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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-21
Wriggling.

"lN u Brooklyn infant class there is a
premium for good behavior, the excel
lcncc of the behavior consisting largely
in absence from wriggling. At the close
of recent session the amiable and ac-
complished teacher said to small girl,
Beckie, my dear, you were very good
little girl to-day 'Yes'm; l couldn't
help bein' good; got a tiff neck, the
youthful Beckie replied in perfect Sc
robustness"
Poor child! She was too i'll to "wrig-
GLE Now we think well of "infant
classes and would have the little dears
taught and trained, but we would let
them wriggle, say every half hour, to
their hearts content. In other words,
they should be given time for exercise,
and that should be at least fifteen min
utes out Of every thirty. Call them to-
gether, require them to perform, sing, re-
cite, etc, say for quarter of an hour !;
then dismiss them for quarter hour to
the yard or play-room; and so repeat this
for three or four hours day-three are
enough-then dismiss them to play, rest
and grow.
The first business of childhood is to
GROW; second, 10 be trained and edu-
Gated. Action is life. Inaction is death.
Children cannot, should not, keep still
long at time, save when sleeping, of
which they should take all they can get,
or at least full one half of the time. By
keeping little children shut up, by keep
ing them still, we dwarf their bodies and
cramp their minds. They should be free
free as birds, lambs and colts, and as
happy. But we first put them into
"belly-bands" SO tight that they can
scarcely breathe, and then torment their
little lives almost out Of them by re-
straint, and keeping them from wriggling
Science Of Health.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-21
Spikes.

THE man who haz got but one thing
to reckomend him, like the tune ov the
tin whissell, soon gifts to be monotonous.
Time flies fast to thoze who don't watch
it, and slow to thoze who do.
Words won't annihilate any thing; it
takes ideas to do this kind ov work.
Truth il SO simple that the simplest
language expresses it the strongest.
Wealth and fame are the two most I'M
stable things, yet men pursew them
most untiring.
Face the musk, yung man, whether
yu like the tune or not.
Learning. to man ov genius, IL like q
broad-swoard in the hands ov . giant.
Every one luvs to be pfaized, but
praizc makes : wize man caushus and
. phool kareless.
i often requires more b6ery to nay
No" than Il dug to g IN insult.
The quickest vsytol esmost men in
- argument issfo listeq hay nothing.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-21

The first discovery of the potato by
Europ ans seems to have been made
during the first voyage of Columbus
While visiting the island Of Cuba some
OF his men went some sixty miles into
the interior of the island and obtained n
peculiar root and maize, or Indian corn,
This root seems to have been the potato.
This was in the year 1892 II Was after
ward found growing wild in Andean for.
ests, from New Granada on the north to
Buenos Ayres on the south. 1t has also
been cultivated by the old Attic races
from time immemoriaL At Cuzco, in
Peru, Quito. in Ecuador, and perhaps a.
Tar north - Mexico.it formed an i'm.
portant article Of diet for the ABORIGINAL
inhabitants of the American continent.
At just what time = IVES ffss intro
duced into Europe we are not informed.
but it must have been early in the six.
tecnth century. Certain It 10 that it vas
cultivated in Spain in 1850, whence Il
soon spread to Italy, Burgundy and the
Netherlands. In 1865 it was carried
from Spain to Ireland BY Capt. Hawkins,
q slave-trader. Il was introduced into
England BY Sif Francis Drake in 1855.
but did not attract any special notice
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Embroidery Workers.

WRITER in Chambers Journal SAYS:
The great center of Swiss embroidery
is at st. Gall, and the day on which the
work is brought is festival; early in
the morning the young women arrive
from all parts in their Sunday attire.
After attending service in the church
they collect in large room around .
long table, where each receives glass of
white wine. They begin to sing one of
their melodies in parts, while the master
goes around the table, examines the
work and pays for it. If he refuses any
and declines to take it the dispute is de-
eided BY syndic, who sits in the next
room. When examination is over the
head Of the establishment throws a mass
of embroidery patterns on the table:
each girl chooses the kind she fixes best !;
1t is inscribed in her book, with the price
agreed on and the day when it is to be
returned. They are very Industrious,
and by reason of their great frugality
are content with very poor remunera-
SAf "nA ~ SiiSuNiy Sewing tuClI plcCcS
OF work together can have them washed
at half the cost. In Saxony the wages
are so low that it is wonderful how the
women can live upon them; in Scotland
It is said that many of the children only
receive half a penny day. A small
number in Nancy, who can embroider
coatsof-arms and crcsts, earn three shil-
lings day; but from ten to twenty
pence is the usual wages. It is a kind
OF work that endangers the sight; and, as
fashion reigns supreme, it not unfrc-
quently happens that style is aban.
doned before the orders are completed,
when the merchant profits by the small
est pretext TO refuse work from the man.
and in this way the loss often
falls upon the poor woman, who can
scarcely buy her bread or Clothes"
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The Efficacy of Bread Pills.

