smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1873

After testing the question again and
again, modern meteorologist have come
to the conclusion that the moon, no sort
of influence over the weather, agreeing


with the Iron Duke, that it is nonsense
to place any faith in her as a weather
predictor. Time was when she was
thought absolute mistress of the season
Pliny has the following lunar weather.


wisdom: Fine weather, wind, or rain
may be looked according as the moon
rises with pure white, red, or swarthy


light. If at full moon, half the disc is
clear, fine weather is betOkened, if red,
wind If black, rain. If at the rising
of the new moon the upper horn is OBJ
served, there will be prevalence of
wet when she is on the wane; if the
lower horn is obscured, there will be
rain before she attends her full ;if both
horns appear obtuse, frightful temp
est is near; If they are sharp and erect
high winds may be expected" Darwin
declares it is sure sign of coming rain
when the moons head is haloes. A cor
of Notes and Queries, says
a large circle round the moon, with a
north or northeast wind, predicates
stormy weather ;if the wind comes from
any other quarter, there will still be
rain, but less of it. If, however, the
moon rises after sun set, the appearance
of ring round her is not so significant
as the Dutch rhyme puts IT:
Year: 1873

just outside the house stood father the
deacon, tuggng away At lump OF Ice in
the swill barrel.


Bad business, that, said !, resting my
hands oa my sides


Not half SO bad as / might a been, was
hereply, as he lifted out The cake Of lee
by a stout stick that had frozen in the
swill


Many an many barl has busted for
me that wouldn't II this knowledge had
come to me sooner, said he. You see,
when this cold snap came one suddenly,
thought Of the swill bari away ia the,
night, and said, well, il cant be helped
now II happened, however, that the
stick | stir with was left poked down in
the swill, and that was all that saved H.
A bar'l or tub or a pail may iri2e up
solid, and If stick has been put down IN
the water, the vessel can't burst. Butt
took me good while to llnd II out lived
seventy years before | knew it, and his
eyes twinkled knowingly.


Why, that's on the same plan, said |, Of
putting a spoon in a glass jar when you
are canning fruit; II YOU do that the jar
won't break.


Same philosophy exactly, said he, as he
gave the ball of ice kick and sent it
rolling off down hill.
Year: 1873

Debts roll q man over and over, binding
hand and foot, and letting him hang
upon the fatal mesh until the long-leg-
ged interest devours him. There is but
one thing on farm like it, and that is
the Canada thistle, which swarms new
plants every time you break its roots,
whose blossoms are prolific, and every
flower the father of million seeds.
Every leaf is an awl, every branch a
spear, and every plant like platoon of
bayonets, and a field Of them like IN
armed host. The whole plant is tor
ment and vegetable curse. And yet a
farmer had better make his bed of Cana.
da thistles than to be at ease upon IN
terest..
Year: 1873

PERMANENT WH1rEwAsH.-Takeo one-half
bushel freshly burned lime, slake it with
boiling water cover it during the process
to keep in the steam. Strain the liquid
through fine seive, add to it seven lbs. of
Of salt, previously we'll dissolved in warm
water; three tbs. of ground rice, boiled to
thin paste and stirred in boiling hot one
half tb Of powdered Spanish whiting and
one tb of clean glue, which has been pre-
viously dissolved by soaking it we'll and
then hanging it over slow fire in small
kettle with a large one filed with water !;
add five gallons Of hot water to the mixture,
stir it we'll and let it stand a few days,
covered from the dirt. 1t must be put on
quite hot. For this purpose it can be kept
in kettle on portable furnace. About a
pint of this mixture will cover a square
yard.
Year: 1873

when you "set !" your rising in three
hours stir in two tablespoonsful Of -four,
put it back, and in five and one-half hours
from the time Of setting, it will be within
one inch of the top of your bowl. 1t is
then light enough, and will make up eight
quarts of -four; make q sponge in the cen
ter of your -four with one quart of water of
the same temperature as rising. stir the
rising into it, cover over with little dry
flour, and put it where it will keep very
warm, but not scald; in thres-fourths of an
hour mix this into stiff dough; if water is
used be sure it is very warm, and do not
work as much as yeast bread make the
loaves little larger and keep it warm for
another three-quarters of an hour it will
then be ready to bake. While rising this
last time have your oven heating it needs
hotter oven than yeast bread. If these
rules are followed. you will have bread as
white as snow, with a light brown crust,
deliciously sweet and tender.'
Year: 1873

