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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-26

THE hyacinth needs a long season of
rest and does not become anxious to
grow until about the list of December.
and this desire increases as time adj
vances. A hyacinth planted the 1st of
November will go along moderately and
viii take nearly three months in bloom
ing The same bulb, if kept out of the
ground, in cool and moist place, so that
vitality would not be weakened, and
planted in January, would flower in
thirty or forty days. As a general rule,
however, the slower growth produces the
more robust plants and the most perfect
flowers. When in flower the tall hya-
cinths need some support for the flower
stem. The hyacinth is one of the most
beautiful and fragant of the dubious
flowers and particularly desirable for
house culture. Even half dozen grown
in pots and Towering during the winter
will afford more pleasure to the loved
ones at home" than the same amount of
money spent in any other way With
how much pleasurable anxiety they
watch the shooting forth of the bright
leaves, the rising of the stately column
while the opening of the first bud makes
joyful thanksgiving of the most dreary
winters day A very small pot will
answer for the hyacinth. Some prefer
to plant three or four in large pot and
this will make very pretty ornament.
Cnvar or,lx hn hal 50
with soil, press them down until they
are nearly covered, then water until the
soil is moistened thoroughly and
set the pots in cool, dark cellar The
roots will there form with but little
g-owth of top. Here they may remain
for several weeks and pot or two at a
time can be taken into warm, light
room for Towering, week or ten days
tanned during most of the winter When
hyacinths are planted in the garden and
we'll covered, the roots get good start
in the fall and winter; and it is very inn
portant in Towering them in the house
that growth of roots should be first en-
couraged in the way recommended
When placed in glasses of water for
Towering the base of the bulb should not
quite touch the water. Fill the glasses
with well-water, and as soon as the flower
budsappear sprinkle the plant frequently
with rain-water. Set them away for
about two weeks in cool, dark room
until roots are formed. then ramoya RI q
light. moderately warm room, and give
plenty Of light and air Keep hyacinths
in the coolest room you have-anything
above freezing will answer-and near the
light. Flowers of the hyacinth are often
ruined by growing them in very hot,
dry, unventilated room-TicRs Floral
GUJIe
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-26

the rock. As. soon as Gthey got their
chance.t they crouehed down on the rock,
and, clinging on with one hand, with the
other worked away with coal-chtsel 80
as to sink . sufficient number Of sockets
for the insertion IF the iron clamps.
Every now and then wave would break
over The rock, drenching them with foam,
and spray, and not INDEPENDENTLY one OF
the party would be carried right off by
the heavy sea, but would soon be picked
up by the vessel kept purposely on the
watch.
At the end of the first season 1857
seven landings had been effected and
eight hours work done, which sufficed
for the sinking Of fifteen sockets, while
the following year the weather was more
favorable, and forty new holes were
pierced, some Of which were below water
In 1869 the blocks Of STONE were first
placed in iron clamps about yard long,
riveted into the sockets. The blocks
were all hewn according to pattern and
joined together with Parker Medina ce.
ment The work Of dropping them into
position was exceedingly laborious,
owing to the violence Of the sea; but two
of the officials were constantly in attend
ance urging on the workmen, and at the
end of the season twenty-five blocks,
each about a yard cube, had been sue
cessfully made. In 1870 other landings
took place. and eleven cubes were laid
and in 1871 as many as twenty-three, the
work by this time becoming easier as
further progress was made. A steam
launch is now used for the conveyance
of material, and, sort of masonry scat
folding having been built, the builder:
have succeeded, during the first half Of
this years season, in placing in position
no less than eighty-seven blocks. The
expense, however, as may be imagined
has hitherto proved considerable. Eacf
of the forty-tive holes pierced during thu
first two years cost upward Of 2,0Ot
francs, and on Dec. 81 last the charge:
had amounted to more that $4,000 francs
The light is to be a revolving one of thu
first order, and ninety-seven feet aboy.
high-water mark: there are to be sever
stories in the house, and there will alst
be a steam whistle for use in foggy
weather
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-26
We Marry Too yosss.