In his address before the graduating
class Of the Albany Medical College the
other day ex-Gov. Hoffman related this
incident: II would not say anything to
lower the tone of your professional or
personal morals, but I fancy there is a
certain kind of deception which is not
sin. was sitting at dinner once with an
esteemed country medical friend, and
noticed him rolling in his fingers pills
from the bread at his side I asked his
purpose, and he replied that with that
simple remedy he had worked cure in
the case of lady who had consulted in
vain some of the most celebrated physi-
clans in the State; that she had slight
relapse and had sent to him for some Of
the pills which he had given before He
did not seem to think he was doing
very wicked thing; nor did it strike me
that he was. suppose he would have
been a little fiustered if his patient had
asked him to write out the prescription.
This he knew she would not do. She
had faith in him, and in no one else, and
would have trusted no one else to make
up the pills"
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-21
The Origin of Indian Names.

A MEMBER of Maj. Powell's expedi-
ton, which has been engaged in the
Government survey Of the Territories,
furnished the Tribune some interesting
notes of the discoveries made in the
origin of Indian names. 1t seems that
each tribe or primary organization of In
dians, rarely including more than 200
souls, is, in obedience to the traditional
laws of these people, attached to some
well,defined territory or district, and the
tribe takes the name of such district.
Thus the U-in-tats, known to white men
as a branch of the Utes, belonged to the
Uintah Valley. U-imp is the name for
pine; too-meap, for land or country
U-im- too-meap, pine land; but this has
been contracted to U-in-tah, and the
tribe inhabiting the valley were called
U-in-t at-.
The origin Of the term Ute is as fol-
lows: Z is the term signifying arrow !;
U-too meap, arrow land. The region of
country bordering on Utah Lake is called
U-too-meap because of the great number
of reeds growing there, from which their
arrow-shafts were made The tribe
formerly inhabiting Utah Valley was
called U-tah-ats, which has been cor
rupted into the term Ute by the white
people of the country. The name Utah
ats belonged only to small tribe living
in the vicinity of the lake, but 1t had
been extended so as to include the great
or part of the Indians of Utah and Colo
RADIO. Another general name used by
white men is Piutes. A tribe of Utah
ats being defeated and driven away by a
stronger tribe, who occupied their coun-
try and took their name, were obliged to
take new name corresponding to the
new home in which they settled them
selves. But they also called themselves
Pal U-tah-ats, or true U-tah-ats. The
corrupted name Piutes is now applied to
the Indians of large section of coun-
try. Several Of these tribes have numer-
Gus names, and in this way the number
of individual tribes has probably been
much over-estimated.-"S Scientific Miscel-
lang" in the GALAXY for February.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-21

