smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

TELEGRAM TO THE NEW york HERALD.
The following special despatch to the
HERALD has been received from our cor
respondent in the capital of Great Britain


LONDON, August Is, 1873.
Chiselhurst, the residence of the exiled
members of the Bonnparte family and the
mortuary resting-place of Napoleon the Third,
witnessed scene of immense enthusiasm to-
day.


THE DELEGATION.


Several hundred Frenchmen, with persons
of other different nationalities, called at the
mansion to pay their respects to the ex-Em-
press Eugene and her son, the Prince Impe-
rial.


CHURCH SERVICE.


Mass was celebrated in the paroohial chapel,
which contains the tomb of Napoleon.


THE ADDRESS.


When the Holy Sacrifice had been offered up
and the religious ceremonial was concluded
with the benediction Eugene and her son re-
turned to the residence and there received the
French letter of address, which was read
to them.


SPEECH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.
The Prince Imperial spoke the reply in the
following words:-"I thank you, in the name
of the Empress and my own, for having joined
your prayers with ours and for having borne
in your mind the way which we piously
travelled a few months ago. thank also our
faithful friends from afar for numerous testi-
monials of affection and devotion which we
have received. As for myself, in exile near
the tomb of the Emperor, I mediate upon
the precept which he left for my guidance
find my patrimony in the principle of
national sovereignty and the flag that conse-
crates it. That principle has been expressed
by the founder Of our dynasty in words to
which shall ever remain faithful-"All for the
people and by the people"


The Prince was loudly cheered by the dele
cation and complimented personally by each
member of the body.


NJ. RoUHER STILL AT COURT.
M. Rouher ex-Minister of State of France,
accompanied the imperialist deputation and
assisted in the celebration Of the Chiselhurst
state tete.
Year: 1873

The following record will show the changes In
the temperature for the past twenty-four hours In
comparison with the corresponding day of last
year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's
Pharmacy. HERALD Building
Year: 1873

A San Francisco widow is ahead in the
marrying business. She was fair, and
young, and well-to-do, and young man
had phghted his troth to her. Suddenly his
visits ceased, and the widow sent out spies
to discover his lurking place. These faith
full agents ascertained that the young man
was about making other matrimonial ar
rangements with young girl to whom he
was paying assiduous attentions. The
blooming widow, resolved not to be basely
deceived, found'a pistol which had been the
property of her first husband, loaded it, and
went hunting for her love-. She found him
at the house and in the company of his
younger eharmer, and having previously
provided herself with marriage license,
persuaded him to accompany her to the
marriage altar. She thus happily saved an
inexperienced young man from committing
the crime of deceiYing trusting woman.
Year: 1873

Suppose man owns a sldf; he
fastens the skiff to the shore with q
rope made of straw; along comes a
COW; COW gets into the boat; turns
around and eats the rope; the skiiff
thus let loose, with the COW on
board, starts down stream, and on its
passage is upset; the COW is drowned.
Now has the man that owns the COW
got to pay for the boat, or the man
that owns the boat got to pay for the
COW? ~ r
Year: 1873

The present is a good time for the
repair of farm implements. The
black-smiths are not crowded with
work, and it is far better to attend to
this matter now than to defer it to
the rush in the spring.
Year: 1873

There have been an unusual number
of failures in the last class at West Point
No less than eighteen of the cadets nom
mated last year have been recommended
for discharge. The vacancies will be
filed next May. g.
Year: 1873

II Is often desirable to know the heigh,
to which tree viii work into tin,bsr
below the branches. II one has choice
lot Of timber he does not like to cut
down at random. If he wants stick Of
some particular length he would choose
a tree which would just make it without
cutting 70 waste. A writer in an ex-
change gives simple rule of determin-
ing the point, which we transcribe in
brief Measure from the base of the
tree distance equal TO the length of the
stick required. Then place a stick in
the ground at the point of measurement.
exactly your own height and perpendie-
ular. Now Lie down fat on your back.
with your feet against the stick, so as to
bring it in line with your eye and the
tree, and where the line Of sight strikes
the tree over the. top Of the stake. that
point will indicate the length desired.
Year: 1873

