smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

The suppression by the police commits
sioners of several documents which are part
of the public business of their department.
is subiecting them to sharp criticism. The
latest documents which they attempted to
conceal were the letter of Gov. Dix refusing
to arm the police, and their own order
which it is said virtually protects gambling
houses.


Want a slice of Prospective Su6si-
Year: 1873

f" Punch y on the Fem lie Hellic he.


The female headaches are innumera-
bic, but they arise principally from
vexation and disappointment. They
may be divided into "nefvous and


sesick =" headaches The nervous is
irritable, and cannot bear being spoken


to. The sick is Respondent or sulky,


and bursts into tears at the least con-
tradiction. When q lady cannot have
her own way, a headache is the painful
consequence. An unpopular visitor,


brought home accidentally to. dinner,


will produce an alarming attack of
headache, and the symptoms that
successiyeIy follow are instant loss OF
appetite, deafness, peevlshness, hys-
terra, and finally a preclp1tate retreat
to the bed room. The poor servants
feel the effects of the head
ache as much as any one, and do not
stop in the room any longer than they
can help. These unfortunate head
aches are very frequent about that time
of the year when every one IS, or Is
supposed to. be, ont Of town, and do
not cease until the patient has been
carried to the sea size fura a change OF
air. The milder forms will vanish upon
the application OF a piece OF lewelry, or
if the forehead is wrapped up IN a new
shawl it is astonishing with what
rapidity the pain disappears. some
times a shifting of the scene is requ1-
site. and thus box at the opera has
been known to produce an instantane-
ous cure, even when the headache has
been of the most stunning description,
and the opera played is one OF Verdl's
Year: 1873

AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and thirty


seven of the general laws of 1867, in relation to
the election Of county superintendents of poor.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in


senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
. Section 1. Section one of chapter one hundred
and hirtyseTcn of the general laws of 1867 is here
by amended so as to read as follows: No member of
any county board Of supervisors in any conntv in
which county superintendents of the poor elect
ed or chosen by the board of supervisors, shall be
eligible to or hold the office Of super
intendent of the county poor, during the
act shall not be construed to prevent the county
board of supervisors from acting as such superin
tendents in any county where they are expressly
authorized or required by law to act such super
intendents.


Sec, ,. This act shall take effect and he in force
from and after its passage and publication. -
( Approved March 13, 1873.
Year: 1873

ment," so that said section one hundred and twen-
ty-one VIII read follows: 'In case of the sale of
any school, swamp or university lands made by
mistake or not in accordance with law, or obtained
by fraud, such sale shall be void; and certificate
OF purchase issued thereon shall be of any effect,
but the holder of any such certificate shall be re-
CURED to surrender the to the commissioners,
who shall thereupon refund the amount paid for the
lands described in the certificate together with the
interest thereon from the time of such payment"


Sec. 2. Amend section one of chapter three hum
dfed and seventeen of the general laws of 1854, by
adding to such section the following: And shall
thereupon refund the amount paid tor the lands de-
scribed in such patent, with The interest on the
same from the time OF such payment to such pat
entee his heirs assigns, that said section viii
read as follows: ''Whenever the commissioners of
school and university lands of this state satisfied
that they have enormously or improperly signed
any patent for school university lands, or for
swamp lands, and that wrong injustice may have
been done in consequence of the issuing of such
patent, they shall be, and hereby authorized and
empowered upon the application and request in
writing of the patentee, his heirs assigns, which
application shall be fled in the office of the secreta
ry of state, t. revoke and anIu the And shall
there11pop refund the amount paid for the lands de-
scribed in such patent, with the interest on the
same from the time of such payment to such pat
entee, his heirs or assigns"


Sec 3. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after it's passage.


r,r-aIh hJoro I I
Year: 1873

AN ACT in relation to the education Of children of


the county poor.


The people OF the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:


Section l. Whenever any person of lawful school
age shall be maintained ct the publch charge, such
person shall be deemed for school purposes, resi-
dents of any school district in which they may hab-
itually live
Sec. 2. In case the person be maintained by
the county, the county board of supervisors shall for
each year allow to any district in which such person
may attend school, amount for each person so
attending, which shall be equal to the amount ex-
pended IN that year for each pupil in such district
Tor school purposes, which amount shall be reckon
ed by the district officers, without reference to the
number OF pauper children attending the school,
and in case such person be maintained by any town
such town board Of supervisors shall allow to any
district in which they attend school, an amount
which shall he reckoned in the same manner here
in provided in where the pupils are mainta1ed
by the county.


