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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-04-04
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

President Bincoln's widow is said to
be living quietly in little French vii
lage, declining to return to this coun-
try lest she should again beimmured in
an ASYLUM st Hti
Richard H. Dana, third, was of
fered the post Of Secretary Of Legation
at London last summer, but declined it.
The SON would not 60 as subordinate
whore the Senate would not let his ia
ther 60 as chief. So
Mr.. Larkin Turner died in Meri-
wether County, Ca, on the 18th of Feb
ruary, at the age of 10 years. When
he felt the approach Of death he settled
himself firmly in his chair, refusing to
lie down, and he died sitting erect and
without struggle. During his long
life he had but one short attack of fever,
which came upon him when he was 100
years old, and up to that time he had
never taken dose of medicine.
Ben Wade's wife was the social an
tithesis of her husband, being very shy.
She was lady of wide though not re-
markable accomplishments, thoroughly
posted on passing literature and politi-
cal gossip, and in personal appearance
sweet, graceful and commanding-look-
ing. She had one particular charm
her wonderfully-beauti and luxuriant
golden hair. She conducted nearly all
of the Senator private correspondence,
and read up and prepared most of the
materials for his speeches, that sort of
labor being especially distasteful to him.
- Chicago Tribune. 20
The following story is told to show
the ingenuity of Edison, the electrician.
The telegraph office in Boston was
greatly infested with ceekroaches. Mr.
Edison tackled several zinc strips to the
walls at intervals of an eighth of an
inch, and applied the positive and the
negative poles of a battery alternately
to the strips. He next smeared the
walls above the strips with molasses.
The yermin came up, and as they
stepped from strip to strip they
"closed the circuit received the cleo
trio shock and dropped dead by scores.
Water pals put at the proper places re-
ceived their bodies as they fell. We
distinctly credit this story to Boston,
N. Y. Evening Post.
Senator Blaine was suffering with
an acute attack of gout when an invi-
tation was received to dine with the
Russian Minister. An invitation to
dine with a diplomat is as obligatory as
an invitation to the Executive mahog-
any. Mr.. Blaine was assisted into his
claw-hammer, white choker, and, more
painful than all, his neatly fitting
dress-boots. The agony was dreadful.
but public man cannot succumb to
govt when duty demands martyrdom.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine drove to the Lega-
ton and painfully assembled the long
terraced steps from the sidewalk to the
door of the house, which is one that the
Board of Public Works left fifteen feet
above its original level. The mansion
was dark, and, in answer to a ring of
the bell, servant without gloves
opened the door. The guests observed
there were no lights or evidences of an
expected feast, and learned to their dis
gust that they had anticipated their in
vitation by week. 1t is useless to
state the feelings of Mr.. and Mrs.
Blaine Washington Cor. Chicago Tfi6-
u1ae.
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Cheap Living.

The statement of Hudson River
physician, recently published in the
Times, to the effect that when student
he attended lectures in New York and
lived on $3.50 per week, is calling out
skeptical comments from contempora-
ries here and there, who do not believe
such an achievement possible. But
there is nothing improbable in the
statement. nor is the economy necessa,
ry to secure the result of the kind that
pinches and furnishes. A middle-aged
gentleman at our elbow, who attended
an academy in Western New York
about the year 1910, was one of a party
of twenty or twenty-five students who
dubbed together for cheap living. A
lady, famous for good housekeeping,
was entrusted with the charge of the
enterprise. She hired house, and
furnished it with cooking utensils and
kitchen and dining-room furniture.
The students moved in, each. contrib
uting to the necessary furniture for
his room. Then the parents furnished
the supplies, each bringing whatever
was most convenient. Parents who
were farmers brought flour, meat, but
ter, vegetables, fruit, wood, etc.; mer-
chants brought groceries, and a num-
Der who lived at distance contributed
the cash. Our informant was the son
of farmer living near the school,
and he succeeded in turning in
enough produce to cover ali ex-
penses, including the two-and-six-
PENCE (thirty-one cents) per week
which the housekeeper required from
each student with which to pay house,
rent, servant, fuel for cooking and for
her own services. Whatever was
brought was duly credited at the full
market price. When six months were
up,a balance was struck, and it was
found that the cost of living for each
student had been exactly Is, Cd. eighty
four cents) per weeks. Deducting the
thirty-one cents paid to the housekeep-
err, the cost of food consumed per stu
dent was fifty three cents. 1t is proper
to state also that the housekeeper and
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-04-04
Cultivating House Plants.

