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Smyrna times., 1874-11-18

Said Detroit lady TO small boy whom shs
found crying in the street, the other day:
will you stop crying if give you pennyf"
NO. said he; "but if yoa'll make il tive
cents III stop if it kills me- l."
Smyrna times., 1874-11-18

Several years ago hopeful young minister
left these shores for the Csnnibal Islands as
missionary. On arriving at the end of his
journey the natives weighed him and cut .
silver off his leg as q sample. He came home
by the next boat, and is now the travelling agent
of a circna
Smyrna times., 1874-11-18

An anxious parent, whose son has already
mastered French, German, and Italian, has
in order to give the boys education just the
little Finnish il required.
Smyrna times., 1874-11-18

A youth asked permission of his saethsr to
20 to ball She told him it was Q bad plaea
for little boys. why. mother didn't you ssd
father 80 to balls whsn yoa were youas p
''Yss, but we have seen the folly of it. !" said
the mother. "Well. mother" exclaimed The
son, II want to see the folly Of L too"
Smyrna times., 1874-11-18

To japan the law requires that, when q per-
son cuts down q tree, he shall plant one in ito
place. In this way the supply of wood is kept
up. George Washington owes bis country q
Smyrna times., 1874-11-18

One OF the the mesnest little thing on earth
is to throw q small watermelon aud HE poliai-
cal speaker in the pit of the stomach just aa he
is explaining the Drsd Scott decision. Detroit
Free Press.
Smyrna times., 1874-11-18

That was good advice which Bishop Wiley
gave 20 some young men Just admitted TO .
New jersey conference of Methodist ministers.
He said "Do not mix up real estate, eraobsrsy
patches. and life insurance, with the sslvAtion
of man ("
Smyrna times., 1874-11-18
NEVERMoRE

Those who know human nature, tell
That while the lamp holds out to barn
The vilest sinner may return
Everything bat your umbsrelll
Smyrna times., 1874-11-18

No man can resd about all these burslariaa
without determination 20 have ais wife slssp
on the front side Of the bed.
Smyrna times., 1874-11-18

Entered according to Act OF
Congress, In the year
1874, In the once of the Lib
rarian OF Congress, at Wash
ington.
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-espccially for eating raw-can be
had from plants fastened to slant stakes
than when the plants are allowed to run
a-will over the ground, or even when
tn are fastened to slanting trellises.
bl. stakes are required, of course, as
W an4eat weight of plant in fruit cannot
baclprne 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 a 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,
spade is once in while thrust down into
the ground a foot or SO from the main
stalk. In this, of course, size and per-
haps quality is sacrificed to a 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
ring of bark is taken off. The supply of
food being checked, the result is earlier
fruit, but with slightly-impaired flavor
N. Y. Herald
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-10

bQrs;dust 4 thraxA u0i - safi
this takes Gp rs impurities, which are
affeft1td Skinned OF. When the bars
are cast, ., slice is cut off each end, and
these are submitted to two aesayets, WHO
are not IN communication and who report
separately. Their reports, besides deter
mining the value Of the gold, check each
other. The gold is now in condition to
put upon the market. Meanwhile the
silver which is held in ISOLATION iii the
sIRhurie acid Il carried Into tanks III
which are copper blocks. Their 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 su!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.
-New York Observer.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-10
The Way to Conquer.

"ILL 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! hal" said the hammer, 81 knew
you wouldn't succeed; I'll show you TIT
way" but at his first fierce stroke off
flew his head, and the iron remained as
before.
Shall try" asked soft, small flame
But they all despiscd the flame; but he
curved gently round the iron, and en-
braced it, and never lett it until it mcltcd
under his irresistible influence.
There are hearts hard enough to resist
the force of wrath, the malice of perse-
cution, and the fury of pride, so as to
make their acts recoil on their adverse
ries; but there is "a 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
One Of Natures Wonders.

IHAsrEN to inform you Of most re-
markable discovery we have made mere
in the shape Of a burrowing-worm that
we find along the numerous stretches of
hard, sharp, and brittle SAND lying above
the lodges Of gray, flinty stone that skirt
this section in every direction from three
to five feet below the surface. They
average from five to six inches in length,
and are about the size of pipe-stem in
their largest parts. Their color is dark
gray, and the skin very nearly as tough
as tanned hide. Their undcrsidcs are
several degrees lighter in shade, and a
ridge of rough ribs extends along their
undersides about three inches. One irer,
of their tails is hard, and eo;or '"i
bles bone. Their heads are small - p
very sharp. Two small black eyes are
sunk deep in their heads, and their noses
are hard and bony. Undoubtedly they
are the most muscular little reptiles liv-
ing. In narrow strip of sand deposited
in this section of the township, about a
half mile north Of the Postoffice, we
found countless thousands of these
worms burrowing in the sand With the
aid of several farm laborers we threw
up a quantity Of sand and dug down
about four feet until we came to hard
rock.
Upon close examination we found the
rock literally drilled through in hun
dreds of places. The holes were the
exact size of these worms, and, to fur
ther prove that they were the sole and
only cause of this most singular state of
affairs, many of the holes were punct-
ured and worms withdrawn from them.
BY great effort, and with the use of a
crowbar, we broke off a piece of the
bowlder, and found it drilled through
and through in fifty distinct places.
The holes were drilled with as much
regularity and evenness as if the work
had been done by man, aided by the best
and most improved machinery. We
placed several worms under the micro
scope and found their bodies perfect
network of strong and fibrous muscles,
concentrating at point on the back
about midway between the head and
tail Their noses are strong bone of
flinty hardness, and with these they are
able to work their way through the hard
est observation-disclosures Co. Pa Cor. N. Y.
Sun.
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Choosing a WM.

