smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

The blouse basque is tasteful aud
simple garment, to which an air of nov
city is given by adding the blouse fronts
and belt. To do this the basque is first
made complete in every part, except
that the standing collar is not sewed on.
This basque, says the Bazar, has long
side forms behind, with seams begin
ming on the shoulders and extending to
the end of the basque, without added
fullness on the tournure. To prevent
this back from looking too plain, a sash
of the material is sewed into the side
form seams and tied low down on the
middle seam in loose long -looped bow.
The fronts have two darts, are buttoned
from the throat to the waist, and fall
open below the waist. A wide belt of
four upturned folds of the silk begins in
the seams under the arms, and is fasten-
ed by three small buttons and button
holes. The blouse fronts are then
made of two straight pieces of the dress
material long enough to reach from the
throat to the belt, and each about two
and half fingers wide for busts of ordi-
nary size. The sides are plainly finish
ed with half-inch hem done in blind
stitches. The upper part is shaped out
to fit the neck, is gathered and tasted
to the neck, extending back to the
shoulder seam. The sides are not sewed
to the basque, but are left quite sepa-
rate; the front parts lap sufficiently to
conceal the buttons of the basque be-
heath, and appear as one straight gath
cred piece. The lower end is straight,
and after being drawn up with gathers
to much smaller space than the top,
is bound, and the binding is tucked
away out of sight under the belt. The
effect of this simple blouse front is to
give full and graceful roundness to
the bust, and also to add very pretty
trimming. On cashmere dresses trimmed
with silk the blouse is of silk. On silk
dresses it is of the dress silk, or else of
the velvet, lace, or tulle used for trim
ming. The standing collar is then add
ed, and the waist is completed. Very
girlish dresses made with the blouse
front dispense with collar of the dress
goods, and have instead narrow stand
ing gathered ruffle of the material
around the neck, and above this the
lace frill or linen collar appears. The
plain coat sleeves have cuff headed by
bias folds.
Year: 1876

to dawn on his eye, first the sloping
roof, then the massive chimneys, then
the front of the edifice, and then its
windows, all crowded with soldiers in
their crimson attire, whiskered face ap-
pearing above face, with grisly musket
and glittering bayonet, thrust out apon
the air, while with fierce glances the
hirelings looked forth into the bosom of
that fearful mist, which still, like a
death shroud for millions, hung over the
lawn, and over the chimneys of the
house.


The young officer came steadily on,
and now he stood some thirty psces
from the house, waving his white flag
ON high, and then with an even step he
advanced toward the hall door. He ad-
vanced, but he never reached the hall
door. He was within the scope of the
British soldiers vision; they could have
almost touched him with an extended
flag staff, when the loud word of eom-
mand rang through the house, q volley
of fire blazed from every window, and
the whole American army saw the fog
lifted from the surface of the lawn, like
vast curtain from the scenes of mag
nificent theater.


Slowly and heavily that curtain up
rose, and hail storm of bullets whistled
across the plain, when the soldiers of
the Continental host looked for their
messenger of peace.


They beheld a gallant form in front
of the mansion. He seemed making an
effort to advance, and then he tottered
to and fro, and his white flag disappear
ed for a moment; and the next instant
he fell down like heavy weight upon
the sod, and hand trembling with the
pnlse of death was raised above his
head, waving white flag in the air.
That flag was stained with blood; it was
the warm blood flowing from the young
Vjrgipian's heart.