To those quiet people who pass the
burden of their lives indoors, the cult
ure of house-plants is no less an occu-
patton than pleasure; sunshiny win
dow filed with them furnishes daily
entertainment and interest to the pos
SCISSOR. Who knows what freakish and
foreign flower this strange slip may
evolve from its inner consciousness? at
what supreme moment the night-bloom-
ing cereus may think fit to unfold its
creamy petals or dispense its odors? or
the mysterious aloe, with its sword-like
leaves, bristling as if to protect some
hidden treasure, fulfill its purpose? Is
there not very appreciable delight in
watching the little buds expand, the
great Gala uncurl indolentlyp to see
the gay lantanas change their hues like
tho ohamalann the Mexican sage hang
out its ragged colors? When a sickly
little plant consents to hold up its head
and repay ones care with ever so pale a
blossom, is it not as though it smiled
thanksp and when we have coaxed a
rose to blow, does it not seem as if we
had performed a miraelep All our
geraninm slips are SO many very inter-
esting riddles; who can predict in what
garments they will appear, whether
pink or white, scarlet or cherry, varie-
gated or plain, double or single? Those
who truly love flowers will not find it
task to tend and wait upon their ca
prices; to follow the winter sunshine
from room to room, in their service; to
remember and shield them from cold
snaps stealing into the house, in ''the
dead middle of the night" with the
stealthy tread of an Indian in ambush;
to study their conditions of growth.
What q companion an ivy is in the
roomi how gracefully it adorns the
barest walls! 1t is picture in itself;
it gives to the poorest apartment an air
of refinement and elegance. Added to
the quiet happiness of administering to
house-plants, of watching them grow
in grace and stature, of counting their
blossoms, enjoying their fragrance, the
tender green of their leaves, the exquis-
lite coloring and marking of their petals,
the variety in their shapes, one has al
ways bouquet at hand to send q sick
friend, 10 touch up the family table, to
surprise neighbor. :. With many the
culture of plants is an Unborn talent.
It sometimes seems as if such fortunate
people had only to look kindly upon
slip or shrub, and 1t blossomed in re-
sponse-as if they knew some incanta-
ton that would draw the sleeping flow
ers from their sources, as the Tyre of
Orpheus drew rocks and trees to follow
him. Harper's Bazaar.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-04-04

Efhe dpzlnr. III ds6lkn = Transferred
/ b steel do ~ unin0 Hilrs reducing
machine, constructed on the principle
| e ~ pa61e6 Faph. 0ne am a thu
tsdment viii blunt point. foIlow1
~ Hrs - - electrutype, While the
othee am, - which issaf1ehea : strone
and r1p1dly revolving DIN, reproduce
the same lines, on smaller scale, upon
! steel block By means Of press this
impression Is transferred to another
block. n inta&1io, and thence upon an-
other block, which i the parent die.
After each transfer tho lines are care
fully improved with grAycr. Steel Of
the same quality IS that Of which the
parent die Is made Is used for the coin
ing dies They are annealeds and trued
on both ends. Two Or three blows in
the screw-press, which y worked with .
large wheel. secures : perfect impress
sion, and both the diverse and reverse
Of coin are struck ct ONCE Machinery
PLACES the planchets between the dies.
and afterward drops the completed coin
in box. Two or three pieces OF each
coin are reserved tor the annual Gov
ernment assay.
The processes OF melting. refining
and aaeaying gold and silver are carried
on in the Assay Office, in this city. on
quite as large > scale - at the Phila-
delphia Mint Not only Government
work is done here, but large deposits
are made daily of gold and silver
bullion by private individuals. Gold is
always found alloyed with silver. and it
is never found with any other alloy. To
separate the silver from the gold, the
bullion is boiled In sulphuric acid,
which removes the alloy; the gold is
then reboiled and reduced to coarse
powder resembling clay. Its purity
then is 1913 or S99. The silver, mixed
with copper, is run into vats on = lower
floor, and is purified and granulated,
when 1t resemblespipe-cl The gran
ulated gold and silver are pressed into
large cheeses IN hydraulic-press. A
cheese OF gold, twelve inches in diane
ter and three inches thick. Is worth
$50, 600; silver cheese OF the same
size is worth $500. The suiPhuric
acid, after it is used, produces sedi-
ment OF blue vftriol. which is much
prettier than either the gold or the sill
yer seen In the Assay Ofhce. The Wit
triol and the weak acld are both sold
Tor as much money as the original ACID
costs: The substitution OF sulphuric
ACID for nitric has caused saving to
the New York Assay Office alone OF
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-04-04
Cost Of Barn.Yard Manure.

