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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
A Remarkable Frog Story.

A REMARKABLE incident occurred
at Brown & Halls sawmill, in Acton,
while a pine log was being sawed up
into lumber. The outside slab and
one board had been cut off, and while
the werkmen were turning over the
log they We're surprised to see a large
toad poke his head out of hole in
which he was imbedded, and where
he had barely escaped being cut up by
the saw. How the stranger got there
was mystery, as he was completely
encased in the wood, with no possible
means of ingress or egress. AS the
log was the fourth or fifth from the
butt of the tree, his position must
have been at least fifty or sixty feet
from the ground, and he had 10 doubt
grown up with it from infancy, being
probably hundreds of years old. The
animal was quite fiat, and nearly as
large as mans hand. He was per-
fectly blind, but when taken from his
bed he made use of his limbs to crawl
away. The tree was perfectly sound
with the exception of a decayed spot
of about foot in length below the
hollow place in which he was imbedded.
How did he get there, and what did
he live on ?-TOronto Globe.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
Crime in Sicily.

The report of the Commission of
Inquiry into the State of Sicily con-
tinues to be published in fragments,
and shows the existence of social
condition in some parts of the island
| which justities any representations
that have been made to you in past
years. AS to the crimes of blood"
says the report, cit is clear, that a
preventive police has little to do. A
man offended by another meets him
on the road, draws his revolver
aid kills him. He stations himself
behind wall or at the foot of an
orange tree, with sporting gun, and
when he sees his enemy approaching,
at five PAGES distance plants bullet in
his head or he has dispute with his
enemy in a sulphur mine, wine-shop,
or on the road, and, after moment of
quarreling, plunges dagger into his
heart. What can a preventive police
do in such cases? In Sicily these
Vi ttlO NUMEROUS UIldIl Ill
other parts of the Kingdom. Sicily
approaches nearer to the burning
sands of Nubia than other parts of
Europe. In Sicily there is hot blood,
imperious violence; to carry and use
arms is more than an instinct,-it is
passion; the islander will settle his af-
fairs himself, and believes that he can
not trust the satisfaction Of his ven
geance to the law. His own arm must
hasten it, and sometimes, even worse,
it is the arm of others. A man in
condition is reproved by
the director of an asylum for remov-
his daughter before the time estab-
Iished by the regulations. Enough.
Two assassins are hired to murder him.
respectable youth in Monreale has a
quarrel with another of the same age,
ind they come to blows. The father
" the one rushes into the street with
/ revolver, the father and brother Of
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
CALLED ASIDE.
"IHAyE somewhat to say unto thee"

81 HAVE somewhat to say unto thee"
Called aside
From the glad working OF thy busy life,
From the worlds ceaseless stir Of care and strife,
Into the shade and stiffness by thy Heavenly
Guide
For brief space thou hast been called aside.
Lonely hours
Thou hast spent, weary on couch Of pain,
Watching the golden sunshine and the falling
rain;
Hours, whose sad length only to Him was known
Who trod sadder pathway, dark and lone.
Laid aside
May not the little cup Of suffering Sc
loving one of blessing given to thee!
The cross of Christening sent thee from above
By Him who bore the cross, whose name is Love.
Called aside
Hast thou no memories of that little whilef'
No sweet rcmem rance of thy Fathers smile9
No hidden thoughts that wrapped thee in their
hold
OF Him who did such light and grace unfoldf
Called aside
Perhaps into the desert garden dim,
And yet not lone, when thou hast been with Him,
And heard His voice in sweetest accents say,
"Child wilt thou not with Me this hour stay!"
Called aside
In hidden paths with Christ thy Lord to tread,
Deeper to drink at the sweet Fountain Head;
Closer in fellowship with Him to roam,
Nearer, perchance, to feel thy heavenly home.
Called aside
o, knowledge deeper grows with Him alone,
In secret Of His deeper love is shown,
And learnt in many an hourof dark distress
Some rare, sweet lesson OF His tenderness
Called aside
We thank Thee for the stiffness and the shade;
We thank Thee for the hidden paths Thy love hath
made,
And, so that we have wept and watched with
Thee,
We thank Thee for our dark Gethsemane.
Called aside
o, restful thought He doeth all things we'll
o. essed sense, with Christ alone to dwell;
So. in the shadow Of Thy cross to hide,
We thank Thee, Lord to have been called aside
-Tba TOu1oD ErjSnh
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

