smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

latter. Just 80 with the soil. II is no
matter II It's fertility is 80 great rs to
produce one hundred bushels Of shelled
corn TO the acre, and It's productive pow.
ers are reduced only the one hundreth
part in as many years, its complete cx-
haustion would only be a question Of
time at last.


The American farmer grows corn year
after year. and IL is sent to England,
where IL is converted into beef, mutton
or pork for market, in doing which the
farmers Of England make such vast
quantities Of rich manure that nv its sp-
plication to the land the yield frequently
doubles the rent, while the American
farmer in cultivating his own land 30
weakens It's production by not consuming
his produce at home that IL ceases to re-
turn him fair average crops-a fact which
will be sorely felt by posterity.


The soil is the foundation upon which
the hopes OF the farmer must rely, but
he must not expect il To. dispense its
gratuitous bounties unless he reciprocatcs
its favors. Or it may be likened to n ma.
chine that converts dead, Inorganic mat
ter into vegetable life for our subsistence;
we must supply the machine with plenty
of grease (manure) in order to give scope
to its greatest utility. Nor is this all; il
needs also our care, attention, and the
application of our skill and judgmen,
before we can expect it to do good work
Year: 1875

A correspondent of lPpieiOn's ,j0mna,
writing of excavations at Pompeii says
Among the most interesting of the OBJ
jects found recently are two skeletons,
one of somewhat elderly man, the
other of woman. They were found in
the Via Stabia among the ashes of the
last eruption, evidently overtaken in
their flight and buried among the cnders.
| According TO the usual method en-
ployed to preserve the external appear
ance Of objects, liquid plaster was poured
into the cavity, which serving as a
mould, a facsimile of the forms was oh.
tained; and thus perfectly preserved, the
statuelike bodies were placed in glass
cases in the Pompeii Museum. While
appreciating all the horror of such a
death, and the suffering endured, as
shown by the position of the limbs one
can not but imagine what would have
been the ast0nishment of that man and
woman had some prophet informed them
that eighteen hundred years after their
death their forms, and even as much of
their garments AS was not consumed in
the eruption, would be placed in mu.
scum for inspection by "A multitude of
sight-seers, some from lands the exist
ence of which they had never dreamed
Of The poor woman is lying on her
face, and even the form of her hair, put
up behind, il seen. One arm shields her
forehead, and she is supported by the
other. Her stony limbs are well formed,
and traces of a garment are seen passing
in folds around her. The man, although
placed on his back in the exhibition,
when found was turned ON his side.
One arm rests on his hip; the other is
upliited. The face is somewhat dis
torted, but massive and smoothly shaven.
Even the form of the fastening of the
sandals around the ankle, and of the
long button higher up on the leg to hold
them, is clearly seen. The limbs are
partly drawn up.


The skeleton of a tolerably large dog,
also recently found, is in the Museum of
Pompeii, his whole form preserved in
plaster in the same manner as those Just
mentioned. He is lying on his back,
writhing in suffering, biting his hind
leg. The rings in his collar are plainly
scen.
Year: 1875

YEAST AND HOMEMADE BREAD
Boil one pound of good flour, a quarter
of a pound of moist sugar and half an
ounce of salt, in two gallons of water, for
an hour. When nearly cold, bottle and
cork it closely. 1t will be fit for use in
twenty-four hours, and one pint will
make eighteen pounds Of bread.


To WASH WHITE STRIPED STOCKINGS.
Make a jelly, the night before it Is
wanted, of the best yellow soap; wash
the stockings in warm water with little
salt in it, using the jelly instead of soap
rinse in clear water, also with little salt
in it; wiring as dry as possible, and dry
quickly.
Year: 1875

DO not let stock fall away in flesh as
winter approaches, What is lost now is
doubly lost-once in the value of what
il has taken to produce the weight, and
again what il will take TO restore it,.
Added to this less food will produce a
pound of flesh now then will be required
When larger amount Of animal heat has
10 be- furnished.
Year: 1875

