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Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1876-10-09
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Better, Sdpinbler, 8d9dbnnben,
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8as Iast OH su bteIer iocialiitiidlen goete?
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Spru9e:
nOie 2iebe funr er[0ien nt3t,
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Sis ilnl're {odrD i'll Staub Seritiebt,
&oG'n mir pout S9wert ni3t Ldlleu,
@Sir bdben Lang 9etu9 9eltebt,
gir pOGen eaGlt4 basn."
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1876-10-09

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nibt aus SoctaIiitii6em @ebtrne, ions
bern aus einem fsri9tefiQcrtseu uu6
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beute Die So5iaIiiten. Wie oieie ii6 iber
1eoen Bancroft ais cine yttecerloae oer
v6apitoLiiten" ireuen, 10 freuten fi9 oas
mats bic oeutiden Sreibeitsbeloeu uno
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ma9earll6en, ilODafilnsn, rat3ii6en.
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SG9ren tperben aud Die SosiaLtiten ans
bets, ais bente, Iber bic 8eruihtuna
o%orbanoensr 8ertbe be nfen.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-02
To Remove Oil from q Garment.

ABOUT six months ago careless
painter dropped about spoonful of
boiled linseed oil on our pants, which
were handed over to the housekeeper
with request that the oil be removed.
The job was neglected for over four
months. After the lapse of so long a
period the oil had become dry and hard.
The emphatic Judgment of every one
was that all effort to remove that dry
oil would avail nothing. But, being
SO much OF a Presbyterian that we be-
lieve in perserering effort, the grease
spot was saturated with aqua ammonia
Tor hartshorn), and a smoothing iron
was placed on it to prevent rapid evap-
Grafton. After the lapse of twenty
four hours. more ammonia was ap-
piled. A piece of smooth sheet iron
was placed within the leg of the pan Is
opposite the smoothing iron, to pre-
vent the liquid from being absorbed by
the cloth where there was no oil.
After two days more had passed, more
ammonia was applied. After another
day the dry oil was SO soft that soft
soap rubbed on the grease spot and al
lowed to remain for few hours, ant
then washed in warm rain water, re.
moved every trace of the Oil without
discoloring the CLOTH Alcohol and
spirits of turpentine will remove tai,
low and oil from garments if applied
before the oil has become dry anC
hard. We have frequently cleaned
greasy coat collars in a neat manner
with spirits of turpentinc.-N. y
! He1ulC5.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-02
A Fathers Frantic Efforts to
Save His Child.

LAST Wednesday at noon, as Mr..
johnson went home to his dinner, he
noticed his little boy, about seven years
of age, playing on the roadside, and
his little girl near him. Going into
The house, he threw off his coat. Mrs.
j. called his attention to the fire the
boy had set to the dry grass at the
roadside, and was now, at her bidding
trying to extinguish. With the re-
mark that he would help, Mr.. johnson
took up his hat and started. When a
short distance from the house he was
thrilled with horror to see the little
girl speeding up the ravine at her best
run, and bright tongue of fire blazing
a foot above her head. Calling out,
"run toward pa" the father started
in swift pursuit. The child heard,
but as she turned her face the fire
swept over it, and she kept on with
out again turning until caught by the
frantic father, who tried in vain to
tear the blazing clothing from her.
Unhappily her garments were all new
and it was impossible to tear them.
Dropping her to the ground he sue
ceeded in slipping portion over her
head, and then as the flames blazed up
caught them in his hands until they
were extinguished. On raising her in
his arms to take her home, the skin
peeled from her arms and hands,
which, as she ran, had constantly flut-
tered backward as if to fight the fire
off. She had run several hundred feet
from where she caught fire. Her con-
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-02
4 Cheap Farm Gate.

IF we can describe cheap farm
gate which is quite common in our re-
giOn, we are sure that those who have
let down bars and fences so often will
do 50 no more, but supply these gates.
They require neither bolts nor hinges.
Four or five fence boards eleven feet
long, and some narrow pieces as long
as the gate is high for the battenS, or
supports. The best place to make
these gates is on the barn-floor. Lay
down the battens, one at each end and
two between at equal distances, and
place the boards on them and nail
The first batten from the heel, or rear
end of the gate, is sawed out between
the second and third board from the
top. The gate is now done. The
lumber has cost fifty cents and the
nails five cents: and a man will make
ten gates in half day, or less time.
Any common fence posts will do for
gate posts as there is no strain side
ways. Set the posts 50 that the space
between them shall be four inches mar
rover than the length Of the gate.
Place the gate in position and raise it
from the ground four inches-the front
end against the face of the post toward
the gate and the rear end against one
side of the post. At the rear post set
strong stake of good durable oak, out
side the gate, say an inch or two from
the gate, and forward three inches
from the inside face of the rear post.
Bore hole with an inch and quartz
augur through this stake and into the
gate post just under the second board
from the top, and put in a stout pin.
Now the gate is hung. To open it,
shove it back half the length of the
gate; then swing it half way round.
Here you have good gate costing, put
up, not much over one dollar. Detroit
TLiblLNe
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-02
Protection of Buildings from
Lightning.