An. sesr our American population
perhaps particularly the first and second
generations from immigrant parents
there appears to be very strong ten
dency to marry young. This very
especially applies to the female portion
of the community. American young
men seem infatuated about marrying
girls not out of their teens. A young
woman of twenty-four or twenty-five
years Of age in this city Is. On old maid" "
Marrying 5oung men seek ufiiof with
children of fifteen to seventeen years OF
age-girls that ought to be in charge
of their parents for several years to come,
instead of becoming mothers themselves.
This infatuation results in undevel-
oped and ill-developed, growing girls
thus becoming young mothers before
they are fit to leave their own mothers
care The first consequence of this is,
that the infant offspring of beardless
boy of eighteen or nineteen years OF age
and childish girl of fifteen or sixteen
years possesses but little stamina, and
soon droops and dwindles and dies in the
first weeks or months of its existence.
Crossing from Brooklyn to New York
on ferry boat few days ago, we OBJ
served pale, delicate, unhealthy-look.
ing little girl trying to pacify a sickly
crying, dying infant. For little time
we were completely puzzled in con
I]ecturing whether the little girl was the
'mother of that dying infant or not. And
yet she handled that baby with some
rthing of the air that mother only car
rightly manifest. Being curious to ascer
tain the truth of the matter, we made
free, with endless apologies, to ask thai
girl if she were really the infants
mother. With somewhat of color rising
in her pale checks, and mothers pride
she said: "Yes, sir, this is my child"
Heartily and very sincerely did WI
pity that little girl Without strength
herself there was that poor little infan
wanting in vitality. Before this article
meets the eyes of our readers that poo
babe must he among those that figure il
DIR. Harris returns as dying "undel
one year old. 'vScience Of Health.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-26

the pcsterior aud lo,ser potion Of the
hook joint; the seconda bony excres-
cence on the lower, inner, and rattle ran
terror portion Of the hock; and the last
Is soft enlargement Of the synovial
membrane ON the inner and upper Por-
ton of the hook. They are either OF
them sufficient reasons for rejecting:
See that the horse stands with his front
feet well under him, and observe both
the heels Of the feet and shoes to see II
he " FORCES" or overreaches; and in case
he does, and the toes of the front Feet
are low, the heels high, and the heels OF
the front shoes good thickness, and the
toes of the hind feet are OF no proper
length, reject him; for if he still over
reaches with his feet in the condition de-
scribed he is incurabls If he props out
both front feet, OF points them alternate
ly, reject.
In testing the driving qualities take
the reins while on the ground, invite the
owner to get in the vehicle first, then
drive yourself. Avoid the display OF
use of the whip, and if he has not SUI
| ficient spirit to exhibit his best speed
without it, reject. Should he drive sat.
isfactorily without, 1t will then be proper
to test his amiability and the extent OF
his training in the use of the whip.
Thoroughly test his walking qualities
first, as that gait is more important in the
horse of all work than great trottine
speed. The value of horse, safe for al
purposes without blinds, is greatly en-
HANGED thereby
| Purchase of the breeder of the horse
if practicable; the reasons are obvious
l-Naryland Farmer.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-26
Home and Happiness.

