smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

A man who was too mean to advertise
land which he wanted to sell put up a
written notice in one of the hotels. A
man who was inquiring Tor a small farm
was referred to the written notice, when
he replied: can't buy land at a fair
price of any man who does his advertis-
ing in that way. He'd steal the fence,
the pump-handie aud the barn doors be-
fore he gave up possession.
Year: 1872

BY MRS, ALBERT SMITH.
If we knew the woe and heartaches
That await US on the road;
If our lips could taste the wormwood,
If our backs could feel the load
Would we waste to day in wishing
For time that ne'er may be;
Would we wait with such impatience
For our ships to come from sea?
If we knew the baby fingers


Pressed against the window pane,
Would be cold and stiff to morrow
Never trouble US again
Would the bright eyes of our darling
Catch the frOwn upon our brow p
Would the print OF rosy fingers
Nex us then as they do now?
All those little iee-eold fingers,
How they point our memories back
To the hasty words and actions
Strewn along the backward track !
How those little hands remind us,
As in snowy grace they lie,
Not TO scatter thOrps. but roses,
For our reaping by-and-by.
Strange we never prize the music
Till the sweet voiced birds have flown,
Strange that we should slight the violets
Till the lovely flowers are gone;
Strange thatSummer skies and sunshine
Never seem One-half so fair
As when Winters snowy pinions
Shake the white down in the air.
Lips from which the seal of silence
None but GOO can roll away
Never blossomed in such beauty
As adorns the mouth to day
And sweet words that freight our memory
With their beautiful perfume,
Come to US in sweeter accents
Through the portals of the tomb
Letus gather up the sunbeams
Lying all around our path;
Let Us keep the wheat and roses,
Casting out the thorns and chaf;
Let US find our sweetest comfort
In the blessings of the day,
With a patient hand removing
All the briars from the way.
Year: 1872

keeps none but the best quality. That
last lying dispatch did not have the de-
sired effect. But try again; something
must be done. Get that pestifogging
Attorney to correspond and find out
where he buys his goods. Tell them he
is selling below cost and is going to bust
I'D: that he is closing out at Auction.
Circulate the report in San Francisco
and Portland that he is attached and
closed up. Write guarded letters; any
thing to ruin his credit and stop that
stream Of goods from going out and
coming in at the corner.


INTERESTED CITIZEN.
Year: 1872

WEATHER thermometer at Boise
City, Idaho, about the middle of last
month, marked Is degrees below zero
for several days. That is forty degrees
colder than it has been at this place any
time this fall. When reading accounts
OF excessive cold weather, deep SHOWS
and destructive gales throughout the
country east of US, do our people dc
justice to our own equable aud salubri-
Gus climate on Puget Sound, where we
have no destructive gales, the grass is as
IN May and flowers are yet in bloom in
the open air?
Year: 1872

An OHIO journalist read in another
paper statement to the effect that
"Miss Kellogg has larger repertoire
than any other living prima donna, ~
and he considered it his duty as a
champion of truth to sit down and
write an article OH the subject, in which
he said eve do not, of course, know
how Miss Kellogg was dressed in other
cities, but upon tho occasion of her last
performance here VIC are positively GER
tain that her repertoire did not seem
to extend out 80 far as either Nilsson
or PATHS. It may have been that her
overskirts were cut too narrow to per-
nit Of its being gathered into a,,ch a
large lump behind, or it may have been
that it had been crushed down acci


letally hut the fact remains that hotl'
Of MISS Kellogg'srivals wore rcpcrtoires
of Il much more extravagunt size-very
much to tho eir discre'lit, we Think
Year: 1872

A PORTLAND merchant offered to give
ono of the Indies interested in the
great Homeopathic Fair hogshead of
molasses for the benefit of that institu.
ton on condition that she would sell it
out by the quart. She accepted the
offer and called Oh a Boston hotel keep
er and proposed to sell him 1. hogshead
of molasscs ut 40 much IL quart. The
price was agreed upon, the cost figured
nh, and the amount handed over to the
lady, while the molasses was rolled into
his store room. The ialy certainly fu'.
filed her pnrt OF the agreement.
Year: 1872

must have been uncommon tired, or
else it was the heat, leastways I drop
ped asleep in the depot, and missed the
train. Then I thought I'd take the
nine o'clock train and get home at mid
night, 80 you wouldn't be lonesome
Sunday, but we broke down.. and got
here half an hour ago. Then to think,
after walking through town from the
cars, and folks looking at me on their
way to church"


