smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

The following rules for table eti-
quette will probably be observed as
closely as any that could be given:


I. Do not commence eating before
your host gets through with his
grace. l have known some men to
bite biscuit as large as a blacking
box into half moon, and to have to
hold it between their teeth, under a
suspension of the rules, during bless
ing. This is disgraceful.


2. Do not sup soup with a fork
Your soup will always have you at a
disadvantage with such odds. Be
sides, it is sOup-erfiuOus."


8. In passing your plate to be re-
helped retain your knife and fork in
you vest pocket.


4. When asked for a dish, do not
prOpel it across the surface Of the ta-
bic after the manner or game of
shOvel-bOard; always pitch it grace
fully, after the manner of qCOits. =
This will be "quoit" sufficient.


5. Never try to eat fish with salt
cellar.


6. While drinking be careful not to
empty hot coffee, or anything of that
sort, into your neighbOr's paper col
lar.


Z. Do not eat too fast. You will
not get left if you make up in heroic
doses for fast time.


8. Ifyou find anything suspicious in
your hash, don't eat any more hash ;
and if there is anything wrong with
your butter, propose a toast or tell an
anecdOte.


9. When you burn your mouth
with cold potato, don't whistle or
make faces at the company, but shed
tears in silence.


10. Never leave the table without
asking the lady of the house to be ex-
cused; but if you happen to be at a
barbecue or a free lunch, don't leave
as long as there is a crumb in sight.


If you will studiously observe these
little rules, and don't appropriate your
table napkin under the contemplate
pretence that you thought it was your
pocket handkerchief, you will succeed
admirably.
Year: 1871

A few years ago a society was form
ed in New York for the suppression Of
stOry-tellers. Artemus Ward, Dan
Bryant, Billy Florence, and men oi
that like constituted the active mem
bers. Their plan was, when a man
commenced a story, to get up and
saunter away, one at q time, leaving
the unhappy man to complete his
narration to the chairs and other
furniture.


One day Dan Bryan so far forgot
himself as to begin. a story, forcibly
brought to his remembrance by some
incident of the occasion. Ward got
up and sauntered out, whistling a
melancholy tune.


One by one the remainder followed
suit, with troubled looks and a sad
shake of the head, sometimes sighing
deeply. By the time Dan had reach
ed the middle of his story he was
alone. As the last man had passed
out, Dan, turning to a picture oi
George Washington hanging on the
wall, and remarking:


"Here, old fellow, you've got to hear
the rest of this story; I'd like to see
you get down and walk OFF on your
ear" completed his narrative, the
Father o his Country and Governor
POsy, OF Indiana, listened to him with
that calm benignity so characteristic
of him. 1t needless to say, the story
extiHguishers who were listening out
side, enjoyed this part of the yarn, al
least.


Speaking Of Washington, he
couldn't tell a story, and readily
acknowledged it. He told his father
he couldn't when a little boy although
as things have looked a story would
not let him out. 1t is pity there are
not more people to say with Washing,
ton, 81 cannot tell story, and never
fry IL -
Year: 1871

The young King of Bavaria has an
immense garden on the roof of his
palace at Munich which is said to ri
val the celebrated hanging gardens of
Semiramis. In the center of it there
is lake with fishes and swans SWIM
ming in it, and this is surrounded by
woods in which there are various ami
mails and birds, and also rOck-work
and grottOes. The rocks had to be
followed out before transporting them
to the roof, the better to enable the
building to bear their weight. There
is in the center of the garden a sort of
tent or pavilion of great magnificence,
which no one but the King ever en-
ters. The apartments under the pal
ace roof were formerly occupied by the
ladies of honor, but they have been
converted into stables, because too
much time was required TO hoist
horses to the roof whenever the King
wished 10 ride or drive through this
fairy-like resort.
Year: 1871

Harper's Bazaar has a word of COM
| fort for the girls who are beginning to


Ego off" as our English cousins have
| it:


We say that our friend is passee. Is
she past her intelligence, her good ma
| ture, her power of entertainment, her


wit, her usefulness generally? On
! the contrary, she has usually but just
attained the greater part of them.
She has just attained experience
enough to enable her to comprehend


and join in conversation above the
mediOcrity of gossip and litter and
compliment; her gayety is not mere
giggling, but there is in it something


of the fash of encountering intellects;
she has discretion enough to keep si-
lent, and knowledge enough to speak
on occasion; no longer raw, or shy, or
painfully self-cOnsciOus, her manners


have a charm of ease that gives ease


to all around her; ifshe has accom-
plishments, they are practiced and
mature, and you are spared, for in
stance, the familiar horror of a school
girls music; if sine has not the rosy
loveliness of her youth, she has a
knowledge of the arts of the toilet
that makes her dress perfect and her
self an attractive object; in fact, she


has only become capable of enjoyment
and of giving enjoyment in society;
and so far from the young idiots, who


call her passe, having any right to cast
slurs in her regard, it is she who
should be herself an arbiter of society,


and have authority 20 pronounce


whether or not they are in any sense
| fit to enter the charmed circles. In
deed, it may well excite all the Won
der that it does among the Europeans,
that the young here are allowed to ab-
sOrb all the enjOyments of our social
/ life-the young, who have nothing
/ but their youth or their beauty to


give, whose minds and manners are
almost totally unframed and INSULT


cient; who are, indeed, objects of


pleasure to the eye, and wherein they


yield other pleasure or profit, do so


rather in a subsidiary way than in the
main. We do not wish TO undervalue
| the element of innocence and fresh


ness which the young bring or are


supposed to bring with them; but we


maintain that the virtue of years, with
| a knowledge of the world we live in,
and their preparation for the world we
hope to live in-their wisdom, their


grace and their charity-are of at least


equal value, and deserve equal recog-


milton in the places where men and


women meet together; and we pro-
test against the curling of the "cOntu-


melous lip," over the claims to cOur-
tesy and to consideration of the wO-


man beyond her girlhOOd.
Year: 1871

John Wesley says: ~ dare no more
fret than to curse and swear"


Consider yourself the guardian OF
the character of those who may be
absent, as you would wish others tC
guard your character in your absence


Many say, first reason, emotion last
But in the hymn the same truth may
touch all hearts-as well Lord Bacon
as the poor slave on the plantation.


Let it be deeply craven on oul
minds, that Gods dealings with US,
from regeneration onward, through
all eternity, is discipline, a mould
ing, training, an education.


think, with a shudder, sometimes
of what life would be without Sunday
if day after day the great wheel Oi
the world went around with its cease
less clatter, never a rest in motion
never a pause in sound.


There is a Railroad up Mount Wash
ingtOn. A man who sings through
life is like the man who ascends the
mountain in the car; the man who
does not sing is like the traveller who
pants on foot up the steep ascent.
Year: 1871

There is hardly family that does
not throw away enough table scraps
to keep at least a dozen hens; and
many that keep a nuisance in the
shape of dog, that does no good, but
costs more than a dozen good hens.
One dog in a neighbOOrhOOd is gener-
ally a greater trouble to the neighbors
than a flock of hens would be; for, if
hens are we'll fed at home, they will
rarely go away. But who ever saw a
dog that was not pest, running
across the newly made garden, and
sticking his nose into everything.
Kill of ours and give the food to the
hens, and you will find pleasure as
well as profit in so doing. We wish
there was tax Of 500 on every dog
kept in the country. Those that are
of value as watch dogs, could be re-
/ tanned, while the host of snarling,
dirty ours would give place to some
more useful and less troublesome pet.
Year: 1871

Many members of the old Army of


the Cumberland will remember a GER
tain officer with a DEVILS face and
! brick-cOlOred hair, that seemed always


to say, 81 run this machine, General
and all" The General to whose staff


he belonged never was harsh, except
through this fiend-like officer, who


used sword and boots freely if he


caught any one fOraging without
proper officers. He had q custom of
taking beef, mutton and pork away
from the boys and, making them car
ry rail two hours, let them go. The


boys got a notion that this meat was
not thrown out to spoil, but it was eaten


at headquarters of the division in
fact, they had been seen to use it,
while hummer was carrying his rail.
While at Galesville, Alabama, after


the Atlanta campaign, one of my men
came up to me laughing ready to
split, and told me to see q soldier
equipped talking to about twenty
boys. The story, as he told it, said
hummer had been out and gotta sheep,


and Brick Hair took it away from


him and ate it for dinner, so he con-
cluded: to have a grand revenge
Next day he took his gun and started


out and killed a fine bloodhound,


dressed the hindquarters nicely, and
instead of avoiding headquarters, he
strung the bloOdhOund's hams on his


