smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

An inquiring man thrust his fin
gers into a horses mouth to see how
many teeth he had. The horse closed
his mouth to see how many fingers the
man had. The curiosity of each was
fully satisfied
Year: 1875

An attempt was to have been made last
week to get up another woman's crusade
in Cleveland, but three or four of the
leaders were disappointed about their
Spring bonnets, and the affair didn't come
off.
Year: 1875

1t is said that sometime during the
present year party of one hundred
Englishmen is coming over to this coun-
try on grand buffalo hunt


1st! 'Ushl Ark
The orn Of the 'unter Is 'eard ON the I'll
Year: 1875

Boston man has died and left two
hundred dollars to a Universalist church.
1t would do an old-fashioned Methodist
preacher good to tell revival congrega-
ton just what las become of this
man.
Year: 1875

They tried to scare man in Missouri
by threatening to tar and feather him;
but he replied: Come on with your old
tar; I've been there six times, and I've
got receipt for washing it of"
Year: 1875

To light the gas jet 10y the electic spark
rom the body, it is only necessary to
select clear, cold day Or night, and,
with slippers on feet, scuffle scloss the
carpet of the room two or three times
and then quickly apply the knuckles to
the escaping gas. DO not open the jet
ull but turn on IL owly-escaping cur
rent Of gas.
Year: 1875

Some sensational runors were current
last week to the effect that we were on
the eve Of a war with Spain. There ap-
pears to have been no authority for these
.run1ors except that Spain has made de-
mand to be compensated for the value OF
the Yirginius AS the Attorney General
decided that the Virginius had no right
to carry the Z. s. flag at the time Of her
capture. it would seem that it would re
quire all Mr.. Fish's ingenuity to eyade
the demand.
Year: 1875

PC. DOLE.
When the dead leaves softly fall,
Cross my home with tender tread;
Though cloud be over all,
Blight and mold where shadows fall, &
Thoagh the winds are sobbing low,
Where the roses used 10 blow,
Yon will light the dreary day,
You will still be blithe and gay
Come to me with tender tread, \
When the falling leaves are deal.
summer days were full of shine,
Bud and bloom and many sweets;
Autumn With its loaded vine,
Holds for us its luscious wine
You have wandered all too long,
Home awaits you, mirth and song,
Turn ere winter steals too near,
Give us words of hope and cheer,
Stay not, when the dead leaves fall,
Let one home embrace Us all.
Year: 1875

and will probably run another year.
l did not get an office so I am mad
(?) and am going to pull the ropes
for next election and show them
that am just as smart as any of
them, and can do as much out of
Office as in. I think we are all
disappointed in our expectations of
the grange movement; but the
grange is settled institution, and
we must look within ourselves for
the faults and correct accordingly,
and live and learn. And, if we, as
an institution do things wrong, we
can do like the niger "show our
dam authority" I have not been
into grange outside of my own
since we were organized. | should
like to attend your Council in Red
Wing, If there IS any way that l can
ring in. ="


have often thought what an ex-
cellent place grange is for a young
man, that has any desire to make
himself prominent among men.
He can there learn how to do pub
lie business, how to control other
people, and how his attainments are
appreciated by others.


How is it with our regular sale
days of which every one speaks SO
highly, and yet does nothing to sus-
tain. l hear that they have had
two in Cannon Falls, with what sue
cess l do not know. The day on
which they hold their fairs or sales
is the first Saturday in each month.
hope they will prove a success.
Now it is nine o'clock and I must
close this by thanking you for keep
ing me awake.


Yours fraternally.
WIDE A. WAKE.
Year: 1875

The whole matter of settling with the
retiring Business Agent, the election of
q new agent, and fixing his rate of COM
pensation, was left to the discretion of
the Executive Committee with full
power to act.


The following resolutions were unan-
imously passed by a rising vote:


Resolred, That the thanks of this
Council are hereby rendered to Hon.
Chris. Graham and all others concerned,
for the free use of the hall for this
meeting of the Council,


Kesoired, That appreciating as we
DO the business coming under the head
OF "Dinner we tender our heartfelt
thanks to the ladies of Red Wing
Grange for the bountiful and most ex-
cellent repast provided by them.


