smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

The celebrated razor blades produced by
Rogers, of Sheffield. and which go to all
parts tho civilized world. are forged ont of
bars of the worry best highly carbonatcd
c,st-stccl tiltnl tp about half an inch in
breadth and of Il thi, kness sufficient for the
back Of the razor. The blade is first mold
ed at the end OF the porter-rol and then
forced, and the edge being brought out, ,
the concavc surface is formed by workin@
the side on the rounded edge of the anvil
1t is then cut of, and the tanc is either
drawn out from the same material as tn,
blade, or, if this be Of superior quality, II
piece of iron is welded to it. The steel
used is of excellent quality, so us TO under
so the beating necessary to produce the
thinner part, while the back is left thick
Some of the workmcn are SO expert at fors
ing the blades that they will produce on
the anvil an edge so sharp and even that
1T can be used fer shaving after bong wet
ted. After forging, the blade is smithed
or beaten on an anvil, to render the metal
as compact as possible. The blade is also
Slightly ground, o. Sc corchcd. after the forg
ing, on a coarse, dry grit stone, to bring it
to the shape required and remove the black
scale or coating. The blade is next drilled
for the joint and stamped with the name
then hardened and tempered, and ground
on Il milestone of from four to eight inches
in diameter.
Year: 1875

been protracted and is not yet
brought to a close, and would not
dare to venture, even il could, to
trespass on your patience, so l will
content myself with asking from you
on my own behalf, your sympathy
and your prayers, and asking you to
join with me, first in giving heartfelt
thanks to Almighty God, and after
Him , our most holy father, the pas
tor of the church and vice-regent of
Christ on earth, for the great and
magnanimous favor which has been
bestowed upon us, and for which we
have eudeavOred to show gratitude
to God and thanks to our holy father,
for the honor conferred upon us all.
First upon the venerable hierarchy of
the church, on all grades and order,
and upon the Catholic people, not
simply of this city or diocese, but
throughout the whole length and
breadth of the land, whose hearts
on this day are made to thrOb with
joy because of the good tidings that

have come to them, and the exalta-
ton and dignity TO which the church
of America has been raised. 1t
gives honor also, not only to the
hierarchy and the Catholic people,
but it was the intent of the holy
father to give honor to our whole
country and show how deep was the
respect and esteem for our great and
glorious republic, of which the Cath
olic population form so essential a
part, and who are so Loyalty devoted
to her Institutions, and who. with
Gods blessing, will do their utmost to
strengthen and to save her and make
her glorious and prosperous forever.
On this day of thanksgiving, we
will join in heart while we ask God
to bless this country and also TO make
this the dawn of n happier day for
the holy father, so long deferred, but
sure to come at last, and that he may
live to see the glory and salvation Of
his people"
Year: 1875

"a PLEASURE EXCURSION. Notwith-
Standing al that has been said on the
subject the Revenue Cutter is again away
from Port Townsend, lying at anchor in
on. harbor, taking in coal, and some Of
~ ohicers arc amusing themselves on
shore. Will not some dirty dog" as.
sail the Collector in consequence and
get the statement Of some respectable
citizen that he has seen the cutter at
anchor here. in conclusive proof that it
Is . pleasure excursion ordered by Mr..
Webster. Or. perhaps it would be as
well to set q spy upon the officers to
listen to their private table conversation
and report it for publication. There is
. newspaper editor in this town who
takes delight in doing such dirty work
and few people who encourage it.
Year: 1875

Coli is said to be found in Upper 0eor'
gis in large quantities. Rumors have
been afloat concerning new mine 0f inn
mense richness, where many Jumps IN
pure state had been picked mp on the SUR
face varying from thirty to forty peany'
mi iuhtA
Year: 1875

Five years ago Conductor on the HART
ford and New Haven railroad was given .
thousand dollar bill by sleepy passenger
for fare. He took it into the baggage car
to change II, and upon his returning. tho
passenger denied having given it to him,
claiming t. have handed him ticket.
The conductor put the money In savings
bank, where it still remains. The story
has often been told in the newspapers, yet
NO claimant has beer discovered.
Year: 1875

