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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09
Romance of a Twelve O'Clock
Man.

RESIDENTS of Brooklyn in the vicin-
ity of the City Hall have been much
interested for several years in the reg
ular appearance a few minutes before
twelve o'clock every day of man
who waits for the City Hall clock to
strike twelve. and then disappears I'M
til the next day. This practice he has
steadily continued, rain or shine, for
seven years, until he is known by the
sobriquet of the "Twelve O'Clock
man." His name is Thomas Conner,
and various attempts have been made
to connect him with romantic love
stories, blighted affections, disappoint-
ment in marriage, lost property, ETC.,
but they are simply bosh. The man is a
mOnomaniac upon the subject of a city
job, and what brings him daily to the
City Hall was promise made to him
seven years ago by politician that if
he would meet him at the City Hall at
twelve o'clock he would procure him
a job. Since then he has put in an ap-
pearance regularly at the appointed
hour, and his mania seems to exhaust
itself as soon as twelve o'clock is past.
After that he is sane enough, and
seeks odd jobs shoveling coal. carrying
out rubbish, sweeping streets, etc. He
rejects charity with scorn. He lives
in shanty with his only sister, and
though they are far from living in
luxury, they enjoy moderate amount
of comfort. Men may come and
women may go, but the twelve o'clock
man at the City Hall is an established
fact.-N. Y. Cor. Chicago Tribune.
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cotton or linen. He is chilled, but he

cotton OF linen. He is chilled, but he
"can stand it." He is not going to
"baby" himself. Because it may,
perhaps, be hot for few hours at
MONDAY, he dresses himself for hot
weather. The blood is chilled, and the
vital force impaired. Sudden expos
ures to severe cold are not more dam
gerous to health than long-continued
chilliness, which thoughtless persons
consider net worth Winding.
There is about as much danger i'll
excess of clothing as in a deficiency.
Too much warmth debilitates the sys-
TEN. Children should not be kept in
perspiration; this enfeebles the skin
and makes person "easy to take
cold" The circulation is quicker in
children than in adults, and they car
keep warm more easily. If they per
sist in throwing off the bed-clothes al
night, probably they are covered toe
warm, though grown persons sleeping
with them may not suffer in the same
way. Little children need more cloth
ing in the daytime than in the night
Gas compared with grown people,, be
cause they are nearer the floor, ofte1
sitting upon it, or upon low seats
while their beds are usually as high a.
any others. The thermometer shows
a great difference between the TEN
perature of room at the floor and a
three OF four or more feet from it, a
warm air rises and cold air Sinks
american Agaiculta1ist.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09
How Much Clothing is Neces-
Sary?

ONE person cannot decide for an
other. The comfort of the individual
ought to settle the question. But
sometimes the Individual has be-
come so demoralized in his or her
instincts with regard to heat and
cold, that the sensations at any hour
are not a sufficient guide. When girls
wore loW-necked and short-sleeved
dresses all winter, twenty years ago,
they protested frequently, in the pres
ence of brothers dressed in flannel and
broadcloth, that they were quite warm
enough. They would rather die than
complain of their dainty shoes and be
condemned to thicker soles. And die
they did.
We must use common sense in the
matter, and that bids us dress accord
ing to the weather-thinner in sum-
mer, thicker in winter. with varying
degrees of thickness or thinness be-
tween. 1t bids us clothe our bodies
somewhat equally throughout, not pill
ing too much in one place and leaving
other parts without sufficient protec-
ton. A chilly condition of the body
is always attended with danger. If
the surface of the body is unduly ex-
posed to cold, the internal organs
lungs, liver, bowels, or some other or
gan or organs, upon whose action
health depends suffer in consequence.
"Y.' complains of not feeling well,
thinks his liver is out of order, and
wonders why, as his eating has been
pretty regular, and not especially I'M
wholesome. a." thinks the diSpen-
sation not very mysterious, for "Y.'
dresses without much regard to the
weather. In hot spell he gets on
just one thin unlined suit, and
when the weather changes and
fires are necessary at morning and
at night, he still goes out to do his
early work, adding only coat, if any
thing, and leaving his lower limbs
covered with only one thickness OF !
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09
A Slight Mistake.