"To think, Samuel" she broke in,
"after that dreadful trial, you should
walk in at your front gate and find your
wife hanging out clothes in your front
yard, and you a deacon of good stand
ing in the church! dear dear! what
do you suppose the Lord will do to me
for thinking it was washing day2 l
don't think" she added," "he'll be
very hard with me, because yesterday
was my Sunday, though I had such q
sick headache, it seems I didn't know
much about the day. Ill tell you what
Samuel, I'll stay ut home with the
babies tonight, and you can go to
meeting, and then piece out your Sun
tomorrow won't that do2"


But the deacon couldn't get over it
his heart was heavy: and while his wife


was busy in the kitchen he put on his
hat, and with his hands clasped rever


emily behind him (his Sunday way,
slowly and solemnly he walked out tt
the clothes.lines. Most of the clothes


were dry, fer the sun was very hot, ant
one by one he dropped the snowy
things into the basket, unconsciousll
humming to himself. "Have pity
, Lord! o Lord, forgive"


Mrs. Flint was washing dishes, AM
/ nearly dropped her hest glass dish
, when the deacon walked in with tn,
Year: 1872

1t had some grains Of truth, at least,
That fable OF the Sybarite,
For whom, because one leaf was creased,
The rose-strewn couch had no delight.
think not even sanSuine youth


Expects its gold without alloy;
But this is still the sober truth:


A little pain can mar much Joy.
'Tis pity that one thwarting thought,
One adverse chance. one sudden fear
Or sharp regret, can turn to nOught


The full content that seemed so near
But this strange lie OF our abounds


With notes so subtle, they afford
A thousand discords and harsh sounds
For one harmonious perfect chord.
Year: 1872

An old lady gave this as her idea of great
man: Zone who is keerful of his clothes,
don't drink sperets, ken read the Bible with
out spelling the words, and eat cold dinner
on wash day without grumbling.
Year: 1872

The majority of women care but little about
suffrage. If the backs to car seats could only
be followed out so as to admit of their bustes
tapping over, the ballot might go to thunder
for all they care.
Year: 1872

The Syracuse Standard reports a
case recently tried in Cortlandville by
which the value of q kiss was determln-
ed. The action was brought to recov-
er damages for an assault alleged to
have been committed upon the person
of the plaintiff, who is a maiden lady,
residing in Cortland the defendant, a
well-to-do farmer. residingi in Freetown-
vile. The plaintiff, to maintain her
cause of action, was sworn in her own
behalf and testified that she was doing
some sewing for defendant; that he
called at the house last Fall fer the
same, and came to the door and knock
ed; that she went to the door and bade
him come in; that she shook hands
with him, and while holding her hand
the defendant said "You look as
If you wanted some one to kiss you !"
that she told him, if she did, she
would find a better looking man than
he was to do it," that the defendant
then Lifted her up by the arms and
kissed her, and IN SO doing gumed"
| her all over with saliva; that she did
not call for help, because she could not,
as the defendant filed her mouth with
saliva; that she had to wash out her
mouth with soap suds. The defendant
denied the kissing, but admitted that
he offered to kiss the plaintiff, but that
she declined upon the grounds stated
by her,-"he not being very hand
some man, nor stylish" The jury
found the defendant kissed the plain
tiff, and sessed the value of the kiss
at fifty dollars.
Year: 1872

"Lothair" has married, not accord
ing to the romance, and will now doubt
less build cathedrals and endow mon
asteries more munifciently than ever.
The bride of the Marquis of Butte, in
deed, comes of staunch Roman Cath
olic house. Even the Reformation
failed to swerve the Howards of Nor
folk from that faith. It may not be of
much interest, says the Boston Post, in
a republic, to know that this marriage
unites three of the most exalted fami-
lies of the British aristocracy, or that
the head of the brides family is the
one who, in his capacity of Earl Mar
shall, names the Knight who throws
down the gauntlet and others to battle
with any pretender at the coronation
of British sovereigns. But what is in
teresting is that the young couple set
out in housekeeping with an income OF
a million and a half a year, in ad-
dltlon to the immense savings OF this
revenue during the Marquiss minority,
which were handed over to him in a
lump. To be put into novel by the
Prime Minister Of Great Britain is ot
itself an honor which most men would
appreciate, while the happiness of we'd
ding bride Of such distinguished lin
cage, and beginning married life with
more money than any couple, howevel
extravagant, could manage to spend, is
something beyond the conprehensaou
! OF simple republicans.
Year: 1872

