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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-10-09
From the Marble Quarries.
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ME. STONE. DL>E SIN: 1t came in
my way a few days ~" L" visit the
Sutherland Falls Marble Company :
works in EutlIud. After lr..N in" the.
place il occurred I" me that 4 >li"ht
change which tins company l. about to
make III their mrlI"d "i quaIINim".
might not Ice umiutcrr>ring To luur
radrI>. 1t i not often that 4 marble.
company have such Il favorable combi-
uIlI"n "t circumstances ~ falls To the
lot "i this company dniu. business at
Sutherland Falls. IhriI water power
l. grrHr. Otter creek makes Il natural
tall ct r""niN feet 81 more. At this place.
llIclc l. ample room Ton mills and mill
yards. Their sand bank j. within :,
stones throw "l one ntthr mills. th, rail
road station l. near. and The quarry i
not mon" than fifty ur sixty rods from
the water aud mills N-r.-..>..r ,h..
quanh l. slightly elevated. :" that the
blocks "t marble go down to the mill
hN an easy "I.idr.
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-10-09

ccrcd and run 10y the ladies of the Con-
grcgntional >ocicty The eatahleS we've
contributed 10y the ladies. and the pro-
cccdS went fer the benefit of the society.
BY this means IL most excellent dinner
best cookery. At = fair uric. w, trust
tLci,. r,rriutS vcr, s.,tiSf,ct,,.v ia, ria.
dinner WA. foultI.ss
q The destruction of another of
those immense Saratoga hotels 10y fire
l. regarded with some suspicion. al
though perhaps every thing l. straight
an" honest. 1t Is IL ia't' we SUPPOSE
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WIS Il manure III >"iii' i'SP'''S' rliH''
II laii'" the men VINO p'lllt II. Allho'lSh
new "uiidlh%' II had Se''"u an"
Cracked :" "'"'\ H. !" get an "hplcaS-
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''ahi'H Fan. Nhl'i has been quite an
extensive and rrmhrhahIe exposition,
private letter mus speaks "f 1t he
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VI" i''l Ni"'. lhHiit Is Il magnificent
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-10-09

The Portland Press SAYS thcic
are nearly seven hundred men employ
ed on the Portland and O.,lc,r>hurg
road in the White Maintains. Tlrr,
has been Il reduction of Wages.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-10
Improvement of Tomatoes.

In an article ON this subject the Ger
mantown Telegraph states that we have
no tomato the same as we had thirty
years ago, at least under the same name,
and yet We had them pretty large and
good kinds even at that day. During the
few past years efforts have been made to
improve the tomato in size, solidity,
flavor and earliness of maturity. There
has been progress in all these directions
not perhaps so much actual improvement
as many of us believe, but still good
tomatoes have in the new kinds sustained
their reputation. Old varieties seem to
gradually give way or else people tire of
them and they thus disappear. 1t has
been asserted frequently that much better
fruit-especially for eating raw-can be
had from plants fastened to slant stakes
than when the plants are allowed to run
at,will over the ground, or even when
thssi. are fastened to slanting trellises
a blt..e /, stakes are required, of course, as
u an4eat weight of a plant in fruit cannot
kacDorne by light stakes.
III regard to training the plants much
attention has been given to thinning the
branches, especially when grown on
stakes, and in shortening back some of
the branches to within few buds of
where the fruit is to set. Those who have
followed this practice judiciously report
good results.
But the latest novelty in tomato culture
is in the matter of root pruning in order
to produce carliness. In this matter
some surprising results have been
achieved, according to those who have
given in their experience. While the
plants are young they are transplanted
several times, which, of course, destroys
some of the roots; and, after they are
put out into their final resting places, a
spade is once in while thrust down into
the ground foot or so from the main
stalk. In this, of course, size and per.
haps quality is sacrificed to few weeks.
earliness, but many are willing to pay
this penalty for the sake of the early dish,
The principle here is much the same as
is often done to get early grapes when a
ring of bark is taken off. The supply of
food being checked, the result is earlier
fruit, but with slightly impaired flavor
~ Y. Herald.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-10
Making Good Pork.

