smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

DR.. Dio Lewis says, to get plump, 30
TO bed at half past eight or nine clock,
and don't be in a hurry about getting
up in the morning. On going to bed
and on getting up in the morning,
drink as much cold water as you can
swallow. Soon you will learn to drink
two tumblers; and some may learn to
drink still more. Drink all your stom-
ach will hold. Spend good deal of
your time in the open air without hard
exercise, but exposed to the sun. If
practicable, ride in a carria some
hours every day. Remain out enough
to give you good appetite, but don't
work hard enough to produce excessive
peIspiration. Eat a gooi deal of oat
meal porridge, cracked wheat, Graham
mush, baked sweet apples, roasted and
boiled beef; though the vegetable part
is more tattening than the animal part


Lie down an hour in the middle of the
day, Just before you take your dinner,
to rest; if possible, take a little nap
Cultivate jolly people. "Laugh and
grow fat rests upon a sound physiolog-
ical basis. A pleasant flow OF the social
spirits is a great promoter of digestion.
Keep your skin clean, sleep in room
where the sun shines, keep everything
sweet and clean and fresh about your
bed, sleep nine, if possible ten hours in
twenty four, eat as have told you, cul-
tivate the Jolly spirit, and III six months
you will be us plump as you could wish.


A PARIS journals tells of man, re-
Gently arrived in that city, who is the
victim of steam boiler explosion to
such an extent as TO make necessary
the following additions to what is left
of natures handiwork after the acci-
dent One wooden arm and two wood
en- legs, glass eye. Il nose made from
the skin of the forehead, silver Jaw, a
palate composed of bit of caoutchou,
and Il stomach consisting of sort OF
truss. He will max the tour of Europe
as an artificial curiosity.
Year: 1872

In ranging pictures of any sort, let
them he within the line of the eye
where one is standing, Five feet from
the floor is usually quite high enough
for pictures of ordinary size in ordinary
rooms.


THE most economical way to remove
dry paint from window panes is to
make small swab, having handle
some eight inches long, dip it in Il little
diluted oxalic acid, and rub Oft the
paint with a swab.


To REMOVE proud flesh, pulverize loaf
sugar very fine, and apply it to the part
affected. This is new and easy rene
dy, and is said to remove it entirely
Year: 1872

This is ordinarily esteemed so simple
q process that most housekcepcrs will
regard such Il recipe supertluous; but,
in our judgment, half the bacon eaten
is undcrdone, and therefore salty,
tough, and, in a word, unpalatable. 1t
is always best to wash a ham the day
before you wish to have it cooked. and
let it soak in water all night. If you
wish it for , o'clock dinner, put it
upon the fire by o'clock in the morn
ing in an abundance of water to cover
it well. Keep it slowly boiling until
you are ready to dish it up for dinner.
You may ascertain if it is sufficiently
done by the readiness with which the
bone on the under side may be re-
moved. If it comes out easi Y. the ham
is done. You may remove IT, outside
skin or not, rs you choose. Some
epicures think ham ruined if either
skinned or cut until perfectly cold,
esteeming it so desirable to retain all
the juices. If time allows, the prettiest
way of serving up ham is to take off
the skin after being thoroughly boiled,
to CRATE bread crumbs thickly over the
top, and brush the whole over with the
yolks of eggs, Now put in an oven and
brown nicely. Remark-lf, during the
process of boiling, it be found necessary
TO add more water, be sure that it is
boiling, for cold water will inevitably
render the meat tough.
Year: 1872

The bark Moneta, lying at the foot OF
Orange street, was still watered by two
tug boats at late hour yesterday after
noon. The fire existed in two places in the
lower hold, and had burned through the
lower deck in one place. The cotton was
entirely wet, and was being discharged in
that condition.


How much damage the cotton or the
vessel sustained by fire can not be def
nitely ascertained until the cargo is all
discharged.


