smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

INFORMATION ANxIoUsLY DESIRED. -
The following is strictly true: A lady
recently stopped at one of the Chicago
hotels with her little son. The boy
not perfectly satisfied with matters and
things at the dinner table, and Ok
pressed himself frequently to that eff
feet. The mother finally rose and re-
marked to the youthful offender: g Come
with me up stairs, and I will attend to
YOUR case The lad understood at
once what attending to his case"
meant, but there was an important
matter of detail which he was painfully
ansious to have more fully explained; 4;
so, pulling backward on the hand of
his mother, he blubbered OUT, in voice
loud enough to be hear;l over most Of
the well-flled dining-room: Say,
mother, arc You going to take your
hand or your slipper 2" The enthusi-
asm with which this brief address was
received was unbounded.
Year: 1873

SENT HoME.--A Washington paper
tells of an elegantly-dressed young lady
who went into one of the dry goods
stores on Pennsylvania avenue, bought
spool of cotton, and requested the
proprietor to have it sent home. Over
~helmed with tile important duty so
suddenly thrust upon him, he immedi-
ately procured an express wagon and
detailed a clerk, who lifting the spool
into the wagon, drove with it to the
residence of the young lady, and dis
mounting, rang the bell, and when the
door was opened, placed the spool upon
his shoulder and carried it into the hall
and gently placed it or end, as if it
had been barrel of flour, and then
retired. The consternation of the fam
ily can be imagined. The head of the
house has been lodging in and out of
the dry goods stores during the past
week trying to find the clerk.
Year: 1873

So Why you say that there are no
real stars, because you sometimes see
metcors fall, which for time appear to
be stars? Will you say that blossoms
never produce fruit, because a great
many of them fall off, and some fruit
which appeared sound is rotten at the
core? Equally absurd is it to say there
is no such thing rs real religion, be-
cause many who profess it fall away,
or prove to be hypocrites in heart. Or
will you say that medicine does no
good, because, though it removes the
fever, it does not restore the patient to
perfect health in an instant? Equally
groundless and absurd is it to say that
religion does not make it's possessors
better, because it does not in moment
make them perfect as the angels of
God.
Year: 1873

A japanese Prince, Macao, may
be found daily in the State Printing
office at the Hague, working at the
case. He is sent to Europe by the Jap
anese Government to learn the art Of
printing.
Year: 1873

The stove and pipe have assumed o
beautiful red tint, and tho pots are
bringing forth a:fne crop of white look
ing vegetable mould, which I haven't
learned the name of, but she will know
it when she comes. The dishes don't
look quite as bright and clean as they
might, but the flies are bad this year,
and if I were to wash them every two
weeks they wouldn't present respect
able appearance.


Notice to the Editor.--Please suppress
that article sent you about my spell
Of single blesscdness. The old woman
has got back.
Year: 1873

Henry Dearborn of Maine, whom Mr.
Jefferson appointed Secretary Of War, had
been veritable hero of romance. In 1775,
he was village doctor. For three years,
the sign of DIR. Dearborn had hung out in
hamlet of New Hampshire, when n horse
man on a painting sliced brought the news
of the battle of Lexington. Before the sun
had set that day, The young doctor, splen-
did with the glow of perfect health and the
elastic grace of twenty-four, led sixty men
toward Cambridge, sixty-fve miles dis
tant, which he reached soon after sunrise
on the day following. At Bunker Hill, he
was captain but as there was nothing TO
do there but load and FIRE, he took mus
ket, and made one of his company, load
ing and firing with the rest as long as they
had any thing to put in their guns. He
went with Arnolds thousand men on that
march through an untrodden Wilderness
to join Montgomery in an attack upon
Quebec The wonder was that man of
them escaped starvation. Captain Dearborn
had with him a magnificent dog, the favor
lite of all the company, and to himself most





of starving comrades, and gave him up, at
length, to some soldiers, who took him to
their quarters, and divided his flesh, with
fine Yankee self-control, among the men
who could least help themselves, who were
nearest perishing. "They ate every part of
him." wrote his master, mot excepting his
entrails and, after finishing their meal,
they collected the bones and carried them
to be pounded up, and to make broth for
another meal" The only other dog at
tached to the expedition, a small one, had
been privately killed and eaten before.
Men sacrificed their "old breeches" made
of moosehide boiled them long, ar d then
cut them into slices, and broiled them on
the Goals. A barber's powder-bag was
made into soup at last. 1t excited the
wonder of the doctor-captain to see
men keep up with their company until
they would breathe their last, four or five
minutes after sitting down. Dearborn him
self gave out at length, and lay in hut for
ten days at the point of death. But he ral-
lied, trudged after the army, and went 10
the assault at the head of his command


