smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875




CooKIEG FooD FOR SToCK.-The
writer of an essay published in the Re
ports of the Nebraska State Agricultu-
raj Society, says ! know, by experience,
that there is saving of fully one-third
the quantity, and when we consider the
thrift and rapid improvement of the
stock-one half of the value of cooked
material over raw. Most people think
it too much trouble. and loss of time,
to cook their stock feed, but this objec
tion is largely imaginative, and soon ov
ercome by the rapid and healthy growth
of the stock. An economical and prac-
tical cooker can easily be made after a
plan of Mr.. S. H. Clay, of Kentucky,
who builds an oven or pit on the ground
of brick, six to eight feet long, three
feet wide, and two feet high, II think
eighteen inches better height, with
chimney at one end. The pit is covered


with box of two-inch plank of the
above dimensions, with sheet iron bot
tom. This pit, if closely banked up.
will hold long time, and cook large
quantity of materials with very small
amount of fuel, and the whole cost viii
not exceed six or seven dollars. never


feed more than my stock will eat up


clean; after few times the feeder will
learn to graduate the amount to the
needs of his stock, and no more.
Year: 1875

Col. Waring, in Scribner for May, tells
the following incident of the drainage
of HARLEM Lake:


A curious phenomenon, however, oc-
CURED in connection with the outer dixie
of the canal on the east side of the lake,
where it crossed an area of floating soil
which bordered wide ponds near the vii
lage of Aalsmeer. An area of many
acres, detached by the canal from the
old works of defense against the lake,
found itself one fine day driven by the
tempest from the bank of the canal to
the other side of the pond. The pro-
prietor implored the aid of the commits
sion. His land had foated to the OPP
posise shore, widely separated from his
other fields, and resting on water thai
was not hia own. By the combined ef
fort of the proprietor and of the com
mission these fugitive fields were towed
back TO the borders Of the canal anC
pinned in place by piles and poles which
prevented them from undertaking an
] other voyage.
Year: 1875

A jump for life was what a man de-
cided to take while at work on the pile
driver at the Green Bay elevator He
occupied a position away up aloft, to
work the hammer, which occasionally


needed attention. While in this unen-
viable position, a huge pile was drawn


up by the machine, the hammer was up,
ready to drop on call, when the whole
pile driving machine began to sway.
The man aloft saw that it was gong
over. He took in the situation at a
glance. If he remained where he was,
il was to risk his life in the fall with the
ponderous hammer, weighing twenty-five
hundred pounds, an immense oaken pile
twenty or thirty feet long, and the
large timber of the machine. 1t all
flashed through his mind in an instant,
and turning upon the ladder, he made a
leap for his life landing upon the plat
form of the freight dock, thirty feet be-
low. The weight hammer went down
through the dock and the machine went
over on its side, but the man was safe.
His jump saved his life, and, aside from
little soreness in his back, he felt no
injury, and resumed his work next day.
Year: 1875

There was double service in Meth
odist church at Nottingham, Manitoba,
on recent Sunday. A quarrel had di-
vided the congregation, and each party
claimed to be dominant Each had call
ed new minister, and the two clergy
men were on hand to begin their labors.
The first TO arrive took possession of the
pulpit. and the other sat behind the
chancel rail. The man in the pulpit
gave out a hymn, the other man an
other, and both were sung confusedly
by the rival sections of the assembly
Then the man behind the railing started
off on his sermon, and the other began
to read chapter of Scripture. When
the reading was over, and it was plain
that the preaching vas going TO last
much longer, the partisans of the reader
sang another hymn, with a loud organ
accompaniment. The musical noise
drowned the voice of the clergyman in
the pulpit, but when it was over he was
found TO be preaching right along, az
though nothing unusual had happened.
The clergyman in the chancel, less cool,
was unable to fix his thoughts on dis
course, and so remained silent and beat
en-. At the close of this extraordinary
scene, deacon explained that il had
been enacted "under legal advice, and
to further the cause Of Christ"
Year: 1875