If any farmer reckon the amount of
produce in his barns and stocks in the
fall, the value of his stock then, and its
value in the spring when feeding
ceases, he will have the data for decid-
ing how much his manure pile has cost
him. Whoever does this will be sur
prised at the expensiyeness of home
made fertilizers. In a large majority
of instances barn-yard manure, as it is
hauled out in the spring, costs fully
one dollar per load, or fully as much
as is charged for it from city stables.
If this manure is kept year and par
italy decomposed, its cost per lead
win be twice or thrice as much. Farm
ers are seriously asking themselves
whether they can afford this expense.
So near the City Of Rochester as this,
there is always market for even the
coarsest produce, so that there is no
necessity, except for manuring the
soil, to feed it on the farm. But the
salable value of almost everything Is
greater than its manurial value. A
load Of straw that will sell for sc to S8
will hardly make 81 worth Of manure.
The difference is even greater with
most other articles of farm produce.
Whenever it can be done, the advan-
tage is almost always in selling what
ever win sell and maintaining the fer
tility Of tho farm by liberal purchases
of manure. The failures in farming
always come from buying too little fer
tilizers and never from selling too
much produce.
On every farm there win always be
some manure from warehouses;, from
fowls, and from the COWS needed tosup-
ply butter, or 1t least milk for the fam
Nv. This should be saved as carefully
- = it were the main dependence. But
the bulk Of fertilizers must be obtained
n some cheaper way. We cannot az
lord to keep large stocks Of cattle,
sheep and horses mainly for the manure
they win make unless thiS is the only
source for ferfilising the soil. We
had better do almost any thing rather
then lot the farm deteriorats. In my
6pdni0n commercial manures are the
bet substitute for those which the
farmer himself en- make. Care must
Be taken to get Hose which are what
they profess 70 BE-, and thu done, they
may be used in much larger quantities
than even The mont liberal fsraers have
ever attempted. II may seem foolish
to many TO apply = few hundred pounds
p ieFttltser With the expectaflon of
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-04-04
Coming Money at the Mint.

Silver is sent from the Assay Office to
the Philadelphia Mint pure, or 999 fine,
which is about rs pure as silver can be.
It is sent in large bars, and when re-
ceived at the mint is melted and al
Logged with copper. Coin silver is 900
fine. After being melted and allowed
the metal is cast into ingots, which are
simply bars of convenient size for
handling. The metal is then assayed,
to determine whether it is exactly of
the standard fineness. Assaying is
done by what is known as the dry or
humid process. Samples for assay are
taken while the silver is in a fused con-
dition, and two assays are made of
every specimen. The silver ingots then
go to the coiner. They are first rolled
into strips, and as the rolling process
is apt to make the metal brittle, it is
annealed to soften it. Silver is an
nealed simply by heating in an open
wood fire, and then being allowed to
cool gradually. The silver dollar strips
are passed through the rolls nine or ten
times before the first annealing, and
four or five times afterward. Then the
process of annealing is repeated. After
the last annealing the strips are run
through cutters, which divide them into
drafts OF the proper thickness for the
CONS; and these, in their turn, are run
through q steam punching machine
which cuts planchets the proper size
ior the coin. From l60 to 240 are cut
in minute. As the metal gets greasy
during this process, the pianchets are
tnen aiPPed INTO bath OF diluted sui
pnuric acld, which IS too weak to act
upon the surface, but effectively re-
moves all foreign matter. The
piancnets are then adjusted; that is to
say, stney are carefully weighed, and
9: ,nas are lacking N weight are cast
aslue sucn pieces are called lights,
ana me ''neavles are the pieces which
Weign TOO much; and are filed of. The
ADJUST, adjusting = done ey women. II is :
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-04-04
READER, ARE YOU AFFucrrn,

