smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

and promised that we would this week speak about the matter

 We now proceed to redeem that promise. Let no man think that we are moved by religious pre- judice in what we have to say. Far from it. We are no sectarian. We believe in God and immortali- ty, but we entertain our own views ill regard to theology, un. trammeled by any church or sect. We have respect for the religious views and feelings of all men and would not in any manner inter- fere with them. But the action of our legislature here referred to we consider dangerous, damnable and smacks of the old abomination of Churchs and State. When our fathers fled from religious prese. cution in Europe and planted the tree of liberty on the American Continent and watered and nur- tured it with their blood, they solemnly decreed that church and state should never have any union here. In fact the principle of re- ligious liberty was the foundation of our free institutions. The right of all men to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences was fully recog- nized and declared by the immor- tai men who framed our constitu- tion. And through all the con- stitutions and laws of all the states it is solemDly laid down that no religious sect shall ever receive any preference or privelege over others, but all shall be equal be- fore the law and all equally pro- tected by the law.

 Now the public school system is sacred to freedom. The peo- pie are taxed for its support. and for the legislature to appropriate any of the funds thus raised, to the support of schools controlled by any church, religious denomi

 nation or sect, is a terrible out rage, very dangerous precedent and is really a step toward the old abomination so hateful to free men, of church and state. If the members of any church don't like to send their children to the pub lie schools, let them establish and support their own schools. Mo- body has any objection. But they have no right to any of the public money, and a legislature that votes to give it to them com mits shameful outrage against the whole people. We would say the same if the public money was given to the support of a Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian or any other sectarian school. And it makes it no better because a Judge, a Chief Justice even, descends from his high estate and soils his ermine by giving pub lie lecture before the members of the legislature in advocacy of this iniquitous appropriation. "Oh shame, where is thy blush ?" It is humiIiating to know that this has occurred in free America, in the light of the latter part of the nineteenth century, when by the spread of civilization, science and refinement, the whole world is throwing off the shackels of priest craft by which the people had so long been bound, and under the sanction of which the most terri. bIe and revoltiDg crimes and cruelties that stain the pages of history have been committed ]; and at a time when poor, down trodden, priest-ridden Mexico has just shown signs of vitality, by taking her public schools out of tbe hands of the priests. And must our young and beautiful Territory take the lead in the re- trogression of civilization !? God forbid The little play of the
Year: 1875




Certain curious and all but forgotten
experiences of much interest to agricul-
ture and gardening have lately been re-
vived by German savant. Very many
years ago it was discovered ard record
ed that water saturated with camphor
had a remarkable influence on the
termination of seeds. AS of many 9TH
er useful hints, the stupid world took no
notice of this intimation; but a Berlin
professor, having seen the record of it
appears to have established that fact
a solution of camphor stimulates vegeta-
bles as alcohol does animals. He took
seeds of various sorts, some being three
or four years old, and possessing slight
degree of vitality, and placed them be-
tween sheets of blotting paper. Some of
these he wetted with pure water, and
others With camphorated water. In ma
ny cases the seeds did not swell at all
under the influence of the simple mois-
ture, but in every case they germinated
where they were subjected to the cam
phor solution. The experiment was ex-
tended to different kinds of garden seeds
old and new, and always with the result
of showing singular awakening Of dor
mant vitalism and wonderful quicken
ing of growth. 1t also appears from
the professors researches that the young
plants thus stimulated continued to in
crease with vigor and vivacity much
beyond that of those which was not so
treated. On the other hand, when
pounded camphor was mixed with the
soil, it appeared to exercise rather bad
effect upon the seeds. The dose in this
latter case was possibly too strong. At
all events, this action of camphor is
worthy of an examination by seedsmen
and gardeners, and even farmers might
determine how far wheat and barley may
be profted by the strange power this
drug appears to possess over the latent
life of vegetable germs.
Year: 1875

One thousand laths will cover seven
ty yards of surface, and eleven pounds of
nails will put them on.


A cord of stone, three bushels of lime,
and cubic yard OF sand will lay one
hundred cubic feet of wall


Eight bushels of good lime, sixteen
bushels of sand, and one bushel of hair,
will make enough good mortar to plas-
ter one hundred square yards.


One thousand shingles, laid four inch
es to the weather. will cover one hun
dred square feet of surface, and FIVE
pounds of shingle nails will fasten them
on.


One Fifth more siding and flooring is
needed than the number of square feet
of surface to be covered, because of the
lap in the siding and matching of the
floor.


Five courses of brick will lay one
foot in height on chimney, six bricks
in a course will make lue four inches
wide and twelve inches long, and eight
bricks in a course will make hue eight
inches wide and sixteen inches long.


To wash calico without fading, infuse
three gills of salt in four quarts of water.
Put in the calico while the solution is
hot, and leave until the latter is cold.
1t is said that in this way the colors are
rendered permanent, and will not fade
by subsequent washing.


To test the quality of wool, take a
lock from the sleeps back, and place it
on measured inch. If the spirals count
from thirty to thirty-three in the space
of an inch, it equals the finest Electoral
or Saxony wool grown. The diminution
of the number of folds to the inch shows
the inferiority.


Grapes are recommended as a cure for
biliousness. This fruit, by its agreeable
acidity, so acts on the system as to re-
lieve it of its bile, and thus removes the
cause of the symptoms enumerated, and
that is, "cure." The immediate cause
of all the discomfort is confined" con-
dition of the system; the seeds of the
grape act as an irritant as they pass
along the alimentary canal, and cause it
to "water," just as the eye waters if
hard substance touches it. The water
ing dissolves the more solid matters con-
tanned in the intestines, washes" them
out, and the man is well. The covering
of the grapes should be chewed, but not
swallowed.


On Fort street car yesterday boy
made a sudden grab among the straw,
caught something, and as he straighten-
ed up he inquired: who's lost fifty
cent piece?" Seven men held out their
hands to him, and four more wanted to
but felt afraid. There was a painful
pause, and then the boy unclasped his
hand and exhibited a pants button
Seven men suddenly sank back to medi-
tate, and the other four INDUCED in
winks.
Year: 1875

A correspondent Of the Practical Far
mar has not found machine capable Of
properly distributing the lighter and
more chafiy grass-seeds, such as blue
grass. He therefore, still clings to hand
sowing, and he does it as follows:


The course which now pursue is
thoroughly TO mix one part Of the seed
with one part Of course, sharp sand, or
fine gravel, (the sharper the better,) and
nloisten the mass, carefully maniPula-
ting il until the seeds and chaf are well
separated and caused to adhere to the
rough particles of sand. The weighty
sand thus becomes an effective vehicle
with which to distribute the buoyant
seed, which by moisture is made to ad-
here to the sand.
Year: 1875

If the sole object of political oratory
were to produce immediate effect, Prince
Bismarck might be pronounced the
most successful orator alive. From the
iron" speech, he stood revealed to Eu-
rope as a new force with which nations
had to reckon, he cannot be said to have
made a speech, which, for the object he
had in view-that object not being al
ways to convince his audience in the
Chamber-has been entirely unsuccess-
full, and he has repeatedly earned a
triumph of the most exciting sort. He
is, in fact. by far the most effective
speaker in the German Parliament
can crush an adversary with sentence,
or with peroration, can bring major
ity to its feet, foaming with applause.
Clear and vehement in utterance with
one high oratorical faculty-that of con-
densing policy into laundering cpl
gram translatable into languages-he
shares with the Younger Pitt the power
of weighing his speeches with facts
known only to himself, and letting out
secrets where needful, which tell like
shells as they drop into an advancing
column. His utter plainness, his vehe-
ment conrage-so opposed to the reti.
cence of most official speakers-his terri.
BILE frankness whether real or assumed
and the exceptional position which
makes of his works acts, all combine tc
give him an ascendency which some
times seem to carry the majority out o.
| itself, till they are ready, like SONS
horde after victory, to raise him or
their shields and pronounce him King
of mem London Telegraph.
Year: 1875




The colt is born with twelve grinders,
When four front teeth have ma6o their
appearance, the colt is twelve DAYS old.
and when the next four come forth, It
is four weeks old. When the corner
teeth appear, the colt is eight months
old, and when the latter have attained
the height of the front teeth, il is one
year old.


The two-year old colt has the kernal
the dark substance in the middle Of
the tooth's crown-ground out Of all the
front teeth.


In the third year the middle front
teeth are being shifted and when three
years old these are substituted for the
horse teeth. The next four teeth are
shifted in the fourth year, and the cor
ner teeth in the fifth.


At six years the keTnal is worn out Of
the middle front teeth, and the bride
teeth have now attained to their full
growth.


At seven year hook has been formed
on the corner teeth Of the upper jaw;
the kernal of the teeth next at the mid
die fronts is worn out, and the bride
teeth begin 10 wear off,


At eight years Of age, the kernal ia
worn out OF all the lower front teeth,
and begins to decrease in the middle and
upper fronts.


In the ninth year the kernal has
wholly disappeared from the upper mid
die front teeth, the hook on the corner
tooth has increased in size, a. the bri-
die teeth lose their points.


In the tenth year the kernal has worn
out Of the teeth next TO the middle
fronts Of the upper jaw and in the
eleventh year the keFnal has entirely
vanished from the corner teeth Of the
same jaw.


At twelve years old, the crown Of all
the front teeth in the lower jaw have
become triangular, and the bride teeth
are much worn down. As the horse adj
vances in age, the gums shrink away
from The teeth, which consequently re-
ceive a long, narrow appearance, and
their kernels have been metamorphosed
into darkish point, gray hairs increase
in the forehead, over the chin assumes
the form of an eagle.
Year: 1875




The project of tunneling the Hudson
River at New York has already been
commenced, and will be prosecuted ac-
lively as soon as some legal Instructions
now existing are removed. The tunnel
is to be twenty-four feet high and TWEEN
ty-six feet wide. inside measurement.
At the waters edge, on the Jersey shore
it is to be about thirty-feet below the
surface, and at the point where it will
strike the New York City shore line il
will be forty-fve feet below. When it
shall have been finished it is to be fitted
up with double tracks, and trains will
be run over them at regular intervals
for the accommodation of passengers.
Flat cars are to be provided for the
transportation of horses and wagons and
other vehicles, and much of the freight
from the great railway companies who
own the shore front will be transported
through it. Its wall is to be of brick
and will be three feet in thickness
w nen bne river snail nave Oeen reacneu
it is proposed to carry it on to compile
tion by the construction of what in tun.
mel architecture are known as clock,
air-tight passages, in which the pressure
of the air will be sufficient to resist the
pressure from the outside. until the WALL
shall have been completed. The excava



agency of an air-tight tube. The pres
sure of the air is expected to remove al
the earth taken from the tunnel will
the rapidity with which fifteen mer
could shovel it into cars, and it is to be
carried, by the same natural agent
through n tube to the surface, thus saw
ing the expense of laborers and of trans
portation upon cars.
Year: 1875

A profession gentleman had not seen
his son fo- long period of time, owing
to the fact that the latter retired TO bed
ere the former returned home, and in
the morning the father always left be-
fore the son got out of bed. One morn.
ing the lady of the house managed tc
get the father and son together at the
breakfast table, and by way Of joke
remarked: "Son, let me introduce you to
your fasher2" said the hopeful; "I dom
remember ever having met you before
but have heard ma speak of you"
Year: 1875

When n girl crops her front hair and
pulls il down over her forehead like .
Mexican mustang, and then ties piece
Of red velvet around her neck, who can
wonder Mt the number Of pale-faeed
Young men that throw away their amoi-
ton and pass slesPless nights in trying
to raise down on their upper lips.-L Kan
saa City Times.
Year: 1875

A Memphis fortune teller told a man
that fortune of $780, 900 was coming to
him the next week, and he shelled out
$50 to his wife to buy n new suit. When
too late he learned that his wife had fixed
the shinR with the old woman.
Year: 1875

There is no sense in n married woman,
whose husband is in good health, put
ting a chunk Of wedding cake under her
pillow to dream on. No man likes TO
founder around in a sheet covered with
crumbs.-IC Courier Journal.
Year: 1875

A HUGE LOTTERY SwINDLE.-One of the
most stupendous swindles that has ever
been perpetrated in this country transpired
in Alexandria, Va, on last Monday. For
some months the so-called Montpelier Fe-
male Humane Association had advertised
in many papers that on Friday, Oct 1st,
there would be a grand drawing for prizes
in favor of those who had purchased tickets
in the enterprise. A host of silly people
seem to have taken hold of the lottery and
forwarded their money to the managers in
Alexandria, but at the drawing it was dis
covered that the whole management had
been so manipulated as to give evidence of
a gigantic fraud. The ticket holders
present at once appointed a committee to in
yestigate the case, when it was ascertained
that the money received for the half million
dollars worth of tickets that had been sold
had been deposited somewhere in New
York, and was not subject to the draft of
the officers of the Association. A party
representing himself as from Montana Ter
rtory appeared as the holder of the ticket
entitled to the capital prize of $4,000, but
it is confidently believed that he is in
collusion with the swindlers, and that not
single dollar will go into the hands of bona
fide ticket holders. The wonder is that an
intelligent people can be so often duped by
these lottery swindlers, and it is matter
of regret that the losses fall for the most part
upon a class of people who can lily afford
to be swindled. Let this last and greatest
fraud have Il good effect upon those who
are ready to believe all that these can
didates for the penitentiary have to say to
them through flaming advertisements con-
cerning - a fortune for dollar"
Year: 1875

The Mining Districts of Pennsylvania
have again been cursed by faction fighting
and incendiarism. The Molly Maguires :"
are, as in former cases, the original cause of
the trouble. A magistrate is accused of
partiality 10 an Irish drunken man who
fired of his pistol in the street, and with
being rather severe on a Welshman accused
Of a similar offence. The English and
Welsh become furious in consequence, and
bad feeling and rioting are the results.
The Welshmans throat is cut and his
friends show disposition to take the law
into their own hands. More respect for
law and little less national hatred would
be a blessing to the mining population.
Year: 1875

One Of the provisions of the new Con-


stitution proposed for North Carolina is the
following: "No person who shall deny
the being of God, or the truth Of the Chris
tian religion, or the Divine authority of the
Old or New Testament, or shall hold
religious principles incompatible with the
freedom or safety of the State, shall be
capable of holding any Office or place OF
trust or profit in the civil department
within this State" Atheists and infdels
meet with no favor in the old North State
Year: 1875

The new postal cards offer great tempta-
zion to the printing of business advertise
ments and Illustrations on their face, as
they have no border. This, however, is
met by the caution from the department
that anything except the address written
or printed on the face of the postal card
renders it unnailable, and it will be thrown
among the mail-matter marked "held for
postage"
Year: 1875

Our stock of Black Silks is now in COM
plete assortment, and we are prepared to
submit to the inspection Of buyers, several
hundred pieces of the most celebrated
Lyons manufacture, all of which have been
selected with especial reference to durability
IN tic ,rcar, as well as appearance, which is
too often sought for alone
Year: 1875

The following story is told of two Liv-
erpool, England, body snatchers, who
operated in that city some years ago:


One dark night in winter they drove
up in a gig to Walton churchyard for the
purpose of securing body which had
Just been inferred. They effected their
purpose, and after attiring the corpse in
an 0vercoat with hat upon its head,
they placed it on the seat of the gig in an
upright position. This done they brought
the gig to the door of one OF the inns Sit
uated close to the church, and left it, to
enter the inn for refreshment. A man
who was passing noticed the figure, ap-
parently needless of the cold, and stop
ned to examine it. His horror at discov-
ering that it was dead body may. be
imagined, but it did not prevent him
from at once forming plan to turn the
the tables on the resurrectionists.


He hastily transferred the great coat
and hat to his own back and head, car
ried the body to the churchyard wall,
over which he dropped it, and then
mounted the gig. and seated himself in
the place which the corpse had occupied.
out, seated themselves one on each side
of him. and drove off. 1t was very dark
and they were probably excited by
drink, so they took little notice OF their
silent companion. and were evidently
quite unsuspicious of the change which
had been effected. At last one of the
men remarked, in an uneasy tone, that
the corpse seemed to be getting warm ;
but his companion only answered him
with laugh and one or two mocking
words. In a few minutes, however, he
repeated his statement, pulled the reins,
and declared that he would not stay. In
the gig any longer. The moment had ar
rived. The supposed corpse turned its
head first to one side and then the other,
and solemnly spoke. With cry OF ter
ror the two men leaped from the vehicle,
ran as though all the ghosts in Hades
were behind them. Left now to his own
devicesthe adventurous manldrove home,
congratulating himself on good nights


