smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

In reference to the frog found by
Assistant Engineer Murray in the
middle of one of the paving stones
taken up from the landing, at Mem
phis, the Philadelphia Dag has the
following to say;


"A blue limestone paving block
has lain IN the streets of Memphis,
Tenn, fifteen years. It was recent
ly broken up in order to be fitted
into a new place, and 10! a little
frog hoped out and was trisky. If
Prof. Huxley will allow it, the little
frog may tell as loud story as Nj
agara. Tens of thousands of years
ago that little frog may have taken
a nap in the mud and got irretriev-
ably stuck; fresh deposits buried it;
and IN the lapse of ages the mud
became stone, and after more tens
of thousands of years the block was
cut out of the Ohio river quarries.
What an interesting autobiography
that frog might tell if he could
croak intelligibly and his arithmetic
were to hold out"
Year: 1876




This world is of kindness that
never was spoken. and that is not
much better than kindness at all.
The fuel in stove makes the room
warm, but there are great piles of
fallen trees lying among rocks and
on the top of the hills where no
body can get them; these do not
make anybody warm. You might
freeze to death for want of wood in
plain sight of these fallen trees if
you had no means Of getting the
wood home and making a fire with
it. just so in a family; love is what
makes parents and children and
brothers and sisters happy; but if
they take care never to say word
about tiff they keep it a profound
secret, as if it were a crime, they
will not be much happier than if
there was not any love among them;
the house will seem cold even in the
summer, and if you live there you
envy the poor dog when anybody
calls him "poor fellow"
Year: 1876

Boys, want to ask you how yo2l
think q conqueror would make ont,
who went through country he was
trying to subdue, and whenver ne
found fortified fort and left it
alone. Don't you think the enemy
would buzz wild there, Ike bees in
hive, end when he was well into
the heart Of the country, don't you
fancy they would awarm out and
harrass him terribly?


Just so, want you to remember,
will it be with you, if you skip over
the hard places in your lessons, and
leave them uniearned, you have left
an enemy in rear that viii not fail
to harass you, and mortify you times
without number.


"There was just little bit of my
Latin hadn't read" said q vexed
student to me, "and it was just there
that the professor had to call upon
me at examination. There were just
two or three examples ] had to pass
over, and one of those ! was asked
to do on the blackboard"


The student who is not through is
never well at his ease; he cannot for
get the skipped problems; and the
consciousness of his deficiencies
make him nervous and anxious.


Never laugh at the slow, plodding
student: the time viii surely come
when the laugh viii be turned. Il
takes time to be thorough, but 1t
more than pays. Resolve, when
you take up q new study, that you
viii 90 through with it like sue
cessful conqueror, taking every
strong point.


If the inaccurate scholars diff
culties close with his school life, it
might not be so great a matter for
his future career, but he has chained
to himself a habit that will be like
an iron ball to his heel all the rest
of his life. Whatever he does, will
be lacking somewhere. He has
learned to shirk what is hard, and
the habit will grow with years.
Now nothing we get in this life is to
be had for nothing. Success is not
thrust upon a man. If You want
any good you must work for it..
The eve that never falters and the
eye that never quails, are the trHe
elements ofvictory in the mental and
moral, as well as in the physical
world. Don't skip the hard points.
Year: 1876

Many country ladies are bringing
in yarn socks, ljnsey, jeans and 9th
er articles of home manufacture.
We hope they get good prices for
these articles, as such home indus
try should be well encouraged. Our
thoughtful, busy and industrious
farmers wives are women that any
country should be proud of. Many
Of them may be plain and homely,
and know little or nothing about
the world of fashion and eXtrava-
gance, but they are possessed Of all
those cardinal and sterling virtues
which make wOmanly women, and
which at last are the foundation of
a cOuntry's glory. Who does not
remember with affection and pride
the good old mothers and grand
mothers whose hands in the days
agone, were ever busy in adding to
the comforts of home, and whose
chief delight was to make the little
world around them happy? We see
many women to-day, who like those
we have mentioned, bow at no
shrine but that of their Maker, and
who know no fashion but the good
old fashion of doing good. In their
primitive plainness and simplicity
theyare sometimes the objects of rid
icule by the thOughtless and sense
less, but they are nevertheless the
peers of any queen of fashion who
graces the ball room or boudoir.
Their lives are lives of usefulness,
and this would be a sorry world


