smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

. A highly important series of expert
ments have been made by two German
physicians, Vogl and Gutenberg, with a
view accurately to determine the physi-
illogical action of tobacco. Their re-
searches had reference first to the action
of those bases of tobacco which are
volatilized at temperature lower than
one hundred and sixty degrees, and
then to those volatilizable between one
hundred and sixty and two hundred
and sixty degrees. 1t was found that
the action of all these bases was identi-
cal with that of nicotine, producing con-
traction of the pupil, labored respira-
tiou, commissions, and death. When
taken into the stomach they produce
their effects more speedily than when
simultaneously injected; though even
in the latter case they are not 30 instan-
taneous as nicotine. The lungs and air
passages of animals eIperimented upon
were found, on post-mortem examlna-
tion, to be greatly congested.


Messrs. Vogl and Gutenberg attribute
to the pyridine and picoline bases, and
not to nicotine, the painful symptoms
of the novice in smoking, as also the
poisonous effects of tobacco-juice when
swallowed. The fact that stronger to-
bacco can be used in the shape of cigars
than in the pipe, is explained by this,
that there are more of the volatile bases
in the smoke from the latter. Pyridine
is very volatile and stupefying, and
exists in pipe smoke abundantly, while
in cigar smoke but little of it is found,
though collidine is there in considera-
BILE quantity.


In the course of their experiments
the writer's compared the action of these
bases with that of the bases of other
plants used for smoking, dandelion,
willow wood, and stramonium. None
of these, however, except willow wood
contract the pupil. From these results
Messrs. Vogl and Eulenburg conclude
that the different effects of opium smok-
ing are due to difference in the pro-
portion of the bases produced by COM
bustiOn
Year: 1873

Exchanges note that Winstrand, the
Swedish ex-royal secretary, who lives
in Minnesota, has reached a height OF
economy of which Dio Lewis is igno-
rant. Having read statement that
Indian corn contains more than four
times as much oily matter as wheat
flower, and that one pound Of it, parch-
ed and made into bread, is more than
equal to two pounds of fat meat, the
careful swedsF resolved to test its power.
his own devoted hands, made cake one
inch thick and seven inches in diameter,
which he baked on the Goals in the par
lor stove. A cake Of this size proved to
be more than sufficient for one meal.
Three times day, for weeks, the e1-
perimenter ate nothing else, didn't
want anything else, didn't lose weight,
and was perfectly we'll. He must have
constitution before which even hard
boiled eggs might bow and miace-pie
blush. To rational people he presents
the argument that it takes one hours
work, besides fencing, to produce half
bushel of corn, which is more than
sufficient for ten days for one person
it needn't cost anybody more than five
dollars a year. "Rational people," he
declares, twill be more satisfied on that
than on the fare at the best hotels in
Europe or America" Moreover, he OBJ
served that half an acre will produce
all the vegetables one person will need
for one year, without hard labor; that
when the weather is warm it is very
comfortable and healthy to go barefoot,
and every comfortable house." large
enough for one person, can be built in
Minnesota for twenty dollars, and al
most anybody can do it for himself.
Therefore nobody need be at loss
for den wherein to dwell, and fare
SURPRISING that of the best hotels at q
cost of five dollars year.
Year: 1873

A gentleman advertised for boy


assist him in his office, and nearly fifty
applicants presented themselves before
him. Ont of the whole number he Sc
lected one and dismissed the rest. 81
should like to know" said friend,
"on what ground you select that boy,
who had not a single recommendation. n.'
"You are mistaken" said the gentle
man. "he has great many. He wiped
his feet when he came in and closed the
door after him, showing that he was
careful gave up his seat instantly 70
that lame old man, showing that he was
kind and thoughtful ; he took of his cap
when he came in, and answered my
questions promptly and respectfully,
showing he was polite and gentlemanly;
he picked up the book which hadpur..
posely laid upon the floor, and replaced
L ON the table, while all the rest stepped
over it or showed it one side; and he
waited quietly for his turn, instead OF
pushing and crowding, showing that ne
was honest and orderly. When talked
with him noticed that his clothes were
carefully brushed, his hair In nice or,
der and his teeth as white as milk; and
when he wrote his name noticed that
his finger nails were clean, instead OF
being tipped with jet, like that hand
some little fellow in the blue jacket:
Don't you call these things letters Of !
recommendation I do, and would
give more for what I can tell about
boy by using my eyes ten minutes, than
ALI the letters Of recommendation that
he can bring me.
Year: 1873

it home to me now, Amy, and I will not
vex the dearest little wife in the world
again by adding unexpected company to
her household cares.


