smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

CAuGur Young men who sit up late
on Saturday nights playing cards and
go to church next morning with a" full
deck in their pockets, should be careful
about their being bestowed so as not to
fall out Bob Howe went to the Baptist
meeting in Circleville. and took his seat
with his sweetheart in the front pew in
the gallery; he had occasion to use his
handkerchief, and drawing it rather sud
denly from his breast pocket, he drew
out the entire pack Of " Cohen's best
linen, which few all about below. The
good minister saw it and knowing where
of he spoke, simply observed:


Young man. your psalm-book has
been poorly bound. -
Year: 1873

Es-" Sally, what have you done with
the cream These children cannot eat
skim milk for breakfast. " Sure. ma am
and it isn't myself that would be afther
giving the scum to yez l tux that of
and gave it to the cats.
Year: 1873

warranted not to cut in the eye-not head
ache in hhds of tit is no sooner in your
belly than its on your back in pound of beet
and it carries a bead like necklace; for
sale by -


GEORGE AUSTIN.
Year: 1873

The hair is worn pretty snarly about the face.

 Short sleeves are extinct even in full dress p

 Some New York belles are wearing suits of Turkish toweling.

 Mousseline ribbon wears better than gros grain, females say.

 Powdered hair is again in fashion. Blonde and white are the favorite styles.

 Fancy jewelry is much worn on the street again, which is in very bad taste.

 Wide and very long sashes of colored grenadine will be worn this summer.

 Bonnets and jockeys are suspended at some distance over the weaver's head

 The custom of displaying wedding presents has gone completely out of fashion.

 Materials formed of alternate stripes of satin and velvet are very fashionable for skirts.

 Co1Ored ribbons about the neck, with a bow in front with diamonds thereon, are much worn in full dress.

 The ladies are wearing what is known as the snow-ball veil. It is of black lace, dotted with white, and very becoming.

 Young married ladies captivate their husbands by wearing coquettish morn ing caps when presiding at the dove cote mututinals."

 The |" swellest thing in the way of acceptances and regrets are engraved after the fashion of wedding cards, with blanks left for name and dates.

 Young ladies who have grandmothers ransack their ancestral treasures for high tortoise shell combs, and if they find them stick them in their back hair, and srtaightway rejoice exceedingly.
Year: 1873

Reader, put yourself in the place of dyspeptic and bilious patient under the old fashioned, regu

 lar treatment. Anopathie doses of blue pill, pur- gatives that go through him with the impetuous rush of avalanche, opium when he can't sleep, and little beef tea to keep him alive under the assaults of the medicine men upon his stomach, his intestines liver and his brain, all these has to endure. Is it any wonder that he becomes dreadfully weak emaciated and dejectedP Reader, if you have any |" gumption" you would, under any circumstanc and at all hazards, decline to put yourseH-otherwise than suppositiously-in that mars place. Now put yourself in the place of a person with the same complaints, who has had khe sense to resort to Hostetters Stomach Bitters as remedy. He takes that agreeable and potent vege- table tonic and ateratve, will say, three times a day. As a necessary consequence his appetite returns his digestion improves his bodily strength increases his bowels become free and regular, his sleep is sound and refreshing, ahis spirits grow buoyant the tinge of health returns to his com plexion, and in a few weeks the cure is complete. This is fancy picture it is brief abstract of the experience of thousands of dyspeptic, bilious

 sary to ask the reader in which of the two places he would put himseKi if afflicted with any disease of the stomach, the bowels, liver or the nervesf
Year: 1873

The Twenty-third Regiment of ar tillery in the French army has @ white Cochin China rooster upon which 8 great value is placed on account of his meritorious services in the field of bat tie. This cock passed through the whole of the campaign of the Rhine, and was carried to Augsburg as 8 prisoner of war. At Metz during the siege the soldiers, although obliged to eat their horses, held the life of this truly Gallic cock as sacred. At the battle of Gravelotte he was perched on the shoulders of his master, who was in the Fourth Battery, and was so used to the cannon's roar that he did not pay the slightest attention to it. After his master was killed another artillerist adopted him, and he still remains in the military service.
Year: 1873