A little baby stranger came to family
IN Augusta last week. and . bright five
ycar-olL brother, who hal been heretofore
the only child in that household, was
brought in to see the new conner. He
greeted the little one with apparent plea
sure and delight. patting it playfally un-
der the chin and smoothing down its sOfe
hair. Then all at once came the inquiry,
..Say. how was God when you left 7"
Year: 1875

A letter from Fall River where fif-
teen thousand mill operatives voted
themselves thirty days vacation,
rather than submit to ten per cent. re-
duction in wages, states that the ac-
ton of the grocery and provision
dealers in refusing credit will speedily
be felt, for the available funds of most
of the employees must be nearly ex-
hausted. That while it is not the pol
icy of the municipal government to
allow actual starvation, charity will
be dispensed very sparingly, and that
the feeling of the community is so de-
cidedly against the operatives that
they will resist all measures for relief
not absolutely called for in the light
of humanity. Meanwhile, the mill
owners say they are determined to
maintain their position and settle for
ever the principle that their business
is not to be at the mercy of their help.
That they have been governed by OPP
eratives too long, and they now pro-
pose to manage their own business in
their own way.


A Panama dispatch of August LIST,
SAYS: President Gonzales, of Salvador,
had about fifty of those engaged in the
recent fanatical outbreaks shot in
squads, at the town between San Mi
guel and the Capitol, causing the Pa
dres who occasiOned the riots to wit
ness the executions. Many of the
victims confessed that they were set
on by the Padres, who told them they
might rob the rich provided the gave
part of the spoils to the church. Great
sorrow and indignation are expressed
throughout Central America at the
events in San Miguel, in which re-
spectacle clergymen join.


Thos. Hiskey, aged % years was
drowned Monday in the river Jordan,
below Salt Lake city.
Year: 1875

South from Jacksonville about two
miles is Alachua lake. Formerly tins
was vast prairie of over twenty thou
sand acres of good grazing land. In the
midst of it was deep hole or land sink,
of which there are q great many III tho
State, into which the waters OF
McKinstry lake, situated further north,
and the surrounding country used toflow
and find a subterranean outlet to the
sea. About four years ago the outietgot
more or less choked up, and the surplus
water backing soon covered this vast
tract of country, in which aqueous con
dition it has remained ever since, IN
creasing and diminishing in area as the
season varies from wet to dry. This lake
is literally alive with fish. L have seen
colored boys with an ordinary pole cut
from the woods, line not over four feet
long, and a fly, rudely constructed OF
white and red flannel, catch eighty
pounds of black bass in a couple OF
hours. These fish average from two to
twelve pounds. An eight pound bass ls
common. A few days ago a gentleman
residing in Gainesville caught and weigh
ed on Fairbanks scales, in the pretence
of number of Northern visitors here,
black bass weighing nineteen and one
quarter pounds. Tradition says one was
caught here last year that weighed
twenty-three pounds. All the small
streams flowing into this lake are also
full of bass. The other day l saw three
small boys standing in a stream about
three feet wide, and may be foot Deep
each armed with a piece of hoop iron,
with which they killed, in the half hour
was present, eight good sized bass


