smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875




.aH Home, just published by Dodd 4 Mead,
says:


The face of the American woman is
more beautiful than that of any other
country. 1t has delicacy of color and
feature, and .faesse and intellectually OF
expression but the body supporting the
head, regarded from an artistic and hygi-
enic point of view, is inferior. For
breathing and digesting the upper part is
lacking in depth. In a word, the Ameri-
can woman IS more fragile she is hardly
q Diana. and the French is something
more. although not the Hebes of Rubehs.


The French woman's face is as hand
some as that of any other in Europe, and
fades more slowly. AT forty she glides
into an embonpoint with an unwrinkled
face and good compassionate the age
when an English woman becomes heavy
necked and frowsy, and the American
pale and wrinkled. The climate has
something to do with this, but doubtless
her nourishing food, generous wine and
outdoor air much more Her mode of
living contributes thereto-the exercise
and development of each function in a
more natural aud sensuous manner than
with US. There are ascetic ideas in
America which have tendency to retard
the physical development of women, for
mind molds matter The extremes of
Amerlcan life are unfavorable to a healthy
growth, in its fastness as well as its asce-
ticism, where the flesh is corrupted by
dissipation or mortified by certain reh-
gious teachings. Aside from these
causes is the prevalent notion that it is
beneath the dignity of man or woman
TO occupy themselves with what they
shall eat and what they shall drink.


The American has more intellect than
her French sister. but the latter has soft
ness where she has pertness. There are
nervousness, excitability and cleverness
in one, mellowness and equality of char
acter in the other. The forced, brilliant
vitality of women in America is subject
to fits of reaction. for nature has its lim-
its. In the French woman the mind is
more even and cheerful. and in the alb
senee of exhaustive and regular demands
made upon it, the uniform health is
better


In qualities of purely mental charac-
ter the equal of American women cannot,
perhaps, be found in the world but
with all her knowledge and Intellectual
activity she lacks that which made the
Greeks what they have been, and the
French what they are-organic cultiva-
ton. Entwined in these words are taste
and art. A ripper civilization, though not
a purer, shall invest her with a knowl-
edge of these things. and harmony of
character not now possessed. and with il
will come, alas that decadence in NOR
ais which always marches on the heels of
the beautiful in every age and in every
cline. sE
Year: 1875

RETURNED TO LIFE. .--Brest is q good
deal perplexed by this incident A sea-
man died at the Naval Hospital there


The usual escort was ordered to attend the
funeral, and did attend it. Three hours
after the interment, to the astonishment
of the officer who attended the escort,
who should he meet in the street but the
very man, alive and well, whose funeral
he had few hours before attended 1t
seemed the seaman had fallen in leth-
argy; taken to be dead, he had been car
ried to the dissecting room, where he lay
on Q dissecting-table for twenty-four
hours, when he came to his sense, found
where he was, and considered the peril
in which he had been placed. When the
coffin came, the first handy corpse was
tossed into it, and was buried as being
the aforesaid seaman.
Year: 1875

WHAT Cincinnati whisky will do for the
intellect is sufficiently shown by this lit
eral copy of a verdict rendered day or
two ago by a Cincinnati Coronor's jury
g We, the jury, find that the said Louis
Fellman came to his death by shot acci-
IDENTIFY went off by himself by killing a
cat by shooting the same and when she
was not dead instantly by striking the
cat with the breech of the gun and the
load discharged ITSELF
Year: 1875

In 1841 the population of Ireland was
eight million one hundred and seventy
one thousand one hundred and twenty
four ; in 1871, five millions four hundred
and twelve thousand three hundred and
seventy-seven. In, the last census there
were seven hundred and twenty-four per-
sons returned as over 100 years of age.
Year: 1875

In her last letter from Paris, Mrs.
Lucy Hooper relates the following
story: ~ t3


One of the strangest and most horri-
BILE of sensational incidents took place
the other day at Putneax. A party of
children who were playing In the en-
virons discovered floating in the air
and partly entangled amid the limbs
of tree, a white parcel upborne by
some twenty or thirty little red toy
balloons, which were attached to it,
The attention of the police being
called to this singular object, it was
brought down and the package
opened, which proved to contain the
corpse Of newborn infant. Investi-
CATION into the matter brought out
these facts:


