smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

It has been generally supposed by
scientific men that the fossil elephant Of
Siberia had no representative in the
same latitude on this continent. Recent
examinations on the Yukon river in
Alaska, however, have established the
fact that the remains are even more
plentiful on the west than on the east
Side Of toe North Pacific. Enormous
quantities Of bones are found, and a
supply Of ivory sufficient TO last the
world for centuries. The valleys Of all
the streams and all the low grounds are
Glled with bones and tAsks, so that every
vessel nov arriving from those remote
possessions has part Of its cargo made
up la part of these new-found remains.
The elephant, whose range was formerly
almost universal, is now confined to a
small portion Of Africa and Asia, and il
would seem as il the species was in pro-
cess Of slow extinction. Neither Europe
nor America, which once swarmed with
them, has now either a climate or vege-
tation fitted TO their existence. Their
remains, however, are likely to give to
Alaska a value not previously suspected.
Year: 1872

A correspondent of the st. Louis Re
view, writing Of the late snow storm
along the line of the Pacific railroad,
says: The train was caught in a
bank-it could neither back nor go
ahead. The wires were tapped and dis
patches sent to three different quarters
for men and shovels. While the train
was waiting the buffaloes gathered from
the plains to the lee side for shelter. II
any one had felt disposed he might, from
his seat in the cars, pop them over with
his revolver the rest would not move;
they could not be driven away by the
engine whstling or the human voice,
but crowded their shaggy sides close up
to the cars and there stood, with bowed
heads, for the storm to pass. Many
were seen to fall down in their tracks
dead from cold, and when at last the
train was dug out and moved off, the
track was lined with the huge, shaggy,
frozen carcasses.
Year: 1872

Look most to your spending. No
matter what comes in, if moro goes out
you will always be poor. The art is not
in making money, but in keeping it;
little expenses, ike mice in barn,
when they are many, make great waste.
Hair by hair, heads get bald; straw by
straw, the thatch goes off the cottage;
and drop by drop the rain comes in the
the chamber. A barrel is soon empty
if the top leaks but a drop a minute.
When you mean to save, begin with
your mouth; many thieves pass dogn
the red lane. The ale jug is great
waste. In all other things keep within
compass. Never stretch your legs far
thsr than the blankets will reach, or you
will soon be cold. in clothes, choose
suitable and lasting stuff and nat taY-
dry fneries. To be warm is the main
thing; never mind the looks. A fool
may make money, but it needs a wise
man to spend it. Remember, it is easier
TO build two chimneys than TO keep one
going II yoE giye all to back and board,
there is nothing left for the sayings
bank. Fare hard and work hard While
you are young, and you will have a
chance TO rest when you are Old C9qi
and Iron Record.
Year: 1872

When | was about six years old, ont


morning, going to school, grounC


squirrel ran into his hole in the grounC


before me; they like to dig holes in som'
open place where they can put out theil


head to see if danger is near | thought
now | shall have fine fun. AS there was
stream of water just at hand, | deter
mined to pour water into the hole till il
should be full, and force the little animal
to come out, so that | might kill it. |
was soon pouring water in on the poor
squirrel. / could hear it struggle, and
said, " Ahl my fine fellow, ! will soon
have you out now.


Just then heard voice behind me:
" Well, my boy, what have you got
there2'


turned, and saw one of my neigh
bors, a good old man, with long white
locks.


"Well," said /, there is a ground
squirrel in here, and | am going to
drown him out.


Said he: Jonathan, when | was
little boy, more than fifty years ago, /
was engaged one day, just as you are,
drowning a squirrel and an old man,
such as / am, came. along and said to
me, You are little boy now if you
were down in narrow hole like that,
and / should come and pour water down
upon you, would you not think was
cruel? God made the little squirrel,
and his life is as sweet to it as to you.
Why torture to death a little innocent
creature that God has made He
added, u have never forgotten that, and
never shall Now, my dear boy, want
you to remember this as long as you
live and, when tempted to destroy any
little animal or bird, tQ think what |
have said God does not allow US TO kill
his creatures for our pleasure"


More than forty years has since pass
ed, and / have not forgotten what the
good man said, nor have | ever wantonly
killed the least animal for amusement
since. Now, you see it is ninety years
since this advice was 6rst given, and it
has not lost its effect yet how many
little creatures it has saved irem being
to death / cannot tell, but /
have no doubt a great number, and |
believe my whole life has been influenced
by it.
Year: 1872