After which the Council closed its
very interesting session.
Year: 1875




| sit down to try an experiment
which is to see if writing a letter
will keep me awake. My wife i:
off visiting, and 1 am staying al
home taking care of the babies. ]
can't be in the barn to husk corn,
and if I take paper to read,
will certainly drop asleep. 1 en-
JOY the articles written by us COM
mon subscribers so much that l feel
guilty that do not write once in a
while. I shall write this once and
see how it appears in print, (that is
if you see fit to print it), and if you
will pile on the soft soap may be I
will write another one. If you
don't print it, please tell the reason,
so that I shall know what to do the
next time l want to keep awake.
Well, how is the grange? the grange
is all right, and bound not to die.
We have elected our officers again
Year: 1875

Our paper to-day bears the date
Of 1875. The old year of 1874 with
which we had grown so familiar is
passed and gone, and the New Year
is five days on its journey, but it
is not too late to think over our
good resolutions and take a new
start for the future. If this life had
no regrets what a happy life it would
be; we believe that nine-tenths of
our misery comes from regrets over
our own mistakes, which we think
when we look back upon our lives
might have been avoided. 1t is
we'll then that we study we'll the
chart of life. read deep in the book
of experience, review the mistakes
of the past and plan for the future
that we may free ourselves from the
terrible load of regrets that are piling
themselves upon us, crushing out
our lives.


"In a charming temperance story
entitled, Our New Crusade by Ed
ward Everett Hale, are four notices
that should be engraven on the hearts
Of all those who in familiar phrase are
turning over a new leaf They are
these: Look up and not down. Look
out and not in; Look forward and
not back Lend hand These mot
toes rest upon the fundamental princi-
pie that growth is from within out;
that we shall judge the tree by it's fruits
and not by digging it up to see how far
the roots penetrate the soil, or by split
ting it open to find if it is sound at
the heart.


In the retrospect Of the past year ev.
cry noble heart must admit that his
highest joys and satisfactions have come
from sense of duty faithfully done, OF
burdens patiently borne, Of temptations
to evil steadtastly resisted, of opportu.
mites for doing good gladly embraced.
Is there one who would not if hecould
recall the ungenerous act of which VIC
have been guilty, the unkind word, the
selfish feeling? The only thing which
We can do to atone for the past IS to
avoid all these errors in the future, and
make year to come one of sunshine and
JOY to all around us.


Not a few look wearily forward to
months Of anxiety, of want, Of toll and
pain that must come to them as the
year wears away. 1t is enoungh to live
one day at a time, and not make its
burden intolerable by adding to it the
burden of tomorrow or yesterday. AS
thy day so thy strength shall be- How
often do we pass even with cheerfulness
the most dreaded ordeal, and find ou1
fears and apprehensions infinitely more
painful than the reality. In this sense
we are to take no anxious thought fo1
the morrow; sufficient unto the day il
the evil thereof.


So, trusting, hopeful, patient, let US
enter upon the new year, looking up
not down, out and not in, forward and
not back, and lending a helping hand
to all who ask and all who need"
Year: 1875

ANoMALIEs.-Paper can be manufactured
from iron. If "a tallOw-candle be placed in
II gun and shot at door, it will go through
without sustaing injury. And if muslct-
ball be fired into the water, it will not only
rebound, but be fattcned; if fired through
pane of glass, it will make the hole the
size of the ball without cracking the glass.
Cork, if sunk two hundred feet in the ocean,
will not rise on account of the pressure OF
water. In the arctic regions, when the
thermometer is below zero, persons can
converse more than mile distant. DR.
Jamison asserts that he heard every word
of a sermon at distance of two miles.
Year: 1875

They got up aurpriS" party Thursday
night last on a Young married couple, at
in Swampoodle similar affair was one of
the social successes of the last season. The
ronspirators We're met calmly but cordially
at the gate hy the husband. who rested on
his shot gun, while his beautiful and accom-
pli>h"d wife, whose face and form were
visible inside the porch, said she was very
glad to see them, but She didn't think she
could hold the bulldog back minute Ion
ger
Year: 1875

Don't run in debt! Never mind-never mind
Ifyour clothes are all faded and torn :
Fix EN- up; make them do. 1t is better by far
Than to have the heart weaJy and worn.
Who will love you the more for the set of your hat
Or your ruf, or the tie of your shoe.
The style Of your boots or shade of cravat.