So Amy lost her grievance, for Oliver
gave her due notice from that time for
ward when he meant to invite guest.
True, it was strong temptation, when
he met his friends, to run the risk and
take them home, but the vision OF
Boyle's bill, and Amy's sacrifice Of her
uncle's wedding present, rose before his
eyes, and he gave the invitation for an
other day, or let it pass. For after all,
he found, when the appointed day
came, he cared very little for the e1-
pected pleasure, and would have en-
joyed quiet dinner and evening with
Amy quite as well as the company OF AN
OCCASIONAL FREND.-Ledger.
Year: 1873

also sorne cross seed in order to observe
the difference in the growth of tho two portions Of
seed. After the lapse Of four days. the seed the
positive side OF the first piece Of felting gave signs
OF germnaton. while their hulls were shriveling mp
and becoming black. On the negative side of the
felting the seeds were at the same time swollen and
their hulls which retained their natural color were
beginning 10 burst In six days time the first shoots
broke forth. The seeds on the second plate Of felt
which were not under the influence OF electricity,
first sprouted many days later. The most peculiar
result of this trial was however that while the
negative pole where there was every sign of
stronger development. the root Eprout sank down
ward into the moist feltng on the other hand on
the positive felt the root sprouts upward from
the blackened and dried up seeds. The upward
movement of the root sprouts has already. in 1851
been observed by Blondeau; but he ascribes il to
the influence of electricity in general, and not es
pecially TO the positive electricity.
Year: 1873

The University of Edinburgh has made one
of those sudden turns upon its own track,
which have marked the whole course of the
Woman Question, in every quarter of the globe
1t will be remembered that this University
opened its doors to women under certain con-
dltiOns, aud that several avalled themselves of
the privilege and passed through portion OF
the course OF study necessary for medical de


gree. But when they came to apply to a new
set of Professors for different branch of
studies, their application was refused. and they
found themselves exposed to the danger of
beng dismissed with their work halt done
aud nothing to show for it. They appealed to
the Courts for redress, praying that the Uni
versity be compelled to provide them with
separate course of instruction; but the Court
decided that they could only ask for their de-
grees after they had received the necessary in
struction, and that the University could not
be compelled to give them this instruction.
They then appealed to full Bench, basing
their demand on the much broader claim that
woman had an equal right with men in every
department of the University. On this ques
ton the Court decided with equal breadth
that women had no right whatever to demand
an education in a University of Scotland.
There is therefore no redress open to these
ladies', except to induce the disafected Pro-
fesSOrs to organize separate classes tor them,
or to break open the doors Of the Universities
by acts OF Parliament.-N Y Tribune.
Year: 1873

THE BANKRUPTCY LAw.-The case of
Lance Walker, recently tried in the United
States Court, is one proof Of the efficiency Of
our bankruptcy laws. Here was man who,
after a toerably fair start in business, seems to
have determined to break with all the laws
that govern society. The jury found that he
concealed his property, or rather that of his
partners and creditors, and wasted their money
IN an effort TO get a divorce. 1t is no small
satisfaction to merchants to know that the i'm
munity to honest debtors does not apply to the
case of man who wilfully and fraudulently
conceals his assets, and leaves to them the
poor consolation of resort to law, which
simply takes more money and puts the debtor
under no additional penalty. Walker seems to
possess an Obstinacy of purpose in pursuit OF
his own ends, that, applied to good objects,
might command a high degree of success. For
nearly two years he has preferred a Jail to a
compliance with the request of his creditors,
his assignee in bankruptcy, and even his own
counsel, to tell them what had become of his
assets In old times this would have ended in
possibly sixty days imprisonment in our
County Prison and discharge under the State
insOlvent laws. Now, he has stood the test of
a Jury trial, and the issue has been decided
against him. At least one other such case
stands for trial in the same court, but the very
infreQuehcy of such proceedings shows that the
United States bankrupt laws, fairly admins.
tered, enable honest debtors to get discharge,
and prevent dishonest men from trying to
defeat the law and justice. LEDGER
Year: 1873

