smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

1t was expected that the receipts from
newspaper postage would decrease in con-
sequence of the introduction of the postal
cards. Such, however, has not proved to
be the fact. The receipts from newspaper
postage each month maintain their usual
standard, .. -
Year: 1873




"There ia considerably misunder-
standing relative to the new Stock
law in this State. by the new code
swine and sheep are absolutely restain.
ed from running at large. AS to them
the owner is iiatle for oil damages
that they may do, without regard to
fences inclosing the land trespassed
upon. or whether there be any fences
at all. But cattle, horses, mules and
jennies are free. commoners. except il
such counties as, by vote Of the peo-
pie, they are restrained. Where that
is done, they come within the rule re-
lating to swine and sheep, and the
owner is liable in the same manner.
AS to damage done by stock which
are free commoners, lawfully upon
any land, the question of lawful
fence wonld have to first be decided
Counties may vote that stock be kept
up or restrained between the hours ol
sunset and sunrise. Where this j.
done, the same consequences would
follow. if such stock trespass on the
land of others bet ween the hours nam.
ed they may be restrained, and the
owner would be liable for all damages,
without regard to the sufficiency OF
fences. But stock between sunset and
sunrise alone. They may vote to res.
train stock generally, If the county
does not, but they must do that OF
nothing. Stock is defined to be horses,
mules and cattle only"
Year: 1873

The writer had aquantity
carefully measured and put
in sacks. 1t remained in q cool barn


IN this way for three months. When


the sacks were first filled, the mouths
could be scarcely tied, they were 80
full. At the end of the three months
there was apparently plenty Of room
Tor more. For curiosity some of it was
measured, and it was found two quarts
per bushei had fallen away, which is
loss of about seven per cent. The
place where the seed was kept was
very unfavorable to waste. There


was no heat or wind to dry it up, and
! 1t may be taken as the very lowest per
centage of loss. Under other circum-
stances, the loss by saving six months


may often reach as high as twenty


per cent. These things should be
considered by those who are inclined
| to hold Oh for chance OF q rise. An
other consideration strikes one here,
People often complain that they get
| short weight or measure. No doubt
that this is too often the case but it
| IL likely that in some instances the
difference is as much in shrinkage as
in Intention Exchange.


Not long ago the pretty sister-in-
law OF q sacetious young doctor insist
ed upon accompanying him when, as
she supposed, he was starting upon his


afternoon round of professional visits.


1t was of no use that he protested she
would enjoy the ride that he was to


take. Yielding at last, with such ap-


parent reluctance that the lady mover


suspected . joke, he folded the car


risge blanket carefully about her, for


the day was chilly, and drove round


two squares into the blacksmith's


shop. Here he deliberately unhitched


his horse, and left his vehicle to be


repaired. It needs no lively imagin-


alton to picture the sudden retreat OF


the lady and the shouts OF laughter


which greeted her return homo.


