smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

This is the latest school boy compost
tion: az go to school to learn to read
and rite and siphor to slide on the ice
and traid off an old nife if l have one,
in summer to pick wild flowers and
strawberries and to get out of work hot
days, some boys has to go to school to
get out their mothers road, but | would
rather stay in winter than to go to miles
and set by n a cold stove and freeze my
toes. 1 like to go to school to see the
teachers scold the big girls when they
cut up. Some goes to school to fool but
! go to study when we are old we can't
go to school and then we feel sorry that
we fooled when we was young and went
to school. don't get no time to fool
anyway for have enough to do when
it comes to my geography"
Year: 1875

REMEDY FOR CRoUP.-IIalf tea
spoonful of pulverizcd alum in little
molasses. 1t is a simple remedy, one al
most always at hand, and one dose sell
dom fails TO give relief. 1t should,
be repeated after one hour.


FooD FOR CHILDRES.-At the recent
medical congress held at Marseilles, the
majority Of the doctors present agreed
that the best possible diet for children
was oatmeal porridge and sweet milk.


To Cure HoARsENEss.-W the
voice is lost, as is sometimes the case,
from the effects Of cold, simple and
pleasant remedy is furnished by beating
up the white of one egg, adding to it the
juice of one lemon, and sweetening with
white sugar TO taste. Take teaspoon.
frl from time to time. 1t has been
known to efectually cure the ailment.


Burns AND Whatever IS
good foT one is just az good FOR che 9th.
or. Cold water or snow will remove the
first fire or cold, then essence of pepper
mint, or strong solution of alum water
will harden the skin and draw out the
pain. Great care should be taken with
burns or freezes, not 10 break or rack up
the skin; and never put on drawing
ponltice, it makes a big sore. \ cloth,
with little mutton talIow or some soft
oil spread upon it, will keep out the air
and heal it where the skin is torn up


BEsT CURE FOR SORE THRoAT.-
Buy at any drug store one ounce Of
camphorated oil, and FIVE cents worth
Of potash. Whenever any soreness ap-
pears in the throat, put the potash in
half tunbler of water, and with it
gargle the throat thoroughly, then rub
the neck thoroughly with the camphor-
ated oil at night before going to bed, and
also pin around the throat a small strip
Of WOODEN flannel. This is a simple,
cheap and sure remedy. On going TO
bed put a small lump or piece Of chic.
ride Of potash in the mouth. Let it lie
in the mouth, and the cold viii be gone
next morning.
Year: 1875

Mrs. Cooley, of Danbury, takes con-
siderably more interest in politics than
is compatible with the peace and good
order of the domestic hearth. The other
evening, according to the veracious
News, Cooley and his brother-Inlaw
were carrying the piano down stairs,
and after an awful moment of suffering
on Cooley's part they got the instrument
down as far as the first landing. They
were just trying TO get aronnd the cor
ner after having gouged three or four
chunks of plaster out of the wall and
broken two of the banister rails, and
Cooley, beaded all over with perspira-
tion, was just wondering whether he
couldn't relieve his feelings by splitting
the piano up with an ak, when Mrs,
Cooley made n remark. She was stand
ing below in the entry, very cool and
comfortable, and she could have brought
that piano down without running the
wall, when at this critical moment il oc-
CURED TO her to ask Cooley if he thought
Grant really did want third term. 1t
was the one straw too much. Cooley
dropped the piano on the landing, and
dancing down stairs in frenzy of rage,
he addressed Mrs. Cooley upon the gen
eral subject of her failings and foolish
ness in such language that she put on
her bonnet and went home to her mother,
with the expressed intention of taking
steps to procure a divorce upon the fol-
lowing Monday. IL seems to have
blown over, however, for only yeste, day
she was at home talking over the fence
with Mrs. Pitman about the propriety Of
trimming a brown overskirt with pink
silk. Her yearning about Grants de-
signs seem to have been satisfied some
how.-[Max Adeler.
Year: 1875

enough for man to light on, and no
more; he scrambled down a moment ere
the woman came rolling on. put out his
hand toward her, caught her shawl and
tore it from her body as she Hoated
down, and stared in horror as the wood
en- rag hung dangling in his grasp. The
snicide had kept her promise, and es-
capped from her imaginary poverty into
eternal sleep.
Year: 1875

