smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

Last Sunday, just as one of our
straightest deacons was getting ready to
shake the lines over his horses backs and
say "ge dap" his wife happened to re-
member that the calf hadn't been fed.
The deacon looked at his Sunday clothes,
and observed that he did not deem it in
cumbent upon him to suffer for the
negligence of others; to which the dea-
coness replied that such language in the
presence of the children on q Sunday
morning, and from pillar of the church,
was enough to shake ones belief in the
professions that had been made by some
one she could name. The deacon handed
the lines to his eldest boy and climbed
over the wheel without saying a word.
He went round to the front door and
took the door key from under the mat,
came around to the back door, and as he
was trying to put the key in the hole, the
key slipped from his hand and slid down
into the snow. Finally he got into the
kitchen and started for the barnyard
with the milk. He set the pail down on
the ground and called to the calf, but the
beast whisked its tail in the air and
beloved at him. then he captured the
animal and pulled it along by the ears
and jammed its head into the pan, but
the calf gave spring, sending the milk
in cloud of spray over the deacon's
shirt-front. In trying to recapture the
beast the deacon dropped his hymn book
out of his pocket, and before he could
rescue it the calf stepped both feet on it
and tore the cover of. The deacon got
mad. He took hoop pole and be-
labored the calf One end of the pole
struck the shed, and bounding up,
knocked the deacon's plug hat off. It
rolled directly under the calf, who set
his foot through the tile, and then went
tearing around the yard with his tail in
the air and that hat fastened Just above
the knuckle joint. The deacon went into
the house, and as he unbuckled his shirt
collar, he called out, "Maria, you 90 to
church, and IL anybody asks after me
tell them staid home to feed the calf"
-MdrshdU (N. " Statesman.
Year: 1875

NINE. BURGESS, the daring driver Of a
chariot in DE Haven's Hippodrome races,
while at Kalamazoo, the other day, met
with serious and well nigh fatal acci-
dent. While driving in the double
team race, at a whirlwind speed with her
high strung and thoroughly excited span
of grays, size was overturned in her
chariot, falling under the heavily
weighted wheels, and dragged several
feet on the gravel track, tearing her
clothing and fearfully lacerating her
flesh, breaking one arm and seriously
bruising her head. She was picked up
insensible, and carried from the pavilion.
Another female took her place, and the
feast of excitement continued, notwith-
standing the sad affair.
Year: 1875

We have a very interesting mystery
here in the shape of the second edition
of the famous Cardiff Giant. Two men
living in the town of Kimball, ten miles
from Port Hudson, while ont hunting,
stopped to gather specimens OF stone
from a gravel bed in the Pine river that
was washed out from the bank near by
during the freshet year ago. In this
loose bank they uncovered stone re-
sembling the face of child. After look
ing at it in wonder for time, they
thinking of the doubt that hangs over
the discovery of the famous giant, went
and brought fifteen or twenty men to
witness this before taking it out. 1t was
then removed with a mass of gravel ad-
herring. The face, chin, throat, part OF
the right arm, shoulder, breast, part OF
one arm and the whole of the other
showed distinctly in perfect form, all the
rest merging into a mass of gravel and
small stones, cemented together the same
as seen in any gravel pit. The right
arm is bent, the forearm is lying across
the body; the other is bent below the
elbow. The eyes are we'll defined and
very broad; forehead aat and slopingi
nose small and sharp; nostrils open; lips
! very thin and fat; mouth well defined
curve of the lips perfectly natural; chin
square; slight depression or dimple over
the breast bone; also, just above the arm
where the ribs meet. The form of the
breast il perfect. The skin on the sur


face is smooth, not showing the marks o.


tools. Some call il petrifed child, and
account for the great breadth of ths
head al the eyes by some pressure tina
| hattened the forehead. Among tn,
small stones are petrifed coral, shells
ETC., ouch as are very common through
this country. Can you tell us what it is
-TAIbany Country Gentleman.
Year: 1875

western Farm Journal.