The child was that of toy-maker
and his wife. Just after the cOnfine-
ment OF the latter, the husband had
died suddenly, and all the household
goods and chattels had been seized for
rent. The unhanpy woman was
driven mad by this accumulation of
misfortunes. She killed her infant
and then went and threw herself into
the river, leaving behind her written
paper in which she declared her in
tention of committing suicide and she
had "gotten her baby all ready to go
up to heaven" A sadder tale with a
stranger termination would be hard to
find. The toy balloons evidently had
formed part Of the dead husbands s
stock in trade.
Year: 1875

While he was President pardon
case was brought to him by an East
Tennessee lawyer, his neighbor and
friend. The case was one of unusual
hardship, involving the remission of a
wrongful fine. The lawyer had got it
through the Department of Justice,
and carried it direct to the President,
in order to secure his client against
imposition and extortion, as the docu-
ment should be returned through its
circumlocultous official channels.
Johnson had the pen in his hand and
was about to sign. "Bob,n says he,
"nobody is going to make anything
out of this, is there?" "Not a cent,
except my fee of $780, Johnson i'm
mediately tore up the pardon and
threw it into his waste basket. "By
ca says he, ''if your mans able to
fee a lawyer, hes able to pay his fine
to the Governmental Courier Jour
nal
Year: 1875

Report reaches us that a man has
been lying on pile of straw opposite
the Philadelphia Brewery for several
days past, sick and destitute. We
commend the subject to any who may
be inclined to demonstrate a little
practical christianity as Sabbath
service.
Year: 1875

4ou may Oo as Z on Lake, Abont This,
Let those who maintain that instinct is
the sole governor of, an animals motion sit
down and hear about bulldog at Alex
andria. Va. The bulldog bad com
batwith a fellow eur, and found in the
course of the conflict that The fellow cur
was toon much for him. When this fact
had made its way through his skull the
wOrsted dog fell dead and motionless to
the ground. The victorious dog gave his
PROSTATE form a parting chew or two, and
then strutted around with an air of impor!
tance BETTING the occasion. Ina short
time he took up the line of march fur
home. AS his footsteps were dying away
in the distance the eye. of the prostrate
dog slightly unclesed., Seeing the victor
10 the distance and on the retreat be
opened his eyes wide. and when the victor
turned corner and was out Of sight the
PROSTATE dog arose from the earth, shook
the dirt from his garments, and logged. off
home with a broad grin on his face = Are
we to be told that such dog had no sin
tellect' into him ?"
Year: 1875

The Ellsworth Cornet Band on their
return from Franklin last Tuesday night.
came near meeting with a serions accident
As they were coming down Egypt Hill,
the brake gave way, the horses started on
a run. and near the bottom of the hill.
some of the horses fell. Fortunately. the
carriage was not upset. and no one was
injured.
Year: 1875

TnKr got m surprise party Thurs.
day night last on young married
couple. At whose house in Swampoodie
n similar affair was one Of the social suc-
cesses Of the last season. The conspir-
ators were met calmly but cordially at
the gate by the husband, who rested on
his shotgun. while his beautiful and 40.
complishsd wife. whose sweet face and
form were visible inside the porch. said
she was very glad to see them, but .he
didn't think ahe could hold the bulldog
back moro than minute longer!
Year: 1875

GRuBs ASD iiCKs Mr. George
f. Robinson Of Ferrisburg, VT, SAYS
wood ashes, sprlnkled upon the
backs of beet cattle that are to be
kept late, will kill the grubs, so that
they wi / not injure the meat at all.
Put it on two or three times in the
first half of January, two good hand
tuls at a time when the hair Is lit


tie damp, is the best time. When
one skins The animal, he may see
where the grubs were. but the meat
will be of the natural color, and all
right | al+o know that sulphur ted
to sheep will drive away. the ticks,
and keep them away. A table


spoonful of sulphur 70 two quarts Of
salt. well mixed, is about the right
proportion and it should be given
about twice a month, while the sheep
run to grass. l have tried it for
more than twenty years, on Hocks Of
from 100 to 500 in number. and the
S .eep have been almost entirely free
from ticks during the whole time"
Year: 1875

MAKE OTHERS HAPPY.-Whicl
will you do smile and make cthers
happy, or be grabbed and make
every ybody around you miserable
You can live, as it were, among
beautiful flowers and singing birds,
or in the mire, surrounded by fog.
and frogs. The amount of happiness
you can produce is incalculable ifyou
show smiling face and kind heart,
and speak pleasant words. On the
other hand, by sour looks, cross sorda,
and fretful disposition, you can
make number of persons wreiched
almost beyond endurance. Which
will you do, Wear pleasant counte-
nance, let joy beam in your eyes. and
love glow in your face3 There are
few joys SO great as that which
springs from kind act or a pleasant
deed, and you may feel il at night
when you rest, at morning when you
rise, and through the day when about
your da ly business.
Year: 1875

