smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

"Rovell's Newspaper Directory just


ISSUED shows the failure of over 1000


newspapers in this country during the


past year, the loss to publishers, sub


scribers and advertisers amounting to


over $8,ooO,0O0 The Republic, Of


New York, alone loosing half mil


lion. Among those who went into the


newspaper business and lost hevily


thereby were 275 merchants anG.. adj


vertisers, 3l5 school teachers, Is Law.
yiers, 4 blacksmiths, SO plasterers, 10


farmers. 200 fanatics of various classes
afflicted with literary lessons, 800 am
oltlous but visionary young men who
drew upon their fathers, and thus sud
denly exhausted large margins of pa
ternal capital, and lottery men"


People who imagine that it is az
easy task to keep a newspaper alive
will have in the above extract. some
thing to think of. There is no busi-
ness SO preca'ious as that of publish
ing paper. Betting Oh faro is gen
eralya safe game. The reason is
that so many men embark in the edi,
tOrial ship and put out to saa without
chart, compass or destination, and
who had better have remained on
shore in some pursuit for which they
were fitted. In this country are hund-
reds of newspaper crafts floating
around dodging into this port then
into that one in search Of freight
They are not properly balasted, anG
when comes A blow they are washed
ashore and keeled npon the sand of
bankruptcy. No man should ever at
tempt to be an editor and publisher
unless he has the pluck of bull dog.
the tenacity Of DEATH the ugliness of
a devil, the melowness of child, the
independence of a most perfect man
hood, the fullest faith IN his ability to
endure and willingness to wait for
years, to the very verge of the grave,
and even till the openingenternity for his
reward. Then he should begin with
definite object in view Should
stick to his text no matter where goes
has congregation. He should be so
thoroughly grounded in his belief that
he will be willing to work for, to die
for his principle if need be. He should
be independent Of all save the mercies
OF God-should love his fellow men;
should lend himself and the great en-
CINE under his control to no plan or
combination for oppression; no scheme
that will injure the poor, or that will
result III ignorance. He should know
what he should say, when and how to
say it, and should never rely on the
public, on friends, on politicians, but
on hlm'elf and the result of his own
earnestly directed labor for support.
Young man if you refuse to be all
things to all men if you dare to be
true to your conscience, and wish to
build yourself into manhood of the
highest order, become an editor, learn
to work, advise others to do nothing
you would not yourself do, be indie.
pendent, and you will not fail But
II you start a newspaper merely to see
your name in print, the chances are
that You will fail and your venture be
wrecked Principle never dies, and
the newspaper that defends principle
outrldeS every storm. = Pomeroy's
Democrat.
Year: 1875

Should it contain some concealed mys-
terry. But | have never found any
thing since, and probably never shall.
People seldom have more than one
romance in the course Of their lives.
Year: 1875

Mg-How often do we try, and persevere IN
irving. to make a neat show of other outer good
qualities, without anything within to cores
pond, Just as children will plant blossoms with
out any roots in the ground, to make pretty
show for the hour! We find fault in our lives,
and we cut off the weed but we do not root 1t
up; but we find something wanting in our
selves, and we supply it, not by sowing the di-
vine seed of heavenly principles, but by copy
ing the deeds that the principles ought to pro
Anna
Year: 1875

WAsHINGToN, Nov. S.-There seems
to be a misunderstanding about the
printing OF fractional currency. The
Treasury Department has made no
change In its work of redeeming worn
out scrip with new, and not even the
printing of ten cent pieces has been
stopped Though it has been so pub
lished very extensively, there can be
no contraction in the volume of frac-
tional paper currency till coin is ready
to issue, except, of course, such con-
traction as is incidental TO the redemp-
ton. A new fifty cent note is Issued
because Of the counterfeiting of the
note of that denomination heretofore
in circulation. The mints are con-
stsntly employed in making silver
coins, and whenever the prospects of
the gold market aud the condition OF
business render the effort 10 exchange
silver for paper possible the Treasury
will be ready to execute the law Ell
GENTLY.
Year: 1875

A New York letter states that at an
early Stage of the approaching session
of Congress the delegation from that
city will press with all their might the
rents, as duty which the government
Gao no longer permit to remain unper~
formed. Stress will be laid upon the
commercial losses which the war has
already entailed upon the United
States, and from this stand point,
backed up by a formidable array Of
statistics, recognition will be urged,
not IA matter OF sentiment, but Of
self-interest rather.
Year: 1875




Grated Ground.