fthey know you're in debt for the new?
Don't run in debt! Dear girls take hint


If the fashions have changed since last season,
Old nature is ont in the very same tint


And Old Nature. methinkS has some reason.
But just say to your friends: cannot afford


To spend time to keep up with the fashion;
Ny purse is too light and honor too bright


To be furnished with such silly passion.
Good friends! Let me beg of you don't run i'll debt
fthe chairs and the sofa are DID,
They'll fit your back better than any new set


Unless they are paid for with gold.
If the house is too small draw the closer together
Keep it warm with hearty good will;
big one unpaid for in all kinds Of weather


Will send the warm heart chill
Year: 1875

In the office Of one of the hotels recently
a gentleman snapped his finger to a boot
black. and as he put his foot on the box he
said You look like good. smart boy"
See ehrre, mistor!'' replied theb boy as horose
up, brush in either hand, I've had that
game played on me dozen times, and now
! want to know whether this is cash shine
or whether you're going to pat me on the
head when get through and tell me that I'll
be Governor of Michigan some day =
D7rf Pre-, Press
Year: 1875

The following is one of the sweet little
dittics of the Western spelling school:
O, lead my infant feet to walk


Into the spelling school:
Let other children snccr and laugh
At photographic rule.
But me that better way still lead
Till perfectly l spell:
81 may shun the path that leads
To where Josh Billings fell
Year: 1875

Phrnia Epps of Hamilton, Ohio, asked
her mother to take Il note for her to a
friend of the family living in a near street.
The note when opened was found to read
This is little rlsc of mine to get mother
out of the house. Before she can get back |
will be on the cars with dear Lorenzo, and
before night will be married.
Year: 1875

The following puzzle Is again on its
rounds TO five and five and fifty-five the
first of letters add; twill make a thing that
killed the king and drove awisc man mad"
1t was published about twenty years ago and
has never been correctly answered. But
they say there is an answer.
Year: 1875

An Ohio youth is to be hanged next
March for killing small boy to obtain
possession of IL pound of brown sugar. 1t
was the principle of the thing, not the
sugar, which influenced the jury.
Year: 1875

Window Reporter: Notwithstand
ing all the precaution that few Of the
people have taken to protect the prai
rie from Ere, last Saturday hurricane
Of FIRE swept over the county from here
to Germantown, and how far west we
have been unable to learn, but if possi-
BILE to detect the miserable fellow who
set the FIRE he should be run ont Of the
country astrids rail.
Year: 1875

THE INDIAN PEACE PoL1cY.-Sev-
eral pastors Of Washington D c Of diff.
terent denominations, apprehensive
that the government was about to aban
don its policy toward the Indians call
cd on the President to express the
conviction that such = course would
greatly dipappoint Christian: people all
over the country, and be blow to
Christianity throughout the world.
The President responded with great
promptness and precision that he did
net regard the peace policy as fall
ure, and that it not only would not be
abandoned while he occupied that
place, hut that it was his hope that
during his administration it would be
SO firmly established as to become the
necessary policy OF his successors. In
that he might probably be mistaken.
Year: 1875

Americans read more newspapers than
any other people, and have more, better
and cheaper ones to read, because they
are the most intelligent, active and pro-
gressive nation the sun shines upon and
the perfection to which the American
press of this day has attained, will ever
be the marvel and pride of our age and
race.


But we desire especially to call atten-
ton, now, to the place SO well filed by
the local press, which makes especial
effort to bring into prominent relief the
business and interests of some particular
locality, and while it leaves the broader
and wider field to the enterprising dalies,
selects some prescribed quarter upon
which to concentrate all its efforts.


To insure success in the midst of such
active competition and in the face of so
great disadvantages, it is apparent that
the local paper must have the united and
generous support of the people where its
lot is cast; as it certainly receives a will
ing response from any community which
knows how to appreciate, as its true value,
so much labor expended for its benefit
Certainly none can give this support un-
willingly or grudgingly, when they re-
member the direct and immediate advan-
tages flowing from a general and hearty
recommendation to ones immediate
neighbors and friends of whatever he has
to sell, or can manufacture, or desires to
announce.


Then, too, to know, of a Saturday
evening, as you open the wellflled col
umns, redolent of friends and home that
every page will bear the mark of some
familiar hand and discourse upon some
topic of especial domestic interest is in
deed a delight which the more stately
daily, and even the monthly magazine
wrapped in the daintiest of covers, often
fail to impart.


