smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

Don't be too sudden about it. Many
girl has said mo" VIXEN she meant
yes" simply because her lover didn't
choose the right time and pop the ques-
ton gently.


Take dark night for it. Have the
blinds closed, the curtains down, and the
lamp turned almost out. Sit near enough
to her so that you can hook your little
finger into hers. Wait until converse.
ton begins to flag, and then quietly re.
mark:


Susie, | want to ask you something2"


She will fdget around little, reply
yes, and after pause you can add;


Susie, my actions must have shown
that is you must have-I mean you must
be aware that-that -


Pause here a while, but keep your
fingers firmly locked She may cough
and try to turn the subject off by asking
you how you liked the circus, but she
only does it to encourage you. Alter
about ten minutes you can continue:


| was thinking, as / came up the
path tonight, that before l went away
would ask you-that is, / would broach
the subject nearest MY mean ! would
know MY


Stop again and give her hand a gentle
squeeze. She may give yank to get it
away or she may not. In either case il
argues well for you. Wait about FIVE
minutes and then 90 on;


THE past year has been very happy
one to me, but hope that future years
will still be happier. However that de.
pends entirely on you. | am here to-
night to know-that is to ask you'll
mean | am here tonight to hear from
your own lips the one sweet


Wait again. 1t isn't best to be too
rash about such things. Give her plenty
of time to recover her composure, and
then put your hand on your heart and
continue;


Eyes, thought as | was coming
through the gate to night, how happy |
had been; and | said to myself that if
only knew you would consent to be my
that is, | said il / only knew--if ! was
only certain that my heart had not de-
ceived me, and you we're ready to
shsre" -


Hold on; there's no hurry about it.
Give the wind chance to sob and moan
around the gables. This wilfmake her
lonesome and call up all the love in her
heart. When she begins to cough, and
grow restless, you can 20 on;


Before ] met you this world was
desert to me. / didn't take any pleas
ure in going blackberrying and stealing
rare ripe peaches, and it didn't matter
whether the sun shone or not. But
what change in one. short year 1t is
for you to say whether my future shall
be prairie of happiness, or a. summer
fallow of Canadian thistles. Speak,
dearest Susie, and say-and say that
that -


Give her five minutes more by the
clock, and thea add;


That you will be-that ia, that you
will mean that you will--be minelp


She will heave a sigh, look Hp at the
clock and over the stove, and then as
she slides her head over your vest
pocket she will whisper:


"You are just right--I will"
Year: 1875




. Disease.


From the Pail Mall Gazette


Among the many agents for the spread
Of infectious diseases are, it seems, our
domestic pets" For the propagation Of
fever a dog is sometimes as bad, or
worse, than a drain, and a case is re.
ferred to in the Sanitary Record in which
scarlet fever was carried from one child
to another by favorte retriever. The
dog had been reared in a house where
scarlatina prevailed, and was subse-
quently given to friend of the family.
Shortly after one Of the children in the
dogs new home was attacked with ma.
lignant scarlatina and died. Disinfect-
ants we're used plentifully, and every
precaution taken to prevent Q recurrence
of the malady, but in two months time
second child took the same disease, in
its worst form and died. AS the dog
had been the constant companion and
playfellow of these children, its woolly
coat, it is alleged, became so charged
with contagious matter as TO render it q
source of disease and death. Although
it is only fair to the dog to admit that
the children may have caught the fever
from other sources than his woolly coat,
yet there is reason to fear that both dogs
and cats especially the latter, do occa-
siOnally assist in the circulation of infec-
tious illnesses, and where fever prevails
the sooner they are lodged out Of the
house the better. They are, however,
probably not more dangerous in this
respect than books. No one who takes
up book from the library ever troubles
himself or herself as to the antecedents
of the volume; it may have just left the
hands of the fever patient.
Year: 1875

A." sitting Upon a Man" In Persia.


