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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-04
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

DoUGHNUTs.-One teacup of sour cream
or milk, two teacups of sugar, one of
butter, four eggs, one teaspoonful of sal
eratus; spice to taste
YEALSAUsAGEs.-Chop equal quantities
of lean veal and fat pork, a handful of
sage, a little salt; beat all in a mortar
and roll out like doughnuts and fry them.
JUMBLEs.-One and one-fourth pounds
of flour, three-fourths of sugar, three eggs,
a little nutmeg, three-fourths of a pound
of butter. Roll them in sugar.
GRAHAM SoDA-BIscUIT.-One quart of
Graham -four, one teaspoonful of soda
dissolved in two.thirds of a ~teacupful of
molasses; mix with milk and water.
CrTRoN CAKE.-Eight eggs, their weight
in flour, the same of sugar, the weight of
five IN butter, a little mace; chop some
citron fine, and put in a layer of cake and
a layer of citron alternately.
To STUFF A FLLET OF VEAL.-Take a
slice or two of the illet and a few slices
of pork, chop these very fine. add sweet
herbs, pepper and salt; if the pork does
not make it soft enough, moisten it with
an egg.
CHICKEN CELERY two chickens:
when cold, take the meat from the bones,
chop it fine with the yelks of nine eggs
boiled hard, two heads of celery chopped,
add swCet-oil, mustard, cayenne. a little
salt; mix it well together.
INDIAN PUDDNG.-Boll a quart of milk
and stir in four tabIespoonfuls of Indian
meal and four of grated bread or crackers,
three tablespoonful of sugar, four eggs, a
piece of butter as large as a walnut, and a
little salt Bake it three hours.
RICE PIEs.-One quart of milk. six
eggs, n cup of sugar, one cup of ground
rice. Cook the rice a little in the milk,
stirring it constantly while on the fire, and
put the egg in when hot. The rind of TWO
lemons and the juice of one, or any flavor
you choose.
HAsTY PUDDISG.-Boil some water and
thicken with -four, as you would for thin
starch; sltt some coarse meal and stir in
until it is quite thick; keepit boiling all
the time you are putting in the meal.
which must be done gradually; salt to the
taste; boil it we'll; put it in a bowl and
turn out. Eat with cream and molasses.
INDIAN DUMPLINGs.-Mix your meal
with water that almost boils; make them
up and put them in to boil about twenty
minutes moderately; they will come to
pieces If they boil hard. Some prefer to
stir up the meal with hot water and put 1t
in a clean cloth, as they are apt to break if
not properly managed. An hour will
cook it in this way.
FILL quart bowl with alternate layers
of thinly sliced apples and sugar, add half
a teacup of water, cover with a saucer
held in place by a weight; bake slowly
three hours; let II stand until cold and
you will turn out a rounded mass OF
clear, red slices imbedded in firm Jelly.
For an accompaniment to a dessert of
blanc-mange, rennet custard, cold rice
pudding or similar dishes, or even with
nice bread and butter, there is nothing
( nicer
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-04
Poverty of the Swiss.

A CORRESPONDENT writes; We have
been very much disappointed thus far in
seeing 50 much squalid poverty among
the Swiss. The peasants have a sallow,
sickly, depressed appearance, the women
especially, and the children have not the
rosy bloom mountain air is supposed &c
impart. In Hospenthal, nor in any vii,
lage through which we have passed, have
we found a single c.ean, comfortable pri.
vate house. The hotels make some pre-,
tension to moiern comforts; but outside
of these there is little to be said in the
way of homelIke comfort, which, with
cleanliness, is not dependent upon modern
~conveniences. 1t would be very delight.
full TO happen upon some Of those charm.
ing, happy peasants about whom one
reads. Thus far in Switzerland, and all
through Germany, we have searched fo1
them in vain. The pdtois in Switzerland
is very disagreeable to the ear, and the
German language is mutilated beyond
comprehension. Notwithstanding these
drawbacks we have persisted N trying to
draw from the peasants some pleasure
bic incidents in their lives, but We hear
only of hard labor and an incessant strug-
gle Tor the necessities of lite. \ girl OF
ten years was wheeling home on a clumsy
barrow a bundle Of bcan-stalks from
which the hard, coarse bean had not been
removed. In answer to a question if they
were Tor the cow: "Oh, no." she said,
1--WE cat the beans and save the stalks for
fuel" The load was large enough fol-
much stronger arms than hers, and she
looked ~prematurely old and careworh, as
did her father and mother, who followed
her with co~rrcspondingly large bundles.
Disposed as one may be to look on the
bright side of the picture, we canno help
feeling that the glorious descriptions we
read must be drawn from festival days.
when the peasants are in holiday cos
tunes and spirits. Wherever we have
stopped for a glass of milk 1t has been
given us with such a proportion of sedi-
mcnt and such a taste and smell of the
stalls that it is not possible to drink it.
This is our actual experience, but we are
going on perseveringIy in the search, and
when we com to picturesque costumes,
ro~sy-cheeked children, inviting chalets.
clean milk, etc, we will let you know.
Don't imagine for a moment We blame
the peasants themselves. or think that I'M
der all this rough exterior there are not
warm hearts; We only feel like touching
those writers who look at everything
through ose-colorei g 'asses.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-04

