smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

From the Rural World.

 This IS an important inquiry. The annual loss is becoming a national calamity, and the most thorough investigations should be made by state or national or other aid to ascertain the real cause of the alarming mortality among swine. This fall the loss is far greater than ever. Can the pre- vailing drouth have anything to do in inducing the disease? We know that dust is unhealthy for hogs. They seem to thrive in mud. They run with their noses close to the ground, sleep in dusty beds, and all the more dusty, ill times of severe drouth, and inhal ing the dust, the cells of the lungs become filled, inducing pneumonia or lung diseases. This may be one cause of the great immortali- ty. Pure water is healthful-im- pure unhealtLful. We have a stream of pure water running through our hog pasture, and have never had any attack of hog chcl- era or of any disease which has been fatal. We have sometimes asked ourselvhs whether this run ming water had anything to do with keeping our hogs healthy. Have any of the subscribers to the Rural World who have running water constantly running through their pastures suffered losses by by hog cholera, as it is termed, or by pneumonia, or other lung dis eases? If it is ascertained that no deaths have occurred where hogs have pure water always in reach, it will be one point gained. We know that water is very scarce and impure this year on account of want of rain, and the deaths of hogs exceed any formor year. The hog is q sort of amphibious animal anyhow. It is almost as fond of water as the crocodile or alligator, and it may be if that to which it has access is not healthy, it produces the fatality. We give our own experience for what is it worth but judging from that, we place great faith in running water. It is true we keep charcoal within the reach of our hogs, and give them salt, ashes, &c., but others give the articles also, and still lose their hogs-but they have only pond water to run to. We would like the freest discussion in the Rural World. on the real cause of this mortality in hogs. If certain farms are exempt, let us know all about their farms and treatment. We possibly may aad out what is wrong.
Year: 1875




This is the time Of year for house clean
ing, and, dproPos TO the season, comes the
following, from correspondent of the
Country Geatlemaa:


To kalsomine good-sized room with
two coats, take ten pounds of whiting, dis
solved in hot or boiling water; one fourth
of pound Of glue (Which should have
been put to soak in pint of water the
night before) may now be melted slowly
on the back of the stove, stirring frequent,
ly. To color beautiful tint, get two
ounces Of ultramarine blue and one ounce
of Venetian red; mix separately with cold,
soft water, and strain through stocking
or thin cloth, each in separate vessel.
The whiting may now be stirred we'll; if
too thick, add more hot water, and strain
through -four sieve into good-sized pot.
Add some Of the blue aud red, alternately,
till you get the desired shade, which may
DC ascertained by putting little Of the
mixture on a piece Of paper and drying by
the fire. When your color is determined,
pour in the glue; and after mixing we'll,
apply the wash hot to the walls, brushing
in any direction, as ii mixes better than
IL put on too carefully. On white walls
two coats are necessary; but after the room
is once done, one coat is sufficient Should
the ceiling have to be done, put on the
whiting alone first, then rebeat the wash
and add the paints and glue, the latter to
be light colored, il the walls are to be
white Common glue will answer for a
painted wall. A paper border finishes
the room perfectly snakes any room neat
and pretty. Should the second coat not
be put on till next day, heat tho mixture,
as the glue win not mix with the other
ingredients unless pretty warm.
Year: 1875

MIR. G. A. Kiugsburg writes us follows
in the Forest and Stream Of bath ia the
Dead Sea


Reaching at length this most remarka-
bic of all the seas.and lakes on our globe,
we are prepared to take bath-aud such
bath | can hardly expect to take again.
| had previously bathed in numerous seas,
lakes aud rivers, but never did enjoy
such bath us this. The specific gravity
of the water is such, from its holding in
solution so large proportion of salts Gwen
ty-six and half per cent? that one floats
upon its surface like a cork. At the time
there was only gentle ripple upon the
sea, aud being good swimmer Lat once
struck out into deep water | soon found
out that ! could not only swim aud float
with wonderful ease, but that | could actu-
ally walk in the water, sinking only to my
nrmpits. Discovering this fact | made for
the shore and taking DIR. G., one Of our
party, who could not swim, by the hand,
led him into the sea where the water was
many fathoms deep. At FIRST he was quite
reluctant to follow me, but he soon gained
confidence on finding there was no great
danger of sinking, and he enjoyed the
novel bath as much as If he had been an
expert swimmer. Should the bather allow
the water to get into his mouth he would
suffer considerable abatement in bis en-
joyment, on account of its extremely salt,
bitter and irritating nature. No fish can
live in this sea; but various kinds Of ducks
abound here at certain seasons of the year.
The water was as clear as ordinary sea-
water, its temperature as agreeable, aud il
had an oily feeling, and altogether its ac-
ton on the surface of the body was such
as to develope those pleasurable sensations
pertaining to the sense of touch, accom-
panied by the most delightful exhihntion.
or all the baths in the world, give Inc d
bath in the Dead Sea.
Year: 1875

