smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1871

As means of keeping the skin moist
glycerine is uneQualed, and there is no
better preventive Of chapped hands, and
no better application to hands that are
chapped. 1t renders the skin soft, tlcxi-
bic, clear, and white, and is said, though
with how much truth We do not know, to
prevent freckles. AS an article for use in
the nursery glycerine is invaluable. 1t is
altogether the best application for chafed
surfaces, though many ladies have been
disappointed in its use from not having
followed certain directions, which will be
hereafter noted. 1t never. becomes rancid
like oil, nor does it turn sour, like vegeta-
be or sugary solutions. This is due in
large measure to the fact that it does not
absorb ANYTHING from the air, nor does it
even permit the access Of air, to anything
! immersed in it. This popularity Of gly-
cerine has caused it to be quite extensively
used in the preservation of fruits and veg
etablcs Another application of glycerine,
| which falls in the same category, is its
value when mixed with cements We all
know the difficulty Of causing labels and
similar objects to stick to glass or highly
vanished articles when the latter are ex-
posed to the continued drying action a
very warm ROOM The gum or paste dries
up aud cracks off, thus produciI 6 very
serious annoyance. One or two drops Of
! elyccrinc, in small bottle Of mucilags
will entirely prevent this result. We
must beware, however, of adding too much
Civ ycerine, or the cement will fail to harden
at all.


The property which has caused most
annoyance in the use of glycerine is it's
strong affinity for water. Although gly-
cerine has pleasant, sweetish taste, yet
the first sensation that is felt when it is
applied to the tongue is one of pain and
burning. This is caused by the fact that
the glycerine absorbs all the moisture from
the surface that it touches and thus dries
it up and parchcs the nerves. Ignorant of
this fact, nurses and mothers have applied
pure glycerine to- the chating skin of in.
fants, and produced great pain. The gly-
cerine ought to have been first mixed with
an equal bulk of water, or at least with so
much as would remove its burning action
on the sense Of taste. This being done it
may be applied to most tender surfaces
without producing injury, and as it does
not dry up, virtually maintains the parts
in constantly moist condition, excluding
the air and promoting the healing process.
We may hint to the ladies that small
quantity poured into the shaving cups of
their husbands, brothers. or friends will
prove pleasant addition, preventing en-
tirely any possibility Of the lather drying
j: or hardening.-Ha7per's Baser.
Year: 1871

Let the person whose name you wish to
know inform you in which of the up
right columns Inc first letter Of his name
is contained. II it be found in but one
column, it is the top letter; if it occurs in
more than one, it is fund by adding the
alphabetical numbers of the top letters of
these columns, and the sum will he the
number Of the letter sought. by taking
one letter at time, in this way,
the whole can he ascertaincd. For exam.
Pile, take the word Jane: J is found in the
Two Two columns commencing with B and II,
which are the second and eighth letters
Gown the alphabet; their sum ten, and
inc tenth letter down the alphabet is },
the letter sought. The next letter, A, ap-
pears IN but one column, it stands at the
| top - seen in the columns headed B,
d, and H; these are the second, fourth,
ana eighth letters of the alphabet, which,
added, give the fourteenth, or N, and so
on. The use Of this table will excite no
little curiosity among those unacquaintcd
with the foregoing explanation.
Year: 1871

"To-day!" A small word, and appa.
rently of but little meaning; but how the
ages agOne or those of the future would
grasp at it! We who are enjoying all it's
blessings, with its few trifiing disadvan.
tags, know not the priceless value of the
day in which we live. Mankind views
Time as it does gallery of choice treas
ures-from the threshold. We always re-
member our feelings when we first look
on entering, or when last we gaze on de-
parting. All the joys of examing each
treasure, or gazing on each curiosity, are
swallowed up in the other great waves Of
feeling. Mankind truly lives only in the
cradle and the grave: The lives, the loves,
and the blisses are less acute than the
prophecy and the memory. How import
ant, then, that we justify the prophecy of
the past, and ask for the memory Of the
future! The world is brighter or darker
in view of the life of every nation; and
within that nation, of every individual.
Each person lives, not alone for himself,
but for the world. Though not possessed
of the genius of a Shakespeare, the states
manship Of Washington, nor the angel
hood OF a Nightingale, to electrify the ad