THERE'S good story, and a true
one withal, relative to Mr.. Gill, long
reporter for the Boston Post, and well
known as a "fellow of infinite Jest. -
He was reporting dinner of the sew
enty-fifth anniversary of the battle of
Bunker's Hill. The dinner was a
splendid affair, and everybody was
patriotic. Gill, when the excitement
was at boiling point, whispered to a
friend, one Of those gentlemen who
are always happy in speech-mak-
ing, that his father was engaged in the
battle of Bunker's Hill. The orator
arose-made a brilliant speech al
luded to ellis father and Gill in the
highest terms, and proposed ellis
health, which was drunk with the
usual honors, and one or two mere.
There were shouts of "Gill, Gill;"
and he made speech, returning
thanks in the usual manner and said,
"But my learned friend omitted one
fact-an important fact, of which he
might have been unaware. My father
was in the battle of Bunker's Hill, but
he, unfortunately, fought on the
British sider' There was not quite
so much enthusiasm after that, and
Gill has not INDUCED inspeeches since.
-Yonkeys On. " Gazette.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09
An International Potato Exhibi.
ton,

WHAT is described as an "Interna-
tional Potato Exhibition for the en-
enlargement of the best methods of
potato culture and diffusion of i'm
proved varieties" was yesterday
opened at the Alexandra Palace. 1t
was stated that there were over 2,2OO
dishes of potatoes exhibited, and they
covered six long tables in the concert
hall of the building. We believe this
is only the second year of the show,
which is therefore in its infancy.
There is scope for improvement in the
extent and aim of such a work. Be-
yond doubt the attraction and value of
the work may be considerably in
creased. Looking at the six long ta-
bles loaded with plates of tubers, good
show though they make, they teach
nothing to the mass of the public. All
the specimens were unlocked, and, be-
yond their varying sizes, colors, names
and exhibitors, the onlooker gathered
VI lllol HdllOll. u nOuSek66D-
might take lesson if in some future
exhibition she could see the relative
merits of the potato, cooked as well as
uncooked; learn that smooth, we'll
grown "snow-flakes' are preferable to
rough-skinned "flukes," that red jack
eted kidneys may be excellent baking
potatoes, but that Kings are better
for boiling; that certain snow-balls"
will steam where they will spoil by
boiling. In short, in the purchase or
cooking of potatoes as much Judgment
may be exercised by knowledge of
the respective external appearances of
the varieties as in the purchase of an
apple. The present show is decidedly
a success so far as it goes. There are
$50 exhibits, and no fewer than seven
teen classes in which prizes are offered
and were allotted. The highest prize
in "class A." given by the Alexandra
Palace Company, was twelve guineas.
In other classes silver cups valued at
ten guineas, as well as money prizes of
less value, were offered, An exhibitor,
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announced as of Medium, New Bruns-
wick, was successful in carrying off the
first prize in as many as four classes.
With the exception of this exhibitor
and two others from Scotland, the ex-
hibitors were all of the British islands,
and the title of INTERNATIONAL is
therefore somewhat of misnomer,
That it may assume far larger proper
tions, under an executive committee
some of whose names are well known
in agriculture, may be quite possible,
and it may certainly be made of con
adorable usefulness. London Times
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09
Cellars.

THESE are generally poisonous and
abominable sink-holes, without con-
venience, without light, filled with
damp, impure air, that you want to
get out of as soon as possible. The
stacnant, damp air is unfriendly to life
and health, and will soon spoil tender
fruits. Even apples, with well pro-
tected cells and juices, cannot resist
the poisonous influence of the airs OF
most cellars. More tender fruits, such
as pears, gra pes and peaches, and OF
vegetables like sweet potatoes,
souashes, caulitlower, asparagus, etc,
spoil in a few days; except some of
the hard-shell squashes, which endure
longer, though they succumb before
spring.
Most people have an idea that a
place where fruit and vegetables are
stored for winter must be dark, and
consequently cellars are lighted barely
enough to enable one to grope around
and avoid accidents. Very commonly,
however, to penetrate the recesses of
these subterranean rooms, or caves,
with any safety or comfort, light is
needed.
But the notion that light tends to
produce or hasten the decay Of fruits
or vegetables is not sustained by the
experiments of scientific men, nor by
the experience of provident house
holders. The air of cellars, or of any
other rooms, cannot be kept pure anc
healthful unless light is admitted. Bu
admit that fruits and vegetables art
better preserved where light is absent
how easy to place them in barrels ant
boxes, or other receptacles from whicl
light may be excluded, yet the room il
which they are kept be made light
airy and cool.
Cellars may be constructed abov
ground to possess all the requisite con
ditions for the perfect preservation 0
fruits and vegetables. They may hay
light, wholesome air, low temperatur
sufficient to prevent decay, and free
dom from dampness. Air in motion
accompanied with dampness, will pre-
duce decay rapidly.
In cellars beneath a dwelling we ar
obliged to admit air to drive out tn
damp, and this causes the rapid deca
of everything in the cellar of perish
able nature. In cellars above groun
there is less dampness and les
necessity consequently to admit cul
rents of air.-Detroit Tribune.
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for four each, with a large central
table for cutting out. Sewing machines
are at one end of the room. There is no
instruction in cookery, and such IN
struction is less necessary here than IN
England, because the subject is better
understood at the children's homes.
Another institution, the school bank,
which the Belgians claim to have in
vented, is established in the school.
The total deposits in the penny banks
of the schools of Client amounted, in
1875. to no less than las, 235 francs, in
vested in 11,797 names. Instruction
to the 4, 126 boys, the 1865 girls, the
3,4S1 infants in the free schools, inthe
1878 pupils in the paying schools, and
the 3,513 adults in the night schools, Is
given by a body of PA lay teachers
and assistant teachers.
The girls work-room has a more
imposing parallel in the industrial
school, where S21 pupils are III
structed in chemistry, mechanics,
physics, construction, engineering,
geology, accounts, designs, and in the
theory and practice of the manufac-
lures of the town, which are chiefly
concerned with linen and cotton.
Girls are admitted to the course in de-
sign. Another institution-the mid
die class school-contained 40 pupils
in 1875, the Royal Atheneum 37S.
There We're 500 students in the univer-
sity, and their distribution among the
faculties shows the practical character
of the training sought. Only twenty
students entered in the faculty of phil
osophy and letters. Law had ninety
nine students, sciences thirty-one,
medicine seventy-sx. In the school
of civil engineering, annexed to the
science faculty, there were 21S pupils,
in the school of arts and manufacture
sixty-two, in the normal school OF
science five. The town has other nor
nal schools which appear to be sue
cessfully conducted. The population
of Client is less than in the time Of
Charles ", whose famous boast it was
that he could put Paris into his gaunt
let. Then it was the most populous
city in Northern Europe. No vesse
could pass through the draw-bridges O.
is canal, no children ventured out O.
doors, when the armies of it's crafts
men We're going to and fro from thei
work. At present the number of in
habitants is 121, 400, still mainly
manufacturing population.-Cor. Lon
don Times
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09