Along the whole American line there
rang one wild yell of horror. Old men
raised their muskets on high, while the
tears gathered in their eyes; the young
soldiers all moved forward with one sud
den step; a wild light blazed in the eve
of Washington; Wayne waved his drip
ping sword on high; Pulaski raised his
proud form in the stirrups, and gave
one meaning glance to his men; and
then, through every rank and file,
through IN every column and solid square,
rang the terrible words of command,
and high above all .othor sounds was
heard the voice of Washington:


"Charge, for your country and for
vengeance-charge I"
Year: 1876

THE REAsoN.-Charles III. once asked
a body of savans why it was that live
fish placed in a bucket of water did not
increase its weight, whereas when dead
fish was placed therein it became heavi-
er. Many were the learned theories
put forward to account for the alleged
fact, and it was not till some one more
shrewd than the rest proposed that the
experiment be tried that it was found
that the phenomenon under discussion
had no existence except in the imagina-
tion Of the witty monarch.
Year: 1876

Rock-a-by baby, on the treetop!
When the wind blows the cradle will rock.
But the cradle Of liberty never will fall,
Though the boughs do wave and the tree is go


tall.
It's simple contrivance, dear. having a


spring,
That will hold you and rock you. as safe as a


king;
You can see the whole world as your eyes grow


strong
The wonderful world that's been growing 80


long,
That is wiser, my dear, and Drawer and truer
Each year as it grows. or this we're sure
And this is by babies, in all times and lands,
Froic and crow and toss up their hands.
Year: 1876

TAKE your choice. Plato said:


All men are by nature equal, made
all OF the same earth by the same
workman; and, however we deceive
ourselves, as dear unto God is the
poor peasant rs the mighty Prince" :"
Dr. johnson said: 80 far is it
from being true that men are natu-
rally equal, that no two people can
'De half an hour together but one
'sball acquire an evident superiority
over the other"
Year: 1876

recalled the order. The huzzar, in
turning, made a circuit, but the
other passed within a hundred
yards Of us, upon which l advanced
from the wood toward him Upon
my calling him, he stopped; but
after looking at me, he proceeded.
| again drew his attention, and
made signs to him to stop, leveling
my piece at him, but he slowly can
tered away. AS was within that
distance at which, in the quickest
firing, I could have lodged half a
dozen balls in or about him before
he was out Of my reach, | had only
to determine; but it was not pleas
ant to fire at the back of an unof-
Tending individual, who was then
acquitting himself very coolly Of
his duty, so / let him alone. The
day after, l had been telling this
story to some wounded officers who
lay in the sameroom with me, wher
one of the surgeons, who had beer
dressing the wounded rebel officers
came in and told us that they had
been informing him that Genera
Washington was all the morning
with the light troops, and only at
tended by a French officer in huz
zar dress, he himself dressed an(
mounted in every point as abov,
described. | am not sorry that


did not know at the time who j


was.
Year: 1876

Major Ferguson, who command
ed a rifle corps in advance Of the
huzzars under Knyphausen, during
some skirmishing day Or two pre-
vious to the battle of Brandywine,
was the hero of a very singular in
cident, which he thus relates in a
letter to a friend. 1t illustrates in
a most forcible manner the over
ruling hand of Providence in di-
recting the operations of mans
mind, in moments when he is least
of all aware of it: We had not LAIN
long when a rebel officer, remark
able by a huzzar dress, pressed to.
ward our army, within a hundred
yards Of my right flank, not ther
perceiving us. He was followed by
another dressed in dark green anc
blue, with remarkably high cock
ed hat, and mounted on a ba.
horse. / ordered three good shot


to steal near to them and fire a


them, but the idea disgusting me
Year: 1876

Chicago Tribune.l m


New YORK, July 1.-The habi-
tues of the Brunswick about a year
ago will remember pretty widow
who came, and saw, and conquered
a half dozen hearts in as brief time
as ever masculine flirts were
brought to the feet of female love
illness. She was a Californian, and
when her husband died supposed
herself rich, but her property con-
sisted mainly of those uncertain
Pacific coast mining stocks, which
are up to-day and down tomorrow.
When she came to New York her
San Francisco attorney advised her
that the stocks in which her for
tune was invested had declined to
a point which reduced her almost
to beggary. She sold her diamonds,
curtailed expenses, and began to
think seriously of the future. The
places that knew her so familiarly
were lost to her gaze, and in q
modest, retiring sort Of way the
widow endeavored to live quietly
and economically. This life con.
tinued nearly a year. She haC
never parted with the stocks, how


ever, for the reason she could no
find a purchaser at satisfactory
price. About two weeks ago tn,
price of stocks began to rise, an(
on Saturday last q certain Pacifi,
coast mining firm on Broad stree


bought the certificates of stool
from the widow for $175, 1000 il
I gold. She is in high feather again
and by iudicious investment hope
to realize sufficient income to liy
comfortably the rest of her life


