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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

SOME time ago well-known miner in
this vicinity, who has very shaky idea
of the security Of the banking system
believing more faithfully in the old
fashioned injunction, When You get a
good thing keep it." pulled up stakes and
set of for a prolonged absence on for
eign shores. Before leaving, however,
he dug q hole in q sequestered part OF
his land and there deposited the boarded
gains of many years hard toll, to the
amount Of 5000 or 5000 in gold, and
went his way meditsting on the fraility
of all banks except clay banks, as the
receptacles of golden treasures. In the
long absence of our friend the premises
were occupied by his son, who continued
to make various changes and improve
ments thereon, until finally many Of the
old landmarks were obliterated, and the
burial-place Of the hidden treasure desc
Grated by being overtrodden by a prolific
family of pigs, comfortably domiciled
above it. The old gentleman returned
to his native heath and went in search of
his buried gold. Every trace by which
he had hoped to locate it had disappeared,
and all efforts at resurrection seemed
hopeless, and the search was finally
abandoned, when it was found that the
maternal swine in her borrowings and
rootings had unearthed several SEQ gold
pieces of the golden coin. She had
found the open sesame. and the long-hid-
den treasure was revealed intact-Du-
5uque Herald
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

An interesting instance Of the saeac-
ity with which the partridge win protect
its young i given BY Mr.. Henshaw, of
the Government survey west of the Tooth
meridian. While riding through pine
woods brood Of partridge containing
the mother and eight or ten young, about
= week old, was come upon 30 suddenly
that the feet of the foremost mule Il.
most trod on them The young rose.
new few yards and, dropping down.
were in IN instant hid In the underbrush
The mother meanwhile began some very
peculiar tacticA Rising up, she fell
back again to the ground q il perfectly
helpless, and initiated the actions Of
wounded bird 20 successfully that for
moment it was thought she had really
been trodden upon. Several of the men.
oonplstely deceived. atte4pted to catch
Asf, bat che Auttered away, keeping Just
cnt q reach Of their hands until they had
been cnticed ten or twelve yards of.
whsn she rose and was on Ike ! bullet.
Her tactics had successfully covered the
EstEsat of her young
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

s. Barring GOULD has recently pub
lished couple of volumes filed with
Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and
Strange Events" The collection fully
bears out the assertion of the Able of
York, who wrote to Cromwell, in 1856:
!" There be such company of willful
gentlemen within Yorkshire as there be
not in all England beside" Among the
obstinate and eccentric characters illus
trating this truth Mr.. Gould gives an
account of one William Sharp, afterward
known IS "Old Three Laps" At the
age of thirty William was unfortunately
crossed in love. The blow broke his
heart, out not his will, and he took to
his bed with the logged resolution never
to leave it again. And he did not. For
forty-nine years he lay like an invalid or
an imbecile on the couch from which he
was finally borne to his grave. During
all that long, dreary term he never spoke
with human being; nor were the win
dows Of his room once opened for the
last thirty-eight years of his life. His
legs gradually contracted until they were
bent as if in the attitude Of prayer. He
never had an illness; his appetite was
unfailing, and when he died, at the age
of seventy nine, his flesh was firm, fair,
and unwrinkled, and his weight was
seventeen stone. He was averse to be-
ing seen and, if anyone intruded upon
his solitude except his niece, he instant
ly concealed himself under the bed
clothes. A gentleman who once visited
him out of curiosity says: "He had
white hair and q handsome head well set
on strong chest. His body and all
about him was scrupulously clean, and
his condition healthy, as his nurse proud
ly pointed out, digging her fists furious
ly into his ribs. He gave no signs of joy
or pain but lay like mass of inanimate
matter. 1t struck me at the time that
his limbs were stiff; but a neighbor of
his, who after his dinner stole peep ia
to his bedroom-window, told me that he
saw him playing with his plate in the
manner of a Chinese juggler, and with
considerable ability. On my informant
tapping the window he vanished under
the clothes"
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28
Geological Puzzle.