The statement that IL was probable
that the Pope would abandon Italy and
take up his official residence in the Un.
tied states is authoritatively denied by
the organs Of the Catholic Church in
this country. Since ls4o il has been
the settled policy of the Pope to remain
in Rome at all hazards. Nothing hut
force will ever drive him out Of it, and
should he ever be compelled TO leave
the Holy City, an asylum has already
been offered him at Malta. There are
no indications at present that the Italian
Government will attempt TO interfere
with his present residence.
Year: 1875

Az ANCIENT CUsroM.-The Indians
buried their dead with the head TO the
west, by which the body faced the ris-
ing sun and rose up with the feet to the
east in the happy hunting ground. The
custom is no doubt a very ancient one to
syDibolize a glorious dawn in the next
world, wherein the first 3eams Of the
rising sun shine upon the face Of the
sleeping dead, and wake them 10 their
fraura
Year: 1875

THE GARDEN OF CHIEA.-The
Cinnamon, who walk over bridges built
two thousand years ago, who cultivated
the cotton plant centuries before this
country was heard of, and who fed silk
worms before King Solomon but his
throne, have fifty thousand square miles
around Shanghai, which are called the
Garden Of China, and which have been
titled by countless generations. This
area is az large as New York and Penn
sylvania combined; is all meadow land,
raised but few feet above the river
lakes, rivers, canals complete net
work Of water communication, the land
under the highest tilth; three crops a
year harvested; population so dense that
wherever you look, you see men and
women in blue pants and blouse, so
numerous that you fancy some fair or
muster coming of, and all hands have
turned out for holiday.
Year: 1875

The New York milk dealers complain
that 50 much adulterated milk is being
sold as ~ render it almost impossible for
the honest men in the milk trade to secure
an adequate return for their labor. The
farmers, on the other hand, who furnish the
milk, say that As the milk trade is now
managed they are unable to realize any pro-
fit "on account of the competition OF the
INSCRIPTIONS dealers, and the swindling of
middlemen." Whether the weight of the
blame for adllterating the milk lies
with the farmers-middlemen, or dealers,
has not yet been ascertained. But ef
forts are being made to secure the passage
of bill in the New York and New jersey
legislatures to provide for a system of milk
inspection which will render the progress
Of adulteration extremely difficult As well
as highly dangerous to either farmers, mid
dlemen, or dealers. 1t is estimated that in
New York, Jersey City and Hoboken the
daily consumption of milk is $40, ,000quarts,
and that nearly 100000 quarts OF this are
more or less adulterated. Reform in this
matter is much needed.
Year: 1875

The smart young men" of New Orleans
are trying to annoy General Phil. Sheridan
by studied insults, show OF contempt" {"
and all that ''chivilaric" sort of thing, on
the streets and in the hotels. Those of us
who know Little Phil" cannot but smile
at the idea OF his being bothered in that
way. No man in the world has better
appreciation OF gentlemanly conduct than
General Sheridan, and no man is so little
disturbed in his equanimity by the bark OF
a dog or the teeth-showing OF puppies as he
is. The New Orleans white Ieaguers'
have yet to learn what General Sheridan is
made of. To be "treated with contempt
by them must be to him an exceedingly en-
joyable joke.
Year: 1875

No one question at this time commands
greater attention from our people than that
of providing for the destitute and suffering.
Ii we have them in our city, our county, OF
our State it is our plain duty to provide for
their immediate wants. We have no right
to permit them TO want for the wherewith
TO keep them comfortable. II has been
proved beyond dispute that destitution ex-
lists in the frontier counties Relief has
! gone to them and more is following. 1t is
also plain that cold d-blooded, heartless indi-
viduals will seek to enrich themselves, under
pretense of aiding the distressed. We have
no doubt that the bill now before our Leg
islature is being pressed by those who hope
TO have the handling of the funds and in
tend to make a fat haul, as it is said Pom.
eroy did. At any rate, the manipulators
have heretofore used all such means TO pro-
mote their political schemes. Wetrust the
bill will be defeated. The question Of des-
titution in our own county has caused much
feeling. Some assert that there is none,
while many OF our best citizens assert from
their own personal knowledge of the facts
that destitution does exist, to the extent
hat help is needed. We know that in any
arge city, like ours, more CT less of the
poor need assistance every winter, and that
his winter there are more such cases than
usual. The wants Of the county ought TO
be supplied by our own people, if possible.
We are rich, and cannot afford TO allow out
iders to help, but if We do not provide for
he destitute within our limits, we must not
complain If the needy go where they can
get aid.