l once heard a father tell that when he
removed his family to a new residence,
where the accommodation was much more
ample and the substance much more rich
and varied than that TO which they had
previously been accustomed, his youngest
son, yet a lisping infant, ran around every
room, and scanned every article with &C.
stacy, calling out in childish wonder at
every new sight. as this ours, father !?
and is this ours :" The child did not say
yours and | observed that the father,
while he told the story, was not offended
with the freedom. You could read in his
glistening eye that the infants confidence
in appropriating as his own all that his
father had was an important element in
his satisfaction.
Such, l suppose, will be the surprise
and JOY and appropriatingconfiden with
which the child Of our Fathers family
will all his own when he is removed
from the comparatively mean condition
OF things present and enters the infinite
of things to come. When the giories of
heaven burst upon his view he does not
stand at a distance, like a stranger, say
ing: 80 God, these are thine" He
bounds forward to touch and taste every
provision which these blessed mansions
/. contain, exclaiming, as he looks in the
Fataer's face: Father, this and this IS
ours" The dear child is glad of all the
Fathers riches, and the Father is gladder
for His dear child.-Arn0t.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-04
A Mules Fall.

A CORRESPONDENT with the Hayden geo.
logical party tells the following: We had
scarcely gotten the train halfway up the
face of the canon, which was here over a
thousand feet deep, and stopped a few
minutes TO rest, when we who were below
in the winding path were startled by a
great rushing noise, and upon looking up
ward observed one of the mules called
"Old Jake" come bounding down, pack
and all, through the air, spinning head
over heels, s~lighting on his back a hun
dred feet below amcng a mass of sharp,
jagged rocks. We all rushed to the spot
to take a sharp look at his shapeless form
lying crushed and bleeding in the cliffs.
He had been feeding on the brink of the
precipice with his back toward it, and in
backing a few steps had slipped off and
fallen into a cedar tree some thirty feet
below, alighting on his pack, from which
he was hurled by the elastic bows high
into the air, alighting a second time some
thirty feet further down among the stones,
where his pack was burst and strewn with
the contents over the trail, and taking a
third bound into the air made one more
descent Of forty feet, where he hit on his
back in a hollow among the rocks. When
we approached him what was our sur
prise TO see him scramble to his feet,
trembling like an aspen, with great drops
of water and blood starting from every
pore! By almost a miracle he had re-
no more serious injuries than some
severe bruises and numerous small cuts
and skin wounds about the head, tail and
legs. The hair was shaved off in little
patches all over his body and the fall had
astonished and stiffened him considerably,
we arrived at the conclusion that it
was impossible to kill a mule unless it
was done by shooting. Mules are like
Indians in this respect, for who ever saw
an Indian die a natural death? They
may disappear, but who can tell what be-
comes of them?
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-04
A Famous Medical Institution