The practice Of sitting upon a mar"
as it is called, universally prevails in
Persia, and it is not easy to deal with it,
Still it may be dealt with, and Sir John
MNelll, who was once incredited to the
Persian court, contrived to get rid OF a
Persian who had tried to SIT upon
him by a rather clever device. At the
New Year, which is kept as a great fes-
tival in Persia, religious mendicants 90
about, not so much asking for alr-s as
insisting upon fixed sum. They gen.
orally tax foreign ambassador rather
highly, and one Of them, dervish, de-
manded an extravagant sum from Sir
John MNeil. The Scotch diplomatist
offered to compromise with him for any
reasonable amount, but his offer was re
fused; and, as he would not give more
the dervish proceeded to "sit" upon him.
He established himself In Sir Johns
garden, just before his study windows;
and every now and then during the day,
and whenever he woke up at night, this
dervish set up horrible hnllabaloo, and
blew cracked trumpet. Sir John, who
did not like to have his rest disturbed in
this way, determined to p1t stop to the
dervish's tricks and eject him by force;
but he was solemnly warned by the
Persian authorities that it would be
dangerous to lay hands upon the dervish.
Get rid of him if you can" said
they laughing, as they were
wont to do at minister s
perplexity; "but do not touch him. I"
" Very we'll, said Sir John, drily; and
he sent for a bricklayer. Build me a
wall round that howling beggar in my
garden, Z" said Sir John to the bricklayer,
and then roof it in." The dervsh
looked on composedly while the wall
rose slowly round him, and made more
noise than ever; but; when he perceived
that they really meant to shut him up in
the tomb alive, he jumped over the lowest
part Of the wall and rushed away like a
maniac Sir John was probably the
only European who ever got the better
of dervish.
Year: 1875

The regatta to-day for Commodore Kane's
cups promises to be one Of the most spirited
and interesting events of the yachting season
of 1875. There are likely to be fourteen
competitors for the prizes, and the yachts
entered include some of the fastest and
finest in the United States. A glance at the
list will satisfy every one that there is to be
a lively and well contested race, and that
the winner will be entitled to boast of a
brilliant victory. In the first class schooners
we have such famous boats as the Mohawk,
the Alarm, the Palmer the Resolute, the
Atalanta and the Idler. Among the second
class schooners that will spread their canvas
to the wind are the Estelle the Comet,
the Clio and the Peerless. Then we
have those swift first and second class
sloops, the Vindex, Addie and Vision, and
the Active, Sadie, Madcap and Breeze, while
for the challenge cup for sloops the Vision
and Madcap are to contend. There must be
an exciting race if the weather should be
fair and the wind favorable, and the attend
ance will no doubt be large. The yachtsmen
of the world may well look with interest on
a contest in which so large q number of first
class vessels are to compete so late in
the season, and the spirit which insures
SO brilliant q rendezvous cannot fail to be
duly appreciated. The arrangements have
been admirably conducted, and nothing can
be wanted to make the Kane Regatta one of
the most prominent events of the present
season save pleasant day and spanking
braa1o
Year: 1875

If one of the fabled inhabitants of tho
moon could have gazed through powerful
telescope at our earth about sunrise yester-
day he would have beheld the Atlantic seas
cleaning like crystal in the solar rays, the
coasts of Europe and Africa sinking into
night and the Atlantic shore sparkling with
the glow of dawn, wheeling eastward into
view. Across the surface of the glitter
ing earth q black circular spot might have
been Seen to glide slowly from North
America to Southern Africa. This phe-
nomenon was the moons shadow sweeping
over the earth and shutting out the sunbeams
from all the places in its track. Could the
same lunar astronomer have penetrated
the clouds overhanging the Eastern
States an army of scientific men
would havr been unfolded to his view,
with uplifted telescopes, peering eagerly to-
ward himself These were our American
astronomers, who endeavored yesterday to
scan the celestial wonder in the interests Of
science and civilization Every scientific
observation of total or an annular solar
eclipse not only tends to ennoble the human
intellect by unveiling the mysteries of the
universe, but also results in vast material ben
efits to the world of commerce and navigation.
1t is through such observations that we ap-
proach perfection in the lunar tables and
astronomical science which are the guide of
the mariner over trackless oceans. 1t is
hence to be regretted that the efforts of
American science to scrutinize the eclipse of
yesterday were unsuccessful in consequence
of the state of the weather. Neverthe-
less, such endeavors on the part of our
learned men cannot be deemed wholly fruit
less. They lead to improvements in scien-
tifc handicraft and bring within the
grasp of the popular mind problems
hitherto misunderstood. Our ancestors
of old beheld in the solar and
the lunar eclipse the handiwork of an infu-
rated god The planets which strobe across
the universe We're gods roaming the fields Of
heaven, and the comets were evil spirits,
bearing destruction to kings and peoples
The scientist of to-day subjects those com
plex and wondrous phenomena to the opera
ton of few simple but inexorable laws
The light Of truth and progress dissolves the
monstrous theories of darker days and pre-
pares the human intellect for the reception
of those high and ennobling revelations OF
the works of tho universe which it is the
glory of astronomy to unfold.
Year: 1875