We trust our people will respond liber-
ally to the calls for aid from the commit
tees who are now in our city soliciting con-
tributions. 1t is true, you have been called
upon almost daily for the past ninety days,
by almost everybody, vet We say again,
from your abundance give to the poor and
needy, and the Lord will repay you.
Year: 1875

This morning we call the attention Of
our readers to an extract from the annual
report of the Commissioners OF Public In
stitution,, relating 10 the workings, IN anage-
ment and usefulness of st. Vincent's Or
phan Asylum.


No one has ever visited this institution
without being impressed with the kind and
unceasing care the Sisters of Charity take
of the little orphans suddenly left, by dis
pensation of Providence, to their charge.
From the report We learn that there were
sixty orphans clothed and fed during the
past year, and many were reluctantly sent
away by the kind Sisters, there being no
room for them. The only revenue the
Asylum has enjoyed has been that derived
from small sums generously contributed,
and a $500 appropriation from the State,
which was used to deiray the expenses of
purchasing lots, and of erecting comfort
able, though not very large, building. OF
course we all know that the Sisters have to
struggle very hard in order TO provide food
and clothing for these helpless children.


And this winter being unusually cold,
and money exceedingly tight the Sisters
have deprived themselves of even the ne
cessaries of life, in order to shield these
little ones from the rude blasts OF a north
ern climate. Only nine boys and girls have
died since the foundation of the orphanage
an evidence of the care received bv those
who have been deprived of father or
mother, or, perhaps, both. There is now
in the Asylum more than one little one who
was at his mothers breast when she was
called away TO another land.


The statement of receipts and expendi-
tures shows that the institution is nearly a
thousand dollars in debt, Notwithstanding
the economy of the managers. We hope
that the Sisters will be encouraged in their
good and unselfish labors, that their sphere
of labor may be enlarged, and in order 10
do this, they must and undoubtedly will
receive the generous support Of charitable
persons of every del omination and creed.
Year: 1875

Talk as much as We may about COVE, n
mental policy and political maneus usering
what the future Of our country is to be, de-
pends far more upon the manner in which We
educating the rising genera ions, than up
On anything else. To every citizen,therefore,
whose interest in Affairs extends, in any de-
gree, beyond the limits Of his door-yard, ~
poFts Of what is doing in the educational
line cannot fail to be of great interest.


We have been favored With copy Of the
last annual report Of the Superintendent Of
Public Instruction Of the State of Kansas.
In this report is muc6 material statistical
information of the educational work that
was done in the State in the year 1874.


Let Us look at some Of the leading facts
which the report develops.


During the year, IS, ,59S persons were
enrolled n the public schools; average
Year: 1875

The editor OF the Atchison Ratria objects
to the proposed road from this city to the
penitentiary. OF fcourse nobody pays any
attention to his whining, but it Just shows
how obstinate and ungrateful man can be
when he desires. We can assure him that
the bill was introduced with a wise fore
thought, to prepare and make easy the
road he win travel sometime, ii he does no,
stop upholding the White Leaguers and
their wicked and corrupt abet.ors in the
North.
Year: 1875

The late Emperor of China went through
his little ite-day at such a rate that one
might think his sceptre was q rush and his
throne rush-bottomed one As everybody
knows, he was very young when he was
born; at 5 he became ruler, at IA father,
and at 19 he died, leaving his vast Empire
to his own little son as it was left to HIM
self fourteen years ago.
Year: 1875

We hope the editor OF the Hiawatha Ad.
rocate will excuse US for chasing him with
the supporters of the White Leaguers. Our
error does not justify the unkind remarks
he makes of us. The Adrooaie is a good
paper, and is very independent in tone.
Year: 1875