PROF. CLERK MAXWELL read an alb
stract of paper before the Mathe-
NAUTICAL and Physical Science Section
of the British Association at the recent
meeting at Glasgow, in which he
stated that those who erected lightning
conductors had paid great attention to
the upper and lower extremities of the
conductor-having a sharp point above
the building and the lower extremity
carried into the earth as far as posi-
bic. The effect was to tap, or, as it
were, to gather the charge by facilitat-
ing the discharge between the atmo-
spheric accumulation and the earth.
That would cause a greater number of
discharges than would have otherwise
occurred; but each of them would be
smaller than those which would have
occurred without a conductor. That
arrangement was therefore more for
benefit of the surrounding country,
and for the relief of the clouds labor
ing under an accumulation of electric
ity, than for the protection of the
building on which the conductor was
erected. What was really wanted was
to prevent the possibility of an electric
discharge taking place within a certain
region. An electrical discharge could
not occur between two bodies unless
the difference of their potentials was
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-02

slant cry was, 'HOh, fatherl Oh,
motherw She was conscious to the
last. Drs. Lotspeich and Flowers were
over two hours dressing the wounds.
Two-thirds of the surface of her body
was burned. The accident occurred
at half-past twelve and at ten the next
day she died. She was four years old
the Goth of last August. MI. Johnson's
hands are perfectly cooked, and he is
almost helpless, SO far as hands are
concerned. 1t is a great wonder that
he too did not perish, as his only cloth
ing was cotton. He thinks that hat
he but worn his coat the life of his pei
might have been saved, but he hat
nothing with which to smother thu
fire but his bare hands.-Holden (IKo
| Eute7Y7ise
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-02
HiccOughed to Death.

DIR. ELTON says he was called to
see man named Henry Hoskins, a
slate miner, aged forty-fve years.
Hoskins said that he had gone to work
without breakfast, as he had not felt
well. About eight o'clock he had
drank some cold water, and the hic-
cough set in, violently at first, but sub
sequently he did not mind it as much,
thinking it would soon disappear. 1t
did not, however, and he then tried
several local remedies, such as drink
ing nine swallows of water, putting a
cold piece of slate down his back, and
such like cures. He became alarmed,
for he felt he was getting weaker every
minute. 1t continued with renewed
violence, and Hoskins was advised to
go home by the boss. His wife made
him hot coffee, and he tried to eat
breakfast, but his appetite was entire
ly gone. He began to shiver, and the
hiccough still continued as bad as ever.
The doctor was then sent for. He at
once administered twenty drops of sal
volatile and fifteen drops of ether in a
wineglassful of camphor-water, but
that did not do any good. The doctor
tried to divert the mans mind from
it, but it was all to no purpose. He
then gave the man thirty drops of
laudanum, and drove back to his house
to procure other medicine. Still the
hiccough continued, and in fifteen min
utes after the doctor left the man was
a corpse. Hoskins seemed to be per-
fectly healthy in every respect. His
throat swelled great deal before he
died, and he seemed to strangle before
his sufferings were over.-Pottsri1e
(Pa.) Ntners Journal.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-02
The Camel on the Desert.

My camel was tied down in the sand
patiently awaiting his burden You
tie camel to himself-tha is when
he has shut up his legs under him like
knife blades You slip leathern brace
let over his knee and there you have
him, for it is impossible for him to
open his leg so long us this bracelet is
around it, binding the leg above the
knee and the shin-bone together like a
pair of tongs. OF course it is not easy
to find anything in the desert to which
you may tie your camel securely; a
benefcent Providence has therefore
made every camel his own hitching-
post, likewise his own cistern and veg
etable market and step-ladder-in fact
chine on four legs that we have a
knowledge of. His machinery is
clumsy and needs oiling. His great
joints show through his sides, and his
tail is the barest apology and mwOr-
thy of notice. You would think your
camel went on stills if you were to
start off suddenly, sitting in nest of
| luggage on that high back of his. You
| would think he had his feet in poul-
! tees if you were to look at the soft,
spongy things as they fall noiselessly
on the earth and spread under his tot
tering weight. And that fearful face
of his, with its liquid and pa
thetic eyes, and those deep cavi-
ties above them, big enough to hold
a hens egg; his aquiline nose, with
| its narrow, slanting nostrils, that Shut
| tight against the sand storms and the
whitening Kamsin, and give a very
scOrnful expression to the face; the
whole face looks as if it We're just 60
Ing to cry. The absurd under-lip is
puckering and pouting to the most
charming extent, and you are not at
| all surprised when the beast finally
bursts into tears and cries long and
| loud like a great OyergrOWn baby.
This is the pudding-footed pride Of
| the desert, whose silken hair is mans
I raiment, and whose milk is meat and
! drink. While my camel was still
kneeling with his strap over his leg, l
stepped into the curve of his neck and
went up the front stairs to the top of
his hump. His saddle was a tree of
wood with thick rugs lashed over it. 1t
was little like swinging in a saw
buck, riding that camel to Sakkarah.
He edged his way over the desert,
putting the two legs on one side of
him forward at the same time, and
! then keeling over and pushing the 9TH
er side ahead. l was continually
rocked back and forth until my head
swung loosely OH my shoulders, my
sides ached and all my spine was sore.
Many people are seasick when they
mount a camel for the first time. The
motion is not unlike that of a small
boat in chop sea. There is certainly
no pleasure and very little elegance in
| your rest as you toss to and fro on the
summit of that animated mountain of
india-rubber.- (E2yDD Cor. San
! Francisco Chronicle
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-02

