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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-07-05

6ANFoRD's JAMAICA GINGER Is the ouint.
essence of Jamai Ginger, choice arom tics,
and French brandy, aud is the most agr eea.
Bile and effective REMEDY for Cramps and
Pains, Colds and Chilis, and all ailments Of
the organs OF digestion.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-07-05
Birds Nests.

The best way to find nests Is to watch a.
bird while building; in that way, uapre-
over, you are sure to see them in their
best condition, and to know when the eggs
are fresh. It requires patience; hut you
see the workers return again and again to
the same spot, and little closer inspec-
ton usually completes your knowledge,
though you may sometimes be deceived
ornonpfussed by the caution and cunning 4;
of the architects, Youwill facilitate your,
work by scattering cotton wool, horse
hairs, straws, string, worstcd, and cloth
where they will attract the attention of
the birds about you. Put them on your
lawn or on the piazza vines, and watch
them. A robin comes to carry off The
string, and, having used up what you have
provided, and liking the material, attacks
long piece wound round stake, and
supporting a gladiolus. by persistent
effort he frees part of it; but the harder
that he pulls The aes; th8 tighter. hesties
the knot around the stake, and the string
is becoming entangled with his legs; he
fights twenty minutes and then gives it
up. 6parrows pick up hairs and stfaws
from the lawn, and warblers come to the
vines for cotton wool, passing fearlessly
within three feet of your chair; then
they come back to break on little
twigs and to peel off shreds OF
dry bark from the honeysuckle. A pair
OF golden robins, the male with black and
orange, the female with yellow and duller
black, come for string, worsted and thread
but beware Of them for they arethieves.
Leave your knitting under the tree there
for five minutes, and it is gone; you will
find it week later, part irrevocably
woven into the hanging nest, and palt
dangling with the needle in it. The
weaving is so cleverly done that you won-
der whether the orioles haven't used your
needles. Not at all, madam; I defy you
to produce with your implements such a
piece of work as these birds have pro-
duced with their bills. Successful exper-
iments have been made by supplying the
orioles, in the tree where they are occu-
pied, with bright silks and worsteds,
which they employ altogether, if literally
provided, so that very gay and parti-
colored nest may swing in your orchard
where you can see it from the house.
Wilson says hat an old lady, to whom he
showedisn orioles nest in, which q piece
of dry grass, thirteen inches long, was
passed, through thiFtYtfQuf times, asked
him. ha1f IL sarnozt, Il ne BIRDS couldn't
be taught Ito dsyp STOCKINGS. H. ID.
MSnot, IN Hdspsrss X0nthlv.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-07-05

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gentlen1an1y man 1t nv elbow. tt was
the station master himself. 49,
"Truer" / echoed. ut is only too
true. l. have ridden, to- tell -yep,s.-We
must stop the trains.ns ~z~
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:05, missed the ststion.fna = - There
may be time come with me. Y n crossed
the line and entered shed Opposite.
followed. lust then q, loud sboominr
sound rent the air. The D6und me back
from the hills like thunder.
q It is the signal 2, l exclaimed. 1.-THE
water is out Heaven help is nowp'
The station master called out. A. cleaner
appeared. $ s that engine readyf,
Yes, sir, waiting for the excursion p
Run and open the points. Now, sir,
| get up Il IS
obeyed mechanically, and before
quite realized the situation we ha crossed
to the upline. The station-master stopped
to get red flag and give q few iusffuc-
| tons to his subordinates. I now per.
ceived that we were TO race the flood.
Steam cersus water. Which would con-
quer?
A whistle: we started. ssThe flood, the
food" shouted the porter We turned
one glance up the valley. A moving
brown wall, capped with a snowy ridge,
was tearing down the devoted viaduct.
No time to lose. go ahead" cried the
stationsmaster. / turned on steam, put
the lever over another "notch, I" and the
race began in earnest.
1t was an exciting race, and one never
to be forgotten. On rolled the flood. We
were running neck and neck" for one
terrible half-minute Now the resistless
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-07-05

