smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

A farmers wife wrote from Venice,
Cayuga county, New York, telling
the farmers club how to keep meat
fresh long time: "Thero is no
good reason why farmers and their
families should eat 80 much salt
pork, leaving all tho fresh meat to
the Inhabitants Of cities and villages
whom the following method will. keep


meat fresh for weeks, even in the
warmest weather. know, for l have
used it for n'ore than ton years. AS
soon as the animal heat is out of The
meat slios it up ready for cooking.
Prepare u large jar by soalding we'll
" th hot and salt water. Mix salt
AMI pulverized spltpetre to ono
teacupful Of salt, cover the bottom
Of the jar with a sprinkling Of salt
and pepper. Put down a layer OF
meat, sprinkle with salt and pepper,
the same as if just going to tho table
and continue in this manner until the
jar is full. Fold cloth or towel
and wet it in strong salt and water,
IN which little saltpetre is dissolved.
Press the cloth closely over the meat
and set in cool place. Be sure and
press tho cloth on tightly as each
lsyer is removed, and your meat
will keep for months. 1t is good
plan to let the meat lie over night,
utter it is sliced, before packing.
Then drain off the blood that ooxo,
from it. It will be necessary to
change the cloth oooasi onally, or take
it off and wash it, frat in cold water,
then scald in salt and water, as ut
first. In this way farmers can have
fresh meat the year round. l have
kept beef that wa killed tho 18th Of
February till tho 2lst of June. Then
L packed lurge quarter of vealin the
same way during the dog days, and
it kept six weeks" This recipe
alone is worth tho price of any news.
paper in the land.
Year: 1875

The Augusta Constitutiona)ist has
received crop reports from nearly
every county of Geogia. Almost
without exception they are favorable,
The amount OF breadstuffs and bacon
raised is greatly in excess Of former
years, and tho time seems not far
distant when the empire State Of th 9
South will be able to export those
products instead Of purchasing them
from the west.
Year: 1875

DAYTON, July 81.


EDITOR TIMEs:-I have been
waiting patiently for the report OF
the committee appointed to find out
the best and shortest route for road
from here to Masou's Valley, SO
that | could give you an item, but it
Is prolonged somewhat from the
fact that the committee have not yet
met the committee from Mason Val
ley, but are daily expecting to meet
them here in this model city OF Day
ton; and when | say model, mean
it; both as regards religion and
strict morality; AS an example there
has not been n prisoner in the Coun-
ty Jail from this burg tor long
time, and l don't know what our
Jailor would do without a sister city
10 assist him in that particular, l
mean to send US down few once in
a while. The wood business Is pro.
crossing as usual, but will soon be
over, as they have already about l5,-
900 cords on The banks, and the river
being low at this time it naturally
comes down very slow. / got a
glimpse of the Sutro "Independent"
this morning, and l think you will
have to look well to the laurels
you have already won so that they
are not taken from you. As far as my
knowledge extends the chances for
that are small. Now I'll speak of
the Pioneers picnic, being one of
them myself, Zone of the Oldest forty
niners) and it appeared strange to
me that cities like Virginia, Gold
Hill and that sprightly town of
yours could not supply the demand
for carriages; but notwithstanding
the large delegation from here, that
prince Of stable keepers, Park
Barnes, furnished several fine teams
for large places on the outside. He
always mas good supply, and as
good stock and buggies as can be
found in Nevada. Yours,


ONE OF THEM.
Year: 1875

IMPRISONED IN A MINE.-On Fri
day night last one of the ore schutes
in the Golconda mine at South Noun.
tain got stopped up, and miner,
whose name we have not learned,
went round to the outlet of the
schute to see what was the matter,
when the ore gave way and filled up
the stOpe, preventing the egress OF
the miner. He was uninjured but
was compelled to remain in the mine
ell night and until the next day at
nooa before the ore could be cleared
away enoRgh to give him q chance
to get ,ont.--Oryhee Avoldnche.
Year: 1875

Another nice new little house is
being pvt Np on upper Main street.
Just noticed it last evening. Their


is heap OF new shingles to be seen
in Silvor City now. The town has
been spreading out all tho Spring.
Year: 1875

Has made the most Astonishing Cures ::
so quick, so rapid are the changes the
body undergoes under the influence of
this truly wonderful medicine, that
Every Day an Increase IN Flesh ana Weight


Is Seen and Felt.