NJ. Petty, veterinary surgeon, draws
attention to the liability of horses and
cattle suffering from indigestion, from
the consumption of forage in humid
or musty state. It is from over feeding
this complaint is ordinarily produced,
or TO the too rapid transition from dry
TO unlimited green food. Another very
common cause is, the putting Of ami
mails to work Immediately after feed.
the threshing machine is also another
frightful source, as well as excessively
cold water, and above all, allowing the
animals tn drink the water of marshes.
A little salt or handful of meal is ex-
cellent in the drinks. Old animals ought
never he given too much food at once,
and it should be ever mixed with lit
tie straw. When the horse shows symp-
toms of ndigestion-restlessne sud
denly refusing food. resting on one leg
and then on another the head dropping
and seeking the left flank; its excrements
either hard or liquid, &C., an excitant,
as three ounces of kitchen salt or a glass
of gin, in bottle of water affords re-
lief, or an infusion of camomile or sage.
In case pain exists, two spOonfuIs Of
landannm will prove excellent or
course soap injections, friction and FUN
igation are not to be overlooked. Bleed
ing in case of grave indigo ton becomes
mortal.
Year: 1875

Some have adopted bee-keeping as the
business of life; and these have mostly
attained fiattering success. Others en-
gage in it as a pastime and amusement
chiefly.


Agriculture has made great advances
of late years. The intelligent bee keep
er no longer confines his favorites to a
hollow log, or rude box, nor what is
even worse, to any of those absurd con-
srivances which have proved the ruin OF
Thousands of happy colonies of bees,
and provoked the disgust of their nm
fortunate owners. But providing him
self with some form of movable comb
hive, well constructed, and having a
sufficiently capacious brood-chamber Tor
main apartment) and suitable arrange
ment for surplus honey, he enters up
on the pursuit with fair prospect of sue
cess. Those who have once learned how
to keep bees, will not soon abandon the
pursuit. Western Agriculturist.
Year: 1875




The great difficulty in this country is,
that we have no time for anything. The
very walk of an American shows that
he is in hurry. An Englishman but
tons his coat and gloves and goes to
business as deliberately as he goes to
church. An American business man flies
after the car, struggling with his coat
sleeves as he runs, plunges in
head foremost, and plunges ont at The
end without regard to his neck Chief
amongst our accidents stand those which
occur because people jump upon flying
trains or after departing boats. To wait
ten minutes is something not to be
swallowed whole; and when one comes to
desert he finds that the fruit was pick ed
before it was ripe.


Everything is hurried through, from
the building of house to the curing OF
a ham. The women who work on sew
ing machines stop before they come to
the end of the seam. The dressmake r
sends home your dress with basting
threads in it, and no loops to hang it up
by.


There is none of the slow, sure COM
pleteness Of the old world about any
thing, and even fortunes are made in a
hurry and Lost in the same way. If any
man we know is getting rich by the slow
and patient process of saving, be sure
that he was not born upon this continent
Yet people live as long here as they
do anywhere else, and the days are the
same length. Why is it that we have not
time for anything?
Year: 1875

BURYING POTATOEs.-The Canada
Farmer gives the following methods OF
burying potatoes:


Potatoes should be laid in compact
heaps, and covered carefully with straw.
Over the straw put abont eight inches OF
earth, and over the earth good thick
layer of straw. Over all. put six or
eight inches Of earth. Frost will 20
through almost any thickness Of earth
alone, but it will suffice to keep il in
place. BY nsing straw and earth com
bIned, time il saved in nncovering when
The roots are wanted to be got at. II
the snow is blown from the heaps dur
ing the winter, and the cold is very in.
tense, it will be well to cover them with
a coat of coarse manure.
Year: 1875

The passions which act most severely
on the physical life are anger, fear, ha-
tired and grief. The other passions are
comparatively innocnous. What is
called the passion of love is not injur-


ious until il lapses into grief and ankle


tv; on the contrary, it sustains the ply
sical power. What is called ambition is
of itself harmless, for ambition, when it
exists purely, is a nobility lifting its
owner entirely from himself into the
exalted service of mankind. 1t Injuries
when it is debased by its meaner ally,
pride; or when, stimulating man to too
strenuous efforts after some great object,
it leads him TO the performance of ex-
cessiye mental or physical labor and to
the consequences that follow such effort.