correspondent at Rehoboth keeps us post
o / on the course Of affairs thore. Undoubtedly
the enterprise is sure OF being a great success,
and it is matter OF congratulation that those
10 have been at it's head-prominent among
hem arc many Wilmingtonians-haye had the
energy and tact to push it forward in 30 credita-
l,tf a tnanunr
Year: 1873

The representative of the Baltimore Amert-
ran, who was dispatched TO Chester comfy to
write up the Jennersvillo butchery, claims to
have found sufficient evidence to create at least
the violent presumption that the murdered
stranger was none other than tho VIM. H. W
Co.'s, Of insurance notoriety. lie has also put
together such a chain Of evidence AZ to fasten
pretty clearly upon Uddclzook the authorship OF
the murler
Year: 1873

At the auction rooms Of Messrs ogle and Mil
Ter, there will be sale tomorrow morning of q
large lot of furniture, bedding, kitchen utensils,
and one piano. Some good ferniture will be
Year: 1873

and general adjustment of currency
throughout the country, we may hope
that the season which has begun so dis
astrously will end fairly enough on the
principle that a "bad beginning makes
a good ending.n
Year: 1873

The fever still continues its work Of
death. For the most part 1t is confined
to the locality where it was first de-
veloped. Sprinkling cases have oe-
CURED here and there in the city, but
these have been in every instance
traced to causes issuing from the in
fected district. The disease has been
stripped of much of the terrorism that
accompanied its earlier manifesto
tions, and men begin TO regard
it as an affliction that can be successfully
controlled by medical treatment. There
is no longer that nameless dread, which
the very name Of the fever has hereto
fore conveyed, and even the infected
district is now daily visited by many of
our citizens. Sanitary precautions are,
of course, still necessary, and disinfect-
ing agents are being used everywhere
( throughout the city. We have given
/ daily in our columns full aud reliable
reports of those who have fallen victims
to the pestilence, and although the list
is sad and long one, our readers will
at once see that since the breaking out
Of the malady the average deaths have
not been over sevenp per diem. An unwar-
ranted and causeless excitement has con-
I veyed to the public outside of Memphis
a different impression, but such are the
facts. The temporary hospital, under
the care Of DR.. Luke P. Blackburn, is
now in working order, comfortably fitted
up, and will perform an important part
in aiding the expeliing Of the dis
ease. The Howard association and
other benevolent societies are still in
dustriously prosecuting their christian
work. These people are giving the
community lessons in practical chris
tianity. We have unbounded respect
for that faith which illustrates itself
by works. Faith without good
works is dead" exclaimed the
great Apostle Paul, when address,
ing a generation as full of re-
ligious sophistry as our own. Faith,
hope and charity are the triune divini-
ties of the christian church; "but the
greatest of these is chariiy.p The time
will come when Memphis will be glad
and gay once more; when her streets
shall again give cheerful echo to the
hurrying footsteps Of busy thousands
when her churches, schools, courts,
thesters and stores shall again be
crowded with men and women intent
on the pursuit of praise, pleasure or
profit; when the psnic-ghosts shall be
as completely forgotten as if they never
came


"In such questionable shapes"


to make day and night hideous; when
sadness, sorrow and tears shall give
place to mirth, joy and laughter; then
will the finger of appreciation point out
the man who gave proof of no sham
christianity in ministering to the sick
and the afflicted during the continuance
of the pestilence-whose faith was shown
by his works-one of whom it may be
said


"Among the faithleSS, faithful only he:


Among the iunumeTabln ia uunoVad
Year: 1873

an institution known all over the coun-
try, believed to have been beyond any
mishap. The news of its suspension
took everybody by surprise and alarm
as to what would happen next. Right
upon its heels, the attempt of the re-
naming banks in Statu quo, and the
combination of a few leading mer-
chants. was the rennhiafinn of
Year: 1873

Four hundred men saved. but not
one woman. One boy saved. but not
one woman! While we look for
some silver lining we are confronted
with this fringe Of intenscr blackness
to the .'Atlanticr horror.