bayonet and marched for camp by


headquarters. He was promptly ar


rested and duly sentenced to carry the
rail two hours, while the dogs hams


went into the coOk-hOuse. He could
see it cut up and cooked, and in about


an hour he had the satisfaction of see


ing the General and staff stuff them


selves with bloodhound meat. Many


a time have seen that brick headed


officer whip up and get out of the


hearing OF the bOw.wOw the boys


would make. He never heard an end


to the bloodhound while the war last


ed, though the General issued orders


that the boys should treat the officers


of his staff with respect, but that


would not stop the bOw-wOw of the


bloodhound of Galesville, Alabama.
Year: 1871

It seems, curiOusly enough, to be


taken for granted that neither Ameri-
can painters nor sculptOrs can do their


work well at home, or, at least, so


well as they can do it abroad. Thus


we are told that Miss Stebbins, pre-


ferring to like in the United, States,


will abandon sculpture, 'as she can


get no inspiration in America" We


wish that she would try. The human


form, to the delineatiOn Of which her


art is mainly devoted, is TO be found


here as well as in, Rome or Florence.


We are somewhat conventional, IL is


true; but has nature altogether left
US? When are we 20 have Art Of our
own, if we content ourselves with Art
! at second hand from abroad? We can
understand that the sculptor's hand
and eve work with a more agreeable
facility in Italy; but though for a lit
tie while the labor may be greater and
I less satisfactory, there is no obstacle


which may not be removed by a
cheerful hope, an earnest will, and an


unfiagging purpose. Ancient Rome,
I 10 is true, went to Greece for estheti-
cal inspiration; but, admitting the
Roman lack of originality and the
Roman cOarseness, we may vet ask 10


what foreign sources Greece herself
was indebted for what IS called sin
spiration :"
Year: 1871

A man in his carriage was riding along,
= gaily dressed wife by his side;
In satin and Iaces sne looked like 4 queen
And he like a king In his pride.
A wood-sawyer stood in the street as they


passed;


The carriage and couple he eyed,
And he said, as ne worked with his saw on


a log,


"I wish was rich and could ride"
The man in his carriage remarked to hi


wife,


"One thing would give, If I could,
I'd give all my wealth for the strength anC


the health


Ofthe man vino Is saving the wood.
A pretty young maid with a bundle Of work
Whose face as the morning was fair,
Went tripping along with a smile Of delight
While humming love-breathing air.
She looked in the eearriage-the lady she saw
Arrayed in apparel so fine
And said in a whisper, 81 wish in my hear
Those satins and Iaces were mine"
The lady looked out on the maid with hei


work,


So fair in her calico dress,
And said, AID relInquish position and


wealth


Her beauty and youth to possess"
Thus it IS with the world; whatever our lot
Our mind and our time we employ
In longing and signing for what we have


not


UngratefuI for what we enjoy.
Year: 1871

A funny paragraph is on its travels
about girl in Vermont who, having
sued her lover for breach of promise,
laid her damages as follows: Nine
shillings per week for '-setting up, "
with cost of lights and fuel added in.
We may laugh as much as We please
at this, but the girl is a sensible dam
sci, and we hope that she got a ver-
dict. Bringing actions for damage to
the feelings and injury to the heart,
and for the value Of pangs and deli
cate disappOintments, is a great deal
more mercenary than asking for remu-
neratiOn for loss of time and even of
fires and lights. A sharp girl has a
perfect right to say that, but for the
wicked conduct of the dishonest
swain, she might have married some
body else; and lawyers, when they go
to the jury for the swindied plaintiff,
should put the case in that way. 1t
might spoil their eloquent pathosi
hut, after all, that sort of thing has
become hackneyed and unimpressive.
Business is business, and most women
in this kind of litigation mean busi-
ness and nothing else.
Year: 1871

During the cold and cherries days
of winter nothing adds a greater charm
to indoor life than a window full of
growing plants with their bright green
and many cOlOred leaves. Ornament
al fOliaged plants are becoming all the
rage again, and the varieties are num-
erous and fine, but when to these g ay
colOrs are added beautiful flowers,
then the effect is greatly heightened.
Not every one can have the convent
ences of green houses and other ap-
pIiances for producing abundance of
flowers during winter; but every one
with a window that catches the sun
shine can have a few; a teJC be it said,
for half dozen fine plants well taken
care of will afford more satisfaction
and look better than a window crowd
ed with ordinary specimens.