"A Maryland mother shut her daughter
up in thfrd-story room to keep the girl
away from her lover. But II was no use.
The girl dropped out Of that third. story
window with no computations whatever.
It hurt her little, bui she said no one
could keep her away from ham, though q
Niagara Falls lay between.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-07-05
) CurIosltfes or Commerce.

qf CurIoslt1es OF Commerce.
W. W. Kimball's Piano Warerooms, cor State
and Adams Sts., Chicago, are conceded to be
the largest in the U. 8. This house sold over
$1,00O,0O0 worth Of pianos and organs last
year. This does not look much like hard times.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-07-05

- Mothers, mOthers,S Mothers.
Don't fail to procure MRS. WNsLow's SooTH-
ING SYRUP for all diseases of teethinc in chill
dren. 1t relieves the child from pain, cures wind
collie, regulates the bowels and, by giving relief
and health to the child gives rest to the mother.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-07-05

HoFMANN's HOP PILLS for Fever and Apue.
They cure at once and arc preventive. Tlf
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-07-05

tsestlls i Sold " 40 Drusaisl.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-29
THE SENATOR'S WHO TALK.

Senator Conkling uses more hightoned
English than any of his fellowmembers.
frequently his style is almost St. Ell
moish, his speeches being often profusely
sprinkled with words sufficient to drive
an ordinary hearer to the dictionary for
information.
Morton is never fowery in his talk.
He uses good plain English, and in
such a manner that his meaning is per-
fectly clear to the most obtuse listener.
He has the faculty of boiling down the
substance of any opponents argument
for the purpose of answering it to
greater extent than any other Senator.
Mr.. Edmunds is probably as clear
and cutting a speaker as there is on the
floor of the Senate. He has one very
noticeable popularity; he never forgets
even in the most earnest debate, to have
a reioinder for even the slightest sally
that may be made at him by an oppo-
nent. Indeed, this trait is carried so
far at times as to convey the idea that
he is vindictive, while the fact is, that
he has only very natural desire to dis
play his powers of repartee and sarcasm
whenever a good opportunity is afford
ed.
Mr.. Thurman is without question the
most vigorous talker of the Senators.
He is also the most irritable The
wordy prosecutions of Edmunds often
make him extremely irascible. He
clears up very easily, and sometimes in
the midst of the most terrible denuncia-
tions of Republicans, he will soften down
by making grotesque joke at the ex-
pense of an opponent. He is the only
Senator addicted to joking, and his wit,
although peculiar in style, is recognized
as genuine. He was heard to say yes
terday of another Senator that he was
zone of the kind that talked SO loud
that no one could here him speak"
Senator Logan is the most uneasy
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-29

BE PATIENT.-Be patient to your
friends. They are neither omniscient
nor omnipotent. They can see your
heart, and may misunderstood you,
They do not know what is best for you,
and may select what is worst. Their
arms are short, and they may not be
able to reach what you ask. What if
also they lack purity of purpose and
tenacity of affection do not you also
lack these graces? Patience is your
refuse. Endure, and in enduring con-
quer them, and if not them, at least
yourself. Above all be patient with
your beloved. Love is the best thing
on earth, but it is to be handled tend
erly, and impotence is nurse that
kills it. Be patient with your pains
and cares. We know it is easy to say
and hard to do. But, dear child, you
must be patient. These things are kill
ed by enduring them, and made strong
to bite and sting by feeding them with
your frets and fears. There Is no pain
or care that can last long. None of
them shall enter the city of God. A
little while and you shall leave behind
you the whole troop of bowling troubles,
and forget in your first sweet hour of
rest that such things were on earth.-
Methodist.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-29

talker in the Senate. He rarely speaks
from his seat, but perfers to walk to the
center aisle, where he can face the chair
and talk to its occupant. AS he warns
up, he advances from the aisle, and
when very impassioned. he generally
manages to make his way to the space
in front of the Presidents desk, where
he INDUCES in his favorite gestures,
which consist of shaking his fore6nger
in very deliberate manner. On such
an occasion he IS very interesting, be-
cause he is both earnest and vigorous.
He is as we'll listened to as any member
of the Senate.
Merrimon, of North Carilina, is an
other Senator who talks great deal on
almost every subject that comes up.
Some times he interests, but more FIRE.
quently his long harangues drive the
other members to the cloak room. He
is unquestionadle fair-minded man,
although an extremely prejudiced one
WASHINGTON Nation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-29
PRESIDENT GRANT.