THERE are many families that raise
their own pork; yet what miserable
article do we too often tind-ilabby,
greasy, running to oil when cooked, and
frequently rank, sometimes limiting OF
the sty, and sometimes Of worse things
Now and then you meet with sweet,
white, solid pork, that will bear frying,
and is perfect cooked in any way, re-
minding you of Elias inimitable roast
pig cracking Besides, it costs no more
to make than the flabby, wretched, rank
stuff.
Why this difference? Why should we
use poor article when good may be
had at the same cost? tits because peo-
pie are careless and ignorant. Any
breed Tor no breed) that comes into their
possession by trade or otherwise they
use; and such feed as they may have,
often refuse, of the poorest, they give,
without regard to cleanliness or comfort
And thus the one kind of pork is made,
or, rather, makes itself A large use of
milk or whey has much the same effect,
making soft, flabby pork. A little of this
may be used as drink, OF part drink The
rest should be mainly grain, and corn at
that, or old corn best. The other grains
may be fed as adjuncts, giving variety,
which, when well timed, will promote
appetite. But experience has long ago
demonstrated that there is nothing so
good as sound old corn to make solid,
sweet pork, regularly given, never too
much at a feed, if the appetite would be
retained; clean pens, cosy, well aired,
warm in cold weather, cool in hot A
hog, though he will wallow in the miro
(for the want OF something cleaner to
cool him), has yet a sense of the neat,
and will seek, from choice, clean place
He thrives under good treatment. Cold
hurts him-he will make it manifest by
unmistakable squeals and activity, and
an excess of heat will make him suffer
These are to be avoided. Filth in pen
is transferred to the table in pork
Utica IN. ~ Herald.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-10

g. n - - .
THERE was said to be very ancient
precedent among the Byzantine Emper-
ors for choosing wife as Ahasuerus
chose Esther. Sophia's son, cut off from
all equal choice, sent ENJOYS with letters
to all the boyars and princes throughout
the Empire, commanding them to assist
IN an examination of the young girls of
their respective districts, rich, noble,
poor or scrf, that a selection, might be
made and the most beautiful sent to
Moscow for his inspections; the inhab-
ltants were warned that anyone who dis.
obeyed or tried to conceal his daughter
would be visited with condign disgrace
and punishment. No one burst disobey
the edict; the young girls wer. passed
IN review, and 500 esteemed worthy Of
their masters appreciation were sent to
Moscow. To form an idea of the sacri-
ice we must try to fancy what Russia
was in the fifteenth century. Those inn
mense distances, those sparsely settled
districts, those rude habits which disfnay
the traveller of today, when stages and
railroads and hotels and all the forms of
modern progress are at hand to smooth
the path, then presented all their formid.
able pristine difficulties.
The risk, the cost, the fatigue of
journey from the remotest provinces to
the capital were appalling. Yet these
hardships had to be faced, the tumults of
nope and fear controlled, all the hatred
ana jealousy of rivals encountered, and
the bitterness and modification of disap-
poinsment endured. ON arriving at Nos
COW further examinations were made, and
various competitors dismissed unseen by,
the Gar, until the number reserved for
Inc actual exhibition was. comparatively
small, They were all lodged II one
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-10
The Way to Conquer.

I'LL master It," said the AK, and his
blows fell heavily on the iron; but every
blow made his edge more blunt till he
ceased to strike.
Leave it to me-" said the saw, and
with his relentless teeth he worked back
ward and forward on its surface till they
were all torn down or broken; then he
fell aside.
"Ha! ha!' said the hammer, Il knew
you wouldn't succeed; I'll show you TIT
way" but at his first fierce stroke of
flew his head and the iron remained as
before.
"Shall try?" asked soft, small flame
But they all despised the flame; but he
curved gently round the iron, and en-
braced it, and never lett it until it melted
under his irresistible influence.
There are hearts hard enough to resist
the force of wrath, the malice of pcrse-
cution, and the fury of pride, so as to
make their acts recoil on their adverse
ries; but there is power stronger than
any of these, and hard indeed is the heart
that can resist love.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-10

hQnA5dust & thr0Hin = sfGi,ug ma
this takes 6p rs impurities, which are
afefx6td skinned Of. When the bars
are cast, q, slice is cut off each end, and
these are submitted to two assayets, MMkkSo
are not IN communicated and who report
separately. Their reports, besides deter.
mining the valae Of the gold, check each
other. The gold is now in a condition to
put upon the market. Meanwhile the
silver which is held in ISOLATION iii the
sdRAurie aclA Il carried Into tanks III
which are copper blocks. Theft contact
withthe suiphuric ACID produces sulphate
Of copper, and the silver is precipitated.
In all the processes carried on in the
assay Office there Is nothing wasted.
Even the si!phnrous fumes are carried
into condensers, and are turned into sui
phuric acid, to be again used for refining.
The weighing at the assay Office is done
with the most fractional minuteness, and
the calculations of the Office, which are
of the most intricate and delicate kind,
are performed in distinct department.
M, Y,.L 0loD,.r1r
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-10
The Deadly Nightshade.