A family residing on Euclid avenue,
Cleveland, owns cat of the Thomas
variety, who is nearly twenty years old
He can remember clear back before Per-
ry s monument was erected, and his foot
marks are upon every roof within mile
of his home. The number of bootjaeks
thrown at him would keep the city in
kindling wood for ten years to come, and
his back has been curved in so many
fights that he now looks like small
dromedary when gaily perambulating a
chimney-top. Not until some more
deadly explosive than nitro-glycerine is
discovered will an attempt be made to
kill him.
Year: 1872

that hahdsomest part of beautiful
woman, is totally hidden from view. OF
course, the toilettes of last year are also
seen, even on eleganteS; but the above
description applies to the general mode.
The young women, however, look just
as handsome as ever English women
show eccentricities in dress. | noticed
at an evening reception, last Sunday, an
English lady of rank in a most comfort
able gown, The petticoat was garnet
satin, short; over it was a train and
soprd uesta Of rich, wine-colored velvet,
around which ran a bordering Of silver
fox fur. 1t was more like carriage
dress, TO be sure, but nevertheless it was
very costly to look at in the high
ceilinged palatial drawing room, which
no fire could warm, and in which the
lamps burned dimly, the olive oil being
chilled by the cold.
Year: 1872

A correspondent sends to the Anneri-
can Agricuzturist the following directions
for tanning buckskin with brains, as
practiced by the North American In
dians: The skins are soaked in water,
and the hair is removed from them
with an old knife, then placed along
with the brains of the deer or q calf in
an earthen pot. The contents are then
heated to about 95o, or blood-heat,
which converts the moistened brains to
kind of Iather, and makes the skins
clean and pliable. They are then
wrung out, and stretched in every di-
rection, by means of thongs, over a
frame composed of upright stakes and
cross-pieces and while drying they are
constantly rubbed with a smooth stone
or hard piece of wood, so as to expel
the water and fat. The skins are then
smoked. For this purpose a fire is
lighted in the bottom of small pit,
and rotten wood thrown in as fuel.
Sticks are erected in a pyramidal form
around the pit, and the skins hung
thereon one above the other, their posi-
ton beicg occasionally changed. The
smoking is kept up for an hour or more.
They are then rubbed with chalk or
powdered gypsum, and scraped and
beaten. - H
Year: 1872

We have lost sight of the name of
the exchange containing the following
valuable article on canning fruits:


Fruits are now SO abundant, and
farmers gardens are nowadays SO
rarely without some one or more kinds
to serve up for the table, that there is
no excuse for any home to neglect at
tention to preserving and canningsome
for winter use. Better spend five dol
lars on growing, preserving and eating
fruits than halt that sum for medicines
or doctors fees. Fruits are our health
lest and cheapest cures or preventives
for sickness and disease The si'aPlest-
general direction for canning are as
follows:


A good rule is to use one pound OF
sugar with four pounds of fruit, and
enough water, where heated, to keep
the fruit from burning. The cans
should be soldered or sealed with seal
ing wax, or cement made of equal parts
of resin, beeswax and tallow. Sealing
wax is the best for such cans as have
grooved rms.


We give herewith statistical table
of how long to boil the fruit and how
much sugar to use: -
Year: 1872

WE learn from note lately read be-
fore the Paris Academy of Sciences that
the use of morphia in combination with
chloroform is believed by some physi-
clans of high standing to lessen the dan
ger WHICH ordinarily accompanies the
administration of the latter drug.
Year: 1872

l. helegislative, executive, and judicial de-
partments shall be separate and distinct. so
that neither shall exercise the powers properly
belonging to either of the others; nor shall
any person exercise the powers of more than
one of them at the same time, except that
justices of. the peace shall be eligible to the
Legislature.
Year: 1872

majority that this district will give


to the State and national tickets. He
will make an able and efficient Repre-
sentative, ami prove a worthy sue
cessor to his father, whose services
III Congress are we'll known to all
MiSsourians who feel apride in the
past history of the Commonwe ealth.
Year: 1872

ia not more TO be dreaded in the sacred desk than
Il careless pen in the hands of news paper. The
Commercial is responsible for the following which
we cut from the editorial column OF yesterday s
edition of that paper;


1.-THE Ga-ette shows signs of its ancient negro
phobia To see colored man treated with justice
or courtesy gives it spasm ...


