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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-24

feathers. Put the bags into brick over,
II you are the fortunate pcssesscr of one,
and keep them there, excepting when the
oven is used for baking purposes-taking
them out to the wind occasionally and
beating them with stick. When you
have collected enough to fill pillow,
cut the shape you desire out of bed-tick-
ing and stitch it round on the wrong side
with coarse, well-waxed thread, leaving
q small space at the top to put In the
feathers. Now lay 1t on table and rub
1t over on the wrong side with piece OF
beeswax, just warmed little, SO that it
will besmear the ticking. If you Cannot
obtain the beeswa1 common yellow soap
will do as well.
II you do not wish to use the feathers
either for pillows or SOLE cushions, they
can be pat Ii beds that have become a
little empty. The geese and duck
feathers make the best beds, but the
mixed feathers do we'll for cushions. y
any of the skip or aesh adneres to the
feathers they will have putrid odor
which may seem to be an insurmounta-
BILE objection to their use but if, after
family wash is finished, the bag, tied w
closely at the neck, is put into the tcilei
of soapsuds and boiled few moments,
taoving 1t about with the clothes-stick
and lifting it up and down and squeezing
it out few times and is then taken out
and hung IN the air and shaken hard fol
several days, when the feathers become
dry they will be light and free from any
bad smell, and they can now be put int<
the oven, and thus kept from moths ant
be always ready for use.-Count,y Gen
| tlendn,
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-24
A City With SiIver-Paved Streets.

Our principal streets, being macad-
amized with refuse ore taken from the
mines in early days, and being coated
with The rich ore that has year after year
been sifted down upon them from the
ore wagons, are now everywhere more or
less argentiferOus. Indeed, there is not
the slightest stretch of the Imagination
in saying that we never take a step in
town but we arc walking on silver-that
our streets are literally paved with silver.
While speaking of this fact day or two
since, a young man bet his friend the
price Of the assaying and 1.-THE cigars,
that he would take lump of mud off the
wheel Of a bus then standing before
them, and would get out of it precious
metals to the value of over IS per ton
An ounce or two of mud was taken from
the wheel of the vehicle and placed in
the hands of an assayer, who was not told
where the sample was obtained, and who
no doubt supposed that he was dealing
with decomposed ore or vein matter from
one Of the mines. The assay was made,
and the assayer's certificate showed that
the sample contained: "Silver 1854;
gold $2.32; total 1886" After this we
may put on airs, even though our streets
are villainously muddy occasionally, for
the very mud on our boots contains both
silver and gold, and not the vulgar mud
Of the "cow county" towns Virginia
INec.) Enterprise.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-24
The Mutual Dependence of Bees and
Flowers.

THE bees, Mr.. Darwin says, have
solved difficult problem. They have
-@,n thnir rails of proper shape to
hold the greatest possible amount or
honey with the least possible consump-
ton OF precious wax in their construc-
ton. No human workman is skillful
enough to do what crowd of bees can
do, working in dark hive-make cells
of wax of the true form. The number OF
humble bees lii The country will depend
upon the number of cats. How can that
be? Because the number of bees is de
pendent upon the number Of field mice,
which eat the bees Hence the more
cats the fewer mice, ah.1 the fewer mice
the more bees. If the whole genus of
humble bees became extinct, or very
rare, the hearts ease and red clover
would become rare or would disappear
How is that? Because bees promote the
growth of those flowers. The visits OF
bees are necessary to the fertilization Of
some kinds Of clover and almos,
Indispensable to the fertilization OF
the hearts ease. In word-no bees, nc
seed; no seed, no increase of the flowers
The more visits from the bees, the more
seed from the flower; the more seeds
from the flower, the more flowers from
the seeds. Nearly all our orchidaceous
plants absolutely require the visits of in
sects to remove their pollen masses, and
thus to fertilize them. Twenty heads q
unprotected Dutch clover yielded 2,90(
seeds. The same number protected from,
bees produced not one seed; 100 heads
of unprotected clover yielded $4,000, and
the same number protected from bees,
not seed.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-24
To Boil a Ham.
not a seet