The London Milk Journal says that
pint of milk heated a little, but not
boiled, taken every four hours, will
check the most violent diarrhea, stom-
ach-ache, incipient cholera and dysen-
terry.
CHARCOAL has been discovered to be
a sure cure for burns. By laying a
small piece of cold charcoal upon the
burn the pain subsidies Immediately.
By leaving the charcoal on one hour
the wound is healed, as has been DEM
onstrated on several occasions.
To MAKE Domin Nopinee, or parched
corn and milk, take a half pint of yell
low corn, roast it as you would coffee
over a slow fire, clean out the coffee
mill, grind once coarse, once fine, eat
with milk and little salt, after it has
! stood FIVE or ten minutes to swell, and
you have food fit for the gods. 1t is
a very social dish for boys and girls.
CELEBRATED FAREWELL PUDDING.
Line dish with puff paste and put
into it a variety of preserves, without
much of their sirup, also strips of cit
ron. Then fill up with the following
mixture: One quarter pound melted
butter, one quarter pound OF sugar,
yel1s of four eggs, whites of three,
well beaten. Mix well and bake in a
slow oven.
Coon MINCE PIES. Six pounds beef,
five pounds suet, five pounds sugar,
I two ounces allspice, two ounces cloves,
three-fourth of pound of cinnamon,
| half pint molasses, one and fourth
pound seedless raisins, two pounds cnr-
rants, half pound cltron chopped fine,
one pound of almonds chopped fine,
two oranges, one lemon skin, and all
chopped fine; two parts chopped ap-
pies to one of meat, cider to taste.
I CONWAY PUDDING.-Butter pud-
ding-dish, and lay in tart apples sliced,
with white sugar, grated nutmeg, anG
a few whole cloves sprinkled Over
them; then a layer of stale breat
crumbs, bits Of butter, sugar and nut
meg, thus filling the dish with alter
nate layers of apple and bread crumbs
pour over a cup of rich milk, and BAKE
in a moderate oven from one and ;
half to two hours. This is an econom
ical and delicious pudding, good eithe
hot or cold, with or without sauce.
JAMES POTTED BEEF.-Cut quit
lean beef in pieces, as for a stew, ant
put in close-covered pail. Put il
one layer at time, then a little sal
and pepper and little sprinkling o
cloves and cinnamon. Then put il
another layer, season as above, and S
Oh till all the meat is in the pail. Pou
over all cupful of vinegar and waite
for about three pounds of meat. Cove
the pail closely, and set into anothe
partly filled with boiling water, an
let it simmer four hours. Eaten col
or warmed up for a breakfast dish
this is very nice. Cloves give it
dark color, but improve the flavor
When warmed up thicken the gravy
little, and place bits of toast aroun
the dish.-Christian Union.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
An imprOyement has been made

AN improvement has been made
n gun fog signals-that is, i'll the con-
struction of the guns from which the
signals are fired. a new form of par
abola has been tried, in comparison
with the cone-shaped muzzle, and it is
found to excel it at long ranges. II
seems also to have been proved that
gun-cotton makes more noise thar
gunpowder when equal weights are
used; and that parbolic reflector adds
to the power of the gun-cotton as wei
as the powder. When large charges,
namely, three pounds of powder, were
fired from guns of various kinds il
competition with one pound charges OF
gun-cotton, which costs about the
same, there was found to be but little
difference in the intensity of sound
Even one and one-half pounds of gun
cotton was found to give scarcely sucl
good results as the three-pounC
charges of powder.-N. Y. Sun.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
EmaciatIon a Rcmediable Defect