pet, for shall never use the odious word
again.


Then I'll obey your wishes, instead Of
your commands, aud to begin with, l will
never speak to Mrs. Emery or Mr. Bris-
bane again, as long as ] live


"Not quite that, love, for Mrs. Emery
sent you those beautiful flowers, and Bris-
bane met me in the station, and tic tears
actually stood in his eyes as he wrung my
hand, and congratulated me on my safety
People may have many virtues, darling
even with some serious faults. Cannot
you be kind and polite to Mrs. Emery,
without becoming her intimate friend or
appearing in public with her p


I" ] shall do just whatever you wish me
to, Reggie, not only in this matter, but in
every other, for the rest Of my life.


And the remarkable point of the story
Is that she kept her word.
Year: 1875




Cocoa butter is curious product OBJ
tanned from the nut from which the we'll
known beverage is made. II is about the
consistcnce Of spermaceti, with a slight
yellow tinge and agreeable flavor. It is
used both in medicine and the toilet, being
esteemed q remedy for throat and lung
diseases, etc. Physicians now recommend
its use in case Of scarlet and other fevers.
as producing cooling and refreshing ef-
feet upon the patient, and emitting an
agreeable odor in the sick chamber. On
account Of its solid consistence it Is more
readily applied than either fat or oil, and
is more easily absorbed by the skin.
Furthermore ii is thought to afford the
system certain amount Of nourishment.
In severe feven the entire surface of the
body should be rubbed with this substance
every hour, or at least once every four
hours. Its application, in typhoid fever,
in cases where the patients manifest a
dread Of water, or where the application
Of water is impossible; likewise in other
inAammatory diseases, especially the Sc
verer forms Of imfammatory rheumatism
and Tuberculosis, has been found to be
most beneficial.
Year: 1875

BOYS USING ToBAcco.- strong and
sensible writer says good sharp thing,
aud true one, too, for boys who use to-
bacco


''It has utterly spoiled and utterly ruin
ed thousands Of boys. 1t tends to the
sOftening and Weakening of the bone, and
it greatly Injuries the brain, the spinal
marrow and the whole nervous fluid. A
boy who smokes early and frequently or
in any way uses large quantities Of tobae-
co is never known to make man of much
energy, and generally lacks muscular and
physical, as well as mental power. We
would particularly warn boys, who want
to be anything in the world, to shun to-
baeco as most banefal poison"


We call the attention Of the boys to the
above warning against the use Of tobacco.
Every word is as true as Holy Writ. If
there is any thing that viii more thorough
ly enervate and destroy both physical and
mental vigor than the use of tobacco by a
boy, 1t remains unknown to medical science.
Year: 1875

One Of the boys, just before returning
to Cornell the other day, sent young la
1y friend of his cake of finest variety Of
toilet soap, with request that she would
draw no inference in receiving such a
gift. The next day the young man was
somewhat astonished whom he received
letter from the young lady, containing the
present Of fne-tooth comb, with the re-
quest that he would draw no differences
therefrom.
Year: 1875

A PUzzLE FOR School MAsrERs.-
"a farmer having IL bitches to cut Of
different lengths, employs four men to do
the work. To the first he agrees to pay
81 per rod; to the second sl.25 per rod;
to the third s1.75 per rod, and to the
fourth s2.iss per rod. When they finish
the bitches and come to be paid of each
man receives the same amount Of money
for each ditch. How many rods did each
man cut in each ditch; how much money
did each man receive for each ditch how
long was each ditch. and how much did il
cost per rod to have the bitches cut
Year: 1875