II Is said that the Chinese declare thai
Noah's real name was All Boo. and thai


he resided in Pekin. Unfortunately
Noah's family Bible was lost in the food
and we can not ascertain what his name
was. His door-plate also seems to bs
missing. and he had very careless way
Of neglecting to mark his shirts; go We
are bafiied In that direction. We have
inquired at the library for a copy of the
Pekin directory of that date, to see Il
Noah really figured in its pages. the only
copy any Of them had was out. For our
part we do not believe that his name
was All Boo, or that he ever resided in
Pekin. Thess Chinemen really claim
everything that is going. from gunpowder
up to newspapers. II we give them any
ground ON the Noah business, the first
thing we know they will be out with the
assertion that the ark was insured in the
Pekin Mutual Company. and that Noah
used to give the Pekin newspapers free
tickets to 90 in and see the animals per.
form. The interests Of Christianity re-
quire that We should believe the Bible
Iapestigator.
Year: 1873

Do women ever talk about anything
but dressf Sometimes We doubt it. As
you pass q pair Of them in the street you
catch such bits Of conversation Is these
Hers had fringe" They are worn
longer than ever now." "Black silk is
so genteel.' II know it was made at
home. She may say it came from Paris,
but | know better" "Im going to have
mine faced with velvet" You sit oppo-
site them in the omnibus, and it is the
same thing. In church two bonnets
touch each other, and a soft whisper of
"Pompadour style" reaches you. You
go to wedding, and it is the brides
dress that is discussed and absolutely
we have heard ladies who have just shed
tears over the solemn burial-service of q
friend allude TO the width Of the hem on
Grape vail. or the cost of the stuff in a
mourning dress. Dress, dress, dress |
How we look-not what we do-always;
how we appear, not what we are! 1t is
necessary to give some attention to these
subjects, but it may be possible to fritler
life away ON them so entirely that there
is nothing left for better things.
Year: 1873

An editor is a man who lives on what
other people owe him until he starves to
death. "A subscriber is a man who takes
the paper and says he is well pleased
with it, and tells every body else "they
ought to subscribe" After has sub
scribed about seven years, the editor
writes TO him and AXIS him TO let him
have e2 90, and then the subscriber
writes back 10 the editor and tells him
not to send his old paper any more, for
there is nothing in il. and then the poor
editor goes and starves 10 death more
Shenandoah Herald
Year: 1873

PECULIARLY OF THE Mules HooF.--
The hoof Of the mule has been said by
some writer's OF limited information to
be small and contracted. Parker, how.
ever, says that he knows better. He cx-
amined the hind heel of a mule of very
moderate size, and found that it extend
ed quite across the hard floor to the hay
NAV opposite He states that being
brought in contact somewhat hastily and
carelessly with his head, he avaied him
self Of the fact as n means Of measure.
ment IL seemed to him to possess
about tho weight and dimensions Of 4
planet of the third magnitude 1t had at
all events sufficient area to shut out the
light OF Heaven completely for some
minutes, and if there was any unoccnpied
space in the barn during those few min.
utes of observation not Illled by the ami
mails foot, or any apprcciable space left
between himself and Kingdom come, ;
he (porsprl wnS not aware rf IL
Year: 1873

DIFFERENCE OF OPINION An old min
lister enforced the difference OF opinion
by this argument "Now, if everybody
had been Of my opinion. they would al!
have wanted my old woman" One OF
the dcacens, who sat behind responded.
" Yes, and IL every body was Of my opin.
ion. nobody would have had her,
Year: 1873

President Theirs has again fallen i'll, and the
fea1s aroused by his recent indisposition are
1saoubled& Loss OF sleep and increasing weak
neaa are his symptoms, which in one so ad-
vanced in age are the more serioua from the
fact that he has no specific malady to which
they can be attributed They foreshadow the
approaching dissolution Of the life that is price
eEs to France at this crisis.
Year: 1873

A man up in Iowa, by the name Of Silas
Chew, was married the other day to a girl
named Anna Good. The most obtuse per-
son would Instantly call to mind the Scrip
tural injunction, IS. Chew that which Is
evil, cleaying only TO that which is Good.
Year: 1873

