smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

Eastern architects may get some hints
of things to follow or avoid, from q de-
scription which the Virginia City Chron-
icle gives of the structures erected by the
Cinnamon in that city: Between fights
the Chinaman is an industrious animal.
Just now he is turning his energies to
building, and, like his fighting, some of
it is contrary to law, and also sho cking
to correct architectural taste. Ga the
northwest corner of l and Union streets
John has created a marvellous affair. 1t
is quite out far enough to occupy third
of the roadway. The front elevation
(height five feet) is composed of odds
and ends of stone picked up in the neigh
boihood. The one window is formed
from three oil cans-two upright and the
other laid across the top. The roof of
this edi6ce--which has a frontage of
about twenty five feet and depth of
thirty o. more-wOuld make hand
some playground for a school, as it is
perfectly Hat, and composed of earth.
The interior, which the reporter folded
himself up to enter, is divided into nu-
merous little dens and one spacious sa-
loon, with earthen floor and one oil-can
window. The place is shortly to be
opened as a restaurant, provided the po-
lice do not interfere-which they should
do. The idea of utilizing old oil cans
for building material has been eagerly
seized by other Celestials, and the con.
sequence is, numerous fire-proof shanties
are spriuging up. The cans, filled with
earth, and piled one upon another,
make solid wall, and no bullet can pen.
citrate them-not slight consideration
these times. Underground residences
are also popular. A big, square hole is
dug into the hillside, covered in with
sticks, straw, and an occasional plank.
The door is naturally furnished by the
eastern slope. Although such trifes as
light and air are left out of cOnsidera'
ton, the bomb proof character of the
underground structure has charm fol
the Chinese inhabitant. The only draw.
back to such house is the probability
that on some rainy night an enemy may
take it into his shaven head to dig Q
trench and direct the water of the street
down the chimney"
Year: 1876

The Danbury Ne,os, in speaking of
this important subject, sagaciously re-
marks: In our last issue we republished
from an agricultural journal an article
on feed for hens We would like to say
here that il is the duty of journalists to
publish all such information, however
pertinent it may or may not be. That's
the reason we printed the piece in quts-
ton. We don't know whether the writer
knew what he was about when he brought
forth the article. and we don't care. There
was no choice with us. We submissively
appropriated it, just as we do all those m at
ters which pertain to the house and farm
department.. But what We started out
to do was to protest against recipes
for making hens lay more eggs than ma
ture designed they should. Not day
passes but somebody comes forward with
a system or diet which he has tested to
his entire satisfaction, and which is
adapted. to every breed and temper of
hen in existence. One man gives his
fowls on Is alone, and finds that they lay
fourth more eggs than they did when
he fed them exclusively on corn. This
statement fires up somebody to explain



really was until he got TO feeding his
flock corn alone. Heretofore he had
dosed them with oats. Here's decided
fix, apparently buG the next week the
owner Of couple Of hens in Kalamazoo
modestly states in a card, that years Of
careful experimenting has demonstrated
beyond all cayil that oats and corn
equally mixed will fire up the ambition
OF any hen on the face of the earth. So
they 60 on in the matter Of food. Then
there is the man who advises lime and
oyster shells to prevent the hens from
laying soft-shelled eggs. AS hen lays
about two such eggs in the course of
year, q couple dollars worth Of lime
judiciously fed to her will prevent the
loss, and be money we'll expended. Then
there is the man who advocates better
ventilation. Hens are very sore on the
subject of ventilation, as you may have
noticed. Another recommends an air
tight roosting place, and still another ad-
vises shutting up the fowls all the time,
and is Immediately confronted by poul
terer who says that if they are not al
lowed to run loose, you can't get eggs
out of them any way. These things are
what give agricultural journals their va
riety. But we protest against them. If
any one understands hens business bet
ter than the hen herself we are prepared
to listen to him, but until such phe-
nomenon ap )ears we unqualif ifedly refuse
to repuhlisn reu recipes, A hens stom-
ach is an appalling mystery. Men who
can translate the elegies of the most bar
barous of ancient nations and give you
the weight 10 an ounce of a square mile
of atmosphere, precipitately back down
from the analysis of a hens stomach.
An animal that can take down whole
dishcloth at one gulp, and regret that it
wasn't roll of ;air carpet, is not to be
told hat it sha eat.
Year: 1876