GAN Old Physician" writes as follows
to the New York Tribune:
My age and experience as physician
enable me with propriety and confidence
to call the attention of the public to a
custom now widely prevalent, principally
among the middle and lower classes, of
sitting on their stoops after sunset. l
conccde that this position after hot day
is one of comfort, but it certainly is not
one Of safety. This opinion is supported
by years of experience and careful obser
walton. But in further support of it I
give the following reasons, founded on
common sense and the well-known laws
of health:
The vapor which under the effects of
the sun rises during the day becomes
condensed and remains near the earth at
night.
Under the effect of heat and fatigue
the system at night is least able to resist
the depressing influence of dampness
and vaporous air, and, therefore, the
body, if exposed DIT, should be protected
by additional clothing, or by exercise
The fact that no chill is felt. furnishes
no evidence that we are not unduly eX-
posing ourselves. On the contrary, the
seeds Of many chronic and fatal diseases
are laid while the system is in that state
of lassitude and repose produced by hot
day, and while we are engaged in that
seductive employment of "trying to keep
COOL" Or
AT the very time that clothing is |
burden we should either protect our
selves by it or withdraw our skin and
lungs from immediate contact with damp,
sunless and vaporous air, which in just
the proportion that it is grateful to our
sense is destructive to our health A
notion widely prevails that the only
danger from chills and fever is incurred
in the country. This is erroneous Sta
tistics and logic prove it to be SO. 1t is
true that paved streets, perfect sewerage
and clean surroundings protect from
chills and fever. But there are blocks
of elegant houses in eligible locations in
this city where chills and fever, diphthe-
ria, and hundred diseases prevail, may
say, to an alarming extent
The reasons assigned land perhaps cor
rectly) are defective sewerage and re-
cently-upturned earth. But these causes
operate unfav orably chiefly in the alb
sence of the sun. Those who labor dur
ing the day in these sewers and excava-
tons are not exceptional sufferers from
chills and fever, etc. The victims are
among those who after sunset remain
near them and expose themselves with
out exercise or sufficient clothing to the
therefrom. And the same
effects, though in less degfee, happen
to those who expose themselves any
where, whether in city or country, after
sunset, by remaining stationary on cold
stoops, imperfectly clothed and with sys-
TENS reduced by heat and fatigue The
weakest may in the daytime and by
sctive exercise meet with IMMUNITY the
chilly, damp air; but not if it is permitted
to steal upon him in an hour when his
senses and functions are locked in state
Of fatigue and inaction; for while 1t seems
to cool and refresh it is really closing the
pores andipsodacisg iaaa the currents
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-10

| great cause why we see those organs stop
At death SO quickly is that the phenapaa.
4HT5{ Arrest q their activity have taken
| place etrthstin& Of deaf, z ne pl4n(p
Il esa S&&2r6, ~ nay ed, hing sqdNe
I Independent of the cessation of life.
Other observers have demonstrated the
rhythmic action of numerous other or
gans in man and the Lower animals emo
tons tons ths3 ns6tM Gnttdssth m5Eslyy
but the entire separation Of me parts
from the rest of the bSdy. Indeed, Dr..
Brown-Sequard claims to have found that
rhythmical motion Is a common property
Of nh 0ontrae tile tisssstess but one which
shows itself only under certain condi-
tions, different from the ordinary circum.
stances Of life.
Still more remarkable is the fact that
motions closely mimicking voluntary
movements can go on in the absence OF
conscious life.
DR.. Sequard mentions case In which
he was called to see man who was thor
oughly dead Of cholera, yet who persisted
in certain complicated movements dis
tressingly suggestive of life. The dead
man would lift up his two arms at full
length above his face, knit his fingers TO-
gethcr as in the attitude Of prayer, then
drop the arms again and separate them.
These movements were repeated many
times, with decreasing force, until at last
har To
what may take place in the human body
after death these singular movements,
observes the doctor, must certainly have
looked as if the will power had been di-
recting them. In fact, the family and
friends all thought the dead man alive,
and many tests had to be applied to con-
vince them that death had really taken
place.
1t is worthy of notice in this connec-
ton that it is generally with the victim.
of cholera and other sudden and violent
diseases that post norton movements are
most common, and consequently the
suspicion of premature burial most likely
to arise. That such movements are
wholly independent of life was demon
stratcd beyond doubt by DIR. Dowlcr, of
New Orleans, who adopted the heroic
expedient of cutting off the limbs of
patients, dead beyond hope of recovery
from cholera and yellow fever. Not
withstanding their separations from the
nervous center the amputated limbs
continued their seemingly voluntary
movements. Whatever may have caused
them, it is evident that these limitations
of life were not due to anything that
could be associated with consciousness
Scientific Amerscan.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-10
rmeTichborne" Case.