A curious incident occurred few days since short distance from Balti- more, local paper says: One of our well-known merchants had gone out on a visit to friend, at whose house there was bright little boy, and one day, to please the child, he manufactured a very large kite, and as the wind was strong enough, the kite was raised at once. After 1t had gone up nearly half a mile, large crowd of country people collected to admire it, as such mag nifcent toy had never been seen in that section before. While. the spectators were admiring it, very large hawk was seen to fly slowly out of a neighbor- ing grove and go directly toward the kite. The hawk approached within a few feet of the strange looking object, and then circled about under it for per haps five minutes, when he flew just above it and again circled around several times. Suddenly he lowered directly over the kite, and after looking at it in tently for short time, darted down ward, and striking the paper, passed directly through the kite, coming out on the other side. After this strange experience, which no doubt puzzled the hawk vastly, he few-off short distance for reflection, but still keeping the kite in view. Not being disposed to give it up so, he quickly returned to the charge, and this time fastened on the long string of rags that were used as a tail to the kite, which he tore and scattered in the air in savage manner. Finding, how ever, no resistance on the part of the kite, he became disgusted or scared, and flew away toward the woods whence he came. The gentleman says that whenever the hawk made an attack he would retreat little, as if he expected the strange. bird was going to return the assault
Year: 1873

been walked over with bare feet, but the felt shoes effectually prevented slip ping. We reached the cave and entered it, first by wooden way carried over the powders, and then along a narrow ledge to the point eaten deepest into the shale. When the wind is from the south, the falling water, I am told, can be seen tranquilly from this spot; but, when we were there, binding hurri- cane of spray was whirled against us. On the evening of the same day, went behind the water on the Canada side, which, confess, struck me, after the experience of the morning, as an i'm posture,
Year: 1873

There never was a more touching story than that of the little Birmingham girl who, hearing that the cemetery was flooded, crept out of her bed early in the morning and was soon found, waist deep in water, weeping over her mother's grave. The little thing feared that the grave would be waahed away.
Year: 1873

Captain Williams has published in a Halifax paper defence of his conduct as commander of the Atlantic making the point that the disaster to that vessel was caused by the "unknown currents of the sea, rather than by the ineficiency of the officers.
Year: 1873

TRIAL BY ORDEAL. A Bombay Qndia) paper states that the barbarous custom of determining the guilt or in nocence of person by means of fiery ordeal is still practiced in Oodeypoore. The Rao of Kurapore, not long since, caused person of the cultivator caste, who was suspected to be in league with dacoit, to prove his innocence by hold ing red hotploughshare in both hands, after four or five popul leaves tied over with thread had been placed in them. According to the ceremony he had to repeat the following words with his face towards the sun "Thou sun-god, if am actually guilty of the crime, pun ish me if not, let me escape unscathed from the ordeal" The native paper, which is responsible for the above, states that the person suffered no in- jury.
Year: 1873

I can't abide to see men throw away their tools f that way the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure I their work, and was afraid of doing stroke too much. I hate to see mans arm drop down as if he was shot, before the clocks fairly struck, just as if he'd never bit O pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone ull go on turning bit after you loose it-Adu7,l Bede
Year: 1873

Sciatica, or neuralgia in the sciatic
nerve, is generally felt in or near the hip
Joint, and may be an intense pain without
much lameness, or it may be both pain
and lameness, and to cure, use Renne' 5
Pain Killing Magic Oil on the limb and il
the hollow of the foot freely. Its ust
cures as surely as it is used thoroughly
Sold by John Bengston.
Year: 1873

There can be no doubt but the greater
portion of the pain which the human body
has to undergo is caused by some derange
ment of the great organs, the Liver, Blood
Kidneys and Bowels Spring is upon US,
when change of atmosphere and habit are
ant to affect these organs; and the best
way to avert attacks of disease Of this
character is to use Mcguire Cundurangt
Bitters, the great Liver inyigorator anC
blood purifier, which releases the bile anc
purces it from the system, thereby pro
noting perfect health, For sale by al
Druggists
Year: 1873

Unless you wish premature death you
will let all the poisonous hair preparations
alone. NATURES HAIR RESTORATIVE is
perfectly harmless as any druggist will tell
YOU. See advertisement,
Year: 1873