without them.-Murtrees5OrO NeeOs.
Year: 1876

A merchant once had dispute
with a Quaker respecting the settle
ment of an account. The merchant
was determined to bring the matter
into court, a proceeding which the
Quaker very earnestly deprecated,
using every argument in his power
to convince him of his errorj but
he was infexible. DESTROYS TO make
last effort, the Quaker called at
his house one morning, and inquir-
cd Of the servant if his master was
at home. The merchant hearing
the inquiry and knowing the voice,
called out from the top of the stairs:
Tell the rascal I am not at home"
The Quaker, quietly looking up at
him, calmly said, 'Well, friend, the
Lord put you in a better mind"


The merchant, afterwards struck
with the meekness Of the reply, and
having more deliberately investiga
ted the matter, became convinced
that the Quaker was right and him
self wrong. He requested to see
him, and after acknowledging his
error, he said, Il have one question
to ask yOu-how were You able,
with such patience. on Yariohs oc-
casions to hear my abuse?-
Friend" replied tue Quaker, q
will tell thee. 1 was naturally as
hot and violent as thou art. I knew
that to indulge that temper was
sinful, and also found it was un-
profitable. l observed that men in
passion always speak loud; and
L thouht that if I could control my
voice, l should repress my passion.
1 have, therefore, made it it rule
never to let my voice rise above a
certain key, and by a careful OBJ
servance of this rule I have, by the
blessing of God, entirely mastered
my natural tongue"


Such good, frank philosophy was
not lost upon the merchant in many
yea-s.
Year: 1876

Among the forms of insect life
there is s little creature known to
naturalists which can gather around
itself q snficiency of atmospheric
air, and so clothed upon, it de-
scends into the bottom of the pool;
and YOU may see the little diver
moving about dry, and at his easa.
protected by MS crystal vesture,
though the wafer all around be stag
naut and bitter Prayer is such a
protector; a transparent vesture-
the world sees it not; a real defence,
it keeps ont the world. By means
of l. the believer can gather SO much
of heavenly atmosphere around him,
and with it descend into the putrid
depth Of this communicating world,
that for q season no evil viii touch
him and he knows when to ascend
for a supply. Communion with God
kept Daniel pure in Babylon.-Dr.
HaEilt0R.
Year: 1876

A near sighted man out on East
Hill went.wandering around among
his currant bushes yesterday after
noon, and stopped down and pulled
a live Centennial wasp's nest up by
the roots to see what il was. He
didn't get it anywhere near the focus
of his eyes before he had an idea
that it was a fiatiron some of the
women had set outside to cool; then
he thought it might be q coRcentra


ted case of prickly heat; aBd then it
dawned upon him that he had pick
ed up q raw thunderbolt, and finally
his heart went clear down into his
boots as he realized that he had got
hold of the dangerous end of the
Hell Gate explosion and pulled it off.
Year: 1876

OF all the people who live at the
Centennial hotels / think the new
ly married couples-Philadelphia is
full of them, by the way-are the
only ones who are thoroughly con
tented and happy. It makes no DIFF
ference to them whether the pota-
toes are watery, the meats dry, or
the soup thin; aad they don't care q
pin whether people talk to them or
not. They live in q little world Of
their own, need no conversation but
their own, and have no thought but
for each other. They all try to act
as though being married was an old
story to them, and still for the life
Of them they can't help taking each
others hands every five minutes
The brides nearly all wear new
watch chains.
Year: 1876

The longest life is made I'D of
simple days-few or many, but the
days grow into years, and give the
measure of our hives at the last.


The life is at the last what the
days have been. Let the children
therefore look after the days-one
day at q time-and put into each
one something that will last-some-
thing worth doing, something worth
rendering, something worth imita-
ting by those who follow us.


l. Every day g little knowledge.
One fact in a day. How small a
thing is one factl Only onel Ten
years pass by. Three thousand SIX
hundred and fifty facts are not a
small thing.