miration of the world, there are subtler
modes Of moving the world; there are
more invisible chords that vibrlte till
they awake the symphonies Of the worlds
great heart. The air is full of the latter,
and they run from each human soul all
through the great soul Of the universe.
Aud the touch that moves them is the
magnetic throb of the human heart. Be
the thoughts, the aspirations and the lives
good or evil. just so they affect the great
center of all life; even as the barometer
feels and notes the changes in the
atmosphere, and indicates ihe same upon
its face. Should every man, woman. and
child, act, only for one year, up to their
highest realization of right, justice, and
religion. how wonderful would be the re-
suit! And the only way to inaugurate
such movement is for each person to
wait not long for his or her neighbor, but
to act Immediately, act independently,
and trus; to the future for the fruit; and
it will be ripe and wholesome. Yesterday
may serve for vantage ground, but not
for a model: tomorrow may be needed,
but not worshipped; to-day is the reality
demanding all our hopes and labors; our
strivings, successes, and failures; our
laughter and sorrow. All these things are
the material with which the structure of
to-day is reared; be they noble, high, and
holy, the building will be graceful and at
tractive in its proportions; be they base,
grOveling and sensual, it will be lost il
the dirt and ruin of its age, or, if left, will
be perpetual monument of disgrace. O
man, realize the importance of to day, and
that your every action goes to decorate or
mutilate the grand structure now building
around you. Each thought, each hope,
each aspiration, helps mold niche, or
carve cornice, or shape pedestal. How
important, then, that you live up to the
demand of the age, and to the standard
built up by your own enlightened mind
and iudgmentl-Neao Era.
Year: 1871

How TO Know WHEN TIMOTHY SEED
is GeeD.-Will old timothy seed grow
This auestionis often asked and for the
benefit of my fellow farmers l will give
them an item worth knowing. Take 9
piece of paper and pour a thin layer of seed
upon it, then set the paper on fire.. If the
seeds In burning make . swapping noise as
though the seeds were bursting, they viii
grow. But if the paper burns up without
any cracking noise, discard the seed as
worthless, as the germ is without vitality.
-SUBscRIBnR.-Cin. GdSette.. s
Year: 1871

The Germans of this city will celebrate the
Peace Jubilee on Monday evening, the 10th Of
April, in q social meeting at Turner'S Hall
Brief addresses pertinent to the occasion will be
made by members of the Turn Verein. after
which ball will be given under the direction
of committee appointed to superintend the
evenings exercises No public display of:any
kind will be attempted.
Year: 1871

The ticking of the clock at the Cam
bridge Observatory can be heard in San
Francisco. This is done by conneeting the
pendulum of the clock to the telegraphic
wire in such manner that the main cir
cult is broken and instantly closed again
at every swing of the pendulum.
Year: 1871

\ young man once picked up a
sovereign lying on the road. Ever
afterward. as he walked along, he
kept his eye steadily fixed on the
ground, in the hope of finding an
other. And, in the course of long
life, he did pick up, at different
times. a good amount of gold and
silver. But all these days, as he was
looking for them, he saw not that
heaven was bright above him and
nature was beautiful around. He
never once allowed his eyes to look
up from the mud and filth in which
he sought the treasure, and when he
died, Il rich old man. he only knew
this fair earth of ours as a dirty
road to pick up money as you walk
along.


In dressing for photographs, dark
brown. dark green, maroon, and
plain black goods, without gloss,
will make a rich drab color. Silks.
Of the same colors, Will take consid-
erabIy lighter. Snuff brown, dark
leather, dark drab, scarlet, cherry.
dark orange. crimson. and slate. will
also take a rich Irab color. Violet,
blue, purple. pink. and magenta will
take very light, and should be avoid
ed. The hair should not be very wet
or glossy.
Year: 1871

ST. Louis, April 27.-The National
Executive committee, appointed BY the
National Convention, held in Gncin-
natl in October, 1870, to promote the
removal Of the National Capital to some
proper place in the Mississippi valley,
announce that it has been determined
not to call another convention of the
friends of the removal of the Capital,
until next year


The reason Of this decision is that it
is deemed best to postpone further public
efforts for its removal until the spportion-
ment of representatives under the re-
cent census, to be made by the present
Congress, shall have given to the CEN
trail and western portions OF the union
that just right in national legislation TO
which that proportion entities them.
The committee announce that they will
continue to use all their influence to
hasten the removal Of the National
Capital. and express the belief that sue
cess will finally crown their efforts.
Year: 1871

Found Guilty OF Murder.