Yesterday the widow started TO


Europe on the Bothnia, with som
California friends, and once more i
a woman of fortune.
Year: 1876

The following were the receipts and shipments OF
the leading articles Of produce in this city during
the twenty four hours ending at o'clock on
Saturday morning, and for the corresponding time
last year:
Year: 1876

The dress in which George Wash
ington generally appeared at church
was q laced hat, stonecolored coat
with gilt buttons, blue surtout, buff


knee breeches, boots and gilt spurs.
Being held the best horseman and
boldest fox hunter in Virginia, it
was natural that he followed the
fashion prevalent among the young
gallants and came to church on
horseback. He used a Pelham bit
and generally rode with holsters at
his saddle peak, The portrait by
Peale, which is considered by his
relatives the most correct one repre-
sents him at the age Of forty in the
uniform of colonel of the twenty
second Virginia militia. There is
no trace of resemblance to the
grandmotherly portrait by Sturat,
even allowing for the difference Of
age. The former agrees in personal
appearance with the character given
him by neighborhood traditi0n-a
bold, dashing gallant, even after his
marriage; rather foppish, to win a
lady's smile or the fox's brush.
Year: 1876

Des Moines uowal Register.


Yesterday morning two women
in the west part of the town gave
birth to children in the same room
and at the same time, The woman
who cared for the little strangers
bathed and clothed them, and start
ed to present them to their waiting
mammas. Then she made the
startling discovery that she had in
extricably mixed the infants so that
she was unable to decide which
was the mather Of either, The
two mothers cast lots for choice,
agreeing that if the children should,
when grown, develop family traits
sufficiently to identify them they
should he exchanged if the selec-
tion should prove to be incorrect
Year: 1876

Instead of excluding the sunlight from
our houses, says the Manufacturer and Build
er, lest it fade carpets, draw flies and
bring ferckels, we should open every door
and window and bid it enter. It-brings life
ard health and joy there is healing In its
beams; it drives away disease and damp.
ness, mould, megrims. Instead OF doing
this. however, many careful housewives close
the blinds, draw down the shades, lock the
door, shut out the glorifying rays and re-
ioice in the dim and musty GOODNESS and twi-
light of their unhealthy apartments. 1t u
pleasant and not unwholesome, during the


glare of the noontide, to subdue the light
and exclude the air quivering with heat, but
in the morning and in the evening we may
freely indulge in the sun BATH and let II
food all our rooms, and If at its very herce-
est and brightest it has full entrance to our
sleeping rooms, so much the better for us.


Wire netting in doors and windows excludes


not flies and mosquitoes only, but all other
insects and those who have once used it will
continue to do SO. With this as protection
from intrusive winged creatures one may al
most dispense with shades and shutters and
enjoy all the benefits of an open house with
out any annoyances so frequent in warm


weather. But better the annoyances with
sunshine than freedom without it. Statistics


of epidemics have shown that if they rage
in any part of a city they will prevail Ia
houses which are exposed to the least sum
shine, while those most exposed to it will
not be at all or very slightly affected. Even
in the same house persons occupying rooms


exposed to sunlight will be healthier and re-


pulse epidemical:: influences better than those
occupying rooms where no sunlight enters.
Year: 1876