,. Every day a little self-denial.
The thing that is difficult to do to
day, viii be an easy thing to do
three hundred and sixty days hence,
if each day it shall have been re-
peated. What power of self-mas-
terry shall he enjoy who, locking to
God for His grace, seeks every day
to practice the grace he prays for!


8. Every day little helpfulness.
We live for the good of others, if
our living be in any sense true liv-
ing. 1t is not in the great deeds OF
philanthropy that the only blessing
is found. In


"Lttle deeds Of kindness
repeated every daV we find trua
happiness, At home, at school, in
the street, in the neighbor's house,
on the piay-ground-we shall find
opportunity every day for useful
ness.


Every day a little look into the
Bible. One chapter a day. What
treasure of Bible knowledge one
may acquire in ten years. Every
day a verse committed to memory.
What a volume in the mind at the
end of twenty-five years.
Year: 1876

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph tthus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested TO pay up at once. We
would lake great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons. but
cash alone win yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere 70 a strict cash
rule We hope you win comprehend
and appreciate the necessity OF such a
course and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor,


u We enter no new names on our
hooks without the money in advance.
Year: 1876

A post nlortens examination of a
COW that died recently in Maryland
revealed the singular fact that he
stomach was filed with circus bills.
We should call that fatal bilious
attack. The COW manifested a lit
erary taste of higher order than the
railroad conductor who comitted
suicide by swallowing an eight-page
Radical newspaper.
Year: 1876

The Brooklyn Argus tells the
girls that husbands are not to be had
at a penny a grab even if it is leap
year. Few girls are silly enough to
expect to get husbands at a penny a
grab, although they know that as a
general thing that is about as much
as they are worth.
Year: 1876

Young man whittier are YOU tend


ing? Is it up to the highway that
leads to honor and distinctiOn,o or in


the downward path that leads to


obstruction and misery? Would
that l could in some way bring


home to you and to the erring
youths of this country the wrongs
they are inficting upon themselves.


Is it of any consequence to you to
be free frCm suffering? As you
must inevitably keep company with
yourself as long as you live, is it Of
consequence to you to make of
yourself a pleasant and agreeable
companion and not one who will be
continually complaining and up
braiding? Is health Of any value
to you? Can you use your limbs
and the faculties of your mind as
you would like to do without it?
Can you have health if your habit is
to throw into that delicate part Of
your system, whereOn the action Of
life depends, substances which eX-
cite it to an unnatural eXertiOn or
deprive it of all power Of exertion?
Does not every part of your system
sympathlze with the injustice which
you do to your digestive and intel
lectuaI organs? Will not your
brain, consequently your mind, suf-
fer by this violence? Do you cX-
pect to attain middle age and old
age? viii not the seed you are now
sowing come up in that space o:
time? viii they come up in the
form of enfeebled muscles, chronic
aches, selfreproaching thoughts,
the loss Of the capacity to enjoy the
bounties and beauties of creation
Will they grow up to overshadow
your moral sense and shut out the
delights OF intellectual power?-
Was life given to you for the few
wears in which you can sing, drink
and enjoy yourself or that you may
enjoy life in every stage of 1t as a
rational being by rendering your
| homage to nature in obeying her
laws and your gratitude to him who
ordained these laws for your happi.
ness? Have your parents ever con
Quoted themselves toward you in q
way that YOU have a right to pun
| ish and affiict them? Are you will
ling that your parents should see
you and know you as you know
Yourself? If you should ever be q


parent are yoN willing that youl
children should be told with whom
and in what manner you enjoyeo


Yourself? Would you tell then


how you spent your youthful day;


and nights and recommend to then


to take yourself as al example? Dc


Won ever expect to ask pure anc


fair young woman to be your com


panion; if so, young man, "touct


not handle not tile unclean thingY
Year: 1876

In Aloeria there Is O river formed
nv the junction of two streams, enc
coming from q region of furruS'n-
ons Soil and the other draining
neat swamp. The acid in the latter
acting upon the iron in the former
fcrIn n true ink, and the river Is
sctually a stream of good writing
fluid.
Year: 1876

'sWhy is it." asks q New Jersey
paper "that when the fool-liller
went all the way to Washington to
shoot the editor of the National Re
publican he failed to perform his
missionY' Simply because he. went
there to shoot a mere fool, and not a
natural born idiot.
Year: 1876

We have, indeed, a band OF noble
workmen. In the tender relation
they sustain to you, give them every
encouragement. The year will
bring many diseouragements, and
they will need your sympathy and
active cooperation. See to it, that
they fail through no fault Of yours.
Give them a cordial welcome and a
generous support, and their labor
will not be in vain.