The wonderful surgical operation per-
formed on the person of Clara Morris,
the well-known New York actress, in
Paris, is described in a letter from a
friend Of that lady. Miss Morris dis
ease was curvature of the spine. Three
years ago it could, probably, have been
arrested but it was crisis in her pro-
fession, and upon success in suTmounting
many obstacles her whole future seemed
to depend and she could not spare time
for medical treatment A sea voyage
failed entirely to produce any change
for the better and the fat of the highest
medical authorities abroad confirmed her
worst fears and condemned her to ter
rible operation, the same to which Chas.
Sumner submitted to for the cure of the
same disease. Its main feature Is the
burning of the flesh of the back from the
neck down to the waist with red hot
irons. The operation was performed in
Paris in the presence of Mrs. Worthing-
ton, Miss Gabrielle Greeley and Sir
VIM. Belmore, the attending physician.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley also writes a let
ter to New Yorker in which she says :
"Poor Clara was obliged to sit on low
chair with her back barred, and she went
through the operation with her face pale
and rigid as marble. DIR. Bevlin lit his
furnace. and the roaring of the flames
that were to heat the iron to a white
heat in few seconds was dreadful to
hear. and while this was going on, Prof.
Ball marked with pencil the line the
iron was to follow on either side of the
spine. Every touch of the pencil sent
a thrill through the frame of the poor
victim, but the Professor had scarcely
ended marking the pencil marks, when,
with fash the iron was applied. 1t
was dreadful. The white point seemed
to sink an inch into the quivering form,
and it was all over. The doctor said II
was a wonderful exhibit of nerve
Year: 1875

AMERICAN HERoIsM.-The centennial
celebrations all over the country will
teach us this also, that in the final con.
secrating grace of any scene upon the
globe, namely; the display of the high
est human heroism, our own soil is as
rich as any upon which the sun shines.
Hawthorne, who lived in Concord. be-
walled the want of romantic suggestion
in this country, yet afterwards, in his
Septimus FELTON,, he showed that his
own quiet village and its famous day
were as full of romantic and moving in
cident. as any spot or time in history.
Where. in any annals, is there more
striking and poetic story than of the
midnight march to Concord, and the
country rising behind the invader p
What element of romance is wanting to
the scene of Ethan Allen, entering the
fortress, whose name of Ticonderoga is
full of resounding music, and which is
set amidst every picturesque charm Of
landscape, and summoning the surren-
der in the name of the Great Jehovah,
and the Continental Congress. Even
the tender grace of Phil Sidney's pure
devotion in handing the cup of water to
the dying soldier is emulated by the re-
ply of the young man mortally stricken
upon a battle field in the late war, who
refused to allow his comrade to leave
his gun to give him drop of water
If America is not classic ground, there
is none. If our own story does not in
spire our imagination, imagination has
expired.
Year: 1875

"The mental effects of cold" is the
title of a paper in the last number of
the Spectator, in which the writer en-
deYors to prove In a very satisfactory
manner that the mental effect of severe
cold on social and individual characters
are discernible in one or two different
directions. Men are aware Of consid-
cradle addition to the draft ON their
energy IN severe weather over and above
chat Of ordinary weather In delicate
and middleag person the effect is to
exagerate the economical reserve and
frugal parsimony Of their character
They economlze their fuel by taking
care never to do superfuous things
Every day that severe cold lasts they
feel a need OF sharp moral and intellect
ual discipline to get through their or
dlnary tasks Getting up itself is a
great expense OF energy; the strong at
fractions of the fire, if not resisted,
dissolve away a larger amount Of disp-
osable time; cold feet make serious
drafts on the temper, and cold beds
cause a dreadful dwindling in the stock
of sleep, not to speak Of colds in the
head, the teeth, and the liver. L man
is not nearly SO great man in cold
weather as IN warm. He shrinks with
himself, aud feels Of no account. He
can scarcely feel bumptuous enough to
issue great orders when his nose is blue
aud = <S-v"s are watery. The sense
OF dwindIed existence takes down all
his pride. He ekes out his moral
resources frugally, but has nc joy in his
frUgality. He becomes, in short, sort
Of moral icicle
Year: 1875




While this winter has not been intro
dnced with financial panic, as last win
ter was. there is no d1sputing the fact
that ''times are dull" Whether there
is scarcity Of currency generally or not
there is unquestionably deficiency Of
currency in the pockets Of the average
individual. From the larger cities We
hear despairing cry from thousands
Of mechanics or artisans out of employ
ment. through the closing ofIarge man
ufactores, &c. From certain agricul-
tural regions Of the West, the touching
appeal of actual starvation rings on our
ears. In all the country. from the
centers of commerce to the newly plan
ted towns on our railroads, there ap-
pears to be an unusual stagnatiOn Of
business, and which can scarcely be
traced up to the late panic as the
cause.