Stern parent-"Come here ! What is
this complaint the school-master has made
against you?" Much injured youth
Its just nothing at all You see Jimmy
Hughes bent pin, and only just left it
on the teachers chair for him to look at,
aud he came in without his specs and sat
down on the pin, aud now he blames me
for itln
Year: 1875

The Poughkeepsie Eagle, in an article
on "How Mistakes Happen in Ncwspa-
per" figures up the numbefof typesused
in newspaper the size Of the Eagle at
100000, the actual number Of bits Of
metal arranged and rearranged every day
in preparing newspaper the size Of the
Eagle for the press. We suppose few
people think Of the printing trade as the
most exact and particular business, but it
is. In making type, variations that might
be allowed in the machinery Of the finest
watch would render the type useless. II
is very rarely that type furnished by two
separate foundries can be used together
without a good deal of trouble, though
they try to make it after the same stand
ard We read once ia while Of n won
derful piece Of cabinet work Of mosaic
work, containing ten, twenty or fifty thou
sand pieces, the maker Of which has spent
months or even years Of labor in produc-
ing it, and people go to see il as great
curiosity, but the most elaborate and care
fully fitted piece Of work Of this kind ever
made does not compare with that which
the printer does ever day. The man who
docs the first is looked upon as an artist


"a marvel Of skill, aud If a hundred Of
his pieces are put in wrong side up, or
turned the wrong way, it is not observed
in the general efect--but if the printer in
fitting ten times as many pieces together
in the same day, puts one where another
should be, or turns one the wrong way,
everybody sees it, and is amazed at ''the
stupid carclessness of those stupid prin-
tera "
Year: 1875

He blushed fiery red her heart went
pit-a-pat; she gently hung her head, and
looked down at the mat He trembled in
his speech he rose from where he sat, and
shouted with screech, You're sitting on
my hat"
Year: 1875

THE RICHMOND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. AND
THE oBAcco-TAx.-A special meeting OF the
Board of Directors of the Richmond Ohain-
Der of Commerce will be held this evening
at 5 O'Clock to consider the question OF me.
morializing the Congress OF the CnI'ed
States against increasing the tax on tobacco
This meeting is called at the request OF the
tobacco interest, and it is desired that every
director should be present.
Year: 1875

With this complaint Yegctine acts differently
and works differently from any other remedy
work ut the root OF the disease aud the begins
to heal al the foundation and continues gradually
out toward the skin. making the sore smaller from
day TO day, and ine,ly the disease isHccadcated
from the system. .s. ts-
Year: 1875

MAX ADELER.


We always think of great men as in the
act of performing deeds which give them
Tenown, or else in stately repose, grand,
silent and majestic. And yet this is hardly
fair, because the most gorgeous and mag
nificent of human beings have to bother
themselves with the little things of life
which engage the attention of rs smaller
people, No. doubt Moses snarled and got
angry when he had severe cold in his
head, and If a Hy BIT his leg while he WAS
in the desert, why should we suppose he
did not jump, and use violent language and
rub the sore place! And C9sar-isn't it.
tolerably certain that he used to become
furious when he went up stairs to get his
slippers in the dark and found that Calphur~
MIA had showed them under the bed so that
he had to sweep around after them wildly
with the broom-handle? ? And when Solo-
mon cracked his crazy bone, is it unreas-
enable to suppose that he ran around the
room and felt as if he wanted to cry I'M
agine George Washington, sitting on the
edge Of the bed putting on clean shirt
and growing at Martha because the buttons
were off and st. Augustine, with an apron
around his neck, having his hair cut, or
Joan of Arc, holding her front hair in her
mouth, as women do, while she fixed up her
back hair Napoleon Jumping out OF bed
in a frenzy to chase a mosquito around tho
room with pillow or Martin Luther, in a
night shirt, trying to put the baby to sleep
at two o'clock in the morning or Alexan~
der the Great with the hiccoughs: or Thomas
Jefferson, getting suddenly over fence to
avoid a dog; OF the Duke of Wellington,
with the mumps or Daniel Webster, abus-
ing his wife because she hadn't tucked the
covers at the foot of the bed or Benjamin
Franklin, pairing his corns with razor or
Jonathan Edwards, at the dinner table,
wanting to sneeze just as he gets his mouth
full of hot beef. or Noah, standing at night,
throwing bricks at a cat !
Year: 1875

