davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-04-06
The Temples of Egypt.

In the distribution of the monuments
of Egypt, it is curious fact that the pyr-
amids are found only in Lower Egypt,
and the great temples only in Upper. 1t
was not till we had been a week on the
Nile that we had our first sight of the lat
three days at Thcbes, the great center of
historical interest, and have made regu-
lar campaign of sightseeing, starting on
excursions every morning, and thus have
river-for Thebes, like many other great
cities, like London and Paris-was built
on both sides of river, but one much
greater than the Thames or the Seine, yet
not SO great but that it was spanned by a
bridge, at least so it is inferred from some
ancient sepultures and inscriptions, over
which poured a population such as pours
over London bridge to-day. The site
seems made for a great capital, for here
the mountains retire from the river,
sweeping round in circuit of some fifty
miles, leaving a broad plain to be filled
with human habitations. Here 1000
years ago was built a city greater than
that ON the banks of the Tigris or the
Euphrates, than Nineveh or Babylon
Here was the center Of power and dorlin-
ion for two continents-not only for Africa
but for Asia-to which flocEed the multi
tudinous nations of Assyria and Arabia
and Persia, and the farthest East, as well
as the tribes of Ethiopia--as 1900 years
later all the peoples of the earth focked
TO Rome. 1t is easy, from historical rec
ords and monumental Inscriptions, to
form some idea of the glory of this CAPT
tai Of the ancient world. We can imagine
the tumult and the roar of this more an
cient Rome, when the chariots of mighty
Kings and the tread of armies returning
from distant wars, Numbered
through her hundred gates.
Then did the Kings Of Egypt rear tenn
pies and palaces and statues and obeisks
worthy of all that greatness Then were
built the most gigantic temples ever
raised by the hand of man-as much sur
passing in va,tness and grandeur those
reared centuries afterward by the Greeks,
as the latter surpass anything by the
moderns.
We have now been Notwithstanding
with Notwithstanding these ruins, and
may give certain general impressions. We
do not attempt any detailed description,
which must necessarily be inadequate,
since neither words nor figures convey
any idea of them, any more than they do |
Of the Alps. What would be thought |
Of an avenue nearly mile long, lined !
with over twelve hundred colossal |
sphinxes? Yet such was the avenue from
Luxor to Karnae IAN approach worthy to
lead to the temple of the gods. What |
can We say of forest Of columns, each |
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-04-06

else no action on the growth OF plants,
and contribute nothing to their nutrition
but by the slow, though regular action OF
the frosts and the rain, the air and the
sunshine, insoluble and refractory COM
pounds are reduced to a soluble state, and
are appropriated and held on deposit by
the soil to the credit of the next cultivated
crop. This explains the Unknown fact
that soils, which have been cropped to
the very verge Of barrenness, will recover
their fertility if allowed to remain long
enough under the action Of climatic in
huences to saturate the soil with the
necessary plant-food, which they have I'M
locked from their chemical combinations,
and given to the soil in proper physical
condition These changes are brought
about more rapidly when certain mechan-
ical changes of condition are wrought up
on the soil.
Carbonic acid is one of the most active
of the agents employed in bringing the
insoluble organic matter in the soil into
that physical condition in which it be-
comes available as plant-food. In order
that this acid may be formed, it is essen
| tial that the carbonaceous matter in the
soil should be brought into direct contact
with the atmosphere, from which they
procure the oxygen necessary to conver
them into carbonic acid. So longas stag
nant water remains in the soil, or so long
as the soil is in dense or very compac
condition, it is impossible for the carbon
to be converted into acid.-J0urnal O
| Eha,ntStrlL
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-04-06
sown through or wound round game, to