daughter-in.law, whose charming char
acter was daily astonishing her more and
more. They are old now, and the elder
lady has passed away; and the young
generation are grown up to manly sons
and beautiful daughters, being loved and


wooed and won in their turn but none
of them are happier with their lovers
than Ellen is with Sir Evan; and in the
spring he neverappears before her on any
morning without a bouquet of primroses,
which she places In her belt as she had
done long ago to those he had first given
her. The family all know the story !;
and they have heard how cbagrined the
naughty Margaret was when she learned
who she had refused to dance with at the
wedding by the river side, and whose
flowers she had broken so rudely and cast
to the winds; and the most valued paint
ing in the castle is the fair Ellen in her
white dress and blue ribbons, and sunny,
rippling, golden-brown hair, with ten
der look, halfglad, halfregretful, gather
ing into her bouquet the broken prim-
roses, and hazel-eyed, handsome gypsy
gazing at her with passionate admiration.
Year: 1876

The discovery of glass was no doubt in
the first instance accidental. Whether
credit is given to the statement OF Pliny
in regard to its origin or not, it is
scarcely conceivable that in the manu-.
facture of pottery, and some other arts
known from the earliest periods, the ma,
terials of which glass is composed should
not have come together, and have been
fused so as to become glass. His account
is that glass was discovered by mariners,
who, compelled to seek the shore as a
refuge from severe tempest, discovered
glass in the ashes of a fire with which
they had cooked their food. Whether
this event ever happened or net, 1t Is
quite certain that it might have hap
pened, as the sand of many beaches,
with the ashes Of some kind of fuel,
would, when fused together, inevitably
form glass, as will be seen upon consid-
Grafton of its composition.
Year: 1876

IT is not easy to explain why it is 60,
yet, nevertheless, so often is the practice
of some apparent foolish piece of super
stition followed by remarkable results,
that the vulgar are confirmed in their
ignorant beliefs. Thus a young man
last week, after seeing the new moon
over his left shoulder and meeting three
gray horses, picked up horseshoe, which
he took home and treasured carefully as
an omen of good luck. Next day man
borrowed FIVE dollars of him; the day
after he got letter from the firm which
employs him saying that they would
not want his services after the 1st prox.,
and in the evening a fat girl with a
mustache and game.eye proposed to
him, and told him all about her big
brother, who has been in Nevada for
seven years, and how the jury, with
out leaving the box, acquitted him of
blowing off the top of the head of a young
man who had looked things he did not
subsequently speak. And now that
young mau thinks that Cato, Brutus,
Provost Paradol and Judas Maccabeus
are the most exemplary characters Of
history.
Year: 1876

AN exchange asked, What will NOR
tify young man of the period more
than to attempt TO remove his overcoat
in church and pull his dress coat down
over his shoulders, revealing the fact
that he has on a dickey over a striped
shirtT We should think the young
mans modification would be more in
tense il the removal of his coat were to
reveal the fact that he had on dickey
over no shirt at all.
Year: 1876

WHEN man jams his head against
beam in the cellar, no one comes in to
sympathize with him. We don't know
that he tells the sorrow TO outsiders.
But when womdn's line of clothes
comes down in the mud "a clothes line
never falls when there isn't any mud)
the whole neighborhood is shaken to its
very center, and every woman within a
quarter of a mile of the disaster comes
rushing in TO condole with the unfor-
tunate sister, and nothing else is talked
of by them for week after. This is one
thing which makes 20 many men down
on female sufiIage.-Danbury Ne,os,
Year: 1876