Sec 8. This act shall take effect and be in fore
from and after its passage. ...


Approved March 13, 1873.
Year: 1873

AN ACT relating to practice in civil actions
The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in


senate and assembly, do enact as follows:


Section 1. In all actions tried by the court or by
referee, and wherein the finding of facts and con-
cusions of law of such court or referee shall be
fled it shall be the duty of the prevailing party to
serve upon the attorney for the losing party COR
rect copy OF such findings of facts and conclusions
| of law, and notice of the time and place of such
filing, and the losing party shall have ten days after
service of such copy and notice in which to file ex-
ceptlons to such finding of facts and conclusions of
/ law. ss&


Sec. p This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage. G---. II
Approved March II, 1873.
Year: 1873

TUNER.-Tbere will be a first class
Piano Forte Tuner and Repairer in Seat
tie about the 1871 inst. Any one wish
ing instruments tuned or repaired can
have it done by leaving their orders with
Humphrey & Young at the Pioneer Book
Store.
Year: 1873




The Candy manufactured
by him will retain brilliancy
longer in this climate than
the Stale article. heretofore
imported from San Francisco


He will manufacture any
thing from a con mon HARD
TACK to a first class orna-
mented WEDDING CAKE,
and guarantee satisfaction.
Year: 1873

1t is reported from Washington that the new
Supervising Inspector General of STEAMBOATS,
intends to make thorough work with the inspec-
tors. Considering that it is understood that
some OF these men are appointed for merely
political reasons and are ignorant Of their
duties this determination comes none toe
soon. And when it is added that it is suspec.
ted that some steamboat owners get certificates
for unsafe boilers by paying for them, it i,
clear that the system of steamboat inspection
needs immediate overhauling.
Year: 1873

THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN PoRro
RICO.-Later advices from Madrid state that
the act passed by the Spanish Assembly for
the abolition of slavery in Porto Rico, while
providing for immediate emancipation, obliges
the freed slaves to remain in the service oftheir
masters or other residents of the island for
three years, and does not bestow political citi-
zenship until five years shall have elapsed from
the time of the passage of the bill. This is
designed, of course, to avoid the precipitation
of political and social convulsion, to graduate
the translation from slavery to freedom, give
opportunity for the reorganization of labor, and
prepare both master and slave for the new
state of things in the future.
Year: 1873

1t is understood that the Treasury Depart,
ment has issued an order for the retention Of
the whole amount of earnings of the Union
and Central Pacific Railroads for mail and
Government transportation, in accordance
with the recent law of Congress.
Year: 1873

The Postmaster General has written letter
to the railroad presidents, stating his readiness
to appear before the Senate Special Committee
when they shall be present to argue the postal
car question
Year: 1873

The last man appointed to Office in Pennsyl-
vania, is inspector of Picked Fish in Philadel-
phia. No civil service examination in this
instance was required; the applicant simply
had to swear his nose would not go back on
him under any circumstances, and to support
the Union and Constitution.-St Louis
Democrat.
Year: 1873

Reflect that q sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote cOnnublnl
happiness. Indeed, without these tho journey
thrpough Hpa life becomes weary pilgrimage tho
nrospect hourly darkens 10 the view, tho mind
becomes shadowcd with despair, and filled with
the melancholy reelection that tnc happiness OF
another is blighted with our own.
Year: 1873

? above the floor. A lake of cold air
covered the floor. undisturbed by any
currents OF ventilation. In one room
in North Lansing the difference in
I the temperature at the floor level and
that three or four feet above the floor
was Il degrees in the Fifth Ward
school house the difference in one
room was 13 degrees, aud in the other
10 degrees. The laws of hygiene re-
quires the head to be kept cool and
the feet warm. This result can be
secured in these school rooms only by
the scholar standing on his head


The humiliating confession must be
made that in the construction of our
school rooms the subject of ventila-
ton has either been overlooked, or
else we have resorted to petty expert
ments; not worthy the name. Now
that the rooms are built, their ventila-
ton is difficult if not necessarily i'm
perfect. In the construction of a
school room, as earnest attention
should be given to securing adequate
ventilation as to securing the proper
amount of light. The one is as i'm
poriant as the other.