sown through or wound round game, to
flavor and enrich it; and for that reason
the custom of larding-a great resource
for the culinary artist-has pretty much
gone out Of fashion in American cook
cry. While, then, an exclusively slop or
otlal diet increases tissue, but decreases
stearine, and therefore makes the product
soft, spongy and oily, an exclusively
corn diet decreases tissue to the extent that
such meat cooks almost entirely away, and
in hot climates softens so as TO be compar-
ativelv worthless. The true way seems
to be to feed corn principally, but to in
crease the albuminous ration to the extent
that there will be considerable addition
of muscle and cellular tissue, and conse-
quently more strength and greater power
of resistance to disease in the creature.
Another illustration and have done. The
suct of CRASHED and fatted beef, when
made into candles, will not run or melt
when used as such, even in the summer
climate of Kentucky: but the suet of corn
fed cattle must be hardened by the addi-
ton of beeswax or treated with a solution
of alum in order to be made to answer the
same purpose. These facts, taken togeth-
er, seem to show that in some senses Ma
ture is more plastic in our hands than we
have imagined her to be, and in some
much more stubborn-stubbOrn in the
sense that the starch and sugar foods, or
the carbonaceous ones, can never re made
to fill the places of albuminous ones, and
rice Uersa; but 50 easily managed in other
senses that, if we want eggs, milk, suet,
fat or muscle in extra quantity OF of par
ticular kind, we have but to use and feed
the right kind of food to procure them
b. r. j., in Country Gentleman.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-04-06
A Toast.

Two Important Discoveries. The dis
cOvery of America by Columbus, and DR..
Picrcc's Golden Medical Discovery; the one
opening up to mankind a new continent, the
other fountain of health, which is indiS-
pcnsable to the full enjoyment of life and
It's blessings. In response to the aboSe SEN
timcut come the unsolicited attcstations OF
tens Of thousands of grateful patients, who
have been relieved Of chronic ailments
through lie fundamentally. Those voices
arr limited to no one locality, but from
every city, village, and hamlet, in our br Dad
domain, as well as from other climes, and in
the strange uttcranccs Of foreign tongues,
like the confused murmur Of many waters.
come unfcgned and hearty Communications,
1t is in combination with the Pleasant Eur
gatiVc Pellets, the great depuratOr of the
age. Under its benign action cruptiOns dis
appear, excessive waste is checked, the
nerves are strengthened, and health, long
bunished from the system, resumes her
reign and re-establishcs her roscate throne
upon the check. All who have thoroughly
tested its virtues in the diseases for which it
is recommended unite in pronouncing it the
great Medical Discovery of the age.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-04-06
Gravel Stones.

We can trace most of the joy and sor-
row in this world right back to woman.
An enemy that fears you is not very
dangerous one.
The very height Of human intelligence
is to know just what things are actually
worth.
The worst man to convince is the one
who says yes" to every thing you say.
There is nothing on earth so empty as
a head without any brains in it; it is
worse than pail with the bottom knocked
out.
1t amt every man that Providence con-
siders worthy Of being tried by adversely.
The man who CANDLES OF drinks whisky
can't choose his associates.
l have always noticed that those who
have the most Of gravity, have the least of
anything else
The man who can't learn anything
from his failures is past all hope.
Men Of the greatest genius have the
most simplicity and reverence.
The road to ruin is down hill, and al
ways macadamized at that.
There is no room in small head for
anything else but cunning.
/ have seen men SO lazy that they would
tire the tools all out that they worked
with
Passion neutralizes both strength and
reason.
True liberty is the result of judicious
restraint.
Envy and avarice can't be satisfied
after they have eat up everything else
they will commence feeding on them
selves
Truth don't alter or grow Old two and
two made four when Adam was a boy,
and it amounts to the same to-day.
| never have seen an angel yet, and
don't think | want to; shouldn't know
how to behave in the presence Of one.
The man who can't amuse himself can't
amuse others.
Everybody praises a competency, but
everybody in digging in for some more.
tits fearful condition to get into to be
dependent upon others for our pleasures.
Great sensitivcness is not relative evil
dence of merit; 1t is often the mere result
of ennui or pride.
Anticipations of the future form the
pleasures of youth, reflections of the past
those of old age.
As long as the molasses holds out you
will find flies plenty-thus it is with most
of the friendships Of life.
The hardest sinner in the whole lot to
convert is the one who spends one-half his
time in SHINING and the other half in re-
pentance.
A golden key will pick almost any lock,
Josh. Billings, in n. Y. Weekly.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-04-06
A Dog that Plays Ball.