Mr.. LEVY, blind Englishman, as
serts that he can not only tell when he
is opposite solid body, but "can dis
criminate whether it is tall or short,
slender or bulky If a fence he can
tell whether it is open like a board or
a rail fenc or closed whether it is of
stone or wood, or close hedge An
other blind man could tell when thick
clouds obscured the horizon. Mr..
Levy calls this facial perception, as
covering his face with d thick veil en-
tirely obscures objects from this sensa-
tional discernment.
Year: 1872

In raising sunken vessels, difficulty is
often experienced in setting the chain
cables under the hulls. Costly diving ap-


paratus is generally resorted to. and sub
marine operators employed TO excavate a
gutter in the sand or mud bottom Of the
sea or river in which the river is sunk.
y new invention Is designed to obviate
the expense attending the employment of
divers, and to accomplish the same thing
in much more simple manner. \ vessel
having been anchored near the sunken
vessel, a bent pipe connected by a flexible
joint with n pump on the vessel above is
lowered and manipulated so that lis lower
end IS brought close to the bottom OF the
sunken vessel, as shown. a powerful
STREAM Of water is then thrown through
the pipe. washing out clear channel un.
der the sunkcn vessel. \ cork with a
light twne attached to it is now placed in
the upper part of the pipe; this is forced
by hydraulic pressure down through the
pipe and under the vessel. when it rises to
the surface carrying the twinc along with
it. The light twine is made the vehicle for
the carrying of stronger cord, and so on
until cord of sufficient strength is passed
under the vessel to pass under and bring
to the surface the chain-cable. The me-
tbod is simple and ingenious, and, should
il prove TO work well in practice, cannot
fail to be valuable.
Year: 1872

ANTs.-When in the north Of Italy
last winter, | noticed one morning that
there was a number Of very large ants
on the floor of my bedroom, which was
On the ground floor. lat once spoke to
the proprietor Il the hotel about them,
and he slid he would soon get rid OF
them. We found the nest, which was
just outside, and he poured about half a
pint of petroleum and water in equal
quantities into IT, and he said that !
should be troubled no more. for the
ants would never 90 back to the nest.
In an hour or two there was not even
stray ant to be seen ; and although L
remained at the botcl Tor more than
month, never saw IN ant either enter
or leave the nest again. Should any OF
your correspondents try this method,
perhaps they will let you know with
what result, month or two hence. :!
have no opportunity of trying it myself
MS / am not troubled with ants in my
garden.
Year: 1872

For street costumes says fashion
journal, the dark colora are most popu-
lar Black is still the fayorite, and is
always good tas.. After this comes n
great variety of shades III the golden
browns, olive tisted green, plums, gar
nets and blue@.


These are beautifully trimmed with
velvets sf the samo shade. the corsage
being frequently Of velvet, with sleeves
of the same material rs the skirt. These
velvet corsages are cut with small bus
qucs in the back, pointed in front, asd
simply piped with either silk or satin.
For the promenade they are buttoned
closely to the throat with dark buttons,
and finished with the neat poil ted col
lar of linen turned over a silken cravat
or double ruche OF blonde. t for the
house they are open in front, and finish
ed with frill of Nalenciennes lace.


Some costumes are made entirely OF
velvet, those of black being trimmed
with ieathered trimming or edged with
fur.


Some are richly embroidered with
black foss. An elegant velvet dress,
which is one OF the latest models. was
made of caret velvet, the skirt being cut
with a slight train and trimmed with
two bands Of featherod edge. The
Princess polonaise was trimmed to cor
respond and looped gracefully in the
back. The skirt of the polonaise was
cut in four large points, upon each OF
which was embroidered an elaborate
pattern. The Dolman of claret velvet
was also richly embroidered and trim
mel with ieathered edge.