So far as the West is concerned, we
look at the coming spring as promising
an activity Of business which will make
up amply for the winters dullneSs.
And when the rebound in the West
shall occur, the East will respond by
the opening of its manufactures. the
offer Of full employment to all who will
work, and the opening of a trade with
western merchants far heavier and safer
than that of last spring. With the
abundant crops of last season, and the
money they Will bring to the West,
certainly before spring comes, the West
mnst be flush in funds. The Chicago
Tribune estimates the money that the
farmers of the Western States have
received for their hog crop not includ-
ing cattle) at S151, 100000. And
this money is not boarded, but passes
into all the departments of business
wherever it circulates, and everywhere
loosening uo the wheels Of trade. All
this is bound to make the good time
coming, come along very rapidly.
Year: 1875

se.freiianee. Teach them that a
good, steady, mechanic, without a
cent, is worth a dozen oily pates in
br9adcloth. Teach them not to have
anything to do with Incorporate and
disselute young men. Teach them ac-
complishmentS-music, painting, draw
ing, etc, if you have the time and
money to do it. Teach them not to
paint and powder. Teach them to say
No, and stick to it. Teach them to
regard the morals, not the money Of
their beaux, Teach them to attend to
the essential requisites of a useful
lite-truth, honesty, uprightness-then
at a.sucable time to marry Rely up
On 1t, that upon your teaching depends
IN great measure the veal or woe of
their after life.
Year: 1875

GIVE them good substantial COM
mon education. Teach them to cook
a good meal. Of y;ctuals Teach them
to darn stockings and sew on buttons,
Teach them how to make bread.
Teach them all the mysteries q the
kitchen, the lining room, and the nar-
lor. Teach them that the more one
lives within his income the more he
will save Teach them that the fur
ther one lives beyond his income the
nearer he gets to the poor house.
Teach them to wear calico dresses
and do it like queens. Teach them
that a rosy romp is worth fifty deli
cate consumptives. Teach them to
wear thick, warm shoes. Teach them
to foot up store bills. Teach them
that God made them in his own image.
and that no amount Of tight-laeing
win improve the model. Teach thcp
Year: 1875

One Of the best looking aud most
sought after young business mem Of
Utica, n. y, had his gallantry put to
a severe test last week. 4 Charming
married lady friend wagered SD
with him that he dare NOT carry her
baby through one Of the most popular
streets of the city, and feeling par
ticularly brave. he accepted the
wager The baby was the prettiest
little seven months old mortal in
Utica, and is the idol Of ifs handsome
father and mother. The mother and
other friends Of the child were to
follow in a carriage to see that the
task vas completed according to the
terms Of the wager. The supposed
Father and his elegantly dressed baby
attracted general attention upon the
business portion OF the street. The
gentleman's' friends were not certain
that they had heard Of his marriage,
and he had been seen at the opera
house frequently Of late. and each
titiiC Will Il AtltGicHt ilidliiifT. t1NL
this must have been owing 10 the
absence of his wife from town. The
hour chosen was one in which he
generally takes an airing, and all of
his window friends expected to see
him, hut-not with baby. Then
the baby commenced 10 get uneasy,
and it was hard work to mold it out
at arms length. Three or four
merry maidens in an uptown resi-
dence rustlad the curtains in such a
manner that the perspiring toiler
knew that he was seen, but he was
bound to win, and win he did. When
the mother received her darling child
from the hands Of the brave one, cold
and huge drops Of perspiration poured
from every pore of his face, his neck
tie was gone and his collar unbut-
toned. The next time he carries a
baby through the street he is conf
dent that it will be his own, and that
the other stockholder to the cherub
will be within reach.
Year: 1875