The Rainbow Fire Company's large
white spaniel, Rainey," is probably one
of the most expert dogs at ball -catching
in the country. He is heavy, we'll built
animal, white, shaggy coat, sharp, yellow
eyes, long ears, intelligent expression,
and passionately fond of lively fun.
Among the animals specialties is ball
catching, day or night. An exhibition
was given recently of his remarkable act
ivity, instinct and experiences. A person
stood off twenty yards, threw up a ball,
and the dog caught it in his mouth as ii
came down. This was repeated num-
Der Of times with equal success. Then
the ball was thrown with force SO as to
strike the ground and bound. 1t was
then picked up by the dog in his teeth on
the shor, bound, and promptly returned
10 the person who threw it,
Chasing a hard thrown ball in the night
and finding it in the dark is an accom-
plishment the dog is well up IN, AT
sra
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-04-06
Indians After an Honest Man.

INDIANS may be treacherous, but they
can be just, and they can be honest, and
who shall say how far the dishonesty of
others has led to their treachery. They
know when they are cheated, as our
Government has found to its cost. An old
trader, who had established himself at
what happened to be favorable locality
among the Northern Indians, tells good
story of his first trials with his red Gus
toners Other traders had located in the
same place before, but had not remained
long. The Indians, who evidently wanted
goods, and had money and furs, ilocked
about the store of the new trader and care
fully examined his goods, but offered to
buy nothing Finally their chief, with
large number of their tribe visited him.
GLOW do, John?'' said the chief.
"Show me goods. Aha! I take that
blanket for me and that calico for squaw
three otter skins for blanket and one
for calico. Ugh! pay you BIN by-to-
morrow"
He received his goods and left On the
next day he returned with a large part of
his band, his blanket well stuffed with
skins of various kinds "Now, John,
pay"
And with this he drew an otter skin
from his blanket and laid it on the counter
Then he drew second, a third and Il
fourth. A moments hesitation, as though
calculating, and he drew out fifth skin
a very rich and rare one, and passed it
over.
"That's right, John"
The trader instantly pushed back the
last skin, with
"You owe me but four. l want only
my just dues"
The chief refused to take it, and they
passed it several times back and forth,
each one asserting that it belonged to the
other At length the dusky chicftain APP
peared to be satisfied. He gave the trader
a scrutinizing look, and put the skin back
into the blanket Then he stepped to the
door, and gave yell and cried out to his
followers:
Come and trade with the pale
face, John. He no cheat Indian. His
heart big"
Then turning to the trader, he said:
" Suppose you take last skin, tell my
people no trade with you. We drive OFF
others; but now you be Indians friend and
we be yours"
Before dark the trader was waist deep in
furs and loaded down with cash. He
found that honesty had commercial value
with these Indians.-N. Y. Witness.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-04-06
A Recommend.

WHEN Justice Potter reached his office
yesterday morning a man about forty
years old ard decidedly old-fashioned in
look was there waiting for him. He
talked about the weather for while, and
then remarked:
"a man down here on Larned street
sent me TO you, saying that you could rec
ommend me to some nice -lookin widow. ."
The court has become used to such APP
plications, and without betraying any sur
prise he gave the stranger written direc
tons to find widow who lives in the
northern part of the city. The man went
away, but returned in the course of two
hours, one of his eyes growing black and
blue, scratch on his nose, torn coat
collar, and generally unsettled look. He
sat down, pulled up his pant leg 10 ex-
hibit the marks of dog bite, pointed to
his eye and grimly observed
81 believe you recommended me to a
widow"
Yes"
q But she didn't want 70 marry-didn't
seem to care anything about the holy
bonds of wedlockr'
81 didn't think she would" sighed
his Honor, as he turned to his law books
again.
The stranger looked at him for five or
six minutes, and then went out without
another word. Detroit Free Press.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-04-06
Pasturing Meadows.