MONTREAL, July 16.-Father ROuseltOt,
cure Of the Parish Church in this city, has
written a long letter to DOutre, counsel in
the GuifOrd case, in which he sets the lat
ter at defiance as to the execution of the
late judgment of the Privy Council in that
matter. The gist Of the letter is as fol-
lows:


This day DO not recognize more than
in 1869, the right of civil authorities to
interfere in questions which belong only
to the ecclesiastical domain, and nOtwith-
standing my deep respect for our gracious
Sovereign, and my perfect submission TO
her authority in everything that belongs
TO civil matters, I am and will always be
obliged to refuse sepulture to J. GuifOrd
in cOnsecrated ground so long as my bish-
op forbids me TO grant il.
Year: 1875

VINO can refrain from smiling at the
story of the young lady Who, after deliver
INC a lecture in Springfield the other even
inc on aDress Reform went to sit down,
and couldn't get within six inches Of the
chair2
Year: 1875

Reason should teach us that blotchy, rough
pimped skin depends entirely upon an intern
cause and no outward application can ever GU
the defect. Vegetine is the great blood purifier.
Year: 1875

Can you render the chick advantageous
assistance during its Matching? p Yes,
most assuredly The eggs OF some varle-
ties, particularly the Asiatic are sometimes
exceedingly thick shelled; the shell ''pips," :"
and the little bird breathes his last II help
is not given. The fine membrane becomes
glued to him and contracts, and it, with
his downy covering, becomes, as it were,
a coat OF mail, to crush out its lite. Notice,
and if the Matching is slow, have an eye
to your nest until the business is through
with for sometimes it appears as if epi-
demic. Many chicks go by the board in
this way help should be rendered; so
take a small sized bodkin. and carefully
thrusting its point a short distance under
the membrane and she'll, gently tear the
first and crack the latter as you proceed
around the circumference Of the egg. If
the shell is dry, drop few drops OF tepid
water at the point Of pressure. Having
taken off the top of the she'll, drop about
ten drops of worm water around the body
Of the chick, and put the egg, as it now
stands, under the hen, the open side up
permost behind OF under the fluff is the
best situation This done, the chick is
nine times out of ten safe, and will hatch
vigorously. | have had wonderful ex


perience in this line. Poultry Bulletin.
Year: 1875

la mating geese, three or four should
he put with each gander, and not more
than this if the object is to breed from the
eggs. Set them early in the season. for
larger proportion OF vigorous young will
be obtained from the earliest broods
When the goslings are hatched, shut them
up at once with their mother, lest they get
ut the water and become wet, as in that
ease many of them are sure to die. Feed
them, while in the coop. with fresh tender
grass, cut fine, chopped cabbage, and a
small quantity of dough made from corn
meal. Supply them with water in shall
low pan


When they are three weeks old they
may be let out. if the weather is fine, and
after this they are to be fed with only lit
tie meal twice a day, for which grain in
The kernel may be substituted at the age
Of six weeks. Grass is as much their
natural food as it is that of COW, and as
soon as they are let run, they will take to
it, However, the tame Canada goose and
the long necked Chinese goose depend less
upon grass, finding much Of their food in
marshes and shallow water All kinds of
fowls eat grass, but none make so much
use Of it as the goose.


a. e4iI "AiItSh' Ii'S supply Vi gram HltlSl
Of course, be greatly increased, but il
should be accompanied by some form OF
green fodder Apples are useful. one be-
ing allowed daily to each bird; the cheap
er sorts may be stored in autumn for this
purpose. Rowen, cut fine, well soaked
during several hours, and sprinkled with
meal, is valuable article Bulk may b.
obtained by using whole or ground coarse
bran and oats An important point III de
ciding bookkeeping geese is the advantage
OF the locality. They must have water fol
swimming and drinking, but their range
upon this should be confined or they vii
SWIM away and forage in your neighbor'.
moving lots. Geese are very destructive
TO grass, eating some and trampling dowr
a great deal more. They should have a
pasture to themselves, and can be shut in
with fence, tight near the ground. The,
will not generally fly more than four o.
five feet up, and if disposed to go higher
than this, their wings may be clipped
Yokes are abomInable cruel contrivances


