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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-10
The Chinese Management or
Roses.

IT has been stated that the Chinese
method of layering roses is sometimes
more successful than ours. Late in
the summer they select a vigorous
shoot of the same years growth and
tongue it; then put in a small peb-
bic to keep the slit open and bind
handful of fresh moss around
the tongue, keeping it constantly
dampened. In about six weeks it
will have struck roots and can be
planted without disturbing the messy
covering. Many of the garden roses
can be increased by suckers from the
roots, which can be severed with a
sharp spade in the autumn and new
bushes formed of them. Budding
roses Is a simple process, by which
amateur cultivators often increase their
stock. A sharp penknife can do duty
for budding knife, and the handle of
q toothbrush, if ground down smooth.
Will answer for spud to aid in lifting
VIZ '"iN' lol1 llit lust Oh u lllle TO
the last of August is the best time for
this process as the bark can then be
more easily raised from the wood.
Take smooth stalk and make a hori-
zontal cut across the bark, through to
the wood, but not into it. From the
center of this cross-cut make another
cut straight down the stem. an inch or
more in length. These two cuts should
resemble t. Slice off the bud Won
desire to propagate with one cut of the
penknife, cutting it close to the main
stalk. Now, with the edge of the spud
turn back the bark on each side of the
straight cut and insert the bud ON the
wood of the branch to be budded, fit
ting it tightly to the crossed cut. With
a bit of soft yarn bind down the bark.
leaving the point of the bud exposed.
A handful of dampened moss must
then be bound round the stem, taking
care to leave the tiny point of the bud
exposed to the air. In six weeks the
can be removed, but all
other shoots must be kept from grow
ing on the budded branch. BY this
means a rosebush can be made to bear
half Il dozen different colored roses
N. Y. Herald.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-10
Electricity as an illumination.

THE fact is familiar to all that the
electric light is due simply to the cleo
trio current heating the medium it
passes through, and the more resist
ance there is offered to the current the
greater is the heat developed and made
available in this way The great in
tensity of the ordinary electric carbon
lamp is owing to the badly conducting
layer of atmosphere between the car
bon points, and the layer being very
much heated makes the carbon burn
with white glow. By reason, there
fore, of the great resistance of this
layer of atmosphere, which only a
powerful current is sufficient to over
come, the light must necessarily be a
very brilliant one. 1t is possible, with
out the aid of air or gas. to make
solid body quite hot, as, for instance,
in the case of platinum wire; the il
Elimination thus produced is, however,
weaker and more uniform, and must
be intensified or diminished. But it
cannot be applied practically by reason
of its great expense, and because, too,
if the heat becomes too intense the
wire is apt to fuse. In view of these
facts, the ingenious plan has lately
been introduced of replacing the plati-
mum wire with thin bars of graphite
or carbon-graphite possessing at ar
equal temperature much greater radi-
ating properties than platinum, and as
the heat capacity of the latter is twice
that of carbon, the same temper
AZURE will heat thin bar of graphite
to double the degree which would be
attained by platinum wire of the
same dimensions under similar circum-
stances. The electric resistance, too,
of the carbon in question is about 250
times that of platinum, and.the carbon
rod may be fifteen times as thick us
platinum wire of the same length,
SuppoSing the current Is to give the
same amount of heat. Finally the
important advantage is presented in
this arrangement of there being no
disposition for the carbon to melt, even
at the highest temperature.-St. Louis
Republican.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-10
Promise and Performance.

The proprietors of Hostetter's Stomach
Bfttcrs promise nothing in behalf of this
famous tonic and regulating elixir which it
will not perform. No pretensons irrccon-
cilable with common sense are made in ref
erence to it, but evidence of the most posi-
tive nature has been accommodating for over
a quarter of a century in its behalf which
proves it to he a reliable preventive and
curative of malarial diseases, an efficient
and genial tonic and general corrective and
specially valuable in cases where the bowels,
liver stomach or urinary organs are affected
Debility, the source from whence so many
bodily evils spring, is entirely rcmedicd by
the invigorativc action of the Bittcrs, which
arrests premature decay and repairs losses
of nervous and muscular power while I'M
proving the appetite and rendering diges-
ton easy,
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-10
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.