Concord, n. H., has population
of 10000, of whom II, 200 are said to
be regular attendants at church and
Sundav-school. There are probably
but few other places in the United
States where such state of things
prevail. If the population of New
York were thus to become church-go-
two hundred new churches would be-
come a necessity.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09

The Hebrew congregations of
Chicago, have acted upon the sug-
gestion of the executive committee,
appointed at the New York Conven-
ton in May, and are perfecting plan
for improving the existing Hebrew
schools, and experimenting them with
high school for Hebrew and Ger
man.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09
A Wife's Hard Lot.

DUNBAR's wife listened to long
political discussion while riding down
town yesterday morning, and at din
ner she remarked to her husband:
"Well, eight or nine days more will
decide this election"
In measure" was his guarded
reply.
I'm awful glad she continued.
"You commenced going out nights
about the first of March, and you've
kept it up ever since. I'll be one
happy woman about the eighth of
November. Well have cheerful fires,
games, comfort and -
Charlotte, solemnly interrupted
the husband, "can't you understand
this thing? The election will occur
on the It'll prox., of course. After
that date must help count up the re-
turns, verify them, put our clubs in
training for the next campaign, exam
inc the lies of the opposition, and so
forth, and it may be next April before
l get through. You must have pa
thence for everything is working all
right"
What could she do but burst into
tears ?-Det7oit Free Press.
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Mushrooms and TOadStOOlS.

IN an article on Mushrooms as a
Poison suggested by the recent death
of three persons in one family from
eating poisonous mushrooms, the New
ark Daily AdUertiser says:
1.-The lamentable cases of death by
eating poisonous mushrooms in Union
have created considerable excitement,
and a justitiable prejudice has arisen
against the esculent whose epicurean
charms have long been the delight of
gourmands. This prejudice promises
to injure if not annihilate the market
able value of the mushroom, and to
eliminate from our tables a relish
which possesses so MANY danparnue
possibilities. Better, says pate1.ta-
miliGS, starye upon beefsteak q la
mode, than die from biftek a la toad
| stool.
"Of mushrooms there are estimated
to be about five thousand varieties, of
which the kinds known to medical La
Unity as ag0rjc,ls campestris and esco-
lentts are most commonly eaten. There
are perhaps a half dozen other varie-
ties which are edible, but there are not
more than a dozen altogether. The
! proportion of twelve to five thousand
is sufficiently small to make the selec-
ton of the dozen rather preca-
rious. Taking the twelve from
the five thousand, the remainder
are all poisonous, and one variety of
these 4,9SS produced the three deaths
at Union. A popularity of the mush-
room is that the varieties considered
edible here are rejected in other coun-
try as poisonous, and those rejected
here are eaten there with impunity.
Another idiosyncracy is that they are
poisonous at one time and edible at
another. But perhaps the queerest
feature of the mushroom is that the
variety which one man may eat with
gusto and digest without difficulty, is
noXious to another. To sum up the
matter, mushrooms are as utterly I'M
trustworthy as their low class in the
vegetable kingdom would lead one to
suspect.
"The rejection of mushrooms is
preferable to any number of curative
measures. Unless the mushrooms are
cultivated for market they are not to
be trusted. They are doubtful food at
best, and we hope the Union cases will
be a warning against the eating of
them, as well as other dangerous pro-
ducts of the same kind. The recent
cases so near us are not the only ones
of the kind that have occurred lately,
and we feel justified in advising the
abolition of mushrooms as table del
icacy. This grain Of prevention is
certainly worth taking in consideration
of the unlimited i'll which may fol-
low"
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09