When the immortals stood In light
First, on the archway OF the skies,
The Home OF sevenfold glory bright,
All thrilling with sweet surprise,
They triurphed In that shining place
Balder the beautiful, and Frey,
Aud all OF Assard's stately race,
Newborn, and radiant from on high.
But their strong brother, who had gone
Perforce, through storm and cloud, and wrath,
Before them walked the bridge alone,
And proved his way the quicker path.
Thus there are those who lightly tread
Untired upon the rainbow bridge:
While airs Of heaven play round the head
Serene they mount Its fairy ridge.
Others there are who, lost and blind,
Struggle in mist, and maze, and dark
And all they love and long Tor, ind,
Without path or guiding spark,
Yet sooner reach the cleaning goal
Than they who freely mount aloft,
Where color warns the happy soul,
In rays concentric, pulses soft
Take courage, then, ye sons OF strength,
Who fain must struggle night and day
Copquering, ye gain your peace at length
The dark way is the shorter way.


-Scribner for March.
Year: 1876

A GERMAN chemist has discovered
that mOlasses can be successfully and
profitably made from corn. The process
has been tested in Iowa, and bids fair to
become great industry. The corn used
was the common crop, such as is fed to
live stock, and the product was excellent
molasses. The farmers in the neighbor.
hood OF. the mill took their corn thither
and sold it. So that the operation
was on the same basis as the cheese and
butter factories and the canning estab-
ments.
Year: 1876

COMMENCING EARLY Last night after
the polls closed and the sparse Ireturns
coming in showing a prospect of Demo-
cratic success, two Church Ranger roughs
commenced early the work of assaulting
colored people. Coming mp Market street
they saw colored man named Jackson
standing in front of the Washington
House, when one of the roughs
knocked him down without any provoca-
ton, and when down both jumped on
him. Jackson succeeding in freeing him
self ran for refuge into the entrance Of the
Washington Hotel followed by the roughs
Here Jackson stood at bay and with pc
erful blow of his fist knocked one Of his
sailants down, and pulling out his pes,I
cut the other under the jaw. The con
getting rather warm, and the landlord e
ing to the assistance of the man, the ror
beat hasty retreat
Year: 1876

Nellie Parsons went to school in the coun-
,ry. Il was about mi.e from her hosse. IL
was too far for her to walk in the winter
Her father always sent her to school IN tho
morning ip carriage or sleigh, and brought
her home at nigh. in the same way.


One afternoon be stopped a, the school,
house, and calling Nellie out, said, I" i am
coing up the road several miles and may
not return ill school is out But wait for mo
ill come. will be back before dark


When school was out the children wrapped
themselves in their cloaks aud overeoais aud
set out for home.


Are you not going p asked one oi the
last that left the school-room, as she saw Nell
lie take her seat by the stove.


"Father told me to wait for him" said
Nellie.


Are you no, afraid to stay here alone3 q


"What is there to be afraid Of II is nice
and warm here"


81 should be afraid to stay here alone, said
the girl. 1T will be dark pretty soon.


Father said be would be here before dark.


"What will you do if he don't como|


Father ,riU come for me; be said he
would"


Nellie was lel, alone. Time seemed to
move very slowly; yet the sun went down.
and it began to be gloomy. She went to tho
door and looked out for her faihe1 He was
not n sight, although from the door OF tho
school-house you could see nearly mile along
the road. Presently man came along vita a
woke Of oxen and sled. lie was ne'ShboF
of theirs. "What are you doing here 2 no
asked Of Nellie, when be saw her standing III
tue door.


lam waiting for father" was The answer.


at will soon be dark" he said "you bal
better ret on my sled and 50 as far as my
house. 1t would not be pleasant for you to
stay here all night.


:" Father will be sure to come for me" said
Nellie; he told me 10 wait for him I'll he
came"


Il was nearly dark, but not quite, when her
father drove I'D to the door. He bad driven
so fast to get there, tha, his horse was all COW
cred with perspiration. lie had been dc'ain'
ed longer than be expected, and he had LETT
his business unfinished, in order to keep his
promise and get back to his dear child before
dark.


"Wero you afraid would not come, Nell
lie ?" lie asked as he wrapped her up IN tho
nice warm buff 10 robe.


"No, sir" was the answer of the loving
child "you said yOu would come, and kne~
/ could trust you."