A PEACH CoRNER.-The New York COM
haerciA saws: From present indications 1t Is
evident that the coming peach season Will be
hA heaviest known for years, but whether the
prices will be less is matter of dispute. 1t Is
xpparent that there Is movement IN progress
the aim of which is to get up corner III TINS
delicious fruit, and keep the price up to the
highest possible figure This movement Is
entirely confined to a certain class OF Dealers
rbe majority of whom are the heaviest IN trade,
and their effort will be to so control the market
that il will be the most pro6table-to them
For years Whether this movement Will De a
success or not is at present uncertain AN tue
- JoaIors have not entered into 1t, and 1t Is
;m1o.s;ble at present to learn what their
fntprs oc,;on will be- 1t is the general lmpres.
sion among the prominent fruit sellers that the
cron this season will be much above the
average Indeed, many OF them nave no
hesitation in saying that 1t will be very large
one. Even those who were understood 20 have
entered into the corner" movement, believe
that the crop will exceed that of previous
yea1s, but they excuse their intended action on
the ground that the frelg ghts will be higher,
and il will, therefore, be necessary to put the
nrices up to make profit. This, however, is
false A reporter of the Commercial called on
several officials of the express companies, and
learned from them that the rates of transporta-
ton this year will be no.hgher than they were
last. The policy OF railroad companies, Of
always decreasing their freight rates during
the summer months, has been so long the
accepted one, and as the freight business this
wear has been no higher than of recent years,
It is hardly probable that they will take diff
ferent stand this season. 1t is evident, there
fore, that the dealers have no real ground upon
which to base their action, aud full exposure
of the matter will doubtless defeat their
intentions.
Year: 1873

Matilda Fletcher, Iowa's favorite
platform orator, has been selected
to deliver the annual address at the
Nebraska State Fair at Lincoln, the
first week in September. She has
accepted the invitation, and has Sc
lectcd for her suject, Farmers
Wives and Daughters"


This is happy selection for the
success of our western neighbor's
Fair. 1t will bring thousands of
visitors to their exhibition, and
thousands of dollars to their treas
ury. The women of our country arc
as much interested in the success of
our fairs as the other sex, and it is
right that they should be put in
prominent positions to carry for
ward such enterprises, especially
when the directors act rs wisely in
selecting, as our ncighbors of Ne
braska have done.-Stdte Register.


Matilda will have a good many
points in sympathy with an audience
of farmers wives and daughters.
Having known her from early
enough to have been called for the
doctor at her first appearance up to
big girlhood, we can give her a
"character" as q genuine farmer
girl, born very near the backwoods.
The prairie boys used to call it
"down in the barrcns," n palpable
misnomer, for her close-fisted father
raised family Of thirteen and had
nothing to brag Of over his neigh
bors! If she lets "oratory" alone,
and simply tells the girls and wives
of Nebraska what she knows of
farming in new country, in fam
lily where to be born a girl involved
severe pinching of privileges and a
corresponding multiplication of bur-
dens, she will be sure to intensely
interest if she fails to greatly in
struct.


No western soldier will listen to
her who has fought a braver fight
than that through which she won
the really rich trophies of scholar
ship which she bore into the door
of womanhood. No farmers girl,
however hard her lot, will be there
with hands more familiar with rough
toll than the speakers own. No
farmers wife whose burden is three
fold greater than she ought to bear,
will command the sympathy of a
more faithful and helpful daughter
than this same Matilda. We have
seldom met her since she became
famous, but if she is an orator, as
they say she is, she should certainly
have the bull by the horns in an
agricultural address. - Elhader
Journal.
Year: 1873