1t is seldom that we are called upon to
chronicle more daring feat. OF one deser-
wing of greater commendation, than the
following


Yesterday afternoon, in the bottom of the
new shaft of the Woodville mine, three
men had just prepared three-fuse blast,
had lighted the fuse, jumped into the
bucket and started for the surface, when,
through the carelessness of the engineer,
the engine caught on the center and refus-
ed to move. Here the three men hung,
within six feet of the blast, for some little
time; but it seemed like hours to them.
At last one of the party, Benjamin Kendall
by name, realizing that something must be
wrong on top, jumped from the bucket and
proceeded to extinguish the slowly burning
fuse. Two pieces were put out without
difficulty, but the third he found it impossi-
BILE to reach, as it had already burned in the
drilled hole. Then he turned to climb back
into the bucket, but it was too late his
companions were being hoisted to the sur
face. Who can imagine the mental agony
endured by that man when he saw that he
had been left to his fate and liable at any
instant to be blown into eternity? With a
desperate resolve he started to climb up the
timbers, but he had not gone m ore than
five or six feet on his way when the blast
exploded, throwing a shower Of rocks and
dirt far above his head. Fortunately, Ken
dali was but little injured, receiving merely
a few slight scratches ON his hands. It was
q very close call, and one that will be re-
membered by him. The engineer was dis
charged.
Year: 1875

smalleY's Letter to the n. Y Tribune.


You cannot judge of the distress by the
state Of the thermometer, if you take New
York as standard. Everything is srelative.
Freezing point here IS almost as trying as
zero with you. We are not used to cold.
There is no preparation for it, and the want
of preparation is what occasions so much
suffering. Few houses in London can be
thoroughly warmed in winter. There are
no furnaces, few stoves, and steam is not
available. Open CRATES are the rule, and
very good rule they are for single rooms, if
the rooms are not too large. But the halls
and staircases are without the least heating
contrivance, and there is where most of the
infuenzas, and far more dangerous bron-
chial affections come FROM | was staying,
some three months ago, in country house
long before there was any really cold
weather-and even then it was impossible
TO keep warm. Extra clothing would not
do. In the rooms you did not need it, and
in gang from room to room it was no pro-
lection. This, to be sure, was one of the
old houses, built some three hundred years
ago, and built to last. It's architects-there
were several of them, for different parts of
the house were built at different periods
took account of everything but cold and
damp. The walls of the most ancient part
are nine feet thick. The halls and floors
are of solid granite. There were double
doors and portieres and every expedient
for excluding cold from the drawing-ro9ms
and bedrooms, and huge fires all day and
night, even in October, but from one room
to another, it was northwest passage.
So it is in London, but in less degree.
Nor does London street.-The show any more
rational expectation of winter. An inch of
snow is enough to impede the whole traffic
of the city seriously. Six inches would
have six inches at once, but when that
comes it is pitiable to see the horses and
carriages tloundering along. If it freezes,
the horses are not shod for frozen roads
If it melts, there are not enough of them
to draw heavy vehicles through the ''slush. =
No effort is made to clean off the great
thoroughfares. The sidewalks are scarcely
! swept. The greatest possible benefit to
London would be an increase of cold and
snow. THEREAFTER century or so-some
| arrangements would be made for them.
It is certain that three inches Of snow here
create far greater obstruction to street



| locomotion than three feet do in Boston.
| IF we had three feet here as often as the
New England capital has, we should not
manage as well as Boston-that would be
| too much to expect-but we should manage
| better than we do now. Old travellers
know that to see cold country at its best
| you should go in winter and in summer to


a hot country. St. Petersburg is delightful


in January, and Naples in July. They


know how to provide for cold in the one,


and heat in the other. Englishrnen who


come back from Calcutta tell yon that they


never suffered from heat in India as on a


sweltering day in London, and am certain


that the occasional moderate cold here in
1 December is harder to bear than the regular
/ extreme cold i'll Boston.
Year: 1875

The Commercial has Oh several occa-
son lately evinced an anxiety to know
the opinion Of Sena BAYAEn on the
currency, and in yesterday : issue says,
IF Senator BAyARp Is really 4 hard
money man why don't he say so:" No
man in the country can better afford TO
stand on his record than Senator BAY
ARD, and it would be altogether un
seemly in him to folec his opinions for
ward without occasion.
Year: 1875

