smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

From the Danbury News


There was a boy in a Nelson street
yard cutting wood, Yesterday, and he
worked in a strikingly natural manner.
First be set the stick on one end and
prepared to strike it when it tumbled
down. Then he stood it up and put a
silver under the weak side to sustain it
and lifted the axe for the blow when it
tumbled again. As he had got the axe
up quite ways this time aud was fairly
quivering with expectation, the reaction
was not pleasant. Itappeared to weak
en- him, and before another trial, he
leaned on his axe and looked around on
the scenery. At the third trial he put
several slivers under the stick, and was
some five minutes doing it. Then he
raised the axe carefully, deliberately
took aim, and brought the blade down
with terrible force, and within about an
inch and a half OF the stick, which
Immediately tipped over. This surpris-
ed him. He looked at the axe, then at
the stick, and then AROUND at the houses
to see if anybody was looking. He was
ten minutes propping the stick up the
fourth time. When he got it so 1t
would stand without being held, he took
up the axe, and after several mock mo-
tions so as to get the right aim, he
swung the implement down again. The
blade struck the lstick with terrible
force within about sixteenth OF an
inch from the edge, and took of a slip
about FIVE inches long. We don't sup-
pose there is anything quite so aggra-
vating as this. Splitting your shin
open TO the bone Is pastlme in com
parison. The Nelson street boy stood
that stick up again without any cere-
mony, and with the least display in the
world swung the axe over his head and
brought it spitefully down. The blade
this time clipped off half-inch chip,
and then swung around with such mo-
mentum as 70 throw the boy of his
feet and drive him hesdloug over q
pile OF other sticks, every one Of which
he struck with his knees or face. We
don't think we ever saw any boy get on
his feet as quick as that boy did. And
we were not in the least surprised to see
him snatch up that axe and with
screams and sobs, beat that stick until
he was exhausted. With this unpless-
ant duty performed, he flung the axe in
among the tomato vines, and went into
the house for a piece Of cake.
Year: 1873

A traveller from Pekin 10 Siberia
across the great desert Of Cobb, tells US
that, whenever a camefs feet have be,
come very tender and sore from long
marches the poor creature lies down.
His driver knows at once, that his feet
hurt him, and looks to find out if The
thick skin of the feet is blistered
Whenever a blister is found, two OF
three strong men, usually Mongols,
keen watch OF the camel until it is not
noticing them. Al just the right mo-
ment they make rush all together
upon the camel, throw it over upon
the side, and make it fast. Then, with
need e made for that use, they
sew a square piece Of leather large
enough to cover the hurt place owe
the camels foot, the skin OF which ls
quite thick enough to sew through
without hurting the animal. With
this new shoe on, the camel ia quite
ready to get up and march on. The
pieces OF leather are very carefully pre-
pared for this use. 1t sometimes hap
pens that a camel lies down in the
midst Of his long march across the
wide desert, and dies. The natives
take the thickest part OF his hide, to
make'shoes OF. These bits OF skin they
take out day after day, when on the
march, and pull until they become so
soft and yielding that a camel with
blistered feet seems grateful to have
shoes made for it, although be would
resist the shoeing to the last, were be
not held so that he could not move
Rural Ne,o Yorker.
Year: 1873

Reports OF the suspension Of work on
the road of this company having been
circulated, we have endeavored to as
certain the facts in relation thereto,
and on inquiring in such quarters as
would be likely to furnish US most ac-
curate and reliable information we have
learned that owing to the arrangement
and confusion OF the money market, the
contracting company has for the pres.
ent determined to suspend work, pay
of its employees till date, aud wait until
more healthy turn is restored to
financial affairs, which it is believed
will be in the course OF few weeks
The company has felt that this course
would best subserve the interest oi all
parties concerned, and we have no
doubt it will be SO regarded by all who
feel concerned in this important work.
Spirit Of Jefferson.
Year: 1873

We are proud to chronicle the fact
that the business of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad Company is steadily
increasing. For the month OF August
the income amounted to sl5l ,S94.22,
being greater than for any previous
month since its opening. The business
for the corresponding month last year
was Observation-Disclosures Argus.
Year: 1873