In the Eastern States, geese may b.
plucked twice year, and thrice in tn
South. If plucked too near freezing wealth
er, they suffer from the cold and do not d.
we'll Geese are hardy, healthy, and pa.
good returns, and their value is annuall
increasing, rs fewer and fewer relatively
are kept. Live Stock Journal.
Year: 1875

Every fowl has two small organs near
the extremity of the body called the ovaria
They are filled with elastic tissue, and feel
under the finger like a sponge. The eggs
are started here. and those which will ma
tme year or two, OF three years hence,
are Ia embryo One IS forced up, j. seized
bl the stroma, which is seventeen inches
long ;md passes rapidly through. When
the rgg leaves the oyary it consists of yolk
only. bai IN It's passage through that short
canal the yolk is surrounded by enough
albmueu to perfect the chick The white
of the egg has in it all that nature requires
ion making bones, muscles. blood vessels,
connecting tissues, skin and feathers.


Just before the egg leaves the body,
this canal has the power of secreting lime
for the she'll This shows how valuable
the egg is as nutriment, and also what de-
mluds are made for rich food by a hen
that lay an egg daily. Besides what she
requires Tor her suStenance, she is called
upoa TO secrete the material for the body
ut an entire chick, and also retains tor the
little creature sufficient to last many hours
after it leaves the shell 1t shows that a
hen cannot make albumen so rapidly eN-
rept out of albuminous food, such as
wheat, meat and small ANIMALS.


1t IA not true that there are a certain
number Of eggs, and that this number ex-
hausted, no more can be expected but il
is true that the secretions lessen as old age
comes on, and Iatterly the hen fails tc
have sufficient force to carry forward the
process. The practical bearing OF this is
That we must see that the fowl is always
we'll Kept The way to have good laying
pullet4 is TO quicken the circulation ant
strengthen the system by liberal nutrl
meut The yolk is food for the first three
on tou days Careful housewives maxi
4 mistake by attempting to feed them be
fore the expiration of this time. Let tn
mother bird have charge and success viii
be certain, for she knows better than an.
man can what the chick requires Poul
try Review
Year: 1875

There is enough of heroism and nerve
in the way Tennessee locomotive engl-
neer met his death to temper with sym
pathy the judgment which his toolhardl-
ness deserves. He was employed on the
Georgia and East Tennessee Railroad,
and was cautiously working his way over
the track with passenger train just after
the recent floods had subsidized lie reach
ed Sweetwater Greek, over which tenn
porary bridge had been thrown to replace
the one washed away by the swollen wa
ters 1t seemed insecure, and he feared
to risk his passengers on it, so, uncoup-
ling the engine from its tender, and or
dering the fireman to leave his post, that
but one life should be endangered, he dash
ed at full speed for the other bank. These
were moments of breathless suspense, then
a crash of broken timbers, an explosion, a
cloud of steam, and a wrecked engine
The engineer was seen no more; the rush
ing river into which he fell swept his
body far away leaving only his name, DAVID
Holloway, to immortalize his generous
but reckless act
Year: 1875

The man who is only honest when hon
esty is the best policy is not in reality an
honest man. Honesty is not swerving
policy, but stable principle. An honest
man is honest from his inmost soul, MOI
designs to stoop to aught that is mean
though great results hang on the petty
fraud
Year: 1875

NOT SUCCESS They got up a sur
prise party Thursday night last on a young
married couple, at whose house in Swan
poodle a similar affair was one OF the SO
cial successes of the last season. Inc
conspirators were met calmly but cordial
ly at the gate by the husband, who rested
on his shot gun, while his beautiful and
accomplished wife, whose face and form
were visible inside the porch, said she was
very glad to see them, but she didn't think
she could hold the bulldog back more than
minute longer!