TEXAS still has over so, 600, 600 acres
of public lands. TN
A srNeL E concern in South Abing-
don, Mass, turns out 1900, 600, 900
eyelets for shoes annually. gs(S
CROP reports from nearly every
county in Nebraska indicate the finest
prospects ever known in that State.
80 THE amountcof water daily con-
sumed in London is 113,s00 900 gall
Ions, or Al ,537 ,00o, 900 gallons per year.
IT is estimated that the Texas cot
ton crop will be 100000 bales, and it
will be at least 5, 900 bales in excess of
last year. - -
K THE ash seed ripens in the f,Il of
the year, just before frc1st. Preserve
the seed in sand I'LL the next spring,
then plant, .a
TIE Merrimack Manufacturing Com
pany of Lowell, Mass, has lost $780,
900 during the past year, and the
quick capital is reduced to S6S7,0oo.
WHALE-BoNE is no bone at all; nor
does it possess any properties of bone.
1t is a substance attached to the lower
jaw of the whale, and seems to strain
the water, which the creature takes up
in large mouthfuls.
THE number of illiterates by the
census of 1870 above the age of ten
years, inround numbers, is 100000.
OF these more than 100000 were
adults, upward of 1900, 900 more were
from fifteen to twenty-one years OF
age, and 100000 were between ten
and fifteen years. OF the number be-
tween fifteen and twenty-one years it
is estimated that about one-half have
passed the opportunity for education.
ACCORDING to statement in one OF
the technical journals, the electric
light is now successfully applied to the
lighting of one of the principal mills
in Germany. In a separate room foul
magneto-electro machines are placed,
which feed four suitably located lamps
constructed on the Serrin principle
The dimensions of the room so lighted
are sixty meters, or about 200 feet by
100 feet, and each lamp gives a light
equal to about 100 carcel lamps. Each
magneto-electric machine requires
about SCI pounds of motive power
The cost of the four lamps, exclusive
of the maintenance of the motive pow
er averages about twenty cents pei
hour.
RATS greatly infest ships, and are
by them conveyed to every part of the
world. So industriously do they make
homes for themselves in the numerous
crannieS and corners in the hull of &
ship that it is impossible to get rid OF
them. Ships take out rats as well as
passengers and cargo every voyage
whether the former remain in the shil
at port is best known to themselves
When the East India Company had
ships of their own they employed raj
catcher, who sometimes captured SOC
rats in one ship just returned from
Calcutta. The ship rat is often the
black species. Sometimes black and
brown inhabit the same vessel, and
elnless they carry on perpetual hos
Utilities the one party will keep in the
head of the vessel and the other to the
stern.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-10
MOntenegrins.

"A
THE sort of people that the mhab-
itants of Montenegro are, is coming
to be known now that events have,
taken on their recent shape. . A$Ger-a
man letter from among them says that
they are very superstitious: 'Thun-
der is believed to arise from the fact
of st. Peter playing at nine pins, while
lightning is regarded as the reflex OF
the sword with which st. Elias COM
bats the DEVIL" from which it APP
pears how their ''Christianity' eN-
presses itself. When there is fire to
be extinguished, people call out:
.sWine! Wine!" instead of water"
believing as they do that, by uttering
the latter word the genius OF Fire
would feel insulted. Life is not Sc
cure to any. But the chief glory OF
the Montenegrins is to answer in large
figures to the salutation: ''HoW many
Turks heads hast thou cut OFF, The
men kiss each others faces on meet
ing, but themost deferential salute is
to kiss the stomach. The doctors of
the people are uneducated, and they
practice by oral tradition only. y
party of German physicians is now
making study of the country, while
caring for the wounded, and through
them come interesting accounts OF
what is the real condition of the Mon
tenegrinS.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-10

THE ENORMOUS WASTAGE o. -'aH, 70 htT -
TW OTHER sgls, of TT hers ca" L. SANLD =! "a
Improved Machine sufficient on ersy y"', 70 @1'' ~
qsy al expenses Of tArrshiug.
FLAN, TIMOTHY, MU1ET, HJGGtNlaS IN
like seeds ar thrrshnd, ptratrd, c. anrl - ',H
az easily and perfectly as Wheat, Oats ''r &" D"'!
AN EXTRA PRICE /, usually paid ''r = A'
sceIs cleaned by this machine, for extra c.'a~
IN TIE WET GRAIN Of ISL, tDes" wer.--.' .s,
italy the ONLY MACHINES that coal Ti' va" E.
or economy, doing fast, thorough alb Is1I'-' ''''
ic!eli Others utterly jtled.
ALL GRAIN. TINE and MONEY visiting ul. .r
tons, such as Endless Aprons" "h't1's' ,t,,
"Pickers" ctc, are entirely dLYenSH 't'i ="
onc-half the usual Gears, Belts, BoAr' "f y'-'. .
easier managed. more durable; Ilshi IAA'''1 ~
ly repairs; no dust; no" littsrinG' '""''" -i'
troubled by adverse winds, rain or sioT!I'
FARMERS and GRAIN RAISEIS Ta7 az az R ~,
in the large saving made by 1t WIZ ny s.s M n.
rior ard wasteful machine, but VIII SF" -
improved Threaher doing their woIh.
FOUR SIZES made for {, s, 10 aHl = [.. ~'
Powers. Also q specially Of SEPAEAIg"' 49,
and made EXPRESSLY FOR STEAM PO"Lf /
TWO STYLES OF HORSE P0WERSS. W. ~ G TTr y
proved Triple Gear" and our "Si2i fiey;. '
bury StyleN, both " Mounted On four "n's''
If INTERESTED IN Threshng OF Gran ~. T TS1;,
apply to our nearest Dealer, or write To us ". n M
tod Circular (sent free), giving full particular ~
Styles, Prices, Terms, etc.
Nichols, Shepard & CV ,,,.s
BATTLE CREEK. Al.A
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-10


