smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

A rapid penman can write thirty
words in a minute To do this he must
draw bis quill through the space of rod
sixteen feet and a half. In forty
minutes his pen travels a furlong and in
five hours and third, a mile. We make
on an average, sixteen curves or turns o!
the pen in writing each word. Writing
thirty words 10 minute, we must make
four hundred and eighty Y.elght to each
second in an hour, twenty eight thousand
eight hundred in day Of only five
hours, one hundred and forty-four thou
sand and in year of three hundred
days, forty.three millions two hundred
thousand. The man who made million
strokes with pen 10 month was not si
all remarkable. Many men make four
million. Here we have in the aggregate
a mark three hundred miles long, to be
traced on paper by each writer 10 year
In making each letter Of the ordinary al
phabet, we must make from three to sew
en- strokes Of the pen--on an average
three and half to four.
Year: 1876




Young women Of to-day! the solemn
duty, the glorious privilege, rests with you
70 redeem the young men Of our country
in your companionship from the dreadful
danger, and save yourself from sharing its
heaviest part You hold the heartstrines
Of our young manhood. You can WELD
power greater, perhaps, than fathers
teachings or mothers tears. Oh! use it
for God use il for purity and temperance
and abstinence; Of those In danger, warn
them SO that they may know that YOU are
watching to sec if they love sin more
than you.


l. Don't trust your hearts affection with
man who is at any momeat likely to
yield. to the lowest temptation and surreud.
er his manhood. Don't trust your ten.
der love to a man who cannot control
even the grosser appetites and passions,
but will risk bis own health and happiness
for the idle qualification of vicious pro,
pensitY. Don't associate with a young
man who drinks. These are tho mega.
tives; the positives arc 90 to work &C.
lively to save; dissuado young men from
doubtful courses which may lead to sin
kindly and tenderly reach forth and save
the falling. Perhaps they are even wait.
ing for the token Of loving anxiety or the
word Of tender rebuko that tells them
that some one cares for their souls. Per.
haps they are even now ashamed of their
evil ways, and ouly need the power of
some beloved voice to win them back to
purity and peace. There is greater pow.
er, it wisely used, in the soft entreaty Of
faithful love to turn the scale Of resolution,
than in the taunts and sneers Of profi.
gate companions 1; is q power delicate
but mighty, like the sunshine use i. for
God and temperance chido and rebuke
in love as well as entreat and persuade.


Induce your female friends to do like.
wise, and help them, and you eau soon
form social sentiment aud power against
intemperance which will crush the demon
in q year. Make the social atmosphere
of your homes SO pure that drunkenness
will be ashamed to enter there. Oh
here is service which will make life
glorious, dignity womanhood, and glorify
God.


Dare you do it2


Ask Gods blessing ard guidance, and
begin to-day, and in his mighty power 20
forth conquoring and to conquer. -Ex.
Year: 1876

The following "appeap' is being circulated
by the temperance people:


An appeal to the owners of real estate and res


ident housekeepers in the city of Washing
ton in reference to the sale of intoxicating
drinks.


The law requires that before license shall
be granted "a majority Of the owners of real
estate, and majority of the resident house.
keepers on the same side of the square where


is desired to locate such business, and of the
side of the square fronting opposite the same,
shall express their consent in writing" to have
a liquor saloon in their mi Iss.


DEAR FRIENDS You perceive by the law
quoted above that it is entirely in your power
10 prevent the sale of intoxicating drinks.
Therefore we appeal to you to consider the
question well before signing the application for
licenses which may be presented to you, and
would especially call your attention to these
questions


l. VIII these saloons be a benefit to the
community, making it better and happier!


.. VIII it increase the value of property, ad-
vance rents or secure the patronage of the re-
spectacle part of the community to have tip
ping shops all over our city!


5. Are you willing 10 be responsible for the
sorrows and crimes which may result from
licensing of these placesf


4. Are you willing your sons, fathers and
brothers should be brought under their daily
influences, spending their time and money
there?


5. VIII your Heavenly Father be pleased
with this act of yours!


We wish you to turn your eyes to the aims
house, jail, workhouse and insane asylum, and
ask yourselves what is the principal cause
that fills them 10 overHowing.


We ask for the prosperity of our beautiful
city, the Capital of this great Union; for the
sake of suffering humanity, and for the love of
Christ, which has inspired us to try and pre-
vent sorrow and crime, caused by the sale and
use of intoxicating drinks in our midst.


Respectfully submitted by the Temple OF
Honor and Temperance, 1. o. of Good TEN.
plars, Woman Temperance Union and Sons OF
Temperance.
Year: 1876

Another good house complimented this


laughable burlesque last night, and was lib
eral in its attestatons of the excellency of the


singing and acting of Miss Montague and Miss
Kitty Blanchard in the principal characters. Tho
drill of the troops and the march and counter
march under the direction of their juvenile
commander were received with merited ap-
plause.
Year: 1876

The Colorado Farmer, published at
Denver, utters the following truthful
sentiment Nov is the time when the
intelligent and educated farmer ia GO
ing to have the advantage over the one
who does not keep himsclf posted,
When times ere good, any one who
knows how to raise good crops makes
money. But when the country seems
to have too much of everything in it,
the man who picks up the improve
ments first, and who has nised good
big crops cheap, is the man for the
times and we have to say that no
man of brains, who has taken up farm
ing for a business, should quit it now /;
for he cannot sell out without loss, and
the time is sure to come when he will
do we'll"
Year: 1876

There are different conceptions Of
pleasure and comfort. Most people
find, with or without experience, that
the real comforts of life are at home.
For there the devoted wife is the pre-
siding deity; there the children pratt
tie and play; there the young girl
approximates and reaches womanhood;
within its sacred precincts youth puts
on the responsibilities of manhood;
there are the reunions of hearts and
hopes and prayers; there can he found
real rest there the place and affection
typical of a better life, and the "home
not made with hands eternal in the
heavens" there the terminating and
binding together cf hearts and minds
aud souls in boad us strong as a
chain aud as lovely as u wreath of
beauteous flowers; there the memories
that glow and exist with life itself;
there the influences that strengthen aud
bless and guide in after years whatever
We do and wherever our footsteps
roam.
Year: 1876

SOME OI.D DUTcn Proverbs. We
must row with the Oals We have, and
Us We can not order the wind We are
obliged to sail With, must take the
wind that comes. Patience and alton
ton will bring us far. If the cat
watches long enough at the mouse's
hole, the mouse will not escape. The
plowman must 60 up and down, and
wherever else play be done there is no
other but the long way to do the work
well. Learn to sleep with one eye
open. As soon as the chicken goes to
roost, il is good time for fox.
Year: 1876

lT is not believed that there is an
artist in the world who can catch the
expression uf n wOman's face as she
puts her nose into the milk jug and
finds that the thunder has soured the
contents.
Year: 1876

You've ladies, time is flying if you
have your eye on any particular chap
it is time tn commence business. There
is plenty of time before the year is out
in which to pop the question. but a
few months courtship is desirable to
make the thing interesting.
Year: 1876

critical, professions had led many Of the
good men and true of the country to be-
lieve that these slaveocrats hal really
and honestly accepted the situation"
and were once more loyal to the Union,
ard would abide by the Constitution and
the verdict that had been made by four,
years Of blood and war. Some there were
who, like sentinels upon the watch-.ower,
warned the people against this trusting to
men who had once been guilty Of treason.
But they were treated as was Cassandra
by the Trojans. These warnings were
unheeded and they were reyiled.


Once more that divinity that shapes our
ends" comes to the rescue. and saves the
country tfom again being dominated by the
slaveocrats. Through the carelessness of
those who were deceived by false protesta-
tioBs one branch of the Federal Govern
ment has passed into the hands Of those
men of the South and their followers and
sympathizers in the North. The manner
in which they have conducted themselves
has awakened the true, loyal people of the
country to realizing sense of the fact that
as 'the Ethiopian cannot change his skin
nor the leopard his spots" neither can the
Southern slaveocrat nor the Northern
doughface change his principles. The one
believes as he did in 1861 and the other is
ready to do his visest behest if Office can be
obtained by 1t. Seeing this, the people
are determined that neither shall have the
opportunity to once more plunge this na-
tion into war, and al such will. in the Ian
guage of the Cincinnati platform. "be dele
gated" to private life, while the future
destiny of the country will be entrusted to
the men and the party who saved it from
being dismembered.
Year: 1876

Shakespeare, with all his wise sayings


never uttered q more notable truth. 1t
has been proven more than once in the
history of our country and of the Repub.
lican party. 1t was only Divine interpo-
sition that made the madness of the slave
ocracy ofthe South force upon the nation
a wa that resulted in freeing the land
from the blight Of slavery. And again.
nothing less could have so blinded the con.
quered rebels as to the feelings and dispo-
sition of the people of the North-the
loyal men who had saved the life of the
nation-as to induce them to follow the
course which convinced the people Of the
North that the reconstruction measures
and the fourteenth aud fifteenth amend
ments were absolutely needed to preserve
the results OF the war.
> Long continued and earnest, but hypo
Year: 1876

Once in a great while a man
can stand on a street corner in
Detroit and ask a question which
can't be answered, but such in.
stances are very rare. Yesterday
noon when an old citizen made an
inquiry of a crowd at the posIol-
flee, it wasn't a second before he
was being answered. He started
out with the remark that he was
nearly sixty years old, and ended
by asking:


"Can any one tell me why we
have this warm spell called 10
dian summer


Yes, sill" was the prompt an
swer. "It is to give certain per
sons a chance to wash up and get
on a clean shirt before winter sets
in for good"


The old resident coughed sever
al times, took another look at the
sky and moved on. After he had
gone about a block he halted, sud
denly grew red in the face, and
exclaimed:


"Come to think Of it, ! 3clieve
that scoundrel meant to insult me,
and | wish | had knocked him
down"
Year: 1876

The Herald states with cor.
recmess the situation in which
President Tilden would be, if, in
the event of an irreconCilable dis
agreement about the returns from
the disputed States, he should be
declared President by the House
of Representatives without the as.
sent of the Senate:


"No President can exercise the
functions Of his Office without the
consent of the Senate. The first
act of a new President is to send
to the Senate the names Of the
men whom he proposes as MEM
bers of his Cabinet. None Of
them can be appointed without the
advice and consent of the Senate;'
and a Senate whose majority be-
lieves that a man who sends nom
nations has never been elected
President, and has no legal title
to the Office, will not even consid-
er his appointments, much less
confirm them. Nothing can be
more absolutely certain than that
neither force nor fnesse can
make a man President whose
claims to the office are not recog-
nized by the Senate.


This il perfectly correct, but it
iS equally the case that neither
force nor fneSSe can make a man
President whose claims to the of,
fee arenotrecognizedb by the House
of Representatives. Without that
House, the President can not
even get his salary, nor can a dol
lar be taken from the Treasury
for any Of the expenses of the Ad-
ministration.


Our system of Government is
one Of balanced powers, based up
on the cooperation of all the parts
and the assent OF the whole peO.
pie. When this balance and this
cooperation are thoroughly des-
troyed, the end is not far of.
Year: 1876

The unprecedented large business done thepast
few days by Messrs. Solomons * Chapman has
demonstrated the fact that the public appreciate
their new idea of taking of discount Of ten cents
on the dollar all fancy goods sold by them until
the 18th instant, which enables every one to save
this no insignificant sum in making their Christ
mas purchases. Their stock is entirely new and
beautiful beyond description. Every article is
marked in plain figures, and we are sure We can
not serve the public better than to advise them to
call at the renowned metropolitan bookstore
and see for themselves.
Year: 1876

And 1t further recommended that on the day OF


election at each voting place there should be 'af


davits prepared to the effect that there has been
no intimidation on account of any efforts by the
Democratic Conservative party to prevent any one
from voting on account OF race color or previous
condition of servitude.


Thus carefully guided from the central Demo-
cratic authority by this secret and confidential
circular; urged to impress on the timid blacks
by horseback professions q sense of the united
strength OF their former masters, and warned TO
prepare blank affidavits In advance that no ter
r9rfsm had been exercised, the next and not the


least important part of the scheme of these leaders


was to select the parishes where. Having the means
to carry the election, and Intending TO use them,


stated in the circular, they could do SO with the
hLAf,S %
Year: 1876

A fire broke out on Friday morning.
18th inst, at $50 o'clock in the steam
saw and grist mill of the Messrs. Park
ers. The wind was very high at the time
and the entire establishment was de-
stroyed together with three or four
small dwellings adjacent. The loss is
not known, but is believed to be partly
covered by insurance.
Year: 1876

I've seen some people in this life

 Who alway are repining. Who never, never yet cOnld see

 The storm clouds silver lining. There always something is amiss,

 From sunrise to its setting; That Gods hand made they way of life They seem the while forgetting, And I have seen besssed sight

 To sin-beclOuded vision Some people who, where CT they be, Make earth seem an Elysium. They alway see the brightest side- The direst shadows never And keep the flowers of hope in bloom Within theIr hearts forever The one can make the sunniest day Seem WOndrOus sad and dreary: The other smiles the clouds away And makes dark day cheery This lite of ours is, after all,

 About as we shall make it.; If we can banish grief and care,

 Let's haste to undertake t.
Year: 1876

the notion of the Memorandum" has, as Mr.. Dis
rael expressed it in the House of Commons,
become " a matter Of history" With this dies out
for the moment tho pretext for misunderstanding
between the Powers. But there is permanent
ground of uneasiness underlying the entire question:
and that is simply the situation and the tendencies
of the small native Christian Prncipalities Except
what was formerly known as Moldavia ana
Waachia tnow Roumanial, all the adjoining tribes,
Servians, Montenegrns. and their neighbors arc as
primitive and as naturally warlike as were the high
land clans of Scotland 80 years ago. war IS a
favorite pursuit in all these lands and the religious
difference has less to do with it than you might sup
pose Upon the hills the men are born "lfters" and
marauders-along the coast they are pirates OF the
very first class, as the Austrian navy can testify
But all these various tribes sought to be gathered
round the Servian who has history" and an am
bition. He aspres to restore the days of the
Emperor Stephen and be great Power! Now to
these twelfth century dreams of her little borderer,
Austria would needs have few words to say, and
she can therefore, scarcely be of the same mind
with holy Russia but what this mind" Is Is
just one of the problems. As great Power
Russia will perhaps be very accommodating-but
what will she DO if the little Powers fairly break
nut1
Year: 1876

many, evcn among Republicans. had al
most begun to believe in their truth,
and some such exhibit a. this was nec-
essary for the good Of both parties. II
is OF course very embarrassing for He-
formers in the full heat and zeal Of de-
nounclng official corruption 10 discover
that the defalcations which now 20 ex-
cite their virtuous wrath are only one
eighteenth as large as those CT Van Bu.
ren's time, and only one-twentieth a.
great rs those which took place under
Buchanan, the last Democrats Admin
istration; and ingenuity Of explanation
will have to be displayed In order to get
round these facts but II Is better that
the lens Of truth should be brought to
bear on the question, no matter who
may have to squirm and wriggle at the
scorching focus. The Democratic IA
theirs have eaten sour grapes, and the
teeth of the children are now on edge,
but why should the reform hewgag be
silentp If the Democrats would look at
the matter Alright. they would find In
the fact Of Democratic declarations
these being about sixty times as great
as those of the Republicans-an addi-
tional and overwhelming reason for re-
form, but, unfortunately. one that would
hardly avail for their use In the present
campaign.
Year: 1876

On Saturday last, a son Of Thomas A.
Peery, aged about s years, living near
Newcastle, asked pen mission Of his fa.
ther to ride horse to the branch for
the purpose of watering him. The
horse was not considered very safe for
boy to ride and his father at first re.
fused but afterwards granted his re-
quest. On his return from the branch.
tho boy tied the halter strap around his
leg above the knee. Tho horse taking
fright. threw him of and dragged him
about 60 yards, kicking him until he
broke the strap. On examination, it
was found that the boys skull was bro
ken in several places and many OF his
bones fractured. The skin where the
strap went around his leg was broken
from the tension. The poor little fel
low lived about an hour, suffering in
expressible agony. His afflicted parents
have the sincere sympathies OF the en-
tire community.--Gentry Chronicle.
Year: 1876

The August Term of the Andre W
County Circuit Court commenced in
this place on Monday last, with a
pretty fair docket. Business is being
dispatched pretty rapidly. A large
number of people are in attendance,
but not so many as has frequently
been the case heretofore.
Year: 1876

On Friday Of last week Uncle Char
ley Miller came near being killed by
runaway team in the harvest field,
He escaped death by about one foot.
Doubtless he thinks "miss is as
good as mile. Patron 3D..
Year: 1876