If tell you, says 5. j. WoOley, in the
Ohio Farmer, that pasLuring your mead
ows will make them more productive,
you may doubt it. But such is the fact,
in many cases. 1t is my experience that
this is the only way that very many
meadows can be brought to full product
iyeness. Bat it must be done in the prop
er manner and at the right time. Do
and expect them to produce full crop;
neither should you pasture off the after
math too close. Nearly all of our mead
ows have failed to produce mere than
half d crop after from five to eight years,
and after pasturing them one season, the
next year they would produce good
crop. In one particular instance rent
ed meadow to a man for pasture; 1t
had only produced half crop of hay for
two or more years previous. He put
about three times as much stock on it as
should have been; it was grazed close to
the ground all summer. | concluded
that II would not amount to anything Tor
meadow or pasture afterward any more
but the next spring it looked so strong
and vigorous that l let it alone. and it pro-
duced full crop. have never seen this
accounted for, or seen anything in print in
reference to it, but have no doubt that the
experience of others will coincide with
my own. | can account for it only in the
following manner 1t is a well-known
fact that many old meadows are so full of
worms that they cut nearly all the grass
roots off, and in places you can roll the
sod back like fleece of wool The worms
are so near the surface that the crows and
the red headed woodpeckers destroy great
quantities of them; the flicker Or yellow
hammer mostly lives on them also. If the
meadows are tramped all over with farm
stock, these worms will all be tramped to
death
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-04-06
The Effects OF Different Foods.

How DIFFERENT foods differently affect
animal growth is surely an interesting
subject and especially in the relation,
more or less near or remote, which food
has TO the cure or development of disease
Some Of the facts here reported are gath
cred from the relations Of individual ex-
perience, and some from the memory of
what have read. Few, if any, of them
are new, and few of much importance, ex-
cept in the connection referred to above.
Perhaps no animals show the influence of
food on their flesh so quickly aDd so dis
tinctly as swine; and what is true OF their
nesh IS also, in ali reasonable probability,
true OF the rest of the body-bones, blood,
yiscera, etc. Thus an ACCOMPLISHED and
experienced butcher will tell with almost
absolute certainty how dressed hog has
been fed by the kind and measure of re-
sistance offered to the knife in the cutting
up. If fed slop in excess, or butchers
0ilal exclusively, the cellular tissues will
be much increased in substance, and the
fatty part, having larger portion of
oleine than stearine, will be softer and
more spongy, and in cutting up offer less
resistance to the knife The carcass of
the hog ted and finally fatted on beech
nuts Will, when hung up and cold, drop
oil for days; and the clear sides, when
sailed and smoked will become translu-
cent. The fat, packing part of the corn
fed swine, at temperature not above |
sixty or sixty-fve degrees, is harder and
fi9mcr, and offers more resistance to the |
knife than that OF swine fed on more al
luminous food, and will keep quite as
well, if not better, in cool attitudes, be-
cause the fat has more stearine than
)leine; but in the case of high tempera-
ture, with heat enough to soften or melt
he stearine, corn-fed pork is quite out Of
he question, European and Continental
governments rejecting American pork
for ships destined for the tropics
and for expeditions bound to low
attitudes. There is another illustration
)f how food affects cellular tissue, in
he fact that corn-fed American clear pork
cannot be used for lardsng, sinceit is quite
90 tender 10 be cut into strings and then
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-04-06

times he is thwarted for several minutes,
but he goes over the ground thoroughly,
and never gives up until he finds the ball.
The ball is then placed on his back. One,
two are counted, and instead of three,
four, six, eight or ten are substituted, but
the dog won't jump and catch the ball as
it rolls off his back until the word three
is pronounced. Quick as thought he will
jump around and grab the object firmly
in his teeth Sometimes he will mutf a
ball the same as the best of men playing,
and none are so good but they'll drop
them sometimes. When the dog mis-
judges ball it generally comes down
square on his nose. He never gets tired,
but will keep on PLAYING as long as there's
anybody to keep up the sport with him.
Reading (Pa.) Eagle.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-04-06
Dr. Schenck,s Standard Remedies.