sufficiently great compared with the
distance between them. If therefore,
they could keep the potentials of all
bodies within certain region equal OF
nearly equal, no discharge could take
place between them. That might be
secured by connecting all these bodies
by means of good conductors, such as
copper wire ropes. 1t would, therefore,
be sufficient to surround powder mill
with conducting material, to sheath
its roof, walls and ground -four with a
thick sheet of copper, and then no
electrical effect could occur within it
on account of any Thunderstorm out
side. There would be no need OF any
earth connection. They might even
place a layer of asphalt between the
copper floor and the ground so as to
insulate the building. If the mill
were struck it would remain charged
for some time, and a person standing
on the ground outside or touching the
wall might receive shock, but no
electrical effect would be perceived in
side even by the most delicate electrom-
eter. A sheathing of copper was by
no means necessary in order to pre-
vent any electrical effect taking place.
Surprising a building was struck by
lightning, it was quite sufficient to en-
close it with a network of good con-
Quoting substance. For instance, if a
copper wire were carried round the
foundation of house, up each of the
corners and gables, and along the
ridges, that would be sufficient pro.
lection for an ordinary building
against any thunderstorm in England
but it might be well, to prevent theft
to have it built in the wall, and thel
| it would be necessary to have 1t con
nected with some metal, such as leac
or zinc, on the roof. 1t need scarcely
| be added, said the Professor, that il
| is not advisable during thunder
| storm to stand on the roof of a hous'
so protected, or to stand on TIT
ground outside, to lean against thu
| walls
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-02

used his accumulations properly. But
he not only accumulated, but saved.
He has never been known to eXpend a
dollar for "the good the true, the
beautiful. He has no books, and
never subscribed for paper in his
life. He is the Esau of this commu-
nifty, "his hand against every mans,
and every mans hand against him."
He never goes to church or public
meetings of any kind. His wife is a
broken-down woman. She had some
spirit and ambition when she married
him, but it was al crushed out long
ago. He has two sons who, under
proper influences, would have made
useful citizens; but they were driven
from home by the penurious dealings
of their father, that would not permit
them to appear in respectable society,
respectfully, and they are now dissi-
pated young men, "going to the BAD
as fast as they can. call this the
worst kind OF management.
Financially, he has not been a good
manager, although he has accumulated
| $50, 600; for he has done it by pinching
extortion, alone. He has drawn the
life from his land, until it will not pro-
! duce half as much as when it came
into his possession. Other men, man.
aging with view to the future, would
have made as much money and pre-
served the fertility of their soil. They
would have expended ii in buildings,
trees, improvements of all kinds that
would conduce to their comfort and
convenience, instead of locking it up
where it would benefit no one.
Such men are present in every CON-
munity, almost, and they blight it by
their presence. They are a curse to
the country, financially, morally, and
every other way. God speed the day
when all the farm homes Of the land
shall be centers of refinement and cul-
! ture, where money is made subordinate
! to the good it will secure, and where
the grand and elevating influences of
nature are fully appreciated and have
their legitimate effect.-P. 4. Armer,
! in Ohio Farmer.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-02
"Only w aiting.'