Another boy of the same party, with a


two-bushel corn bag, made one haul IN
the same stream of ten bass.
Year: 1875

The Russian serf released from practl-
cal slavery thinks that freedom means
the right to do nothing and go where a
vagrant inclination may lead him.
Serfdom meant involuntary servitude
and confinement 10 his native district,
and naturally his undisciphned sense OF
liberty impels him to 10 the opposite.
So he wanders about, and works only to
keep from starving. Under the Old
system, pauper peasant was an lmpos-
sibility; under the new. the lowest pov-
erty is the rule. The effect on the IN
dustrial interests of the country Is little
short of ruinous. Labor cannot be OBJ
tanned, even where wages are relatively
high, as in the fertile provinces OF the
south and southwest, without prepay
ment. sometimes to the extent OF eight
months wages, and that without any
security that the work will be done.
That contract is in any way binding Is
quite beyond their moral eomprehen-
sion. If paid in winter to SECURE their
services in the spring, they are quite as
likely as not to be missing when the
stipulated time arrives; while those who
do report for service are in the habit OF
deserting at the most critical moments
without warning and without cause
Factories are abandoned i'll the stress OF
business, though the men have signed
regular contracts; and farms are left I'M
titled, unsown, or unreaped, simply be-
cause laborers already paid prefer to
work for a neighboring proprietor Inc
money paid in advance cannot be recoF-
cred, nor the deserters punished 1or
their treachery. Not that there IS 10
law to reach the case; the trouble is the
justices, whose duty it is to regulate
such matters and decide lii labor DIS
putes, invariably favor the workmen-


''The mass is powerful fellow, they
say, and decline to take any steps to
bring themselves into disfavOr with the
"powerful fellow who votes them into
office. The agricultural development OF
the country is especially hampered by
this lack of trustworthy workmen, and
large tracts formerly under cultivation
are being turned into grazing land
while the peasantry gain only in pow
erty and improvidence, living from hand
to mouth, and spending the most they
earn in vagabondage and brandy, The
matter has lately been taken in hand by
the government, and new commission
appointed for the codifying OF the laws


of contract and other labor regulations.


1t is hardly to be expected, however,


that any speedy amelioration OF the


trouble will be effected.
Year: 1875

The cashier of a New York bank, says
correspondent, receives from s., 900 to
$8, 600, but the Office of president is often
considered honorary. This is but an
other term to express the facility for fill
ing ones purse furnished by such a
gratuitous berth. Any bank president
who improves his opportunity may make
the Office worth $4,000 year. The
paying teller receives from $1,000 to
$4,000. 1t is useless to place him lower
than this, because he will steal enough
to make up the difference. The receiv-
ing teller should receive the same pay
for similar reason. Some of these re-
ceiving tellers exc out their salary by
serving at the ticket offices of our thea
ters. They are good judges of money,
andas at such places counterfeit currency
is offered, their services are of value.
A North river grocer, who dealt at GER
tain bank and knew the receiving teller
intimately, once went to the theater and
was astonished to see his friend stationed
in the ticket office. He then learned
that for two years the man had gone
from the bank to the theater and spent
an hour in this service before going
home. The fee for that hour paid his
house rent. Bookkeepers receive S1 800,
which is no more than enough to sup
port a bachelor. No man can think of
setting up his household goods ON such
a pittance and there is continued rush
to obtain bank appointments. Every
director has his list of applicants and for
every prospective vacancy there are
hundred candidates. In London super
anuated clerks are pensioned. This
should also be the rule in New York city,
but, ON the contrary, worn out clerk
is turned away to take his chance. The
only exception that have ever known
was that of the Delaware and Hudson
Canal Company. When their treasurer,
Isaac N. Seymour, retired, after term
of service which lasted more than third
of century, an annuity of $4,000 was
granted him and was continued until his
death.
Year: 1875

A motherly woman writing in the
Christian Monitor declares that she fully
agrees with any thoughtful woman who
spares her boys the humiliation of
wearing great round or triangular
patches, when her own skill and gem
erous supply of pieces make the reseated
pants look almost as well rs new ones.
May they hold her i'll grateful remem-
brance, long after they shall have out
lived the era of torn trousers. She sug-
gests that when pant need repairing
over the knee, it is good way to rip tho
seams each side of the worn part, cut it
out, and insert new piece, pressing it
nicely before closing the side seams
again. Neither boy nor man need be
ashamed to wear garments neatly patched
if it be necessary, and every girl sho;ll /
be taught thai mending we'll is an essn-
tial part of domestic economy.
Year: 1875