What il there said is so manifestly untrue that
it were hardly necessary to deny it. But there
are persons in the Radical ranks who have
schooled themselves to think that such language
is proper when applied to Democrats.


Such persons have so long pinned their faith to
party that they take no time to question the as
sert,ons of such careless WRITER'S il they are Rad-
Gals.


The Commercial knows it is violating the ninth
commandment But 1t heeds not the sacred in
junction there imposed. and ISLANDERS as lightly as
though it were not doing great injury to itself and
greater injury to the unity by its fabrication
We have seen the .'coored man treated with JUS
tice and courtesy" and in no other way. We
should certainly object to his receiving any other
treatment. SO would this community which the
Commercial misrepresents in endeavorlng to cir
culate an impression to the contrary among its
more northern readers.
Year: 1872

In referring to the nominees Of the Radical party
for Sheriff and Coroner the Commercial says: =
I'VE are not angry because they are not colored
nen-we think nhite men are JUST as good


That is the estimate ths Rsdical party put upon
white men. But their actions seem to give the
lie to their words so long as they keep the negro
Oh their ticket They tell him he is the equal of
the white. and they tell the white man he is "just
as good" as negro. But they do not dare to put
the negro on their ticket, notwithstanding they
appoint him to high official position 10 the exclu.
sion OF the whites.
Year: 1872

Many Of Our farmers are getting am.
bilious to excel in raising the largest
of wheat. on Il small amount OF
land. A few have made from thirty ia
tlirty-righl bushels to the acre this
year. With proper management many
can do the same next year, and perhaps
even better. We are clad TO see thi.
excitement getting up. 1t will no doubt
be the means of many farmers taking
the proper step to improve their poor
lands.
Year: 1872

After serving an attachment from the
United States Court upon the property
of the Staten Island Ferry Company on
judgments to the amount of fifty thou
sand dollars in favor of the victims of
the Westfield disaster, the United States
Marshal discovered that a Receiver had
been appointed by the State Court pre-
cluding the attachment from the
United States Court.
Year: 1872

It is regarded nearly certain that the
State legislature will adjourn sine die
tomorrow. The Senate viii meet this
afternoon and organize as a court of i'm
peachment, and viii then adjourn till


Monday. On re-assembling on that day
they win serve Impeachment warrants
upon Judge Barnard and adjourn to re-
Year: 1872

THE COnfederatepienie of next Satur-
day is still the talk of the town and
country. The concluding sentence of
the paragraph yesterday in relation to
this picnic could have no reference, as
some might have imagined, to those
who, on this occasion, viii act as field
officers and marshals of the day. Their
titles are properly given them under the
circumstances. They or their position
cannot be effected either by the conces-
sion or omission of titles honorably won
and as honOrably worn.
Year: 1872

al scream" ought to be the motto
over the flirting department which is a
fixture in Rocco Hall for this week at
least. There is a regular AiFting shop
there conducted by Miss Katie VIII
liams, the Misses Poston and the Misses
Boiling, all charming young ladies.
They supply the 81 scream, /" after which
the visitor win be supplied with herries
at another shop over the way. The
festival Is for the benefit of the Central
Methodist church on Union street. A
very large attendance gTaced the hell
last night, every one of whom enjoyed
the pleasures of the festival to his
hearts content. There are several tables,
as follows:


Refreshment table conducted by Miss
Year: 1872

The grounds viii be put in the very best or
der, no fear OF dust, and will be brilliantly
lighted. A splendid Brass and String Band
has been engaged. The most perfect order
will be maintained and no labor or pains will
be spared to make the Picnic perfect and
complete success. Ample arrangements have
been made for conveying visitors to and from
the grounds. The funds arising from this en-
tertainment are faithfully and sacredly ap-
piled to the relief of worthy Confederate sol
dierS and to assist the families of deceased
comrades, and the Committee, in their behalf,
confidently appeal to the citizens of Mem
phis and yicity to aid by their presence this
good work.


Gentlemen appointed upon the several COM
mittees, declining to serve will please notify
the Entertainment Committee so their places
may be filled, as II is a requisite to success
that the Committees should be full and effec-
tive.