Others may draw their more obvi-
ous morals from the disaster. 1t
may be that a vessel whose length is
ten or twelve times its breadth is too
slender for strength. We only know
that the disaster proves nothing on
the subject; for a Spanish galleon
would 90 to pieces if driven at un-
Stacked speed against a sharp ledge.
We only know that for speed and for
comfort at sea the larger vessel is the
the better. Ii may be that the cap
tain was careless and reckless. though
we have seen no absolute evidence OF
it as yet. 1t may he that the vessel
was sent To sea with a short supply
of coal and provisions, although this
is denied; and the possibility of put
ting into Halifax at any time for
supplies. as some steamers regularly
do, should not be overlooked in as
signing blame. We suspect that
contractors failed to supply full
amount at the present high price ot
coal in England. and that the officers
Of the company did not discover the
failure. 1t must be. and this only
seems the certain cause Of the acci,
dent. that there was some fatal error
in the reckoning and that the officer
in charge. now passed beyond ouI
judgment, somehow mistook the
lights. Nor can we fail to deplore
that the point was not probably pro,
tected by lighthouse.


But all this does not explain why
Year: 1873

Sweet autumn wind, whose breath with whisper


ing flow


ViSitcth softly my o'erwearied brow;
Not the fierce norlh, whose frosty trumpets blow
Defiance 10 the earth. o'ercoines me now
Thou, Ike the mistS which soften into peace
The fading forests with thy kiss serene
Givest my long shut tears a sweet release,
Yet with no voice to ask what tears may mean.
GentleSt Of all dear Natures miniStrantS,
Who laden with mild odorS from the sea,
CONTEST at evening TO my shadowy haunt,
RuStling a If a spirit stirred the tree
And she'd its dry leaves softly to the earth,
Take grateful thanks from me and sighs more


sweet than mirth.
Year: 1873

earth, trees and sky. BY and by
with crimson cheeks she knelt softly
at his side, saying:


"Dear friend, love you. Win
you take me-"


He raised his head with great
start and seizing her hands looked
in the face turned toward him in q
kind of delirium of doubt and JOY.
For a minute they looked into each
others faces without speaking, then
a change came over his face and loos-
ening her hands he pushed her from
him almost rudely as he groaned:


God forgive mel did not mean
to speak. You pity me. you could
not love me, and | am not wretch
enough to take advantage of that
and sacrifice you. ! viii 90 now.
God bless you and yom pity, forget
what | said, | was mad. and now
goodbye"


He reached down to pick up his
crutches but she held out her hands
to him saying, simply:


a do not pity you. | love YOU
dearly. Please do not send me from
YOU"


Well-it was only very old story
repeated. and then the twilight fell
upon two people as happy as people
are permitted to be on this planet!
Year: 1873

Bread and Milk.
Chubby little children,
Hair as soft as silk,
Sitting in the doorway
Eating bread and milk.
VIII grand dinners ever relish


Like this bread and milk
IN the summer cleaning,
Tired feet and head
Glad the sleep is coming
And the quiet bed;
And mamma j. gently feeding


With the milk and bread.


Nobody.
Year: 1873

NEW SILVER Cork ONLY TO BE PAID oUr.-
Thesiver which Is 10 be paid out by The Treasury
Department, be it much or little, is Of the new
coinage under the law passed Last session. The
weight Of this coinage i twelve and half gram
mes for the half dollar. six and quarter gram
mes for the quarter dollar, and two and hall
grammes for the dime. Two silver dimes weigh
exactly the same as the nickel five cent piece
now in circulation. The value Of the half dol
sr Of the new coinage IS one-quarler Of cent
more than the same piece Of the old coinage.
Year: 1873

haul the crude oil to that point, than
it would be to haul your casks, cans
and boxes from the railroad to the
wells, and back again. The crude oil
will be conveyed in large tanks made
to fit the wagon.