LONDON Sep. 24.-The financial pan.
ic in New York has awakened q warm
and generous feeling Of sympathy
among the financial men in this city,
and preparations are being made to ship
Immediately to America, one million OF
dollars in gold coin. The feeling is
universal that immediate steps should
be taken to relieve the present embar-
raised situation of the finances in New
York.
Year: 1873

An Ohio postmaster has received let
ter wherein the writer proffers a curious
request, as follows: "If you can & will
accertain the names of Some rich old maid
or widow worth from thousand, to SO, 600
or more let me know by return mail and
will pitch in and if / make it tie the Knot,
it is / hundred dollars in your pocket
Keep this profound secret between us
two if it gets out all is spoiled / am pour
but want to marry rieh.u
Year: 1873

There 10 one reason Why we should re-
gret to have the present troubles with do
nestle servants ended II is because wo-
men derive So much pleasure from discus
sing the subject Place two women to-
gether, and II makes no difference where
the conversation starts from, it will be
perfectly certain % work around to the
hired girl question before many minutes
have elapsed. We have seen an elderly
housekeePer. with experience in conduct
ing the talk in the right direction, break
into a discussion of Pythagoras and the
doctrine Of the transmigration Of souls,
and switch of the entire debate with such
expedition that an unsophisticated listener
would for some moments have an lndls-
tinct impression that the conversation re-
ferred to the insufhciency Of Pythagoras
as a washer and ironer, and TO the tendency
Of that heather philosopher to take two
Thursdays out Of every " eek. And when
n woman has an unusually villainous hired
girl who burns up the coal, wastes the
butter, mixes her hair in the biscuits and
stuffs her relations with sugar, it is inter
esting to observe how she glories in the
superiority Of her sufferings 10 those Of
her neighbors, and how, as she tells Of
them, she gloats over her misery and feels
GOOD abOnt it. A woman who has really
competent servant is always in a condition
% ablect wretchedness on such occasions
Ma Ideter.
Year: 1873

seen at B.


My theory is very simple, namely, that
the perpetrator was a big sawfish. The
cable lay at the bottom Of the sea, when
one day saw-fsh came by hunting for his
dinner. The sawish gets his food by wav-
ing his saw right and left, turning up the
mud or sand in order to dislodge the deli
cate bodied marine creatures on which he
subsists. His teeth will tell us he cannot
eat hard substances. When thus sn-
gagged in his submarine diggings, he sud
denly came across the telegraph cable His
beak getting entangled III it, he gave il an
extra blow and smash downwards, and
finally, getting enraged, hit it So hard T. at
one Of his teeth went between the outer
wires, through the hempen rope, and then
through the gutta percha, injuring the
wires. These various substances probably
then held the tooth somewhat tightly. The
fish then struggled and broke the tooth
short off, leaving bit Of it actually in the
cable among the wires. | am inclined to
Z think that the saw-6sh tooth is formlda
BILE weapon to stir up the mud in searching
his food, because the points Of the
teeth in their jaws, which are com
posed Of very hard bony substances, are
az sharp a. the tips Of wild boar's tusk,
which are kept finely pointed by constant
] friction. .-TslsOvaph Journal.
Year: 1873

marked sand and mud The report which
came home to us was that a bony sub
stance had been found jammed hard in the
cable through the wires, and it was sup
posed to have been done before laying
As we could not understand why the orr
ginal tests should be good if the substance
had not existed, and why failure should be
sudden, did not believe this; and on re-
ceiving the faulty specimen went to
Willoughby Smith, and we opened it to-
gether The bony substance appeared TO
us as a ish-tooth, probably a sharks; but
as no mark Of the other jaw appeared, we
were puzzled, and give it to you. This is
all the information we possess, nor, in
deed, can get more, as no persons have
seen II since.


confess | was exceedingly puzzled with
this most difficult problem. The hole to-
wards the spectator is two-thirds larger
than it is on the opposite side. Il II had
been an ordinary fish, such as shark,
there ought to have been the marks OF a
bite on both sides Of the cable namely, Of
tooth in both the lower and upper Jaws.
This wound, therefore, must of necessity
have been made by fish having but one
tooth, and one tooth only; but what fish is
there that has only one tooth For sew
eral weeks placed the specimen on my
mantelpiece, and was constantly thinking
over the puzzle. At last one day hit il
right of all in minute. On going round
Year: 1873