Reports and rumors reach us from
roundabout that the cholera has made its
appearance, and that the people are in
state OF great excitement aud tear. We
have made particular inquiries on the sub
Jeci, but have yet to definitely learn OF the
hrst case within radius oil fifty miles
We have, however learned of several cases
OF cholera morbus, diarrhea, and cholera
nlantum, lew OF which have proved "a.
tai. The cholera may be among us before
the summer is over, but even il it should
come. we see no reason why the people
should get frightened. II they do so he
cause oi their evil deeds, we say, turn from
the error OF your ways, live an honorable
and upright life, and put yonr trust in Hin
who gave us our existence Our adyice ia
all is, keep your minds calm, your bodies
clean, your system in good condition do
not change your diet but he moderate and
temperate in all things, and there will be
no danger OF getting the cholera
Year: 1873

According to a writer IN the Chicago
AdUGnee, the ventriloquist's art is as easy
learned as falling off a log He maintains
that there is no difficulty in acquiring the
power. In the first place, he says, speak
a word or sentence IN your natural tone
then open the mouth and fix your Jaws
fast, as though trying to hinder any one
from opening them any further or shut
ting them draw the tongue back IN ball;
speak the same words, and the sound, in
stead of being formed IN the mouth, will
be formed in the pharynZ. Great atten-
ton must be paid to holding the jaws rig
i'd The sound will then be found to imI-
tate voice from the side of the door when
it is closed, or under floor, or through a
wall. To initiate sound behind door
partly open, the voice must not be altered
from the original note or pitch, but be
made in another part of the mouth, This
is done by closing the lips tight and draw
ing one corner of the mouth downward or
toward the ear. Then let the lips open at
that corner only, the other part to remain
closed. Next, breathe, as it were, the
words out of the oriace formed Do not
speak the words distinctly, but expel the
breath in short puffs at each word, and az


loud as possible By so doing you pro,
duce the illusion in the minds of your lis
teneFs that they hear the same voice which
they heard when the door was closed, but
more distinctly and nearer on account. of
the door being open. The lips must al
ways be used when the ventriloquist
wishes it to appear that the sound comes
through an obstacle, hut from some one
cloEe ct hand.
Year: 1873

We rather enjoy being local editor.
The occasional bestings We &c. do US good;
but lately they have become too fiequen,
for comfort. For long years We labored
under the impression that We were u
humorous fellow. That is the rock on
which We split. All our troubles have
come from the fact, MS we understand the
case, that our humor is misunderstood
We have often wondered whether this
misunderstanding was the result Of our
stupidity or somebody else's.


The other morning We casually re-
marked tha, = gentleman OF our accquaint-
snce-a friend Of ours-was liar. AS a
matter OF course the remark was intended
to be Pick wickisE. In the same issue we
threw out the Important infor nation that
there was an English nobleman in the
city driving drsy, that the dogs Of Il
neighbor had habit of barking at night
that certain jacksss had n loud voice,
that church bell was rung too long an
too often, that a certain city official, who
should be namelsss, had horribly long
nose and was generally i'll locking, tina,
the man who yelled nightly in iron. OF
our door, after We had gone off into the
land Of Nod, was the son of q sea cook.


The few persons in this world who sp-
preciste joke as we do-that is to say
the refined lovers of subtle humor-sa "
that We meant fun by all our squibs and
chuckled. The next morning we were
sitting in our Office enjoying q perusal OF
our paper when our friend whom we had
playfully called liar came into the room
Before we could explain, he denounced u:
70 another and hit US on the nose, in the eye
and kicked US. We tried TO have him
take recess SO We might explain, but he
went on until he exhausted himself and
then left US tired and bleeding.