1 met him just above the treasury,
with his son Buck as tall as himself
and the best looking of the young Grants,
and made the mental comment "The
President looks like gentleman" He
did not always look quite gentleman.
In the earlier days of his administration
he did dump his hands in his pocket
and travel slowly along the street with
smoking cigar in his mouth. He does
no such thing now. The stories that
you read of the President going along
the street in this fashion at present are
all fctions. Neither does he any longer
use his pockets as mittens. His hands
are carefully gloved, and he carries a
substantial cane. He is thoroughly well
dressed asg 9asgPiffegh5jfOh if hjffO 0f an inward reno
waited self. know old people who would
say, comparing him with his former self
1.-The President looks as if he had got
religion" It seems to me that the day
has gone by when any one believes that
slovenliness is a sign of intellect or gen.
ius. It is usually the sign that you are
dirty or lazy, and that there is some
thing very wrong the matter with you.
How many times man puts on better
and sweeter life with the new coat
that he has worked and paid for Emer-
son knew all about it when he said: "If
a man has not firm nerves and has keen
sensibility, it is wise economy to go to
a good shop and dress himself irreproach-
ably" So the Presidents good coat is
a symbol and sign. Just as the news
paper man (the woman did not say SOY
declared that the President was very red
in the face, that he was about to have
the apoplexy, that he smoked fifteen or
twenty cigars day, and was drinking
himself to DEATH" the President slowly
| 0lucISc0 1IOLn VIC w u1tC A1OucOD III uAo
right mind, wearing exceedingly good
clothes, no cigar in his mouth, cane
in his gloved hand, his head erect, and
eyes alert, and walked down Pennsylva-
MIA avenue and thus, erect, cigarless,
and well dressed. he has continued, al
most daily, to walk ever since. Whatev-
er fault may be found with individual
acts of the President, no one who remem-
bers him when he entered the chief ex-
ecutive office can fail to see in him now
decided indications of mental growth.
He is larger man intellectually than
when he reached the supreme Office. You
see it in the prouder, 6rmer step in the
quick, alert glance; the clearer and
stronger features-as if the multifarious
demands of the position had not only
sharpened, but increased his faculties.
while the social side of it, at least, had
softened and refined his sensibllities.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-29

her the bon-bons, as I advised you,
little longer you should have let her
live to feel that the sun was brighter to
her when some one comes, and to grow
desperate over the possibility of not see-
ing him for twenty-four hours in fact,
you should have let her suffer and refine
herself into womanhood instead of jerk
Ing her into it, as you did. Now ali that
remains for you is to bear your disap-
pointment like man, and save your
daughters from a fate that overtakes
plants that are forced into too early
bloom. The child-wife is a pretty
enough thing in fiction. In fact, she is
a sacrifice to the greedy vanity of the
man who will gather the bud, though
he knows if he does so it can never de-
velop into the rose.'
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-29
WEALTH is NOT HAPPIN ESS.

The first mistake which is made by
most men is in making wealth the OBJ
iect of their lives. But wealth, as we
know, does not give happiness. Veal
thy men do not because of their wealth
get happiness. The Vanderbilts, the
Stewards, the Astors, have not been our
happiest men. They are not the typical
men in the house they are not the typ
ical men in social life; they are not the
typical men in the delights of life, or
in the profession e88U Joys Joys men can know.
We can go down lower still, and find
the men who have only one million or
so. or half million, and they do not
type the happiness of American homes.
Go into their homes. How splendid,
how gorgeous, how gaudy they are, and
yet they cannot rival the little homes in
the love of husband and wife, in the
reverence of children for parents, in the
parents guardianship over children in
all the sweet happiness that affection
spreads about like fragrance through
the chambers of our homes. You know
that almost every American gets wealth
who chooses to, though he loses it again
perhaps; but he gets it. It is not
great proof of ability nor evidence of
success for man to get wealth in this
country and this age. Now, then, it
seems to US that if a young man should
picture to himself rather quiet house,
sunny place on some hillside, with
stretch of meadow in front, through
which courses a running stream, shad-
ed by pleasant trees, with loving wife,
a group of pleasant faced and virtuous
children, quietude of days and peaceful
ness of nights, health and cOntentment
of mind, that would be much better
than to set up fictitious standard and
to strive necessarily for it as though
you must reach it or be utterly undone.
Golden Rule.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-29
PANE PICTURES.