MR.. SAXToNBURY has money in the
savings bank, and the wife generally
has charge of the handbook. She
happened to open it the other day, and
was surprised to find that he had got
hold of the book and drawn fifty dol
lars only the day before without hav
ing said anything to her. When he
came home to supper she asked him If
he couldn't spare ten dollars.
Cant spare shilling he replied,
"never SO hard up in my life
"What has become of the fifty dol
lars you drew from the bank the other
dayr' she demanded, trying to catch
his eye.
"That money fifty-dollars-ahem.
That money l bet on Indiana he
hesitatingly replied.
"And you lost itv'
"No, my dear, won ahundred dol
lars with it. l didn't want you to
know anything about it until brought
home the seal-skin jacket, but as you
have found out, why, l must explain
"When do you get the money! she
anxiously asked.
"Oh, it won't be long. The official
count has been made, and as soon as
the returns are sent to the Secretary OF
State he will forward the official ma
jority to Washington, and the Secre-
tary of the Navy will telegraph me the
result. Do you prefer brown or black
seal ?''
"Tn take brown, my DEAR she
smilingly answered, "and | do hope
the returns will be here by Saturday.
| Days will pass, weeks will glide
away, and along next May, after that
good woman is almost worn out witt
anxiety, Mr.. Saxtonbury will suddenly
! ascertain that he lost his fifty dollar:
! instead of winning a hundred, an(
promise to get her a silk dress in thu
! fall.-Dety0it Free Press.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-02
Intelligent "Bcst Young Men,

IT was an evening party, and Bur
lington's best young men We're gath
cred there. Said the first best young
man:
"Wha's all this talk bout -haw--
wha'S his name-Sel Wan war;"
The second best young man re-
marked that "Pon honor, never heard
word about it befaw."
Another best young man said:
"Why, it's sort of a kind of a
trouble they've been havin' ever since
the war; A kind of sort of an East
ern question, b'lieye they call it,
whats the question about 2"
asked another best young man, whose
interest had been awakened by the I'M
usually heated and exciting discussion.
= "Why, fact u.s." said best young
man who had not spoken before, "'ts
something hardly any fellow under
stands. Servians are the fellows who
murdered DR.. Livingstone, and the
war is made by the English Govern
ment, tryin' to recover maps and
journals and general effects left by the
Doctor" And then he relapsed into
amazed silence, astonished at the ex-
tent of his own information.
"Guess not" said another best
young man, "been reading up a good
deal on that lately. Servians are lot
of convict fellows escaped from Gov
ment mines, and Russia is tryin' to
bring 'em back"
"Wha' they doing in the mines ?'
asked the best young man who had
"nevah heard of the war befaw"
Want never in the Mines" said
the loquacious best young man, "it's
all about Turkey. Turks want to for
tify tn gulf of Dardanells and Russia
says channels s narrow that fort 'el
interrupt passage O. steamboats,. Ser
vians is just kind fellers, sort of steve
dores, like, that's workin' on forts for
the Turks
"Ya-as, L know" said another best
young man. "An' England's backin'
the Servians and Russia's backin' the
Turks"
"Then wha's all the fuss about ?"
asked the first best young man.
"Don' know IN shuah," replied the
rest of the best young men, and the
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-02
Saved From an Alligator.

LAST Saturday, about shutdown. four
miles east of this place, on Biloxi
Bay, occurred a terrible scene. Two
little girls, daughters of Mr.. Elan r.
Blackwell. living on the Back Bay of
Biloxi, While bathing in the bay i'm
mediately in front of his dwelling,
were attacked by an enormous alli-
gator.
The eldest, a girl of about seven
years, was holding the youngest, an
infant of two years, in her hands,
quietly enjoying her bath, when sud-
denly her little sister was snatched
from her, and borne swiftly away from
the shore.
Terrified beyond measure, and I'M
able to render any assistance to her
unfortunate sister, the elder girl ut
tered a scream which was quickly
heard by the father, who happened to
be passing within thirty or forty yards
of the place.
Realizing instantly, from the tone
of the voice, that his children were in
some peril, Mr.. Blackwell rushed rap
idly to their assistance, and arrived at
the spot just in time to see his little
daughter borne out into the bay by an
alligator.
He leaped at once into the water in
pursuit of the reptile, which was then
some twenty-five or thirty yards from
shore. The water, for a distance of
forty or fifty yards from the point
where the children were bathing,
ranges in depth from one and a half to
two feet and then suddenly attains
depth of forty or fifty feet.
Both the alligator (Which by this
time had discovered the pursuit. and
the father seemed to realize that, if the
deep water Immediately in front of
them was reached, pursuit and recov-
cry would be alike impossible. Both,
therefore, redoubled their efforts, the
one to reach the point, the other to
plChCllt IL.
In this struggle, although sinking in
the soft mud at each bound, the father
was successful. He succeeded in
grasping his child by the arm about
ten feet from deep water. The ALI
gator, which all the while held the
child's foot in its mouth, perceiving
itself overtaken, and alarmed and con-
fused by the boldness of the assault,
released its hold, and made its way
rapidly into the deep water.
The father completely exhausted,
raised his child out of water, and per-
ceiving that it still lived, by desperate
efforts succeeded in regaining the
shore, and depositing it safely in the
arms of its mother The little girl is
unhurt, with the exception of wounds
on its foot, made by the teeth of the
Observation-Disclosures (Miss.) Demo-
crQt,