Der FROM bfs ngoing the rounds of the
Fgation rccS~srrs of case very sim.
irgh' Mich ofle Tichborne claimant.
Iaic of cefed 1.-THE year 1910 and pos
seiich the anreatures in common with
tn the paSi2Qtlern conspiracy that one
canE ssdhbt that Arthur Orion was in
great Measure indebted to it for the
details of his ingenious plot. The most
remarkable point about it is that it
should not have been cxhumed from the
records before the conclusion of the lat
ter and the conviction of the conspirator.
The property involved was in possession
of Sir John Smyth, having passed to
his- tA~ Ugh his mother, whose brothers,
thdntaipaArried, had died without issue.
Thdt is alant pretended to be the legiti-
ma is dpbf the elder brother, Sir Hugh
ST. AID produced the most convinc-
ilEvER pony to establish his identity.
unless Recognized as the rightful heir
es and bRposed relative and appeared
asts" and SAfair way to win the rich es-
c slice of salt porA9us coincidence that
small, put it in the hnt AIT in the mat
p-kettle with thresgny, observable in his
ons slicefiwo familiar words thus, "sett
a boneffnjured his case somewhat, just
aso fat lar Orton's photographed weak
neuls ltranged some of mis- supporters.
On -teocwery eve of a surrender the de-
fenSe proved that the claimant was a
convict, and had been imprisoned for
three years for the crime of horse-steal-
ing; that his neck and arm were marked
with "the Kings Evil" and that his ap-
parently irrefragable chain of evidence
was fraud of the most ingenious de-
scription. Orthography, or the want OF
it, was his bane once more. In forging a
signet ring an accident on the engraver's
part had changed letter. The motto
"Qui capt. capitur' had been changed, the
last word reading capitor. Like Orion,
the false Smyth, instead of obtaining a
baronctcy and a fortune, received SEN
tence of transportation for twenty
years. 1t is probable that Arthur Orion
in adhering as closely as he did to prece'
dent was unprepared to find that similar
causes under similar conditions produce
similar effects
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-10
How Gold Is Assayed.

THE New York assay office is situated
in Wall street. 1t was established in
1854, and has had since then a con-
stantly increasing business. At present
the deposits are made through the banks
The bullion is received in all forms, gold
dust, bars, jewelry, amalgams, and so
forth. The deposits are all made in the
weigh-room, where they are duly weighed.
Payments are, of course, not made to
the depositors until the assayer has made
his report as to the quantity of pure gold
in their deposits. For deposits of gold
payments are made either in gold bars
or in coin, according to the option of the
depositor. The first thing is to attach a
number to each deposit, and this number
follows it through all the stages and proc
esses through which it may pass. The
process Of melting is very simple, the
bullion being simply placed in crucibles,
which are placed in a furnace at some
thing like white heat The liquid gold
is then poured into shapes, and the num-
Der with which it starts is subsequently
stamped upon it. At this stage the gold
contains, of course, huge quantity of
base matter. Jewelry, for instance,
which is deposited for melting and re-
filming seldom contains 80 per cent. of
pure gold, this being esteemed in
such case rather high average. The
gold Of jewelry is, however, the
least valuable kind deposited The first
thing to be done in the matter of refining
gold is to put it through process known
as granulation L This is effected by mix
ing two-thirds of silver with one of gold
The result of this process is that the
mixed gold and silver takes the shape of
comparatively small grains or particles;
and the object of SO dividing it is that
when, for the purpose of publication,
the gold is brought into contact with sui
phurie acid, alarger surface of the metal
shall be exposed to its action. The sep
aration of the silver from the gold is eff
fected in this way: The graduated metal
is put into large. iron kettles: and boiled
In sulphuric acid. The result is that the
silver becomes united with the acid,
forming sulphate of silver. It is held in
solution, and in this form is carried off
though syphon to tanks in room
downstairs, where the silver is after
ward precipitated. The gold is subse-
quently subjected to several other baths
of sulphuric acid until it is thoroughly
separated from the silver. 1t is then
placed in filter and subjected to the &C
ton of warm water. At this stage it
simply resembles q muddy deposit,
and has not the nslishsests metai1ie
luster. II. ~ Subsequently dried,
and hydraulic pressure is brought
to bsar On itso as to squeeze the water
out OF, it thoroughly. Il 10 eftervard
cast into bars, End il thoroughly mixed
tn the process, When in liquid state,