We understand that DIR. Kedzie in
tends to visit large number ofschools
in our State, and give them the same
careful examination that ne has be-
stow d upon the schools of our city.
We are sure that school officers and
all interested in schools Will afford
him every facility to forward this
work.
Year: 1873

Hearth and Home says the best
thing to hold in the mouth is q
mouthful of cold water. renewed
every few minutes. 1t will take
away the craving for tobacco quicker
than anything else, and is wholly un-
Objectionable. A pine stick is the best
of anything to chew, but the objec-
ton to that and to anything that is
chewed, is that it over exercises and
weakens the salivary glands. In
quitting the use of tobacco, quit at
once, and do not attempt to quit of
gradually.
Year: 1873

No recent triumph of engineering
has been more decisive than that Just
achieved at the HOOsac Tunnel. Last
week q junction was effected between
the headings from the eastern side and
the central shaft, and this success is
regarded as positive proof that in less
than a year from this time the great
Massachusetts, bore will be completed;
indeed, the prophets are very exact,
and declare that ION October Is, 1873,
if all goes well, there will be an open
ing through Hoosac Mountain from
east to west" But almost anything
can be believed of this remarkable
enterprise, now, for it appears that al
though the shaft was sunk ,030 feet
into the earth, the heading from it
was so true that when the junction
was made with the opening from the
east, it showed a difference in line of
only five-siXteenths OF an inch. This
result seems almost incredible, but it
rests upon the statements of the Mas
sachusetts State Engineers, who have
MADE a careful examination of the
work.
Year: 1873

Mr.. B. F. McCarty, of Cleveland,
has made discovery which promises
to settle, partially at least. the ques-
ton OF smoke consumption, and in q
different way'from any yet suggested.
MI. Nee. was looking after means TO
secure better draft for a sluggish fire,
and the idea occurred to him, after
other devices had failed, to try the ef-
fects of steam. A small pipe was
made to conduct the dry steam -
from the top Of the boiler to the upper
part of the furnace, where it entered
in two small jets striking downward
on the burning fuel. No sooner was
the steam injected into the furnace,
than the sluggish, smoky fire sprang
up into a clear, bright, } ellowish and
intensely hot flame, filing the whole
furnace with a loud roar. The end
sought-a strong draft-was attained,
and in addition the long sought desid


eratum of a smokeless fire. This sim
pie apparatus was next applied to the
furnace of the Cleveland Herald print
ing establishment, and that journal
gives an interesting account of the re-
suit. 1t says f" The smoke stack that
had long been a nuisance to ourselves
and our neighbors was instantly as in
nocent of smoke as a deserted house :;
and so it has continued, save when
the steam has been turned off for the
sake of experiment and comparison.
The exact c. emical process is not vet
clearly determined. The most proba-
BILE explanation is that the agitation
caused by the violent injection of the
particles of steam brings the oxygen
of the air into more rapid combination
with the coal gas, and so facilitates
combustion. The steam itself may be
decomposed, and so furnish some OK
ygen, but this does not add to the
heat, as an equal amount of the heat
gained in the reconciliation of the
oxygen is lost in its separation from
the hydrogen of the steam. There is,
in the Herald furnace, q saving Of
about twenty FIVE per cent. of the fuel
consumed, which represents the
amount of carbon hitherto carried off
in smoke. By Mr.. MeCarty's simple
cOntrivance-on which he has secured
a patent-the Herald saves money by
the consumption of less fuel; il no
longer annOys its neighbors with
cloud of black smoke, even when
fresh coal is thrown on the fire and
the engineer reports that he can get
up steam much quicker than before"
Year: 1873

The Indianapolis Sentinel Of recent
date tells the following story:


Come years ago, there was a well
known engineer, whose name is not
given for good and sufficient reasons,
who ran passenger train on one of
the most popular and most travelled
roads that run out of Indianapolis.
Alta certain place on the road, every
night for about week, as the passen-
ger train ran by this engineer, came
laundering along, it was certain to be
thrown from the track by distractions
placed there. Several of these mis-
haps eAuss d loss Ofilife, and the ability
of the engineer was being questioned.
One night as the unfortunate train
was nearing tine fatal spot, the engin-
eer who sitting glum and silent at the
throttle, turned to the fireman and
said; IF this train jumps the track
at that place to night, you follow me;


"DON'T STOP FOR ANYTHING,


But keep close after me. Somebody
has been throwing this train Off the
track and Pm going to catch him.