The passion called avarice, according
to my experience, ter DIS rather to the
preservation of the body than to its de-
terioartion. The avaricious man, who
barring himself of all the pleasures of
the world, and even to be exposing him
self to the fangs of poverty, is generally
placing himself in the precise conditions
favorable to long and healthy exis-
tence. By his economy he is saving
himself from all the worry incident to
penurv; by his caution- he is screening
himself from all the risks incident to

speculation or the attempt to amass
wealth bv hazardous means; by the reg
ularity of hours and perfect appropri-
alton of the sunlight, in preference TO
artificial illumination, he rests and
works in periods that precisely accord
with the periodicity of Nature; by his
abstemiousness in living he takes just
enough to live, which is precisely the
right thing To do according to the rigid
natural law. Thus, in almost every
particular, he goes on his way freer than
other men from the external causes of
all the induced diseases, and better pro-
tected than most men from the worst
consequences of those diseases which
spring from causes that are uncontrolla-
bla
Year: 1875

Some rogue recently cut the straps
by which two large elephants attached
tn a circus then exhibiting in Benning-
ton, VT, were confined, and the beasts
started out on voyage of discovery.
They ate up halt an acre of potatoes and
nearly frightened woman to death by
rattling her window-b blinds in the at
tempt to get some apples on the window
sill. It was so dark that she could moi
see foot from the window, and when
she opened the window a huge trunk
was whirling about after the apples
The poor woman fell over backward
screaming: "Oh, what snakel,'
Year: 1875

Many of the colds which people are
said to catch commence at the feet. To
keep these extremities warm, therefore,
is to effect an insurance against the al
most interminab BILE list of disorders
which spring ont of "slight cold"
First, never he tightly shod. Boots OF
shoes when they fit too closely press
against the foot and prevent the free
circulation of the blood. When, on the
contrary, they fit with comparative
looseness, the blood gets fair play, and
the spaces left between the leather and
the stockings are filled with comforta-
BILE supply of warm air. The second
rule Is, never to sit in damp shoes. 1t Il
often imagined that unless they are posi-
lively wet it is not necessary to change
them. This is fallacy, for when the
least dampness is absorbed into the sole
il IL attracted nearer the foot itself BY
the heat. and thus perspiraiion is dan,
gerously checked. Any person mas
prove this by trying the experiment o
neglecting this rule. The feet will be-
come cold and damp after few moments
although on taking of the shoe Ans
warming them they viii appear quit
dry.
Year: 1875

-Four men were enjoying a game Of
enchre in a saloon the other night, when
a boy poked in his head and said:
There's a woman ont here who wants 20
know il Mr.. -------is in here The
men didn't exactly hear what the name
was, but three of them got out of the
side door AZ suddenly as though a small
Pox patient bad been brought in. There
is nothing singular about this, only the
one left was a single man.
Year: 1875

A FARMERS HEAD TORN FROM HIS
BoDY.-At Jnnius, New York, last
Saturday, a farmer named Theodore
Bodine met a terrible death He was
feeding a threshing machine with loose
oats. In some manner a coil of fence
wire han become mixed with the oats,
and was thrown into the machine un-
seen by the farmer. One end of the
wire instantly fastened around the cylin-
der of the thresher, and the other end
caught abont Mr.. Bodine's neck and
drew him mp to the machine. The aper-
ture being too small to permit of the en-
tire body passing in, the head was liter
ally torn from it and passed through.
II was not until the bloody head came
out at the other end that the fate of the
farmer was discovered. The men who
were attending to that part Of the ma
chime stopped the horses, and going
back found the headless trunk of Mr.
Bodine lying upon the barn floor. lie
leaves a family.
Year: 1875

GoRED BIZ BuLLocKs.-Mr. Probert, manager OF
the Lihue Ranch on Hawaii. was badly wounded by
bullock some time last week. He is getting along
very well however. A native lad was also hurt by
bullock at kawahae; the horn striking him directly
under the left nipple the region Of the heart
but striking rib il glanced OF, saving his life
Year: 1875

tsg- The volcano of Kiauea is very active. The
reflection from the crater be seen great distance
at sea A weIl-informed resident thinks that It is
getting ready for another outbreak The summit
crater Of Mokuaweoweo is quiescent, and traveller
who lately visited it saw no fire. but little smoke
Issuing from the crater.
Year: 1875