We had time only to givca passing
look at the roads over which this oil is
to be hauled. The route is quite level
and hard, and with small expense can
be put in condition SO that six mules
will haul two and half tons over it.


Altogether the prospect was far bet
ter than we expected to find, and we
heartily commend the enterprise of
the Refining Company, and have no
doubt it will prove profitable invest
ment to the stockholders, and source
of wealth to this county.


We are satisfied there is large re-
servoir of oil in that district, and
when this enterprise is in successful
operation. others will follow i'm quick
succession.


There is vast wealth there and no
time should be lost in it's development.


All of which your Committe respect
fully submitted.


B, l., PEEL, Chairman.
Year: 1873




European letters give the following
curious explanation of the sudden abdi-
cation of King Amadeus


When his youngest son was born at
Madrid, few weeks ago, the young
Queen was in great distress of mind, and
in very alarming physical pain, and in
her agony she made VOW she would beg
her husband on her knees to resign the
throne of Spain and to hasten back to
Italy. Her husband was present when
she made this VOW, and he uttered no re-
monstrance against it. There is no doubt
that he has been growing more and more
weary of Spain for several months, and
the anguish of his young wife strength
ened his desire to get rid of his thank
less task. He and his wife had never
been able to win over to their side the
proud mobiles of Spain. The King made
last effort to do this on the occasion of
the christening of the newborn child. He
asked the Duchess Serrano to present
the Royal infant at the baptismal cere-
mony. She refused with scorn, and the
baby would have probably had to suffer
being presented" by lady of low rank,
had not the widow of Marshal Prim, her
self q Duchess, consented to leave her
mourning retirement and perform the
function. There was terrible scene In
the palace that day, and it was then that
the King finally yielded to the prayers
and tears of his wife, and made to her
the promise of abdication which he full
filed on the 11th
Year: 1873

To make court plaster, soak isinglass
in little warm water for twenty-four
hours then evaporate nearly all of the
water by gentle heat, dissolve the res
idue in a little proof spirits of wine,


and strain the whole through piece of
open linen. The strained mass should
be stiff jelly when cooled. Now, ex-
tend piece of silk on wooden frame
and fit it tight with tacks and wooden
thread. Melt the jelly and apply it to
the silk thinly and evenly with hair
brush. A second coating is applied
when the first is dried. When the whole
is dry, cover the surface with two or
three coatings of balsam of Peru, ap-
piled in the same way. Plaster thus
made is very pliable, and never breaks.
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the New York
Times writes: AS look back at my
first lessons in the care of cattle, I can
see that the poor dumb brute has better
care than in years past. The stabling
was not thought of. They must be con-
tent with the outside of the barn and the
soft side of snow-bank. And when we
wished to feed them straw we must
starve them to it. They must not even
have taste of other food Except a lit
tie corn in the ear) for fear they would
not eat straw. But. I soon learned that
that was not the proper way they liked
variety of food as well as man. For
instance, you take man, confine him to
one kind of food, say meat or bread,
and see how long he will relish it he
will soon be SO Disguised with it that he
cannot bear the sight of it. 1 think it
is somewhat SO with the dumb beasts.
You give them nothing but straw every
day, they become sick and tired of it !;
they eat with no relish, and it is SO with
corn-stalks, or even hay, and we all
know they prefer this above all other
winter food, and you confine them to
this for some time, and then give them a
feed of good straw, and they Will go at
it with an avidity that will astonish you.
It is like man who has been kept on





and you place piece of corn bread, or
some other plain food before him, and
he will take it in preference. From ex-
perimenting have arrived at this con-
clusion-to feed straw and feed it profit
ably you must feed it mostly in cold
weather, and but once per day, and let
the other foddering be hay or corn
stalks, as I believe in feeding but twice
per day. I do not believe in feeding
corn-stalks in extreme cold weather, for
they are dry and brittle, and they waste
them, while in milder weather they are
not as hard and brittle, and they eat
them with greater relish and there is
less waste; therefore, I would advise
feeding hay once per day in extreme
cold weather. When you are feeding
straw, it is a very good plan
when you do not salt your cattle other
wise-to make weak brine and sprinkle
your straw with it. You must not
think, because it is cold weather, that
your stock don't need salt; if you do,
! the poor dumb brutes will suffer for the
want of it, and you4will be the loser in
the end. t
Year: 1873