Mail reports'give some interesting
details of the fatal accident to the
aronaut, La Mountain, at Iona, last
Friday. His balloon was what is
known as a hot-air one, and was
simply filled with rarified air, and
not gas. The canvas had some
what ola worn appearance, as ifthe
worse for being filled with heated
air too often. At the summit, where
the canvas was sewn together, a
block some ten or twelve inches in
diameter was fastened, and through
hole in this six guy-ropcs were
secured, hanging down over the
sides Of the balloon, being at the
bottom some seventeen feet apart,
and these were tied to the basket
by the Professor himself. There
were no ropes running around the
balloon horizontally to keep the gay
ropes from slipping, or to prevent
the whole thing from sliding out
between the ropes with gust Of
wind. At 3:35 p. M, the Professor
stepped into the basket, and the
balloon took a shoot up almost per-
dendicularly, with the Professor
swinging his hat to the crowd, all
apparently enjoying the sight. In a
few moments more, however, the
mouth of the balloon was observed
to wave about two or three times,
then to pass between the ropes,
careering over on the side, when the
ropes broke out from their fasten-
ing at the top, and the fall commen-
ced.


La Mountain was noticed to be
apparently making some effort to
get the basket above him, and if
possible to break the fall, but after
the first struggle he fell SO rapidly
that nothing could be distinguished
but the falling body, his ha: coming
after him 100 feet or more behind,
the old canvass, nearly collapsed,
falling down gradually. The body
struck the ground half-a-dozen feet
from the northwest corner OF tbs
Jail building. 1t struck with such a
terrible thud that it Jared the
ground for fifty rods around, and
made an indention in the soil eight
inches in depth. There was scar
cely bone in the whole body not
broken into fragments. 1t was as
limp as a rag. There were very
few fractures Of the skin, except the
right foot, the bone of the right leg
being driven through the bottom
of the foot.


The body was laid out Oh couch
a circle formed, and procession Of
all who wished to see the remains
passed around. The Professor is q
brother OF the celebrated aronaut
who died two or three years ago.
This ones name was Edward La
Mountain. lie was jeweler by
trade, and lived at Brooklyn, Michi-
gan. He had said just before he
went up that he wished to take the
train for home as soon as possible
after coming down, as his wife was
very sick. He, himself, had not his
clothes off for ten days.


There were from ten to twelve
thousand people who witnessed this
horrible tragedy. He was seen by
people four miles from the city at
an angle of thirty-five degrees. The
best estimates make the height from
which he fell from 1000 to 1900
feet. Those who were on the hill
back Of the town say the strangest
sight was to witness the people
swaying back and forward like q
field of wheat moved by the wind.
Year: 1873

OF all the woman who have taken


part in the discussion of the Wo-
mans Rights question, no one has
exhibited either cooler judgment


or more subtle insight than Grace
Greenwood. She has never forfel-
ted her claims on the public respect
by any extravaganza or folly, and
hence intelligent men and woman
are always glad to hear what she
has to say. In one of her recent
letters to the Times occur a few SEN
tences which we gladly copy: "Say
what you will, the whole question
Of woman's status in the State and
the Church, in society and in the
family, is full of absurd contradic-
ton and monstrous anomalies. We
are so responsible, yet irresponsible
we are idols, we are idiots-we are
everything, we are nothing. We
are the caryatides bearing up the
entablature of the temple of liberty
we are never allowed to enter. We
may plot against government and
hang for it; but if we help to found
and sustain government by patri-
otic effort and devotion; by toll and
hardship; by courage. loyalty, and
faith; by the sacrifice OF those near
est and dearest to us-and then ven
ture to clutch at the crumbs that
fall from the table where our mas
ters Jonathan, Patrick, Hans, and
Sambo sit at the feast, you arrest
us, imprison us, try us, and then
add insult to injury by calling us
old, ugly, and fanatical. One is
forcibly reminded of the sermon of
the colored brother on woman, the
heads of which were: Firstly, what
am woman? Secondly, whar did
she come from? Thirdly, who does
she belong to? Fourthly, Which
way am she gwina to? The law and
the Gospel have settled secondly
and thirdly Woman came from
man, and belongs to him by the
mortgage he holds on her through
the sparerib; but firstly and fourth
ly' remain rs profound and unsolu-
bic questions rs they were before
the Ethiopian divine wrestled with
them. But perhaps this troublous
and perplexed existence is our be-
all and end-all; that in life beyond
man may foreclose that old mort
gage, and re-absorb woman in his
gloritied and all-sufficient being"
Year: 1873