Captain Forsett states that the first mate
of the bark, who is charged with being I'M
plicated in the larceny Of cotton Tuesday,
and afterward setting fire to the cargo, was
seen going up the river Tuesday on steam
boat. Fred Columbus, who was arrested
Tuesday night, also charged with being
concerned in the burning Of the vessel, is
stilFconfined in police station, and it is
said that several important developments
now involved in mystery will be made
when an examination is held.
Year: 1872

A newspaper in Bainbridge, Georgia, is
edited by very fastidious man. Hear
what he says: ''To see wasp wasted
young lady, in ringlets and abundance OF
founces, gracefully sail to the head OF the
table, and with voice as angelic as tenor
flute call to the waiter for a mess OF cold
possum and kollards, is the most trying
thing romance can encounter"
Year: 1872

Twelve years ago Hon. F. c. Whipple
was brilliant and prosperous lawyer in
Howell, Michigan. Last week ne died OF
intemperance, and was buried out OF the
Masonic charity fund, from which for some
time before his death he had been sup
ported. During this time his beautiful and
accomplished wife has become insane, and
his four lovely children are penniiess and
scattered, no two living together.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Greeley writes to confectloner that
in making calves-foot jelly the Durham
breed should always be selected. Take a
live calf, place the hind feet in corn mill
and then commence to turn, and the jelly
will flow out in it's crude state. Collect this
in a nan. and throw away the calf.
Year: 1872

The speech of Hon. Carl Schurz, at the
Cooper Institute meeting, last Friday night,
occupies this morning the sixth page of the
REPUBLICAN. Of course it will be read by
all who can read.
Year: 1872

Tho shadows lay along Broadway,


Twas near the twilight tide,
And slowly there lady fair


Was walking In her pride
Alone abe walked-yet viewlessly


Walked spirits BY her side.
Peace charmed the street beneath her feet,
And honor charmed the air,
And all astir looked kind on her


And called her good and fair
For all God ever gave to her


She kept with ehary care.
She kept with care her beauties raro
From lovers warm and true,
But her heart was cold 10 all but gold,
And the rich care not to WOO.
All honored well are charms to sell,
When priests the selling do!
Now, walking there was ono moro fair-
A slight girl, lily pale
And she bad unseen company


To mako the spirit quail
'Twixt Want and Scorn she walked forlorn,
And nothing could avail.
No mercy now can clear her brow
For this worlds peace to pray
For as loves wild prayer disso.ves the air,
Her woman's heart gave way;
And tho sin forgiven by Christ In Heaven
BY man 10 cursed away.
Year: 1872

considered the weaker vessels. were
expected to be strong enough 10 crush
out from their natures all love and all
weakness.


felt that day that il I could not
soon get away by myself, in privacy,
and give vent to my overcharged feel.
ings, should certainly 20 mad.


: 1t was only in the dead of night,
In my own chamber. that gave away
to the terrible anguish that was con-
suming me. God aud my. own soul
can alone bear witness to that time of
Woe. That night was to me such that
even the most God -forsaken might
pray never to know; and morning
dawned without my having for mo-
ment closed my eyes.


It was all over now. Nothing re
mained but for me- to face the fearful
reality day after day and hour after
hour. do indeed believe that a man,
II he could have felt as | did then,
would have sunk bet cath the trial.
Who but a woman could endure such
things and yet live had been mar
ried then about Rfteca years.


Utah as a great mining region is
surpassed by no other place on the
continent, and this coming season
will fully prove this fact. Mining is
the only great resource Of the country,
with just enough agricultural and
grazing lands to supply the demand
that the mineral resources will create,
and thus n,ake wealthy and prosper
Gus people. But over-tocked with a
superabnndance of high pressure re-
ligion on the one hand, aud The show
Of religion on the other


Brigham Young i. still prisoner in
his own house, guarded by United
States Marshal. Still he once in
while goes out for ride on the rail
road, and occasionally attends an even
Ing ball, so frequent among the Nor
mons. The old maii. II IL. is over 40
years Of age, still enjoys the fan Of
uaNeiiiS Niti tbs gus WiltcH proves
that his head Is level and his heart as
gay and festive rs ever.


Our assurances are that Utah will
not be admitted as State this winter,
although the latest dodge is the prom
ise to make il Republican and cast its
vote for Grant. which chaff | do hope
won't fool the Iowa delegates in Con
gress, for when it is once in it will re
turn to the twin relics of barbarism,
SO fondly esteemed by democracy.


SPICER
Year: 1872

Did it ever occur to you as you SIT
iuwu - your comfortable dinner or
tea. that great many of the things
which compose it were wholly un.
known to the people hundred or two
years ago? We eat our potatoes, for
instance, and think nothing about it,
but here is what an English writer
a hundred years ago says about the
matter:


This root incre ases prodigiously, and
is very proper for feeding and fattening
cattle. They are boiled in water, and
require but little boiling, though they
may have been kept two months in
the store. Cattle eat them raw, but
fol the table they are wholesome boil
ed. | earnestly recommend the cul-
ture of this plant to husbandmen, as it
is not only excellent food for cattle,
but good for man in years of scarcity.
After little use, the taste becomes at
least as agreeable as turnips, and par
ticularly if the potatoes are boiled with
bacon and salt pork.


II is also said that Sir Walter Rail
eigh, who first introduced them from
South America into England, suppos.
ed it was the seeds which were to be
eaten, and after boiling quantity Of
them was quite disgusted at their
insipidi'y. 1t was only by accident
the tubers were discovered to be eata-
BILE; but what a discovery it was
Year: 1872

4 Frenchman of Allentown, Penn,
cut mis- throat the other day, because
he could not get his boots on. How
been if he had simply placed his boots
on the ground, inserted his toes, then
hired pile driver to ram him all the
way in. Or he might have laid his
boots down on the ground and crept
into howitzer, and had himself fired
into them. But these French people
never seem to have any ingenuity.
Year: 1872

A meditative contemporary pensiye-
ly asks what has become of the old
fashioned doughnuts which our moth
ers used to keep in the old stone crock
behind the pantry door, and one OF
which went further in preserving
quiet in the family than four barrels Of
soothing-syrup will now?
Year: 1872

A cat in Little Rock, Ark, lately re-
fused to allow little girl TO play with
her kittens. The child shut the cat
up in the stove oven, and when the
fire was kindied the people looked
down cellar and up stairs, aud down
the chimney to find out where the cat
was aud what allied her. They knew
all about it when the cook put the din
ner IN the oven.
Year: 1872

I Here are some helps to innocent
amusements:


HOW DO YOU LIKE IT, WHERE DO YOU


LIKE IT, AND WHERE WILL YOU


rUT 1T?


One of the players goes out OF the
room and the rest fix upon two words
which sound alike, but have different
meanings. As belle. bell; pear, pair !;
hair, bare; |, eye, etc. When sne
comes in she asks each one In turn,
"How do you like il ~ and they give
answers corresponding to whichever
meaning they please; then she asks
"Where do you like il ?'' aud they
answer in the same way; and, lastly.
"Where will you put it?" and from
the answers she tries to guess the
word.
FoRFEtrs
There are so many games requiring
forfeits that children are sometimes
puzzled to think of them quick enough.
We give few which may help them
sometimes:


Keep one hand on your forehead,
and at the same time strike the other
on your breast without changing the
motion of either for a moment.


Let the Judge give out a line with
which you must make another line to
rhyme.


Laugh, sing, cry, whistle.


Count fifty without saying seven.
This can be done by saying six, next
number TO six &c.


Answer five questions without say
ing yes or no"


Admire yourself In mirror.


Personate some distinguished indi-
vidual and answer six questions in his
character.


Raise and fall the eight notes, using
the syllable cha" instead of do, re,
mi" &c.


Mention three remarkable persons
named Elizabeth.


Mention three remarkable persons
named Daniel.


Go around the room and say to each
person what you think will please him
most.


Spell any word proposed b. the
other players without smiling.


Give the part Of an old bachelor to q
little boy. Let him sit in the middle
of a room and pretend to mend stock
ing or coat Occasionally he must
sigh and say, ''Oh, The miseries of an
old bachelor!h


Place IA lighta,! candle on table;
then blindfpla the person, let him
walk three PAGES from it, turn around
three times, walk forward and blow 1t
out. which he will find very difficult
to do.


The Judge may put up the person at
auction; describing him; when he is
satisfied with the price the forfeit is
redeemed.


Sing song, or repeat some high
flown poetry.


Leave the room and return in some
new character that shall Oe assISueu.


To redeem double forfeit, let the
two players upon opposite sides OF the
room be blindfolded and meet and
shake hands.


Make speech in pantomime.


Ask person what animal he likes
best, and then require him to initiate
it.


Count twenty backwards.


Give an imitation of performing on
any musical instrument.


Say five fiattering things to the one
who sits next to you.


Stand with your heels aud back close
to the wall, and stoop without moving
your feet and pick up the forfeit from
sh4 Hoor.
Year: 1872

The Era, published at Raleigh, NC, rerews
its th,eats of retaliation and resistance in case
Judge Merrimon persist i'll his purpose to con-
test che return of Caldwell as Governor of
North Carolina. "Suppose it should turn out"
SAYS this paper that Caldwell contests the
Legislature on the ground that 1t Is not
"lqaally constituted Legislature-not having
the requisite number of members-aod that
the apportioment under which the late cleo
tion was held was premature, and so uncon-
stitutional and wholly unauthorized p and
threat Is held out that the Governor may de-
clare all the seats vacant and issue MS proc
lamation for new election.


This is nothing but browbeating. II 1t were
possible for the Governor to dissolve the Leg
islature. or to resist by fOrco of arms, as The
Era proposed that he should, a constitutional
decision by the Legislature that he was not
duly elected, We have no doubt the Admins
tration managers would insist upon his dong 1t.
But il is not possible. The American people
would rebuke such an outrageous usurpation
in language net to be mistaken, and the North
Carolina Grant party knows it very WELL lhe
truth is the people of the State have been so
much oppressed by carpet-bag and Dayonet
rule that they dread more than anything else
the interference of the Federal Government.
They will suffer injustice rather than provoke
a collision. Hence the effort of the Caldwell
party to persuade them that if the Legislature
award the election to Merrmon, Caldwell will
resist and will have the help of troops from
Washington. Rather than incur that danger
they hope the Democrats and Liberals will
submit to the powers that be.


We do not believe this intimidation will be
successful Caldwell will not resist, and the
question whether he has been honestly elected
will have a fair trial before the Legislature
If the decision be against him he will have tc
get out
Year: 1872

So deep is the feeling in Chicago that some
thing must be done (and that soon) to INSPIRE
with terror the brigands who infest the city,
n murderer was yesterday brought into court,
tried and convicted in twenty minutes. 1t has
been found necessary for the peoples attorney
70 issue an address to the citizens explaining
tho law which regulates trials for murder.
Perhaps the fact that the jury is left to deter
mine the mode of punishment may have some
thing to do with the escape of the guilty in
some cases. 1t appears that the jury may
sentence the convict to be hanged or impris-
oned In Chicago, as elsewhere, there are not
few men who are conscientously opposed to
capital punishment. When such men are on
jury, they are almost certain to be influenced
by these scruples, and prisoner who mght
be sent to prison for life gets away with
tardy or insufficient punishment. But the
Chicago people are likely to be severe enough
now.
Year: 1872

car in which were bright little maiden and
her mother came rushing into the Central Depot
the other day; and there, engines were footing
hdeously, hackmen bowling, and small boys OF a
dirty and fendish aspect were shouting Morning
Papersp Is it any wonder that the little grl
cuddled up to her mother and inquired with terri
fed awe: Mamma. is this hell I"
Year: 1872

That pamphlet of Elegant Extracts from THE
TRIBUNE which 1T great expense the Grant Com
mittee has printed for gratutous Distribution does
not seem to excite any alarming actatiOn anywhere
Its purposo is to prove that The TRIBUNE has IN
times past opposed the Democratic party-a tact
known to everybody, and never. within our knowl-
edge, denied by anybody. As for the Democrats
who are expected to fall into dreadful passion and
to swear their heads of upon the Derusal OF this
compilation we must admit that they take the mat
ter good naturedly- This big trump card or the
Committee does not seem to trouble them blt.
One of their newspapers, in acknowledging the re-
cept of the tract designed to show it the error OF
its ways. reminds its readers that Democrats are
supporting Mr.. Greeley "from far higher motives
than mere personal like dislike" and that no
appeal to old preiudces, no revival OF Old dlt-
ferences. can influence them in the least" Inc
Grant National Committee has done nothing but
bJunder since it was organized; but this pamphlet
is the biggest blunder it has made yet, which ls
saving a great deal.
Year: 1872

The beginning of British grumbes at the
anticipated verdict of the Geneva Arbitration
comes from The London Morning AdrertiSer.l J
This Tory sheet, which means to find fault
with the Government as well as the Arbitra-
tors. thinks that the whole result shows that
the Americans have merely bullied the Blitsh'
out of three OF four millions of pounds. On
this side of the Atlantic, where the abased
attitude of our own Government has been q,
theme for domestic commiseration, we are i'll
the way of considering this very mild sort
of bullying"
Year: 1872

An obstacle TO an intelligent conclusion has
been reached, apparently, in the investigation
of the Metis disaster. There is an utter con-
tradiction in the testimony of the people on
tbe schooner which came in collision wiah the
steamer and that of the officers of the Aetis.
Each party testifes positively that the COLI
sion was caused by a sudden change OF course
by the pilot of the other vessel; but whether
the steamer or the schooner changed It's course
is not clear. The question is one OF consider
able importance in fixing the responsibility for
this tragical affair but only experts can make
anything ineligible out Of the cross-exani-
nation.
Year: 1872

The Postal Department of the United States
Government is proving that the promised
convenience of city delivery of letters is
delusion and snare. To trust a letter to
this channel is to run great risk of its never
reaching its destination. Complaints are loud,
deep, and frequent The whole system is be-
coming an unmitigated nuisance. Letters
occupy four, five, and six days travelling from
Station d, for instance, to Nassau-st, and nobody
knows what becomes of prepaid printed matter
thus mailed. We should be accused of partisan
unfairness if we referred to the fact that the
Post-Ofice Department is solely run for a
temporary political purpose; so We only state
these few exasperating truths.
Year: 1872

1t was Goethe who observed that you had
to get inside poem to see its meaning and
beauty. The trouble with modern rhyme
carpenters is that they build their productions
without doors.
Year: 1872

The young printer who embraces the love
of his heart in a hallway just opposite pho
tographic establishment, is respectfully warm
ed to discontinue the fascinating habit for the
present, as the apprentices to the photograph
er are to begin their initiative practice on
architectural plates tomorrow.
Year: 1872

Ifbrooms are wet in boiling suds
once a week they will become very
tough, will not cut the carpet, last
much longer, and always sweep like
q new broom. A very dusty carpet
may be cleaned by setting 4 pail Of
cold water out by the door; wet the
broom in it, knock it to get out all the
drops, sweep yard or SO, then wash
the broom again as before, and sweep
again, being careful to shake all the
drops off the broom, and not sweep
lar at time. The water may need to
be changed once or twice If the carpet
is very dusty. Snow spFinkled over
a carpet and swept of before it has
time 70 melt and dissolve, Is also, nice
for renovatiDg a soiled carpet. Mois-
tened Indian meal is used with good
effect by some housekeepers.
Year: 1872

An HONEST CUsToMER.-An anee-
dOte worth laughing oyer is told of a
man Who had an infirmity as well as
an appetite for fish. He was anxious
to keep up his character for honesty,
even while making a bill with his
merchant, as the story goes, and when
his back was turned the honest buyer
slipped 3 Goldfish under his coat tail.
But the garment was too short to
cover the theft, and the merchant
perceived it. Now said the GUS
toner, anxious to improve all the
opportunities to call attention TO his
virtues. "Mr. Merchant, I have
traded with you a great deal, and
have paid you promptly and honestly,
haven't I?" "Oh, yes" answered
the merchant, 81 have no complaint"
We'll, said the customer, II always
insisted that honesty was the best
policy, and the best rule TO live and
die by" 'That's so" said the mer-
chant, and the customer turned to
depart. 'Hold on, friend" f" cried the
merchant; speaking of honesty, I
have q bit Of advice to give you.
Whenever you come to trade again,
you had better wear q longer coat, or
steal a shorter eodAsh!n
Year: 1872

Freckles indicate an excess OF iron
in the blood, we are told, the sun act
ing on the particles in the skin as it
does on indelible ink, bringing out
the color. A very simple way Of re-
moving them is said to be as follows ::


Take finely powdered nitre (saltpe-
tre), and apply it to the freekles by
the finger mOistened with the water
and dipped in the powder. When
perfectly done and judiciOusly repeat
ed, IL will remove them effectually
and Without trouble.
Year: 1872

Look to your spending. No matter
what comes in, If more goes out, you
will always be poor. The art is not
in making money, but In keeping 1t ;
little EXPENSE, like mice in. barn.
when they are many, make great
waste Hair by hair heads get bald I;
straw by straw the thateh goes on the
cottage and drop by drop the rain
comes in the chamber. A barrel is
soon empty II the tap leaks but a drop
q minute. When you mean to save,
begin with your mouth many
thieves pass down the red lane. The
ale jug is great waste. In all other
things keep within compass. Never
stretch your legs further than the
blankets will reach, or you will soon
he cold. In clothes, choose suitable
and lasting stuff, and not tawdry a.
neries. To be warm is the main
thing; never mind the looks. A fool
may make money, but it needs wise
man to spend IL. Remember, 1t is
easier to build two chimneys than to
keep one going. Ifyou give all to
back and board, there is nothing left
for the savings bank. Fare hard and
work hard while you are young, and
you will have q chance to Test when
you are old.-Codl and Iron Record.


William jones, aged four, died In
Brooklyn from hydrophobia, having
been bitten by the same dog which
caused the death Of Julia Connolly q
short time since.