AT Portland the other day man call
ed at house asking to be shown the gas
meter. This was the trick of the last Bos-
ton murderer. The man was shown the
way. On turning about suddenly, there
he found himself confronted by two pow
erful women with uplifted iron pokers
ready to brain him. He fled in wild
haste and left the company's service
Year: 1875

PICKING OFF Potato BLOSSOMS. w,
observe some discussion in the papers on
the practical utility of picking the bios
SONS off from growing potato plants tC
increase the growth OF the tubers. Ac
cording to theory, this would be the result
the formation of seed always tending to
exhaust more or less the vitality of the
plant Many years ago statement came
from Europe on this subject, and we were
told that the crop would be increased one
third by carefully removing all the bios
SONS. We gave it careful test in rows
side by side, but ordinary measuring die
not indicate the slightest difference, which
must have been very small if any-proba
| bly, requiring more refined weighing tc
distinguish it, and of no consequence
whatever in common practice. Country
! Gentleman.
Year: 1875

Horse SHOES FOR SLIPPERY STREETS.
A well-known student of veterinary sur
gerry, Mr. George Fleming, writes to the
London Times, explaining a simple device
tor preparing horse shoes tor slippery
streets which he has tried extensively and
with marked success. 1t consists Of a sim
pie steel stud of a square shape, some two
or three inches in length one end of which
is pointed the other end, which has a very
slight taper, fits tightly into hole OF cor


responding size, at the extremity of each
branch or "heel' of the shoe, reaching
nearly to, but not above, its foot surface.
When the horses are shod, square holes
are punched in the shoes. The studs are
kept in readiness, and as soon as the roads
get slippery the studs are inserted into
each hole, and slight tap with hammer
serves to fasten them in, while the weight
of the horse drives them in and keeps
them in place. Owing to the slight taper
on the portion of the steel stud which fits
into the shoe it can be easily taken out
and sharpened at any time. The studs
last long time; and the simplicity and
efficiency of this plan have attracted wide
attention among English horse owners.
Year: 1875

The Journal of Commerce treats face tiously of the potato bug, or Colorado beetle, and warns Europe against the in- road that he will soon make upon it. The editor thus tells his history:

 Entomology cannot fix the place of his birth-but it was somewhere in the "far west" and common report assigns it to Colorado. The bug has widely spread the name, if not the fame, of Colorado; and she has reaped the ad- vantage of that notoriety in being ad- mitted as 0 State by the last Congress- This shows the benefit of being talked about or we'll advertised. When the Doryaohora, etc., struck the potato plant in Colorado, Iowa, or wherever it was, for the first time, he made himself at home at once. The bug and the plant, which were made for each other, had met at last. He sought precarious living no longer among the wild plants of the prairie, but clung to the potato thence forth as his best hold and only hope. Under these favoring conditions the potato bug becomes the most prolific of parents. His family is not considered large unless it numbers over twelve hun dred; and he duplicates this every fifty days. In single night they will strip the leaves from acres of growing pota- toes, killing the tuber as effectually as if they dug into it's very heart. The only sure antidote for the noxious insect yet discovered is paris green. But this poisonous compound will kill the potato plant unless sprinkled thinly and care fully over the leaves; and then there is danger that the insects will escape 11nhnrt -
Year: 1875

A prisoner before 8 New York court

 was James Kierce, and the complainant

 John O. Quehhe, of the Belt Line rail

 road. Mir. Quehhe swore that the pris-

 oner applied for conductorship, and

 was appointed upon his declaring that

 he had never been employed on any street railroad, and that his name was James Rooney. It had since been ascer- tained that the prisoner had been dis charged from the service of the Belt Line three years before, and that his name is James Kierce. The prisoner, 8 pleasant looking young man, testified that he had done just what was alleged agalnst him. He said that he had been street car conductor ever since he was seventeen years old and knew no other trade or occupation. That he was dis charged from the Eighth avenue line six months ago, and did not thereafter obtain employment. until he found it with the Belt line. These unemployed months were spent in direst poverty, in which he and his children were supported by the earnings of his wife as a washer woman. Sung almost to desperation by his poverty, he applied for work on the Belt line from which he was dis charged three years ago. He gave an assumed name because he knew that he could not get work if they knew that he had ever been railroader. The ques- tions propounded, and the printed law shown him making false answers mis- demeanor, he supposed a mere form like the bonds demanded of conductors by some companies. 4>..''