San Francisco April 26.-The jury
in the case Of Laura D. Fair, for the
murder of A. P. Critteuden, remained
ont forty minutes and returned ver-
dict of gully Of murder in the first
degree. The prisoner appeared some,
what paler than usual when taken from
the court room, otherwise she was I'M
moved. 1t may not be improper to say
now that this verdict, until within the
last week, was not generally believed
possible, nearly everybody expecting
the trial to prove perfect farce, and
ending in the acquittal of the prisoner
or the disagreement of the jury. Nine
tenths OF the community regard the
verdict as a just and proper vindication
of the law, and rebuke to the doctrines
put forth by the defense in the case.
Year: 1871

PorTsvILLE, Pa, April 27.-Every-
thing at Hickory Shaft is favorable.
The different batteries which were put
in to prevent the egress Of air are now
unapproachable on account OF the cor
bonic acid gas, being just the result
which was hoped would be. Very lit
tie air, which is escaping from the air
shaft, extinguished the lamp at once
There is every indication that the whole
mine is filled with this gas, and that
the fire must in little while be out if
il is not already.
Year: 1871

salaries for the past two years, and can
not 20 beyond the time Of the first as,
sessment under the income clause OF
the revenue law. OF course reguia-
ton Of the Treasury cannot override
the law in such an instance, but 1t will
take time to remove the objection.
Year: 1871

The Commissioner OF Patents, to-day,
decided in an erpartt case on an appeal
that under the Patent law a trade
mark could be registered when it con
sisted Of a mere arrangement Of words
without an accompanying device or
figure
Year: 1871

The Internal Revenue Bureau has
come to the conclusion that it cannot
limit the application of the Supreme
Courts decision in the case OF Bufflng-
ton VS.. Day, to any class OF State Of
ficers. as will appear by the following
letter addressed to Supervisor Fucker,
today, by General Pleasenton.
Year: 1871

which marked the trail, together with
the unmistakable evidence that he had
picked his way with difficulty. / was
lead to believe he was mortally
wounded, and in oruer to prevent his
body from falling into the hands of his
white foe he had groped his way to
the river, and thrown himself into the
current which bore him away.


"The Indians had killed my COW,
and that you may be assured was no
trifling loss, yet in my gratitude for
my escape from the merciless savages
| would have been entirely willing to
have made greater sacrifices. / was
we'll provided, (by means of the arms
and ammunition taken from the six In
dians) in case of a second attack, but
this fortunately, proved to my last ad-
venture with the savages. Not one of
the band had escaped to tell the tale
to incite his bretheren to revenge the
death of his comrades.


"AhW exclaimed the old man, while
the tears gushed from his eyes at the
memory of that eventful night, "that
was a glorious shot-the best l ever
made"


The hero of this adventure lived t.
see his rude wilderness, whore he had
pitched his homely cabin transformed
into smiling fields and peopIed by har-
dy and enterprising pale-faces among
whom his last days were passed in
peace and plenty, undisturbed by the
presence of his old time foes.
Year: 1871

Mr.. Hufnagle purchased an elephant
in India, and brought him home under
the care of native keeper. The de-
sign was to teach him to do farm work.
When the animal arrived it was as
certained that he could not, or would
not, do such labor, and so he was put
in the stable of country hotel, near
New Hope, where he consumed enough
sustenance to bankrupt man Of ordl-
nary wealth.


One day his keeper died suddenly,
and, as nobody else knew how to man
age the elephant, it was found impossi
BILE to get him out of the stable. The
landlord raved, and swore, and tore his
hair about it, but threre that elephant
stuck, with the manifest intention OF
staying till the day of judgment, and
Of battering down the stable unless he
was fed.