PROF. r. WEIsER, of Georgetown. Col
contributes the following to the Journal
gf Science and Arts: Biologists have
been not little perplexed with the
frozen rocks found in some of our silver
mines in Clear Creek County. Col. I
Will first give statement of the facts in
the case and then theory for their ex.
PLANTATION. There is a silver mine high
up on Mcclellan Mountain called the
Stevens mine. The altitude of this mine
is 1850 feet. At the depth of from 60
TO sOO feet the crevice matter, consisting
OF silica, calcite and ore, together with
the surrounding wall-rocks, is found to
be in solid, frozen mass. Mcclellan
Mountain is one of the highest eastern
spurs OF the Snowy Range; it has the
form OF horseshoe, with bold escarp-
ment of feldspathic rock near Z. 600 feet
high, which in some places is nearly per.
pendicular. The Stevens mine is stu
ated In the southwestern bed of the
great horseshoe; it opens from the
northwestern. A tunnel is driven into
the mountain on the lode where
the rock is almost perpendicular.
Nothing unusual occurred until a
distance OF some eighty or ninety feet
was made; and then the frozen ferritorv
was reached, and it has continued for
over 200 feet. There are no indications
OF thaw, summer or winter; the whole
frozen territory is surrounded by hard
massive rock, and the lode itself is as
hard and solid as the rock. The miners
being unable to excavate the frozen ma.
terial by pick or drill to get out the ore
uor It is rich lode, running argentifer-
Gus galena from 500 to /, 200 ounces to
the toni found the only way was to
klndie large wood fire at night against
the back end of the tunnel. and TINS
fhaw the frozen material, and in the
morning take out the disintegrated ore.
This has been the mode of mining for
more than two years. The tunnel il
over 2OO feet deep, and there is no dimi-
mutton of the frost; it seems to be rather
increasing. There is, 80 far as We can
see, no opening or channel through
which the frost could possibly have
reached such . depth from the surface.
lhere are other mines in the same vicini.
~ n like frozen state.
From what We know Of the depth to
which frost usually penctrates into the |
earth, i does not appear probable that il |
could have reached the depth Of 40
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

A BEAUTIFUh WoMAN.-The perceptive
faculty of women is usually keener than
the same chronological organ in men
Woman knows that beauty rather than
genius is worshiped by the sterner sex.
A man may talk with his lips of the lat
ter to his lady-love, but the keenness of
the woman knows he is thinking of the
former in his heart. ALI women have an
innate desire to please their beaur. They
are fond Of admiration, hence one Of
their longings is to be beautiful The
grand secret of female beauty is health
the secret health is the power to eat,
digest and assimilate proper quantity
ofwholesome food. Take VINEGAR BIT-
TIERS. 1t will cleanse the stomach, tone
the vital organs, give perfect digestion,
purify the blood, clear up the complexion
and produce state of mental and phys
ical electricity which gives symmetry of
form, bright eyes, white skin, glossy
hair and a genuine type of female love-
illness which no cosmetic can compare
with. 19
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28
Wood Seasoned With Salt.

IT has been found by long experience
that immersion in salt water while wood
is seasoning prevents or retards its de-
cay. In Holland, where active ship
building has been carried on for centu-
ries, this fact is universally admitted and
utilized. Other maritime nations have
also known and taken advantage of it.
1t is found, too. that piles sunk in salt
water last for an unlimited time. Ex-
ternal causes of decay may he neutral
lied by painting the wood; but against
the internal dry rot this is ineffective
In order to prevent dry rot, wood must
be subjected to treatment when season
ing, and salt seems to be the most avail
able of the simple and cheap antidotes
Even after dry rot has commenced in
timber, immersion in salt water checks
the decay and preserves the remain der
of the wood. 1t is said that in the salt
mines of Hungary and Poland the gal
leries are supported by wooden pillars,
which last unimpaired for ages from be-
ing lmpregnated with salt.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