Son of God, we commit them to
Thee!


"Let al with thankful hearts confess


The welcome messengers of peace,


Thy power in their reporG be found,


And let thy feet behind them sound"
Year: 1876

WHEN boy or girl CONES to this
Office for paper, we. want him or her
to have the exact change to a cent.
We don't keep fractional currency
nothing small with us-and therefore
cannot change a "nickle." Please
bear this in mind.
Year: 1876

THAT CENTENNIAL CAR --- Tho
Mineral Point railroad company have
just had new passenger car made,
and it is real beauty and would be
credit to any road. The shell was
built at Depere, but all the rest was
done at the Mineral Point shops and
the work is credit to the workmen.
The inside wood work is finished in
oak with walnut mouldings, and the
handsome job of graining and paint
ing was done by Will Cotterell.--
Democrat.
Year: 1876

In an advertising column may be
found the prospectus of the Chicago
Ereoing JounM. We have enjoyed
the privilege Of exchanging with
this paper for several years, and
thus Lave proved its reliability in
reporting all matters of public i'd
terest. AS q Republican organ it
has 10 superior in the Union, al
ways aiming at the highest excel
lence for tue party's welfare. To
those who wish to subscribe for a
true aud reliable Republican news
paper we can cheerfully recommend
the younai
Year: 1876

Brown Of the Galena Gazette is
"on his ear" hear how he threatens: !:


"a certain young miner has struck
a good prospect---that of getting a
most merciless beating should he
happen to cross the path Of a certain
outraged husband"
Year: 1876

Our thanks are due for an invita-
tion to the Thanksgiving Party to
be given at Darlington,for the benefit
of the Silver Cornet Band OF that
village. The managers have secured
good music. and assure pleasant
time to all who participate.
Year: 1876

4 bad boy thus describes his mis-
deeds and their punishment: as IiiA


My sister I'm has. got feller who
has been coming to see her every
night for some time. Night before
last, just to have little fun, went
into the parlor and crawled under the
sofa, ON the sly, and waited there till
he and En- had got settled; and just
as he was asking her if she was Will
ing to become his dear partner for life
and trust to his strong right arm for
protection and support, | gave three
red-hot Indian war whoops and then
bumped myself up against the bottom
of the sofa and fired off an old horse
pistol that had borrowed from Sam
Johnson, and my gracious! how that
fellow jumped up and started for the
door! lie never stopped TO get his
hat, but went tumbling down the door
steps, head over heels. AS for Em, she
was just that scared that she squatted
right down on the floor and screeched
like blue blaZes, till dad and mother
came running in, with nothing on but
their night clothes, and wanted to
know what the matter was. But Em
only yelled louder, and kept pointing
under the sofa, till dad got down on
his knees and saw me there and pulled
me out by the hind leg. When he
had got me out in the woods he'd he
warped me over his knee, and then
went at me with a trunk strap; and /
haven't got over it yet.
Year: 1876

Secretary Of War for information as to whether
since the 10Th Of March, 1873, any army oficers
mad accepted and held any appointment in TIE
Diplomatic or Consular service, and were still
borne on the army list. A resolution was
ADOPTED declaring the 22d Of the present month
sMashington's birthday National holiday. The
Dill to reorganize the Judiciary was further con
sleered and several proposed amendments were
disposed Of Adjourned, the session on the lptf
to be for general debate only.
Year: 1876

A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Tribune makes novel suggestion for the
cure of hard times. 1t is fer everyone to
buy ten dollars worth of something that
he does not want, if he cannot get what
he does want, and pay the money for it
The result would be to put $45O, ,OOO, ,0Ot
in circulation. Vino will begin?
Year: 1876

THE CHRONICLE is published at the County seat
Of Tama, of the largest, richest, most central
and populous counties in Iowa ltis the Oldest
paper in the County and one of the Oldest in the
State having been established in 1856 Its circu-
lation being large and constantly increasing, makes
it very desirable advertising medium for business
men and manufacturers wishing to bring their
goods and wares to the notice of the people Of
Central Iowa


Advertising rates made known on application.