THE BAcHELoR-Is there more pit
able object on earth than man who has
no amiable woman interested in his well
fare ? How dismal does his desolate room
appear when he comes home at night,
weary and hungry, and sees a barren ta-
BILE and lonely pillow, which looks like
the white urn Of every earthly enjoyment.
See the old bachelor in the dark afternoon
Of life, when his heart is sinking to its
sunderance. Not solitary memory
CLEANS over his opening grave, no weeping
wife to bend like comforting angel over
his dying pillow, and wipe the death damp
from his brow; no fond daughter to draw
his chilly hand into the soft pressure of
hers and warm his icy blood with reviving
fits of availing affection, no manly boy to
link his breaking name with the golden
chain of honorable society, and bind his
history in the vast volumes Of the world
he is leaving forever He has eaten and
drunk and died, and earth is glad she's
got rid Of him, for he made little else to
do than to cram his soul into the eircum-
ference Of a sixpence, and no human be-
ing, save his washer-woman, win breathe a
sigh at his funeral.
Year: 1873

The New Fifty Cent Treasury Note.


WASHINGTON, July Plates for the
new fly cent note have been prepared al
the Bureau OF Engraving and Printing ot
the Treasury Department, and the work
Of the printing Of the new note will be
commenced next week, though II will be
probably ten days before the note will be


issued to the public. The new note will
be about d quarter Of On inch shorther
than that now in circulation, and a quar-.
ter of an inch wider, its dimensions being
81 inches long by 9 inches wide; On
the face ol tho note on the lelt hand SIDE
is q vignctte head Of Samuel Dexter, who
was Secretary Of the Treasury In 1SOl, and
former Governor OF tho State Oh Massa-
chusetts. On the right Of the note Is q
section OF geometrical lathe work with
the words |Fifty Gents" in white letters
engraved across tho fGce. The story or
lettering on the note Is the same as on the
present Issue, with tho exception oil the
words "Recelveable for oil U. B. stamps,"
at the bottom Of the old note, which are
omitted on the new one. The seal Is
printed In the center Of the face, and Is en-
closed In cycloidal work, new feature
upon fractional currency. The back oi
note, which will be printed In New York,
will be Ia green. 1t Is made up OF
geomctrical lathe work and scrolls. On
the right hand corner, the word Scents" "
found on tho old note, Is omitted,
and the numeral so takes its place.
The date Of the passage Of the
act authorizing the issue Is omitted
from the face Of the new note and put
upon the back thereof. On the left hand
side Of tho back there Is an open space 70
show tho fibre in the paper, and 1t will
not be shown on the face as much as In
the old note. Th new note ot course
will take the place Of the one now in cir
culation, as the present issue has been
counterleited, although not to any great
extent No other new fractional curren-
cy will be Issued at present.
Year: 1873

From an Occasional Correspondent


DECATUR, ALA, November 9, IS73.-
This is the most growing place on the
Tennessee. Soon after the war it was
almost deserted. but since the railroad
from Nashville has been built through
to Montgomery it has grown rapidly,
and there are now more new, well-built
houses in Decatur than in any town in
North Alabama. A person passing
through this place would never
notice the Improvements. Here, as
in all places in the south,
they ask too much for property when
tlley wish to sell. That is one reason
Why the country does not improve
faster. The sale of some lots was
stopped the other day, because they did
not bring the man more than one thou
sand dollars per acre, when think six
hundred dollars would have been a high
price. The true policy is to sell low
until you get large population, and
then your remaining lots will be valu-
able and bring good prices.


HEALTH OF LOCATION.


Although this place has had the repu-
tation of being siekly, yet old citizens
of this place, who are well informed and
truthful men, say that there are fewer
deaths and less sickness in this place
than of any town Of the same size in
the State. If this be so, and if the OBJ
structioDs in the Tennessee river be re-
moved, Decatur must yet be consider
able place.


POLK HOTEL.


L have been stopping at the Polk
house, and can say with truth that it is
the best hotel ever kept in Decatur and
one of the best in the south. Every
thing is in the best taste and style, and
no one can come without going away
delighted. They know how to entertain
and they do SO in the most agreeable
manner. Let all who wish rest In their
travels, stop at the Polk house in
Decatur.