in great while, timely succor
avails in moment of temporary
weakness, or averts the conse-
quences OF q mistake, and the man
starts ahead at swinging pace.
But oftener the results seem to indi-
cate that it is of very little use to
help people who cannot help them
selves. The kingdom of pauperism
is within them. The very causes
that make them poor keep them
poor. 1t is not that society bears
down hard upon them. 1t is not
that they are self indulgent. If you
see widow and five children shiv-
ering over a few embers, you pity
them and you must send them coal;
but you cannot help feeling wrath
full contempt at knowing that they
all went to the photographers yes
terday and had their pictures taken,
after buying couple of 25 cent
brooches on the way to adorn them
selves withal. The very thing that
you yourself would hesitate to do,
on account of expense, people who
are partially dependent upon your
charity will do without hesitation.
Where you will practice natural,
cheerful, unthinking self-denial, they
will practice an equally cheerful and
unthinking self-indulgence. The
remnants of bread that you dry in
the oven and save for future use
they throw away. The fragmen-
tary vest sleeve that you fashion
into fiat iron holder they put into
the rag bag, and buy new cloth for
their holders. Where you rise at
half past six, they lie till half past
seven. Where You walk, they ride.
Where you pray and watch and
strive to do your work thoroughly,
they are content with anything that
will answer. That is tho reason
why people are SO poor.
Year: 1873

One sunny morning in summer,
down the pathway, still sparkling
with the dewy moisture, came stealth
lily moving the long, 1.-the form of a
mink. Her fur looked worn and rusty
where the sunlight struck her, as she
skulked between the tussOcks Of grass.
Occasionally she halted tn look about,
alert for anything eye could see OF ear
could hear; but, hearing nothing but
the sweet notes of a song.sparrOw and
the complaining cry OF the cat-bird
on. As she reached the muddy edge
of the brook, she trOd more daintiIy;
then, winding among the pickerel-
weeds, swan down the stream, hardly
disturbing the water, only making a
long wedge-shaped wake as she stole
into the shadOwy edge of the brook.
Suddenly, she disappeared under
water; but soon came up, struggling
with something that swayed and pull
ed her about, disturbing the quiet of the
stream and Sendinga a muddiness down
with the current. But she bore the
almost unmanageable wriggling eel
(fOr this it was) TO the stone wall, and
drawing herself and her burden up
out of the water on the large stone,
reAdjusted her hold, and seized the
creature back of the head. Then,
bracing herself, she sucked the blUu'i,
the threshing, struggling eel grew
gradually weaker and weaker, IN ii
it looked perfectly limp and lifeless.
Then she jumped from the wall,
dragging this eel, longer than herself,
up through the grass, taking q differ
a a..
one she came, and soon disappeared
altogether. In the thick banked wall
of this bank on the hillside she had
her young; and after they grew large
enough to require something more
substantial than Natures first pro-
vision, the mother used to bring them
fish of different kinds-eels, ducks
and like prey. So sly and stealthily
did she keep herself that she was not
seen until the young were half grown,
and looked like little fawn-cOlored
yeasels; when she betrayed herself
by bringing this food, which impelled
her movement. BY travelling the
same way so many times she grew
bold.


These minks are very destructive to
fish; and, when the brook is low, they
can often be tracked for long dis
lance by the dead eels, piekerel, shin
ers, and sometimes trout, left lying
along the bank; the mink only suck
ing the blood, and leaving the fish
unmatulated. One autumn some
small sinners, meant for bait in pick
erel fishing through the ice, were
kept in an old tub set in aspiring near
the brook; and in one night all these
fish were killed by mink, who left
them laid in a row on the ground.
They looked precisely as If a person
had so arranged them. But, through
the back of each fish, near the head,
were four tOothmarks, that told who
had been there-this being frequently
the only mark the mink makes on
his victim.-Old and NelC.
Year: 1873

1t is a great mistake to set up oUI
standard of right and wrong, and
judge people accordingly.


To measure the enjOyments of 9TH
ers by our own.


To expect uniformity of opinion in
this world.


To endeavor to mould all disposi-
tions alike.
| Not to yield TO immaterial trifies
I To look for perfection in cur OWL
actions.


To worry ourselves and others with
what cannot be remedied.


Not to make allowances for the in
firmities of Others.


To consider every thing impossible
which tDe cannot perform,


To expect to be able to understand
levery thing.