v WAITS may be removed from hands
by the application Of hartshorn.
GERMAN ToAsr.-To one egg, beaten
we'll, add ono cup sweet milk or cream; ;
season with little salt and pepper. Cut
in slices stale bread and dip in the milk
to moisten, and fry in butter on q grid
die; is an extra nice dish for breakfast.
AUNT LUcY's Sr1cE CAKE.-Two cups
of sugar, two-thirds of cup OF butter,
two eggs, one cup of buttermilk, one
teaspoonful of soda, one OF cloves, one
tablespoonful of cinnamon, one-half OF a
nutmeg, one teacupful of raisins; -four to
make thick.
REMEDY FOR DIrHTHERIA.-Bake Irish
potatoes, turn them out of their skins,
strew thickly with salt, moisten with
strong spirits of camphor, apply to the
throat as hot as can be borne. This
simple remedy has cured severe cases OF
this disease Cor Rural Ne,o Yorker.
GERMAN WAFFLEs.-Half pound OF
butter stirred to cream, the yolks OF
five eggs stirred into half pound OF
flour, half pint of milk gradually
stirred in, and lastly the whites of the
eggs beaten to stiff froth and added to
the butter This recipe furnishes very
rich and delicious cakes. To be baked
in well-greased waffle-irons, as usual.
VINEGAR Molasses one quart, yeast
one pint, warm rain water three gallons; ;
put all in a key and tie piece of gauze
over the bung to let in air. Set in a
warm place, and in three weeks you will
have good vinegar. If it commences to
die add molasses, yeast and water in the
same proportion, and you will always
have good vinegar.-Ctncinnati Times.
To REFAsTEN LAMPs.-If the fountain,
or the glass globe that holds the oil, has
come loose from the standard, it is very
easily remedied by the. use of plaster Of
Paris. Mix small quantity with water,
making it as thick as cream, and fill it
in between the glass of the fountain and
the hollow in the top of the standard as
quickly as possible. As i. sets immedi-
ately everything must be done with
promptness. If the fountain is broken
in pieces and there is whole bronze or
brass standard remaining it will pay to
purchase a new fountain and set it upon
the old standard in the manner described
above. The brass top can be fastened
on in the same way
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-21
The Wax. Doll Business.

A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Herald, writing from Sonneberg, gives
the following account of the way wax
dolls are made:
To make real wax doll or one of
papier-mache is quite q long process.
First of all the limbs have to be made.
The legs, either Of pot or cotton, have to
be filed out with moss and sawdust, and
the same process is gone through with
the body and arms, the task being in
trusted to number Of young women.
The head is more difficult to make. First
comes the molding, from kind of witty
brown paste, which when hard is almost
indestructible. The head is nodded in
two halves, the back and front, and then
the two parts are Joined together with
the same sort of paste. The heads are
made by the thousand, of all shapes and
sizes, and left for the moment unpublished
and sickly-looking. Then these frame
pasteboard heads are carried to the wax
room, where they are passed through
some severe ordeals The papier-mache
model heads are dipped into boiling wax
and thus have the appearance of real
wax dolls. But the genuine article, the
real dolls of wax, are made thus: The
boiling wax is poured into plaster mold;
1t adheres to the sides as it becomes cold.
and when the mold is taken apart there
is the beautiful wax head, but simply a
shell, and Of course very weak. The head
is cast complete, and only small open
ing is left in the crown of the head.
Then workman takes the wax shell
and very carefully lines 1t throughout
with kind Of soft paste about the thick
ness Of cardboard, which soon hardeus
and gives the head its strength and durs-
bility. After this process the head is
placed over hot furnace, the wax is per
mitted to melt to . very slight degree,
whereupon tits busted with powder made
q potato neal and alabaster, to give it .
delicate nesh tint. In another room the
head is provided with pair Of eyes, and
it is no easy thing for the workman to se-
lect two exactly alike.
Sometimes, asAhe children know, dolls
squint, and this preyes that the work
man who puts item IN was not very
careful n his work. Another very skiIi-
f1l workman then receiyesthe head, aad
Of tho front appearance Of the
eyes. scocphg Of AL the wax and alax-
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-21

THE POULTRY ARGUs.-We invite Farm
ers. Mechanics. Breeders and Fanciers to inspect
his illustrated Monthly, one of the best poultry
journals in America. The January number con-
tains two full-page engravings-White Holland
Turkeys and Black Coehins The table of con-
tents shows an article on Pedigree Breeding by
Wright. Of England, standard author the world
over; prize essay on Feeding Poultry, by
DIR. VIM. Pitt is begun, and F. j. Kinney tells of
the " Profits of Poultry Breeding. Beside these
there are dozen other articles on Poultry topics
and news. Every number will be finely illus
trated with wood-cuts descriptive of some lead
ing variety Of fowls. Each number will be worth
the cost Of years subscription. Subscribe
now. Liberal terms to agents. One dollar per
year. Send ten cents for sample copy. MILLER
& CLINTON, Publishers, PoLo I'LL.
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Suffering at Sea- Wonderful Preserva.
ton,