While Burnett was spunging us, anC
Wiley was feeding us with brandy by tn,
spoonful, = drsymsn came in. lie sale
the reference to the titled drsymsa WA
aimed at him, and he struck us over tn,
head with drsyp pin. Squire Bross hap
psnsd in Al this moment, took the furiou
man out Of the room, and instantly anet
him $5snd costs. Scarcely had that dray
man been taken away when eight othe
drsyman appeared before our Injured eye,
and each insisted that the paragraph
meant him. In vain we called tho atten
tion Of q draymsn with the Irish brogu
Year: 1873

There was considerable excitement in
the city yesterday. Every body was talk
ing about the pending execution, and the
colored population gave to Campbell and
his woes their undivided attention. Two
or three hundred negroes visited the Jail
in the afternoon. In the evening, u ru-
NOR prevailed that Bird had returned with
= respite of thirty days, but it proved to
be without foundation. Up to the hour
at which We write-l o'clock 3. m.-no
Year: 1873

Of the county Mayo to the fact that We
had said the drsyman was an English
nobleman. He said that fact made mat
ters worse that we knew how he detested
the English and we had called him an
English nobleman for the express
purpose Of making the insult more pro.
voking, and he was about to crush US when
Gossman asked him not 10 do 50. A Ger.
man drayman was as unreasonable as the
Irishman, and the Americans were more
unreasonable than either. Luckily each
Of these drayman insisted that he was the
man meant. They finally fell to lighting
among themselves and we got OF.


Then the owner of the jscka. came
in. He is q stslwsrt man and could eat
us nt one bite, and IL was his intention to
do so but when he saw our bleeding
body his anger melted into pity, and be
did nothing more than denounce US as a
scoundrel and threaten to whip US when
we got we'll.


Then the dog man came but he was
small and We therefore succeeded 10 in
ducing McHale to threaten to whip him
If be wouldn't 60 away.


Then every city officer attacked US.
Sir said Mayor Wood, "whst do you
see wrong in this nose Of mine And
sir" shouted Howley, "how dared you
say this nose Of mine is long 7'-"Or
mine 2 shouted Mehner "Or mine -
cried Martin; and then they all struck al
US. In few moments ou. life was al.
mos, extinct, and our ,ormentors left US,
when we swors we would never attempt
to be humorous again. And we intend to
keep our oath.


But our misfortunos were not at an end
Two or three Liembers of every church in
the city came in and said the bell we
hin,ed al was their bell, that We were q
mean fellow and the church wouldn't pat
ronize US any more. We thought church
members were non-cOm batants, and there
fore pretended to DO brave. One small
member, who looked as If he had had
grace pumped into him until he had be-
come meek saint, we ordered to leave the
room, and made u demonstration to put
him out. When we came to, the little
member had retired, and somebody told US
that he had hit US behind the ear and
that we had laid down and had gone 70
sleep. Fifteen bulies-members of base
bsll clubs-ssssulted US during the day
and when we asked for an explanation each
Of them told US he would allow no man to
call him the son of sea cook. They lad
all evidently been yelling in front of our
door


We are recovering. DR.. Smith says We
will be able to be about in week, but DR.
Dunning says our wounds cannot be
healed iu less than thirty days.
Year: 1873

The building on Mill street, formerly
used as a school house for colored children,
in the second ward, and which was partly
destroyed by fire several months since, is to
be repaired and converted into double
dwelling, the rent thereof to be applied to-
ward paying the salary Of the pastor of
Mount Zion A. N. e. Church.
Year: 1873

ty certain we will start it here. We are just
establishing a large factory in Barnesvlie fo1
the mandatory Of ploughs, agricultural i'm
plements, &c. We are daily debating the es'
tablshment of State Grange Bank. line
most important step probably that we are de-
batting is the forcing of each of our members
to raise his own supplies and to make all his
renters do the same; in other words, make
GRANGERs THOROUGHLY sELF-sUsTAIN1NG,
knowing, as we do, that the only safety tor
Georgia is to relieve her from the despotlsma
of the West. We are thoroughly deterplned
on this plan, and if we effect this reformation
it is great deal.


THE POLITICAL QUESTIONS.


Reporter-W do the Grangers have to
say on the political questions of the day.


Mr.. L.-Well there is nothing political IN
our organic law, and we do not intend to dab
BILE in politics. There is no Disgusting one
thing, though ; and that is that the farmers
are all going to vote together. They will, OF
course vote en- masse for that measure which
is to their interest: In this way they will be-
come fearful power in politics as in every
thing else.


THE MAGIC SEAL OF THE GRANGE.


Reporter-How do you propose to work
this thing of buying on contract?