~ LANaSN -AI
1.-THE name of DIR. R. v. Pierce, of Buffalo,
n. Y, has become as familiar to the people
all over the country as household words:
His wonderful remedies, his pamphlets ana
books and his large medical experience have
brought him into prominence and gwen
him a solid reputation. The Times, in the
present issue, presents a whole-page com-
munication from DR.. Pierce, and our readers
NAV gain from it some idea of the vast pro.
portions of his business and the merits OF
his medicines. He has at Buffalo a mann
moth establishment, appropriately named
The Worlds DispeSsary,' where patients
are treated and the remedies compounded.
Here nearly a hundred persons are employed
in the several departments and a corps OF
able and skilled physicians stand ready to
alleviate the suffering. of humanity by the
most approved methods. These physicians
are in frequent consultation with DR.. Fierce,
and their combined experiences brought TO
bear on the successful treatment OF 9osu-
nate cases. The doctor is a man of a large
medical experience, and his extensive
knowledge of materia medica has been ac-
knowlcdged BY presentations OF degrees
from two Of the first Medical Colleges in the
land"
If YOU would ~patronize medicines scien-
tiically prepared by a skilled physician and
chemist use DR.. Pierce's Family Medicines.
Golden Medical Discovery is nutritious,
tonic. Alternative and blood-cleansing, and an
~uneQualcd Cough Remedy; Pleasant Purga.
tive Pellets, Scarcely larger than mustard
seeds. constitute an agreeable and reIlable
phvsic: Favorite Prescription, a remedy Tor
de6iIitated females; Extract of Smart Weed,
a magical remedy for Pain, Bowel Com
plants and an %unequalcd Liniment for both
human and horse flesh; while his DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy is known the world over as
the greatest specific for Catarrh and "Cold
in the Head ever given to the public, They
are sold by Druggists.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-04
Feeding by Rule.

THERE are a great many men who have
a habit Of doing everything by some fixed
rule. They go TO bed at a certain time,
and if they fail to awake in the morning
at the usual time they are angry with
themselves all day. They make it an
" invariable rule to work a certain num-
Der of hours each day, and their going
out and coming in" is according to some
vell-established plan. They take a GER
tain amount of certain kinds of food, and
everything in regard to diet is brought
under the dominion of an inflexible law.
Some of these men are farmers, and they
carry their ideas of claw and order into
all their farm arrangements. They feed
their live stock with great regularity, both
in regard to time of feeding and the guam
tity. They try to ascertain how many
pounds of hay a GOV requires in a day,
and then as nearly as possible feed just
that quantity every t%wenty-four hours,
This plan seems to me to be very objec.
tionable. Everyone knows that IN the
case of men the age, size and weight,
separately or all combined, form no cor
rect standard by which to judge of food
required. Some very small men con-
sumo a great deal more food than
those larger and heavier. How would
they like to be fed by rule-to
have 8 per cent. of their weight, of
solid food, each day? Under such a
system the large, heavy, fat men, who eat
but little, would be furnished more food
than they would care for; while the thin,
light, hungry men would be half starved
all the time. Some animals have a much
keener appetite than others, and need
much more food. At times the same ami
NAL will require much more food in pro-
portion to its live weight than it will in
others. In extremely cold weather Great
ures need much more food than they do
when it is comfortably warm. And when
cows are giving milk they ought always
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-04

to be fed better than when they are dry.
There is, and can be, no fixed rule for
feeding animals which will apply to all
cases at all times. Animals are different,
and their surroundings vary so much that
what is sufficient for one is not enough
for another which is of the same age and
size. And the attempt to bring them all
to some general average, and feed them
all by some universal rule, seems not only
to be contrary to nature and hard upon
the animals, but also improbable to the
owner. 1t is far better 10 allow the appe-
tite to be the sole criterion of the amount
of food which is required.-R., in Buffalo
Lire Stock Journal.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-04
ScHEScK's PULMos1c SYRUP, for the