At last the landlord said that the
elephant must be got rid Of somehow
or other, if he had to blown through
the roof with gunpoder. So an effort
was made to sell him, and menugerie
man was induced to buy him for two
thousand dollars. This man determin-
ed to bring that elephant right along
with strategy. He got car on the
railroad track near by, and after fixing
a bridge to it, he lined the floor with
a bushel or two of apple, gingerbread,
oranges, etc. Then he made regular
pathway of apples and cake all the
way from the stable to the car. 1t cost
him two hundred dollars for bait. The
elephant following the trail slowly,
eating it up clean as he went up on
the platform over the bridge, and got
his fore feet in the car, with his hind
legs still on the bridge, and he gorging
himself all the time. The menagerie
stood there, expecting every minute he
woulu go clear into the car and finish
the thing up; but instead of this, the
miserable beast stood still, and with
his trunk reached all over the car, and
ate every solitary thing in it. Then
he turned and swooped down the road
at the rate Of twelve miles an hour.
The landlord, meanwhile, was so glad
to get rid of the beast, that he had
asked all hands in to take something
in honor of tbs event. The party were
just putting their glasses tn their lips,
when a smash was heard at the barn
yard gate, and laundering crash in
dicated that the stable door was knock
ed inte diminutive flinders. The crowd
rushed out, and there was that very
same elephant in the very same old
place!


The landlord was so mad that he
couldn't swear with sufficient vigor to
satisfy his feelings. Next morning
Hufnagle's elephant was found dead,
and there was thought to be some con
nection between this circumstance and
the fact that the landlord was seen
rolling barrel of rat-poison up an
adjacent hill upon the previous even
ing.
Year: 1871

"A dealer in agricultural tools out
in Iowa, aud German by birth, went
to Fatherland, last spring, taking along
a reaper and mower of the most APP
proved pattern, and put it to practical
use at once. The old and young gath
by hundreds to see it work, for they
have only the Gld-fashioned clumsy
scythe, and the old wood mold-board
pillow. But when they saw twenty
acres of grass cut in seventeen hours,
they were completely astonished, and
confessed such a machine run with a
little oil was completely ahead of
their tools backed by unlimited sup
plies Of lager.
Year: 1871

"A Youth cleaning up San Fran
cisco printing office found a keg of
black sand. Another boy bet him the
spruce gum that 1t was powder, and
he took the bet. A coal of fire was
gently but firmly dropped into the keg.
There was 90 Insurance on the building.
The two expefimental youths are sup
posed TO have gone into the country
looking for n spruce gum.
Year: 1871

OFF ON A PROSpECT.-FrOm the Elko Inde


pendent of Sept. 9th, we learn that party OF


twelve men, we'll armed and equipped, left


Elko a short time ago, on a prospecting tour


IN the eastern portion of Wyoming Territory


south of the Union Pacific Railroad. The ex.
pediton was gotten up by u young man who
stated that, several years ago, while engaged
in getting out ties for the railroad in the sec
tion of the country Indicated he found on the
surface of the ground Jumps of heavy vel
lowsh substance. to which he paid no particu
lar attention, except to observe its great
weight; but, being green cHigrant, and never
having seen any gold dust, he did not think of
finding gold. The Indians drove him away
from where he was cutting the ties, and he
followed along the line of the road, finally
reaching California. where, finding out what
gold dust lnoked like, he has been ever since
working for n stake to enable him to return
and prospect the place where he found what
he is now confident was gold
Year: 1871

A HONOLULU paper relates that rs a native
man and wcman were out fishing on reef q
shark appeared and attacked the man, and by
successive bites took off his arms and his legs
that the woman made for the shore with the
lilnbless trunk of her husband; that she reached
1t in saftty and that the man still lives. To
this is added the statement that the story is
told on the authority Of policeman at Walki-
XII, otherwise 1T would be difficult Of belief"
Year: 1871

SUPERSTITION. superstitious woman
made application to the coroner, at Virginia
City, Nevada. f"r the rope with which Kirk
was hung by the vigilantes. She got it, but
what in the world she wants with it is more
than anybody can tell
Year: 1871