How beautiful is this If VIC could have
the same trust in our Heavesfy Father that
Nellie Parsons had 10 her earthly father, ho"
happy we should be And yet Nellie's IA
ther had not done one hundredth part as much
for her as our Father in heaven has done Tor
us. lie is the God "who telleth the number
of the stars" and "calleth them all by their
name :" and we should trust with our own
hearts, every word that be has spoken.
Year: 1876

Dom Piatt, writing from Cincinnati pre-
yious TO the convention, thus mentioned the
republican nominee:


Well. worse fortune could belall the country
than such selection Rutherford d. Hayes
never was suspected of inventins sunpowder'
nor -glycerine, nor dynamite. In awofd,
Rutherford is not open to the inputatlon oil
being great man. He could not if he tried
and never heard of his trying. But be is
better article, and that is an honest, honorable
man, of good culture, and gentleman. Were
he 10 survive the astonshment Of lis inauSu-
ration be would gather about him the purest'
ablest and most emitent men in the country,
Of which to make an Administration. These
managers who are setting up this casualty 10
the way Of Presideu. do not know Their
Young man as well as do, or they would none
of him. Should R. B. get to be President ne
would make it as unpleasant for the frauds
who made him as Cowles' process is TO moth,
mold and mildew, that was also water repel-
laut. Rutherford will prove himself rogue
repelant, much to the wrath and dismay OF
the rogues who made him President.


Governor Hayes has not enjoyed much OIL
cial distinction, and has made very little oil
what be did possess. Strange to say, he is
painfully difident am not jokins-it Is
fact there is no push in him, and the few
places held by him be has been thrust into
This is the reason he lived through two ses-
sions of Congress without once opening bis
mouth, so far as the Record can tell US. a
shy, quiet gentleman is be, to such extent that
| have seen him blush like girl at some word
of praise uttered in his presence.
Year: 1876

Governor Tilden has received the followin :
letter Of congratulation from General Joseph
Hooker:


al cannot refrain from Offering you my SIM
cere congratulations on your nomination to
the exalted Office Of President Of the United
States. As quiet observer Of the political
events Of the nation know Of no one in my
day who has afforded me so much satisfaction,
and sincerely hope and believe that the wis
dom shown in the selection at st Louis will
be fully ratified by the great mass Of the peo-
pie in November nezt We require reform
in politics, religion aud morals, and | am con-
yinced that we will receive them at your
hands. The whole government of the nation
is desperately corrupt-aud the hon
or aud glory Of applying the antdote am
convinced will belong TO you. Ii the fact Of
your nomination does not enhance the material
values Of the nation, am sure your election
will DO it. Already seem to breathe new
atmosphere, as is the case Of every well-wisher
of his country"
Year: 1876

Let force 90 out with hate, and let the new
Union be in deed and in truth what the old
Union was intended TO be


a Uuion Of lakes.


A Union Of lands,


A Union that none can discover"
a Union Of hearts,


a Union Of hands,


The American Union forever"
Year: 1876

They are putting an awkward question to
some of the democratic candidates in Ohio
and Indiana. 1t concerns Southern war
claims, and our advice to democratic candi-
dates for Congress, North, South, East or
West, Is to make quick and frank reply
whenever this question is put to them. as it
doubtless will be.


There are q good many silly and ignorant
people in the South who imagine that when
the democratic party gets its hands in the
National Treasury it will rain larks down
South, and they will only have to hold their
mouths open to get their stomachs full.
There is no notion down there of pay
ment for slaves or payment of the Con-
federate debt. All that nonsense would be
as vigorously opposed South MS North
The shareholders were but few in number,
and the Confederate debt is not yet duet
was made payable six months after the
acknowledgment of Confederate independ-
it is past due. But there is multitude
of claims of q different kind, and multi
tude Of claimants who imagine that some
time or other they will get something on
these claims, and they look to the demo-
cratic party for their money. These claims
are of this nd:-The Union armies marched
over q very considerable part of the South
ern States they camped every night ; they
cut down tremendous amount of timber
they burned good many thousand miles of
fence: they uuartered themselves in
the least uncomfortable places they
could find, public and private build
ings; they took food and other supplies
where they could find them, as is the custom
of invading armies. In fact, they lived on
the country, as was their proper right, be-
cause the folly of the people had made it for
the time IN enemy's country.