The PUNURIoUs POSTAL CARD
One sees some really Napoleonic
streaks of meanness at the outcome of
the postal card system. The audacity
is sometimes superb. A writer saves
sheet of paper, au envelope, stamp
Tor postage and also the usual stamp
for return postage-all by one dexter
Gus postal card. The spirit Of econo-
my could no further go. But really,
whats right in courtesy have letter.
writer's who do not consider their cor
respondents of importance enough to
give their epistles to them the poor
compliment Of an enclosure? How is
a communication to be entertained
when the writer confesses by the pos
tai card that it isn't worth sheet of
paper and postage stamp? That the
postal card is very useful for circular
notes, for announcement, for communi-
eating any simple fact that does not
call for response, no one can deny.
But We submit that social custom
ought to establish a nlissive Of this
kind calling for response, excepting
on business matters concerning the re-
cipient, is an impertinence; and that
postal card, partaking Of the nature of
correspondence as ordinarily under
stood, it is entitled to no respect or
consideration whatsoever. = appleton
Journal.
Year: 1875




: AN UNDERGRouND LAKE. There
is now little doubt that subterranean
vein of water extends under greater
portion of the city lying north Of the
river The average depth of the sur.
face is about 90 feet and when the
vein is we'll reached the water rises in
the we'll to within a few feet of the
top. The vein was first struck by
Heislnger Brothers as will be remem-
sbered, and the workmen bad some
aifiiculty in escaping on account of
the rush of water. Beckwith had the
same experience on reaching the same
depth, and on Friday last j. j Moore,
in digging for water to supply this Of
fee struck the same vein at the same
depth, and the water poured in with
such rapidity as to fill the we'll in a
short time. The water in these wells


s inexhaustible. and when the vein is
once reached it forms perpetual
spring of the parest of water There
is no doubt remaining that this vein
can be tapped anywhere in the vicin-
lty of these wells already sunk, By 60
ing down fifty five feet = Oshkosh
Northeastern.
Year: 1875

ENGLIsH ARCTIC EXPEDITION
The latest advice from the English
Arctic Expedition state that an unusu-
ally easy passage has been affected to
within leo miles Of the entrance to
Smith Sound; and it is hoped that, if
circumstances continue equally favor
able, the Pole may be reached this
year. The expedition is not expected
to return. however, until the close of
1877. July 23d, the Alert met with
slight accident, getting ground on
a small island and off Kingatok; but
the vessel foated off without injury,
with the rise of the tide.
Year: 1875

implore hcr To- 81 love that boy that she viii
be patient with him that she will so win aud
retain his Affections that his love for mother
shall be slield of safety ia the darkest hour
Of Temptation.


Dear young mothers, bear with the noisy
boys: bette. few headaches now. than the
dreadful htartaches tina. will come in alter
years. Make home pleasant for them. No
matter il the work is not all done 10 your sat-
isfaction the eternal welfare OF the child is OF
FAR more importance. Lay aside your work
sometimes, and enter into their sports end
games. Question them about their dolnes ..
school; ri ice with them when they are bap-
py; sympathzc with them when they arc IN
trouble. Let them see that mother Isl irao
friend to them. At the same time be frm aad
insist upon implicit obedience. They will re-
spcct you all the more for that. Make bed
time happy hour FOR them, that the memory
may linger with them in after years. and that
hour shall be a sacred one, causing a deep
tenderness 10 spring up IN the hear', and
strong yearning to bow the head again on
mothers kuee, aud say the evening prayer,
even when they have become strong men, en-
crossed in the business ef ife


Dear mothers, as say farewell 10 you,
would lit my heart in prayer to the Father
above, asking him to give You, each and all.
wisdom aud strength SO to bring up those boys
Of yours, that noble manhood may be theirs;
happy heart yours. and mansion OF rest
for you all in the pure city Of God.


And il my story will help some mother to
tc more patient aud tender with her boy will
Thank God lhn, he has permitted few threads
Of gold to finish my web OF life.
Year: 1875

Leach iHeil scll-IcliduCt-


Teach them to make bread.


Teach them to make shirts.


Teach them TO foot up store bills.


Teach them not to wear false hair.


Teach them to wear thick, warm
shoes.


Bring them up in the way they
should 60.


Teach them how to wash and iron
clothes.
Teach them how to make their own
dresses.


Teach them that dollar is only u
hundred cents.


Teach them how to cook good
meal of victuals.


Teach them how to darn stockings
and sew on buttons.


Teach them every day, dry, hard,
practical common sense.


Teach them to say No. and mean it.;
or Yes, and stick to it.