President 4. ) DYCKMAN, of South
Haven, on assuming his duties as Pres
iicut of the State Pathological Society,
read his inaugural address He said
that the civilized world everywhere is
beginning to pay homage to dignifed
LABOR, by fostering indusIrial oxposltious
instead of giadatorial cor ats. Good
experiments are much neeo and are of
great value to f'uit growere they are
costly, and We as a Society have no
means to carry them on. We have an
Agricultural College which is central
and well endowed. Would not this be
just the place to work up experiments
made in other parts by members of so
ciety? We hope for more attention to
pomology at this institution. We need
more Farmers Clubs to awaken interest
in the business and to stimulate true
culture and refinement. He heartily
indorsed the recommendation of Gov
eruor Bagley to establish a School Of
Technology at the Agricultural College
Fruit culture may be overdone, as grape.
growing has been in California, where
they are cutting up the vines. Michi
gan, surrounded by lakes, is especially
fitted for fruit-erowing, and this must be
prominent part of her industries
Foremost among these fruits Is the ap
pie, aud IN favored locations the peach
We need experiments to obtain new
fruits to run over more seasons of the
year, peach earlier than the Early
Crawford, and one later than any now
known Raising fruit as a business vii
one day be called a learned profession
He pictured The neglected orchard per.
fectly. Ae gaye hints about marketing
and urged thai some measures be taken
TO cause railroad men to handle fruit
with more care Dried fruit by the new
processes will be preventive to over.
production, The Twenty second Of last
December brought down our spirits as
the mercury went down We rejoice &c
know that the prospects are still SO
good. Michigan should be represented
at Philadelphia in 1876. L. would be
the cheapest and best advertisement for
our State We much need State
EntomoIogist to do for Us what Riley is
doing for Missouri. Our financial sue.
cess. 50 far, has been due to a great ex
tent to our Treasurer, MIR Fuller Of
Grand Rapids. a moderate assistance
from the Legislature for a few year:
would result in much good.


The inaugural was beautifully written
Year: 1873

The girls are good for nothing now
adays. Know more at ten than their
mothers did at twenty, or at least think
they do. SO say all the good matrons
while the dear old grandmother from
Ter armchair in the corner shakes her
head very knowingly. Nothing but a
dainty doll, all lace, ruiiles and feathers,
worse than useless. as they are sure to
rum any young man who may be SO un-
fortunate..as to marry one of them.


Now, in behalf of the girls, We will
say we do not admit all these good peo-
pie say about them, at least all of them,
for We know there are plenty Of girls TO
be found at the present day just as pru-
dent and industrious as in the good old
times of our ancestors. But while we
insist there is no lack of smart girls we
do not deny but that there arc many of
the class before mentioned, and for these
same useless girls we wish to say one
word of defense. We all remember of
being told on many an occasion "as the
twlg Is bent so Is the tree inclined, "
hence epardon our concluslons( we must
infer that there is an error somewhere
among the accusers themselves, else how
could there be SO many of these same
useless girls 1t is bu; just to presume
that the average ability of all children
is nearly equal, then of necessity to some
external Influence cause must be at
tributed ther failure in life.


We shall suggest but one at present,
that is while every boy is expected TO
make some choice, even in years Of early
manhood, as to what occupation he will
follow to obtain an honest livelihood,
these poor girls haveno higher or nobler
aim for life instilled in their minds than
a superficial course at some boarding
school, to be followed by years of idle
ness or until such times as their pretty
faces may enable them to secure for
themselves rich husbands


Now why, let us ask, are our girls
not taught from early childhood to look
forward TO active lives in future years,
and to the accomplishment of this end
let the girls choose us the boys do what
path in life they will follow. No fear
that they will thus become less truly
womanly, for higher power than man 5
has happily fixed the laws which govern
our natural inc,inatIons, and while We
may not all desire to wash dishes, We
are not so very unlike these brothers,
who we fad 30 not all choose to become
brick layers.