A wonder-work all night long
Has wrought his task for me;
Now, by the cold and distant dawn,
His miracles see;
His cravings on the window pane,
or magic tracery.
Here lifts an Alpine summit, steep
As is the heavenly stair,
A way-side cross below the path,
But not pilgrim there;
No sad face Of humanity.
No agony Of prayer.
And here. before lonely lake,
A fringe Of reeds and fern;
Across the waters crystal chill
No dying sunsets burn;
You hear not on that rusby shore
The call OF brake or fern.
Here lies a crowd OF broken boughs,
A windfall in the woods;
Some wild and wandering hurricane
Hath wrecked these solitudes;
But ON that tangled dreariness
No living step intrudes.
And here is Arctic waste aud woe;
A glaciers mighty face,
Majectic in its awful march,
Slow seaward from its place:
Beneath that frown of solemn death
There lives no human trace.
But slowly from the joyful East
Ascends the dawning SUM-
Before his look Of light and life
The magic is undone;
The graceful pictures on the pane
All vanish, one by one.
Alas must all the songs sing.
The traceries Of my BRAIN
The little stories sad and glad,-
BE uttered all in vain,
And vanish when the Master comes,
Like pictures on pane?
Or will they, in some kindly heart
Remembered, sing and shine?
For wrought from mans humanity.
Not fieeting frost, are mine;
1 love not to be quite forgot
To die and leave no sign.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-29

How TO KEEP FRUIT CAKE WITHOUT
DRYING UP.-Place the fruit cake in
stone pot or Japan box put in two ap-
pies; when the apples shrivel, replenish
them. You can not detect the flavor
of the apples in the cake, as one would
think. 1t is good in glass cases for
bakers also. 1 have kept plum cake
two years in this way. 1t will do for
anv cake.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-29
Never use ANYTHING but light blankets

Never use anything but light blankets
as a covering for the sick. The heavy,
impervious cotton counterpane is bad,
for the reason that it keeps in the ex-
halations from the pores of sick persons,
while the blankets allow them to pass
through. Weak persons are invariably
distressed by great weight of bad
clothes, which often prevent their get
ting any sound sleep whatever
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-29

A barber turned his new apprentice
loose with a seven by-nine razor on a
fat man. After the apprentice had
made several attempts at subsoil plough
ing on the fat mans face, and the latter
began to look like map of Peru after
frst-class earthquake. the Boss remarked
that it was all nonsense to find fault
because the boy was such little bit OF
a shaver.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-26

We clip The loiiowlng handsome poem
from an exchange:
A traveller through = dusty road strew ed
acorns on the lea
And one took root and sprouted up. aud grew
into tee.
Love sought its shade at evening time, to
breathe his early vows;
And age was pleased in heat of noon, 10 haSk
beneath its boughs;
The doImouse loved Its dangling twigs, the
birds sweet music bore;
1t stood glory i'll its place, blessing ever
more.
A little spring had lost its way amid the grass
and fern.
A passing stranger scooped a well, where
weary men might turn;
He walled it in, and hung with care iadle at
the brink,
He thought not of the deed he did, but judged
that toll might drink.
He passed again, a lol the well, by summers
new dried,
Had cooled ten thous nd parched tongues and
saved lite beside
A dreamer dropped random thought, twas
old and IT twas new;
A simple fancy of the brain, but strong in be-
ing tine
It shone W on genial mind, and 10! its light
became
A lamp OF nfe, beacon ray, q monitory
flame;
The thouA lit vas small; its issues great; 8
watchfire ON the hill;
It sheds its radiance far adown, ami cheers the
valley still.
Anameless man amid crowd that throngec
the daily mart,
Let fall . word of hope and love, unstudied
from the heart
A whisper OH the tumult thrown "a transitory
breath
Il raised brother from the dust: it saved
soul from death
@ germ! Ofount o word OF love thought
of random cast
Ye were but little st the first, but mighty q
the last
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-26
Mortgage Sale

