, and arithmetic. He came
up with his teeth chattering, and when
lifted out and united was too weak to
stand or sit.


The school-house burned down. The
master was carried to neighbor's heuse,
and for weeks hung between life and
death. We were regarded as heroes by
the country side, and in the burning of
our place of torture and the sickness of
the master, we we're the happiest set of
little animals in the world.


1t is a long time, am sorry to say,
since then, and most of the actors in
the drama have passed away. Bob, one
of our gallant leaders, is now a well to
do farmer in Illinois while Bill fell in
the bloody fight at Stone River.-Don
Year: 1872

fall on this stone shall be broken, but
on whomsoever it shall fall it will grind
him to powder"


Republicans, what moro could you
ask than the Cincinnati platform and
Horace Greeley2


Is there any Democrat who halts and
doubts as to his course2 Is there any
who fears for his consistency or doubts
the duty of patriotism 1 love the
Democratic party; 1 know its courage,
1 know its purity; 1 believe in its prin-
ciples; l revere its wisdom; when it
speaks will obey. "All men are wiser
than one man" When its wisdom and
purity shall point out the course and
lead the way, what Democrat shall say
he cannot tread that path with honor
and consistency When its patriotism
shall counsel, what Democrat shall say
he is too pure to follow the advice !?
When its lofty spirit shall Danish parti-
san pride, what Democrat shall say he
is too proud to follow the example? I
do not expect Mr.. Greeley, if elected,
to give Us partisan Administration. l
would not respect him if he should do
so; it would be contrary to the spirit of
this movement; but he has promised
that he will restore true fraternal af-
fection to all our people; that he will
give US purity and honesty in admins
tration, and it is folly to refuse these
because we can obtain no more. He
has himself said-I use his words:


"That subject to our solemn consti-
tutional obligation to maintain the equal
rights of all citizens, our policy should
aim at local selfgovernment, and not
at centralization that the civil author
ity should be esupreme over the military;
that the writ of ha6e0S corpus should be
iealously upheld as the safeguard of
personal freedom; that the individual
citizen should enjoy the largest liberty
consistent with public order; and that
there should be no Federal supervision
of the internal polity of the several
States and municipalities, but that each
shall be left free to enforce the rights
and promote the well-being of its in
habitants by such means as the judg-
ment Of its own people shall prescribe"


These will save the Republic, these
will preserve free government. Time
and the future will do the rest. l can
not foreteH the future. The signs are
all encouraging. If we succeed, we
shall have secured good government.
But if, in the providence of God, we
should fail now, fellow Democrats, we
will have the consciousness that we
have done good deed that we have
made heroic struggle; that we have
honored our party in obeying its high
est teachings, and the pains of defeat
and ensuing disaster will be mitigated
by the thought that we have done all
in our power to deserve and command
success.
Year: 1872

There comes time when we grow old,
And like sunset down the sea.
Slope gradual, and the night winds cold
Come whispering sad and chillingly;


And locks are gray


AS winters day;
And eyes of saddest blue behold
The leaves all weary drift away,
The lips of faded coral say,
There comes time when we grow old.
There comes time when joyous hearts,
Which leaped as leaps the laughing main,
Are dead to all save memory,
A prisoner in his dungeon chain !;


And dawn of day


Has passed away,
The noon hath into darkness rolled,
And by the embers wan and gray,
hear voice in whisper say,
There comes time when we grow old.
There comes a time when manhoods prime
Is shrouded in the midst of years,
And beauty, fading like dream,
Hath passed away in silent tears :;


And then how dark


But oh the spark
That kindled youth to hues Of gold
Still burns with clear and steady ray,
And fond affections, lingering, say,
There comes time when we grow old.
There comes a time when laughing spring
And golden summer cease to be,
And we put on the autumn robe
To tread the last declivity;


But now the slope


With rosy Hope,
Beyond the sunset we behold
Another dawn with fairer light,
While watchers whisper through the night,
There comes time when we grow old.
Year: 1872