A writer in the RurdJ Home says !:
Cows usually become addicted to kick
ing when heifers, from being MIXED by
abusive mixers. I have never seen an
old COW become a kicker unless abused.
Instead of cows being averse to being
milked when giving large quantity, I
have found it to be the reverse. When
pasturage is good, and COWS come home
at night with udders distended with
milk, they seem grateful to have it re-
moved. Milking heifer for the first
time requires patience, for they will
almost invariably kick. In such a case
put broad strap around her body, just
in front of the udder, and buckle it up
moderately tight, and as soon as she
gets quiet (for she may kick around a
little at first) take your pail, sit down
and go to milking, for she is as helpless
as a kitten. Do not attempt to use a
rope instead of a strap, for it will not
answer. This is much better method
than tying the legs, ETC., as it does not
hurt the animal in the least. A few ap-
plications of the strap, with plenty of
patience and kindness, Will cure the
most obstinate case.
Year: 1873

No opinion could be more incorrect
than the too generally received one that
a horse draws by virtue of, or IN pro-
portion to, his weight and size. IF this
were the case the largest and heaviest
animals could always draw the most, and
his weight on the scale would be the
best test of his capabilities. But facts
in abundance prove it otherwise.
Draught does not depend altogether
upon weight and size. It is in great
measure the result of a vital power.
Although weight can render some as
sistance, the power of draught is chiefly
owing to muscular action and nervous
energy, which, again, are intimately
connected with, and greatly dependent
on, the temperament of the animal. The
jennet, mule, ass, and blood horse have
much more energetic temperament
than the carter, and, consequently, pos
sess more muscular power than the lat
ter in proportion to their weight and
size. Their leverage, however, is not
nearly SO well suited for draught, and in
that respect, when compared with the
ordinary cart horse, they labor under 6
decided disadvantage.
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the Rural Home
writes Annual or biennial plants,
such as the daisy or OK eye, May weed,
the rag weed, red-root, ETC., are more
difficult to extirpate, when they once get
possession of the land, as their seeds
will sometimes remain in the soil sew
eral years before termination. Careful
wedding after thorough cultivation is
the best way and perhaps the only way
to clean the land when they once take pos
session-but in this, as with most other
evils, can ounce of prevention is worth
pound of cure" Farmers do not
seem to realize the damage their crops
suffer from these injurious weeds. IF a
neighbor's cattle break into their crops
and trample, the damage is perceptible,
but growth of weeds and thistles lmay
choke and rob the plant of food and
moisture, so that it cannot mature its
grain, and they take little note of it.
Better, oftentimes, that half the land be
left unseeded, and the balance well cul-
tivated and clean of weeds.
Year: 1873

SYSTEM is the soul of success. Order
is said to be heavens first law, but there
can be no order without system, and
so surely there can be no long-continued
success without system and order. The
first thing essential to the establishment
of any farm is, to lay it out in fields.
Upon this operation far more depends
than the great majority of farmers have
any idea. Aside from the looks of a farm
being spoiled by badly arranged fields, an
almost incredible increase of labor is en-
tailed upon the farmer and his hands by
fences wrongly placed. We know of no
better plan to secure convenient and
economical laying out ofa farm than to
make map of it, putting down every
natural feature in its proper place, and
then marking off the fields according to
some settled plan of rotation Of crops, and
laying down the road so as to occupy the
shortest possible route to and from the
fields. Nothing will so much conduce to
the adoption of system of working
the farm as well-prepared map, hung
where the farmer can see it every day.
1t will be sure to set him to thinking and
planning how best to pitch his crops, and
how to work to save work. And once the
farmer adopts system of farming, he
starts on the road to success. 1t matters
not that the system is not the best that
could be devised, SO dong as it is system
it is infinitely to be preferred to the hap
hazard practice of many farmers. We
therefore advise every reader who owns
farm to make at once, or have made, a
map of it and hang it up where he can
see it every day. And having made it,
study it Rural Sun.