that could be bought that would be
thought to serve at all. The entire
economy Of life has received thor
olgh study. Every item Of expense to
every member Of the family, from the
infant in the cradle to the aged grand
parent, was within the scope of the
study. The service Of everyone was
utilized. Families keepingthree serv-
ants dismissed one, and where they
had required two one was found TO be
sufficient and where one was necessary
before, under the stress of a gre,
necessity, it was found tn, rho fam,.
~ coula 20 i'r.sat any outside help.
Ana 50 not only was economy of mere
use and display made the rule, but it
was equally necessary tostudy econo-
my Of time. Every hour was found
to have value; it could be wasted in
idleness OF yalueless pursuits, OF could
be applied to that which the apparent
need of the household made useful and
profitable.
With all the discomfort and positive
distress at times of their severe saw
ing and economizing, there has with it
come an experience that is invaluable.
We have been learning that of which
we knew least, economy. We have
been required to consider the number
of cents in a dollar; we have seen and
known that expenditure less than in
come meant happiness; expenditure
more than income meant misery. Bit
ter as the lesson has been, it will be
worth all it has cost if we can firmly
! fix this truth.
There is reason to believe that to
very many the worst of the difficulty
is past. The abundant crops promise
relief to all who profit by this album
dance. The load of past Indebtedness
will be lifted and times will gradually
grow easier to all classes. When the
! good time comes again and the prosper
ity we have been missing SO sadly re-
turns, many will have reason to thank
| this pressure of hard times, which has
taught so many valuable lessons.
Those who most profit by their teach
ing will soonest be freed from the he
cessity of such teaching, for the PROV
erb is true: The Goddess of Fortune
dwells in the feet of the Industrious. "
Indianapolis Journal.
~>
THE ANGEL OF PATIENCE.
To WEARY hearts. to mourning homes,
Gods meekest angel gently comes;
! No power has he to Danish pain,
| Or give us back our lost again,
And yet in tenderest love- our dear
/ And heavenly Father sends him here
There's quiet in that angels glance,
There's rest in his still ccuntenancei
He Knocks no grief with idle cheer,
Nor wounds with words the mourner's eal;
But Ills and woes he may not cure
He kindly trains us to endure
Angel OF Patiencel sent to calm
Our fev'rish brows with cooling palm;
10 lay the storm of hope and fear.
And reconcile lifes smile and tear;
The throbs of wounded pride to still
And make us own our Fathers will
y thou who mournest on thy way
/ With longings for the close of day,
| He walks with hose, that angel kind,
And gently whispers Be- resigned;
| Bear up, bear on, the end shall tell
The dear Lord ordereth all things welll-
| j. @. Whittier.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-10
International Sunday-SchOOl Lessons.
THIRD QUARTER. 1876

Aug ~. The Value Of Wisdom. Proy'bs 8: 1-1q
aug q. Honest Industry ....... Prov'bs 6: 6-12
sept. g. lntemperance. =. Prov BIS %: 9-35
sept ~. The Excellent Woman Prov BIS 81: 1871
Sept. II. IA Cody Life. ... .. Ecclts II: la
Sept. "A. Review: or a Lesson selected by the
school
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-10

WHosoEvEa hath Christ, cannot be
poor; whatsoever wants Him cannot be
rich.-Ruthe1Jord.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-10

\ FLORIDA gardener has raised a
cucumber four and half feet long,
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-10

THE deepest Atlantic soundings ever
made were about ninety miles north of
the island of st. Thomas, in 1876 IA
thoms, and the pressure was SO great
that the bulb of the thermometer
broke, though made to stand apressure
of three tons. EsBs3S5 ,a
Tie Woman's Medical College Of
the city of New York, which has
been sustained for four years at the
expense of two charitable ladies, has
been : elosed because the generous
givers -weie no longer able to sup
port it. $50 W~s 3
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-10
AgriatltUrist.