Give hearty support, then, to the
local journal; send in your subscriptions
cheerfully and promptly, and with an
expression of lively good will for the
Woodworking editor and his corps of
assistants; remember the character of a
place-whether alive or dead-whether
liberal or parsimonious-whe pro-
gressive or at dead level of fossilized
stupidity-is better reflected and oitener
demonstrated by an inspection of its col
umns than in any other way. The edi-
torial, the occasional article the selected
news, and the advertisements displayed,
will at once be sure guide to the intel
lectual, moral, social and business status
OF that community. Boston Advocate
Year: 1875

In the years gone by an old Michigan
quill-driver named Blake, who was killed
at Fair Oaks, came into Detroit on bust
ness, he being then connected with
a paper in the western part of the State.
He got pretty full by evening, but was
invited into the ladies parlor of the hotel,
with others, to hear young lady initiate
a new piano. After she had played sew
eral tunes Blaze asked her to play Lilly
Dale" She complied, and he sat down
in q chair and cried, excusing his action
by saying to the crowd: "Its bad song,
and it always puts me in mind of my
dead mother" 1t was played again. and
Blake went to bed with Lily Dale" ring
ing IN his ears. He occupied the same
bed with merchant clerk, the hotel
being crowded, and soon after turning in
Il dog commenced to howl in the back
yard. "Woooo-hoo-hool" "Git Quits
only q dog bowling" replied the clerk


Stranger" said Blake, as he turned his
head, stranger, if you'd lost your poor
old mother and felt as bad as l do, you d
bet fifty dollars to five that it was Lily
Dale. Yes. it's that same song, and I've
got to cry again. And he got up and
sat down on the lid of chest and wept
profusely.-DStr0it Free Press.
Year: 1875

THE GATE CLosED,-Some people live
sixty years without learning when to
keep their mouths shut. Indeed, the
older they grow, the wider their mouths
open. Carlyle somewhere says that what
people have need to learn, is the art of
silence. A man or woman that is great
gabbler at forty five, is a horrid creature !;
whether the propensity is hereditary or
acquired, it is simply awful This age
shows an unnatural development Of
tongue There are two things this gen
Grafton need to learn-when to say
nothing; and when they say anything, to
say it well.
Year: 1875

l sit alone and listen


For steps that never come;
And no sweet voice makes music
In my deserted home.
hear no childish prattIe,


No patter of small feet,
And, when l pass my doorway,
No smiles my entrance greet.
L see no broken playthings,
No clothes that children wear,
And by my side, is only


y little empty chair.
Yet go on rejoicing


That though my home is bare,
Heaven has an added number,
For all my babes are there.
Year: 1875

Virginia hung Mr. Gibbs twelve years
ago for murder, and now it has come to
light that he was innocent. Why will
folks fool with u mans neck in that way
until they are certain of his guilt?
Year: 1875

The cable dispatch about meeting
held in London to discuss the causes Of
the high price of meat in that market is
partly explained by facts which appear
In the latest English papers. Govern
ment restrictions on the importation of
foreign cattle directly tend to keep up
the price of beef. These regulations are
now unsparingly enforced; and all cattle
arriving at English ports are quarantlned
for twelve hours, and il the foot-a and
mouth disease or any other malady show
itself in that time in single animal Of
the herd they are all destroyed. A
strange exception Uor which no sufficient
reason is given is made in favor Of Irish
cattle OF that kind. only the members
Of tho herd that are affected are killed,
the rest being ent to market. The Lon
don meeting adopted resolution pro
testing against such severe restrictions.
It il not improbable that the butchers
are at the bottom of this pnblc demon
stration, and that they aim to justify
their exorbitant rates by throwing the
whole blame on the Government. One
experiment in the supplying of fresh
meat for London is yet to be tried, That
10 the importation Of carcases from the
foreign cattle producing countries in fast
steamers. That this could be done there
is no doubt, after what we know of the
achievements Of refrlgerators. Whether
it would pay ia another question, which
the actual test only can answer.
Year: 1875

The following account of Garrick's


debut IS given in Percy Fitzgerald's 8


Romance of the English Stage"