The causes Of the Improvement of
this place and what it needs TO make h
still continue TO grow, may state here
after.
Year: 1873

Here is a homely little matter, says an exchange, worth attention, as it may mean life or death before long to many poor woman or child. A few years ago an overworked, sickly Welshman, with his wife and child, came to mill town in this country and found work in a steel factory. The hard labor and heat aggravated his disease, and very soon all the symptoms of rapid con sumption showed themselves. His wife, country-born and bred, tried sewing and washing, but, hungry and weak, she was poor seamstress and poorer laun- dress. Want and misery were already in the wretched little shanty, and death, as the old song says, stood knocking at the door, when lady noticed the man with his sunken chest and hollow cough creeping past her door daily to his work, and told him, what he knew too we'll already, that to continue in the mill was suicide. "What can I do?" he replied. eff I quit it for week, my wife and child will starve." The woman had no money to give, but instead of heaving a sigh over the necessities of the working classes and letting the matter slip past her as so many of us would have done, oAAO AOOAOo cbOOuU uO A11I b fdCdAU u1CuO for him. Presently she remembered another needy case, a friend of her own, woman of wealth and refinement, with two or three children and uncertain health, who, simply because she lived in the country, was forced half the time, like Lady Anne, to "cook, brew, bake, make the beds, and do all herself" {" Here was need which would relieve the other. In month the Welshman and his wife were quartered in snug cottage on one of the highest, healthiest localities in the country. He helped in the barn, in the stable, did light work afeld. His wife proved an invaluable house servant, and presently was pro- noted to be housekeeper. The child was rescued from the streets and grew up in the pure air and pure influences of the country. This was ten years ago. The Welshman is now hale and hearty, has his own little patch and works the rest of the farm on shares with the owner,
Year: 1873

Another man has graduated at the Yale "School of Journalism" He has been rather more successful than any of his predecessors. When he found that he could get no more than $8 week on Western journal, he went right away and got position as clerk in an oyster saloon, where his weekly stipend is $10.
Year: 1873

To REMOVE STAINS FROM MARBLE. = Take two parts of common soda, one part of pumice- stone and one of finely powdered chalk sift it through fine sieve, and mix it with water then rub it we'll over the marble, and the stains will be removed. Wash the marble afterward with soap and water.
Year: 1873

"A whisper soft broke the air

 A soft, light tone and low,

 Yet barbed with shame and woe; Now might it perish only there, Nor furthergo. An, me, quick and eager ear

 Caught up the little meaning sound, Another voice had breathed it clear, And so it wandered round From ear to lip, from lip to ear, Until it reached gentle heart, And that tt broke"
Year: 1873

An exchange says the subject of bor- rowing and lending came up in the course of a conversation with one of it's subscribers the other day, when he sud denly recollected a funny reminiscence of that character which had happened in his own neighborhood He said he had neighbor whose family were great borrowers, but not 50 distinguished as paymasters-they were always borrow ing, but seldom, if ever, returned the exact amount borrowed An old Quaker lady, another neighbor, who had en- dured these invasions for long time patiently, hit upon very philosophical mode of eventually putting stop to the nuisance. Keeping her own coun- sel, the next time her good man went to town, he had a separate and express or der to purchase pound of the best tea and also new canister to put it in. As he knew she already had plenty of tea and also canister, he was puzzled to determine what the old lady wanted of more tea and 8 new canister, but his questionings and rCasonings elicited nothing more than repetion of the order.

 "Jim, did I not tell thee to get me pound of the best tea and a new canis- ter Now go along and do as bid thee."