Teach them to wear calico dresses,
and do it like queens.


Give them good, substantial COM
mon-school education.


Teach them that good rosy romp
is worth fifty consumptives.


Teach them to regard the morals
and not the money of their beaux.


Teach them the mysteries of the
kitchen, the dinning-room, and the
parlor.


Teach them that the more one lives
within his income the more he will
save.


Teach them to have nothing to do
with intemperanc and dissolute young
men.


Teach them the further one lives
beyond his income the nearer he gets
to the poor-house.


Teach them that good, steady me-
chanic without cent, is worth doz-
en- loafers in broadcloth.


Teach them the accomplishments,
music, painting, drawing, if You have
the time and money to do it with.


Teach them that God made them
in His own image, and no amount of
tight lacing will improve the model.


Rely upon it that upon your teach
ing depends in great measure the
veal or woe of their after life.
Year: 1875

:


The very best. thing to do withil-
lustrated papers after your own fami-
" have finished reading them, is, of
course, to send them to some family
who cannot afford the luxury Of buy
ing them, or {, the prison libraries;
but it often happens that odd num-
bers lie around the Kause and are torn
up or burned up simpiy because one
does not know what to do with them.


A very pretty use for odd pictures
and prints of all sizes and descriptions
is to make them into Christmas books
for children. It is pretty work for
you own children to do, and they
make tasteful and valuable presenfe
for children of friends. The foll
ing directions mar aiaraapE assiSE
young people IS preparing pleasant
surprise for some one they love:


Take one yard of blue glazed mus
lin, ola pretty shade, one Of pink and
one of white; fold each into six
squares, unless your pictures are very
large, when four squares will proba-
bly, answer. Lay them one upon the
other, and stitch one side firmly, to-
gether; then, taking sharp pair Of
scissors, cut the three remaining mar
gins in even and regular points.


Now trim your pictures neatly, and
arrange the third page, leaving the
outside leaf for cover. The pictures
should be put on with starch, laying
them face down upon the table and
brushing the backs evenly and quickly
with the starch, then lifting and plac-
ing where you wish to have them, leav-
ing margin ofabout an inch of the col
ored cambria around the edge of the
pictures. When the pageis arranged
and partly dry, it should be pressed
with warm iron. If the pictures
are small, several can be nicely group
ed together, or one large one and two
smaller will often do nicely upon the
same page. The cover can be deco
rated in rather different fashion, by
leaving the edge plain, and loop-stitch-
ing border in colored worsted, and
pasting a name and inscription in let
ters, also cut from headings of papers.


With little exercise of ingenuity q
very pretty thing can be made of
waste pictures, which are really too
good to throw away.-American Gro
GER
Year: 1875

Florida papers report an almost to-
tai failure of the sponge crop, while
Northern free-lunch saloon clerks say
that there are more sponges around
this Fall than they ever saw before.
Year: 1875

yuyIE MAGNOLIA HAS BEEN FITTED


up In the most attractive style possible,
with q view to the convenience and comfort
of patrons. The proprietor desires to call the
attention Of customt rs friends and the public
to his superior stock of
Year: 1875

We have no more right to fling an un-
necessary shadow over the spirit of those
with whom we have to do, than we have
to fling stone and injurc them. Yet
this fling1ng shadow is a very common
sin, and one to- which women are particu-
larly addicted: Oh, what blessing is
merry, cheerful woman in household!
One whose spirits are not affected by wet
days, or little disappointments, or whose
milk of human kindness does not sour in
the sunshine Of prosperity. Such wo-
man, in the daakest hours, brightens The
house like little piece ofsunshiny wealth
er. The magnetism of her smile, the
electrical brightness of her looks and
movements, infects every one. The child
rcn go to school with sense eofsomething
great to be achieved; her husband goes
into the world in conquercr's spirit. No
matter how people worry and annoy him
all day, far off her presence shines, and
he whispers to himself, "At home l shall
find rest" So day by day she literally
renews his strength and energy, and if
you know man with beaming face, q
kind heart and prosperous business, in
nine cases out of ter you will find he has
a wife of his kind, For nothing is more
certain than the man who is married must
ask his wife for permission to be happy
and wealthy.
Year: 1875

The following is the Minnesota law
for the prevention of the adulteration of
milk:


"Whoever shall knowingly sell. to any
person or persons, or sell, deliver or bring
to be manufactured to any cheese or but
ter mandatory IN the State, any milk
diluted with water, or any way adulterat-
ed, or milk from which any cream has
been taken, or milk commonly known as
skinned MILK or shall keep back any
part of milk known as "strippings" with
intent to defraud, or sh all knowingly use
any poisonous or deleterous material in
the manufacture of cheese or butter, shall
upon conviction thereof, be fined in any
sum not less than twenty-five (20 dollars,
nor more than one hundred dollars, or
Imprisonment in the county Jail, not ex.
cecding thirty (3o) days, or both such fine
or imprisonment, or liable in double the
amount of damages, to the person or per-
sons, firm, association or corporation
upon whom such fraud shall be commit
ted"
Year: 1875

\ story is told Of an engineer on the
Union Pacific Railroad who ran race
with death at the rate of forty miles an
hour, and won by five seconds He was
driving the passenger train west, and was
taken suddenly and seriously i'll. He seem-
ed to be aware that death was near, yet the
train must reach Cheyenne before he could
be relieved. That was the end of his route
he increased the speed of the engine and
ran for life. Forty miles an hour sayed
his distance. He reached Cheyenne ahead
Of time and when the engineer who was
to relieve him stepped aboard the engine
he family gasped, "Take the engine; l am
ready to die now.' In five seconds, he
was corpse. Ifdeath had stepped aboard
before the other engineer, what would
have been the consequence to the passen-
gers? But they did not see the grim spec
tire running the engine like a phantom
train,
Year: 1875

From the Oshkoh, (Wis.) Northwestern,
A farmernamed Griffin applied at Boyn- |
tons jewelry store on Monday, offering to
sell large silver medal about 211s inches
in diameter, which he had turned out of
the sod while plowlng in his field. He
said he turned it out of a furrow about ten
inches deep, and on sod ground that he
was breaking for the first time. The med
al was somewhat rusty and discoloIcd
when found, but was easily polished to its
original silvcry brightness. The medal
is a curiosity, and but very slightly worn
and that only On one side. The other side
seems perfectly preserved, with no traces
of the effects of time and weather upon its
surface. On one side of the medal is the
bust of George the Third in has relief,
over which is stamped in {; circle, "Geor-
gius III del Gratia." On the reverse side
is presented church in the back ground
shaded on one side with pine and on the
opposite with an oak grove. In the fore
ground is lion lying On the ground with





head erect, and in defiant posture, while a
wolf stands baying at him, evidently
afraid to make an attack. The outer rim
of the medal is in perfect preservation,
and a little hole in the top of the medal
shows that cord once attached it to the
breast of perhaps some proud and merito-
rious possessor. There is no date upon it,
although it was apparently cast in the
days of George the Third How it came
on Mr.. Grittin's farm ten inches beneath
sod that was never before broken, is the
mystery. In all probability it was lost
there i'll the early days Of the country by
some foreign traveller who possessed it as
reward for services done his country
MI. Boynton purchased it for the value of
the silver it contained; but as curiosity
it is Of far greater worth.
Year: 1875

1.-TWO persons are to OCCUPY a bedroom
during the night, let them step on a
weighing scale as they retire, and then
again in the morning, and they will find
that their actual weight is at least pound
less in the morning. Frequently there
will be a loss of two or more pounds, and
the average loss throughout the year will
be pound of matter, which has gone off
from their bodies, partly from the lungs,
and partly through the skin. The escap-
ell matter is carbonic acid and decayed
animal matter or poisonous exhalation.
This is diffused through the air in part,
and partly absorbed by the bcl-clothes.
If single ounce of wool cotton be burn
ed in room, it will so completely satur-
ate the air with smoke that one can hard
ly breathe, though there can only be one
ounce of foreign matter in the air. If an
ounce of cotton be burned every half hour
during the night, the air will be kept con-
tinually saturated with smoke unless there
be an open window OF door for it to es-
cape.