The Troy Tunes relates this: a
young lady in neighboring village
accepted an invitation from a young
gentleman to ride. and when the
gentleman came with his horse and
buggy. the lady found it impossible
to get in, SO closely had she adhered
to the prevailing fashion of drawing
her dress tightly about her She
asked to he excused, and going into
tho hous,. let out two or three reefs
in her dress. when she was enabled
to get into the buggy"
Year: 1875

A man whose wife hung herself in
his presence, on being asked why he
did not prevent the tragedy. replied !;
81 cut her down three times last
week, and l can't be always cutting
her down"
Year: 1875

We ask the special attention of the busi-
ness men Of Jackson to our schedule of ad-
vertising rates for THE DAILY CLARION.
They are exceedingly low, and must COM
mend themselves to all who have any faith
in printers ink. TIE business season has
now opened, and for the next few weeks
The CLARION will be extensively circulated
in Jackson and elsewhere throughout the
State. Send in your orders.
Year: 1875

DEATH OF A HUNDRED MILLION
AIRE.-Advces from New York say that
VIM. b. Astor, son Of the celebrated John
Jacob Astor, died a few minutes before
nine O'Clock in the morning, at his resi-
dence on Lexington avenue in his eighty
fourth year. He was one Of the wealth
lest holders of real estate on the Conti
nent, and the well known founder Of the
Astor library, and for his many gifts to
the city of New York and its charities.
His death was not unexpected he had
been i'll for some time. He was born at
No. 100 Broadway, New York, March,
1871. He inherited about 20,000,0 900 at
the death Of his father and his wealth has
been constantly increasing. 1t is almost
impossible at present to estimate the
amount of his wealth, but il is stated on
apparently good authority that the value
of his property may be safely put at not
less than one hundred million dollars,
nearly all in rented real estate, chiefly in
the city of New York. lie was thorough
ly educated and well versed in literature,
but of retiring disposition and mingled
but little with the world.
Year: 1875

TIE SOLDIER AND STATEsMAN.-Al-
though soldier, educated to love the
smoke of battle, General Grant has prov
ed himself in the management of our civ
il affairs To be IA statesman of no common
merit. We quarreled with England and
ugly words invited bloody war, and yet
the world can testify that at Geneva was
accomplished the grandest triumph of
modern craftsmanship. Was Grant the
soldier or statesman in this quarrel Z?
Spain gave us much trouble, and still
continues moody and sulky, and vet the
dignifed policy of the present Admins
tration forces her down upon her knees
no standing army, no navy, nothing but
the word Of command, and the justice of
our cause. With Mexico we are in trou-
BILE, but Grant has already proved himself
equal to the task, and bloody war will
be avoided. The defamers of our Presi-
dent forget the debt we owe to General
Grant, in their wholesale denunciations.
Let us be just to the soldier and the
statesman. San Jose Patriot.
Year: 1875

A New IDEA.-The Legislature of
Texas has enacted that teachers in coun-
try or ungraded schools shall receive
from the county treasury ten cents per
day for each pupil who is that day in
actual attendance during school hours
Under this plan the teacher has an incen-
of every child in his or her district
Under the old system of a fixed monthly
salary large or small attendance pro-
vded the same amount of money for the
teacher, and consequently small atten-
dance was the most wished for, as it
reduced the teachers labor, at least these
were the arguments used ip the Legisla-
ture by the advocates of the law.
Year: 1875

CURE FOR SCANDAL.-The following
is sure cure for terrible disorder of the
mouth, commonly called scandal"
Take Of "good nature" one ounce Of
an herb called by the Indians mind
your business" one ounce mix these
with little "charity for Others" and
two or three sprigs of keep your tongue
between your teeth" Application-The
symptoms are violent itching in the
tongue and roof of the mouth, which
invariably takes place when you are in
company with species of animals called
gossips. When you feel a fit of it coming
on, take a spoonful Of the mixture ; hold
it in your mouth, which you will keep
closely shut till you get home, and you
will find complete cure. Should you
apprehend a relapse, keep a small bottle
full about you, and on the slightest symp-
toms, repeat the dose.-Er.
Year: 1875