work. The horse and gig We're never


claimed.
Year: 1875

A SAD CAsH.-The hard times Of the
past year have been felt in the homes Of
many mechanics in this city, and among
the many sad cases, we think that the
case Of family named Martin, who
live on Front street, between Walnut
and Poplar, is peculiarly hard. A father
resides here, with his two sons; all mar
ried. He has had no work for more than
0 year, and one Of his sons is working in
the country for his board, while the 9TH
er son, a mechanic, working at Harlan
& Hollingsworth's for $500 week, has
been supporting his father and mother,
his brothers wife and child and his own
wife and paying the rent of the house.
Three weeks ago his brothers wife and
child were taken sick, and on Wednes-
day last the child died, followed on Sat.
urday by it's mother, and they are now
laying until money enough can be col
lected to paw the expenses of their bur.
ial. We call the attention of charitable
persons to this case as one worthy oi
their help,
Year: 1875

A delegation of ''head men" from
the civilized tribes in Indian Territory
called upon the Secretary of the Inter
ior yesterday morning to oppose the
proposition for a Territorial Govern
mcnt for the Indians.
Year: 1875

KuNAwAY.-This morning. shortly be-
fore noon, the horse of u. b. Underwood,
grocer, which was hitched near Third
and King streets, unslipped its bride
and ran up Third to Market, and pro
ceeded up Market street at n very rapid
with another wagon, above Seventh
street. Here Underwood's wagon was
upset and the horse was stopped. But
little damage was done
Year: 1875

The wild, rushing wings of the tempest are
The frost-fettered land like spirit of wrath !;
His fierce, icy breath with keen arrows is


piercing
The breasts Of the wanderers who stand in his


path;


The earth, in trance, lies enshrouded in


silence, -r ss ~
The storm king knocks loudly at window and


door;


The prayer of the pitful fervently rises
God shelter the homeless and pity the poor.
God pity the poor! who are wearily sitting
BY devoted hearth-stones, cold, cheerless and
.Tq bare,
From which the last ember's pale flicker has


faded,
Like hope dying out in the midst of despair!
GWho1look on the wide world and see it desert,
Where ripple no waters, no green branches


wave;
Who see in the future, as dark as the present
No rest but the death-bed, no home but the


grave.
God pity the poor! when the eddying snow


drifts
Are whrled by the wrath of the winter wind


by,
Like showers of leaves from the palid star


lilies r~rr~ysT,7
That float in the depths of the blue lake on
- high;
For though they are draping the broad earth


in beauty
And yelling some flaw in the gossamer fold,
That beauty is naught to the mother whose
Are crouching around her in hun ger and cola.
God pity the poor! for the wealthy are often
As hard as the winter and cold as the snow;
While fortune makes sunshine ana summer


around them,
They care not for others nor think of their


woe;
Or il from their plenty trihe be given,
So doubtingly grudgingly, often 'tis doled
That to the receiver their p" charity" seemeth
More painful than hunger, more bitter than
cold.
God pity the poor for, though oil men are
Though all say g Our Father" not mine, when
They, proud ones of earth, turn aside from


the lowly
AS if they were fashioned of different clay;
They see not in those who in meekness and


patience
Toll, poverty, pain, without murmur endure,
The image of Him whose first couch was


manger,
Who chose for our sakes to be homeless and


peor
Col pity the poor! give them courage and


paLlence,
Their trials, temptations and troubles to brave,
And pity the wealthy, whose idol is Fortune,
For gold cannot gladden. the gloom of the


grave;
And as this brief life, whether painful or


pleasant,
TO one that's endless but opens the door,
The heart signs while thinking on palace and


hovel,
God pity the wealthy as well as the poor.


Irish World.
Year: 1875

and left also. ] have never seen them
SINCE. 1t is scarcely necessary to add /
abandoned poetry. But / am not sure
but that the world lost genius in
my early disappointment" Hearth and


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