Now, the sixteen ounces of smoke thus
formed is far less poisonous than the six
teen of exhalations from the lungs and
bodies of two persons who have lost
pound of weight during the eight hours
of sleeping; for, while the day smoke is
mainly taken into the lungs, the damp
odors from the body are absorbed both
into the pores of the whole body. Need
more he said to show the importance of
having bedrooms we'll ventilated, and of
airing the sheets, coyerlids,
and mattresses in the morning before
packing them up in the form of a neatly
made bed.
Year: 1875

A mechanical genius in New Orleans
has invented contrivance worthy Of the
originator Of the famous machine for the
determination Of the exchange iend. II
consists Of a neat little skeleton attach
ment for the roof of a street car, with the
hinge just over the door. 1t is rather orna-
mental than otherwise, and dosen't in the
least interfere with passengers. The driv-
er works it by sort of treadle. When
he sees a boy catching on the step he will
make the usual forms. He will look in.
dignant and threaten the boy and appear
to be awfully riled; and Of course the
Year: 1875

Then shall the kingdom Of Satan be lik-
encd to grain Of tobacco seed, which,
though exceedingly small, being cast into
the ground, grew, and became great plant,
and spread its leaves rank and broad, so
that huge and vile worms found habita-
ton thereon. And it came to pass III the
course of time that the sons of men look
ed upon it, and thought it beautiful to
look upon, and much to be desired to
make the lads look big and manly. So
they put forth their hands and did chew
thereof: And some it made sick and 9TH
ers to vomit most filthily. And it farther
came to pass that those who chewed it be-
came weak and unnanly and said we are
enslaved and can't cease from chewing it,
And the mouths of all those that are en-.
slaved became foul, and they were ceized
with violent splitting; and they did spit,
even in ladies' parlors, and in the house
of the Lord of Hosts. And the saints of
the Most High was greatly plagued there
by. And in the course of time it came to
pass also that others snuffed it.; and they
were taken suddenly with fits, and they
did sneeze with great snecze, insomuch
that their eyes were filled with tears, and
they did look exceedingly silly. And yet
others cunning1y wrought the leaves there
Of and did suck most vehemently at the
other end thereof, and did look very grave
and calf like; and the smoke of their tor
ment asccndeth up forever and ever.


And the cultivation thereof became a
great and mighty business in the earth
and the merchantmen waxcd rich by the
commerce thereof. And it came to pass
that the saints Of the Most High dcfled
themselves Herewith; even the poor who
could not buy shoes, nor bread, nor books,
for their little ones, spent their money for
it. And the Lord was greatly displeased
Herewith, and said, wherefore this waste
and why do these little ones lack bread,
and shoes and books? Turn now your
fields into corn and wheat, and put this
evil thing far from you; and he separate,
and detile not yourselves any more, and I
will bless you, and cause my face to shine
upon you.


But with one accord they all exclaimed
"We cannot cease from chewing, snuffing
and putting; we are slaves.
Year: 1875

When the average freight rate on wheat
from Chicago to New York fell to 16 cts.
per bushe', year ago, it was belived that
The lowest point had been reached. In
former seasons that price had frequently
been paid for the lake portion Of the
throug ugh-rate, and even more for the canal
portion But Is cents would now be call
ed a good freight in comparison with the
rates which have prevailed this year. The
following exhibit shows the average price
paid on wheat and corn by lake and canal
for the month of May in the ten years
named:
Year: 1875

boy will grin and stand on one leg and
waggle his fingers against his nose in de-
rision. And just at this interesting crisis
the driver will stamp his foot with vigor,
and thing like a graphing hook will
suddenly fly down and wrench out the
seat of the boys trousers and snatch him
several feet to the rear Of the car, where
the inevitable milk cart will run over
him
Year: 1875

The New York Tribune contains the following
highly proper remark in relation to local news
papers: Nothing is more common than 70 near
neople talk of what they pay for Advertising ETC.,
as SO much given to charity. Newspapers, by
enhancing the property in the neighborhood and
giving the localities in which they are published
a reputation abroad, benefit all such, partlcu-
larly If they are merchants or real estate own
ers. thrice the amount yearly of the meagre sum
paid for their support. Besides. every pubHc
spirited citizen has laudable pride in having .
paper Of which he is not ashamed, even though
he should pick it up in Washington or New
York good looking, thriving sheet helps
property. gives character to the locality, and is
IN many respects desirable public convenience.
IF Won want good readable sheet you must sup
port itnot in spirit Of charity put pecaTse The
printing press is the power that moves the
people.