The boatswain Henry Lamon) and
the quartermaster John Hooper, of the
late steamship La Plata, who were picked
up on raft at sea three days after the
steamer foundered in the Bay of Biscay,
and were taken to Gibralter, arrived at
Southampton Dec. "a, in the PENN
sular Il Oriental steamship Cathay.
which brought them home from that
port, where they had meantime been in
mates of the Civil Hospital. The fol
lowing narrative of the sufferings en-.
dured by them and their narrow ESCAPE
from death is taken from the Gibralter
Chronicle:
On Sunday morning. the Goth, when
1t became evident that the La Plata must
founder, the fires being extingushcd and
the water rapidly rising in the hold, two
of the life-boats on deck, one ON the
port and the other on the starboard side.
were manned by some of the officers and
crew, in the expectation that when the
ship sank beneath them the boats would
be left fioating-this was really the case
with one of the boats-but just as the
ship was on the point of sinking a
heavy sea washed over her, broke up the
other boat. in which fifteen men, includ-
ing Lamont and Hooper, were sitting.
and washed the whole of the boats
crew overheard. Lamont and Hooper
had just risen to the surface whom
the ship took her final plunge.
and they were drawn down again
by the suction. On coming up
the second time they saw floating
close to them the damaged air,raft, which
they contriyed to get hold of. This raft
was made Of compartments filed with
air, and joined by canvas band, form
ing seat. Seated on this band, they
were in . sort Of trough and the water
came up to their waists their bodies be-
low the waist getting gradually be-
numbed. Their only hope Of escaping ! |
lingering death lay in their being Oh. |
served BY s0nAc passing ship, and this
chance seemed small indeed; for 70
any ship not passing quite clos hey
would have been . tiny, dark speck a
he water, invisible unless when juat o. /
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Modern Women.

1t is a sad commentary upon our ooasteo
civilization that the wemen of our times have
derenerated in health and physique until
they are literally race of invalids-pale, nerv-
GUS, feeble and back achy, with only here
and there few noble exceptions in the per-
sons of the robust, buxom ladies characters
tic of the sex in days gone by. Bya very large
experience covering period of years, and
embracing the treatment of many thousands
of cases OF those ailments peculiar to Women,
DIR. Pierce, of the Worlds Dispensary. Buffa
10, n. Y, has perfected, by the combination
of certain vegetable extracts, natural spe
cifc, which he does not extol as cure-all,
but one which admirably fulfills singeness
of purpose, being a most positive and reliable
remedy for those weaknesses and complaints
that affiict the women of the present day.
This natural specific compound is called DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The follow
ing are among those diseases in which this
wonderful medicine has worked cures as II
by magic and with a certainty never before
attained by any medicines: Weak back, ner-
vous and general debility, falling and other
displacements of internal organs resulting
from debility and lack of strength in natural
supports, internal fever, congestion, inflam-
nation and liberation and very many other
chronic diseases incident to women not prop
err to mention here, in which, as well as in the
cases that have been enumerated, the Favor
lite Prescription effects cures-the marvel OF
the world. 1t will not do harm in any state
or condition Of the system, and by adopting
its use the invalid lady may avoid that sever
est of ordeals-the consulting OF family
physician. Favorite Prescription is sold by
dealers in medicines generally.
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Is There a Cure for Typhoid7

A LONDON writer describes complete
cure effected upon him under an attack
of typhoid fever by the well-known proc
ess of packing" the patient being
swathed in a wet sheet and then blan-
ket wrapped round him over the sheet.
"The sheet is renewed every ten min
utes or quarter of an hour. II will be
found that each sheet will reduce the
fever from three to seven degrees. This
process IS continued for an hour" Mr..
Stephens, the subject of this successful
treatment, naturally desires to introduce
it into this country, and considers it not
unworthy the practical consideration of
the medical profession in England" But
Mr. Bond, Assistant Surgeon to the West
minister Hospital, writes to say that
Continental physicians can teach us
nothing which we do not already know
regarding the efficiency of wet packing
in high temperature; but we have vet
to learn that the temperature Of the body
can be reduced from fifteen to twenty
eight degrees in the course Of an hour
as would be the ultimate effect of proc
ess by which, according to Mr.. Ste
phens, the temperature can be reduced
from three to seven degrees every quarter
OF an hour. The fact is" continues Mr..
Bond, that about twelve degrees-from
ninety-four to one hundred and skis
about the limit of the range of tempera-
ture in the disease which can occur with.
out certain DEATH" He emphatically
denies that because Mr.. Stephens was
cured Of an acute febrile attack in two
days 1t is the slightest proof that typhoid
can be cut short by such treatment. Mr..
Stephens did not rely upon his own cure
alone, but quoted statement Of the doc.
tor who cured him to the effect that
when Bourbaki's army entered Switzer-
land he cured twenty-five out of twenty
four patients suffering from typhoid fe-
yer entirely by the application of the wet
sheet.
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The Power Of Saun.