COLLINS NoLTAIC PLASTER is a gentle and
constant Electric Battery closely and contin-
uously applied to the skin by the adhesion
of the Plaster and is capable at all times of
atfording the most grateful relief in Rheu-
matism, Neuralgia and Sciatica
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09

"A well-known firm of steel manu-
facturers in Sheffield has announced it's
intention Of carrying the war into
the enemy's works. by establishing
works at Syracuse, N. Y. They pro-
pose to use the same methods and ma
terial that are employed in the Sheffield
house.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09

Two OF the largest wine casks evol
imported into England have been
landed at the London and st. katha-
rine docks. One contained 63S gal
Ions of sherry, the other 600 gallons of
port
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09

HoLToN & HILDRETH, 225 and 227 State
street, Chicago, are the most extensive
Furniture Dealers in the West.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09

English expedition has been, finding,
as they say, eighty feet of ice. The
Polaris was in the same quarter and
got nearly as far north.
The Polaris met with no such ice, but
met with the same evident demoraliza-
ton. In my opinion there is no serious
trouble about getting to the North
Pole, but 1 don't believe it can be done
in one year, and May be not in two,
and l must say, and that most emphat-
ically, that the results of this last of
the Arctic expeditions are in no way
commensurate with its pretensions any
more than they are with its opportuni-
ties. Its like will never be seen again,
and the chance for a grand achieve
ment has been thrown away. Inshort,
the whole thing is a failure without
the explanatory cause, "We stuck till
the last moment, and did what we
could" They had food and all man.
ner of stores for two years more, and
should, in my Judgment, have stayed
there until those stores were eaten up.
l believe in exploration, and l believe
in its independence of all questions as
to the cui bono2 We may have our
own views as to utility, but when once
undertaken think a scheme should be
carried through to completion. Ac-
cording to your telegram the English
expedition has reached SO deg. 20min.,
and yet, with plenty of food, abundant
health, the eyes of the world upon
them, they say there is too much
ice. Believing in an open Po-
lar sea. 1 think it can
be navigated. The English expedition
saw great quantities of ice. They
never left the land, and along the land
you always find ice in the Arctic
waters. l believe that l reached be-
yond the land belt of ice in 1881. With
boat l could have gone to the pole.
An ice-belt in summer depends much
upon the prevailing winds, but as for
a large body of water being at any
time frozen over, even with the lowest
temperature, it is unknown. Hudson
Bay, Baffin Bay, and other Arctic wa
tiers, even though comparatively small,
are never frozen over. The deep sea
water in all the oceans and seas of the
earth has a uniform temperature of
about thirty-tive degrees. The sur
face water under the equator is often
eighty-live degrees, or even eighty
eight degrees.
In the Arctics it is generally down
to Twenty-Five degrees, but even there
it does not freeze unless the air is en-
tirely calm, for water in motion does
not freeze. l have seen waves rolling
at fifty degrees below zero, without a
particle of ice in sight. The next day,
when the air fell to calm, the whole
sea was covered with crystal mantle.
The Arctic Ocean is over 1000 miles
in diameter, and if anybody will once
get over the land-clinging ice-belt and
into the middle of the Arctic Sea, he
might sail about to his hearts content,
and l, for one, cannot see why this En-
glish expedition should so soon have
abandoned the field.
- . -
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09

Twenty years ago an Augusta
(Me.) man invested the. sum of eighty
dollars in Wisconsin lands. A few
days ago he received by mail, for the
same property, check for $1,000.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09

Don't be discouraged about your
mustache, young man. A beautiful
cloth is woven from the down of
chickens.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09

"A very precise person, remarking
upon Shakespeare's lines,
g The good men do is oft inferred with their
bones,f
carefully observed that this interment
can generally take place without
crowding the bones.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09

AT Milford, Del, oysters sell at the
very unselfish price of twenty-five
cents per bushel, heaped measure.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09

When the Rhode Island militia
paraded the other day you might hear
the officers thunder forth their com
mands: "Guide right; steady, men;
don't push any one over into Connect.
cutp'
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09

About as broad as it is long--A
circle,
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09

PREMATURE loss of hair, which is 80 COM
mon nowadays, may be entirely prevented
by the use Of BURNETT's COCAINE.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-09

PRUssING's White Wine Vinegar Works, es
tablis he'd in lS4S, are the large IT in the world