TAKE ham weighing about eight OF
ten pounds, soak it for twelve or twenty
four hours in cold water, then cover il
with boiling water, add one pint of vine.
gar, two or three bay leaves, a little
bunch Of thyme and parsley Uhe dried
and sifted will do, or even the seeds OF
parsley may be used if the fresh cannot
be procured; boil very slowly two hours
and half, take it out, skim it, remove
all the fat, except a layer about half an
inch thick-cut off with sharp knife all
the black-looking outside-put the ham
into your dripping pan, fat side upper
most, CRATE bread crust over 1t and
sprinkle tcaspoonful of powdered sugar
over it put in the oven for half an hour
until it Is a beautiful brown.
Eat cold; cut the incest portion in
slices; the ragged and little odds and
ends can be chopped fine and used for
sandwiches; or by adding three eggs to
one pint of the chopped ham and frying
brown you have a delicious omelet for
breakfast Or lunch. The bone should be
put into the soup Kettle. The rind and
fat should be rendered and strained for
frying potatoes or crullers. A ham pre-
pared in this way will "go" twice as far
as when cooked and carved in the ordi-
nary manner, besides the conviction it
gives the housekeeper of being economi
cal, and at the same time placing neat
and palatable dishes before her family.
-Ruru1 Nep Yorker.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-24
Deserved a Better Master.

RAILWAY carriers charge heavily for
transporting dog; but a man who cares
SO little for his four-footed pet as to
grudge him the price of ten-mile ride
ought to go afoot himself Says the Gin.
cinnati Gazette, rather sarcastically:
"Next to his wife ami gun, the genu-
inc huntsman is said to love his dog,
and striking illustration of the latter
was presented day or two ago. A man
who had been engaged in shooting at
the pigeon match near Carthage, to re-
turn home by the train arriving in Gin
cinnati at four a. m, hailed it at the
Playground crossing. In response to an
inquiry, he was told that his dog could
only ride in the baggage-car, and that it
would cost twenty-five cents. The hun
ter took the animal by the collar and led
him to the rear platform Of the last car.
"'Take him in on Tie forward end
said the brakeman. But the man didn't
take him on at either end. He merely
rabbed the dogs nose up to his legs and
boots, got on the rear platform alone, and
whistled to the dog to follow as the train
started.
The poor fellow stretched every
nerve and muscle to keep up, but in half
. minute was visible only as white
speck jumping on the track, next was en-
tirely out of sight, while his master rode
into the city.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-24
A Philadelphia Fagin.

FAGIS, the Artful Dodger," and
Charlie Bates, certain London personages
introduced to the world by the late Mr..
Charles Dickens, were all recently re-
produced in Philadelphia by the police,
who unearthed juvenile thieves den.
presided over by an aged and wealthy
stolen-goods receiver, and rescrted to by
score or more of boys. The details of
the story, as printed in the Press, show
an astonishing amount of Juvenile de.
pfavlty IN the Quaker City, caused indi-
rectly by flash literature. One of the
boys, not sixteen years of age, had been
reading Claude Duval, "" Dick Turpin, ;"
and other books of that kind, and formed
the idea of initiating the doings of these
hlghwaymen. He ran away from home,
and had been putting UP principally at a
thieves den in Bedford street. In one
week he made about 5000. His ambition
seemed to have been to buy a horse, and
THIS he intended to do as soon as he
raised money enough. He had also been
practlcIgn so as to become a great high
wayman. He had rope which he
made into lasso. With this he prac.
ticed at stake put up in the yard, and
when he got proficient it was his inten-
ton to go out upon the road and lasso
people. One of the dens inhabited by
the youths was {; rendezvous for gang
OF Young thieves who were regularly en-
pioyed and fed and lodged. Each one
was compelled to contribute portions of
his stealings in order to get food. and
when business was dull scraps were gath
cred from hotels and other places. and
were then thrown together into trough.
from which the boys picked out ANYTHING
they could get hold of by diving their
hands in. In winter time the bows were
provided with shovels and sent ont n |
clean snow from pavements, the money
thus earned being turned over to the |
proprietor of this den. The proprietor
who charged fifteen cents night for
lodging, is said to have become quite
rich by this mode of transacting busl-
ness
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-24