THERE can be no doubt that the truest
happiness is ever to be found at home
No man without home can be long and
truly happy. But the domestic group
can be productive q happiness only
when it is assimilated by affection and
kept in union by discreet friendship.
Then it tends to produce as much happi-
Less as this world is capable of; and its
sweet repose is sought for by all sensi-
Bile men, as ever by the wisest and the
greatest What can be compared in our
intercourse of life with the attentions on
our family, with their exhilarating smiles
and undissembled love: All tins raises
the gentlest and most pleasing emotions,
and calls forth all the sentiments of IN
controlled nature What are the rap
lures of ambition, the pleasures of fame,
the delights of honor, in comparison with
this: Utterly worthless and insipid
Hence it is that we see Senators and
heroes shutting out the acclamations Of
an applauding world to partake the en-
dearments of family conversation, and to
enjoy the prattling of their little children
in their harmless pleasures. This is one
OF the purest sources of mirth. 1t has
influence, too, in amending the heart
for innocence is communicated by COM
ing in contact with it; and the sweet
simplicity of children tends to purify the
heart from the pollution that it has &C
quired from moving in the world and mix
ing with men. Into what an abyss Of
moral degradation should we not be
sunken were it not for women and chill
dren. Well might the Great Author of
evangelical philosophy have been de
lighted with the presence Of children
and found in them-what he In vain
sought among those who judged them
selves their uperors-goodness and
virtue. Cicero. with all his libcralitv OF
mind, felt the tenderness of home at
tachmeIt. AT one time he acknowledged
that he received no satisfaction in ana
company but in that of his wife, his little
daughter, and-to use his own language
:" his fonjed young Cicero" Sir Thomas
More, with his great powers Of mind, de
voted great share Of his time-because
he knew it to be his duty and felt it to
be his delight-to the amusement Of his
children. Homer, in his Had, in the
parting interview between Hector and
Andromache, has Interested the heart Of
the reader in his terrible hero by show
ing the amiability Of his Trojan chief, BY
depicting him, Willie standing complete
ly armed for the battlefield, taking off
his helmet that he might not brighten his
little boy with its nodding plumes. How
refreshed are we by this scene of do
mestic love. And how pleased to see the
arm which Is shortly to deal death and
destruction among host of foes en-
ployed in caressing an infant son with
the embraces Of paternal love-Pen and
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-26
Plated Silver Ware.

PLATED ware originated in England
about the middle of the last century, the
first application having been made to
small articles in 1742 by Thomas
Bolsover, a Sheffield mechanic. The new
elegance brought within the means and
supposed proprieties of the middle class
took the name of Sheffield Plate" not
from the process of plating, but from the
silver ware of which it was an imitation
Plate, in this sense, is not our Saxon
word cognate with fiat, but was Dor
rowed from the Spanish plata silver
and applied to ali utensils made of the
precious metals, in whatever form.
To our elderly readers Sheffield
Plate" will still have familiar sound
for under this name the beauty of silver
was first popularized in America, and to
a far greater extent than even in En-.
gland. Probably the Sheffield and Birm-
ingham manufacturers of plated ware at
one period exported more goods to this
country than they sold at home.
made in 1888 by the invention of electro
plating, or rather the practical applica-
ton of the method which had been
known, but strangely neglected, for
thirty years. At one stroke plating was
greatly reduced in cost, its applications
Indefinitely extended, and its effects in
comparably improved. Everybody in
America is now familiar with the ordina-
ry wares OF our numerous electro-plat-
ing companies, and there is hardly ii
cottage worth two hundred dollars in
the country where such wares are not
found although the rich plating of the
Elkintons in England and the Gorhams
in America is too high in first cost for
the strictly popular demand.
Within half century the business of
the American silversmith was mostly
confined to making spoons to order for
the jewelers., who rarely purchased more
than one or two dozen at time, for par
ticular orders. About 1926 it was no
ticed that the silversmiths began to ven
ture into the manufacture of light spoons
for general sale through class of cheap
iewelry peddlers, who are still well re-
membered by natives of the New En-
gland of that period. The Providence
manufacture had begun to be extended
and brought into national relations by
the enterprise of young goldsmith
named Jabez Gorhan, who adapted his
work to the general requirements of the
trade, and made his way with it in the
Boston market by underselling and out
pushing the unmercantile mechanics of
his craft. The droll account the old gen.
tleman, who died about five years ago,
used to give of his semi-annual market
ing in Boston is more expressive than a
general description could be of the very
modest status of the now imposing silver
trade of our chief cities-how the Bos-
ton jewelers. assembled at his lodgings,
pursuant to notice, that they might be all
admitted at the same moment, without
Partially, to view and divide the little
trunkful of new jewelry spread out upon
his bed.-Scribner's Monthly for December.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-26