WHEREAS, Default has been made in t |
conditions of q certain mortgage, made by { l
Nyguard, mortgagor, to Samuel Mayall, q /
Mary A Mayali, mortgages, dated the -four
day of June, A. D. 1872 aud recorded in
Office OF the Register of Deeds Of Ramsey coun
tenth day of June, A D. 1879 to secure
payment Of FIVE hundred and fifty dollars, wi
interest at ten per cent per annum, accor
ing to the conditions of six prOmiss0ry mott
each for ninety one dollars and sixty-six Ger
payable in one, two, three, four, five and
years respectively, with interest at ten per Ger
per annumn, and one hundred dollars alto
lleys in case of foreclosure, Of certa
tract or parcel Of land lying and being in Il
County Of Ramsey, and State Of Minnesota, d
scribrd as follows to-wit:
The south half Of lot eleven (1D, Of bloc
nineteen (lS), of Ashtons & Shuburnes Add
| ton to the city of st. Paul, &C Ording to Il
plot on file in the Office Of the Register Of Deco
| for said county.
And whereas the mortgage Samuel Maya
did on the eleventh day Of June, A. D. 1877:
| duly assign said mortgage to James h: an
Ada l.. Mayall, by an instrument in writing
duly executed, acknowledged and delivered
which assignment was afterwards on the 2ls
day of March, A. D. 1877, recorded in th
| office of the R-gister Of Deeds of ramsey c0un
ty, in Book F. of assignments on pages IA
and l46.
| And whereas, there is now claimed to be du
on said mortgage at the date OF this motto
three hundred and fifty seven dollars and eigt
| ty-three cents principal and interest and on
hundred dollars attorneys fees making in Ii
aggregate four hundred and fifty seven 49, IL
dollars, and DO SUIT or proceedings at law hav
been had to recover the same nor any pa
thereof
Now therefore notice is hereby given tn,
pursuant to a power of sale in said mortgaa
contained and of the statutes in such case mac
and provided the mortgaged premises abo1
described will be sold at public vendue O
saturday the nineteenth day OF May, A.
1877, at ten o'clock in the forenoon at the frol
door of the old court house in Saint Paul in Il
County of Ramsey and State Of minnesota Il
highest bidder therefor, for cash, to satisfy an
pay said mortgage debt and the costs and di
bursem.nts allowed by law for such sale.
Saint Paul, March oath, 1877.
JAMES H. MAYALL,
ADA l.. NAVAL,
i Assignee Of Mortgage.
JOHN 3. & w FL SANBORN,
Attorneys :or Asignees.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-26
GREAT SAVING
Consumers Of Tea,
BY Getting Clubs.
THE
Great A. and P. Tea Co.

3115 EAST 3D. ST, ST. PAUL,
are constantly receiving the choicest
new crops Of Teas from the best Tea
Districts in China and Japan, per Pa
ci6e Mail Steamships and Railway,
which they will distribute to their Gus
toners in all parts of the country, in
quantities to suit, at cargo prices, and
all warranted to give perfect satisfac-
ton or the money and all expenses re-
funded. A club can be easily organ
lied in almost any locality, and thereby
save large per centage in the cost OF
Tea, and besides we give the organizer
Of the club generous complimentary
package Of Tea, or allow an equiva
lent compensation in money, on all
clubs amounting to twenty dollars and
upwards. The person who first starts a
club is sure to succeed easily, because
there will be no competition, and if
continued, profitable business can
be made. Address all letters to the
GREAT A. q P. TEA co.
3l1 East 3rd ST., st. Paul, Mi mn
144-3m.