 And go along he did, and when he came home at night the tea and new canister were his companions. The old lady took them from him with an anus ed expression on her usual placid fea- lures, and depositing the tea in the canister, set it on the shelf for special use. It had not long to wait, for the borrowing neighbor had frequent use for the aromatic herb. The good old lady loaned generously, emptying back in the canister any remittance of bor- rowed teas which the neighbours con- science inclined her to make. Time went on, and after something less than the one hundredth time of borrowing, the neighbor again appeared for ''just another drawing of tea, when the oft visited tea canister was brought out and found to be empty, and the good old lady and obliging neighbor was just one pound of tea poorer than when she bought the new canister which now only remained to tell the story. Then she made a little characteristic speech, perhaps the first in her life; she said: Thou seest that empty canister. I filled it for thee with a pound of my best tea and I have lent it all to thee in driblets and put in to it all thou hast sent me in return, and none but myself hath taken therefrom or added unto it, and now thou seest it empty; therefore l will say to thee, thou hast borrowed thyself out and I can lend thee no more ]"
Year: 1873

Circuit Court for Crawford County,
under the new law, held its first session
yesterday. Judge Z. d HAM opened
Court in the afternoon, charged the
Grand Jury, decided several minor ques
tions as to jurisdiction and adjourned to
this morning,


Quite large number of legal gentle
men from above are here, and we look
for an Interesting session.
Year: 1873

~ Wenotice that the school children
from Primary School, most every time a
boat arrives during school hours, flock
to the river and not unfrequently 60 on
the boats This, it seems to us, is wrong
and decidedly out Of place. An accident
happening to any OF the children at the
river would be blamable to the teachers.
A little reflection, we think, will correct
the complaint
Year: 1873

Postmsn rings at a modest looking
mansion on Locust street. Servant girl
comes to the door Postal cards for the
master of the house, who has only been
married a couple of years. Servant CIR
delivers the postal cards to young wife
Young wife reads
Year: 1873

Eg- A newly married couple found
themselves in railway carriage with on
" one fellow passenger, who appeared to
sleep profoundly Soon the lady com
menecd to call her lover all the endcarlng
names that natural history can supply
The traveller reused up. begged the lady
to call her partner Noah's Ark at
once, and allow him to sleep quietly
Year: 1873

Ey" Mamma" said a little three


year old. whose nose had been put out
ofjoint by the recent arrival of a baby
brother, mamma, if the baby Should
die, would it go to heaven ?" Certain
ly, my child, " replied the parent, Then
l think heaven is the best place for him, y
Year: 1873

EE A Hsverhill clergyman married q
couple the other day. The groom was .
tall stripping whose weight was ninety.
seven pounds, while that of the huxom
bride was two hundred and ten They
both declared that they had loved through
thick and thin. When the minister look
Cd at :he scrip he received for the job he
thought it was pretty thin.
Year: 1873

EB That nervous youth in Louisville,
who recently by mistake, slipped a nickel
five cent piece into the parsons hand, in
stead Of five dollar gold piece, which he
had ready in another pocket, after three
weeks Of welded bliss, thinks he paid
pretty dearly for his fun after all, and re-
grets tha, the nickel was not suspender
button
Year: 1873

warranted not to cut In the eye-not a head-
ache i'm hhdS. Of tit is no sooner in your
belly than its on your back in pound of beet
and it carries bead like a necklace; for
sale by


GEORGE AUSTIN.
Year: 1873

Brigham Young is doing tho domestic
lecturing himself just now. Here is an
extract from one Of his little family
talks:


wish my women to understand that
what l am going to say is for them as we'll
as others, and want those who are here
to tell their sisters; yes all the women in
the community. I am going to give you
from time to time to the 5th of October
next, for reflection. that you may deter,
mine whether you wish to stay with yoar
husband or not and then am going to set
every woman at liberty, and say to them
now 60 your way. And my wives have
got to do one of two things either round
up your shoulders to endure tie afllic<
tioRs Of this world. and live their relig>
ion.that is pOlygamny or they must leave
for / will not have them about mo. |
will 60 into heaven alone rather than to
have scratching and fighting about me.
l will set all at liberty. What, first
wife too? Yes, l liberate you all. !
want to get somewhere or do something
to get rid of the winners.
Year: 1873

castor to ascertain if any descendants Of
tho ill'fat"d captain live if so, they shall
have his bones.


Should no such descendants survive,
the narrator of the discovery prosposes
that the patriotic of the people Of Miami
County shall erect an monument to thu
luckless captains memory.