Take sheet of stiff writing paper and
fold it into a tube ap inch in diameter. Ap-
ply it to the right eye and look steadfastly
through it, focusing the eye on any conve-
nient object; keep the left eye open, now
place the left hand, held palm upward,
edgeways against the side of the paper
tube, and about an inch or two above It's
lower end. The astonishing effect will be
produced of a hole, apparently of the size
of the cross section of the tube, made
through the left hand This is the hole in
which we propose to msteriaize another and
smaller hole. AS we need genuine aper-
ture and it would be inconvenient to make
one in the left hand, let sheet of white pa
per be substituted therefor and similarly
held. Just at the part of the paper where
the hole equalling in diameter the orice of
the tube appears, make an opening / inch
in diameter. Now stare intently into the
tube; and the second hole, defined by its
difference of illumination, will be seen float
ing in the first hole, and yet both will be
transparent. The illusion, for of course it
is one of those odd pranks our binoculary
vision plays upon us, is certainly one of the
most curious ever devised. Besides, here is
the actual hole clearly visible, and yet there
is no solid body to be seen to define its
edges. 1t is not mere spot of light, be-
cause if a page of print be regarded, the
lines within the boundaries of the little
hole will not coincide:at all with those sur
rounding it and extending to the edges of
the large apparent aperture. Each eye OBJ
viously transmits an entirely different i'm
preston to the brain, and that organ, una.
BILE to disentangle them, lands us in the pal
pable absurdity of materialized hole.-
Scientific american
Year: 1876

ABOUT STOLEN PEA Charlemont
marketman, says the Springfield Union,when
delivering goods one morning, discovered, ,on
leaving the house of customer, a custard
pie sitting in window, where the lady OF
the house had placed it to cool for dinner.
He at once appropriated it, and, driving
directly to the store of the lady's husband,
called him out and told him he had "hook-
ed" nice custard pie, and if he would get
some cheese they would have nice time
eating it. OF course the cheese was forth
coming, and, after satisfactorily disposing Of
the pie, the question arose what to do with
the plate. The merchant said he would take
care of that, and, suiting his action to his
words dashed it against the wall. When the
merchant went home to dinner that day, his
wife apologized for not having any dessert,
saying she made custard pie for dinner, and
set it in the window to cool ,and she supposed
some boys must have stolen it. Her husband
wasn't pie hungry, and seemed quite pleased
about something, but kept mum" Next
morning the merchant, meeting the market
man, sung out "Pie" In reply, the
other said Cheese And whose plate
was that you smashed ?'
Year: 1876

Macaulay, when child, had little plot
of ground at the back of his fathers house
which was marked out as his own, we are
told, by a row of oystershells which maid
one day threw away as rubbish. On dis
covering the act. the little fellow went
straight to the parlor, where his mother was
entertaining some visitors, walked into the
circle and said very solemnly; Cursed be
sallyp For it is written, Cursed be he
that remoyeth his neighbors landmark
Year: 1876

AT Cincinnati recently an assessment of
ten cents scholar was leTied in one of the


schools for Centennial stationary. The pa


rents of one little girl declined on principle
to send the dime, holding that the tax was
an assumption and presumptuous. Another
little girl could not get the dime, perhaps
because her parents were very poor and the
names of the children were displayed for
several DAYS on the blackboard under the
words. very conspicuously written, ''No
money The Commercial characteri-
yes the proceedings as an outrage.
Year: 1876

from colamities compared with which
those Of his own wars seem slight. His
responsibility is as great as his power.


The'Pal Nall Gazette says it does not
see the advantage of such course. 1t
hopes the English government will with.
draw from diplomatic attempts which
are too plainly exposed to Illustration by
disguised or enforced hostility. 1t says
if we withdraw from interference at this
point nothing worse can happen than if
we 60 farther into negotiations SO hope
less of good results. 1t iswith an almost
ineXpressable shame that we read, and
know that all Europe will read, the alb
ject cntrcaty of our leading journal to
Prince Bismarck to save us and all man
kind from the terrible Muscovte. With
what scorn will this be read by the Rus.
sian war party. We may rely on it the
Prince Bismalk will do what he thinks
good for the empire in his keeping, and
it may be, he thinks, Russia at war with
Turkey rather desirable eventuaity.
Russia must begin by fighting somebody
and somewhere, if she is to be shattered
and be no longer menace in actual hate
and possible alliance against the German
empire.