In 1910, says NJ. Hue, we were once
making a journey in 4 wagon in the
province Of Pckin. Our equipage
was under the guidance Of IN old
school master mounted upon a mag
niticent ass, so full Of ardor and agll-
ity that the two mules that completed
our team had all the difficulty i'll the
world to keep up with him. This
ass, however, was so filled with Il
sense Of his own superiority, and 50
proud of it, that whenever he became
aware of the presence of any of his
brethren he never failed to commence
boasting of it in SO loud and sonorous
tones that his folly became quite in
supportablc. When he GOT to an inn,
instead Of trying to rest himself, the
beast passed the whole night in prac-
ticing his music, setting all the don
keys in the neighborhood to singing
the same tune, so that it was impossl-
BILE to sleep.


One evcning we said to the school
master:


"Your donkey is an abominable
brute-it prevents our getting a wink
Of sleep"


"Why did you not tell me so be-
tore?" said the school master; 81
would very soon have stopped his
singing


As The old pedagogue WAS some
what Of Il wag, and indulged some
times in a small joke, we took little
notice Of his reply, but that night we
slept quite soundly.


"Well, did the ass make Il noise
last night?" he asked, when We met
IN the morning.


'Perhaps not" said We; "at all
events, we did not hear him."


"No 1 think not" said he. 81 saw
to that before | went to bed. You
must have noticed" he continued,
'that when an ass is going to bray he
always begins 10y raisNg his tail, and
he keeps it extended horizontally as
long rs his song lasts. To insure his
silence YOU have. only to tic i large
stone to the end Of his tail, so that he
cannot raise it.


We smiled without reply, thinking
this was only another piece of pleas
antry; but he cried:


"Come now and see; you can easily
convince yourselves"


And accordingly we followed him
to the court yard where we beheld,
sure enough, the poor ass with q
large stone attached to his tail, and
with the air of having entirely lost
his accustomed spirits. His eyes
were fixed on the ground, his ears
hung down, and his whole appear
ance denoted humility and detection.
We felt quite compassionate toward
him, and begged his master to unite
the store directly; and as soon as
ever he felt his musical appcndage at
liberty the creature raised first his
head, then his ears, then his tail, and
ut last began to bray with all his
wonted energy.
Year: 1875

The Duke of Somerset, who is no.
ted for his quaint and candid humor,
has Just revived good story in con
ncction with the Papal dogmas.-
When Bishop Burne was at Rome
he met Christina, Queen of Sweden,
who, although born Protestant, had
become a Roman Catholic, and asked
what she thought of the Pope's infal-
libility. She replied that she did not
know much about his infallibility,
but that she had firm faith in the
Popc's being under supernatural
guidance, because she had herself
known four of them, and they were
all such consummate fools that if they
had not had Divine assistance, she
did not see how they could ever have
got on ut all.
Year: 1875

The Sherman CTexas) Register
tells of a singular accident that oc-
cured at that place last week. A
little colored boy and his sister were
playing with gentle old horse that
was staked out short distance from
his mothers cabin. The boy tied the
horsc'stail around his neck in Il hard
knot and began to whip him. The
horse became frightened and started
off, dragging the boy along the ground.
A Anegro coming up thought the boy
was tangled in the rope and cut the
horse loose. The boy regained his
footing and ran until they came TO
the railroad, where he stumbled and
fell, his skull being crushed. The
horse ran on to the cabin, dragging
the lifeless body Of the boy after him.
Year: 1875

The Bethlcham, Pa, Times says
Recently number of the single girls
of Old South and West Bethlehem got
up a sleighing party, composed ex-
clusively of themselves, and a few la
dy friends from the city. They visi-
ted Nazareth and had delightful
time. Everything worked satisfactorily
and well, until ON the homeward trip.


About the neighborhood of Heck
town one of the young ladies who Ind
fallen asleep, fell out of the sleigh.
Her absence was not noted until they
had driven about mile. The party
then made an about face, and care.
full search began. Every snow bank
was carefully examined, but all
proved futile, until the mile had been
traced.


There she lay, beautiful as life. The
road bed as her couch, and OF "the
beautiful snow" as her pillow, and the
heavens as a canopy: she lay there dead
asleep. She was gently raised and
carefully slowed away in the sleigh
and thus brought home. Says SHIT
was never so sleepy in her life.