The average Detroit youth sits up late,
and when six O'Clock in the morning
comes he 10 in his soundest sleep. The
father depends on him to make ! lire.
and he turns over in bed and calls out;
Solomon, it's six O'Clock"
Boy dreams of chasing rabbit into !
hollow log, and while he is hunting
around for a * the old man calls out :
Come, Solomon
Boys dream changes, and he thinks he
Y husking corn to get money to 10 70
Dan Kice's circus. He Il making the
ears Az when the old man rips out:
Solomon Spring-hrook"
Boy moves uneasily and dreams that
ne u playing baseball and be secs :
crowd q admiring spectatoes seated On
me top rails Of IL fencea s
L that boy don't rouse m make him
think he's sent foe!" mutteFs the old
man, - he looks at the clock; and then.
sassing up n bed, be shouts:
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

The man with good, firm health is
rich.
so is the man with . clear conscience.
SO is the parent of vigorous children.
SO is the editor of good paper with
. big subscription list.
So is the clergyman whose coat the
children pluck as he passes them by in
their play.
80 is the wife who has the whole of
the heart of good husband.
So is the child who goes TO sleep
with kiss on its lips and for whose
waking blessing awaits.
So is the maiden whose horizon Il MOI
bounded by the coming man, bat who
has purpose in life, whether he meets
him or not
SO is the young man who, laying his
hand on his heart, can say: ~ have
treated every woman / ever met = /
should wish my sister treated By other
men,
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

feet throuzA he solid rock h ~ eesvsns
mine, nor even through To c1svice
matter Of tAe lode, which, = " have
stated, il - hard = tho rock ITSELF Ihe
idea, then, of the frost reaching such .
depth from the outside being utterly m
tenable, / can do no other wsy than 70
fall back upon the glacial err Of the
quaternary. Evidences Of the glacial
period are found al over The Rocky
Mountain. Just above the 6tevcns mine
there are the remains Of . moraine near
" . mile long and half mile wide.
The debris Of this moraine consists OF
small square and angular stones, clearly
showing that they have not come nom
any great distance. And just over the
range, on the Pacific slope, there are the
Of the largest moraine ! have
ever seen, consisting Of feldspathic
boulders Of immense size. l conclude,
that it was during that period
Of intense cold that the frost penetrated
80 far down into these rocks, and that it
has been there ever since, and bids fair
to remain for long time to come.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

Mouse of any longer taking the large, re-
pulsive, gripping, drastic and nauseous pills,
composed of crude and bulky ingredients.
and put up in cheap wood or pasteboard
boxes, when we can, by careful application
OF chemical science, extract all the cathartic
and other medicinal properties from the most
valuable roots and herbs. and concentrate
them into minute Granule, scarcely larger
than mustard-seei, that can be readily swal-
lowed by those of the most sensitive stom-
achs and fastidious tastes Each of DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets represents,
IN most concentrated form, as much ca
thartic power as is embodied in any of the
large pills found for sale in the drug stores.
From their wonderful eathartic power, in
proportion to their size, people who have not
tried them are apt to suppose that they are
harsh or drastic In effect, but such is not at
all the case, the different active medicinal
principles of which they are composed being
so harmonized, one by the others, as to pro-
duce a most searching and thorough, vet
Pellets are sold by dealers in medicines.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28
ne.sry l. ths Study q Language.

Or all the exercises which most favor
ignorance in teachers who are not duly
prepared, and which inspire most esnai
in students, the worst are those mne-
monte exercises in which the master acts
3 purely passive part and the pupil an
automatic one. It is said that by such
means We develop the memory of chill
dren, but for this no special effort is
needed, as the culture of memory, like
that of attention, is secured by the activ.
ity Of the other faculties. It is more
particularly in exercising the judgment
that We enrich the memory with useful
things. The knowledge we gather in the
first years Of life We owe to observation
and experience-the best of masters
and it is more profoundly engraved
upon the memory than all the memo
rized lessons Of college. The mother
tongue is acquired without learn ing any
thing by heart.
Those who, in teaching their pupils to
speak . foreign language, give them
words to learn. to form into phrases,
commit a triple error. In the first
place, the child does not learn to talk by
passing from words to phrases. In the
second place, in order to speak, he learns
to understand what is said to him. In
the third place, no mother ever at
tempted such proceeding, the instinct
of imitation alone suffices the child in
learning to speak.
The expression of thought is not aided
by learning extracts from authors, be-
cause, for the most part, these extracts
contain not q phrase or an idea that
would aid in conversation. In this work
the attention is directed exclusively to
words, and the memory is aided by their
juxtaposition. By means of repetition
they are revived in the mind in their or
der of succession, each word suggesting
that which follows. The more we repeat
the lesson in order to retain it, the more
easy and rapid the recitation, the more
the text escapes analysis and the will.
Excellent as the exercise may be in pro-
nunciation and oratory, it is inefficscious
as means of learning to speak. To
learn model by heart no more teaches
to speak than tracing drawing-model
teaches to draw.-Cloude Narcel, tn Pop
ul0r Science Moath.y.
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~ 49, 90 $1,000.