The following is from the London
Globe:


For some time past the Partisan press
has been discussing with great gusto va.
rious remedies suggested for the vice of
snoring. Having got tired of this subject,
without arriving at any useful conclusion,
they will perhaps be inclined now to be-
stow some of their philosophic attention on
the bad practice of sneezing. Every ex.
cuse for doing SO is afford them by case
which is just reported from the Fauburg
ST. Honore. A young lady inhabiting that
aristocratic quarter was suddenly seized,
few days ago, with violent and pro-
longed fit Of sneezing. Her relations, her
nurse, and finally every one in the house
began to be alarmed. The orthodox "God
bless you" had been shouted and reiterated
in her ears, but the demon of sneezing re-
fused to be exercised, and the doctors had
to be called in. By their advice chloro.
form was administered, and the sufferer
thus relieved for a time from an attack
which had completely exhausted her
strength. But no sooner had the effect Of
the dose gone off than the fits again seized
her with no less persistence than before.
The case was serious, and the medical men
began to remember with dismay the prece-
dent mentioned in their books, where a
native of Edinburgh was attacked in the
same way and ended by actually choking
herself and dying Of suffocation. Fortu-
nately, in this case there was no such
tragic end to the story. A young doctor
who happened to be called in, after the
malady had already endured for twenty.
seven hours, was clever or lucky enough
to effect cure by 'hydootherapic' treat.
ment. The account given of the case by
the Paris paper does not afford any clue
to the cause of 30 strange seizure; but il
may serve as an awful warning to those
reckless persons who, like Lord Dundreary
profess to delight in good sneeze. There
is, indeed, some reason for alarm Just now
Sneezing. according to the scientific accoun
of it, is caused by irritation Of the inne
membrane of the rose. And since snuff
taking has been so completely banishec
from fashionable society there is reason t
fear that the membrane in question mus
be good deal more irritable, than it wa
a century ago.
Year: 1876

THERE is no ground whatever for the
action that the School Board has assumed
in their contract with Boughman, Thomas
l. Co. 1t isa contract, and there being
no refuge for the Board behind techni.
cality there is nothing left for the Board
to do but to meet it fairly and squarely
and to engage in suit would avail moth.
ing but to pile up tremendous loss thai
must come out Of the City Treasury.
Year: 1876

REPORT or ruE coMPrRoLLER or rus CURRENCY.


The following is an abstract OF the reports made to
the Comptroller OF the Currency, showing the condi-
lion OF the national banks in the United States at the
close OF business Friday the 3oth day OF June ls16:
Year: 1876

We have great many subscribers living
IN Dakota and Washington counties who do
part or all of their trading in St. Paul. To
all snch We would say: you are in want Of
stoves or stove furniture goby all means to the
store ,f Henry Bredert, Third below Wabas ma
ST. and examine his stock. You will find his
supply large and of the best styles while at the
same time he puts his prices down to the low
est notch, As he has realizing sense OF the fact
that these are hard times. You can buy stove
at Breidert's as cheap as you can anywhere else
in the state.
Year: 1876

AccoRDING TO recent Washington telc-
gram the House Judiciary Committee had
agreed to present constitutional amend
ment fixing the Presidential term of office
at four years, and thereafter forever max
q ing the incumbent of the Office ineligible
for reelection.
Year: 1876

A RECENT special from Laramie City,
Wyoming, announces the discovery, about
twenty.six miles west of that place, OF
what is claimed to be the richest gold mine
ever discovered on this continent. 1t is
said that only the deep SHOWS in the mount
aims in that neighborhood prevented all
q the people in the surrounding country
rushing in there in search of gold.
Year: 1876

INFORMATION received in New York on
the 14th leaves little doubt of the sinking
in the Irish Channel of the American ship
Harvest Queen and the loss of her entire
crew OF thirty men. 1t is thought the
disaster was caused by a collision with
the steamer Adriatic, early on the morn
ing ofthe 31st ult.
Year: 1876

This is delightful time to visit the
Centennial. The Grounds, adorned as
they are with flowers, are beautiful and
fully worth the cost of a visit in ad-
dition it may with truth be added that
the machinery and arrangements for dis.
play have all been perfected and the at.
tractiveness of the buildings and their
contents now far exceed what it was a
month ago.