Velvet, combined with cloth, is, how
ever, considered more diStiagne for
costume than when used by itself


When the polonaise is of velvet the
should be of point poult de
sole, trimmed with velvet bands.
Year: 1872

Ex-QUEuEs-ED.-The Chinese work.
men ut the North Adams shoe factories
have cut of their qaeues in token of
their desire to be excused from any
longer connecion with their town,
their native land" They now regularly
attend the Methodist Church.
Year: 1872

Flow TO PLANT THE CHRIsTMAs- TREE.
"A very good plan is to set the stem
of the tree in q box, across the top OF
which transverse pieces Of wood should
be nailed 70 hold the tree firmly in its
place the earth not being sufficient for
this unless the tree is quite small. Then
fiN the box with earth or sand, and cover
the top with moss. Ground-pine or-ivy
can be trailed over the moss.
Year: 1872

"Anihe looked hte Psdiay just opening as pack
His eyes-how they twnkled His dimpies-bow merry
His cheeks were like roses his nose like cherry
His drcll li,tls mouth drawn up like bow.
Aud the beard on his chin was waite as the snow
The stump Of pipe he held tight in his teeth
And the smoke IL encrced his head lse wreath
lie bad broad face and little round belly
That shook when he laughed IKE bowl full OF Jelly
He was chubby snd plump. and right Jolly old eli
And iau ghed when saw him in spite OF myself.
A wink OF his eye and twist Of his head
Soon gave me 10 know had nothing TO dread.
He spoke not word but went straight to his work
Aud filled all the stockings then turned with jerk
And laying his finger aside OF his nose,
And giving nod, up the chimney he rose.
He sprang to his sleigh to HE team gave whistle,
Aud away they al Anw, like the down oi the thistle.
Year: 1872

My DEAR AUNT l have Just received
your kind letter to my last, and feel glad
to hear that uncle and your family are so
happy. Your generous offer is very ac-
ceptabie. shall have ended month on
the 9TH of next month, and then / win
feel prepared to go out with you. L do
not like this position, on many grounds
which will readily suggest themselves to
you. But | am doing the best l can.
May God protect and help me through.
Present my kindest regards to uncle and
all my cousins, and, with much love,
am yours, affectionately,


KATE CUMMINGS.
The irightful fire at the Hotel ended
all OF the poor girls sufierings here
below.
Year: 1872

There are many young men who
are in the habit of exeusing their
idleness and inefieiency with the
plea that they can do nothing without
capital. The lack of means is the
ready reply they make to every ap-
peal to action. They imagine that
they possess in themselves all the
prerequisites to success except capital.
If they only had capital, in addition
to their other imagined UirtHes, they
would do great things in the world /;
they would grow TO astonish the
natives with the bOldness and bril-
liapey of their enterprise. They would
become immensely itch, and lay the
world under perpetual obligations to
them by the magnifieenee of their
benefactions. This is the way they
think and talk, and they roll the vain
glorious idea over in their minds
until they come to imagine that the
world is an immense loser by their
poverty.


These persons forget one important
fact-that all capital is the product of
labor. That nearly all rich men in
this country were once poor. That
nearly every personal fortune they
can enumerate is either the product
of its owners toll and skill, or the
representative Of his fathers toll and
skill.


How did the makers of these for
tunes get along without capital? Had
they spent the vigor Of their youth in
idle and foolish lamentations over
their poverty, they would have lived
and died poor, and left nothing but
an inheritance of honesty behind
them. Capital allied to labor and
skill can work wonders in the war of
material enterprises. But money Is
not the only indispensable thing to
young men. There are other kinds
of capital besides accumulated money;
brains, muscle, industry, honesty,
diligence, truth, fidelity, skill, tact,
education-dH these are capital, and
all of them have a commercial value,
which the owner viii be able, sooner
OF later, to command in the market.
Provided with these, any young man
in this country may make more than
he needs to spend every year, and
thus have something at the end OF
each year to invest as money capital.
If he needs money let him go to work
and make it, and thus give proof Of
his ability to use it profitably and
judiciously. If we go into any great
city, or into any prosperous sgricul-
tural district, we find the capitalists
are those who have made their for
tunes without any outside aid. They
did not waste their time in repining
at their poverty, and in silly dreams
of what they could do II they had the
money to do it with. They went
boldly and resolutely to work; they
toiled and thought and planned, and
kept tOiling and thinking and plan
ming, patiently, until at last they
grasped the fortunate moment, and
succeeded. Exchange.
Year: 1872