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Year: 1873




II is bad enough 20 see n bachelor
sew on button but he is the embodiment
Of grace along side Of a married man.
Necessity has compelled experience in
the case Of the former, but the latter has
depended upon some one else for this
service, and, unfortunately for the sake
of society, it is rarely he is obliged TO
resort TO the needle himself. Some
times the patient wife scalds her right
hand, or runs silver under the nail Of
the index finger, Of that hand, and it is
then the man clutches the needle around
the neck, and, forgetting to tie not in
the thread, commences to put on the
button. 1t is always in the morning
and from five to twenty minutes after
this he is expected to be down street.
He lays the button exactly on the site Of
of its predecessor, and pushes the
needle through one eye, and carefully
draws the thread after leaving about
three inches of it sticking up for lee
way. He says TO himself: "Well, if
women don't have the easiest time
ever see" Then he comes back the 9TH
er way and gets the needle through the
cloth easy enough, and lays himself out
to find the eye, but in spite Of a great
deal of patient jabbing the needle point
persists in bucking against the solid part
of the button, and finally when he los
es patience, his fingers catch the thread
and that three inches he has left to hold
the button, slips through the eye and in a
twinkling and the button rolls leisurely
across the floor. He picks it up with
out single remark, out of respect for
his children, and makes another attempt
to fasten it. This time when coming
back with the needle he keeps both tho
thread and the button from slipping by
covering them with his thumb, and it i,
out of regard for that part of him thai
he feels around for the eye in a very
careful and judicious manner, but event
ually losing his philosophy as the
search becomes more and more hopeless
he falls to jabbing about III loose anC
savage manner, and it is just then the
needle finds the opening, and comes NJ
through the button and part way
through the thumb with CELEBRITY tha
no human ingenuity can guard against
Then he laws down the things with Il few
familiar quotations, and presses the i'll
iured hand between his knees, and thel
holds it under the other arm, and final
ly jams it into his mouth, and all tn
while he prances and calls upon HEAVIER
and earth to witness that there has nevc
been anything like it since the worl'
was created, and howls, and whistles
and moans, and sobs. After while h
calms down, and puts on his pants am
fastens them together with a stick an
goes to his business a changed man.
Year: 1873

The following letter appears in the
New York Tribune:


SIR-Please advise your readers al
ways to leave their names and addresses
in their pocket-books. 1t frequently
happens in our business that we come In
possession of port-monaies containing
private papers and photographs, which
we would be glad to return, but we have
no means of doing so. 1t is dangerous
to carry them about-so we are forced
to destroy them. l remember an i'll
stance where met with serious trouble
because | could not make up my mind
to destroy picture of a baby which |
had found in the pocket-book of a gen
tleman which came into my hands in the
way of business on the Third Avenue
road. had lost baby myself, the
year before, of the same age as this one,
and would have given all had fol
such a picture. There was no name in
the port-monaie, and no way of finding
out who was the owner, and so, like q
fool, | advertised it and got shadowed
for it by the police. Tell your readers
to give us fair show to be decent
and always leave their addresses in theil
pocket-books. We want TO live and lei
tive. Yours truly, A PIcKPocKET.
Year: 1873


THIS world Is but humbug,
As the people know 50 well;
have the will 10 sell II of,
But no good will 10 sell.
A victim of disaster, and
A foreigner TO joy,
miss the times used TO have,
When father was boy.
plague on daddy's wedding. day


That terrible mishap;


Oh what a scrape they got me in,


When mother married Pap.
My wife Is ever on the grunt,
My baby on the squeal,
I've not one button on my shirt,
Or stocking to my heel.
I've more than have bargained for,
A lot of gloom and woe,
/ wish the lot would turn to one
About six feet or So
The dearest thing find is rent,
The staple thing is change,
Yonr nearest friend is misery
That friend IS never strange;
About the time you make pile,
And everything is nice,
Up comes the undertaken,
And your meat is on the ice.
There's not man will trust me,
I'm completely out ol hope;
envy all the onions that
Are hanging on rope.
A child of tribulatiOn and
An alien to Joy,
/ miss the times l used TO have
When father was a boy.
never see q coffin, but
/ wish was inside;
never see hearse, but
Would gladly iakr ride.
I'll kick the bottom out the world
To end the horrid show,
And let the whole managere
Exhibit down below.
Year: 1873

A FAST CoMPosIToR--In the Office of
Wisconsin journal there is compost
tor who sets type so rapidly (says the
paper) that the friction of his move
ments fuses the leaden emblems in his
stick, making them solid, like stereotype
plates. The only way to prevent this
is to have his case submerged in water;
and the rapidity of his motions keeps
the water boiling and bubbling so that
eggs have frequently been boiled in the
space box. Pipes lead from the bottom
Of his case to boiler in the press-room,
and the steam generated by the fast
compositor's movements runs the power
press. In one day he set so much that
it took all hands, from editor to devil,
two weeks TO read the proof, and
it wasn't his good day for setting, type,
either
Year: 1873