Pennsylvania If these men were in New
York they would, no doubt feel that
their proper place was at the side of
Governor Tilden, just as Mr.. Bigelow felt
when he declined the nomination of the re-
publicans, to whom he owed all the political
distinction he had ever received, to accept
that of the democracy, and in doing SO give
the Governor a strenuous support.


Altogether the position is full of interest
and embarrassment. The success of the in
fation movement in Ohio cannot be under
estimated It means the control of the next
Democratic Convention by the friends of rag
money and repudiation. 1t means that the
inhationists will send delegation to the
Democratic Convention and probably find
admission. 1t means that there is no
room in the democracy for Tilden and
CASTOR and Bayard, and they must follow
the path taken by Schurz and Grosvenor
and Grow and Adams. 1t does not follow
necessarily, that they must follow that path
into the republican ranks or to the support
of the administration. That is an alternative
which no democrat and very few patriotic
republicans would care to contemplate. We
see growing up in both parties, republican
and democratic, belief that the questions
to be decided at the next canvass for the
Presidency are of more consequence than
any considerations of Office or expediency or
patronage. The strong men in the situation
at present are Grant and Tilden. It may
be necessary for the President of the United
States and the Governor of New York to take
hands in defence of the nations integrity, as,
ten years ago, they took hands in defence of
the Union.
Year: 1875

Another Of those gentlemen of muscular
development who live on their reputation as
bruisers has passed away from earth, fgura-
lively speaking with his boots on and with
a couple of ounces of lead in his inside.
O'Baldwin, the Irish giant, whose 'arin was
as big as another mans thigh" and whose
brawny fist could fell an OK rs easily as it could
be done with poleaxe, died yesterday morn
ing from the effect of pistol shot wounds, in
ficted by the hand of one of his own breed,
who had been his ''pardner" in business.
In the good old days of Tammany's ascen-
dancy mon like O'Baldwin could hold high
their bullet heads and their broken noses
and lord it in the first POLITICAL circles
of the city. Everybody remembers
how they might be seen any bright,
sunny afternoon, lounging on the Broadway
corners opposite the City Hall Park or hang
ing about the steps of the public buildings,
receiving kindly recognition from the
'bosses" and homage from the less infuen-
tial adherents of the "Ring." Since the old
leaders passed away to the seclusion Of
prison cells or sought recreation in foreign
lands, the crop-haired heroes have been
driven TO seek living in other ways than
from the city payrolls. Some Of them nat
urally took to the liquor business, and
OBaldwin was one of these. Finding the
sale of rum less profitable than he desired
he signifed his intention of retiring from
the concern whereupon his associate chose
his own method Of dissolving the firm, and
so drew arevolver and put couple of bull
lets into his dissatisfied partner


1t is probably good thing for the public
that these characters so frequently and so
etfectually dispose of each other. O'Baldwin
was young man. Judging by his past
career we may fairly congratulate ourselves
that the city is thus speedily rid of him,
although in the interests of justice the manner
of his end may be deplored. Now and then
the bullet finds useful mark and if the
gallows can do its part and put O'Baldwins
murderer out of the way we shall be happily
relieved of two undesirable citizens by one
event
Year: 1875

CAN RAG BADY GRow ?-These Pennsyl-
vania democrats still stick to their traditions
with great obstinacy Here is Senator Wal
lace, speaking for the Erie platform, and
telling the people that, though hard money
is the best, we must reach it through still
greater imitation ofirredeemablep OF money.
He evidently had in mind the old saying OF
President Buchanan that no State had right
to secede, but that nobody had any right to
prevent its secession. The notion that rag
baby can ever grow up into healthy and
respectable human being might find favor in
q nursery or a kindergarten but hardly
among farmers and other sensible people
Year: 1875

A singular report comes from Europe that
some Russian astronomers, armed with a
powerful telescope, believe themselves to
have discovered a gigantic looking glass in
the moon. Their attention, the report says
was drawn to a peculiarly bright spot on the
edge of the moons disk, and close and pro-
longed examination has led them to the con-
lecture that the brightness is the reflection of
huge mirror, at least q hundred feet in di-
ameter set up in the moon by the scientists
of that satellite, who are supposed to live
with the remainder Of the moons popula-
tion-if it has any, which is extremely i'm
probable-on that side of their planet which
we never see.