PULLING THE MoUsTAcHE. for lack of bet
ter employment of the right hand, is practice
so very common with young men who are wait
ing to say something to young ladies, that it de-
serves to he treated from scientific or cultural
side and made an accomplishment. You rarely
see fellow with a new labial growth, who does
not carry this thumb and finger to his pet, on be-
ing introduced, or on coming into situation
where expectation and responsibilities are either
of them at all uncertain Itis the gesture of ges-
lures Before moustaches came in, or rather
came out, the habit was to either stick the hands
in the pockets, or fasten them crossways behind
the back The moustache has changed all that.
To be convinced how it is, you need but watch
the next movement of young fellow whose COM
fort it is to have one convenient TO bis social ne
necessities
Year: 1872

How TO BEAUTIFY Your RooMs.-The first
condition of success in furnishing either large
or a small room is that there mus be no over
crowding. This is absolute. When outline is
lost, beauty, as matter of fact is also lost
We must all know many drawing-roOms in
which, perhaps, the worth and beauty of each
individual thing is indisputable, on entering
which the first thing that strikes one is sense
of incongruity. What might have been an art
collection is degraded to the level of an old Gu


-ity shop. Most women are born with love


auty. But it generally, runs to vase, and


itself away upon small things. women


shop and hover over counter for an


rrossed in the purchase Of fifty minute


ch one of which is pretty enough in


en- up in the hand and inspected
uut not one of which can b. clearly defined at
a distance of Two yards, and not one OF which
repays the trouble OF the minute Inspection
These are packed away in shiny cabinets that
are blazing with oromolu scroll-work, on spin
dle-legged what-nOts that seem to be designed
for no other earthly purpose than to be knock
ed down at brief intervals, and on mantle pie
ces that confuse ones vision and muddle ones
brain during the long periods when the need
of being near the fire forces one to face them.
1t is better and higher system of economy to
buy two or three good bronzes or marbles,
which the eye can always rest with pleasure,
then to spend ten times the sum on a hetero-
geneous mass ofthe parti- -colored rubbish which
many accumulate, Sin ORDER" they call it, "tO
take off the naked look of their ROOM" Better
the naked look ten thousand times, than the
false decorations.
Year: 1872

GALLANTRY.-Wh is gallantry but tribute
from the stronger to the weaker? What right
has fresh faced, ruddy girl, abounding in
strength, to plant herself in front of weary
man in way that plainly indicates her ex-
pectaton that he will yield his seat? What
right has she to take it, indeed ? Why should
she not rise and give seat to an old man, in
stead of accepting his F.?


Now, we submit that the fault is partly with
bred women. They take seats as if they be
longed to them. We almost always surrender
to a standing lady, however weary our legs
may be, and not one in six has courtesy enough
to say, 'thank you.' A very weary and plain
woman, with none of the varn'sh of society, no
knowledge of the proprietes and improprieties
stood in front of us the other day. We offered
her the seat, and she hesitated. 81 hate to take
your seat" she said. She was lady.


The very women who complain of lack OF
gallantry, never give place themselves to older
and weaker people. The sight Of young lady
giving a seat to feeble old man would work
wonders of gallantry among men. "See that
tired man :" exclaimed lady alongside of us
the other evening, and squeezing her silks she
made room for weary and earth -soiled Irish
laborer. There was gallantry!


Some men get up for pretty faces and fine
clothes, but we know a man who gives his seat
to a weary wash woman with basket of clothes
and that whether she be Irish orAfrican. And
when we see this we say, behold a gentleman
indeed The true hearted courtesy of such q
man is worth more than all the hand kissing
bowling of hundred knee buckled courtiers =.
Exchange.
Year: 1872

WILL You BE SUCCESS ?-"That you may
find success" saith the Rev, Charles Brooks in
an address to boys, "let me tell you how to
succeed To night begin your great plan of
life. You have but one life to live, and it is
most important that you do not make mis-
take. Tonight begin carefully. Fix your eyes
on the fortieth year of your age, and then say
to yourself: "At the age of forty will be a
temperate man, will be an industrious man,
benevolent man, well. read man, a religious
man, and useful man. will be such. re-
solve, and will stand to it,
Year: 1872

FILTERS AND FILTERlNG. In every well-appoint-
ed kitchen there are tin or porcelain tunnels
For filterng watery fluids it is only necessary to
insert in the choke of the funnel V-shaped piece
Of fine sponge. All such liquids, on being put
into the funnel will pass through the sponge and
become quite clear. When this effect ceases the
sponge must be removed and we'll cleansed.