The members of the several Committees
viii report to their respective Chairman who,
IN turn, will report to the Grand Marshal
The Assistant MaTshals will report to the
Grand Marshal for assignment to duty.
Year: 1872

A Sunday school superintendent out
in Alaska treated his entire charge to
q sleigh ride. There was just forty
one Of the cherubs and a six-horse
sleigh. On the way home they were
beset by q pack of feroeious Wolves.
Cool and collected in that hour fear
full trial, the heroic superintendent
saw at a glance th6t he must soon be
overtaken. In an instant his quick
mind grssped the only chance Of es-
cape. Seizing the child that always
sung ~ Want to be an AngeP' two
notes too high, he flung it to the rapa-
cious horde. 1t stayed their onward
rush for a moment. Next came the
urchin who never brought any pen
nies to the heather. And 30 on swept
the pursued and the pursuers until the
last infaut was exhausted. But the
brave fellow had economized his ma
terial nobIy. And besides, a whole
Sunday School slows of wolves pre-
eeptibly. We have always noticed
this. In another moment the sleigh
dashed into the village, and the grand,
noble, true hearted man knew that he
was saved.
Year: 1872

Says the Gold Hill NetUs: Our friend
Traddles, in Virginia, has got his wife
in proper subjection, and means to
keep her so. "Ohw says he, In telling
Us about it, "there amt many that
know how to rule q wife properly.
Now my old woman's one Of the best
natured women in the world, but she's
got q terrible temper. Whenever
see she's got her mad up, fits dozen
times a day, just quietly say nOthin'
but kinder humOr her, and she comes
round all right after a while. Even
when she throws things at me OF
gives q wild slash for me with the
broom, or rollin' pin, dodge q little
and she never hits me q third time
before I get my eye on her and let her
know I disapprove Of such actions on
her part. Perhaps I have to leave the
house to show her this, but, you bet,
she sees the point. Then by being
careful not to irritate her, and letting
her have her own way, I manage to
make her do just as / please. And
you bet make her understand and
appreciate my discipline. OIL keep
her under perfect control. A man has
to, you know. Got to be boss in youl
hoHse or the first thing you know you
wife will ride you down like you
wasn't anybody. My wife's q perfect
angel in her natural disposition but
any other man but me would spoil
her.
Year: 1872

The main object in life for the Com
ing Woman will be not 30 much the
mating as the making Of herself. She
will aim possibly at position, possibly
at wealth-surely at independence.
One thing she will never be content
to remain, and that is the mere mar
tial appendage of man.


If prOgressiveness masculine as to
ability, talent, and influence shine,
prOgressiveness feminine will aspire
to light as brilliant as q candle in her
walk of life. She will repudiate shin
ing altogether by reflected brilliancy.


The Coming Woman will protect
herself. The "big brother" will be
rid of his responsibility; he may go
about his business. She is to be a
markswOman; she will send the ball
to its mark with the same precision
as now she does the end of a thread
through the eye of n fine cambria
needle. She will alone in the dark
ness safely travel the highway and
the byWays of the city. Bloody corp
ses of impIudently forward men,
young and old, will occasionally be
found in her track. The Coming WO-
man will be dangerous at night. 1t is
time. Man to the single woman has
been dangerous long enough. Not
that we admire or iEdOrse the female
desperadO, or "Girl of the Period, y
but there are still extant many mas
culine natures only to be coerced into
a proper respect for female honor and
purity by fear Of personal consequent
ces.


She will not be deficient in nerve
or weak in muscle. She will be a
skillful driver, q daring rider, hardy
walker. -Four miles per hour, up hill
and down, will be her pace. Male
alteration weak in the knees will
do pelRnce. Theof idea woman as the
weaker sex will become old-fashioned
and finally obsolete. Physical strength
in the matter of agility and endurance
is not for man alone. The South Sea
Island women are better swimmers
than the men. What woman is ever
tired of dancing? A washerwoman's
tolls might lay up dry goods mer-
chant for week, and perhaps tire a
plOWman. Male muscle may lift
more pounds, bat put that ofthe fe-
male in training, and it runs, leaps
and climbs as the female mind jumps
at conclusions, as quickly as, if not
quicker than, that OF the male. She
will not spend her days eooped up in
any house. At forty she intends be-
ing fair, healthy, vigorous, symmet-
rically adipose, and st the climax of
life's attractiveness and enjoyments.
! At twenty she will be beautifully un-
folding; at thirty, charming at forty,
magnificent. This because she puts
sun, pure air and water to legitimate,
plentiful and frequent use. No pent-
up, Theoretically sealed, lathed-and-
plastered, stove-heated cavern, its
walls, its floors, its atmosphere per-
meated by the emanations Of past
generations, will be her den of life
I immurement.
Year: 1872