Lcanncss not only dCtractS from personal
comclncss, but is an index that the blood is
deficient in nutritivc properties To remedy
evacuation, enrich and purify the blood,
which will then develop healthy flesh. This
object is most readily attained through the
agency of the great blood fertilizer and depu-
rent, Hostcttcr's Stomach Biticrs, which en-
ablcS the stomach to extract from the food
taken into it ample nourishmcnt for the
system, removes ali obstacles to complet c
digestion aud assimilation, and by stimulat-
ing the kidneys to vigorous action, incites
those organs 10 strain from :he vital fluid
in its passage through them impurities
creating qualities Not only do the Bitters
promote the development Of solid fiber, but
they also increase muscular power and
elasticity, overcome nervousness, Danish
mental depression, and project the system
against disease.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
Savings Banks.

THE savings bank system of the
world is the subject of an interesting
report by the Italian Bureau of Sta
tistics to the Statistical Congress at
Buda-Pesth. The savings bank is
modern. The first institution of the
kind was opened at Berne, in Switzer-
land, in 1887. The first in the United
States was founded in Philadelphia
in 1918. In 1872, there were in Eu-
rope 1900 savings banks, more than
half of them in Great Britain, and
holding quarter of the total deposits
of 81, 100, 100000 Three years later,
in the United States, there were less
than 700 savings banks, with $780,
100000 of deposits. The United
States has the heaviest amount of
savings deposits; England follows,
and Austria with Hungary comes next.
Denmark has the largest per capita
average of savings-about twenty
eight dollars for each inhabitant. The
United States and Switzerland have
twenty-five dollars each; England,
Germany and Austria have ten dollars
fer every inhabitant; and Italy five
dollars. Holland puts little faith in
savings banks, and in Russia proper
there were in 1872 less than $4,000
900 of savings deposits. The only
European institution that is as large
as the largest American banks is the
Vienna Bank, which has $40, 900, 900
of deposits. The deposits of the
Caisse d'Epargne at Paris declined
from 100000 in 1910 to 5000, 900
in 1875. The Berlin Bank-a monop-
oiy-had at the close of 1874 only
100000 of deposits. In England
and in France the deposits are invest
ed in Government securities; in other
bonds and mortgages are
favorite investments but in Norway
three-quarters of the savings deposits
are in commercial paper.-Chicago
Tribune.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
Local News.

"MR. PERKINS" said Col. Bangs to
the reporter of the Argus, 81 wish you
would stir around to-day and get up a
sensational local of some kind. The
papers been UNANIMOUSLY dull lately.
Now why can't you give an account of
a sea-serpent that you saw off the
Capes yesterday engaged in fearful
combat with whale, during which
the whale swallowed the sea-serpent
all but the end of his tail, which stung
the whale to death-or something of
that understanding exciting and
iyelyp"
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.

THE ivory of England costs the lives
of $4,000 elephants every year.
THE Pool of Sloan is said to be now
an unattractive sink-hOle of dirty
water, surrorr ed by masonry.
A SEA of oil. There was exported,
last year, 2o4, 100000 gallons of refined
petroleum, at value of over $685.
100000.
THE census of Brazil has Just been
taken. 1t indicates a population of
100000 souls, including 1,540,00O
slaves and 243, 900 foreigners.
AN excellent recipe for removing
paint OF grease spots from garments
may be had by mixing four teaspoon
fuls of alcohol with a tablespoonful of
salt. Shake the whole well together,
and apply with brush or sponge.
NEVER was known such year for
apples in Franklin, Mass. All the
cider-apples you want at ten cents a
bushel, and no market at that; and the
winter fruit on the Deerfeld Valley
Agricultural Society's Grounds, al
Charlemont, was sold, recently Ion
the trees), for twelve and half cents
a bushel.
IT is now affirmed that the BastiC
glass, which Is undoubtedly hardened
by tempering, loses its molecular CO.
heSion under a succession of blows,
and then fractures as readily as ordi
nary glass. Tempered glass submitted
to hammering presented an appear
ance of fracture similar to that of ia
tigue steel, a molecular disintegratior
having taken place. 1t is feared that
this alteration of structure and conse
quent loss Of temper may not only fol
low from shock, but may happen spon
| taneOusly in the lapse of time.
THE interesting fact is mentioned il
the Chemical Gazette that the printin.
ink employed in works published dur
ing the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries differs from modern printin!
ink in the important characteristic O
being soluble in ammonia. 1t may b.
said that carbon appears to hav
| formed, from the first, the basis o
printing ink, and consequently al
printed matter resists the action o
acids and bleaching agents. But som
of the early specimens of printing ar
so easily affected by alkalies, that tn
characters float off the paper whe
| placed in q weak solution of ammonia
as has long been followed, in practice
in the accomplishment of chemica
purposes.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
Suspected Duties.