ScHENcK's PULMoSIo SYRUP, for the
Cure Of Consumption, Coughs and Colds. The
great virtue Of this medicine is that it ripens the
matter and throws it out of the system, purihes
the blood, and thus effects a cure.
ScHEScK's SEA WEED Tonic, for the Cure of
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, etc. The Tonic produces
a healthy action of the stomach. creating an appe-
tite, forming chyle, and curing the most obstinate
cases of Indigestion.
ScHESCK's MANDRAKE PILLS. for the Cure of
Liver Complaint. etc. These pills are alternative
and produce a healthy action on the liver without
the least danger, as they are free from calomel. and
yet more eficacious in restoring a healthy action
of the liver.
These remedies are a certain cure for Consump.
tion, as the ulmon Syrup ripens the matter and
purifies the blood. The Mandrake Pills act upon
the liver. create a healthy bile, and remove all dis
eases OF the liver, often a cause of Consumption
The Sea Weed Tonic gives tone and strength to
the tOmsch, makes a good digestion. and enables
the organs TO form good blood; and thus creates a
healthy circulation of healthy blood. The COM
bined action of these medicines, as thus ex-
planned, will cure every case Of Consumption. il
taken in time, and the use Of the medicines perse-
veTed in.
DR.. Schenck is professionally at his principal
Office, corner Sixth and ARCH Srs., Philadelphia.
every Monday where all letters for advice must be
addressed.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-04
How To FxT1NGrIsu LAMPS WITH

How TO ExTINGUIsH LAMPS WITH
CHIMSEY..-A correspondent Of ae En-
gltsh Mechanic says: Turn the flame up
to full power, then blow a puff horizoh-
tally across the top Of the funnel, when
the light will not only be eX~tinguished,
but there will be no after smoke-the for
merly-ignited wick will be cxtinguished
by its own carbonic acid gas. On leaving
my office at night l thus turn up the fam
ing wick and. with a grateful gladness
that the desk labors Of theday land night
are over, give a side wave Of the hat past
the chimney, which draws up the flame
from contact with the wick and the light
is gone, and with no atter-smell. This
cannot be too widely circulated, as l read
in the Times the other day that a lady lost
her life by blowing docH the chimney and
thus causing an explosion
SCRIMPISG the feed Of fatting hogs is a
waste of grain.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-04
How Grasshopper Eggs Are Destroyed.

Mr.. JOHN C. WISE, one of the Grass
hopper Commissioners of Minnesota, and
editor of the Mankato Rericar, says in a re-
cent number of his paper:
1.-THE Watonnan County Record says
that a farmer of that county, living in a
locality where q great many grssshopper
eggs were deposited, went out one day to
dig some, and after an hours search with
out finding any came to the conclusion
that they had all decayed. Telling his
conclusions to a neighbor, the latter took
him to a field where he said there were
millions, but after considerable digging
they found their search equally fruitless.
If the eggs had decayed we imagine that
some trace of the decayed matter would
be found in the ground. In our inYes-
legations in the frontier counties we found
nearly the same state of affairs. The eggs
were supposed to be deposited in the
greatest numbers, and surprise was gener-
ally expressed at the comparatively few
found. We were inclined to the belief
that the blackbirds, which are unusually
plenty in the grasshopper districts, and
the prairie chickens, both of which dig
and eat the eggs, have destroyed them.
The ~blsckbirds have a great fondness
for the eggs, digthem with great energy,
and onsum large numbers of them.
A farmer of Watonwan County told US the
other day that every year his corn has
been badly injured by the blackbirds
vino light upon the stalks and peck the
kernels from the end of the ears. This
year they have not troubled him, and
upon investigation he found them feeding
upon g~rasshopper eggs.
Another hopeful prospect is that
where the eggs have not been thus de-
stroyed in many places the coating sur
rounding the eggs and constituting the
sack, composed o fmucus matter, has been
dissolved by the damp weather, and the
eggs lie unprotected in the damp ground.
Prof. Riley, the Entomologist of Missouri,
gives it as his opinion that an unusual
amount of dampness will destroy the eggs,
and that their present condition in Mime,
sofa is favorable for that result.
While we do not desire to mislead the
people of the frontier. we do believe that
the outlook is decidedly hopeful. We
would urge upon them, where practical, to
pillow and harrow shallow this fall where
eggs are deposited; also to make ~investi-
cations Of the extent and condition of the
eggs in their localities, and if any unusual
facts are noted report the same to this office
at MankatO."
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-04