If this report should be confirmed it would
overturn one of the oldest of the popular
myths dear to the hearts of little children.
The Man in the Moon, presented to their svm-
pathies for ever so many centuries as a for
lorn old bachelor going about picking up
brushwood for his lonely fire, would turn
out to be an undoubted fraud; for the newly
discovered mirror declares, of course. the
presence of o Woman in the Moon. Is it
possible that out of jealousy, or some equally
low motive, the Man in the Moon has hith-
erto kept his wife concealed from the prying
gaze Of our astronomers


If they have really huge looking glass
up in the moon it will be comfort to Gov
ernor Allen, Of Ohio, to reflect that if he
were only as big man as he thinks he is he
might be plainly seen in it by the lunarians.
They could hardly hear his voice. tremen-
dous though it be; but, no doubt, WITH the
help of such instruments as they can bring
to bear, they could see him open his mouth.
1t would be an odd, though hardly a sur
prising, blunder if the lunar astronomers
should mistake it for pair of bellows.
Year: 1875

The RIVAL INVESTIGATIONS. The Legisla-
tive investigations now progressing in the
city appear likely to clash. That conducted
by the representatives of the democratic
Assembly has done good work in exposing
the rottenness and rascalities of our police
system, and its curious developments are
continued to-day. The fact that its work
has been effective is shown by the consterna-
ton and anger it has excited in the Police
Board, and by the uneasiness of one of the
republican members of the committee. But
now the investigating committee of the repub-
lican Senate appears upon the scene, and
threatens to hold in check the Assembly
Committee on Crime by a raid upon the ex-
penditures Of the democratic city depart
ments. Yesterday it gave considerable Of its
attention to Commissioner Of Chrities Bren-


nan and to Warden Fox If both committees
Year: 1875

will give us clew to rascalties and point
out path to reform they will deserve the
gratitude of the people of New York. AT the
same time the villany of the Police De-
partment is beyond controversy, and the
public safety demands it's speedy publication,
Year: 1875

The EASTERN DIFFICULTY. While the gen.
eral dispatches from the East have a warlike
complexion the HERALDs special advices in
dicate disposition on the part of the insur-
gents to come to terms They refuse to treat
directly with the Porte but they profess to
desire the appointment of a commission by
the great Powers to make and guarantee a
settlement Of outstanding difficulties. AS
the Porte has expressed willingness to
leave the settlement in the hands of the
great Powers there does not appear to be
any good reason why the present excitement
should not be brought to a close, provided
both parties are sincere in their professions.
The only question is. Does Turkey really
want TO press war with Servia?
Year: 1875

NEEDLESS ALARM Alabama Constitu-
tional Convention last week adopted as part
of the Bill of Rights this clause:-"The peo-
pie of this State accept as final the estab-
Iished fact that from the Federal Union there
can be no secession Of any State" This sem
sible acceptance of the situation has caused
complaint from the Mobile Register, which
imagines that the Convention is "eating
dirt" 1t is not SO regarded here in the
North, where people are gratifed with the
sensible action Of the Alabama Convention.
But we suggest to the Register that the dec
iaration in question may prove to be very
happy some day. Who knows but Massa-
chusetts or Illinois may want to secede some
day1 Then Alabama will have them on the
hip.
Year: 1875

The NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. A meet
ing of the original bondholders of this road
was held yesterday for the purpose of reor-
ganizing and electing a new Board of Di-
rectors. But the proceedings appear to have
b III cut short by process issued by the
United States Circuit Court at Hartford,
Conn, and so it is likely that the new
movement will not find entirely smooth
travelling.
Year: 1875




Fragrant SozopoSr is a composition of the purest ana
choicest ingredients of the Oriental vegetable kingdom
Every ingredient is well known to have beneficial effect
the teeth and gums Its embaming anseptc property
and aromatic fragrance make il toilet luxury SozopoNr
all dsagreesbe odors from the breath by
catarrh bad teeth, &c 1t is entirely free from the injurious
and acd properties Of tooth and powders which
stroy the enamel One bottle will last six months
Year: 1875

ItOcheSter DeM0cTNt.