For jelly and oil, wool alone is the proper me-
dium for itering. The felted wool jelly bag is
pretty well known as the best means of clearing
cavessoot jelly, and it also answers for olive and
other oil These bags are, however, too expen-
sve to be generally used hence, they are rarely
seen in kitchens. A good substitute for the wool
bag is cullender, on the inside of which a new
aanuel lining should be fitted, made OF double
stuff A wad OF white knitting WOOL put in the
choke of funnel, will do TO filter any small por-
ton of such luids.-Scientifc american.
Year: 1872

This Convention which was held in our
Town on Saturday Last, was certainly one of
the best composed and we'll attended Conven-
tiOn of Delegates that could be expected, un
der the present circumstances. Considering
the immense territory and large number of
Wards, great majority was in attendanc,
and these Delegates were chosen among the
most intelligent, honest and disinterested citi-
Gems of our population.


The nominations, which will DO found else
where. reflect honor ON this Convention, and
the ticket thus presented will no doubt be &C
cepted with alacrity by all those who have at
heart the redemption of our State from the
almost inyincibie current Of corruption against
which our party have been battling for the last
Hur years or more.
Year: 1872

Our Committee like yours, is widely scatter.
ed, and it is manifestly impossible to get them
together in time to submit any "evertures"
whatever to your convention which assemblies
ON the l4th inst. But supposing the time to
have been ample, do not see the necessity of
appointing d Committee to make further over
lures, until the proposition already submitted
or some duly authorized body. 1t will readily
suggest itself to any one that if you, as Chair
man of your Committee did not feel authoriz-
ed to act, your Convention was, to which our
proposition might have been submitted with
out the mediation of q conference Committee.
Practically / consider our proposition as
rejected and respectfully await overtures from
your party, which will be carefully considered
whenever submitted.


Yours Respectfully,


WIN. OFFUTT, Chairman.
EJECT. Committee Liberal Party, St. Landry
Year: 1872

Keep tea In a close chest or canister.
Cranberries will keep all winter in a
cellar.


Butter that is made in September and
October is the best for winter use.


Keep coffee by itself. as its odor af-
fects other articles.


Oranges and lemons keep best wrapp-
ed close in soft paper and laid in
drawer.


Bread and cake should be kept in
tin box or stone jar.


Lard should be hard and white; and
that which is taken from hog over
year old is the best.


To select nutmegs, pick them with a
pin. If they are good the oil will In
stantly spread around the puncture.


When cask of molasses is bought
draw off few quarts, else the fermenta-
ton produced by moving it will burst
the cask.


Salt Goldfish should be kept in dry
place where the oder of it will not affect
the air Of the house. Fish skin, for
clearing coffee, should be washed, dried,
cut small, and put in paper bag.


Ask your neighbor to subscribe for
the Monitor.
Year: 1872

work of destruction was still going on.
The flames were rapidly licking up
block of tenements near by, while off
beyond great clouds of dense smoke
belched up, and cracking flames, with
now and then the ominous 'boom" of
building blown up, told that the confa-
grafton was raging as fiercely as ever,
and now among the paint and oil stores
down by the custom-house. The fire
reached Pearl street at just half past
one o'clock. the store of J. III. Putnam
and Wheeler, at No. 90, bursting into
flames at that time The fire caught
the back part of the first story from the
burning buildings in the rear, and in a
few seconds it had worked its way
through to the upper story and burst
through the roof. No engines were in
that part of the street, the few in that
vicinity being engaged in fighting the


fire over toward Congress street. So the
flames had full sway and in an incredi-
bly, short space of time the street was a
mass of ruins. Before the fire made its
appearance the merchants began trans
porting their goods to place of safety.