When the train arrived at the usual
place it struck a misplaced rail and
was banked. The engineer, close ~
followed by the fireman, jumped from
the engine and ran into a cOrnfield
and started up a man that lay con-
eealed there. Upon bringing the eul-
prit back to the wreck the enraged
passengers wanted to lynch him, but
the engineer, a astearn, cold, determin-
ed man, prevented them, saying he
would take care of him, and through
the intercessiOn of the conductor the
trembling wretch was LEFT in the
charge of the engineer. The train
was righted and was soon speeding
on its gay. The prisoner who had
confessed the deed, had been seated
on the engine and the fireman placed
beside him as guard. When the train
was on a smooth piece of track the
engineer beckoned the fireman. to
stand out of the way. The fireman
stepped aside and the engineer picked
up round stick Of wood and struck
the criminal such a blow upon the
head that it stunned him. He then
caught the quivering form of the
poor wretch, and opening the furnace
doors, threw the body into the hot
seething hell of flame The doors
were shut, the train ratified along and
meyer, until upon his death bed did
the engineer confess the act, nor was
it ascertained what had been the fate
of the fiend who had been in the hab-
it of throwing the passenger train of
the track.
Year: 1873

The young man who has an ambi-
tiOn to make a great noise in the world
should learn boiler making. He can
make more noise at that trade than
anything else he can engage in. fine
believes a man should strike for wa
ges," he should learn blaeksmithing:
especially if he is good at blowing. 4"
If he would embrace profession in
which he can rise rapidly, he should
become an aerOnaut. He couldn't
find anything better "'for high"
Year: 1873

ACCIDENTAL SHooTIHG.-ShoFtly after dark
last evening crowd of boys were playing near
the corner Of Second and North street, when one
Of them William FOulk discharged pistol in or
towards the crowd The ball struck Mark Dlvis,
a lad about twelve years of age, and entered just
above and near the middle of the left collar bone
The boy was knocked down, it seems, by the force
of the ball, and thought he was struck by a brick
The fact that he was shot was soon ascertained,
and he was promptly conveyed 10 DIR. Marshall's
office The Doctor prObed the wound, but could
not find the ball. He inferred from the general
direction Of the wound and the / ain In the arm
that it had lodged somewhere in the plexus Oi
nerves near the ampit. II is probable at all
events, that the ball has entered no vital spot and
is not likely TO prove fatal. The boy was suffer
ing considerable pain at 10 o'clock last night
The firing seems to have been done in sport
Milford Nesos.
Year: 1873

ATTEArPT TO SHOOT A WATcHMAN.--On We'd
nssday night, between eleven and twelve O'Clock
as the watchman at the steam brick yard, corner
of Fro Mt and DUPONT streets was suddenly startled
by hearing the discharge Of pistol, and the whis-
tie Of bullet in uncomfortable proximity 10 his
person He instantly extinguished his lantern, but
scarcely had he done SO, when another shot was
fired, which also struck not far from him. He
soon after searched the premises carefully, but
failed to find anybody proving about, and the
whole affair is n profound mystery. One Of the
shots atrnck a pile of bricks not two feet from
where the Watchman stood.
Year: 1873

COMING BACK.-James, A. Sanders well
known in this city, who removed to Maryland
three or four years ago to engage in farming,
will return to this city in the Spring, having
leased the store now occupied by Messrs Shaw
&Drake, on Market street below 3rd, where
he will resume the business Of a dry goods
merchant
Year: 1873

ABRIpaEKNTs.-The Commercial abridged the
Board Of directors OF the Wilmington and Read
ing Railroad Company, by the omission Of one
name.