The Democrats have elected TO the Sen.
ate and House Of the next Congress eighty
five men who were active rebels during the
war. At this rate, the Democrats, ii given
achance, will iE two or three years more
transform the Congress of the United States
into the Congress of the Confederate
Statesn
Year: 1875

no matter how many laws may be enac,ed,
unless they are enforced. The negro has a
perfect constitutional right to send his
child to school the same as any other citi-
zen has as the laws now stand, but who in
the south will enforce them? If Congress
shall pass score of civil rights bills, who
will enforce them? Will the people Of the
south do so? When fire freezes we may
look for some such result. IL the people of
the southern States will not enforce thee
laws, who will?- Shall Grant send The
army among them? Remember New Or
leans oh you fertile in denunciatory resolu-
tons, and lay your hands on your mouth


for you Enow theywould howl like
Year: 1875

We hear of touching incident in
connection with the present temporary
embarrassment of the Tool Company,
which We venture to refer to, as illus
trative of the best phase of human ma
ture; manifested at time, too, when
kindly sentiment is so liable to be OBJ
scured by cold calculation or unreas-
enable distrust. On Friday afternoon
Mr.. Anthony, the president of the Tool
Company, was surprised in the midst
of his labors with the committee of
examination by the quiet presentation
of communication from the en-
ployees of the company, expressing
their sympathy and good will, and
propose in view of the temporary en-
bsrrasshents of the company, to vol
UNFAIRLY and cheerfully relinbuish all
claim TO wages due for the present
month of December. This PROPOSE
tion was spontaneously signed. we
hear, by nearly all the men in the
various shops, and implies the relin-
quishment of something like ninety
Thousand dollars in well earned wages
We sincerely trust that the exigency
of affairs will not prove to be such as
to require any sacrifice of this kind on
thepart of the noble spirited employees
T rortde-lce Journal,
Year: 1875

The famous confidential letter of Prince
Bismarck to Count Won Arnim upon the
election of the next Pope--the disclose
ure of the contents of which, by Won Ar
MIN, was one of the principal causes
which led to his arrest and subsequent
punishlaent-has at last been published.
In this letter Bismark assumes the fact
that sooner or later the old Pope will die
and new Pope must be elected, and that
Germany has an interest in this election
as she has large number of Catholic
subjects, and as the Vatican Council by
its recent DEGREES as to Papal infallibility
and jurisdiction has completely changed
the relations Of the Pope to his Bishops,
and priests, and to the people. He there
fore contends that the governments Of Eu-
rope should ascertain whether the elec.
tion and the person elected would afford
any guarantees that these prerogatives
would not be abused, and have mutual
understanding with each other, so as to
prevent any serious complications grow.
ing out of such election. The particular
request conveyed in the letter is that
Count Won Arnim, as the representative
of Germany, shall ascertain from the
Italian government whether it would feel
disposed to exchange views with the Ger:
man government upon this question, and
especial caution is imposed upon the
Count to treat the. letter and its contents
with discretion. 0
Year: 1875

Would it not be wise, asks tue Poultry
Review, to substitute more eggs for meat
in our daily diet? About one third Of the
weight of an egg is solid nutriment. This
is more than can be said Of meat. There
arc no bones and tough pieces that have
to be laid aside. A good egg is made up
of ten parts shell, sixty parts white, and
thirty parts yolk. The white of an egg
contains Sc per cent water, the yolk So
per cent. The average weight of an eg is
about 2 ounces. Practically an egg is
animal food, and yet there is none of the
disagrceable work of the butcher neces-
sary to obtain it. Eggs are best when
cooked four minutes. This takes away
the animal taste that is offensive to some,
but does not harden the white or yolk as
to make them hard to digest


An egg if cooked very hard is difficult
Of digestion, except by those with stout
stom achs; such eggs should be beaten
with bread and masticatcd very finely.
An excellent sandwich can he made with
eggs and brown bread. An egg spread
ON toast is food fit for king, if kings de-
serve any better food than anybody else,
which is doubtful. Fried eggs are less
wholesome than boiled ones. An egg
dropped into hot water, is not only clean
but handsome and delicious morsel.
Most people spoil the taste of their eggs
by adding pepper and salt. A little sweet
butter is the best dressing. Eggs contain
much phosphorus, which is supposed to
be useful to- those who use their brains
much
Year: 1875