The Great Blood Purifier.
Year: 1875

To the Editor Of the Dallas Herald:


1t will he generally admitted that
there must be some money received
by our city and county officials. The
people are interested in knowing how
much has been received, how much
expended. and. in fact, detailed state
ment Of the amount of actual cash
paid in to the treasury Of each, would
be very interesting reading to the peo-
ple Just now. Considering how little
our indebtedness, OF the city and
county. Is being reduced, 1t would
really seem as IL no money was COM
ing into any of our treasures and that
the discharge Of the duties OF those
who handle our cash was merely Ia
Dor of love. No interest is paid on
bonds, and city scrip ami county scrip
is selling for thirty-fvt cents on the
dollar. Now, the question Is whether
the constitutional convention bad not
better make our county and city OFF,
GERS salaried ones, and let the reve-
nues he for the beneftof the county
and city and not mereli for the office
holders ,Ax-PAYERs-
Year: 1875

Hon. John Henry Brown, Of Dallas,
is a candidate for delegate in the state
convention to form anew constitution.
AS vet we have said nothing of our
views in regard to the new constitution
which Is 10 be formed, but propose to
discuss the changes which are proposed
at an early day. We must have our
best men In the convention, and we
look upon John Henry Brown as one
Of thai elass.-lH Houston Telegraph,
Year: 1875

A rumor prevailed in the city Sun
day evening to the effect that a man,
supposed To be the individual who
made the complaint against certain
citizens Of Scyene, some months since,
on charge of kukluxing, had been
found hanging 10 a tree short dis
lance from Scyene-


The HERALD promptly dispatched q
reporter to the scene who, upon In
quiry and investigation found the re
Year: 1875

The Grand Jury having announced through
their foreman that they had finished their busi-
ness, Recorder Hackett discharged them with the
thanks OF the Court. They brought IN a number
OF indictments for larceny and ordinary onences.
Year: 1875

The year 1874 has just died. The
Old Baron sinks into the tomb of his
ancestors, and the eldest born comes
into possession of the property. May
he prove himself the worthy son of a
worthy father; may he extend a gen.
erous hand to the poor and needy; may
he smooth the rugged path of the weak
and weary wayfarer, and cheer him on
his toilsome journey; may he lead the
young and innocent forward in the
ways of wisdom and virtue; may he
gladden. the heart of the old and
brighten the road to the Pearly City;
may he drive want and sorrow and
pain and suffering from without his
broad domain, and in their stead may
there reign peace and plenty and con-
tentment and happiness, even unto
the hour when he, too, shall rest in
the tomb of his fathers.
Year: 1875

The climatic advantages of Los An
geIes are certainly not inferior to those
of any locality in the New World,
and, according to the reports of travel
lers, will compare favorably with any
of the old. The mean annual temper
ature is about $40 Fahrenheit, with
mean range, above and below this, of
100 or 100 for Winter or Summer. The
mean temperature for the half year of
Fall and Winter is about $50 or $40 and
for the half year Of Spring and Sum-
mer about 74o or 760. The freezing
point, or frost, is rarely reached; al
though in the latter part of the Sum-
mer the thermometer may sometimes
reach up into the nineties, yet the sun
stroke heat of our Atlantic States is
unknown here. During the Summer,
regular and gentle sea breezes prevail
from the Northwest, especially du ring
the middle of the day and afternoon,
but after the first rains of the wet sea-
n,or Winter, these breezes generally
cease until the return of the warm
season. December is generally the
coolest month of the year, having oc-
casionally temperature as low as 340
or $50, and in this month and March
the most of the rainfall takes place,
the average of which is generally
about IL inches each year. In Decem-
Der the rainy season generally sets in
aud is not considered over until April.
From the middle of January to the
middle of March is generally the most
delightful weather of the Winter sea-
son. Upon the whole, there is no
country, probably, in the world where
people can spend more days out of
doors than in this locality.
Year: 1875

Teach them self-reliance.