 The prisoners wife, a prepossessing young woman, pressed forward to the witness stand, hoping that she might be permitted to plead for her husband. The minds of the justices were made up, however, and they declined to hear her entreaties. As she repassed her hus- band, by 8 seemingly uncomfortable i'm pulse, she sprang into his arms as far as might be done across the prisoners rail ing, and their audible grief dampened many sympathizing eyes in the court room. Sergeant Quinn parted the couple forcibly but quietly, and as he led the wife away the sentence, one month in the county jail, fell upon her ear, and she dropped to the floor in swoon, and was borne out almost unconscious.
Year: 1875

It will be remembered that Secretary McCreery introduceda 0 bill in the United States Senate promising that it had been reported in Q responsible medical journal of the United States and that it had been announced in Texas paper that a dis ease resembling cholera was raging in Mexico, at no great distance from the frontier of the United States, and direct ing, therefore, that the Secretary of War detail medical officer of the army, under the direction of the Surgeons General, to investigate carefully the matter of said reports. It is understood that the Surgeon General does not deem 1t ad- visable to expend the appropriation on such evidence and declines to detail the medical officer. The rapidity with which the yellow fever. is reported to have taken hold of Key West, says an ex- change, would seem to indicate favor able condition of climate for the spread of epidemic diseases, and it is possible Surgeon General Barnes will be induced to comply with the act authorizing the expenditure of $2,000 before it is too late.
Year: 1875

It may be more than suspected, says an exchange, referring to the spelling matches, that good many persons es- cape the charge of bad spelling by means of their bad penmanship. When an in dividual writes such hand that nobody can tell an from an i, or an a from II, or an O from any one of them, he can misplace the vowels with impunity. But even when the chirographyis pretty dis tinct, an error in spelling does not show in manuscript as it does in print. There are great many letters, written by peo- pie who have no idea that they ever make a mistake in spelling, which would look very queer in book or newspaper if all the words were spelled exactly in conformity with the original.
Year: 1875

A lettes writer in Constantinople says: One of the perplexing things is the com putation of time. The Turks reckon from the time of the flight of the prophet from Mecca, and it takes five hundred and thirty Turkish years to make five hundred and twenty-one of our years. At sunset of each day watches and clocks are set tomark twelve clock, and until the twelfth hour after sunset the hands on the dial indicate the time that has elapsed since sunset Aftnr that hour they indicate the number of hours that will intervene before sunset of the next day plus or minus the daily variation in the length of the days.
Year: 1875

Just before Chief Justice Chase was elevated to the beffch of the United States Supreme Court, he wrote to Senator Sumner manly note, in which he said: I have feared that the Presi- dent might suppose that l have some agency in the representations which reach him favorable to my appointment. If he has, I hope you will disabuse him of the impression. would not have the office on the terms oS being obliged to ask for it.
Year: 1875

Here issomething that should be more generally known. It is said that bed bugs will live year without aid or food, if placed in a dramatically sealed bottle. Persons who desire to keep their bed bugs over the winter without feeding them will do well to remember this. Thus science assists the most hum- I,la
Year: 1875

To show the carelessness of Sheridan in money matters it is related that the butler once found the window frames stuffed with papers to keep them from ratthng, and, on taking them out saw they were bank notes, which Sheridan had used for this purpose some stormy night and never missed them.
Year: 1875

The Railoay World presents several in
teresting facts regarding the effects OF
heat and cold on the St, Louis bridge,
from which the following is condensed:
The arches of this bridge are 500 feet long.
In their construction allowances were
made for the extremes of temperature
through a range of 140 deg.-that is, from
the greatest cold in winter to the warmest
day in summer. II was calculated that
the difference in elevation of the center
arch of the upper cord IN these two ex-
tremes of temperature would be about
eighteen inches. Since these calculations
were made opportunities for actual expert
ment have been abundant, and have been
improved, TO test the value of the original
calculations, as well as to determine the
actual effect of these changes in tempera-
ture. The following table gives certain
results of these observations, the height
here noted being that of the center pier OF
| the top chord above the City Directrix: