smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

The numerous failures and suspen-
sions which have made the commercial
world, since the panic of 1873, one of
constant upheaval and change, should
be utilized by those fortunate ones who
have thus far escaped disaster and by
those who are entering for the first time
the field of business life, for the lessons
that may be drawn from them. Fail
ures, like every species of mishap, only
follow from sufficient cause; and usu-
ally it is one that could have easily been
counteracted or avoided if the fact of its
existence had not been unknown. And
it is Just here that we find so many of
our business men weak. In their ac-
quaintance with their own business,
they lack that complete command of
the calling they have prOfessedly made
themselves master of, which alone ena-
bles one to understand and avoid its
dangerous points.


The man who makes study of, or
who devotes time to, an accurate and
scientific education in the business he
has chosen, as a means for the accumu-
latiOn of wealth, is now rarely found
and it seems to US that large number
of the failures of the last three years
might Justly be attributed to this cause.
The idea seems to prevail that busi-
ness transacted on ones own account is
a kind of perpetual motion, that, once
started, will not only keep itself in ope-
ration, but may be drawn upon to an
almost unlimited extent for the means
to sustain other enterprises. The in
ventor who spends yeaFs in attempting
to realize his impossible machine is rot
more certain of failure than he who
starts in business with such expectation.
The time when money could be made
by ignoramuses, and when wealth could
be had almost for the taking, has faded
far away in the dim past; and an era
of strife and struggle has dawned, in
which only those who have most care
fully prepared themselves for the war
fare can hope TO succeed.


1t is not luck that makes one man fail
and his neighbor succeed; it is not
tickle fortune that brings clouds of diff
culties upon one while another has ap-
parently plain sailing; it is something
far more certain in its operations than
either of these. 1t is skill and perfect
command of his resources that enables
one man to advance where another can
make no progress; and these two quail
tiles are possessed only by those who
have made their business the one thing
they must become perfectly familiar
with.


The world is not yet so crowded that
any need 90 to the wall to support the
rest: there is room for all, and an abun-
dance to spare. The great want is for
more men who are well qualified for
work, and who will put their shoulders
to the wheel and push. Any person
who is determined to win, and who
unites with his perseverance sense
enough to know that success comes on
Iy to those who deserve it, by the pa
tience and skill with which they toll,


has before him an uninviting field for
labor, and may enter it with the assur-


ance that, if his efforts are rightly di-


rected, they will meet with sure re-


ward .-NortFo0eSter7a L1tnlbernaGn.
Year: 1876

A reader, says the Cincinnati Gazette,
wants to know whether the changes of
the moon have any effect on the wealth
er, and, if so, why. He also asks
whether lunatics are influenced by lu-
mar changes, and, if not, why are they
thus called. In regard to the first of
these points we may say in brief that
modern men of science are about unan-
imous in denying that the moon infiu-
ences any thing but the tides. The pop
ular impression from time immemOrial
has been to the opposite From this
impression madmen derived their name.
Whatever may be the fact in regard to
the moon having any thing to do with
insanity, the writer can affirm that he
has seen one case, at least, where a
man became raving maniac at the
full of the moon, recovering his senses
when exhaustion had put an end to his
wild demonstrations, and continuing in
apparent soundness of mind until a few
days before the full he experienced
premonitions of his approaching par
oxysms. He was person of intelli-
gence, and well off pecuniarily, and
was a voluntary inmate of an asylum,
being free to 60 in and out except
during this week or so of each
month, when ne was bereft of his rea-
son. We state the case as it was, leav-
ing its explanation to psychologists
and physiologists. There is wide
spread belief that the moons rays are
inimical to health. This, we think,
has been pronounced superstition by
men of science. We are not prepared
to dispute their verdict; yet an instance
that is well authenticated seems to JUS
tify doubt iu their infallibility. Some
forty years ago, in an Eastern State,
two little girls, cousins, occupied the
same bed. They retired in apparent
health, but awoke in the morning dead
lame. One was never able to walk af-
forwards, while the other, after using
iron supports to her ankles for few
years with partial success, was COM
PEELED to give up all attempts at loco
motion. There was no cause that could
be ascribed for this double visitation
with any plausibility, except that the
moon was very bright on the unlucky
night, and that its rays shown full on
the bed where the girls lay. 1t was al


ways believed that they were "moon-
struck" if they were not no one could
assign a reason for their lameness.
Year: 1876

For some years, says the London
Lancet, it has been the practice OF MIR.
Sampson Gamgee to cut piece of tlan-
mel about nine inches square and secure
it by igature round the mouth of an or
dinary tumbler, so as to leave q cup
shaped depression of flannel within the
tumbler to about half its depth. In the
flannel cup so constructed pieces of ice
may be preserved many hours; all the
longer if a piece of flannel from four to
five inches square be used as a loose
cover to the ice-cup. Cheap flannel,
with comparatively open meshes, is pre-
ferable, as the water easily drains
through it, and the ice is thus kept quite
dly. When good flannel with close tex
ture is employed, small hole must be
made in the bottom of the flannel cup ;
otherwise it holds the water and facil-
itates the melting of the ice, which is,
nevertheless, preserved much longer
than in the naked cup or tumbler. A
reserve supply outside the bedroom
door can be secured by making a fan-
mel cup, on the plan above described, in
a Jug, and filling it with little Jumps OF
ice; care being taken that there is space
enough below the bag to allow the water
to collect and leave the ice dry. This
provision will allow ice to be used dur
ING the hottest night without the supply
falling or the patient being disturbed
two very important considerations.
Year: 1876

THE worst thing we have seen about
Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the only
stain on an otherwise irreproachable
character, is that he is the inventor OF
that parlor aggravation known as the
hand stereoscope; vexatious contriv-
ance for which the pictures are always
too large to be crammed into the springs
or too small to stay in them, Of which
the slide is always showed off the end of
the stick in the vain efforts OF the OBJ
server to find focus, and of which the
glasses always make you seethe picture
so double that it gives you the headache
and finally compels you to peep over
the top in order to gain the information
necessary to make some intelligent re-
mark about the tumble you have been
staring at.-HGUb-eye.
Year: 1876

JOHN STUART MILL once unfOlded to
Louis Blanc his plan of suffrage by de-
grees, according to which every man
would have one vote, more learned
man two votes, professor three votes,
a statesman four, and so on. M. Blanc
replied that the educated man who goes
into meeting and influences the per-
sons present to vote in a certain man
ner may control as many as 500 or 1000
votes. There is divine compensation
for the legal equality of knowledge with
ignorance. Mills plan, besides being
founded on injustice, is impracticable
from the want of any overruling power
to determine exactly how learned can
didate for power may be.
Year: 1876

lax and show herself the true, warm
hearted woman. And if the shadow OF
the past still pursues her none suspect
it, and least of all herself. She thinks
she has lived it down, but because of it
life no longer means love and happi-
ness, but duty and work, yet she is con-
tent.-Sanday Telegram.
Year: 1876

A ToBACCoNIsT at Greenock, Eng
land, on arriving at his shop one morn
ing found fine set of false teeth lying
on the counter. He then discovered
that a thief had broken into the shop
during the night and carried off cigars,
tobacco and pipes. The burglar had
evidently taken out his teeth while he
was packing up his plunder and in the
haste of departure had forgotten to re-
place them. The police ascertained
that the teeth fitted a gap in the gums
of one Blake, and he is now in custody.
Year: 1876

roof may be covered with very cheap shin
gle, and by application Of this slate be made tC
last from 20 to % years. Old roofs can bt
patched and coated, looking much better. and
lasting longer than the new shingles without
the slate for
Year: 1876

hatred of you through his toeth. You
who learn your living by honest labor.
You who are ground down by the ex-
actions of the thieves who have fattened
and are fattening on your hard earnings.
You upon whose industries the burdens
of a corrupt administration have been
laid with crushing force until you
scarcely know whittier to turn
in order to earn a pittance with which to
keep hunger and cold from those You
hold dear. You, VIII are driven almost
to despair by the hardness of the times,
and who think that perchance change
of an extravsgant and thievish admins
tration Tor an economical and purer one
may make better times.


"A communistic mob ready for Spolls
or blood"


Paste that in your hats, ye working
men; paint it on your banners, along with
the picture of the slanderous wretch who
Kisses it at you.
Year: 1876

A BoY n Blue who never voted any
thing but Republican ticket, says: Il
have made up my mind to vote for
Tilden. The smoke has gone out Of one
chimney long enough. The country needs
a change"
Year: 1876

The following report Of the relief committee to
aid the employees of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing exhibits the low state of the relief
fund. 1t is hoped that the Senate will at once
pass the deficiency bill, SO that employment
may be afforded 10 the sufferers. Meanwhile let
the charitable, who are blessed with the means,
do what they can TO extend aid. The committee
repoIt the following:
Year: 1876

himself qualified voter In this district, also, 10 re
qured the presence Of extra marshal or two 10 I'M
press the mind Of certain OF the inspectors
could not interfere with the supervisors They made
great deal OF trouble but IL avaied them nothing 10
this district, in Of the Others OF the men
who held 1862 pers proved themselves innocent OF
any intention of fraud. One man seemed surprised at
being informed that he could not register. lie said lie
had voted for Mr. Seymour and ever sce and had never
been questioned The officials In the IYth District
TRIBCNEs disclosures had had remarkably beneficial
influence They said that undoubtedly many VINO had
intended to register when II would be lille gal for them
TO do had been stopped, and that many more whose
entered on the books now and who perhaps
had not been discovered, would not dare To prescut
themselves election day This opinion prevailed also
in number OF other Assembly districts


In the With Assembly District the registration on sat
urday was comparatively light. number OF Sweeney
and LOew palers we're taken mp.


In the Xth Assembly District the registration was
heavy. The frauds, which not perhaps very numer-
GUS, are based generally on false residences.
Year: 1876

CHEtklNG ELEC1lON FRAUDS.
CLOSE OF TIRE REGISTRY FURTHER ATTEMPTS At


FRAUD DETECTED RESULT OF EXPOSURES IN


BROOKLYN.


The registration in this city was closed on Satur-
day, the total registry being 1S2,9S7. Timely
exposures have done much to discourage
attempts at fraud. Some cases still occur,
but they arc often quickly detected. There
is considerable discussion among Brooklyn
politicians and others upon the effect of the cX-
posure of the heavy registration in that city, it
being generally believed that repeaters and others
will be afraid to vote The arrangements of the
United States officials in this city and Brooklyn for
the detection and prevention Of fraud have been
very complete and it is expected that they will he
successful in preventing the polling of all but a
small part of the illegal votes which the men who
have controlled the fraudulent registration have
hoped to use. In this work the Federal officials will
have the hearty cooperation of tie police.
Year: 1876

during his stay in Sing Sing and this he urged AZ PROOF
any act preudcla TO the discipline OF that institution
On the journey humilated in every possible way
In consequence OF the rough manner OF riyellnS tns
irons upon his leg his ankle became badly swollen ana
very painful. on reaching Auburn he felt very 1ah'
and EXHAUSTED Permission a physician was de-
MED and n cold bath ordered. He had severe
chill on emerging from this bath, ana thls "as
followed bv an attack OF acute bronchitis. HIS clean
clothing was changed for other articles that were dirty


The cell was without proper ventilation ana me Deu
ding was filed with vermin lie said that he shouu not
remain idle any longer than absolutely necessary
but Intended to go into the business OF laying asp


movement and Sidewalks He spent Saturday night NJ
The Hoffman House. Yesterday he went To his mothers
house i'm Fory-sixth-st stokes stated that he hai no
fear OF being attacked by any OF the gangs thaV nu
sworn to revenge Fisk's death.
Year: 1876

Our readers will not forget the public
mseting which is to be held in st, Patrick's
Hall on Wednesday evening next, in cele-
bration of the thirtieth anniversary of the
coronation of his Holiness, Plus TX. It is
believed that the occasion will be most in
teresting in itself, and that the devotion of
the people to the Holy Father will prompt
such a response to the call as will prove
gratifying to him in its report.


In this connection we must refer with
great pleasure to the exhibition offire works,
decorations and illuminations with which
the Redemptorist congregations of the
Fourth District celebrated, on last Friday,
the thirtieth anniversary of the election of
his Holiness. An immense crowd blocked
up the streets in the Immediate vicinity of
the churches, but even from a considerable
distance spectators could see distinctly
many Of the striking features of the display.
If our good aud glorious Pope could wit
ness, personally, the affection and interest
with which even in this region, so remote
from him, every thing connected with him
self is regarded, it could not but help to lift
from his heart the burden of it's cares and
gild with brighter ray the troubled even
ing of his beautiful life.
Year: 1876

We learn with regret, through an intima-
ton from the Bulletin of a late issue, that
Mayor Leeds contemplates declining a re-
election to his present Office. In the almost
uniform desert of official worthlessness in
Louisiana, Mayor Leeds record has present.
ed the exception of an oasis upon which the
eye could rest with pleasure. Everything
connected with his incum bency of office goes
to prove that he has been public-spirited in
his motives, pure in his Intentions and hon.
orable in all his actions. His official career
has embraced a period of time fruitful of
financial problems and political enigmas,
but with the steadiness of o needle to it's
pole he has always looked in one direction,
always tended to one object-the reduction
of taxes. His sound business sense could
not be misled from this vital issue and his
honest patriotism could not be seduced from
it's pursuit.


We candidly believe that appearances in
dicate for our municipal affairs q period of
much palmer sailing during the incumbency
of the next Mayor, and we should be highly
gratified to see the great business talent and
excellent common sense of Mayor Leeds
have the opportunity of wider field for
their exercise than has been offered them
heretofore. We, therefore, hope that our
worthy municipal chief magistrate will
hesitate before announcing positively an ia
tention of declining reelection, and we as
warmly hope that the nomination will be
unanimously rendered him.


We are aware that there are numbers of
seedy patriots who would be willing to
serve the city as Mayor, between drinks,
but just at this time we need a Mayor, not
q figure head, at the front of our affairs.
For the present it would appear better to
dispense with professional politicians in
such positions and reserve their services for
better weather.
Year: 1876

Voters will remember that registration


for Ward elections closes Tuesday night
next. 1t is truly encouraging to see the
earnestness exhibited among our most in
telligent citizens in fulfilling this import


ant duty. Every one finds fault with the
inferior quality of the material usually pre-.
sented by our Parish conventions, from
which to select officers. But where does
the fault lie Such as is the nominating
| body, such will be the candidates pre-
sented by it. If at the Ward election for
delegates, citizens of respectability and in
telligence see fit to stay away, they leave
to the remaining element, which will be
sure to be there, the respo9sibIe daty of
commissioning those representatives who
must make nominations for Office, that is
virtually who must select the officers.
These absentees voluntarily devolve upon
the riff raft this high and sovereign function
of government, and can blame no one but
themselves for its abuse.


Now, who are the sufferers fEvery body,
Of course, more or less, but principally
those very men of cultivation, of means, of
property, of business capacity, whose sub
stance is to be consumed and whose ener.
gies are to be paralysed by the parody of
q government which is going to be estab-
lished in consequence of their snpineness.
Yet these are the very men to curse the
government. These very men, to whom
nature has committed the sacred trust of
governing the country through their dele
gates, these very men who have found the
duty irksome and unsuited to their ideas
Of dignity, and have consequently shirked
it most unceremoniously, these very men
who have thus sinned against public obli-
CATION and who are justly punished wherein
they have sinned, are the loudest in their
anathemss of officials from whom nothing
better than their actual record could have
been expected.


1t is therefore happy omen for the fu-
ture that we find people coming back to
first principles and recognizing the fact
that self government is, in this country, q
duty, and not g bauble to be cast away un-
der the feet of a mob. Individual prosperity
depends upon its due appreciation and it's
faithful exercise. It is not enough to say
will vote at the final election. 1t is the
primary election that control all results
and actually shapes the government.
Year: 1876

Some days since upon the invitation of the
Prince Of Lowenstein, q preliminary meeting
was held at Mayence, at which @ number of
leading Catholics from all parts Of Germany
were present. The object of the meeting was
to consult concerning the formation of Cath
olic Association for Germany. The universal
opinion was that the establishment of suoh an
association was most desirable because of the
dissolution of the Association OF German
Catholics" It was therefore resolved unani-
mously to found q "CathOlic Association for
Germany" Some draught statutes were agreed
to with some changes an executive committee
Of seven members was chosen, and directed to
take the necessary steps for carrying into effect
the wishes of the meeting, aud for holding q
general meeting Of the Association Ia the
course of the summer.
Year: 1876

reared its cowardly head, essayiDg to di-


vide an empire which it had not dared to


protect, aud again found the monarchs its


willing allies and tools. Even in those re.


manning countries which were not swept
away by the frenzy of the hour, the rulers
have generally managed by their despotic
Interference with spiritual rights, to load
the Church with chains and cripple all her
energies with impediments of their own
forming.


Monarchy has been ON trial so long and
proved such a failure that we see no reason
in the world why any Catholic should be
afraid to give republicanism chance for
the next few centuries. At any rate, though
90 unreasonable a fear may possoss the souls
OF certain parties of the fossil style, we see
great probability that the age will leave
them behind in their shells and become re-
publican in spite of them. We see signs
indicating that republicanism has taken
root permanently in the Political world and
will soon, with its harder growth, supplant
royal system which deserves to be des-.
troyed for its crimes.


We do not, however, prophecy q much
better behavior on the part of republics.
The spirit Of the world pervades all civil
governments. They all hate the Church
and will injure her if they can. Her real
strength and safety is in her own interior
government. If that is pure and jealous,
she can bid defiance to all evil agencies
under the control of civil government.
Year: 1876

We call special attention, to the magnii-


cent address, published by us to-day, which
was delivered by Rev. Father Weninger on


the Sth inst, before the delegates of the
Catholic Central Association assembled
In Philadelphia. The address was de-
liverOd in German, but the translation


which we give comes from o source
such as to guarantee it's fidelity. The dis
course will be found to touch with q mas
ter hand the principal living issues of the
day. Indeed, the splendid reputation Ol
the great Jesuit missionary is sufficient to
invest any production of his with not only