Mr.. L-All is done by the seal of the or
der. Ifa farmer in a Grange or dozen far:
mers in Grange wish to buy a hundred
bushels of corn, or thousand pounds of bacon
he or they 60 to the Secretary of the Grange
to which they belong, with the cash, and have
their order made out. He takes the cash
stamps the order with the seal of the Grange
and forwards it to the nearest merchant with
whom the order has a contract. 1t is very
simple.
Year: 1873

The tobacco as it comes from the plantation
is dried to the utmost, and passed through a
mill in which revolving cylinder armed with
small projections CRATES it into tiny particles.
It is then by the same machine sifted through
a series of sieves similar to those of wheat
fan, that which, is left on the upper and coarser
sieves being passed and repassed through the
mill until sufficiently fine for use. For this
it is unnecessary to stem the leaves, the re-
fuse stems being themselves used in the man.
ufacture of the inferior grades, and the sweep


ngs of the stemming-room are devoted to a
like purpose These last are first carefully
examined, to make sure that nothing is left
in them to break the mill, no nails or stones
to injure the machinery. A man on his hands
and knees was picking over pile of sweep
ings the day we visited the factory, seeming
as intent on his task as the searcher for pearls
in the oyster pits Of Ceylon.


The inferior grades of lugs, ect., can be
used only for smoking. Indeed, no leaf is
worthless for the manufacture of one or the
other of the innumerable brands somewhere
between the golden chaf with which the mil
lonaire fills his costly meerschaum and the
black mixture which Paddy smokes in his
clay pipe as he drives his dray-there is place
and use for it all.


Smoking-tobacco is generally put up in
bags holding from two ounces to one pound
each, a pound being the limit allowed by the
government for any single package The
packing is done by means of hollow iron cyl
inders, over which the bags fit closely and are
tightly drawn. Into these the tobacco is
poured, and by working treadle wooden
mallet is forced into the cylinder, COMPRISING
the mass into the smallest possible compass.
This operation is repeated until the bags are
full, when the cylinders are withdrawn, leav-
ing the closely packed tobacco in the bag.


The number of bags required for this bust
ness may be imagined from the fact that in
the single factory visited by the writer their
mandatory furnishes support for fifteen
poor families, besides which a large number
are made by persons who merely do the work
as a source Of pocketmoney. The maniac
ture of tobacco is the principal industry Of
Richmond, outstripping even iron in the rev.
enue which it produces. The largest income
listed last year in the State of Virginia was
that of a Richmond tobacconist, and what the
bourse is to Paris, the stock exchange to New
York, that the tobacco exchange is to Rich
mond.-Harpers' Magazine.
Year: 1873




How TO Fool RATs.-Let us take the case
of house badly infested with rats, says the
Rural Ne.o Yorker. How shall we get rid OF
them? Of course, if they come from some
public sewer or other colony, the supply is
probably unlimited, and the first thing must
be to cut off the access of all outsiders. But
if we are troubled by none but natives, it will
not require much skill to capture every one
of them old, cunning fellows and all. In
the first place, then, we must resolve to take
time to it and capture the whole lot, and to
this end no attempt must be made to capture
single animals, since this will tend to make
them suspicious and will put the old ones on
their guard. Then provide large box or
barrel place in it quantity of old carpet,
brush, &C., and also some food, such as meal,
cheese, herring, &c. Bore two-inch hole in
the side of the box, and leave it for some days.
The rats will soon find it out and frequent it.
First young one will 60 in and have good
feed and come out all right; the old ones see
ing that he is not hurt, they, too, will 60 in,
and in short time every rat about the prem.
ises will 20 there. When this occurs see that
it is we'll supplied with food and arrange over
the hole block having corresponding ap-
erture cut in it but having also series of
wires stuck around the hole and pointing in
ward, just as they are arranged in the com.
mon wire traps. Every rat will 60 in as
before and not one can get out. Various
methods may be adopted for killing them. If
you are sportsman, you can let them out one
at time and shoot them or kill them with
terriers. A few slips of sulphured paper
thrust through the hole and burned, is, how
ever, very simple plan, and will give most
effectual quietus. We have known case in
which sixty.seven rats were caught at one
time in box arranged as described. In this
instance the premises were efectually cleared
of the vermin.