THEY are noted fer queer things on the
Pacific Slope, and the following is a curl
Gus instance of strange mother: Alex
ander Harmon, who resides on his farm
in Green Valley, a few miles from Wat
sonville, owns twenty-four ducks which
were Matched in June last. The ducks
were left inotherless when few weeks
old, and after a day or two wild hen
quail appeared in the yard and immed
ately took charge of the duckl;ngs. The
Quail attended them in the most careful
manner, scratching for them, calling
them when food was found, and filling q
stepmother's place, seemingly, to the per
feet satisfaction of her numerous family
At night the ducks run to bed on the
| ground, and the self-constituted mother
roosts in tree near by, When Mr.. liar
iiion approaches the house the ducks
headed by their wild mother, run to NEE
him in order to obtain their regular foot
1t is pleasing and interesting cfrcum
stance, and hunters are requested to b.
careful, when around Mr. Harmon
place, and not shoot the little mother"
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emit from what you imagined. His soul
Il full, and It bubbles up and over every
time he moves.
1tischievous actions, lively pranks,
and sharp sayings are only the gateways
through which escape the superiuous
floods Of his nature. The trouble is
that his body is too small for his big
soul.
Let him laugh and frolic and play.
Yes, help him to do all this, and more
too. Remember that our moral and in
tellectual giants were once just such
boys, helped along by love. Also, bear in
mind that pressure upon and abuse to
such natures will make them fiends in
human form.
Take them by the hand, and you can
lead them up to the loftiest pinnacles Of
thought and action. Drive them, and
they become the devils strongest allies
If you have one of those frolicsomt
lads in your home, school or neighbor
hood take care of and watch over him
and the time win come when you will bt
proud of that boy.-N. 0. Adcocatc.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-24
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Corn DROP CAKEs.-Mix corn-meal with
boiling new milk until you have thick
batter; put in the patent pans at once
and bake for twenty or thirty minutes.
HAIR OiA.-One pint Of alcohol, two
ounces castor oil, few drops of per-
fume; shake well SO as to cut the oil.
1t softens the hair, promotes its growth
and prevents its falling out.-Erchonge.
MOTHERS CooK1Es.-Two cups of
cream, one heaping teaspoonful of soda
and one even teaspoonful of salt, two
cups of sugar 1--WE use white), one egg
and flour enough to roll; when very
nearly the thickness desired sprinkle on
sugar and roll once pver.-Cur. Household.
TOMATO CusTARD.-This is made by
straining finely -stewed tomatoes through
a coarse sieve and adding two rsnss OF
milk and one pint Of tomatoes to four
eggs and one teaspoonful Of sugar; bake
in small cups quickly. 1t is wholesome
and nutritious diet for invalids AND
feeble persons.
SNOWFLAKE CREAM-Take nice clean
| snow, one quart; two tablespoonfuls OF
nice white sugar, extract of vanilla (ol
any flavor you like) sufficient to flavor tc
your taste, then add good sweet cream
| or milk sufficient to make 1t the consis
tepcy OF common ice cream and you vii
have as nice dish of cream az one
would wish,
l OSE Of the most generally diffused er
roneous notions is that it is good ant
beneficial to break blister, whether i
is caused by bum or the heating OF I
part of the body by continued friction
under pressure, to which the feet espe
cially are exposed after long walks Il
illy-fitting shoes OF boots. Such blister
are always found filled with clea
| E~.-:A --I:L --..--t 10 ~ota;n oh and no
drawn off by lancing them; and ais
those blisters often caused by part c
the skin being forcibly pinched an
squeezed, and which contain blood, mus
be left alone. This water or blood i
blisters is healing substance, of kin
most appropriate for the parts where tn
skin is destroyed, and if the blister is a
lowed to dry out by itself the new ski
forms much more rapidly Under it, an
much pain Is avoided If the bliste
contains blood it must be treated in tn
same way, as blood is the best healin
salve. And, by the way, while using til
term healing salve,' 1t may be we'll I
state that there are no healing salves {
healing plasters. All salves and plaster
retard healing, and many wounds whic
heal Notwithstanding the salves an
plasters applied would heal in half tt
time if left alone.-Nanayacturer an
Builder.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-24
Soane's Museum.