In this spirit and in this manner, Henry
Dearborn served till the surrender of Corn
wallis, which he witnessed. On General
Washington's staff as quartermaster- gen.
eral he acquired that familiarity with mil
itary business which made him at he me in
the office in which Mr.. jefferson placed
him. President Washington had appoint
ed him marshal of the district of Maine,
and the people had elected him twice to
the House of Representatives. He was n
large handsome man, of erect, graceful
military bearing; striking figure in the cir
cles ofthe city that was rising in heprmeval
wilderness. He was, perhaps, the only
public man in the country who united all
the qualities desirable for his post being
soldier, Republican, man of science,
and a man of business.-JdmeS Parton an
July atlantic.
Year: 1873

FRIENDS OF THE INDIAN.-A Washing
ton dispatch to the New York Herald says,
in regard to the massacre of the Modocs:
Men belonging to the Indian peace party
policy claim that 1t is only another indica-
ton that the frontier settlers think no more
of shooting an Indian than they would
turkey. At the War Department 1t is said
that the peace policy men have determined
to employ eminent legal counsel to 6efend
Capt Jack and his party. The question is
to be raised, whether the Modocs can legal
ly be tried by military commission. The
point, it is reported, is to he made that
General Candy was not acting as COM
mander of the military forces, but as Peace
Commissioner, which is the position of a
civilian, and therefore military commits
sion cannot legally take cognizsnce of the
crime; that the killing of Captain Thomas
and the other soldiers must be considered
as an act of war, being performed while
the parties were engaged in hostilities. 1t
is said that IL the President overrules the
objections thus presented the matter will
be taken by due process to the highest
legal tribunal for adjudication, If it is
thought there can be any chance of success
to prevent or delay the exection of Captain
Jack and his associates some steps will be
taken to accomplish II.
Year: 1873

self from the fallen snow. Happily, though
from the violence of its descent 1t had
seemed enormous in quantity 1t was not
so considerable as to offer any serious ac-
cumulation some portions falling into the
stream and others breaking upon the rocks
among which IL was hurled. 1t soon left
me at liberty. Hurried down by the fury
of the torrent, my next care was to extri-
cate myselffrom its fsaming waves grasp
ing rock after rock, / at length succeeded
in arresting my downward career, and
dragging myself upon ledge, stood under
the raised snow-covered bank, up which
succeeded in clamberng. Trembling in
every nerve, half drowned and hatless, I
reganed, but a few minutes after had
quilted II, the same bridge where I had
first been undecided in my course, but in
a very different frame of mind. I was so
stunned and confused that l could hardly
realize what had passed during the event.
full interval.


The sun glowed with its last rays upon
the snow-covered mountains the shadows
crept solemnly up their sides and invested
them in gloom, while their roseate sum-
mts arose into pure deep blue of heaven
the crescent moon appeared the roar of
the Aar filled the quiet solitude-all was
just as before the accident, save that a few
broken heaps of snow, scarcely percept-
BILE, traced the path Of the fallen avalanche
an insignificant occurrence in itself; yet
within few moments had been menaced
with fearful fate; feeling Of the bitter
ness of death had passed through my ag-
onized brain. My escape was almost by
miracle for If had advanced higher up
the mountain, the additional height from
which 1 should have been hurled would
have rendered my destruction almost GER
tain; and If carried down but little far
ther by the torrent, should have been pre-
cipitated over cataract had the first shock
from the falling snow struck me on the
head, or had been violently dashed against
the rocks of which the river was full, in
stead of receiving but slight confusion,
the result would have been fatal. 1 had
received a solemn and effectual warning
that "in the midst of life we are in DEATH"
liable to be crushed in an instant by the
blind working of Nature as heedlessly as
the gilded insect is trodden under foot by
the unconscious traveller, unless providen-
tial power is mystcriously exerted for our
preservaton.-T -dcy.
Year: 1873