Teach them to make bread.


Teach them to make shirts.


Teach them to foot up store bills.


Teach them not to wear false hair.


Teach them to wear thick, warm shoes.


Bring them up in the way they should
go.


Teach them how to wash and iron
clothes.


Teach them how to make their own
dresses.


Teach them that dollar is only a
hundred cents.


Teach them to cook good meal of
victuals


Teach them how to darn stockings and
sew on buttons.


Teach them every day, dry, hard,
practical common sense.


Teach them to say No, and mean it /;
or Yes, and stick to it.


Teach them to wear calico dresses and
do it like queens.


Give them good, substantial common
school education.


Teach them that a good rosy rOmp is
worth fifty consumptives.


Teach them to regard the morals and
not the money of their beaux.


Teach them all the mysteries of the
kitchen, the dining room and the parlor.
Teach them that the more one lives
within his income the more he will save.
Teach them to have nothing to do
with intemperate and dissolute young
men.


Teach them the further one lives be-
yond his income the nearer he gets to
the poor-house.


Rely upon it that upon your teaching
depends in great measure the veal or
woe of their after life.


Teach them that good, steady me-
chanic without cent is worth dozen
Ioafers in broadcloth.


Teach them the accomplishments, mu-
SIC painting, drawing, if you have time
and money 10 do it with.


Teach them that God made them in
His image, aud no amount of tight la
cling will improve the model.-Darenpon
Democrat
Year: 1875

The celebrated razor blades produced
by Rodgers, of Sheffield, and which go
to all parts of the civilized world, are
forged out of bars of the very best highly
carbonated cast-steel, tilted to about half
an inch in breadth, and of a thickness
sufficient for the back of the razor. The
blade is first nodded at the end of the
porter rod and then forged, and the edge
being brought out the concave surface Is
formed by working the side on the round
ed edge of the anvil it is then cut off,
and the tang is either drawn out from
the same material as the blade, or, if this
be of superior quality, a piece Of iron is
welded to it. The steel used is of excel
lent quality, so as TO undergo the neces-
sary work to produce the thinner part,
while the back is left thick. Some Of
the workmen are so expert in forging
the blade that they will produce on the
anvil an edge so sharp and even that it
can be used for shaving after being whet-
ted. After forging, the blade is smithed
or beaten on the anvil, to render the
metal as compact as possible. The blade
is also slightly ground, or scorched, after
the forging, on coarse, dry grit stone,
to bring it to the shape required, and
remove the black scale or coating. The
blade is next drilled for the joint, and
stamped with the name then hardened
and tempered, and ground on a whet-
stone of from four to eight inches in di-
ameter.
Year: 1875

Thomas Sharpe, more generally known
as Sam. Sharpley; the veteran minstrel,
died in his home in Providence on Fri
day. He was born in Philadelphia in
1881. His parents were in comfortable
circumstances, and he received an edu-
cation much above that of the average
of his profession. His tastes, however,
drew him toward Ethiopian minstrelsy,
and he Joined wandering troupe when
only sixteen years old. Within the
next ten years he took rank as the lead
ing banjo and tambourine player. He
had rare humor, and was exceedingly
happy in seizing local circumstances and
turning them to humorous account. in
1854 he and Billy Birch organized a
campany that was received with extra
ordinary favor, and with the money they
made they went on a musical tour that
was pecuniarly disastrous. Then Sharp
ley again became a member Of a local
city troupe.