Many cases of shoes were placed in a
vacant Let at the corner Of Purchase
street, but the great heat of the fire rem
dered their destruction so imminent that
they were moved to safer place. The


buildings on Pearl street were plain and


simple in their architecture. and pre-


sented remarkably substantial appear
aOcn
Year: 1872

and grain trade, nor were there any loss
es to the fish or salt dealers, and but
slight damage to the wholesale grocers.
None of the hotels have been destroyed,
and the railroads, with the exception of
the Hartford and Erie, have not suffer-
ed. as the fire did not extend in that
direction. There is not likely to be any
such serious interruption to business as
view of the burned district would at
first suggest.-Boston Advertiser, Of the
1IM
Year: 1872




Pearl street, the great shoe and leath


er center of the city is laid low !; and in
stead of the long, straight avenue lined
with tall granite structures on either
side, the spectator could see nothing but
dreary piles of calcined granite and
smoking heaps of dull-red bricks. Stand
ing at Fort Hill yesterday, one could see,
as far as the eye could reach in the dim
and smoky atmosphere, nothing but
black, needle like fragments of walls
towering to a height of a hundred feet,
with a width of perhaps no more than
twenty or twenty-five feet at the base,
while here and there tall chimney
showed like great black needle in the
distance. And along to the north the
Year: 1872

High street, from one end to the other,
is one mass Of smoking ruins. Bricks,
stone, twisted iron columns and other
debris cover the street in some places to
a height of twelve feet The fire reach
ed the southerly end about l p. m. and
burned steadily along the west side for
Year: 1872

| following judicial determination of what
constitutes the eauses sufficient for


revocation. There are many suits for


revocation in the books. The defendant


having fled a revocation the manner in


which 1T was done would be sufficient to


convince a jury of its error even if the donor


had the law on his side. The act of dona-


tiOn was recorded in the office of the Re-


gister of COnveyanees-it does not require
record in the mortgage Office. This was


the donation revoked). The revocation did
not take place for cause alleged. Another
donation was given of the same property on
the fourth January, 1872, to Eliza Jane Poi
tevent. No real estate can be transferred


by the husband during marriage. TIE
Judgment of divorce was final on the twelfth
December; there is no question that the
time of thirty days lapsed between the di-
vorce and the donation.


Mr. Mott called the attention of the court
to the point that it was not community pro-
perty, that it was Mr.. Holbrook's own.


No devOlutive appeal was possible. All
divorce cases should be appealed under the
late law, because during the space of one
year the party has right to annulment of
the Judgment. This case comes on the
equity side of the court. 1t is in proof that
this woman was sent away denied by Mr.
Motif; in proof that passes were furnished
by Mr.. HOlbroOk. Read the testimony of
Condor, stating that Mr.. HolbroOk said
that as long as Jennie Bronson was alive
she should not want. The question of dona-
ton was submitted.


No one can proceed to execution Of judg-
ment until ten days after the Judgment.
The court will take notice that the letter is
not in her writing, nor is it her name but
taking it for granted, it is not sufficient
acknowledgment of the service of judgment.
An attorney should have been appointed to
represent the absent defendant. No one
was appointed.


Even if the letter was that of Mrs. Hol-
brook, its terms do not show she had re-
ceived notice of judgment She herself is
seeking divorce, but there are incidental
questions connected with it requiring de-
termination. Counsel said he could show
that a woman had served Jennie Bronson
with tickets North, procured by HolbrOok,
and that she was sent to Galveston to keep
out of the way of this suit.


The laws passed in the year 1870 have
precedence over the Revised Statutes, and
hence the law requiring a year 10 elapse
before divorce has precedence of the recent
law recurring no time to elaDse There
isn't a particle of evidence to show that a
demand was made upon her for costs, nor
any evidence to show she had received any
notice of judgment. Counsel asked for a
suspensive appeal to the Supreme Court
from the Judgment of divorces for refusal |
of the injunction of Mrs Poitevent for a |
rule to fix alimony for Jennie Bronson.
The argument will be concluded this |