PoRT RIcHMND, Pa, Oct. ia
sanguinary conflict between a number o
tramps and drunken miners occurred
this morning near Shamokin, in til,
Northumberland coal region, The fgh
lasted several hours, and resulted in th
death OF three particlpants,-onc mine
who MAS, until recently employed in til
collieres OF Mineral Run Mining Raj
road Company. Subsequently some str


ers from one OF the mines in the district
also engaged in the riot. One Of thesC
known as " Big Bully" was thrown owe
an embankment along the Shamoki
, branch of the Northern Central milroaC
and instantly killed by a passing train
90 heavily loaded cars passing over hin


After the fight some Of the party went t
another part of the region rear tn


Schuylkill county border, and committee


numerous acts Of violence.
Year: 1876

We neglect drainage. The only safe
way with farming is in dry and porous
soil; and this can be known in our cul-
tivated clay land only by test. The post
hole will serve for this. The past sum-
mer row of post-holes were dug early,
and lett open during the season. The
land was the usual tillable soil-drift,
with considerable clay-and bore tolera-
BILE crops of grass and grain, including
sometimes corn and winter grain. The
winter grain would sometimes be severe
ly hurt. Corn, the past summer, did re-
markably well, and the land being put
in good condition for it, and the season
favorable that is, there was less rain
than usual. Yet during the entire sea-
son, water remained in most of the post
holes, TO the surprise Of those who to-
wards the close of summer found it there.
II however lessened gradually, though
very slowly. AT the end of the season
there was water rstilI in few of the holes,
and these on the higher part of the
ground. In wet season, or severe
winter, this soil is sure to suffer, and the
crop with it; and yet it is considered a
dry soil. The grass and grain on such
land will suffer more or less, the land be-
ing kept cold and sour. There is much
soil Just like this. To drain it properly
is usually to double the yield for num-
ber of years, paying in two or three
years the expense of draining.-F. G. an
Country Gentleman.
Year: 1876

The Colorado potato beetle is likely TO
cause some special legislation, inasmuch
as there are scores Of farmers who will
plant potatoes and then not kill the bec-
ties which feed and breed thereon. We
have seen a number of instances of this
kind the present season. and as soon as
the beetles have devoured the leaves of
one field they Immediately take TO an
other, If it is in condition TO supply them
with food. Now, it is question which
must, sooner or later, he decided In our
courts, whether man has the right TO
feed millions Of this pest for time, and
then let them loose upon his neighbor's g
fields, who, up to that time, may have
kept his potatoes clear of both beetles
and larve. A man has no more moral
right TO breed insects to prey upon his
neighbors' possessions than he has wolves
bears, or other larger animals. IL our
laws do not afford the necessary protec-
ton, then some should be made 20 meet
the case in point, and that, too, very
speedily. y.-Rrdi New Yorker.
Year: 1876

The practice of enriching or restoring
thefertility Of the soil in orchards by turn.
ing under clover has been found to have
one serious drawback If the trees are yet
young. The clover must grow at least
one year in order to become strong
enough to give a good coat of manure,
and this year Of clover seriously checks
the young trees. The practice has re-
Gently been adopted by some good orch
ardists of plowing in buckwheat. The
seed is cheap, and the seeding is very
easily done; the soil is made loose and
mellow, and there need he no check to
the trees-especially if the buckwheat is
sown about midsummer, after the trees
have nearly ceased growing, the crop to
be turned under before much grain has
begun to form. A correspondent Of the
New York Times, in recommending this
crop, says that il the buckwheat is sown
earlier, a second crop may be had from
the scattered seed of the first, and that it
helps to destroy the codling moth, as
many will hide in the buckwheat, the
second crop Of which is burned late in
autumn.