George w. Smally writes to the Tri6-
me from London:-"As for the lookout
On board the Atlantic, it may have
been sleepy, without differing much
from that maintained on some other
ships. There is story of a passenger
crossing on one of the steamer of a
well known line, whose distrust was so
great that he spent every night on deck
Keeping watch forward. During the day
he slept. One night there came shout
from the bows, where this amateur stood
'tRock aheadn' The ships lookout had
gone to sleep. The watch on deck were
asleep. The officers of the bridge were
asleep. They woke up with the shout
and when they had got the helm hard
up, and the huge ship swung sullenly
off her course, the startled passengel Z
who thronged upon deck, saw the black
cliffs of Cape Race G looming down on
them within buscuit's toss. My au-
thority for that story it one of the en-
gineers of the ship in which the accident
occurred. -f aaolg
Year: 1873

One of the most useful applications
of the spectroscope has been III detect
ING new elementary substances on
earth, and in proving what substances
pervade the air we breathe. Several
re1v metals before unknown, have been
revealed by its agency, also the pres
ence Of substances have been detected
in our air in such minute proportions
as to be beyond the reach of any other
test. Indeed so sensitive Is this IN
strument to many substances that one
spectroscopist declares he can detect
differences in the blood, another asserts
that he can recognize by it the
thousandth part of a grain OF the
red matter of a blOod-stain. From
these and similar facts you may
Judge how important an instrument
the spectroscOpe may get become by de-
tecting those agents III the ar we
breathe that produce disease, and those
that assist health, and possibly too by
analyzing the vapOrs arising from GER
tain localities, and thus detecting what
mineral substances lie beneath the soil.
But we must stop here without telling
the half of what is to be said. We are
free. however, to believe that having
in the short space of fourteen years re-
vealed larger number of the secrets of
nature than any otherinstrument in the
same length of time, there is no calcu-
Iating, until it has been fairly tested,
what it may or may not reveal. =
From NoUenlber 'Home and School,
Louisville, Ky.
Year: 1873

In all heavy clay soils and heavy clay
loans, autumn blowing is OF great ad


vantage. The winter frosts is me-
chanical pulverizer and disintegrator
of such soils, we will but put them ir
proper condition to he acted upon
Potash is one OF the elements of sucl
rolls, and with them one of the chiel
values TOR the small grain. The min
eral is found under two conditions, one
fixed and the other free. The free
potash is slowly dissolved by water
1t thus unites with sand to form the
coating of the straw. In the other
condition mentioned, 1t is fixed, ard
that is insoluble in water, and, Ike
humus, is unfit for food If plants. To
prepare the fixed potash in thesoii--tbaf
is to dIsintegrate tive must expose
it TO air, moisture and heat; hence We
must puIverize the soil by the winter
frcst, to admit of these conditions
Autumn blowing is supposed to kill
many insects that it does this to
some extent, is doubtless true, but We
apprehend less than it has credit for
1t can be done at time when the teams
are strong, and weather cool, and so
much of the spring work is out of the
way; while for spring wheat and bar
ley it is almost indispensable.
Year: 1873

A writer in the Duchess Farmer
among things said concerning the ad
vantsges OF having good barns, re
marks that he believes it safe TO say
that money invested in well Construct
ed barns paysi from twenty To fifty per
cent every year, and that all will
agree TO the statement when we take
into consideration the full advantages
The time TO build platforms and fence
stacks every year; the increased ex-
pense of haying; the ten per cent in
loss of hay; the halt ton saved Oh
wiutering every cx or COW, and in the
same proportion as we feed younger
and smaller stock i; the increased risk
of losing stock the increased cost OF
dong chores the disadvantage OF hav
ing stock ixings constantly in your
way, the continual exposure of all
your stock to all the winds and storms,
and all of them liable to great damage,
while being built or fed out.