Teach t1e girls to choose an occupa.
tion III life, aud having chosen, by close
attention, such as the boy is expected to
give, fit themselves to 90 forward sue.
cessfuliy in these various avocations -
As first step in this direction we ask
that intelligent working girls be recog.
nized by you in society as equal to your
superficial doll daughters. Give both
of these girls chance for their lives,
and there will soon be no cause Of com.
plant.
Year: 1873

| adopt this mode OF advertising my business
instead Of employing agents. My object is, to
reduce the expense OF the business AS much as
possible, so bv purchasing OF me you pay no
agent fees. You can also save the expense Of
delivering the work If YOU choose besides you
can select the Marble yourself and see the sytle
of 1t, as 1t will be- so there is no possible chance
for being deceived or beng disappointed.


BY taking tins course, there ls a saving OF
from twenty TO thirty per cent according TO
how far the purchaser comes.


You can readily see that the money save by
not keeping agents goes to the purchaser in
stead OF the agent.


Agents claim that they can furnish work
CHEAPER That cannot be done, unless done by
Apprentices. | furnish no work of that class
az I employ no Apprentices.


Ny work aad material cannot be questioned.


H." Patrouizo home, If you can, and sayo
money by 40 doing. 6l3
Year: 1873

The Coroner's inquest, yesterday,
upon the body found in the cafiOn
some eight or ten miles beyond the
Encino Ranch, was not very satisfac-
tory. All that could be ascertained
was that the man, whose name is as
yet unknown, was killed about three
miles from the CARVER Hotel, where
his clothes were found, and from there
the assassin must have taken him be-
hind the hills into this cafion, where
he was found distance of about five
or six miles from the place where the
clothes were found. The deceased was
shot through the head, which must
have killed him instantly, apparently
with o six-shooter. There is none but
circumstantial evidence against GER
tain parties, and therefore it is best as
vet to be silent about the suspicious
that are against them as having done
the, murder. The deceased was q
Mexican or Californian. He wore o
mustache and beard, and few gray
hairs were mixed into his deep black.
He was forty or forty-five years Of age,
was about five and half feet high,
wore blue overhauls and dark blue
flannel coat and moccasins. One Of
his upper incisor teeth was wanting.
This description may perhaps lead to
his Identification.
Year: 1873

The morning cotemporary makes
faces and scolds madly. 1t publishes
about two-thirds Of the dispatches
which the HERALD does, falsifies in
regard to the matter, and institutes


omparison which it is hoped by the
HERALD its readers will make. If
they do they will be wiser and know
the foundation upon which this paper
based its assertion. The editors of the
HERALD may not have arrived at the
dignity and experience of Nestor, they
may not "have made their best hits
on Forney's Press" and been private
Secretary to his Excellency, President
Johnson, but they do get up the best
paper in Los Angeles county, and the
people do not require their age. They
want the paper. The proprietors OF
the HERALD are not in the press ar
rangement with other papers. They
get their dispatches almost entirely
from another collector of news. Of
course, as news is likely to be the
same, whether published in the
HERALD or its contemporary, and the
source of information is the same in
San Francisco, there is similarity in
some of the news. The great differ
ence is this: The HERALD gets
double the dispatches Of the other
morning paper.


Now as to equality. The HERALD
has given orders to the telegraph office
that the appointment of a postmaster
in southern California, is of more i'm
portance to its readers than fire in
Squedunkville, Skatawaber county,
Rhode Island. Consequently all mat
tiers of interest to the State, and espe-
cially southern California, are found
in its columns, and the fire or fight in
the above named town is left out.
Year: 1873

more touching obituary notice than this which
we find in The London Nature not often to be
read in this dying world: "Wo arc sorry to record
the death of tho interesting wasp referred to by Sir
John Lubbock in his address at last years meeting
of the British Association. 1t slept away as it were
on Feb 20 last first the head dying, then the thOrax
and then the abdomen 1t has been deposited In the
British Museum" If we remember rightly, Sir
John brought this wasp from the Pyrenees, in
Spain He had tanned it thoroughly, so that it would
crawl upon his finger to be fed with sugar. Why
doesn Sir John try his skill upon some waspsh hui
man creaturef And speaking of tanning, we may
mention the cat described in Portland paper. His
evidence of civilization is that he drinks tea and
coffee He takes both without milk or sugar. and is
said to he very fastdOus about the quality of his
Young Hyson and Old Government Java. What an
invaluable creature he would be for an old single
lady! Again, we read of a ferocOus muskrat which
attacked boy and girl in West Springfield, Mass,
and which, it is said has been captured and tanned.
But then this is declared to have happened on the
First of April
Year: 1873

POLITICAL SKEP1ICISN IN ENGLAND.