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
thelr respective districts, rich, noble,
poor OF. serf, that "a selection might be
made and the most beautiful sent to
Moscow for his inspection; 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 1900 esteemed worthy of.
their masters appreciation were sent to
Moscow. To form an idea of the sacri-
nee we must try to fancy what Russia
was IN the fifteenth century. Those i'm
mense distances, those sparsely settled
districts, those rude habits which disflaay
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 a
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-
pointment endured. On arriving at Nos,
COW further examinations were made, and
vsrlous competitors dismissed unseen by,
Inc Gar, until the number reserved for
ING actual exhibition was comparatively
sma!l, They were all lodged ii one
X
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 il that The phenaaas
4154 6ffessU their activity have taken
| place etthstin< Of deash. !" ssae plRnGp<
esa S&63rG, ~ my ed, aSing sqdNs'
Independent of the cessation OF life.
Other observers have demonstrated the
rhythmic action of numerous other or
gans in man and the lower animals xmo-
tons the31rkt asnStdesth mlesly,
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 q common property
Of nh dcnraetile tistcs 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 a 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-
gcther 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
they ceased To persons not knowing
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 victims
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
strated 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 41merican.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-10
meTichborne" Case.

Der FROM hps ngoing the rounds of the
Egation recsvsnrs of a case very sim
ilrgh' Mich of,e Tichborne claimant
Iaic of c@ed 1.-THE year 1s49 and pos.
seiich the an1eatures in common with
tn the psT}odern conspiracy that one
caniF asdhbt 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- TIN Ugh his mother, whose brothers,
th0ntalPAArried, had died without issue.
Theft is Want pretended to be the legiti-
M is dpbf the elder brother, Sir Hugh
ST. AID produced the most convinc-
i1EvER Rony to establish his identity.
unless Recognized as the rightful heir
es and b4posed relative and appeared
asts" and afair way to win the rich es-
: slice of salt porkqns coincidence that
small, put it in the hat Ant in the mat
p-kettlc with TIRE my, observable in his
pms siceftwo familiar words thus, "sett
Il boneffnjured his case somewhat, just
aso fat qur Ortons photographed weak
ne'uls Itranged some of his supporters.
On -tcacTery eve of surrender the de-
Tense 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 APP
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
"QW capt. capitur" had been changed, the
last word reading capitor. Like Orion,
the false Smyth, instead of obtaining a
baronetcy 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
cimiIar offncfc
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-10
The Deadly Nightshade.

CAN 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
cOncede 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 obscr
walton. But in further support of it
give the following reasons, founded on
common sense and the wcllknown 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 to it, 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" nr
At the very time that clothing IS 4
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, Imay
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 degree, 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 impunity 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 isreally closing the
pores and ipEedsciag ina the currents |
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 Il miserable
article do we too often tind-tlabby,
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 tlabby, 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 brced) 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, or 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 we'll 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 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 mire
flor 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 a pen
is transferred to the table in pork
Utica IN. ~ Herald
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-09-10

DIR. PIERcE's Compound Extract Of Smart
Weed, or Water Pepper, is not recommended
as cure-all. It should not be classed with
the patent nostrums of the day, compounded
by Quacks, Indian Doctors" $50 called), and
those possessing no knowledge of the delicate
and intricate structure of the human system
nor of Chemistry and the scientific prcpara-
stion Of medicines. No patent has been OBJ
tanned or asked for upon it, 1t is not asecret
medicine, the chief ingredient being made
known in the name chosen to designate it.
But it is claimed to be superior Extract
made in scientific manner, from fresh plants
and roots, by cold process, heat, which is
used in making all other Extracts of Smart
Weed, being Objectionable, as it destroys
most of the medical virtues that reside in the
plant, as stated in the American Dispensatory
and other most excellent authorities. In
the understanding little weed, found grow
ing by the roadside, is found more efiiea
cious remedy. when combined with Jamaica
Ginger and other modifying agents, for Diar-
rhea, Dysentery, Summer Complaint, Pain
and Collie, than has heretofore been known to
the medical profession. DIR. Perce's Extract
is sold by druggists
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 il starts is subsequently
stamped upon it, AT this stage the gold,
contains, Of course, a 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 a process known
as granulation. 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
phuric acid, aslarger 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 granulated metal
is put into large iron kettles and boiled
In sulphuric acid. The result is that the
sllver becomes united with the acid,
sulphate of silver. 1t is held in
solution, and in this form is carried off
though syphon to tanks in q room
where the silver is after
ward precipitated. The gold is subse-
luently subjected to several other baths
Of sulphuric acid until it is thoroughly
separated from the silver. It is then
placed in filter and subjected to the &C
ion of warm water. At this stage it
simply resembles a muddy deposit,
md has not the snsEshtests metaalie
uster.s 1t. Il Subsequently dried, |
md hydraulic pressure is brought
% bear ON it 90 as to squeeze the water |
put OF, it thoroughly. It is sftervsrd |
East into bars. and Is thoroughly mixed |
u the process, When in liquid state,