JOB PRINTING
OF every description executed with neatness and
dispatch. Special attention paid to


PRINTING IN COLORS.
Your favors earnestly solicited.
Year: 1876

kneeling in front Of one of the
affairs. The father cast himself
from the high city wall that night,
at spot where it girdles the edge
Of the hill that oyerlooks the river,
where the ivy grows in wild masses
that can never be imagined by an
American who pets and cOaxeS this
obstinate vine to twine for a few
feet along his walls, and then sees
it turn yellow and refuse to thrive.
Into this tangled mass the poor
frantic wretch of a father threw
himself, and only broke leg when
he intended to take his life. He
was found next morning, his leg
properly dressed, and he was SEN
fenced not long time after to a
years imprisonment for attempt.
ing suicide.
Year: 1876

We quote the following from the report, which is too
extended for publication in It's cntirety:-


GAN the coal interests Of tho Central Railroad Com
pany are united in the Lehigh and Wikcsbarre Coal
Company OF which they hold a controlling interest
The properties Of the Lehgh Coal and Navigation
Company also passed entirely by purchase or per-
pc,ual lease into the possession of the Wikesbarre
Company which became thereby one of the largest
coal and producers in the anthracite region.


The following is statement Of the coal properties Of
Year: 1876

The Ledger-St1nilrd says Of the
Indignation meeting in New ALBANY
Take il all in all this meeting was
among the largest and most impressive
ever held in this city. II was composed
of solid and determined men. There
was nothing infammatorv said or done.
Nothing calculated to stir up bad blood.
but II was evident in the whole proceed
ings that those present had resolved.
come what might. they would stand
firmly by and support whatever posi-
tion might be taken by congress in max
ing effective the ballots OF the people ia
electing Tilden and Hendricks.
Year: 1876

The darkies Of Louisiana seem to
be terribly excited and outraged be.
cause the Senate Of the United States
refused to let their brother darky,
Pinchbcck, have a seat as Senator in
the highest council of the nation.
Pinchbeck was their special favorite.
They looked upon him as their high
priest. and one who was destined to
deliver their race from all the evils Of
the time.
Year: 1876

The people of New Mexico are in
too big hurry to have their country
made n State. The valuation Of their
property is only seven millions and a
half, When they come to erect pub
lie buildings required by a State, and
pay the horde of officers necessary for
its management, their taxes will liter
ally eat them up. Their population
should be double what il is now, and
their railroad facilities far greater than
they are at present, before they ven.
ture upon such state of things rs
will be thrust upon them by the form
ing of themselves into State.
Year: 1876

Last Saturday night burglars at
tempted raid on the store of H..
NewmGsk & Co., but made q total
failure SO far as plunder was concerned.
The entrance was affected through the
back door by chiselling out
several bricks and making hole
large enough to reach the iron bar,
which secured the door. After get
ting into the store determined effort
was made on the safe, one of Tilton &
Netherlands make, but 1t was unsuc-
cessful. The clock, which stood on
the safe was laid on the desk and
stopped at $3.50 o'clock, showing that
the burglars commenced about that
time A candle was burned out which
usually lasts for five hours, and this,
in connection with the dark lanterns
always carried by these thieves, would
Indicate that they worked seven or
eight hours and were only
scared oft by daylight. Had it not
been for n steel plate recently
put in to repair the inner door of the
safe, they would certainly have
reached nine hundred dollars in coin
which was inside. Altogether it was
a most fortunate escape, the firm only
losing few dollars in small change,
lying in the drawer. The old safe has
been spoiled but they have already
secured new one which will defy
burglars