Yesterday afternoon, young lady
dressed in the fashionable narrow gauge
style, had occasion to eros. Lake avenue
where there was no cross-walk. She had
just alighted from a car on the opposite
side OF the street from her home. Near
her paternal residence two men were
standing, engaged in conversation. On
the side of the street there was quite a
large puddle Of water, or rather quite a
stream, as it was flowing down the avenue
in good style. This the young lady must
necessarily cross. Managing her diminu-
tive skirts as best she was able, she then
cast an eye over the situation. She
thought she could step over it, but alas for
human calculation; she made an error in
the distance, or in the supposed extent of
her skirts, or something, for she lifted up
her delicate foot and planted it directly in
the centre of the dirty pool. In her dis
may she dropped parcel she held in
her arms, and while trying to pick it up,
in some unaccountable manner she lost
her balance and fell plump down in the
water and mud. One of the gentlemen at
once ran to her assistance and helped her
within the gate, bundle and all. The
young lady's face required no rouge as she
turned around thanked her benefactor, cast
withering look on the other chap, and
calculating, "You're big BRUTE" scam
pered into the house. h -.t, l,.r. .g ..
Year: 1875

Jack Strand, a go year old sailor, wreck
ed in mind and body, has for some years
lived alone in the woods in Barry county,
Mich. He claims that when boy he
had the gift Of falling into frances, and
could free his spirit from body and glide
to and fro in space. He would visit many
places and watch the doings of other
spirits. Becoming sailor, he was ship
wrecked at a time when his spirit was off
on lark Suddenly all was black and he
could not find his body. On the shore lay
the body of a stranger, which was return
ing to consciousness. His spirit attempt
ed to take possession of it, when fierce
struggle occurred between the two spirits.
Strands object was to return to his family,
while the others was the dread of an
atheist to pass to the unknown. Strand
claims that he beat and at once entered
his new abode, while the atheistic spirit
departed with long, despairing whoop.
1t took him some time to get used to HIM
self, and then he struck out foz his family in
Massachusetts. But here he met the dis
appointment of his life. They did not
know him, and shut the door in his face;
and so he went west. The strange thing
about his new tabernacle was that he had
lost the power Of going off on transcenden-
tai sprees; while the other spirit perpetu-
ally loafed about and asked for his pro-
perty. In his hermit home he got hold Of
the evidence in the Tichborn case, and at
once found the solution. 1t was his case
over again-the soul of Sir Roger Itch
born had taken his abode in the spacious
apartments of Arthur Orton's body, leav-
ing Orton's spirit without any tenement,
and itself incapable of reproducing its
former nature in its unaccustomed home.


Rev. Charles Fisher. of Hartford, Conn.,,
has just married his 1600th couple, and has
no idea how much he has to answer for.


"Queen Mary" as it is played at the
Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, is not
a great dramatic success. The general opin-
ion in regard to the poem is that it has not
made an effective drama.


Miss Tennie G. Clafin will make her
debut on the stage as "Pauline" in "The
Lady of Lyons" T. T. should essay
"Claude" at the same time.


Mr.. F. w. Lander Jean Davenport
has written play called edge Tools"
1t is of the romantic school and is descri-
bed as possessing much literary merit.
Year: 1875

iue theory is advanced in some scientific
lrele-. that mans work in mining and
burning coal. SO far from Geranging the
scheme Of nature, viii help in the preserya-
ti5n Of life upon earth As thus Carbon
is, when deposited in the form Of coal, too
slowly soluble by the winds and rain to be
restored in time to the air and sea. In the
course Of untold ages, this carbon has been
quietly tucked away under ground. The
PLANTS Of the sea and land were beginning
10 need it, II The plants could not live, all
animals must die. The only way to bring
The carbon to the plants is TO convert 1t
INTO carbonic acid, and spread that in the
air. where forest leaves can decompose It,
- rain drops can carry it down to the
weeds Of the sea. Man. digging the coal
from the mine, and burning it under steam
boiler. and on the domestic hearth, IS really
restoring tie lost balance to natures work
The colliers of England and Pennsylvania
are helping to proloug the existence o
every creature on the globe. lt Is yerl
comforting doctrine to the apostles OF labor
however 1t may stand the further tests 0
science.