During the summer months when
the garden is all gay with bloom,
hardly a thought is bestowed
upon the coming months when a
check will be put to out door
life, SO. that with winter hand there is
nothing to adOrn the sitting room
window. Plants growing freely in
the ground, or allowed to bloom in
pots all summer, will not be likely
to show many flowers when removed
/ to the house. Plants rooted in spring,
pOtted and kept from towering all
summer by pinching off the buds as
| fast as they appear, are the best to
bloom for winter. Most plants re-
quire a season of rest, afer Towering
freely in order to gain renewed
strength for another season.


Fuchsias with their dropping jewell
/ like flowers; geraniums with their
snowy trusses of many cOlors; carna-
tions with delicious fragrance; roses
ever welcome; and many others, il
treated as above, will make q fine
show in the window, and be the at
traction of all observers. Besides
these an endless and prOfuse display
can be had by growing in the window
/ the many varieties Of bulbs now 50
plenty. These flowers are very gay
and beautiful, and of the easiest pos.
sible culture. The cultivation of flow
ers creates in any one a refined and
ennobling taste, and affords a RELIEF
from the many cares and tolls tC
which are all subject. Especially Is
! it pleasant in winter, when all is SO
dreary outside. Then the few pets
will be tenderly cared for, and as theil
beauties unfold will elicit admiration
from all.
Year: 1871

Western whisky is now raised TO
proof with oil Of vitriol to aceommo-
date the growing callousness Of the
Western palate. The difficulty ex-
perienced by the distillers is said to be
that wIen the liquor is made suffi-
ciently piquant for their customers
throats it burns all the slaves out OF
the barrels.
Year: 1871

The BucyrUs Journal says: 1t used
to be an old remedy that If a person
would become relieved Of a chronic
complaint the invalid should wrap a
lock of hair in paper, and, boring a
hole in a tree, should pin the packet
into the hole. Recently, James H.
Kemmis, while getting out timber
for building at Mr.. Elias Lavely's,
in Milestone township, while split
ting burr oak for pins, came to just
such a charm or remedy in the centre
of tree, which showed a growth Oi
full fifty years since the pin had been
driven in. The pin was Of butternut,
not at all decayed, the OvergroWth OF
the tree was perfect, and the paper
and the hair it contained were well
preserved.
Year: 1871

The other ofces decline to give any figures In detail at
present We learn thabe gross amount OF losses Of the
Union Mutual Marine Insurance Company Is about
1895 coo and Of the Ocean Mutual Insurance Company
ABOUT o7SIOO The Onion will be able 10 pay ell ts
Eases and have 100000 surplus remaining, by
calling in scrip, and the Commercial has FUR
wI be Obliged to make ap assessment on its stock
notes The totals q losses here given include those on
sls TO get full reports of insurance trom any other
sOe but the Insurance as nearly every YES


EeI Is owned In number of small shares, and each owner
exepeises bis own discretion e6out INSURANCE. The fol
Year: 1871

How TO TAKE COP Liver o1L.-Put a
quarter OF an ounce of gum .tragacanth
into pint of water. and steep "a hours,
shaking occasionally so as to insure a fne
even mucilage. Then mix one pint of
oil with pint of the mucilage, and put
them into bottle and shake them until
all the parts are thoroughly mixed. They
cannot separate again, even it the mixture
stands several days. To guard against
souring add tablespoonful of the best
brandy. and favor with any essence you
like. This makes cod liver cream, which
is now so popular. Any one can make it
for himself.
Year: 1871

We are informed that the Rev'd Mr..
Somers has engaged Or. MINORS house on
the hill, and work will be commenced on
It Immediately TO fit it up for tile purpose
of Young Ladies' Seminary, which is to
be under The direction Of Mrs. Somers.
We understand the school viii commence
about the first of April.
Year: 1871

No little CONSERVATION was created in
a South Baltimore City passenger car on
Monday evening, caused by dozen and
more of hard shell crabs making a circuit
Of the floor of the vehi cle These un-
usual passengers belonged to a young
man who had caught them in the vicinity
of Ferry Bar, and gentleman in enter
ing tire car at the corner of Camden and
Sharp streets, accidentally stumbled
against the basket, and in twinkfing
the crabs were crawling about the floor
in all directions. \ lady in the car was
first notified Of the presence of the crabs
by sharp pain III one of her ankles, and
when she discovered what caused the pain
she uttered such scream as almost
threw another lady into spasms. ...