BY providing suitable barns and
stables, one can avoid all these losses,
cares and troubles, and feel confident
Not security, AS every load OF hay is com
mitted to their keeping, and every
animal is thriving under their kind
protection, during the cold winter
Year: 1873

a useful hint to many Young men
may be derived from this little story
which the Springfield (Mase). Union
prints "Not long ago a young man
Of This city had most favorable OF
portunity to enter business house in
this State, at large increase over lis
present salary, with prospect of soon
getting place in the firm. His re
commeDdaiiOns Were frs lass, and
the officers OF the institution were de.
cidedly pleased with his appearance
They, however, made him 10 propO
sails, nor did they state their favorable
Impressions A gentleman of this city
was requested 70 ascertain where the
young man spent his evenings and
what class of young men were his as
sociates. l: was found that he spent
several nights of the week in a BILLIARD
room on Main Street, and Sunday af
ternoon drove hired span into the
country with three other young men.
lie is Wondering why he didn't hear
from the house concerning that coveted
nosi,inn
Year: 1873

a furnace in the cellar may be good


to take the chill from the house, and
to heat its halls and passages, but il
ought not TO supersede the fireplace
in parlor and chamber, at once the
ventilator of the room and It's centre
of cheer and Joy. No apparatus OF
ventilation has yet been devised equal
to the cid fashioned chimney. Even


when no fire is made in the aperture,
this avenue to the open air draws its
CURRENTS and keeps the atmosphere
pure. Where there is no open fire.
place, no free flue, there will be a
sense of asphyxia in those stormy
nights when the windows must be
fastened close. Every room in the
house which is used to lit in or sleep
in ought to have a sufficient opening
into the chimney, larger than the
orlfice of a stove pipe. No matter if
The heated air escapes by it; it is bet
ter to lose half of the heated air than
10 be breathing stagant air that is al
ready deprived of its oxygen. In the
spring and autumn the fire. place, with
wood on the andirons, Gives all the
heat that will be needed, and gives it
more gracefully than the blasts from
any "regIsters '-HeraH of Health
Year: 1873

Why THE CHESTER WHITE HOGS
ARE IN DIsREPUTE.-Mr S. H. Todd,
of Wakemau, Ohio, expresses the
opinion that swIndlers and Speculation
have contributed much toward placing
the Chester Whites in false light be
fore the public. They have filed the
country with poor white hogs, under
the name OF Chester Whites, but which
we're not Chester Whites, and the
Fublis ignorant of this deception, have
acquired an erron, Gus impression Of
the real value and worth of this excel,
lent breed Of hogs He is confident
that the public will in time learn what
the real Chesters are then they will
lie much more priced that ever before.
He regards the Chesters as possessing
a fixed type, which transmit to their
progeny with great certainty, and can
slwsys tell when he coupl,s his hogs
what he is going TO get.
Year: 1873

DoGGING SToCK.-FaTmers, one and
all, do not have vicious, barking dog
around your steers. A case has been
under the writer's notice, all this year,
of a man who prided himself on his
ability TO manage his swine anu stock
with two ours that were not worth the
powder TO shoot them with. What
was the consequence? The sows had
all dead pigs. The cows in some in
stances, aborted their calves, or be-
came so unmanageableas to be obliged
TO have their legs tied at milking time
If ever a horse gets loose, it remains
80 until tied down, The whole thing
making every one on the farm grow
cross and sour,tempered the mer
swearing and the women poutiDg. Re
member, he COW and horse are quiet
coniding animals, but get shy and
vicious if any NANCY mongrel is allow.
ed to dog them home, and dog then
away, and here and there. Show al
intelligent man another mans cow
and he will very soon show you th'
mans temper.
Year: 1873

