smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

Aswo are passing through ne heated term the
following specific against sunstroke may save
from illness and dc ,th many whose occupation
oblge them 10 be in the aeld Or straet


"Aboot q year since / saw IN o Newspaper an
account Of q case Of sunstroke, written by the
party himself. After sufenng long time from
the attack, and having 70 Q considerable degree
recovered, be experienced suffering even from the
rays Of the moon. This led him to the reflection
that IL not altogether the heat Of the that
produced prostraton. After much research, he
dIscoved that the injury came from the chemical
ray, and not from the heat ray. He was guided
t. this By observing the fact that g Photograph
could not be taken through a hollow glass.
Accordinghly, he lined his hat with two linings-
one Of orange yellow 70 arrest the chemical ray,
aud one Of green TO arrest the heat ray. Thus pre-
pared, he went where the rays Of the sun were
most intense with perfect impunlty. Il is well
well known that the negro ia seldom sunstruck.
Tbs color OF his skin over the skull being OF the
orange yellow may as it is IN accounting Tor the
fact. 1praeticed upon this suggestion all last
summer, lined my hat with green and orange
yellow paper, and had confidence enough IN The
truth Of the theory to neglect my umbrella, which
had never done before. mentioned IL 70 many
who tried It also, and in many cases that came
under my, ubsefVation they uniformly asserted
that the oppressive heat Of the sun upon the head
waB much relieved"
Year: 1873

OF blankets, then tho corn, which In the first
placo had a value Of 20 cents por bushol, ls re-
duced to loss than IL cents por buaho1. The In
creased consumption OF corn by tho mon engaged
in tho woolen mill is discovered to be q dolu-
sion, because it is found that people cat as
much under Iono tariff as under another
whether working in wooden mill or out OF it
and that it makes no difference to the farmer
whether his market is at bis own door or on the
other side Of the globe, provided he sells his corn
and gotB his blankets.


But tho cost Of transportation Bays some one.
Well, the moment tho cost Of transportation be-
comes greater than the cost Of the tariff (dls-
tance and tariff being simply two obstacles be-
tween producer and consumer, tho one natural
md the other artiaciaD, that moment the home
manufacture will spring up. The theory Of tho
tariff is, that, after paying all transportation
charges, there is still 50 to 80 per cent advantage
in exchanging tho corn for the foreign blanket
which must be offset by d tax. II the farmers
are in earnest thoy will strike for this 90 or 8o
per cent and get it. It is their earnings Why
shouldn't they hare it?
Year: 1873

DR.. Linderman, the Director Of the United
States Mint, in q recent letter to the New York
Chamber Of Commerce Committee on Coinage,


states that the international silver coins OF the
metrical weight prescribed by the recent Coinage
act will DO issued without delay, and that by the
1st Of January next he expects to have them
issued from new dies and with now designs. Lest
the general public might infer that they are to
have silver; in their pockets instead Of postal
currency, it may be stated that tho new silver is
intended to facilitate trade with the "heathen
Chinee."
Year: 1873

Sir John. Macdonald has moved, as be said he
would DO, for the ppointmentof of committee to
undertake the same investigation into the Cana~
da Pacific Hallway that he and hia party had
voted down, when called for, the other day, BY
the Opposition. The latter do not.seem to have
been able to find any fault with tho makeup OF
tho Committee mined by the Premier
Year: 1873

Gov. Palmer has spoken before the Special
Railroad Committee Of Thirteen in favor Of his
idea Of making railroads public highways. The
Committee are hard at work trying to piece out
something from the many different bills referred
to them; meanwhile, it is said that an altogether
new bill is under incubation, to be presented it
Athe Committee fail to prepare satisfactory
fmea4rrn
Year: 1873

Heights. Pity for the fame of Arnold and
yourself that you did not both die Just af-
ter leading these "forlorn hopes.n You
have the audacity to compare yourself
with Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
Year: 1873

Mr.. John Gillen, the irrcpressbe claimant of the
ONCE OF Comptroller OF the city OF New York, states
tnat the report on the occasion Of his demanding
the semDlancc Of his authority from the present
incumbent OF the COMPROMISING that he nourlshed
revolver is entirely false. No one. he says knew
that ne had revolver until he went TO the stati0r
l....an
Year: 1873

hitherto unknown land. It will be seen that
while Spanish tyranny was prosecuting our
agent in Cuba, Russian jealousy was throwing
obstacles in the way of our correspondents
progress in Khiva This gentleman was the
only correspondent of any journal in Europe
or America who accompanied the Russian
column. We attribute it to his tact and en-
ergy. and perhaps to that good fortune which
rarely abandons courage, that he was not sent
back from the banks of the Oxus to the Euro
pean frontier of Russia under the guard Of
squadron Of Cossacks.
Year: 1873

THE Duty OF THE ALDERMEN. The Board
Of Aldermen meet to-day to pass upon the
appropriations for 1874. They will find that
the salaries Of the Finance Department have
been increased 1000 over 1873 AT the
same time the contingency fund for the
Finance Department this year is 500, 900,
while last year it was $3.50, 000-an
increase of s450,0O0. Every dollar Of this
can be spent by the Comptroller
for such services as those embraced
IN the vouchers recently unearthed
from the contingencies and Board of Audit
FUNDS AT time like the present, when the
poor iaborers of the city are likely to starve
and freeze for the want of work, it is the duty
OF the Aldermen to cut down these extrava-
CANT and unwarrantable expenses.
Year: 1873

There are so many startling possibilities
involved in the game now in progress at Ver-
sailles that crisis even of moderate intensity
excites peculiar interest while, as the natu-
raj inference from our news is that there is q
crisis of the first order imminent, the interest
is proportionately greater. Indeed, it is prob
able the case may prove exciting before many
days. 1t was reported yesterday that Mac
Mahon had asked that his power be prolonged
to term of seven years, and it is reported
to-day that the committee charged with this
subject has refused to make the required con-
cession. 1t was false step on the part Of
MacMahon to call for the prolongation of his
power. 1t is a very great blunder in the
tactics of the Duke de Broglie that he has put
his puppet President in the false position Of
making some requirement of the country
when the secret of moral force in his
position was that the country should
require something of him. His indif-
ference to position-his aversion, real
or assumed, to the Office that was thrust
upon hm-was MacMahon's grea strength La
the beginning of his political career and
when he seemed to yield his own inclinations
and accepted the Presidency, not as one who
takes dignity, but as one who performs an
onerous duty that the welfare of his country
demands at his hands, conservative French
men were in ecstasies, because they believed
that they had an Executive that would not en-
courage the growth of dangerous parties, and
who had so little personal ambition that he
would be ready to leave Office at any moment
the country would give its consent to his re-
tirement But now that bluff soldier asks for
ten years Of Office and is refused renews his
is refused again, and has it currently whis-
pered about that he will accept five years if he
can get even that little. All this is fatal to his
prestige. 1t does not help one to have to ask
such little favors as these in France,
while TO ask and be refused is SIM
ply ruinous. But the republicans are gaining
all that the royalists lose in position before
the country, and they must have already ac-
quired great confidence to thus calmly put
aside the man who was at least, an acceptable
middle term between two impossible ex-
tremes The demand for seven years was
proposed by MacMahon somewhat as an ulti-
matum. He required that term as guarantee.
without which he could not undertake to pre-
serve tranquility and govern the country; so
the term is refused, and "What is he going TO
do about p This is the important point
viii be resign, or will he simply take tho
guarantees that others refuse to giyep Accord
ing to the republican logic he ought to resign,
and this might re-establish his prestige and
prove as effective rod TO hold over the As
sembly, in his case, as it was with Theirs.


But. perhaps, a resignation is less likely than
| . coup Fcta II may suit the monarchical
Year: 1873

game to say that the republicans are obstruc-
tive and that it is impossible to organize q
government with them. SO the Marshal may
lock mp the little theatre, send the Deputies
home and organize . government himself-a
fact for which preparation is mature and for
which there are famous precedents
Year: 1873

THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT will, as We are
specially informed by telegram from the
capital, submit the subject of the railway
contracts to Congress on the Goth instant,
despite the fact that the Executive is
troubled by the existence of provincial revo-
luton and the difficulty of the Church ques-
ton.
Year: 1873

corded as one Of the heaviest we have experi
enced in this month for many year. q
Marks perhaps, the Inauguration of another
cold and stormy winter, though, for the sake
Of the poor and the destitute thousands in on,
great cities, we hope that this winter. 40
rudely coming in, will be. much milder and
shorter than was the last
Year: 1873

The following story we have read
before, but it deserves repetition: {:
Frank Bishop went into barber shop
to see his friend. the proprietor. The
barber was out, so he sat down and
waited for him to come in. Getting
tired of waiting, he said, :" L am going
to have some fun" so he put on bar
hers apron aAd then looked out for
customer. BY and by one came in
and sat down in a chair, saying that
he desired to be shaved Bishop saw
that he had got himself into a bad fix,
but he put brave face OIL, and COM
menced to lather the mans face, ex
pecting every minute to see the bar
Der come in. But he did not come.
After he had lathered the man for
about fifteen minutes the man became
angry, and said: Look here, my
friend. | want to get shaved sometime
to-day" Shaved ?" said Bishop, in
well-feigned surprise, "Shaved? ]
guess you have made a mistake. We
don't shave here-wS only lather peO-
pie. You get shaved on the next
block"
Year: 1873

GEN. Wickham declines the use
Of his name as the republican candi
date for Governor. This leaves
Col. Hughes very clear track for
the nomination, but he will find the
road to the Governors house dispu
ted by an army whose compactness
and discipline will be to him, one
of those unexpected things which
blast the hopes of politicians. The
people of Virginia are not going to
give to the last Presidential vote the
character OF decisiveness. Nor are
they discouraged because Greeley
failedto rally the conservative vote
of the State.
Year: 1873

and in mid>life sink into uselessness
or worse. The story of his devotion
will be told at another time, when his
poor brain has found that rest for
which it now but feebly asks. 1t is
hoped that months of entire rest may
so far restore Mr.. Marble that his
friends can take him to Europe for


treatment We earnestly trust that
his present pitable condition may not
list long. To one so gifted even death
is preferable to idiocy, or even mild
er form Of incurable luacy."
Year: 1873

In Exeter, England, the other day, n
farm laborer was summoned by the Cor
poration of the Poor for having neg
lccted to maintain his wife and six chill
dren, Thereby leaving them clargcablc
to the parish" 1t was shown that the
wife and children were admitted into the
poor-house in November last, and their
maintenance had cost the corporation
five dollars week. 1t was also shown
that the defendant was working on n
farm four miles from Exeter, and that he
was getting three dollars week and
liquor, ont of which he had to find every
thing-board, lodgings, etc. 1T was,
moreover, shown that the defendants
master deducted little over one dollar
a week out of his wages, which was
paid over to the authorities toward the
support Of his wife and family. The
defendants answer to the charge was
that he gave two-thirds of his miserable
pittance weekly, which WAS as much rs
his means would afford, and that he
had not neglected his family; on the
contrary, he had been trying to get
house for them at the village where he
worked, but could not succeed in getting
a house large enough for his family.
The magistrates, however, made an
order, calling upon the defendant to pay
up all arrears, and get a house for his
wife and family. The question which
naturally occurs in one is, How can this
man maintain his wife and family of six
children on three dollars week, and
find house large enough for them into
the bargain, when the bare maintenance
in the work-house costs five dollars a
uaak
Year: 1873

nacious mind are the most terrible in
action when driven to desperation.
Seaton, small and weak as he was,
sprang for the captains throat and bore
him back upon the deck, holding him
there with the grip of a maniac. A
sailor, seeing the position of the captain,
ran up and dragged off his assailant,
who struggled for few minutes to free
himself, and then stood quiet and pant
ing. The captain staggered to his feet,
and drew. knife. Seeing that Seaton
was likely. to be stabbed as he held him,
the sailor allowed him to slip from his
grasp. But, to his surprise, the en-
ragged man, instead of retreating, leaped
to one side, and, avoiding the captain,
seized the little girl, and ran with her
astern as far as the quarter deck. Then,
turning, he shouted Now, captain, l
am going under the keel once more-I
and Mary AS he said this, he leaped
with the child over the side, just in time
to escape the grasp of the now terror
stricken father. In a moment the two
rose, struggling on the crest of wave,
at the schooner's stern. Several minutes
had elapsed before the vessel WAS
brought into the wind, and by that time
the suicide and his helpless victim were
beyond all human interference, even if
he had been able to swim, and had de-
sired to be rescued. AS it was, they
had been seen but once or twice rs they
were borne upward on huge waves, and
then disappeared forever from the
anxious eyes of the Mortified father
and the crew. Soon afterward the
mother came rushing on deck /; but too
late to catch even n glimpse of her
drowning child.


Seaton's revenge, if indeed his crime
was not the action of one who had been
driven to maniac, by his wrongs, was
as complete as he could have desired.
The captain never recovered from the
shock. Like many men of ungoverned,
brutal impulses, he possessed the strong
est affection. He was broken man
from that day. That voyage of the
Belle of the Wave was the last he ever
took. When he returned to Charles
ton he gave mp the captaincy, and in
spite of all efforts of the heart-broken
mother, he threw himself into the vortex
of gambling and dissipation, and when
at last he no longer had money to feed
his passion for drink and excitement, he
died in the hospital in a raving delirium
and was buried in n paupcr's grave,
worn and grief-stricken wife.
Year: 1873

keel-hanling, as ordinarily practiced
in former days, was very simple pro-
cecding. The refractory sailor was tied
to the middle part Of a long rope, por-
ton of which had previously been car
ried under the bowsprit and gradually
drawn backward till it encircIed the
waist of the ship. The rope was then
drawn slowl y under the bottom of the
ship, dragging the helpless sailor with
it. 1t was the severest of punishments,
but it is now seldom, perhaps never, re-
merchantmen. The victim always
emerged from the water half drowned,
and often, indeed, he never recovered
from the injury. 1t was found that
person who had accidentally fallen into
the water might stay under twice the
time of one that was keel-hauled, and
yet recover. In fact, it commonly re-
quires eight minutes or longer to drown
person, but a man was seldom kept
under the bottom of ship more than
three, or at most, five minutes. 1t would
appear that the knowledge that he was
about to be immersed in water created
such an excitement and horror in the
victim that when the water entered his
lungs it found them in an unnatural con-
dition, and congestion was undoubtedly
quickly produced, which, if severe,
proved fatal of itself before the man
had time to die of suffocation; or, if not
SO severe, still resulted in more perma-
nent injury than that ordinarily suffered
byapsrson who has been nearly drowned.
fortunately, captains no longer conceive
themselves invested with that absolute
authority which led them to vent their
personal animosity upon those in their
power. Our laws and public sentiment
awakened by successive horrible expo
sures have done much to alleviate the
rigors of the entire system of discipline
on shipboard. ~-a.-


About twenty-five years ago, however,
the large coasting schooner "Belle of
the Wave" was lying becalmed off Pen
sacola Bay, in the Gulf. Her captain
was of the old-fashioned kind of large
hearted, indolent, storytelling South
erners, but with a swarthy complexion,
shifting black eyes, and thin lips that
indicated a relentless disposition if en-
raged. At Charleston he had shipped
as common sailor an Englishman. The
latter Was of a. pale complexion, with
very light hair and small features. His
countenahce was intellectual in its ex-
preston, but showed, also, an indecision
q character and want of that quality
IN the man that helps person to get on
IN the wofid In every intellectual ac-
oomplislnnent he was infinitely the cap
taln's .slperior, and with the strong
Peludices of his type of men, the latter
mad conceived violent dislike for him.
ne had proved to know nothing of the
duties of a~sailor, and had signed his
papers because he had found himself in
utterly destitute circumstances, and had
oeen obliged to do something to save
himself from starvation,


While passing around Florida Keys
'ne new sailor, with an utter ignorance
Oh his place on shipboard, bad gone to
the after deck, where he had been dis
covered by the captain telling his little
daughter some old English fairy, story
hadltbeeh any Of the othethands, the cap
tam would probably have grufly ordered
Year: 1873

A GENTLEMAN going to Texas asked
friend for letter of introduction, The
friend opened drawer, took out large
and handsome spring-bladed dagger
knife and six-chambered revolver and
gave them to him.
Year: 1873