INSANITY AS AN EXCUSE FOR CRIME
Mr.. David Dudley Field read paper last
week, before the New York Medico- Legal
Society, concerning emotional insanity in
its relations TO the commission of crime
and legal punishments. He held that emo
tional insanity, as it is called, is not justi-
fication in law for criminal acts. In vari-
Gus cases cited he said that the killing was
an absolute offense against the law, and
therefore, TO guard society from a repeti-
tion of such acts, Sickles, Mcfarland, Cole
and others ought to have been hanged no
matter what their mental state might have
been at the moment they fired the pistol.
In other words, 4 man is responsible in
la~; for becoming emotionally insane, just
as man is responsible in law for becom-
ing insanely angry, the distinction between
the two being not always apparent to the
lay mind.


Mr. Field summed up his argument in
the following conclusions: That children
and idiots are not holden to criminal re-
sponsibility; that mental unsoundness may
excuse crime when the will becomes the
slave of defective reason insanity excus-
ing crime must be shown by experts to be
a brain disease; neither emotional nor per-
ceptional insanity is an excuse itself for
crime all prisoners declared insane should
be put in the lunatic asylums until their
restoration to health; the punishments
should be graded to suit the quality of the
crime and the intent and relative guilt Of
the criminal. These opinions are practical
and generally sound, and if adopted by
our courts would tend TO rid us of emo
tional insanity altogether-a result much
to be desired by those who do not expect
to kill their neighbors, and who may run
some risk of being killed by their neigh
bors, while the latter, according to the cur
rent doctrine, are legally Irresponsible
EUening Post.
Year: 1873

The great cause of so many young peo-
pie being gray headed is on account of
their having used the vile compounds
which have flooded the market so long.
Natures Hair Restorative is sure rem
edy for this. Clear as crystal no poison
perfectly @ceet, clean and reliable All
druggist sell it. See advertisement
Year: 1873

We see by the Chicago papers that
PROCTOR & GAMBLE have reduced the
price of their long established and popular
brand NOTIFIED GERMAN SOAP, its pres
ent price and superior quality makes it the
cheapest as well as the best soap for con
sumers. 6-23d3m
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsr.-The Commissary
General of the United States, after a trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time TO
the present are buying this article. This
is fact worthy the attention Of eonsum-
Year: 1873

f. F. KUNKEL's BITTER WINE OF IRON.
This truly valuable tonic has been so
thoroughly tested by all classes of the COM
munity that it is now deemed indispensable
as Tonic medicine. 1t costs but little,
purifes the blood and gives tone to the
stomach, renovates the system and pro-
longs life. Everybody should have it.


For the cure of Weak Stomachs, Gene
raj Debility, Indigestion, Diseases of the
Stomach, and for all cases requiring a
tonic


This wine includes the most agreeable
and efficient Salt of Iron we possess
Citrate of Magnetic Oxide, combined with
the most agreeable of vegetable tonics-
elbow Peruvian Bark.


Do you want something to strengthen
you?


Do you want good APPETITE?


Do you want to get rid of nervousness.


Do you want energy?


Do you want to sleep well?


Do you want to build up your constitu-
ton


Do you want to feel well?


Do you want a brisk and vigorous feeling


If you do try Kunkels Bitter Wine of
Iron.


only ask trial of this valuable tonic.


Beware of counterfeits, as kunke1s Bit
ter Wine of Iron is the only sure and eff
fectual remedy in the known world for the
permanent cure of Dyspepsia and Debility,
and as there are a number of limitations of
fered to the public, l would caution the
community to purchase none but the gen
uine article, manufactured by L. F. Kun
kel, and having his stamp on the cork Of
every bottle The very fact that others
are attempting to initiate this valuable
remedy, proves its worth and speaks vol
umes in its favor


Sold only in 81 bottles Sold by Drug
gists and dealers everywhere, and in Rock
Island by Smith & Bonney and John
Bengston.
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the New York
Sun who has recently been interviewing
the Great Salt Lake, in Utah, represents
that the waters of the lake have risen
twenty feet since the Mormons first
settled in Utah, and much surrounding
shore has been submerged. He says:


There is no fish in the Great Salt
Lake. The only living thing beneath
its waters is a worm about quarter of
an inch long. This worm shows up
beautifully under a microscope. When
! storm arises the worms are driven
ashore by thousands, and devoured by
the black gulls. We found a pure
stream pouring into the lake. 1t was
filled with little clubs and sinners. The
fish became frightened and were driven
down the brook into the briny water.
The instant they touched its waters they
came to the surface, belly upward, and
died.