The effect of everything that touch
es the heart is multiplied by the in
tensity of the hearts own changes. -
Hence il is that it is 50 sensitive, so
true an index of the body's state.
Hence, also, it is that it never wearies.
Let me remind you of the work done
by our hearts in day. A mans total
outward work, his whole effect upon
the world in twenty-fOur hours, has
been reekoned about $50 fOot-tons.
That may be taken as q good "hard
davis work. During the same time
the heart has been working at the rate
of 40 foOt-tons. That is to say, If all
the pulses Of a day and night could be
concentrated and welded into one
great throb, that thrOb would be
enough to raise ton of iron 10 feet
into the air. And vet the heart is
never weary. Many of US are tired
after but feeble labors few of us can
hold a poker out at arms length
without, after few minutes, dropping
It. But a healthy heart, and many
an unsound heart, tOO-though some
times you can tell in the evening, by
its stroke, that it has been thrown of
its balance by the turmoils and wor-
ries of life-gOes on beating through
the night when we are asleep, and
when We wake in the morning We
find it at work, fresh as if it had only
lust begun to beat. 1t does this be-
cause upon each stroke of work there
follows a period, a brief but a real
period Of rest; because the next stroke
which comes is but the natural sus-
pense Ct that rest, and made to match
it; because, in fact, each beat is, in
force, in scope, in character, in every
thing, the simple expression Of the
hearts own energy and state-Apple-
tons journal.
Year: 1872

Lime whitewash is made from lime
we'll Stacked. Dissolve two pounds
and a half OF alum in boiling water,
and add it to every pailful Of white
wash. Lime whitewash should be
used very thin, and, when it Is sufh-
ciently bound on the wall by means
of alum. two thinAcoats will cover the
work better; this may be used for the
first coat thinned with wate. Most
whitewashers apply their wash too
thick, and do not mix q propOrtionate
quantity Of alum to bind It; eOnse-
quently the operation CT the brush
fubs of the first coat in various parts,
and leaves an uneven surface, and the
original smooth surface Of the wall is
entirely destroyed.
Year: 1872

saw young man in the Office Of q
Western railway superintendent. He
was occupying a position that four
hundred boys in that city would have
wished TO get. 1t was honorable and
''it paid well, y besides being in the
line Of promotion. How did he get
it? Not by having rich father, for
he was the son of laborer. The Sc
cret was, his beautiful accuracy. He
began as an errand boy, and did his
work accurately. His leisure time he
used in perfecting his writing and
arithmetic. After a while he learned
to telegraph. At each step his en-
ployer commended his accuracy, and
relied on what he did because he was
sure it was just right. And it is thus
with every occupation. The accurate
boy is the favored one. Those who
employ men do not wish to be on the
constant look. out, as though they
were rogues or fools. If q carpenter
must stand at his journeymAn's elbow
to be sure bis work is right, or ii q
cashier must run over his bOOkeeper's
columns, he might as well do the
work himself as employ another to do
it in that way; and 1t is very certain
that the employer will get rid Of such
an inaccurate workman as soon as
possible.


I knew such q young man. He had
a good chance to 40 well, but he was
so inaccurate and unreliable that
he wrote a deed, or q mortgage, or s
contract, he was sure either to leave
out something or put in something to
make 1t an imperfect paper. He was
a lawyer without business, because he
lacked the noble quality of accuracy.
Just across the street from him was
another young lawyer, who was pro-
verbal for accuracy. He was famous
for searching titles. and when he
wrote out the history of a title to
piece of property, Il was taken for
granted as Just so. His aim was abso-
lutte accuracy in everything. If he
copied a conveyance, or cited a legal
authority, or made 8 statement, he
aimed to do it exactly. The conse-
quence is, he is having a valuable
practice at the bar, and is universally
esteemed.


But" says some boy, "when 1 be-
come a man, that is the way shall
do. Imean to be very accurate. F"


Perhaps so. 1 could tell better If l
knew Just how you do your work now.
There are several ways of getting a
lesson. One is, to get it ''tolerably
well, !" which does not cost much Ia
Dor; the other way is, 10 get it fault
lessly well, which costs great deal Of
labor. A boy can get a general idea
of his lesson ''in a jiffy," but to get it
with accuracy Is very hard, and re-
quires both time and industry. If
you, my boy, to-day sre getting your
lesson in the slipshod way, you will
grow up a slipshod man; but if to-
day your habit is to get every lesson
with perfect accuracy, l will warrant
you will do that way when you be-
come a man. How is it, -Pres't
7ttttLe, in the Little Chief.