The old project of making ship
canal across Cape Cod, New York pa
per says, is making vigorous discussions
at Boston, the Legislature having recent
ly granted an extension of time to the
company in which to complete the work,
and several New York capitalists having
promised to assist the Boston men con
cerned in the enterprise. The company
has nominal capital of $1,000,0 600.
They want to begin operations within
year, and, if they do, the contract con


structing the canal will be given tc
European parties. The entire cost
would be nearly $3,O00,000. The valley
through which the canal is to pass is
north of the town of Sandwich, and ex-
tends from shore to shore about seven
and three-quarter miles, and in direct
line from the waters of Buzzard's bay to
those of Barnstable bay, about six and
seven eighths miles, the general direc-
ton of the course being northeast and
southeast. The canal is intended for
tow boats and barges, but would also be
of sufficient capacity for oil vessels now
engaged in the coasting trade around
the cape. 1t is claimed that the canal
would reduce the distance by the Vine
yard sound route nearly eighty miles,
and fully one hundred and forty miles
by the outside route around " Fishing
Rim"
Year: 1875

The "interviewers of city journals
sometimes go to great lengths in their
work. One of them has been interview
ing burglar, and the burglar tells him
that there is always an outside "party
who "puts up the job, as they term it,
when they propose abuglary. This in
dividual is invariably a person who is
apparently strictly honest, and has free
access to the premises to be robbed He
informs himself thoroughly as to the
property to be obtained, and makes
careful diagram of the building, SO that
the burglars may know precisely where
to find the goods, the stairways, coun-
ters, tables, chairs, or whatever other
obstructions there may be. This having
been dsne, this person then proceeds to
select his burglars to do the work; for
he is careful to keep the job from first to
last completely under his own control.
Usually he takes two, and the three
partners share alike in the proceeds of
the affair. Sometimes the job is of such
dimensions that more operators are re-
quired, but however many there may be
there is always an equal division of the
spoils.


The reporter continues: There was
one point on which / had long been curl
Gus. desired to know whether it was
safest when locking an interior door to
take the key out or leave it in. My
burglar gave me the unwelcome intelli-
gence that it did not make the least diff
ference, for in either case the thieves
would get in. If the key were in the
lock they would take hold of it from the
outside with pair of nippers and turn
the bolt without trouble; if the key were
not in the lock all they had to do was to
insert skeleton key, and they almost
invariably in either case effected an en-
trance with the greatest ease. The thief
affected the greatest contempt for locks
of all kinds, but he had very different
feeling in regard to bolts. Any door
bolted by inside bolts is usually invul-
nerable, especially if it is bedroom
door, for it can only be opened by being
pried open by jimmy, and the chances
of awakening the inmate of the room by
such a proceeding are too great to be
taken by any sensible burglar. In ware
houses where it is known that no one is
sleeping inside, doors are very often
pried open, just as safes are blown open
with gunpowder, or broken to pieces
with chisels and mallets. Speaking OF
these articles, happened to say some
thing about burglar-proof safes, but my
burglar laughed derisively, and said


"There amt no such thing in the world, ,
which will hardly be pleasant informa
ton for those unfortunates who are
burdened with valuables and are obliged
to keep them in these receptacles. My
burglar, however, qualified his remarks
by adding that it often required con
siderable time to "crack jug by
which he meant safe-and that in many
cases it was impossible to get this re-
quired time. "But give time, said he


"and they'll crack any jug on earth. ,
Remembering the Ocean Bank burglary
and some other notable affairs,.I was
fully prepared to admit the truth of hi
remark.
Year: 1875

Tree culture in the United States is
becoming quite extensive. Under the
act of Congress offering one hundred
and sixty acres of land to any person
who would plant forty acres of them to
trees and cultivate them for eight years,
about LOO persons, it is stated, had
taken up ITO, 900 acres of land in Mime
sofa, up to January. BY the effort of
the State and private and associated
effort, it is estimated that 20,000,000
trees are now growing in Minnesota, be-
sides those planted under the Congress
sional act. A report on the subject says
that the cost of planting and cultivation
is marvelously small, in many cases not
exceeding from two to five cents a tree.
The artificial culture Of trees is coming
more and more in vogue in California


and the demand for young trees to set
out, this spring, is said to be very large.
Year: 1875