But Kitty thought it was for the black
berries.--LiaG PsrsEsstA, IN AmesIeun
AgricatlttLrist. ..-es,,- e
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-10

PENTECosT & HAYDEN, Panora, Iowa,
wrote March p, 1876 1--WE have sold ShaI-
lenbcrgers Ague Pills for eight years, and
have no failure to cure reported" In view
Of such facts why suffer? ONE DOLLAR will
cure you. ONE DOSE stops the chills.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-10

PRUssrNG's White Wine Vinegar is for sale
by all grocurs throughout the United States
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-10
arms and Homes
in the Near w est,

The best. cheapest and nearest Farming Lands
row in the market are The Sioux CITY y St Paul Rail
road Lands. in SpSyBEfRf NETTEGSOTI and
yDRFEJE3EsE EDSJi They are offered on the
most favorable terms AT low rate Of interest and
long time if desired Free railroad fare purchas-
ers. Write for particulars 1t COSTS but one cent 10
send us puStalCard with yoHr aid 70 : and you will
receive by return mail circulars Wit fun infurma-
ton. !. c. TAYLOR, Land Cur..HlissiOnCr
trrrt
The Morning herald., 1876-06-17

terness the gall Of hate between the exult
ant and defeated.
The second place upon the ticket ha,
been awarded to Hon. William A. Wheel
er, of New York, Of whom we are most &c
quainted through his connection with tn,
notorious Wheeler Compro mise, of which
he was the author, and of the ultra schoo
in Republican politics. He cast the frs
oopositieu in the House to the Centennia
appropriation, and has been a firm sup
porter Of the administration in all of its de.
cisions.
He was born in Malone, Franklin county,
New York, in 1890; was member of the
class Of 1912 of the University of Vermont,
but did not graduate; adopted the
profession of law /; in 1850 and 1851, he
was elected to the State Legislature; in
1857 and 1883 to the State Senate; and in
1860 he was elected Representative from
New York, to the Thirty-Seventh Congress.
He was for many years engaged in the
banking business, and was President of the
Ogdensburg and Rouse's Point Railroad
Company.
We have presented to the readers of The
HERALD the ticket that the Republican
party places upon the arena for one of the
greatest political contests that has been
known to this country since that
upon which the North and
South severed bonds, when Lincoln was
made President.
1.-THE question is asked, "Has the Re
publican party improved its opportuni
ties" it could be stated, that, so far as it
defeated Blaine, it.certainly has, but the
ticket offered was the best a party in
Strengthened circumstances could do.
Blaine would not answer, besmirched as he
was with suspicion, everybody else was
thrown overheard, and in Hayes and
Wheeler, the party has put the best
face on the thinnest body, and flung the
challenge of defiance into the face of
argelelement of dissatisfied ones in its
ranks.
The Morning herald., 1876-06-17
4 Family Walking Hundreds q
Miles for Work.
[From the Evansville Journal

rON Lle EVanSVll!e journal.
Yesterday afternoon, when Trustee Blend
came down from dinner, he found in front
of his Office, on the curbstone, a family
consisting of father, mother and eight chill
rem, the latter ranging in years from one to
eighteen. The father told Mr.. Blend that
they had walked from one Of the northern
counties of Illinois, a distance of three hun
dred and fifty miles to this city. He could
get no employment there, and concluded
that he would migrate to some section
where he could earn bread for himself and
little ones. They first went to indianapolis
where, with the little money he had, he pur-
chased a hand-cart, in which two of the
older boys had trundled the babies to this
place.
They were all tired and hungry, and all
he asked for was bite to eat and to be fer
ried over the river, where he could find
work in the field. Mr.. Blend took them to
a grocery and purchased ham, some
bread, cheese and other substantials, and
the party had hearty meal. After this
they were given pass over the river, and
The old man said to Mr.. Blend, in the graf
itude of his heart: "No matter where
am, if you want me to help you, I'll swim
he river to do It," He was about fifty five
tyaars old, and had good, honest, old
fashioned countenance. u. M 3
The Morning herald., 1876-06-17
Disracii's Contaminated Blundcr.