In these days, observes the London
Times, when inquiry is being made as
to the breeding and usefulness OF
horses, it might be well to compare
work known TO be done by them, and
it may he difficult TO exceed the use
and good endurance o. a pair OF light
carriage horses owned by the vicar
Of GIingley-on-tbe Hill in Yorkshire.
they were bought at three years off
in 1868 and in 1864, without shoe
and with long tails, out of the fields,
trained at once and have been at work
ever since. TIER work has been reg
nlarly calculated, and the distance
they have Tun exceeds considerably
so 900 miles and remembering that
"a 900 is round the globe, so much
more is no mean length. One mare.
by Eon, is almost thoroughbred, the
other by CrUton Oil, three-quarters,
both under fifteen hands, beth with
all black legs, light and sinewy. There
never has been anything the matter
With either leg or a foot, and they
have worn out five sets of wheels in
The carriage They are still running
every day as il they were only six
years old
Year: 1873

A MAN named SewelI, who was ow
ing a Michigan ayenue man twenty
dollars for Hqaor, settled up yesterday
morning by iel ing the laloonist that
he might take the family sewing ma
chine Tor his pay. The man went viii,
a wagon TO Sewell's house on Grand
River avenue to take it, but when the
vile found out what was up she seiz d
a club ahd uhseked the creditor cut
OF the house and clear scrOss the ave
nue.. She Just wants to see the man
who can take her seEing machine fUI
a whisl ey bill
Year: 1873

CHICAGO, Sept. %, 1878.
A meeting Of the Presidents OF the national
banks was held tonight to discuss the financial
situation In New York and here. There was q
general feeling that affairs were in much better
condition In New York to-day than on Saturday,
and 1t was thought that the worst
is over. 1t was the general opinion
that there Is no reason to lear any tr0ube but it
was agreed that In case any did arise the banks
Will stand by each otner to the end The dlsposi-
tion shown this morning to run on the savings
banks was less marked this afternoon and there Is
tho people.
Year: 1873

CINCINNATI, Sept. %, 1873.
The feeling OF confidence which has prevailed
here among financial and business men during the
progress OF the trouble in New York has continued
throughout the day. The applications at the banks
for discounts have been comparatively light, and
orders from the country for currency have been
less than was expected. The entire situation this
afternoon was stronger and more encouraging
than at any time since the financial storm In the
East WAS fairly developed.
Year: 1873

cATHKRINK Z. BEEcHER ON VICTORIA Woodruff.


Miss Beecher makes this appeal to the ladies of
New York -


Nearly two years ago. at the request Of friend
who had perfect confidence in her truth and puri-
~, accepted an invitation from Victoria Wood
hull to ride with her in Central Park. The result
was an impression that she was either insans or
the haplesS victim Of malignant spirits. For she
calmly informed me that several distinguished ed
itors, clergymsn, and lady authors OF this city,
some OF them my personal friends, and all Of them
models Of domestic purity and virtue, not only
cordinEly, and that It was only lack of moral
courage which prevented their open avowal Of
such opinions.


Since that interview, this woman or her associ-
ates have been carrying out a plan for making
money BY mAligning threatening conspicuous
persons Of sueh purity and sensibihty that would
Be expected they or their friends would pay large
sums rather than come in collision with such an
tagonists and their filthy weapons Such an op-
GRAFTON carried out In New York would extend
infinitely. The proper way of meeting this evil is
to secure the enforcement Of an existing law, by
which an officer Of the State and not the person
assailed, may prosecute any who circulate asper-
siOns Of character which they cannot prove to be
true, IL being made, in such cases as this, PEN
itsntiary offence American women possess a
power little appreciated exercised for it is Ger
tain that there Is no benehcent law which they
would unite IN asking to have enacted or enforced
which would not readily be granted. For this
reason the influence Of the ladies of this city is
besought to secure in this conspicuous the en-
forcement Of the penalty for the most cruel SLAM
der may have already suffered, and which is still
threatening to others At the same time, our
clergymen can be entrelted to lend their cooper
alton by teaching from the pulpit what many do
not know that helping to circulate tho aspersions
ef character which they cannot prove to be true is
violation both of the psCalOgue and OF civil law.


CATRARINE E. BERcHER


New York, March 26, 1879