Twenty clerks in store, twenty hands
in printing Office, twenty apprentices
in ship-yard, twenty young men in a
village-all want to get along in the
world and expect to do SO. One of the
clerks will become partner, and make
a fortune; one of the compositors will
own newspaper, and become an influ-
ential citizen; one of the apprentices
will become a master builder; one of the
young villagers will get handsome
farm, and live like a patriarch-but
which is the lucky individual Lucky I?
There is no luck about it. The thing is
almost as certain as the rule of three.
The young fellow who will distance his
competitors is he who masters his bust
ness, who preserves his integrity, who
lives cleanly and purely, who devotes
his leisure to the acquisition of knowl
edge, who gains friends by deserving
them, and who saves his spare money.
There are some ways to fortune shorter
than this old, dusty highway; but the
staunch men of the community, the
men who achieve something really worth
having, good fortune, good name, and
serene oldage, all go in this hard, dirty
road
Year: 1875

A REGULAR DEsERTER. one of the
English military prisons there is man
who has deserted eight times. He could
neither live out of the army nor in it.
Every time he deserted he enlisted in
some other regiment-except once that
he took to the water and became amarine.
Whenever he found desertion monoto7
nous he surrendered himself to some one
OF his former regiments and accepted
the punishment. Ab3&A4ahA1Nsa
Year: 1875

Seaching the annals of cold weather
to find if possible colder winter than
the past, some person has found several
rather marvellous statements concerning
the winter of 1741. Not the least OF


these is one that francis Lewis, a signer


of the Declaration of Independence,
drove his horse the whole length OF
rLong!Island sound on the ice. Il q asa
Year: 1875

A cow in Michigan lost three inches
Of her tongue in peculiar manner last
week. She was hitched on the barn
floor, facing stall containing a horse,
and while trying to lap salt through a
crack in the manager, the horse caught
her tongue andsbit it:off.
Year: 1875

~ A real hero is he who in the pres
ence of danger conceals his fear lest
others, becoming terror! stricken. might
loss their senses. Such . man was
found in the person Of a Roman Catho-
lie priest in New York. who recently
urged his largo congregation to leave
the church and enabled them to do 20
with absolute ignorance Of the csuse'
and yet before thew were fairly ont
flames broke forth under the altar where
the priest had been standing.
Year: 1875

n The whiskey saloon Of Mr.. B.
Prince of Princeville, Wasco county.
LAS been bought out by the citizens and
closed, Prince agreeing never to start
another. and oppose any other person
in doing SO in the place.
Year: 1875

Ex-SPEAKER BLAINE did not come to
time yesterday at Washington College
The New York IFiLuRc says that the ex-
speaker is not only wise in his generation,
but singularly lucky. For man bear
ing his relation to parties, and to the ap-
preaching Presidential campaign, moth
ing for the next six months is so danger
Gus as the necessity Of taking an active
part in politics. II he could only have
the isolation which Minister Washburne
enjoys, it would be the thing his best
friends would most earnestly desire. He
and Vice President Wilson were on the
train together the other day, which ran
ofTthe track, The Vice President had the
ill-luck to escape unhurt, but the Speaker
got bruised just enough to cOnGne him to
hisbed for few days, and so warrant the
reports that are now out, that his physi-
clans have required him to abstain from
public speaking, or from active participa-
ton in political affairs for some months
to come. The ex.spcaker deserves this
good luck, at which he Is doubtless al
together too clever to mourn.
Year: 1875

TIE feature in Wall street yesterday


was rise in Western Union Telegraph
Stock to 79I, 1t is reported that the Com
pany has been able to place its four mil
lions OF 7 per cent bonds Ito take up those
coming due in November) at 05 cents on
the dollar, which report is given rs the
explanation Of the rise, The Company
will pay quarterly dividend on the 10Th
Ofthis month Of . per cent, and it is not
unlikely that the stock will go still higher.