ES- The new twenty-ceut pieces do not circulate
sofreey as was hoped Perhaps the Der i'm ported
has been too small TO meet the demand In size the
piece resembles the English shilling, but 1t can al
ways be distinguished by its smooth edge
Year: 1875

ss'- Passengers by the steamer should be prompt
as Capt Marehaut always starts at the hour set A
steamer Ike railroad train, should move on time
aud 10 avoid being left behind passengers should be
on board al least ten minutes ahead Of the hour set
far sailing
Year: 1875

CENTENNIAL TREEs-It is suggested, insomueh
as trees are growing scarce in this country that on
the first day of May, 1876, the centennial year of
American Independence, the people gather together
Ia every citv, village, hamlet and neighborhOod In
the Union, aud plant centennial trees so that 10 one
hundred years or sooner their children may gather
under the branches to compare notes of growth and
hask in the shade they will then afford.-EzehGnge


There can be no harm in extending such a worthy
effort to these islands, indeed to every country
where trees are needed although the month selected
Is not proper one for this latitude January 1876
would be more appropriate.
Year: 1875

Lexington Gazette.


One dark night not long ago burglar
entered a private residence on Broad
way. On ascending one fight of stairs
he observed a light in a chamber, and
while deliberating what to do large
woman suddenly descended upon him,
seized him by the throat, pushed him
down through the hall and forced him
into the street before he had time to
think Heroic Repulse of Burglar
by a Woman" was the way the story was
told the next day. But when friends
called and congratulated her upon her
Courage, she exclaimed Good gracious
! didn't know it was burglar If l had,
| should have been frightened to death.
| thought it was my husband come home
drunk and was determined he shouldn't t
stay in the house in that condition" !"
Year: 1875

A citizen of Toledo, in tho ordinary
current Of business became possessor
OF the note Of German saloon-keeper


The note becoming due, he took it to the
party and presented il fof payment. The
man was not prepared to liquidAte the
Year: 1875

ss" We would infer from Bro. MCGUIRE
reply to eur little squb of his portrait OF
Gov. Garland, that he had the full sanction OF
the Governor and that the caricature was a
good likeness Of our esteemed Chief Magis-
trate. We had not seen the Governor for q
month or two, and took him for n much bet
ter looking man. lIowever,if it is satisfactory
all round,we certainly ought not to complain.
The biographical sketch of his Excellency
was good and no doubt correct, and we had
no fault to find. And we can only advise the
Governor, when he sits for another picture
to put on Gas McGpire says the genial smile
that overshadows his face. rs 1t does in his So
eial Intercourse,
Year: 1875

Representative Durham, member of the
Legislature from Little River county in A
letter to the Gazette, recommends as the first
Gork of the Legislature, VIXEN IL meets the
passage of an act remtting the penalty of
fifteen cents imposed on those failing to pay
their taxes last year. Let the penalty be re-
mitted The State should not wish to be en-
riched AT the expense of the distress of the
poor and hard pressed of our state The poor
tax payer who last year failed to settle his
taxes, will not be much better able to pay
his'two years taxes this, let alone the penal
of fifteen cents added. win our representa-
tiycs think OF think of this matter
Year: 1875

tE- The Bentonyille Advance does not
seem to have the high opinion of the .Whan-
doodle Miller. as the miller does of himself.
This is what tile Advance says. after copying
onr notice of the mill and miller:


Yes. we have heard of that Prince" of a
miller before. He came here, made good
deal OF noise. and left after beating every body
lie had any transactions with "ye printer" "
included
Year: 1875

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CRUSHED UNDER


THE WEIGHT OF CORRUPTION.


The Republican party on part Of the
Peninsula and in Maryland has gone out
of existence-it has been crushed under
the weight of the corruption of the Ad-
ministration leaders.


The great party that but few years
ago, by the use of the brutal negro,
the carpet baggsr and United States
Marshals and soldiers drove the people
from their homes, ransacked their houses
and robbed farmers of live stock, exists
no longer-its very name-a good one
tools so disgraceful that at the last
election in Maryland no party could rally
under tit is dead-dead as Hector !;
and deserves to be buried as it has been
by the very men it prosecuted.