The proprietors of a Cleveland
newspaper have recently applied an
apparatus to their Office chimney
which is said to be perfect preven-
tive of smoke and a great saver of
fuel. Its discovery was purely acci-
dental. As mechanic was trying
to secure better draft for a sluggish
fire the thought occurred to him,
after other devices had failed. to try
the effects of steam. A small pipe
was made to conduct the dry steam
from the top of the boiler to the mp
per part of the furnace. which it en-
tered in two small Jets, striking down
ward on the burning fuel. No sooner
was the steam injected into the fur
mace thsn the sluggish, smoky fire
spraag up into clear, bright yellow
ish and intensely hot flame, filling the
whole furnace witha loud roar. The
man found he had not only secured a
strong draft, but something much
more Important smokeless fire.
Year: 1875

The Dubuque Times says: at is
very suggestive that Senator Schurx
and Fenton, the two leading Glib
erals Of the Senate, in explaining
their votes on the Finance bill, said
that while its provisions We're not full
ly satisfactory to them they voted
for it for the sake Of harmony and 'sto
strengthen the Republican party in
II Q coantrv.s
Year: 1875

ask one little boon


OF the New Year;
May ! through all its days
Garry some cheer
To those who sit In gloom,
Weeping for loss;
To hearts that slowly break
Under cross.
l who have left my dead,
With none to care;
/ who have wept alone,
Facing despair
Would gladly sweeten lives,
And make them dear
This little boon ask
OF the New Year.
They best can serve the gods
Their errands run,
Who call no love their own,
Under the sun.
Let me bear help to want,
And hope to fear;
ask no other boon
OF the New Year.


Prom the il,liae for January.
Year: 1875

Walking in the streets Of Cleve-
land the other day young lady met
a gentleman whose offer to marriage
she had some months previously re-
jected. She had repented her hastily
formed decision and informed him Of
the fact in this shrewd style: ''You
have no tact in this matter of love-
You should have asked me again."
Year: 1875

DETAILS OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE EDHICE


BY FIRE


From the London Telegraph. February 81


TN Saturday afternoon the Theatre Royal, at
Edinburgh, the principal place OF amusement in
that city. was burnt to the ground. The first
alarm was given By an explosion which took place,
apparently, ut the top OF the building Immediately
over stage and the property and dressing rooms.
This was a few minutes past two O'Clock, and
within quarter Of hour OF the treasurer leaving
the house after making the weekly payments.
The effect OF the explosion was to blow open
the inner doors and those In front oil the building
As soon as entrance had been effected the
scenery and stage effects were found to be on fire.
and from these intammable materials the flames
were communicated IN an incredibly short period
10 the rest Of the building. BY the time the nrsv
engine had arrived much OF the WOODWORK
HI become ignited, and the flames were
bursting through the roof 1t was then
Year: 1875


This beautiful poem was composed years
ago by Henry Stanton, Maysville, Ky. Such
gems of poetry are not often met with. writ
ten by authors whose names are never known
in history:
Is there no place on the face of the earth.
Where charity dwelleth, where virtue has


birth?
Where bosOms in kindness and mercy will
And the poor and the wretehed shall ask and


receivey
Is there nc. place on earth where knock


from the poor
Will bring kind angel to open the doOr2
All search the wide world wherever you can,
There is no open door for the moneyless man.
Go look in the hall where the chandelier light
Drives off with its splendor the darkness Of


night;
Where the rich hanging velvet in sh AdOwy
Sweeps gracefully down, with its trimming of


gold.
And mirrors Of silver take up and renew
In long lighted vistas the 'wildering view;
Go there in your patches, and find ii you can
A welcoming smile for the moneyless man.
Go lock in your church of the clOud-reaching


spire,
Which gives back to the sun his same look of
fire,
Where the arches and columns are gorgeous
within,
And the walls seem as pure as a soul without
sin;


GO down the long aisle-see the rich and the
great,
| In the pOmp and the pride Of their world
estate;


Walk down in your patches, and find if you
| can,


Who opens pew for mOneyless man.
Go look to your judges, in dark flowing gown. 4.
I With the scales wherein law weigheth quietly


down,


Where he frOwns on the weak and smiles on
| the strong,
And Furnishes right while he justifes wrong;
| Where jurors their lips on the Bible have laid.
| To render verdict they'v already made,
Go there in the courtroom. and find if you
| Any law for the case of a moneyless man
Go look in the banks, where Mammon has
told
His hundreds and thousands of silver and


gold;


Whers, safe from the hands of the starving
| and poor.