DIR. RUDOLPH Won GURDENFIELD, chief
physician in the Bavarian army during
the Napoleon wars, tells the following:
"Once ! was gathering plants in small
forest near Moisen. Suddenly came
upon man who was lying on the ground
and whom at once supposed to be dead.
On drawing near to him, however, per-
ceived he was still alive, but in faint
ing state. Vigorously I shook him; at
last he opened his eyes and asked me in
q lamentable and scarcely-audible voice
whether ! had any snuff with me! When
l gave negative answer he fell back
into his former condition. I now went
in search Of snuff, and was fortunate
enough to meet peasant, who kindly
came with me to the fainting man, and
gave him some pinches of snuff. The
man soon recovered, and then he told me
that he had to travel . certain distance
as messenger, and on starting in the
morning had forgotten to take his snuff
box. As he went along SO violent became
his craving for snuff that he was COM
pletely exhausted, and had fallen down
in a swoon st the spot where I found
him. But for my opportune arrival he
said he must surely have died"
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-21

Recipe for Breakfast Cake.-lake
two and half quarts of flour, one tea
spoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuls OF
cream tartar, one teaspoonful OF salt,
one tablespoonful of lard, one quart OF
warm.water; knead quick, roll thin ana
bake in shallow pan in quick oven.
Serve hot. with butter.
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49, -
a WRITER in the Gasssy, speaking Of
the Princes Of Siam, says: About .
year before tho usurper's death the
younger brother was dining ct our house,
and seemed highly delighted with two
paintings representing Christmas sports
one q tree 9TH its tiny tapers all
agiow and every branch freighted with
the gifts of the season; the other. the In
nsr view Of : dining han, with its blazing
fires and arches Of evergreen, and table
piled with Christmas Injuries. The
Prince took the pictures from the hands
Of his little sons, to whom l had been
showing them, and after vainly trying to
decipher their mysteries turned to me
for explanation. This I had no sooner
given than he exclaimed, excitedly, Why
can't De have Christmas too! When is
the time for its Wouldn't it be splendid
to keep Christmas at Bangkok in my
palace, and have all the Americans and
English present. Come, promise me that
you will be msjor-domo, and give oil the
orders. will see that everything is done
Just right, and we'll have grand time.
The first Christmas ever celebrated at
Bangkok! Say yes, won't your And SO
he talked on eagerly while I was can
wasting mentally the pros and cons o
the case, and the possibility of getting
M Christmas fete that would be at all
worthy Of the name. consented at last
to do my best and my noble friend
took his leave almost beside him
self with joy. When the time
came l spent two or three days in
the palace decorating the rooms, and
making, or rather experimenting, the
arrangements for the festival, for there
were scores of skillful servants in attend
ance and the Prince himself always at
my elbow, ready with his rare taste
either to devise or execute. The sale a
manager was an elegantly-frescoed saloon,
sixty feet in length, hung with long
French mirrors and fine paintings and
lighted by three massive chandeliers.
Over the table waved the British and
American flags, one at each end, and the
Siamese royal banner in the middle,
while between were lofty arches of ever
green. The dinner and dessert were the
work of hundred royal cooks, and in
variety and abundance defy description.
There were more dainties than the entire
court ought to have consumed in q
month; and had the princely host expect
ed hundred or two for each of the
thirty guests invited the provisions
would have been ample. His Royal
Highness, who was the only native pres
ent, wore on the occasion dark. blue,
full-dr naval uniform, with epaulets
and buttons of gold, and sat at the head
of his table, with IN American lady at
his side, with his characteristic grace.
Everything went off admirably, and !
never attended more genial or enjoy
able feast"