WE suppose that when Mr. Moody
was preaching in the Hippodrome
there were hundreds who suspected
that they ought to initiate his life and
labor. Perhaps some of them ought
to do so; and the chances are that such
of them as ought to do so will do so.
They will be moved to it irresistibly
because the powers in them, CORE
spending to his, will clamor for their
natural expression. But a man who
is not moved to do this, is not convict
ed of being a poorer Christian than
Mr.. Moody by that fact. Mr.. Moody
has gift for preaching-a gift for APP
preaching men personally, and direct
ing them wisely-a gift that has been
greatly improved by use, of course, but
still gift without which he could
never have begun his mission. Most
men have no gift for public speech,
and therefore public speech is no part
of their duty. They need not suspect
themselves ON this account, or blame
themselves, or in any way make them
selves unhappy over it.
There are a great many kinds of
work to be done in the world, and Just
as many varieties of men who are
made to do it. Nc one man can do the
work of another. The business of
each is to find exactly, or as nearly as
he can, the work he is best fitted to
do, and do it with all his might. This
entire, overshadowing burden of sus-
pected duties ought to be lifted, and
the great world of dissatisfaction and
self-condemnation that lies under it
opened to the sunlight of peace. Our
social and our religious teachers, es-
pecially the latter, have duty in this
matter toward their disciples which
they need not suspect for a moment.
They have no right to set a man to do
ing that which he can never do with
profit to himself or others, or instill
the feeling among those who listen to
their instructions that their duty lies
in lines outside of their conscious or
proved abilities. The man who does
his duty where he stands, with such
implements as God has given him, has
a right to the enjoyment of peace and
satisfaction; and to make him suspect
that he ought to do something more
and something else, is to do him a life
long injury and a great wrong. 1t is
to make pitiful slave of one who has
the right to be free.-Dr. J. g. Hoz-
land, in Scribner for October.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26

SOME interesting Druidical remains
have been discovered in France, in the
territory of Benque and Billiere, on a
mountain which separates the valleys
Of Oueil and Larboust, not far. from
Luchon. They consist of several
groups of cromlechs united by lines of
menhirs, with each principal cromlech
surrounded by several smaller circles.
Excavations have already been begun,
but not as yet carried very far. Sew
eral vases containing ashes and frag-
ments of human bones have, however,
been found in the interior of the small
er circles.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26

the bees make their honey therein
and that the poor cottager subsequent
", to appropriate the sweets. stlres
the industrious insects which nave
swarmed there, Such, no doubt, was
the actual state of the case at one tlme'
but such an idea is very far from the
truth nowadays. The straw hive has
become q "house" of wood and glass,
in which the temperature is regulated
bv thermometer; the bees are dealt
with as valuable property, not stliieo
recklessly, but "manipulated by the
apiarian,' and the honey removed
without the loss of a single bee, and
without damage to the comb
which it costs the insect so much labor
to make. An exhibition of this kind
practically shows all this, and one be-
gins to understand that bees, where
properly farmed,' may yield con-
siderable profit when one hive alone, as
shown by an exhibitor, can yield III
pounds twelve ounces of honey and
comb. the value of which is nearly
eight pound sterling, market price.
The exhibitors in the show are numer-
Gus, and many of the exhibits new and
cleverly adapted to their purpose.
There is great variety of "houses,
some as large, and like nothing SO
much as dog-kennels; others like
"dolls' houses, with folding doors and
shelves, and some again like dove cotes
and quite as fanciful. Inventions,
too, for extracting honey from the
"comb" are also numerously eX-
hibited, some worked on cOg-wheel ac-
ton being called express" eXtractors,
etc. The furniture" exhibited is OF
great variety also, and much of it ne"
but necessary to those who farm
bees for profit or pleasure. The specl
mems of honey in "comb' and eX
tracted are also numerous, and to these
may be added hives of bees to be seel
at work. bees sWarming, etc. There
were entries for thirty-three out OF
thirty-ive classes into Which the SHOW
was divided, and prizes of silver ane
bronze medals, certificates and MONEY
prizes in sums of three pound sterling
and under, were offered. Their
were in all 244 entries, and the eXhibi
ton, which is under the management
of the Bee-keepers' Association, wa
attended and examined with much in
tereSt. London Times.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
Household Taste.