CANADIAN Pestmasters are required to
remit quarterly the amount due the de-
partment, and in the mail containing the
remittance to send a letter of advice, for
which a blank is furnished. The Post
master at Ratham Center, not having a
blank, wrote the following: "To Post
master.G eneral-Seeing by the Postofice
regulations that / am required to send you
a letter of advice, l must plead in excuse
that l have been Postmaster but a short
time; but this l will say, if your office
pays no better than mine l advise you to
give it up"
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-04

District.
2. Van R~uren-JANEs r.. PEAsE.a
3. Davis-H0rnfi0 4. WOnH.
4. AppanOOse-JOSEua Miller.
5. Monroe and W~ayne-Henry l.. Dashiell.
6. Lucas and Clarkc-S. ;. Bcstow.
Z. Decatur. etC,-Frvd. TeaIe.
s. Montgomery etc.-AIfred Hehard.
9. Pott wattanie and ~Mills-Georse F. Wright.
10. Dee Muiuc--J. Wilson WiIliams.
II. Henry John ;. Woulson.-
IL. JcfeTson-Moses 4. McCOid.~
10. Napcllo-Jo>cph II. Merrill
ID. k~eOkUk-IIOsEA y. NEWTON.
Is. Washington and LOUISE William WILSON.
IL. Dallas and Hadfsuu-HESEY T~HuRSBUEG.s
Il. Cs-s. etc.-Lafayette Young"
Is. M0haska-T. K. Gilmore
10. MHriOn-Jphn L. McCormack.f
%. Warren-Wiliam Graham.
81. NusCHtine-Gtibe II. UOO3-
~. Scott-jerem;Gh II. Murphy"
%. Clinton Nathaniel l. -NsgreN.
q. Cedar-Hrury \. Carr.
25. JuhnsOn-Ez@kicI Clark.
q. Iowa-John y. W. Rumple.*
p. Jasper-Frauk T. Campbcll.~
%. POlE-1HONAs MITCHELL
90. Hardin and Hamilton-Elias Jessup.-
30. Jackson William A. NcGiHnis.
81. ~Jones-GEOEGE ", LOWELL
80. Linn-Stcphen l.. bows.
81. Beuton-Johu Shane.
"a. Marshall and Grundy-L. Deros Arnold.
IS. DubUque-Denuis n. COoley,*
81. Delaware-LewiS G. Herscy.
81. RuchaRan-M. ". Harmon.
80. Poweshiek and Tama-JoHS CoSAwAY.*
80. Clayton .TOh1 r.. StonsHlGB.
30. Fayette-Wiliam LaErab-e.-
4l. Allamskce-SdRUel II. hiHHe.r
81. v inne<hick George Il. Willctt.+
s3. Mitchell. etc.-Arad Hitchcock.
a. Black Hawk Edward q. Miller.F
az. Story End BoOne-W. IL. Gallup.
46. CcrrO GOrdO- Lemue DweIle.
d. Palo Alto Webster. etc. J. Hartshorn.
Is. Bremen, etC.-Hiram Bailey"
40. Guthrie. etc. Samuel d. Nichols.
q. " Oodbury. etc.-GcOFge d. Perkins,
Republicans in Roman 3,
OPPOSITION Cu italicl. {
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-04

You inquire: "How can I prevent my
little boy from wearing out the knees OF
his pants"' That problem has been in
the market ever since Eve asked Adam
the same thing about young Cain. We
only know three sure ways: You can kill
The 10y, or you can make his pants with
out any knees; but perhaps the best way
would be to get some other little boy,
about the same size, TO wear the knees
out, if you have such objections to your
own boys doing it.-SprthUfed Mas
Republican.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-04

IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT IN TREATING
RuPTURE.-The Elastic Truss Company have
produced a great revolution in the treatment
OF hernia. Their new truss is worn easy night
and day; adapts itself to every motion of
the body; never displaced by hardest exnr-
else; retaining rupture comfortably, till soon
permanently cured. Sold at the office of the
company, No. 6S3 Broadway, New York city.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-04

THE season for coughs and colds is rapidly
approaching. and everyone should be pre-
pared To check the first symptoms, as a
cough contracted between now and Christ
mas frequently lasts all winter. There is no
better remedy than JOhHSou's An0dyne Lini-
meut. For all diseases of the throat and
lungs it should be used internally and cx-
~ternallv.