A gentleman who had experience in the
method for raising potatoes hereinafter
described, voechcs for its entire success,
if pursued according to directions, and
being simple, cheap, and extraordinary
economical so far as the demand for room
is concerned, it can be tried With profit
everywhere, and especially in sections
where the Colorado bug makes the pota-
to crop uncertain, no matter how favora-
BILE the season may be for the growth Of
that indispensable product. The plan is
as follows:


cat the usual time Of planting, get a
crate, such as crockery is usually import
ed in, and place it where the sun can
shine upon it. In the bottom place about
six inches Of straw and upon this surface
plant small potatoes, about six inches
apart. Then put in another laying Of
straw, and potatoes as before, and contin-
NC until the crate is full. Give the whole
a complete wetting and thereafter every
few days, water the top tayer. The yield
Will astonish any one. Land is so cheap
in Minnesota that economy Of space is
not necessary, but try the experiment just
to see the beauty and quantity of the
growth. The potatoes, when large enough
for use, can be taken out by hand, and
will be found to be free from dirt and
with skins so thin as to be easily rcmov-
ed by rubbing. The writer has seen very
fine potatoes raised in this way on ship
board. The light of the sun is not nec-
essary, but with it the yield is larger. Try
the experiment and you can bid defiance


to the potato bugs. y st. Paul Press.
Year: 1875

New Jersey has produced scoundrel
who might, with experience, rival tho
Tichborne claimant. A farmer living
there had occasion to visit bis parental
home at the East for Thanksgiving, with
his family, and so he hired a man to live
in his house and look after the farm and
stock in his absence No sooner had the
family departed than the fellow selected
a fine, large hog, killed and dressed it,
and sent it to market, where he sold 1t,
He then went to Brooklyn, where he mar
ricd girl. whom he took to the farm, tel-
ling her he had just bought it for $4,000.
He lived there with his bride until the
time for the farmers return, when he told
his wife that his mother, who lived in
Elizabeth, was sick, and he should have
to go and see her. He went. That day
the farmer returned, and the deserted wife
found herself homeless Her rascally
husband has not been heard from since.
She has gone home to Brooklyn to repent
at leisure over the marriage she made in
haste. a ss.s.,s5' LIS
Year: 1875

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IT is not when children are with you;
it is not when you see and hear them that
they are most to you; it is when the sad
is gone; it is when the daises
have resumed their growing again in the
place where the little form was laid; it is
when you have carried your treasure out
and said farewell, and come home again
and day and night are full of memories;
it is when summer and winter arc full Of
touches and suggestion of them; it is
when you cannot look up toward heaven
without thinking Of them, or look down
toward yourself and not recall them ;ssit is
when they have gone out of your arms
and are living TO you only by the power
Of irresistible thought, that they arc tho
most to you. The invisible children arc
the most real Chill ldren--th children that
touch our hearts as no hands Of flesh ever
could touch them.
Year: 1875

The enterprise Of yOnng America has.
been written and taI ked about for years.
still there are grades Of opinion in regard
to young Americas sharpness, and anon.
those who have been most struck with the
#precosity Of the rising generation is De-


tectiyc Kennock Of the United States se-
Icret service, New York. a few days ago
q small boy applied At the secret service
office on Bleccker street, and said that he
knew of man who had counterfeit mon
ey to sell. The boys story was apparent
IL reliable and Detective kcnnock was
detailed to effect a capture of the counter
feiter, with the aid Of the youth bringing


information. At a specified time the de-
tective accompanied the boy to the ap-
pointed place and there Instantly rccog.


Dized one COTE, an old offender. to whom


he was well known. He had barely time


to give the boy roll Of bills in good mon-
to exchange for counterfeit and conceal
himself, when the counterfeiter came up
and began negotiations with the young in
former. The boy agreed with Coffee to
give certain sum in good money for =
certain number of counterfeits, and receiv-
ed the latter, when, instead of handing


over the genuine notes, he cut and ran.
At this juncture the detective sprang out
and arrested the countcrfeitcr, and then


waited for the return of the boy. But the


boy didn't come. He had passed away


like morning mist, and they couldn't
find him any more. He had the genuine


money with him and the counterfeit too.
and the detective and the rogue were
equally disguised at the turn Of afairs.
+ Since the arrest the counterfeitekh has been
discharged, from want of evidence against


him, and thus the last drop of bitterness
is added to the cup of the chagrined de-
tective. He wouldn't trust his own baby


now, so thoroughly is he convinced of the


moral obliquity of young America.