THERE is small private museum
near the British Museum, London, which
is well worth visit. 1t is a charming
place, filled with curious and interesting
things, which were collected by Sir John
Soane, who, being an architect, built his
home to accommodate his treasures, and
at his death presented it to the city.
There are many models Of noted build
ings, especially set of eighteen tenn
pies and towers of Athens and Pompeii,
not over fifteen inches in height, but
said to be perfect representations. The
upper rooms contain many fine pictures,
among others the originals of Hogarth's
Rake's Progress," and one room is
filled from floor to ceiling with paint
ings. Passing from this room, having
as supposed, seen them all, gentle.
man said to me-" You haven't seen all
the paintings in that ROOM" / turned
back, though sure he was mistaken,
whereupon he proceeded to turn the
room inside out; In other words, by an
ingenious arrangements of shutters the
walls are covered with three sets of pic
lures, SO that having seen the room
once, if by any chace you should stray
into it after the shutters have been
turned back, you would certainly believe
yourself in u new room The house
Is filled with surprises. At one place
you think you are going into room
filled with paintings and statuary,
but instead you walk up to longer
mirror and the gems you wish to see are
back Of you. A lovely bust or vase has
a mirror opposite so that for an instant
you are sure there is a pair on opposite
sides Of the room. Again, having been
deceived by mirrors you think you see
one and turn to examine the things re-
fiected, when they are not to be seen.
Turning again you find instead plate
glass windows which allow you to see
rooms three-stories high, lighted from
above by sky-lights, and the walls COW
cred with vases, brackets, and pictures
all lovely, hut ancient, or for some other
reason possessing an interest beyond
mere beauty. Even the basement is
filled with models of antique statuary
and busts and contains the curiosities Of
the place, among which is an alabaster
sarcophagus covered with hieroglyphics.
Although three inches thick it is so clear
that light placed inside shows through
perfectly. There are twenty-four rooms
in all and they are furnished as neatly as
when Soane lived in them. The upper
ones contain collections of coins, medals
and jewclry, curious clocks and watches,
and set of chairs and table of carved
ivory which were brought from Tippo
Saib's palace in Seringapatum - Er-
cILf,nae
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-24
The Philosophy of Pain.

DIR HUMPHREY DAvY, when a boy
with the defiant constancy of youth
which had as yet suffered nothing, held
the opinion that pain was no evil. He
was refuted by crab who bit his toe
when ne was bathing, and made him roar
loud enough to be heard half mile off.
II ne had maintained, instead, that pain
was good, his doctrine would have
oeen unimpeachable. Unless the whole
constitution Of the world were altered.
our very existence depends upon our
sensibllity to suffering. An anecdote
which is quoted by DIR. Carpenter in his
" Principles of Human Physiology y from
the journal of Naturalist" shows
the fatal effects of a temporary susnen.
sion of this law of our nature.
A drover went to sleep on winters
evening upon the platform of a lime-kiln
with one leg resting upon the stones
which had been piled up to burn through
the night. That which was gentle
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-24

THERE he is again-rip, tear, SLAM
bang! What jumbled, tumbled
musscd-up mess Of humanity is that boy
Hear the cat! That boy is pulling it.
whiskers. What cackling! That boy
is teaching the chickens to swim. Here
he is! No, there he is! No, that's him
scudding along under full sail after the
dog.
What boy! Everybody says he will
amount to nothing in this or any other
world
Who placed pin on the teachers
chair? That boy. Who drew map Of
the pond, ducks and all, on the black.
board? That boy. Who filled the sugar
bowl with salt, hung his sisters best hat
on the tallest tree, and then sat demure-
ly in the corner with book upside down,
foot on the cats tail and grandmother's
spectacles above his nose? You might
know that it was that boy.
81 can't do anything with him." SAYS
mother. "A useless concomitant of hui
manity," says teacher. "a lad whose
baneful influence is being felt in q per-
nicious manner by all his associates
says pastor.
But wait. Who brings the first of
everything good to his mother? Who is
always on hand when the schoolmaster
asks favorg Who tumbles heels over
head that he may obtain geological
specimen for the minister! Oh, it is that
boy, is it, Well, then, just look down
into his heart and you will find It differ
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-24
Tho E.prsss jssspAlas's handkerchief