Now o considerable number of those who
were thus forced to entertain and supply our
armies have still the hope that they may get
damages out of the government. OF course
they are mistaken; they will never get dol.
lar because the American people are not a
set Of idiots. But it is question which the
democrats had better get out of the way,
now that it is raised. The fact that at the
last session of Congress some bills suspi-
ciously looking toward the payment of such
claims were introduced by democrats in the
House, and that they were not rejected but
quietly laid over to the next session, gives
the matter practical Importance; and we
advise the democrats to soy at once, publicly
and positively, that they will not pay cent.
Year: 1876

ana. Arkansas-there is to-day no republican
party worthy of the alliance Of the national
porty or in whose fortunes it can take part
without injuring itself If Mr.. Hayes is
chosen President he can, if he is wise and
intelligent, as we believe him to be, easily
form respectable party there but he will
have to begin by cutting adrift the so-called
republican leaders in those States in body
and letting the infected wreck float away.
Why is it not better policy in the repub-
lican leaders to do this now, and thus
relieve their chief of an embar-
rassment? We can appreciate the
feelings of those who urge that
it would be better for the country, and
better even for the Southern States, that
the republicans should rule in the federal
administration for another four years,
especially with President who seems to be
in earnest about reforms, and who is said to
understand the Southern situation. But if
the condition of republican success in No
vember is the continued maintenance of
such republican State governments as obtain
in Louisiana and South Carolina and Of
such so-called republican politicians as aim
to rule in other Southern States, then we
should unhesitatingly welcome democratic
victory for there is no danger in a demo-
cratic federal administration SO serious as
the continued misrule of the South by dema-
gogues calling themselves republicans and
having the countenance of the federal ad-
ministration- We advise the Northern re-
publican leaders. therefore, to send no
speakers to the South unless it be to
Virginia and North Carolina and to let it be
at once and frankly understood that they
mean to cut loose from the Packnrds,
Spencers and Chamberlains.
Year: 1876

IT SEEMS that the Khedive Of Egypt is
of law good for his subjects he must not ex-
pect immunity from their decisions when
they are against him or his personal estate.
He is just civilized enough to think debts
should be collected within his realms by le-
gal process, but is not altogether educated
up to paying his own or letting the courts
make collection. England and France
have taken in hand the task of correcting
his lamentably ill-balanced ethics
Year: 1876

The chivalrio leader Of the greenback
army has flung his banner to the breeze
in the Empire State, and marches to battle
bearing in advance the war emblem OF
griffin. This emblem has been happily
chosen. The griffin was supposed IN
ancient times to watch over mines Of gold
and hidden treasure, and it will be the
province of this particular griffin to so.faith'
fully discharge this duty as to insure I'd
against any attempt of the resumptionists
to drag the precious metal from its hiding
places and substitute it for greenbacks
We are told that a griffin is cross between
a lion and an eagle; that it has four legs,
wings and beak; and certainly the green.
back party is well represented by such q
remarkable animal 1t is deformity which
offends the sight and which finds no place.
fortunately, among the objects with which
our eyes are familiar.


The resolutions Of the venerable PeteI
Cooper's meeting were introduced by Mr.
George O. Jones, of Albany renown, and
were not we'll received. The branch of in,
dustry in which Mr.. Jones is distinguished
is different from that of the daily laborer.
and as no labor plank appeared in the plat
form, some dissatisfaction was expressed by
that element in the remarkable gathering.
A delegate wanted Mr.. Peter Cooper to make
work for oil who are unemployed as we'll al
paper money for all who have empty pockets
but Chairman Jones was after moneyed COR
porations, railroads, banks and insurance
companies, which pay much better than
daily labor in legislative session, and SO
the workingmen were snubbed. However,
Mr.. Peter Coopers banner is to the front,
and in the case of his State ticket there will
be no .fasco. His candidates will stick and
his colors are glued to the mast.