Ere1y EUeniSiq abridged the Board of Directors
Of the Union National Bank by the omission of
two or three names We have waited Tor coFree-
tiOns but as they have not appeared q reminder is
thought not Objectionable.
Year: 1873

We are gratified TO see that Mr.. McCcD-
nell. of Trousdale, on Thursday last intro
duced in the Senate bill granting TO the
corporate authorities of tbs city Of Nash
vile, that portion Of the old Lunatic
Asylum grounds which has been reserved
for Governor's mansion, and a portion of
the Hermitage tract Of land for hospital
purposes. 1t is high time Tennessee was
moving in this direction. She has done her
self credit in the m&gnifcence of her
Hospital for the Insane, and ia various direc-
tions for the relief Of her afflicted INDECENT.
But upon the subject of public hospitals,
she is far behind many Of her sister States.
The State of Pennsylvania with the ampi-
tuda of her present hospitals has but re-
Gently appropriate to her two hospitals
one hundred Thousand dollars Q00,000,)
and the States generally are looking after
their INDECENT sick. That we have not done
so, is certainly not because there is not a
CRYING necessity upon US for such institu-
tions. The occasional paragraphs in our daily
papers calling attention to the extreme
wretch edness and destitution of the sick
Door by whom we are Immediately sur
rounded, develope but solitary care now
and then of the hundreds and thousands
who are perishing among US. The doctors
who, as a rule, are distinguished for their
charity, may and do 60 through all sorts Of
weather, and at any sacrifice, to these
novels of want and disease, but what can
they do when they get there? They find,
perhaps, that the wretched sufferers to
whom they are called are destitute Of the
necessaries Of life: not even a comfortable
shelter, or bed, or fuel, or morsel to eat
suitable to the nourishment of the wasted
frames. The doctor and bis medicines can
do but little under such circumstances.


There is scarcely day that there are not
sick destitute strangers in the city from
other portions of the State, needing and
often applying for hospital accommodation,
which cannot at present be supplied, and
which destitution should be remeded, and
which we hope will be to great extent at
least BY the adoption Of Mr.. McConuelrs
bill. And why not? The property pro-
posed to be appropriated is useless to the
State in its present condition, and likely to
remain Sd unless the wisdom Of the Legis-
lature shall thus give it practical and useful
activity.
Year: 1873

a SAN FRANCISCO man who chewed
gum suspected his Chinese servant ofpil-
fering The bits he left in bis desk, and neat
ly baited trap for the Celestial thief by
leaving some soft candies in the same place,
having flied each bit of sweetness with
cayenne pepper. The Cinnamon spent half
an hour in close communion with the wat
er-faucet, and pieces Of gum are quite safe
In that office now.
Year: 1873

IA Louisville man who had only
been acquainted with his girl two
nights, attempted to kiss her at the
gate. In his dying deposition, he told
the doctor that just as he "kissed her
the earth slid out from under his feet
and his soul went out of his mouth,
while his head touched the stars" >
Later information shows that what
allied him was the old mans boot.
Year: 1873

A NATURAL SEoUENoE.-Loss of
trade follows a cessation of advertising
as naturally as night follows day
Here is an illustration of it.:


An old lady entering a store the 9TH
er day, said: "Why it can't be that You
keep this store yet! l thought you
had gone out of business. Iain't seen
your name or anything about your
store in the paper for over year, and
everybody in our neighborhood thinks
you have gone out Of business"
Year: 1873

AVERAGES OF L1FE.-The average
age of Farmers is sixty years, while
that of Printers is only thirty three,
which shows the necessity of prompt
to the latter, so that they
may have the pleasure of handling
their own money during their short So
journ on this sublunary sphere.
Year: 1873

Away to her, fresh morning breeze,
Uplift and blow aside
Her snowy curtain, and with ease
Approach her undenied.
And lightly kiss her mouth and eyes,
And lightly lift her hair,
And blow about her where she lies
This scent that fills the air,
OF apple-blossoms sweet, that she
May, waking, long to know
What newly-howering shrub or tree
Sweetens the morning so,
And past the cloudy curtain there
Lean forth, perhaps, to see,
Sweet, fresh and fair, and unaware,
Be seen herself by me


TILL MOoNRIsE.
IT'S long, long after sunset,
And cloudless is the sky,
Yet strangely faint the stars are,
And strangely faint am T.;
Behind the hiding mountain
They know the moon is near;
And shining at her window
Soon will my Love appear.


The Aldine for January.