"Garrick may be said to stand alone as


Offering the single instance oeimmediate


success He had indeed made an ex-


pertinent at Ipswich, but had appeared


only few times. 1t was a sort OF unli.


censed theater, whose rank was little


above that of music hall of our day,


that young man, of short stature, whose


name was suppressed, was announced as


about to make his first appearance on


any stage. The night was that of the


10Th Of October, l74l. The audience


was gathered from the purleus of the


East End, with a sprinkling Of private


friends. The play was Richard the


Third. On that Monday night the per.


formance began at o'clock, with few


pieces Of music. Then the curtain rose


on The Life and Death of King Richard
Third, and after the first scene, at that


nervous moment, the new actor came
from the wing. Macklin always talked
fondly Of this glorious night-the delight


he felt, the amazing surprise and wonder
at the daring novelty of the whole, and
yet, at the same time, the universal con.


vlcticn Of the audience that it was right.


1t was recollected, however, that when
the new player came upon the scene and
saw the crowded house he was diseon.
certed, and remained a few seconds
without being able to go on. But he re-
covered himself. No wonder it surprised
that audience-it was so new, and was
all new. The surprising novelty was re.
marked that he seemed to identify him.
self with the part They we're amazed
at his wonderful power OF feature. The
stupendous passions of Richard were
seen in his face before he spoke, and
outstripped his words. There was a per.
petual change and vivacity. One effect
at least overbore all hesitation, and
the delighted audience found relief
for their emotions in rapturous shouts
Of applause. 1t was when he flung
away the prayer book, after dsmissing
the deputation "a simple and most
natural action, yet marked with origi.
nality-and then the audience first
seemed to discover this was true genius
that was before them. When he came
to the latter defiant and martial phase
OF the character he took the audience
with him in tempest of enthusiasm.
What do they in the North was given
with such electric enthusiasm and savage
ness as to cause thrill to Autter around
the hearers; and when be came to the
effective clap-trap OFF with his head |
his visible enjoyment of the incident
was so marked that the audience burst
into loud shouts Of delight and approba.
ton. What night of deligh. to look |
back to On the following morning he
awoke and found himself famous. His
said the newspaper was one
Of the most extraordinary and great
that ever was seen on such an occasion.
Year: 1875

A school teacher in Umatilla county,
California, had pretty girl of sixteen
as a pupil. She entangled his heart
and then cruelty Tilted him. Thereupon
ne sought revenge Catching her in a
slight infraction of the rules, he swung
his birch branch aloft and commanded
her to stand up and be whipped. She
ran out of the door and like a deer
across the fields toward home; but her
tieetness was of short duration, and the
angry schoolmaster's hand soon grasped
her arm. Her courage had gone with
her wind, and she offered then and there
to kiss and make up il he wouldn t
whip her he declined to compromise,
led her back to the school house and
hogged her until blood came through the
back Of her dress. Her hour of exulta.
ton came when she saw him fined fifty
dollars for assault.
Year: 1875

If he receives her hand as token that
she is willing to go through fire with him,
as through life, the couple run hand in
hand toward the flame and attempt to
spring over or through it. A successful
spring is sure sign that the two young
people belong to one another; their love
has been allowed by fire. But should
any one chance to fall or stumble some
thing will probably cause their separa-
ton. The Pickering or smoking Of the
fire signifies that trials are in store for
the newly.formed alliance; but when the
flames rise up high and clear during
their leap, or crackle asthough rejoicing
over the agile pair, then the future life
may be commenced at once in peace and
security, for the midsummer fire has fore
told prosperity.
Year: 1875

There are now in the employ OF the
City Council five civil engineers and two
clerks. What all these gentlemen do is
what "fsllar can't find out" They re-
ceive as pay about $1,000 year. They
do nothing on the basin, very little sur
veying on the streets. and for their SER
vices in running building lines make
about $40 month, which they pay over
to the city. One city surveyor and an
assistant used to run all the building
lines and do all the surveying for about
81 900 a year, and this too when there
were as many houses built as there have
been for either of the last two years.
This shows how the propensity to in
crease the number Of salaried officers has
crept upon the people. Here is direct
loss 70 the city of at least the interest of
100000 per year. A Democratic Coun-
ell would never be allowed to keep such
a useless force. Certainly the city might
try to get along with one engineer and
an assistant these hard times.