WARLIKE NEws.-A special dispatch
from Washington says: "The naval
preparations continue, and several officers
received orders to-day. Congressmen
say that within two weeks they intend to
know what it all means. There has been
a strong effort on the part of several new
ly-arrived Congressman to fathom the
mystery hanging over Secretary Robe
sons warlike preparations. The conclu-
sion reached by some of them is that the
President has decided to recommend to
Congress the immediate recognition OF
Cuban belligerancy. Cuban represent
atives here stoutly defend that course as
a necessary party move, since, as they
argue, if the President doesn't do this the
Democrats of the House will immediate
ly propose and pass resolutions Of recog-
milton. Whatever these preparations
may mean, they still continue. In addi-
ton to the fitting out Of sea going vessels
of the navy, all receiving ships are per-
forming active duty. Certain army Of
icers seem TO feel convinced that the end
of the present movement is to be inter
ference in Cuba, and they are comparing
views as to the time it will take to with
draw the cavalry and infantry forces
from the frontier, and replace them with
volunteers, whom it would be necessary
to enlist to take care of Indians. From
the temper Of a number of prominent
representatives now here, it is evident the
Administration will meet with able, pro-
lorged, and bitter opposition in any at
tempt to involve the country in war on
account of Cuba
Year: 1875

In all the commonwealth there will
be no effective impediment to Democracy
There is not enough of any other party liz
Office anywhere with which it can share
the blame or the glory Of the administra-
ton. The time has therefore arrived
when its professions will be put to the
severest test. We shall know during the
next two years what Democracy really
means as an administrative agency. If
in the sequel it should be found that it
has forgotten its mission, it will be ex.
cluded from power until its misdeeds
again pass from the public recollection
8. +. ButtettR.
Year: 1875

THE Nevada Centennial Commission
ers have addressed a note to the Commits
soners Of California and Oregon, asking
them to unite in the establishment of Il
" Pacific Coast Headquarters" at Phila-
delphia. The suggestion seems to be a
good one, and will probably be acted
upon. They propose to erect a suitable
building for the convenience of people
from this part of the world, and as a
place to meet for information.
Year: 1875

A WILD goose flew into Oregon, and its
crop being opened revealed a new kind
of grain. From the seed forty bushels
have been raised, and the Oregon farmers
are sitting ON the fences with their elbows
on their knees wondering what they shall
call the new kind of whisky they will
make from it.-Net0 York Herdtd.
Year: 1875

THE Cincinnati Gazette says that upon
the eve of presidential election the Dem
ocratic party is burdened with large
majority in the Lower House of Congress;
a contest for speakership general war
upon presidential asprants within its
ranks dispute as 20 whether the rag
baby is dead or alive general set back
in the State elections, and other troubles
too humorous to mention,
Year: 1875

During the late freshet the waters of the
Mokelumne River overfowed a portion
of the town of Woodbridge, and was a
foot deep on the floor of the Union Hotel,
or eighteen inches higher than it reached
during the food in the winter of 1861 2.
Year: 1875

A WASHINGTON special states that the
President in his annual message will
report to Congress to build ship canal
connecting the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans. He will argue for route via
Nicaragua, as it would pass through a
rich country, and one free from the NAL
arious influences which abound in the
Tehauntepec and Isthmus OF Panama
routes
Year: 1875

The journals of San Benito county are
advocating that the expense of the Vas
quez trial should be borne by the State
and not fall wholly upon that new county.
A bill to this effect is in preparation for
introduction in the State Legislature.
Year: 1875

THE Democrats appear to have carried
Mississippi by purchasing negro votes at
two dollars each, which is a cheaper and
safer way than to resort to cold lead.
The Southern Democracy are following
the example of their New York brethren.
Year: 1875

SAN FRANCIscANs say that there is
more cash in San Francisco now than
there was when the Bank of California
closed, but the people are Withholding it
from the banks and putting it into real
estate or other things, while the banks
are retaining their coin.
Year: 1875

Ten more monitors are to be put in
order for battle, and the navy on foreign
stations is called home so as to be prepar-
ed for any emergency Beneath all this
smoke there must be some fire, and
whether Spain or Mexico is the cause,
we shall soon know.
Year: 1875

From The Newburyport (Mass.) Herald.
A New York pictorial publishes an illus
tration of "Comin' Thro' the Rye" and
blunders into what we presume is the pop
ular misconception of the ditty, giving a
laddie and lassie meeting and kissing in a
field of grain. The lines