Mr.. Fulger, meditative Buffalonian
who had faith in his ability to navigate
the upper air, set about making himself
wings for the erial experiment. Time
and study have been lavishly expended,
and the other day he had completed the
desired wings and resolved to visit the
heavens just over Detroit He called
the newspaper reporters to witness his
flight heavenward, and promised to send
kilograms from great distance in an
hour or two. When a select audience
was assembled the flyer fastened upon
his shoulders two wings, each above
seven feet in length and three feet eight
inches at the broadest part, tapering
thence downward like an eagles wing.
At the lower part of the wing was piece
of cork about six inches square; from
this eight strips of rattan, not quite as
large around as a lead pencil, ran the
whole length bound together at certain
places with light wires. AT the butt each
rattan was fastened to the cork with a
small screw. The wings were made to
fasten directly under the arms, stout
cords running up over the shoulders to
hold them. They were covered with an
oil skin flament, and the weight of the
two was just two pounds and half
On the upper side of each wing, where
the hands could handily grasp them,
strip of stout rubber was fastened, and
the flying was to be done by the man
grasping these hands and working the
wings up and down, the hands first push
ing and then pulling. When expectation
had reached its highest pitch, the ero-
naut mounted barn, spread his wings,
and tucked upward, but the wings some
how got tangled, and he communed with
the stars on the green sward for few
moments by standing on his head
Year: 1871

Only to listen-listen and wait
For his slow. firm step down the gravel walk
To hear the click of his hand at the gate,
And feel every heart beat through careless


talk.


All! love is sweet when love is young.
And life and love are both so long.
Only to watch hin. about the room,,


lighting it up with his quiet smile,
That seems to lift the world out of gloom,
And bring Heaven nearer me-for awhile,
A little while-since love is young,


And life is beautiful as long.
Only 20 love hlm-nothing more;


Never thought of his loving me;
Proud Of him, glad in him. though he bore
My heart to shipwreck on his smooth sea,
Loves faith sees only grief, not wrong,
And life is daring when tbs young.
All mel what matter? The world goes round
And bliss and bale are both outside things
never can lose what in him found.
Though love be sorrow with half-growr


wing:


And if love flies when We are young,
Why, life Is still not long-not long.
And Heaven is kind to the faithful heart;.
And if we are patient. and brave and calm
Our fruits will last, though our powers depart
Some day when sleep with folded palm,
No longer fair, no longer young, At tHI
Life may not seem so bitter long.
The tear dried up in her shining eyes.


Her parted lips took a sanity peace;
His shadow across the doorway lies,


With her doubts gather, darken. cease;
When hearts are pure. and bold aud strong,
True love as life itself is long.
Year: 1871

From the New York Tines


The victims of cancer who have been
anxiously looking forward to time not
far distant when they would be able to
procure supply Of the South American
specific, cundurango," will be pleased
to learn that DIR. d. NJ. Bliss, of Wask-
ington, expects very soon to obtain a
sufficient quantity to furnish all who
may be in need Of it. Hon. A. II. Latin,
Naval Officer at this port, made applica-
tion few days ago, in behalf of g friend,
for some of the specific, and in reply
DR.. Bliss wrote, on the 10Th instant, that
he had none to spare. He says: re-
ceive but small quantity at a time,
and it being my purpose to treat few
cases here, where they can be
under my own immediate observation,
it will be impossible for me to
send any of it away. The remedy, as
well as myself, having been attacked, /
desire to demonstrate to the public what
it will do, which necessitates the above
course" In a circular note, however,
the doctor says he expects to receive a
sufficient quantity by the LIST, or the
18th of August at the farthest, to sup
ply the profession or the public as they
may desire. He says that enough has
been developed by its use to assure him
that it is the most powerful Alternative
ever in the hands of the profession, and
that it possesses a specific influence
over the poison of cancer, " From the
statements of the physicians of Quinto,
and my own experience in its use, am
convinced that the cundurango is
quite as reliable as specific in cancer,
scrofula and other blood diseases as
cinchona and its alkaloid have proved
to be in zymotic diseases"
Year: 1871

always gone heartily in for the British en-
pire abroad, may come forth triumphant The
opportunity is in every respect favorable. We
can think Of no nation which would object to
the purchase. The war cloud, which for a
time rested over the north Of Europe and
threatened to disturb the relations between
Germany and Austria on the one hand and
Russia on the other, has evaporated. In the
political horizon to the northeast of Europe
the sky is clear; and as it is for the present
the only point of the compass which Great
Britain requires to observe with any anxiety,
the present administration will dsappoint the
empire and ruin its own hopes If it is not
found equal to the emergency. II is not to be
imagined that the Suez Canal can fall into the
hands of either Russia or Germany. With
the Suez Canal in the hands of Great Britain,
and with the Panama Canal in our hands, the
future of the world is in Anglo-Saxon hands.
This is what should be. If England fails we
shall be disappointed.