WHEN you begin HE make two resoiu-
taons and stick 70 them:
First, TO mind your own business.
second, to let the business Of other
people alone.
These people who are always med
ding with the affairs Of Others are :
nuisance, and ought to be legally
. abated,n Ike any other nuisance.
We would as lief live near . soap-fat
boiling establishment, or . petroleum
refinery, as near one Of them.
II you belong to that classof nuisances
We pity you, for your life is an uneasy
and unsatisfactory one. You can never
be happy, because il is utterly impossi-
BILE that you can find out everything
which is going ON in your vicinity.
What is it to you If your neighbor does
bring home brown paper package and
a covered basket. You will live just as
long if you never know what they con-
tain. 1t is none of your business.
Suppose Mrs. B. has got anew bonnet!
How does it concern you. Your life,
liberty and sacred honor are in no way
imperiled by the fact. Suppose she did
nav ten dollars for it, The money does
not come out of your purse, and conse-
quently it is none of your business.
If the minister does call on Ann Eliza
Smith twice . week, why exercise your
brain over it? What if he is counting
hery Let him court away. Suppose
she has got an awful temper and pow
ders her face, as you say she doess Her
temper will not trouble you; and as for
the powder-why, just you find us
woman who doesn't POWDER
Don't be forever poking your nose into
other peoples business. If one young
lady cuts out" another young lady, it is
nothing to you. That is for the young
ladies themselves to settle.
If neighbor Small keeps two cats, and
feeds them on beefsteak, don't let ii har
row up your feelings. That is Small's
affair, not yours. If Mrs. Small throws
her dish-water out of the front door, let
her do it, and enjoy it; it doesn't concern
you.
Don't sit up nights to see how long
there is light in Miss Bells parlor when
the young lawyer is there. If Miss Bell
thinks him worth the oil burned. it is
nothing to you. He isn't making love to
you or any of your folks.
What if they do have three pairs of
stockings apiece every week over to
Squire Hills. Haven't they right to.
As long as you don't do the washing it
need not trouble you at all. And if Hills
shirts are three inches longer than com
mon, don't excite yourself about it, If
you hadn't been watching the clothes
line sou never would have known any
thing about it, and "where ignorance is
bliss, It's folly TO be WISE"
Mind your own business thoroughly, |
and you will find little leisure 20 attend |
to the affairs of others When you feel |
as if you must learn what they are hav-
ing for dinner next door, take the Alma
mac, or the Presidents message, and read
it through faithfully, and by that time
you will feel as if you didn't care q |
picayune about anything-not even the |
affairs of your neighbors.-Kate Thorn, |
in N. Y. Weekly.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28
sOA, Soil Oh, Solr'

sOA. Soil Oh, 6olr'
The boy dreams that he y loading
aroand he opera-house door and boring
people fos = checks," and he i about 70
- oas wAm tie old man slips mp, pulls
The quilts d, hammers away ct him with
the hair-beush, and chuckles:
Therei guess y0u won't want me %
wake you mp more than fourteen times
morer
Al the boy pulls on his pants and gets
into his vest he mentally declares that
he'll run away that very day and become
. pirate.-Daroit Free Press.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