If aladdie meet lasse


Comm thro' the rye,
And especially the other couplet:


A'the lads they smile on me


When comm thro' the rye
Seem to imply that traversing the rye was
a habitual or common thing, but what in
the name of the Royal Agricultural Society
could be the object in tramping down a
crop of grain in that style? The song per-
haps suggests harvest scene, where both
sexes, as is the custom in Great Brit
ain, are at work leaping, and where
they would come and go through the field
indeed, but not through the rye itself, so as
to meet and kiss in it. The truth is the
rye in the case is no more grain than Rye
Beach is, it being the name of small,
shallow stream near Ayr, in Scotland,
which, having neither bridge nor ferry, was
forded by people going to and from the
market, custom allowing lad to steal a
kiss from a lass of his acquaintance whom
he met midstream. Our cotemporary will
see that this is the true explanation if he
will read Burns original ballad, in which
the first verse refers to the lass wetting her
clothes in the stream:


jennie is a wat puir bede.


Jennie's seldom dry;


She drag'lt a her petticoatie,


Comm thro' the rye.
Year: 1875

lFrom the Rev. Edwin M. Longs History of Hymns


and their Authors.nJ
Utter rthoughtlessness is sometimes man
ifested in the announcement of unsuitable
hymns. On a bright Sabbath morning a
pastor gave out the expressive evening
hymn commencing:


.s Saviour breathe an evening blessing,


Ere repose our spirits seai.n
During the preaching Of a farewell ser
mon by a clergyman, the people were SO
melted down with emotion, and the speaker
was so much affected that he was scarcely
able to proceed. Calling upon ministerial
brother to close the service. the latter an
nounced the hymn:


Jesus we lift oRr souls TO Thee,


Thy Holy Spirit breathe,


And let this little infent be


Baptized into Thy DEATH
In some churches ehoirs are permitted to
sing their own voluntaries with which to
close the service. At the funeral Of dis
tingnished gentleman of Massachusetts,,
the singers sang of their own accord:


Believing we rejoice


To zee the enrsc removed
Year: 1875

awe knows the public is down on us, !"
remarked the old milkman, as he dipped
out the desired quart from one of the big
cans, "but the public is mistaken. In the
fust place we put in leetle water-only a
blt--to make up for shrinkage. 1t goes to
the big dealers, and they amt a bit keerful
when they gifts to pouring in water. They
sells it to the groceIs, and they put in chalk
with one hand and water with the other,
and they are thinking of politics and get in
too much. The servant gal goes after milk
for the family, drinks third of it, and she
puts in water to make up the measure; and,
you see, when the family gifts it the taste
amt there, the look amt there, and they
goes for us poor old men who hasn't dis
honest hair in our heads. That's the way,
mister-gee up, there, Homer p'
Year: 1875

The Last Pipe IN the Poor House,


FROM copE's ToBAcBo-pLANT 5
But little they know and less they care,
These crowds that pass in the glitter and glow,
So proud of their high position.
What it is TO be held in the parish fold,
And fed on hunger and clothed with cold, II.
With the last crust gone and thelast rag sold,
And the soul on the edge of perdition
Icoud preach EN- a sermon but need my breatl
To blow my one comfort 'twixt this and DEATH
From bowl that's black as my heart is;
Yes, Yes, old pipe, thou art black and foul
just hs TO be stuck in my ugly Jowl.
fonr one eye CLEANS like the eye of an owl,
Unfit for respectable parties


AS to the starvation, well, can say
I've lived upon that for many a day,


Till my SKINS too big for its scaffod,
Therell be the lees to bury no doubt,
When they cover me in and carry me ont,
There isn't worm butll turn mp his snout
At finding himself SO baffied.
Gone ont, my Old piper We'll, need not wait,
For / hear them unbarring the dingy gate;
wish t would close me forever
Lie safe III my bosom till morning comes,
To find you again in my toothless gums,
While seek for refuse in filthy slums,


And warm my old bones with shiver.
Now, what the pauper dreamed in his dreams
l cannot tell, noryou but it seems


That his sleep was sound and lasting.
When the summons came to go breaking stones
They found just bundle of senseless bones,
And the coroner said, in plainest tones,


- The cause Of his death was fasting!"
One hand was grasping his pipe fu ! fast,
And fighting death for that till the last,
HIS cheapest and dearest treasure.
However they bundled him into a she'll
And hurried him off to his grave pell nell,
And all the tears that oyer him fell


Might be kept ir bottomless measure.
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