Some advocates for excessive neat
ness have the beds made up immedi-
ately after they are vacated. 1t is moi
healthy. They need TO air fora couple
of hours. Open the windows as wide
as possible, and set open the door also.
Unless there is a thorough draught
there Is no true ventilation Of sleep
ing room. The only exception to this
rule is during high winds, when the
door cannot safely remain open, and
in very wet and fOggy weather.
Year: 1872

A lady Of White Marsh, Pa, whose
dread Of small pox was so great that
she kept all the doors and windows OF
her house closed on the side toward q
neighbor who was afflicted with IL,
though over q mile away, was recent
ly taken III, and her physicians dis
covered mild symptoms Of variOloid.
This became known TO her, and she
Immediately gave up for lost, dying
in a short time from sheer fright, al
though the disease was 50 slight that
she might have thrown 1t of in q few
days and recovered.
Year: 1872

Professor Henry, Of the Smithsonian
Institute, is out with the statement
that be has been engaged for the last
twenty years in watching 20 see II the
clearing up Of forests had tendency
to diminish the rainfall, as generally
asserted, and he finds that the idea Is
a mere Whim. There is just as much
rain now as twenty years ago, and he
thinks we should have plenty OF wet
weather IL every forest tree were lev
eled 10 the earth.
Year: 1872

Will NJ. Carlton rhymes as follows
about farmer who took a boy to a
boy to printing office to "tO make
an editor outen o. him." "The editor
sat in his sanctum and looked the old
man in the eye; then glanced at the
grinning young hopeful, and MOURN
fully made this reply: 'Is your son a
small, unbound edition of Moses and
Solomon both? Can he compass his
spirit with meekness, and strangle a
natural oath? Can he leave all his
wrongs to the future, and carry his
heart in his cheek? Can he do a
weeks work in a minute, and live on
q sixpence q week? Can he cOurteO-
usly talk to an equal, and brow beat
an impudent Ounce? Can he keep
things in apple pie order and do a half
dozen at once? Can he press all the
springs of knowledge with quick and
reliable touch? And be sure that he
knows how much to know, and
knows how to not know too much
does he know how to stir up his vir-
tue, and put a check-rein on his pride?
Can he carry a gentleman's manner
with q rhinOcerOs' hide? Can he
know all and do all, with cheerful
ness, courage and vim? If so, we per-
haps, can make an editor Outen o.
him. The farmer stood curiOusly
listening, while wonder his vision
DER spread, and he said, "Jim, l
guess we'll be gOin', he's probably out
of his head"
Year: 1872

A Delaware correspondent proposes
to anchor balloons, and let the world
turn under them, by which means he
expects 70 sit still and yet travel q
thousand miles an hour. He does not
state what he anchors 10, bat We sup
pose it is what Archimedes sighed for
when he stated that he could move
the world ifhe had proper fulcrum-
Perhaps the spirit Of Archimedes in
spired the ingenious inventor with
this brilliant idea, and pointed out the
fulcrum.
Year: 1872

a man named John Sheared, in the
employ of Charles Beach, of West
Hartford, met with n singular acci-
dent on Saturday. He was working
in hot house, and in going up lad
der fell and one foot went into the
draft way of a hot air furnace. It is
supposed that he inhaled some OF the
gas from the furnace while on the lad
der, and that produced unconscious
ness, and he fell, as his foot remained
in the furnace long enough to he burn
ed to a crisp, and must have been a
slow burn. The bail of the foot was
completely roasted, while the upper
part was charred as if it were wood
And the whole foot was warped so
that it doubled up at the instep.-
Hartford COTdHf.
Year: 1872

If a patient, in the beginning Of the
attack, be put in 4 room from which
absolutely all light IS excluded save
that of candle, the effect is to arrest
the disease in the papular or vesicular
stage; the skin between the vesicles
is never infiamed nor swollen; the
large scabs of matter never form over
the face; there is no intense PAIN and
only trifiing itching, and the smell is
either very slight or altogether want
ing-LOu6Op Lancet.
Year: 1872

Those Western people are nothing if not
ingenious and original. One of them lately
assumed a-comfortable position, took in his
mouth piece of rubber tubing, the other
end of which connected with the gas-fxture,
and sunk to his nights repose as calmly as
flower at set of sun.