The water is remarkably buoyant.
Eggs and potatoes float upon it like
corks. Mr.. Rood and myself stripped
and went in swimming | dove into
the lake from long pier, which had
been built for the use of a small steam
boat that formerly piled upon its waters.
The sensation was novel. The water
was so salt that my eyes and ears began
to smart, but so buoyant that found no
difficulty in floating even when the air
was exhausted in my lungs. AS struck
out for the beach | felt as light as a tea-
ther. In spite OF all l could do my heels
would fly up ont Of the water


| found it impossible to stand upon
the bottom. The buoyancy of the wa
ter and the surging of the waves forced
my feet from under me. A person who
could not swim might be easily drowned
in five feet of water His head would
90 down like a lump Of lead, while his
feet would fly up like pair of ducks
The water is as clear as the water OF
Seneca lake, SO clear that the bottom
could be seen at the depth of twenty
feet. When we reached the shore and
crawled out upon the sand III the hight
of the sun our bodies were quickly coat
ed with salt. We were compelled TO
90 to the little stream from which we
had driven the chubs and sinners and
wash off in fresh water before we put
on our clothes. Our hair was filled
with particles of salt which could not be
washed out. The Mormons occasionally
visit the lake in drovcs for the purpose
of bathing. Many of them say that
their health is improved by leaving the
salt on their bodies, and dressing with
out wiping themselves with napkins.
Year: 1873

TIE MATRIMONIAL SEAsoN.-The
matrimonial season has opened with
unusual animation, Notwithstanding the
financial crisis. All our hotels are filed
with wedding parties, making their
usual tour Of observation before settling
down to the realities Of life. AT the
Carrollton Hotel on Sunday there were
no less than eighteen newly made brides
and grooms at the dinner table. As
usual, the season has been opened by
the widowers, some making their sec
ond venture, some the third and one
that has come under our observation,
actually carrying upon his arm the
fourth blooming bride that it has been
his fourtune to lead to the altar. What
could be more conclusive as TO the felic-
ity and enjoyment of married life than
such a spectacle ? These widowers all
have been brushed ani polished up for
the occasion, and present quite youth
full appearance. Having, as usual, Sc
lected young wives, it became necessary
TO make the contrast as little observable
as possible. There Is something IN the
manner and movement of newly made
couples that singles them out from the
old married folks. They enter the din
inc room arm in arm, and cling together
until the necessity of taking separate
chairs at the table divides them, and
when they finish again oscillate togeth-
er for the purpose of making dignifed
departure. There is no occasion for
their being pointed out, as their manner
proclaims at once, "Behold q newly
married couple !" The constant arrival
and departure of matrimonial parties is
one of the greatest attractions of hotel
life, especially to the ladies, and adds
greatly to the enjoyment of the dinner
hour.-Baho. american.
Year: 1873

CoRsETs DEFENDLD.-We know per-
fectly well that some persons lace them
selves too tight, although it is not at
present fashionable to do so. We know,
too. that some women have seriously
injured their health, while some have
sacrificed lite itself on the shrine OF 4
slender waist. But the wearing of the
corset does not necessarily and in fact,
does not commonly, end in tight lacing,
while lacing, and that too, of a very
hurtful sort, may be, and frequently is,
accomplished without the use OF cor
set at all. We have seen mems cloth
ing worn as tightly as. any corset ever
was. The condemnation of tight lacing
is perfectly just; of course, as everybody
having the smallest knowledge Of anat-
omy knows. But many women who
never lace wear corsets, and derive great
benefits from their use. 1t is certainly
very absurd to demand that these people
shall forgo a comfort-giving article OF
apparel merely because they could turn
it into an instrument of torture if they
were fools. They find that to put the
entire weight Of their clothing upon
their shoulders is to give themselves
pain, and in order to divide it they let
part of their apparel depend upon their
hips for support. TO do this without a
corset it would be necessary to wear the
garments altogether tighter about the
waist than they should be worn, and to
bind them around single narrow zone,
which would be both uncomfortable and
unwise. The corset, however, distrib-
utes both the weight and the pressure
over the strong muscles of the hips, and
as it is less yielding than the flesh, OBJ
viates the necessity of tight Wristbands
altogether. The corsets properly used,
in other words, furnishes the very best
remedy for tight lacing, particularly
now, that taper waists have gone out OF
fashion.
Year: 1873

IF A MAN WANTS A BOTTLE
OF WHISKEY, let him buy. it and
take it home like man, and not sneak
home with bottle of 'Bitters," or
Cordial" and pretend that it is medi-
cine. If he wants tonic that is some
thing better than a temporary stimu-
liant, he should get bottle of Peruvian
Syrup, (an Iron Tonic,) that will vital
ize the blood and give durable strength
to the system.
Year: 1873

FRIENDS AND FRlENDsluP.-Get not
your friends by brave compliments, but
by giving them sensible tokens of your
love. 1t is well worth while to learn
how to with the heart of a man the
right way. We are not to number our
friends by the visits that are made us.
and not to confound the decencies Of
ceremony and commerce with the offices
of united affections.


A friendship that makes the least
noise is very often the most useful; for
which reason / should prefer prudent
friend to a Jealous one.


To be influenced by FASHION for the
same pursuits, and to lave similar dis
likes is the natural ground work of last
ing friendship.


A man that hath friends must show
himself friendly; and there is friend
that sticketh closer than brother.


There is nothing that is meritorlous
but virtue and friendship, and indeed,
friendship is but part of virtue.


Life is to be fortified by many friend
ships. To love and to be loved is the
greatest happiness Of existence.


Old friends are the best. King James
used to call for his old shoes; they were
easier for his feet.


Difficulty is not so great TO die for a
friend as TO find friend worth dying for.


What friendship will not continue to
the end that is begun for all end.


Kindred weaknesses induce friendship
as often as kindred virtues.


A friend should bear with his friends
infrmities.


Friendship is made fast by interviewer
benefits.


Sudden friendship, sure repentance.


Faithful are the wounds of friends.


Friendship is full of dregs.
Year: 1873

All too soon thy pleasure
Giveth place to i'll;
All too soon the tailor
Sendeth in his bill.
All too soon thou hopest
Love, from idle glance
All too soon thy loved one
Wisheth thee in France
All too soon thou joyest
In thy manhoods noon
Hair and hope alike forsake thee


All too soon.
All too late thou lowest
When thy youth has flown
All too late thou cursest
Having been done brown
All too late for crying
When the milk is split;
All too late thine idols
Turn out copper gilt;
All too late thou reeleSt
Homeward to thy mate
''Tompkins," says she sternly, ''you are


Much too late !"
Year: 1873

a Kiss FOLLOWED BY 4 PIsroL..-Tho
Worcester Gazette gives the details Of
the tragedy that occurred in that city
on Sunday, in which a jealous husband
was shot by his wife For some time
past Enock Hill, the victim Of the say
age assault, and his wife have lived un-
happily together. Sunday Mrs. Hill
went TO New Worcester 10 visit her pa
rents. her husband leaving her 10 make
the call along and promising to meet
her there in the evening OF condition
that she would watch for his coming at
the window. After meeting his wife in
accordance with their agreement, they
started toward home. Their couversa-
ton soon grew animated and mutual
recriminations were fully INDUCED in.
Their talk continued ill-natured until
they had arrived within but a short dis
tance Of their home, when Mrs Hill
asked her husband 10 take her suDshade,
and having given it TO him she put her
hand IN her pocket, took out a pocket
pistol, unDoticed by him, and said, LET
me kiss you" As she said this she
reached her arm around him and with
the pistol but few inches from bis
back fired the ball in his left side. Both
the husband and wife were industrious
and intelligent people, and bore excel
lent regulations in the community in
which they lived. The shot has not
proved fatal as yet, bat fears are enter
tanned that the man cannot recover, as
the ball has probably reached the left
lung, beyond the reach Of probing.
Mrs, Hill was arraigbed on Monday,
and pleading not guiIsD she was held
in $4,000, for examination on the 7th
proxiuo
Year: 1873

You may depend upon it that he is a
good man whose intimate friends are
all good.


Persian ladies call European ladys
dress trousers with one leg"


An Iowa clergyman who had do
nation party lately, has beans enough
to last thirty-seyen years


Pay up your dues at this Office and be
happy