When Mr.. Gladstone was defeated in the
House Of Commons by fair and deliberate
vote, after mature discussion, and after his
distinct statement that the vote would be con-
sidered Cabinet matter, according to all the
traditions of English politics. he was COM
PEELED to resign or to dissolve the Parliament.
When the opposition refused to take up the
power they had forced the Premier to throw
down, and thus compelled the Queen to recall
Mr.. Gladstone to the position from which he
had been expelled in the only way known to
the British Constitution, it appeared to us
that the precedent thus established was an
important one in its bearings upon the devel-
opment Of democratic government in England.
The words of Mr. Gladstone, no less than the
circumstances Of the case, justified this
opinion. The Prime Minister repeated in the
House of Commons the statement he had
made to the Queen, that he regarded the pro-
ceeding of the opposition in defeating the
Government and then refusing to take
their place as violation of Parliament
ary usage-in other words, a violation of
those precedents and traditions which form
the unwritten Constitution of the British Mon
arcby. Nevertheless, the course of both par
ties met with general approval. This breach
of the Constitution, known to be such, was
generally accepted and acquiesced in. Every
one saw that it was the only prudent and
sensible thing to do. The country was, upon
the whole, satisfied with the Ministry. The
opposition was not ready 10 assume the re-
sponsibilites of government. Neither party
wished the trouble and 'expense of new cleo
tons. So, after a distinct and acknowledged
defeat of Government, on a field of battle
chosen by themselves, week of crisis ends
by the order, GAS you were,n and the beaten
Ministry resume their places on the Treasury
Bench in the same attitude toward Parliament
and the country as if they had carried their
policy through. The only casualty reported
was the death of the cause of the fight. The
Irish University bill was killed, but its own
parents wore no mourning for it,


On the night of Mr.. GladstOne's reCntry into
the Cabinet, THE TRIBUNE drew attention to
the bearing of these events upon the future of
parliamentary government In England. We
then said, what has since been somewhat
criticised, but we think not refuted, that I" the
" precedent having once been set that the de-
feat of Ministry does not necessarily COM
"pel its retirement, England is thus brought
one step nearer to the model of an elective
democracy, choosing its rulers for fixed
terms with limited powers" The whole
course of recent legislative history in all coun-
tries under a parliamentary regime seems to
us TO prove a steady progress toward our own
system instead Of that of Great Britain The
evils incident to the separation of the Exocu-
tive and Legislative powers, aud the election
of each for fixed and independent terms, are
well known 10 all of us. But they seem, after
ali, less embarrassing than the frequent crises
and disocatons 10 which those governments
,ro uatlo. whero An accidental yoto may at
Year: 1873

Halifax dispatches 20 THE TRIBUNE give
some interesting Iacts and opinions derived
from the captain of the wrecked steamship
Atlantic His latest explanation of the short
supply of coal is that the contractor in Liver
pool probably furnished an inferior quality,
his contract being burdensome because it was
a long one, and coal had risen in price very
much. The theory is not plausible; but 1t
does not modify the responsibility of the agents.
To say that rascaly contractor could fit out
the great ship for voyage across the At
antic, without searching supervision, is to
say that the agents have no thought for the
safety of passengers intrusted to their care.
Nobody has ever charged Capt. Williams with
being responsible for the short supply of coal.
He is held to account for his bad navigation.
His explanation of his fatal blunder is that he
was "tOo confident" He thought he knew
where he was; but he did not. He was
amazed when he found himself west of Sam
bro Light, instead of east of it. Human judg-
ment often errs and there was abundant rea-
son TO suppose that it might here, where the
coast and the currents were alike unfamiliar
to all the officers. The fatal error in this
case wrecked the ship.
Year: 1873

We shall be glad to believe that the expla-
nation which comes to us from Albany of the
appearance of Senator Madden's name in the
Erie testimony, among those alleged to have
received Erie money, is unquestiOnable.