Lies pile upon pile of the glitteriig ore;
Walk up to the counter-ah, there you may


stay,
Till your limbs have grown old and your hair


turns gray,


And you'll find at the bank not one of the


clan


With money to lend to moneyless man.
Then go to your hovel-no raven has fed
The wife who has suffered so long for her


bread;


Kneel down by her pallet and kiss the death
| frost


From the lips of the angel your poverty lost
Then turn in your agony upward to God,
And bless while it smites you. the chastening


rcd;


And you'll find at the end Of your life's little
There welcome above for the moneylesi
man,
Year: 1875

A Paris correspondent says "At the
corner of the Bouleyard Haussmann and
the Pepiniere Barracks large circle are
laughingly applauded without my being
at FIRST able to understand the ground OF
their appreciation. On approaching
nearer find Paris gamin, his blue
blouse turned up to the elbows and his
cap all on one side over his right ear,
who is performing with four hard snow
balls after the fashion Of Indian jugglers.


He stops now and then to tell the
spectators with the peculiar voice
Year: 1875

A few weeks ago, gentleman
living in an Eastern town was called
out of his bed one morning by several
vigorous raps upon his front door
lie hastily dressing himself, respond
ed TO the call, aud found standing
upon the steps an uncouch, roughly
clad boy, with an axe upon his
shoulder, who, hastily thrusling his
hand into his pantaloons pocket drew
out a small roll, and handing it to
Judge H, said:


There's seventy-live dollars, which
| want you to put into the savings
bank" and hastily turned on his heel
and started away.


The Judge. slightly Disconnected
at the curious proceeding, scarcely
knew what to say. till at length re-
covering his wits, he cried out after
the boy.


"Stopl come back here. How did
you come by this money ?"


81 WORKED AND EARNED 1T, sir
My time was out last night, anu
got my money. | got a job cbopping,
which | began on this morning, and
| thonght would leave the money
with you as went to work, then it
would not occupy my time this even
ing when | want to study"


What is your name, boy?" asked
the judge,


| wrote it on the paper that
wrapped the money in," shouted the
little wood-chopper as be passed on
to his work.


That boys note for a thousa.ld
dollars due ten years hence, would be
as good as gold. If he has his health,
he will be worth double that then.


He is beginning in the right way.
The very day bis time was out for
summer, he entered upon another job,
and Immediately put the money be
had worked for where 1t would work
for him and with an economy of
time which is more to be praised than
bis wise forethought with regard to
money, he could not endure to have a
moment devoted to anything but his
books when the long evenings came
Five years from today, with a good
education, with good habits, with
few hundred dollars which be has
earned by work. his chances for
place in the business aud political
world will be far greater than those
of the spendtbrift boy who, born with
fortune, begins without knowing the
worth of money, and instead of going
up, goes down
Year: 1875

tempted to establish that the blood
on the axes was the result of their
having been used to chop up meat for
the sixteen dogs, of which the accused
were owners. A butcher was brough,
in who testified that the accused had
bought ment of him for some time
previous to the commission of the
crime of which they were charged.


Witnesses were also introduced to
prove that the accused had been in
the habit of cutting meat for the dogs
with axes This was shown, but the
witnesses could not identify the axes
in court as the ones they had seen
used


There is another circumstance of a
tragic nature that in this recital of
the case must not be omitted


When the matter was undergoing
investigation before Judge Staes,
some eXcitable individual in the crowd
outside the bar shouted Hang them. ;"
The wife of Jacques Delma arose
from her seat near her husband, look
ed in the direction from whence the
cry had come, made a step or two
forward, and dropped dead-N. o
Bulletin,
Year: 1875

This is generally very delicate
and tedious task In the effort to
plow as closely as possible so as to
lessen the work of spading, we are
apt to get too close and mar the trees
with the whiflletrees or yoke. To
avoid this | have adopted the follow
ing plsn:. Hitch the team to q front
bob sleigh, then lash a stick across,
letting it project ls inches Oh the near
side; attach the plow to the end of
this; one runner will follow the near
horse in the furrow; the plow can
then be perfectly controlled. And |
can plow every inch Of the ground
without manning a single tree. The
dirt is then spaded back to each tree.
In an orchard Of 1900 trees this
saves an immense amount Of labor.
Any person can adjust the stick to
sui. himself. Of course the drift will
he slightly increased, but there will
be no barking Of trees.-H, Seneca
Grange