The standard remedies for all diseases of tho
lungs are SCHENCK's PULHoNIC SYRUP SCHrSCK's
SEA WEED Tonic and SCHESCK's MANDRAKE
PILLS. and, if taken before the lungs destroyed
speedy cure is effected.
TO these three medicines DR.. J. H. Schenck of
Philadelphia. owes his unrivaled success in the
re.tmcnt Of pulmonary diseases.
The PNlmOnic Syrup ripens the morbid matter
in the lungs; nature throws it OFF by an easy ex-
pectoration, for when the phlegm matter is ripe
slight cough will throw it off, the patient has rest
and the lungs begin to heal
To enable the PnlmOnic Syrup to do this
Schenck's Mandrake Pills and Schenck's Sea
Weed Tonic must be freely used to cleanse the
stomach and liver. SIhenck's Mandrake Pills act
Oh the liver. removing all distractions relax the
gaEbadder. the bile starts freely and the liver is
soon relieved.
Schencks Sen Weed Tonic is a gentle stimulant
and Alternative; the alkali of which it is composed
mixes with the food and prevents touring. 1t as.
sistS the digestion by toning up the stomach to a
healthy condition. SO that the food and the Pull.
monte Syrup will make good blood; then the lungs
heal, and the patient will surely get well if care il
taken to prevent fresh cod.
All who wish to consult DR.. Schenck. either per
sonally or by letter, do at his principal of
fee, corner of SIXTH and ARCH SITS, Philadelphia
every Monday.
Schencks medicines sold by all druggists
throughout the country.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-04-06
HE AbsOrptiye Power of Soil.

IT is an important discovery OF recent
date, that soils have the power Of separ-
ating not only ammonia, but other bases
also, from their solutions, and of holding
them with great ten&city after their alb
sorption. Thus 100 grains of clay soil,
taken from the plastic clay formation of
England, absorbed 1 $50 grains of potash
from a solution of caustic potash contain
ing one per cent. Of the alkali. 1t is inter
esting to observe that the liquid was rot,
in this case, filtered through the soil, but
the cold solution was merely left in con-
tact with it for twelve hours.
1t has been further shown that soils
have the ability to separate the alkaline
bases from the acids with which they are
combined. When saline solutions are
slowly filtered through soils five or six
inches deep, the liquids which passed
through We're deprived of their alkaline
bases, as potash, soda, ammonia and
magnesia, and only the acids were to be
found in combination with some other
base. Thus, when muria1e of ammonia
was filtered through the soil the am
monia was removed, and correspond.
ing quantity of lime, in combination with
acid, was found in the filtered
liquid. In the same way sulphate of
potash was deprived of its base, and the
liquid collected gave sulphate of lime
Those soils which have the greatest
amount of capillary porosity will con-
dense the greatest amount of manurial
substances on their internal surfaces, will
retain them longest against the adverse
solvent action of water, and will give
them out most readily to the rootlets OF
the growing plant.
\ mass of adhesive clay will absorb but
a very slight amount of available manure
but if this same mass is rendered friable,
by mechanical processes, its power of alb
sorption is amazingly increased. In view
of what has been stated, it is very clear
that one way in which blowing increases
the fertility of land is by increasing its
porosity by puiverization.
Again, many manurial substances exist
in the soil, which, being insoluble, exer.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-04-06
Mrs. Fitch's Diamonds.

THE revenue authorities are puzzled to
know what TO do with the khedive of
Egypts famous gift to Gen. Sherman's
daughter. The diamonds are locked up
in the big vault in the ub-Treasury
They were placed there in June last, and
unless they are taken away before next
June they will be classified as unclaimed
goods and sold by auction to pay the du-
ties and storage. If this should happen,
the money, after the deduction of the Of
fetal charges, would be paid to Drexel,
Morgan Il Co., in whose name the dia-
monds are consigned. The trouble is
that Congress in authorizing Lieut.. Fitch
10 receive the present to his wife, neg
lected to relieve him from the payment
Of the duties. The necklace and ear
rings which compose the gift were first
said to lie worth $3.50, 900, but the experts
have since appraised them at $75 900.
The duty on this amount would be about
$4,000. Gen. Sherman feels that he is
too poor to pay this, and he is unwill-
ing to appeal to Congress for an exemp-
ton of the payment of the duties. Neither
the Secretary of the Treasury, the Col
lector, nor any Of his deputies are dis
posed to exercise their power of granting
a free permit for the diamonds, and the
Turkish Am bassador who has the official
prerogative of receiving them in his
name will moi ask for thnir rplaaSa ha
cause the Khedive is only recognized by
his Government as a vassal. N. y. SIN,
March 81