In the early war times Sharpley again
essayed the management of company,
taking Tony Pastor as his partner; but
just as they had begun TO lay the Ioun-
dation of much of the prominence that
has since been enjoyed by the Bowery
Opera House, Sharpley's wandering hu-
NOR again seized him. Hin sold ont his
local business to Pastor, and organizing
the Iron-c clad Minstrels, he travelled
with them for several years, with vary
ing fortunes. For the last three years
sickness kept him from active profes-
sional work. His last illness was lin
gering and painful. On learning of the
death of his old partner, Tony Pastor
said: "He was the most original humor-
ist on the minstrel stage I"
Year: 1875




Many years ago was on mail coach,
and as soon as we cameto public house


the coachman pulled up for fraction OF
a second. He did so when we came to a


second public house, and then l asked
him the reason. He pointed to the of
/ hand wheeler, and said that she had long
been completely blind, and she would
stop at every place on the road at which
she had before stopped. He had found
by experience that less time was wasted
by pulling up his team than by trying to
drive her past the place, for she was
contented with momentary stop. After
this I watched her, and it was evident
that she knew exactly before the coach
man began to pull up the other horses
every public house on the road, for she
had al some time stopped at all. think
there can be but little doubt that this
mare recognized all the houses by her
sense of smell. With respect to cats,
so many cases have been recorded of
their returning for considerable dis
tance to their homes, after their having
been carried away shut up in baskets,
that can hardly disbelieve them, though
these stories are disbelieved by some per-
sons. Now, as far as have observed,
cats do not possess very acute sense Of
smell and they seem TO discover their
prey by eyesight and by hearing. This
leads me to mention another trifiing
fact. sent a riding horse by railway
from Kent via Yarmouth to Freshwater
Bay, in the Isle of Wight. On the first
day that / rode eastward, my horse,
when turned to go home, was very un-
willing to return towards his stable, and
he several times turned round. This
led me to make repeated trials, and ev-
erv time that l slackened the reins he
turned sharply round, and begun to trot
to the eastward by little north, which
was nearly in the dirsction of his home
in Kent. l had ridden this horse daily
for several years, and he had never be-
fore behaved in this manner. My i'm
preston was that he somehow knew the
direction whence he had been brought


| should state that the last stage from


Yarmouth to Freshwater is always due
south, and along this road he had been
ridden by my groom but he had never
once shown any wish to return in this
direction. had purchased this horse
several years before from a gentleman in
my own neighborhood, who had possess
ed him for L considerable time. Never
theless, it is possible, though far more
probable, that the horse may have been
born in the Isle of Wight. Even if we
grant to animals sense of the points of
the compass, of which there is no evi-
dence, how can we account, for instance,
for the turtIes-whlch formerly congre-
gated in great multitndes, only at the
season Of the year, on the shores of the
Isle Of Ascension-inding their way to
that speck of land in the middle Of the
great AtIantic.-Ddruin.
Year: 1875

An effort made, year or so ago, to in
troduce eastern Holsters into the Pacific
Ocean by the Fish Commissioners of
California, is believed to be success.
In June, of that year, they set out from
New York with one hundred large and


lively Holsters, with the intention of ac-
climatizing them in the Bay of San
Francisco. All save seven of the lob
sters died on the journey, and those
seven arrived in an exhausted condition


They slowly crawled away when placed
on the shore of the bay, and there was
difference of opinion among the Com
missioners as to the result of the exper-
iment. As each lobster bore about a
quart of eggs at the time of introduc-
ton to the bay, the question was one
which a year would be likely to settle.
If either of the Holsters lived, the eggs
she bore would yield a million Holsters,
and these would soon be noticed by the
fishermen. The original Holsters lived
and thrived, and the bay now contains
millions of young ones. a Chinaman
who cast his net for shrimp the other
day, caught fifteen or twenty young lob
sters, some of which he took to one OF
the Fish Commissioners, in accordance
with previous understanding. The
Eastern lobster is far more palatable
than the so-called Pacific coast lobster
Year: 1875

True love has its usual unpleasant
course in the bosom of a woman in the
upper part of Evansville, Ind, who low
ed not wisely but too well. Her lover
presented her with late style Of false
teeth to replace those missing from be-
tween the lips where his were wont to
stray and steal the dew of love. But
coldness finally came, and he sought an.
other object for his affections. She, too
happened to be toothless, and the lover
had recourse to her whom he had deser-
ted. and the teeth were wrested from her
and presented to the new love. No.
wants the assistance Of the police to re.
cover the apparatus wherewith she dis
poses Of her usual pabulum.
Year: 1875

BLOOD OF THE HUMAN SYsrA


The axiom that eve die daily" Is rapid


ly illustrated in paragraph Of Prof


Redfern's paper on Biology, recently


read before the British association. Re


ferring to the blood, il is said that The
duration Of life in any Of it, particles ia
but short; they die and their places are
occupied by others, and so continue a
substitution which only ends in death.
After every meal an amazing number Of
white corpuscles are added to the blood;
breakfast doubles their proportion three
times, and dinner makes il four times 40
great. They come from such solid
glands "a the spleen. In the blood going
to this organ, their proportion is one to
two thousand two hundred and sixty; in
that returning from the spleen, il is as
one to sixty. Perhaps the most stupen-
dous fact Of organization is the steady
maintenance Of but slight variable char
acters in the living and moving blood,
which is every moment undergoing
changes Of different kinds as It circulates
through each tissue and organ Of the
body.
Year: 1875

A letter from Mr.. John q. Whittier
vas read at late peace meeting in
Massachusetts,. lie wrote: "No question
Of more importance has ever engaged
the attention OF the Christian statesman
and philanthropist that the settlement Of
international disputes by arbitration.
have seen no argument against the pro-
posed code calculated in the slightest
degree to throw doubt upon It's feasibility
or to dampen the zeal Of its advocates, or
TO diminish their faith in the promise,
that every plant which our heavenly
Father hath not planted shall be rooted
up. Our Christian civilization is a mis
erable misnomer, If il must al ~ays carry
along with it the brutal barbarism Of
war-a survival Of the stone age and
cannibalism."
Year: 1875

The season for gathering beautiful varla-
gated leaves aud pretty ferns isat band. First
gather the leaves from the tree just as they
are ready to fall, or as soon as possible after
they have fallen, press them Immediately i0r
a week or more until tley are perfectly dry
Procure half pound Of beeswax, put 1t IN a
tin vessel. and place the vessel in spider
containing little water, which may be Kept
constantly boiling on the top Of the stove over
a stcndy fire. Take each leaf by the stem aud
dip i into the hot wax. Once dipping Is usu-
ally sufficient. If tie wax gathers on tho
ges touch the place lightly with the hot TIN.
The leaves dry instantly, aud all the bright
natural colors are preserved. BY piercing the
leaf near the stem with double thread wire
YOU can weave them on coarseF wire or on
large cord into any description Of gaTIands.
Year: 1875

The following rules are so simple aud so
true. according to all business u'ages, that
every banker, broker. merchant or clerk,
should post them up for reference. There be-
ing no such thing as a fraction in it, there IL
scarcely any liability to error or mistake. BY
no arithmetical process can the desired iufor-
nation lie obtained by so few figures:


Sir per c.nt-Multiply any given number
of dollars by the number of days of interest
desired separate the right hand figure and
divide by six; the result is the true interest on
such sum for such number Of days at six per
cent.


E;qM per cent Multiply any given
amount for the number of days upon which
it is desired to ascertain tn. interest, and divide
bv forty-fve, and the result will he ths inter
est Of such sum for the time required, at eight
per cent.


Ten par cent-Multiply the sane asahove.
and divide by thirty-six, and the result will be
the amount Of interest at ten per cent.


JVbatH riW do-If mechanic or clerk
save ONLY q cents per day, from the time he
il ,wenty-one until he is tireescore and ten,
the aggregate, with interest, will amount to
So. 900; AID daily saving Of 27l cents
reaches the important sum Of $4,000. a
.ixpsnce saved daily will provide fund Of
81 OOO-sufiicient to purchase a good farm
There are few employees who cannot save
daily, by abstaining from the nse of cigars,
tobacco liquor, etc, twice or ten times the
amount Of the six cent piece Every person
should provide for old age, and the monin bnsi-
nc,s who can lay by a dollar aday will eventual
~ find himself possessed Of over 100000