A WRITER in the Boston Journal of
Chemistry says:
Every chair in the house should be
an easy chair, and be made expressly
to give rest and comfort to some one;
and every chair and other piece of
furniture should be strongly and hon
estly made, and show at a glance that
it is so, and how and why it is 50. The
fashion of buying "sets' of furniture
of just 50 many pieces to a room, and
those perhaps not just what are needed,
but such as are dictated by the dealer
OF upholsters, leads often to great and
unnecessary expense. The chairs for
room should be selected as far as
possible to accommodate and make
comfortable those who will use them
most. They need not be of similar
shape or size, or upholstered in the
same material, or even material of one
color, and the wood work may be wal
nut, oak, or ash in one and the same
room, and still there need be no offense
against good taste. Until people are
created of one mvarying pattern, it is
best to have reasonable variety in their
chairs. The bedsteads, at present
popular, have monumental backs,
panneled, Scrolled and carved, till the
eye that views them grows weary as
the hand that strives to keep them
clean. The high, wooden heads have
no possible use; they do not even serve
to protect the sleeper from the
draught, for you cannot turn them
away from the wall, as one side is en-
tirely unfinished. Better "prison
pattern of clean plain iron than this
dirt-collecting humbug. A wooden
bedstead cap, however, can be
made which shall be clean,
comfortable, and sufficiently beauti-
full, without resorting to
hospital severity of style. But after
all, it is the bed, and not the wooden
frame, or even the lace "pillow
shams," that woos us to balmy sleep.
A householder with a limited purse
and knack for carpentry, who is OPP
pressed by rooms full of furniture of
nightmare designs, might find relief
by saving and chiseling off all unrea-
sonable and meaningless ornaments
$50 called. He could not fail to i'm
prove matters he would gain in health
full exercise, and increase the family
store Of hard wood kindiings. Tables
should stand firmly on four or more,
good straight legs and not be balanced
on one shaky pivot like teetotum or
an inverted bottle. All furniture
should be finished all around, so that
any part can be turned to view, which |
suits the arrangement OF use for the
time. Furniture should be selected |
piece by piece, as one has the good for
tune to find decent specimens. 1t is
better not to hurry, even if the house |
has to be occupied half furnished, and
the stock completed as circumstances
will allow. Don't make things I'M
comfortable to please the neighbors;
your home is not for them. Have ev-
made for use, and use the
best you have. Comfort and luxury
do not consist in the accumulation of
things which make work for any one.
but in making life simple and in hay
ing everything fit and good, not elabo-
rate and snowy. Put away all shams,
and lies, and so order your surround
ings that however modest, they shall
serve for what they were intended. If
they do this fully, they can never be
aItopathpr uplV
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-26
An Exhibition of Bees in London

AN exhibition of bees, their produce,
hives and bee furniture, was commence
ed at the Alexandra Palace, yesterday,
the show being arranged in the large
hall of that building, and thirteen long
tables or stalls being covered with the
exhibits. The idea of Bookkeeping in
the mind of the ordinary city dweller
appears to be that it is something
practiced by poor cottagers to help out
their small incomes. But in America,
Germany and Spain there are bee
farmers whose acres are covered with
hives. The general idea of hive is
that it is straw cap, something like
a dish-cover in shape, only round; that