The crab maintained stubborn hold
upon the ankle, and at last a gentleman
essayed to remove the monster, aud in so
doing he evidenced the fact that he was
not posted in the art of pinning a crab,
as the latter quitting lis hold upon the
lady's ankle, caught the thumb of the
gentleman and just here new source of
trouble arose the sudden attack of the
crab caused the man to utter peculiar
expletivc, and in his agony he described
a swift semi-circle with his left hand, and
with such force as to detach the body of
the crab from the claw which encircled
the thumb of the gentleman, aud the
crab went full into the bosom of the
lady mentioned as being almost afflicted
with spasms. Her screams now made
confusion worse coniounded, and in less
than minute after the basket of crabs
had been overturned the liveliest scene
Imaginable WAS going on in that car,
but the crabs were finally captured and
returned to the basket, and quiet restored
''along the line " e .r
Year: 1871

The Boston journal says that Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, who apparently does not care a
e. for the gorgeous accidents of life nor the
facinatiOns of name, and regards literary
work as so much glittering dust thrown into
the eyes Of the public, shows signs of shaking
the dust of Massachusetts from his boots He
has disposed of his elegant city residence and
turned over his delightful country seat mile
and a half from Pittsfeld, to the auctoneer'
hammer
Year: 1871

There was considerable excitement and
trouble in Louisville on Friday, growing out of
an attempt by the colored people to ride in the
street cars along with the whites. The color,
ed people were forcibly elected from some of
the cars, while other cars were abandoned by
the whites The street railroad managers at
meeting on Saturday, agreed that it was use
less to resist or evade the enforcement by the
United States authorities of the colored peo-
ple's claim to ride in the cars. and decided to
open those conveyances to them.
Year: 1871

wish to be suspected of doing so. Indeed, l
should positively decline any offer of a civil or
political position. mean to devote my whole
time in the future to the study of the military
art, not with the view of destroying, but as a
means Of promoting the good of all, even the
lowest classes of our citizens. a#~ ~


Maybe Butler stands chance. Is.
Year: 1871

DELAWARE AND PENNSYLVANIA r. R.
Ground was broken at Delaware City last week
for this road and the work Of grading is being
rapidly pushed forward. There is another
gang of sixty men at work on the other END
near Newark. The whole road, according to
the contract, will be in running order by the
first Of January next. The depot at Newark
will be located on Mr. Deans land, he having
donated to the company two acres for thai
purpose.
Year: 1871

The Emperor of Germany is reported to be
practical printer. All the members of the
royal family Of Prussia are required to learn
some trade, and William chose Typography as
the most desirable craft, and spent three years
at the case.
Year: 1871




The great charity panie of the day
seems to Be oentered on unfortunate Chi
eago, while the suffering Thousands in
Wisconsin aud Minnesota are almost lost
sight of. This, however, is easily &C.
counted for. A rivalry for charity has
oil at once sprung up among our wealthy
cities, and their acts arc more apt to be
hcraldsd abroad when giving to her than
when giving to tho other sufferers, if
anything more needy. Of the millions
that have been given to Chicago, the
most needy, especially those who we're
known only among their limited circle
Of friends, will receive little or nothing,
while those who are more fortunate in
this respect will fare better. We hope it
may not be so, but it wouldn't surprise us
if in few months great cry is raised
about the fraudulent handling of the
money so freely given. It is nearly
always the case when large sums are to
be handled in the manner that this will
have to be.
Year: 1871

REMARKABLE PHENOMENON IN NORTH
CARoLINA.-The Wilmington Journal,
Of last week, says: The very peculiar
appearance ofthe sun, Yesterday At noon,
attracted the presence of nearly all who
we're abroad at the hour. That luminary
appeared to be hidden and his light
obstructed BY a heavy gray mass of
clouds, which extended around it in a
perfect circle Of apparently about Eve
degrees in distance from the diameter to
the circumference. The edges Of the
clouds we're bordersd by a bright ring,
partaking Of many Of the hues of the
rainbow, and this ring was again sur
rounded by large and q more distinct
circle, and this again was cut into to-
wards the North, by another ring, the
Southern portion only of which was Wis
ible. The appearance lasted, in all, for
forty minutes, otherwise the day was fair
and clear throughout.