The British Government has not acted
wisely or with polite sagacity in the Win
slow extradition case. There is no longer
any attempt, even in England, to deny that
he ought to be surrendered, if nothing but
the extraditon clause of the treaty of 1872
be taken into consideration. The course OF
the Government is based altogether upon
the construction Of that treaty which grows
out of her car post tacto law of Parliament Of
1870. The conscience of majority of the
British people, and the common sense of
justice of the most thoughtful portion of
| the British press is against this cxtraordip.
airy method of interpreta,ing treaties. The
refusal, where the case is so plain, is calcu-
| lated to impair confidence in the certainty,
ifnot in theg good faith of all British treatiest,
| If there happens to be subsequent legislation
or q new school of Interpretation. This is
not the sort of imprcssi n Great Britain
should wish to go out to the world. The
ground of refusal is device which, like
nearly all such devices, will be sure to
return to plague the inventors. Mr.. Dis
raeli will find that it will accelerate the day
of his going out, as an inexcusable blunder
| 1t is well that the utmost harmony exists
between the United States and Great Britain
at this tne--that the people of the two
countries are actuated by the strongest
spirit of good fellowship just now-and that
| Winsow Is not worth making a fuss
about" Otherwise yesterdays blunder il,
London would be ominous of future trouble
The Morning herald., 1876-06-17
DYSPEPSIA, sIA,DYsPEPs1A,DYsPEPs1A

Dyspepgia Is the most perplexing Of all
human ailments. Its symptoms are almost
lnnnite In their variety, and the forlOrn
ana despondent victims Of the disease often
known malady. This is due, in part, to the
close sympathy which exists between the
Stomach and the brain and in part also TO
the TACT that any disturbance of the digest
I've function necessarily disorders the liver
me bowels and the nervous system, anu
blood.
r. F. Kunkel's Bitter Wine of Iron is a
sure cure. This is not new preparation,
TO be tried and found wanting; 1t has been
prescribed daily for many years In the
practice OF eminent physicians with unpar-
alleled success; 1t Is not expec ed or intend
ed TO cure all the diseases TO which the hui
man family Is subject, but Is warranted TO
cure dyspepsia In Its most obstinate form.
kunkels Bitter " inc of Iron never fails to
cure. symptoms of dyspepsia are |, ss OF
appetite, wind and rising of the food, dry
ness of the mouth, heartburn, distension of
the stomach and bowels, constipation,
headache, dizziness. sleeplessness and low
spirits. Trv the great remedy and be con-
vlnced OF Its merits. Get the genuine.
81 bottles.
Depot, 25s North Ninth St. Philadelphia
Pa.
1t never fails. For sale by all drug sists
anddealers everywhere.
TAPE WORM.
Removed In a few hours. No fee asked
until the entire worm. with head is expell-
ed. Medicine harmless, being purely veg
etable. Consultation free by Or. H. Il. Kun
kel, No. 259 N. Ninth Street. Philadelphia,
Pa. Seat, Pin, and Stomach worms also
removed. Advice f ee. Send for circular.
Go to your druggist and ask for Kunkeps
WORM SYRUP. Price 81 per bottle. The
Worm Syrup never fails. &|
The Morning herald., 1876-06-17
Emotional INSANITY,

A trial for murder at Rock Island, Iii
nos, has just been concluded, which is in
teresting, because it raised the direct q,les-
| tion of "emntioDal insanity on the part OF
The murderer without complications with
other pleas in defence. Brta Nelson, a
Swede, and the wife of miner named Pc
ter Nelson, killed her husband by beating
him on the head with an axe and cutting
his throat. According to her own story, a
man named Peter Wickland, who boarded
with her and finally succeeded in winning
her affections, advised her to commit
the murder. She made no effort to conceal
he crime and expressed no emotion at any
time after her arrest. The only plea in de-
fence was that the prisoner had committed
the murder in a fit of "emotional insanity"
and as to this the testimony of experts was
taken. The jury, after twenty-five hours
of deliberatioD, found verdict of not gull
ty, on the ground of insanity. While the
jury was celebrating the prisoner was de-
livered of child, but this fact was un-
known to the jury at the time. There was
no evidence that Mrs. Nelson had ever be-
fore shown symptoms Of insanity, and the
most that was said of her by physicians
who examined her afterwards was that she
was "dull," and seemed to be mentally
weak. The chief evidence of her insanity
was her brutality and insensiblity to the
atrOcity Of her offence, and the fact that
she exhibited no remorse and no fear of
punishment.