A recent medical writer says: "Sleep
when you can in the cars-anywherc
when you get chance the great want
of the age is sleep" This is not always
safe advice to follow, as a Lawrence gen
tleman knows to his sorrow. He Was
recently affl c,ed with o bad cold, aud TO
cure himself of it, resorted to the methrd
of bathing his feet in warm water. and
drinking tumLler full Of gin and mo
lasscs, prescribed by an aged and re-
spected friend Of the family. Having
got everything in order for carrying out
the prescription, he sat down by the
stove, his pedal extrenitics immersed in
warm water, tumbler Of smoking gin
and molasscs by his aide. In this con
diuon q sense of enjoyment stole over
him as he slipped the exhilirating liquid,
and he fell asleep. His wife had gone
to bed, and on awakening about three
o clock in the morning, wondered why
she was alone. Going down stairs, she
was Mortified to find her liege lord asleep
in the chair, the fire out, his feet i'm
mersed in the water, over which cake OF


ice was formed, and an empty tumbler on
the chair beside hiui. His cold isn't q
Bit better.
Year: 1873

THE LOST City OF BosTON-AN OfD
LADYs I,opE.--Thero are several resi-
dents Of Detroit whose friends took pass.
age on the missing City of Boston, wSrch
went dos q to her ocean grave in such
mysterious manner that her fate has never
been ascertained Although so long
time has elapsed since the steamer was
given up, there are those here who have
the strongest faith that at least some Of
the passengers we're cast on some shore
or island, and will some day make their
escape to tell the sad story. One Of these
is a woman Of sixty, whose manly and
promising son was one Of the passengers


She has subscribed for . Boston paper
for no other reason than that she thinks
the press of that city will be the first to
receive news of the ship AS regularly
as the paper is received she opens it in
the hone that her son's fate may be ex


planned, and disappointment only engen-
ders new hope. His plate is kept at the
table, and to almost every friend who
calls, the mother says: II have not
heard from William yet, but | hope to
this week. The ueighbors feel that the
hope is the only sunlight of her life, and
encourage her IN it. No one bnt mother
couldshope thus against all the rest Of the
world, and none but a mothers hear


would continue SO faithful through al


the long months since the missing steamer
so heavily fre,ehted with human souls


plunged down to her deep.sca grave, Of


was beaten to pieces on the rock of some
forbidding Shore Detroit Free Press
Year: 1873

ing about his door like bees in Summer
time The scandal to the government
is that a Solicitor General should be
sought as sort Of a sink Of corruption.
There was found in the United Stares
a good natured, honest, God-tearing
man. who WAS tavorably inclined, and
he has delivered an opinion in favor OF
the long lost cause The legal lore OF
the D, psrtment of Justice avsils noth-
ing, however, aud until the Senate says
Yea" without subsidy Pom's voice,
the road will not be extended.
Year: 1873

BosroN, March Ia The Supreme
Court this morning decided in favor of
the petitioners restraining the Conn
monwealth of Boston from issuing
bonds loaning the city's credit tor the
purpose of rebuilding the burnt dIs-
trict This decision will tend TO inter
tere with the calculations Of many
builders who will now have to 90 into
the market tor money at a higher rate
OF interest.
Year: 1873

This is the way the doors OF Cornell
University swung open responsive to the
magical rap of the coming woman.
Years before the establishment of the
university there had been a land grant
from Congress to the State ofNew York,
Tor educational purposes, of 999, 900
acres. This was given to Cornell by the
state, and as return, that university
offered each year to receive one scholar
free from every judicial district. In
those good old days il was not thought
necessary to stipulate the scholar should
not be lady, so nothing was said about
the matter, and no trouble came from
the omission until about two years
ago, and then it came i'm the shape of a
very bright young lady, who had grad
uated from her home school and was
prepared to and proposed to graduate
from Cornell. She had been chosen by
her district in consequence of her fitness
Tor the place, and the university author
ities could do nothing but admit her to
examination. She came of Triumphant,
and so was received. But now a new
difficulty arose. There were no DOM
itOries for ladies, and she was told She
might stay, provided she would board
in Ithiea. This would require her TO
walk about a mile and climb a hill.
upon the top Of which the university is
perched, so long and steep that the path
must have been selected just to remind
the student of the trials and difficulties
which beset his path. But she accented
the conditions and climbed the hill for
two or three weeks, and then the roses
she had brought from her rural home
began to fade on her cheeks, and She
had 10 own herself unequal to the task.
and returned home. But she had opened
the way for others, and this year eight
ladies have obtained admission. The
dormitory difficulty has been removed
through the generosity of a Mr.. Sage.
who has given Sl50,0OO to be used in the
erection Of one exclusively for ladies.


1t will not be long Iefore it is COM
pleted and Cornell hereafter will be i'm
partial.-IRter-O Ocean.