ONE ounce alcohol; two drachms cay
ennc pepper; one ounce kerosene oil;
Let it stand twenty-four hours alter mix
ing. It cures the worst t0othache ever
known.-Couri~J Journal.
RKxKnBKR that - rule house plants
require little heat, good deal OF sun
and moist air for their full development,
to which may be added foliage kept free
Of dust and insects, and soil well watered.
II A glass stopper won't move hold the
neck Of the bottle to fame, or warm it
by taking two turns of string and See
saw it; the heat engendered expands the
neck of the bottle before correspond
ing expansion reaches the stopper.
INDIAN PUDDING.-One quart of milk !;
five tablepoonfuls of Indian meal; one
cup of molasses; two eggs; salt. Boil
the milk. When it is boiling stir in the
meal gradually. Add the molasses and
salt. Stir well. Pour into a dish and
set away to cool. When cold add the
eggs, well beaten, and bake for three
hours.
MERcuRIAL OINTMENT IN Bons AND
CARBuNcLEs.-Dr. T. Roth lauds, in the
Deutsche K1inik, the local application of
gray ointment in boils and carbuncles,
especially the early stages. He anoints
the affected part with the ointment four
times daily and thereby reduces the in
Hammation and "backens" the boil most
satisfactorily.
Two small arteries branching up from
the main arteries on each side of the
neck, and passing over the outside of
the jawbone, supply the face with blood.
If the nose bleeds from the right nostril,
for example, pass the finger along the
edge of the right jaw till the beating of
the artery is felt. Press hard upon it
five minutes and the bleeding will cease
RECIPE FOR CoLoRING RED WITH
CoCHTSEAL.-To color red yarn, or wool:
one ounce cochineal, one ounce cream of
tartar and one ounce tincture of tin to
one pound of yarn or wool, into copper
or bellmetalskettle; put in two or three
gallons of water, put in the cochineal,
then the cream of tartar, and lastly the
tincture of tin. As soon as it boils and
is stirred well put your yarn hanks (after
well washing in soap-suds) in; boil them
fifteen or twenty minutes, stirring them
all the time; then take them out and air
five or ten minutes and return to the ket-
tie again to boil a few moments, then take
them out to air as before and return to
the kettle. Then take them out and hang
out till cool and then wash in soap-suds,
rinse in warm water, and it's done. If
you like light red don't put two-thirds of
an ounce of cream tartar, but if you
want deep red put all of the ounce
Exchange.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

We received very pleasant letter Of
thanks from our old friend Kendall, since his
return home, for bottle Of yohnsom's Ano.
dyne Ltn'nenf which we gave him and which
he says has entirely cured him of the trouble.
some and dangerous cough he had when
here.
On the death OF one OF Enplspd's most EN-.
inent physicians all his effects were sold nv
auction, and among other things was scaled
packet, marked Advice TO Physicians. >
which brought great price. The purchaser.
on opening the packet, read as follows:
Keep the head cool, the bowels open and
the feet warm" II physic ID necessary use
Farscns Pwygasfse FNs; they are the most
scfentincaliy prepared pill that has appeared
In the last hundred years.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

WMH0FT's FEVER AND AGUE ToN1c.-Th;s
medicine is used by construction companies
for the benefit Of their employees, when en-.
gagged in malarial districts The highest tes-
timenials have been given by contractors and
by the Presidents OF some Of the leading rail-
roads in the South and West When men are
congregated in large numbers in the neigh.
borhood OF swamps and rivers, Wilhoft's
Tonic will prove q valuable addition to the
stock Of medicines, and will amply reward
the company in the saving Of time. labor and
money. We recommend It to all. WHEELocK.
FiNLAY d Co, Proprietors, New Orleans.
FoR SALE BY ALL DRUGGIsrs.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

fat chicken can never be made to reach
the same size and weight - those reared
= suggested above.-H. A. Nassfesd, n
Poultry World.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

We learn that the Cooperative Stove Co.,
Of Cleveland, are the only manufacturers Of
the celebrated Rotary Soft Coal Base Burner,
SAID 70 be the cheapest, most economical.
powerful heatins, durable and only success.
fui base-burner stove for soft coal yet pro-
duccd. Call ut your stove dealers and zee the
Rotary.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-28

ACCORDING to Il Nosds, weevils may
be expelled from granary by placing In
il . few bundles Of nav hemp.