A ooRarsPNNDKNT Of the Paris Amsri-
can Ruotster writes: have 80 often
heard French persons criticisc the ua-
willingness of English and American la
dies to name certain articles of the fem
mime toilet that was quite delighted
few days ago in perusing some old chron-
icles to find out that it was possible for
the French to be quite as prudish as we.
Until the reign of the Empress Josephine
a handkerchief was thought in France
SO shocking an object that lady would
never have dared to use 1t before any
one. The word even was carefully avoid
ed in refined conversation. An actor
who would have used handkerchief on
the stage, even in the most fearful mo-
ments of the play, would have been I'M
mcrcifully Kissed; and it was only in the
beginning of the present century that q
celebrated actress, Mile. Duchesnoise,
dared to appear with handkerchief 10
her hand. Having to speak of this hand
kerchief in the course Of the piece she
never could summon enough courage to
call it by its true name, but referred to
it as light tissue. A few years later q
translation of one of Shakespeare's
plays by Alfred de Vigny having been
acted, the word handkerchief was used
for the first time on the stage amidst
cries of indignation from great part OF
the house. doubt if even to-day French
elegantes would carry handkerchiefs If
the wife of Napoleon !. had not given
the signal for adopting them. The EN-
press Josephine, although really lovely
had ugly teeth. To conceal them she
! rns in the habit of carrying small hand
| kcrcnle1S adorned with costly laces
which she continually raised gracefully
to her lips. Of course all the ladies OF
the court followed her example. and
handkerchief have rapidly become an
important and costly part of the fn'.,;
nine toilet; so much SO that the price OF
single handkerchief Of the trousseau Of
Of the Duchess of Edinburgh would make
the fortune of necessitous family"
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-24
The Story Of a Hindoo Judge.

THE Calcutta correspondent of the
London Times writes as follows:
i heard pretty story the other day,
circumstantially told, and if it is not
circumstantially correct ii ought to be
50. 1t certainly is true, generally, and
it presents picture of one beautiful
trait Of lIindoo characteristic Hindoo's
attachment to his earliest home. You
have often told stories of English lads,
and how they made their way to honor
and usefulness against all odds, from
Dick Wilmington downward. Here is d
story Of Il Hindoo lad, as brave a lad as
ever stcpped-the late Mr. Justice Nit
ter, Judge of the High Court He was
born in y little Hindoo village. and of
parontage that the old story-tellers
would have deemed poor, but honest
lie received his education | know not
where, but he came to Calcutta, as
many young man has code to London,
to carve his way to fortune; only in his
case there was contention against dom
Inant race. He held his own, however.
through all reverses, through good re-
port and evil report, till the time came
when the poor Hindoo became a Judge
of the High Courts Perhaps this may
help to correct some of the prevalent
Stiffness about Bengal shallowness.
He worked, spleudily subdued self,
and sat in modest dignity Il speak
from knowledge, for l have seen
him) on the bench of the High
Court, deciding intricate cases as a Judge
and gentleman. At last he was seized
with fatal disease. He asked to be
taken to sanitarium, and he was
obeyed. Time went on, but he only be-
came worse. 1t was death, the doctors
mournfully said Then lie had but one
request. He had sat on the judicial
bench, had been a marked man at the
levees and drawing-rooms, at public
for institutions which sought
names Englishmen of the
hrst dlstinction-notably Sir Barnes Pea
eock-did themselves an honor which
Will not soon be effaced from the minds
of the people of Calcutta by making the
native Judge their friend Now, then,
had come the grand issue of all, and the
dying Judge begged TO be taken to the
village, and, | suppose, the house, in
which he was born. In this way the two
ends Of life came ogether-simply as in
any play of children, and grandly as in
The truly heroic stories of mankind |
There, where the trees he had loved in |
childhood waved before his eyes, the |
pure and noble Judge died The poor
lindoo when he feels his last moments
coming to an end tries his best to crawl |
o home, to the muddy tank, the grove
u cocoanuts or bamboos, and to the fam |
~ gatherings at eventide, which few
iindoos ever forget, go where they
nay"
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can hour or so afterward the dog
passed W1nton Place, above five miles
from where he started, still at full gal
lop, but painting, his tongue hanging far
out, and his gait unsteady. Entirely
deaf to expressions of sympathy from
those who saw him at Spring Grove, he
continued his locomotion to Cummins-
vile, and may, possibly, toward night,
have reached the city in safety. But it
must have taught the animal to dodge a
dozen railway trains to and from the city
and to hop over the planks of half a
dozen trestle bridges; and it showed in
telligence as great as his love for the un-
deserving master"
II that man loved his dog almost as
well as he did "his wife and his gun, we
pity the wife-and the gun, too.-louth''
Tnm3,nn5on