MORTIMER j. LOOMS, says Max Ade-
Ter, is now one of the most violent Of
the denunciators of railway moeopolics.
Since his last adventure on the cars he
hates railway worse than an Arapahoe
Indian hates b bald-headcd Shaker.
Loomis has fits of somnambulism occa-
sionallyy, and at such times he has an IN
coptrollable tendency to wander into
dangerous places. More than once ne
has been surprised. upon waking, to ma
himself roosting on the comb OF the
roof, or hanging headforemost down .ie
well, with one leg around the BUCKET
handle. He went out TO Pittsburgh
few DAYS ago, and when he entered the
sleeping-car the thought struck him that
he might get to prowling about during
the night while asleep and walk OIL the
platform into the better world. So he
went to the brakeman and gave him
dollar, with strict instructions that if he
saw him walking around that car in his
.s]eep to seize him and force HIM back at
All hazards. Then LOOMS turned in.
About two o'clock Lopmis awoke, and as
the air OF the car seemed sitting he de-
termined to 60 out on the platform for a
fresh breath or two. Just as he got to
che door that vigilant brakeman saw
him, grabbed him, fioored him and held
him down. When loomis recovered his
breath he Indignantly exclaimed: You
immortal ass! What d you mean?
Lemme get up, tell you; I'm as wide
awake as you are.n But that myrmidon
Of grasping corporation put another
knee ON LOOMS breast and insisted that
Loomis was asleep; and then he called
another brakeman and after a terrific
struggle, during which LOOMS received
bumps and blows enough to wake an
Egyptian mummy that had been dead
for 5000 years, Che railroad man jammed
him into berth, put trunk and eight
carpetbags on him and then sat on him
TO hold him down till morning The first
thing Mr. Loomis asked for when he ar
rived in Pittsburgh was respectable
hospital where they cured the Temporal
rily insane He thinks his reason was
partially dethroned by his effort to com.
prehend how that brakeman could have
the face to ask him for another dollar be-
cause Of the trouble LOOMS gave him
during the night.
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Love and Marriage.

= IT is weak man." says DR.. johnson,
who marries for love-" but if we NAV
be allowed to differ, it seems rather to
US weak man who marries for ANYTHING
but love; and we beg leave 10 doubt if
person Of the truest nobility of character
ever attempted lnatrimony from any
other motive. 1t could have been only
love that moved DR.. johnson himself to
espouse q woman double his age and I'M
lovely in person or manner; and when
we glance over the list of our friends
and neighbors, does it appear that. on
the average, they have any transcendent
gifts of beauty, fame or fortune which
could have beguiled their partners into
. round hoop of gold in the absence
OF genuine attachment? We should
be sorry to count such moths among our
friends; for who could deem their
friendship other than mere matter of
policy if they entertained such ,insin-
cerity III regard to the most sacred tie
that life affordss No doubt passion and
fancy are often mistaken for love, and
the illusion dispelled when it is too late
for the remedy, thereby bringing the
honorable custom Of marriage into more
or less disrepute; but the person who
willfully marries for money or position,
or any material advantage, merits the
contempt Of every honest spectator as a
reward for having despised the sweetener
of existence, the only thing that can
render wedlock other than an affair of
the money-ehangers. Neither have
we any consideration for those damsels
who marry for a home which they might
earn. as if marriage were something to
be undertaken for expediency's sake to
tide over pecuniary crisis, an institu-
tiea for the insolyent, and did not involve
the welfare Of future generations Who
can say if nervous irritabilities, moral
obliquity, and the thousand ills with
which flesh and spirit have to contend
, may not be the legacies of such loveless
unions, or how far marriage unsanctified
by love may influence the temperaments
of the offsprings We do not deny that
the conventional style has often secured
happy results; but that is no great credit
to our discretion, which permits us to
stumble accidentally into good fortune.
"There is always in love- witty
Frenchman AYERS, the one. who kisses
and the one who turns the chcek"-thc
active and the passive; and though there
may be great deal of that counterfeit
coin in circulation, though there may be
those who are content to demand every
thing and return little or nothing, who
find it 80 pleasant to be loved that they
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-26
Conversation with a Convict.