There was no Republican party in
Maryland at the last election; and the
men who formerly called themselves
Republicans have became traitors to it
ers. Who would have supposed ten
years ago that S. Teakle Wallis would in
that short time be found at the head
of the partizans who then were perse-
cutting him and heaping abuse upon his
name. The very men who then de-
nounced him as a traitor, rebel and
copperhead, now laud him as leader.
The Democratic party in which he then
~ l. 90 >
Now behold it ! So strong was it before
the election that it had no opposing
party. The Republican party had gone
out of existence. There was no organi.
zation left except that of the negro lodges.
And the coming man" of the Radi-
Gals could do nothing. Then the cor
rupt men whose rascality had destroyed
the Repu blican party, resorted to the dis.
satisfied Democrats and by placing them
in the lead and stirring up religious an.
tipathies and the defunct auxiliaries OF
the old Know-Nothing organization, and
terming this conglomeration the "Re
form Party" the corrupt leaders made.
another desperate attempt to get at the
State Treasury Of good Old Maryland
The sequal proved the death of the Re.
publican party in Maryland and on the
Peninsula. Before the election there
stood the black mass-3o, 900 negro voters
not knowing where to 60. or how to vote
And the cunning, bold and dangerous
politicians undertook to mould then
into party to rule the State. All that
was left of the Republican Administra.
tion Party was the poor, deludel, in.
competent negroes not one of whom
was offered a place on the Reform ticket.
And this too proves the fallacy of an
other Radical prediction-proves the
failure of the much heralded and much
Landed coming man"
Year: 1875

Mr.. Frank Buckland in his entertaining
'Log Book Of Fisherman and Zoologst, Just
issued, gives many useful hints as to study and
the employment of leisure moments, but among
them he has one very doubtful Recommended
ton. This is the suggestion that professional
men and others can often economist time by
writing on railway trains. He AYERS that he
prepares much OF his copy for the press IN that
manner, and that he has Taught many OF his
acquaintance the same accomplishment. 1t
seems to be more than knack ; something that
has to be learned for our author says his
father taught him how to do it. and that Dr.
Buckland was in his time instructed by some
venerable prelate whose name we have forgot
ten.


No doubt people who travel mnch by rail often
find time heavy on their hands, and many pro-
test against what they call "waste," but they
had better put up with this evil, if it be one,
than run a great risk in seeking to remedy it,
No active man can get too much rest, and the
enforced periods Of idleness caused by
railway travel should be regarded IS
benefits rather than hndrances. Despite what
Mr.. Buckland hints of his method of work on
rail, common sense shows that such labor must
of necessity be injurious English railways are
much smoother than ours. but the perfection
of mechanism cannot overcome motion highly
prejudical to the nerves, if opposed to so deli
cate an operation as the action OF the hand in
writing. Any one can prove this for himself
and the difficulty experienced will show the con-
tinual spasmodic action necessary to accomplish
any result. All the tuition suggested can only
bein the line of overcoming this natural resist
ance and must in the nature of things be Yio-
lent and injurious process. Under the most fa-
vorable circumstances, people should
be careful how they hold the pen
and what degree of force they exert in
writing. 1t is possible to acquire habit Of
writing with the expenditure of little power, and
to distribute the force evenly through the arm
instead of making it bear mainly upon the finger
and wrist. This is point of much consequence
with those who write much.


One Of the most dstressingrof minor COM
plants brought to the surgeon is an affection Of
the right hand, arm and shoulder called writer Z
palsy, caused by the continuous spasmoaic
crampings of those members. Mr.. Buckland :
time-killer seems to us to be nothing more than
palsy-promoter. There is such sympathy.
too, between the nerves and muscles Of tie ojy
that an extreme tension such as this act sup
poses, must affect njuriously the entire frame
The eye must also suffer in the ceaseless e.f5r'
TO follow the pencil. disturbed eve-v second Il
the jolting Of the vehicle. It has teen -.
ciently proven that reading in the ca-s : bZt
habit and writing must therefore te 11re-
worse one, for We have there all the bad results
of reading, Joined with another series Of con
plicated physical efforts.