VISITOR (after having asked all the
other conviets regarding misdeeds and
punishment inf1icted) - Well, Collins
what arc you in for?
Collins-Because can't get out.
VI mean of what were you con
victeds
Crying ice.
V.-Don't the warden ever take your
irons off?
C.-No; he's afraid I'll take cold if he
does.
V.-How long were you sentenced for!
C.-Ninety-nin days only.
V. (sympathetically) W. All! ninety
nine dayss Why, your sentence will
soon expire and you'll be free again,
won't you,
C-Well, not SO very soon either.
why, how's that? Ninety-nine
days isn't long!
G. Slightly closing left optic)EWell
you see, boss, they're all Christmas Days!
-Hetena Month Herald.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-26

THE British ship Scindia, Capt. George
Harrison, arrived here few days since
from Calcutta, having on board one of
the most remarkable natural curiosities
the world has probably ever seen. 1t
consists of short-horned, sacred Brah-
min bull, born in Nepaul, Northern In
dia, in 1871, and imported here by Capt.
William Denison Folger, formerly of this
city, but latterly resident of Calcutta.
The bull itself is remarkable curiosity
and is one of that description of animals
held in great reverence by the natives of
India on account OF its traditional sacred
character. But in this case a novel
tus,ts nature renders it most singular
creature. The brute portion is symmet-
really formed with a glossy coat of
fawn- colored hair and well-shaped body
and limbs. But protruding, as it were,
from the left side Of the hump on the back
of the neck of the animal is wonderful,
and regularly shaped in nearly all re-
spects, human arm. The deltoid and tri-
cops and biceps muscles are well de-
veloped, particularly the latter; the joint
at the elbow is flexible, the forearm rather
attenuated. the wrist as fully flexible as
in the human arm proper, while the
hand is composed of four distinctly
marked fingers, two of them connected
together. The extraordinary appendage
to an otherwise well-formed body does
not appear to give the creature any in
convenience or pain, generally hanging
listlessly by its side, except when 1t is
angered or annoyed, when the arm
raises as if its possessor felt inclined to
strike from the shoulder" The animal
is quite healthy, enjoys q ravenous appe
tite, the nice grass of its native cline
being its favorite food, and does not
seem to have suffered any bodily injury
BY its long sea voyage. If not disposed
of IN this country we learn that it is the
intention of the importer to take the
creature TO England and secure it .
place In the London Zo0loGical Gardens,
where such novelties are highly priced.
y weuldprove unique attraction to the
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-26

A BONNET to match the dress is SO uni
versal that a costume seems incomplete
and ineffective without It, Seal brown
and invisible green are the colors milf
ners have most call for; there are also
stone grays, plum color, grayish-blue
and pure dark blue without any purple
in it. Almost all bonnets have roll or
twist of velvet and silk under the brim,
thus making it look very high. Contrasts
of color are the exception this season,
though peach blossom with brown, and
lemon-color with myrtle green, are used
with good effect. Very little lace is seen
in winter hornets, and jet has become so
common that milliners use it very care
fully. Ostrich feathers, either mere tip $
demi-long, or the single long Mercutio
plume, are found in all handsome bon
nets. Ladies are advised that the single
quill feathers are the most economical
purchase, though more expensive and
thinner looking than made feathers;"
the natural feather costs from ten to
fourteen dollars in its best qualities, but
may be curled over and worn many sea-
sons. The choice flowers are soft, loose
petaled roses that look as though they
could be blown apart. Two shades of
red in flowers, or else in flowers and gros
grain, are seen on many black velvet bon
nets A black velvet bonnet without
crown trimming, but merely Mer-
QUITO plume and loops, has two reds in
front, consisting of six gros grain loops
of cardinal color, on which rests large,
dark brownish-red rose with embrowned
leaves. Clusters of unblown rose-buds,
showing some red just bursting through
their green calyxes, are tied together so
that their flexible stems show, and used
for back trimmings; indeed, any loose
cut flower, such a. = single ross or lily
bud, with its long stem, is pendent low
ON the left side Of the bonntt--Harper's
Bde0r. h'@