and wish to recover the same ds,,..
health, strength, and energy as exnesss
in former years7 Do any of the follonne@
symptoms or class of symptoms meet ~
diseased condition Are You sufferins ~
fll-health in any of its many and ms11i w
Gus forms, consequent upon lingering a.s
Gus, chronic or functional disease9 r. et
feel nervous, debilitated, fretfll. timiS ~
lack the power of will and action A,s y
subject to loss of memory, have spells of n "
moping, unfit for business or pleasure -
subject to fits Of melancholy? Are your NJ N
neys, stomach, or blood, in disorderpd =.
ditionf Do you suffer from rheums,ss
neuralgia or aches and pains? Have y.
been indiscreet In early years and fpd Wy: ~
self harassed with a multitude Of qlocs.
symptomsf Are you timid, nervous ~.
fOrgetful, and your mind continually A.
ing on the subject? Have you lost conadssss
In yourself and energy for business pursNis
Are you subject to any of the following svm,
toms: Restless nights, broken sleep' niess
mare, dreams, palpitation of the heart. MI
fulness, confusion of ideas, aversion 10 soes,
dizziness in the head, dimness of sight ng
pies and blotches on the face and back ~
other respondent symptoms? Thousapd,s
Young men, the middle-aged, and even h.
old, suffer from nervous and physical AM
ity. Thousands of females, too, are bnfs
down in health and spirits from disoni,
peculiar to their sex, and who, from a.
modesty or neglect prolong their suderiSn
Why, then, further neglect q subject "a ~,
ductive of health and happiness when tbss
is at hand means of restoration?
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-04-04
Names Of Vehicles.

Among the medley of names at pres
ent or recently given to pleasure car
riages some are unintelligible, while
others defy all chronological scrutiny.
The landau 10 named from town in
Germany; it is a coach that may be
used open or closed at pleasure. The
landaulet. as its name implies, is a
lighter and smaller landau. The ba-
rouche, q fayorite open carriage in
summer, is of French origin, as is the
barouchet. The britzschka was intro
duced from Russia about half century
ago. Why the phaeton is so named we
cannot pretend to say; but the vehicle
so called belongs to the barouche and
britzschka group. The cabriolet is
French, and SO is the vis-a-vis. Droitz-
schka came from Russia or from Poland
AN odd kind of an affair, modified in
England into vehicle fitted for inval-
ids, aged persons and children, with its
formidable name shortened into drosky.
The curricle is one of the few kinds of
two-wheelers with two horses abreast;
while the tandem is struggling affair
with two wheels and two horses, but
one of the horses behind the other. The
cab (short for cabriolct) is handy
bachelors vehicle; the gig is about the
lightest of all, being little more than an
open-railed chair, supported on the
shafts by two sidesprings; the dog-cart
is gig, with a space underneath to
contain either dogs or luggage; while
the tilbury, named after the coach
maker who invented it, is modified
noh The 90 =,
noble Lord, is another of the family of
single-horse, two-wheelers; and so is
the sulky, for one person only; and so
the buggy. and the jaunting-car, and
the whisky. The dennet, we are told,
has three springs peculiarly arranged,
and "was so called because the three
springs were named after the three
Miss Dennets, whose elegant stage
dancing was much in vogue about the
time this vehicle came into use." The
French misanthrope, for one person,
was probably the origin of our sulky.
The fly is a roomy carriage let out to
hire; why it is SO called IS not quite
clear. The French fiacre neither de-
notes particular person nor a special
origin; there happened to be figure of
St. Fiacre in front Of the building where
the first lender of these vehicles kept
them. When we consider how readily
the name hanson has come into use
among us, as the designation of a vehi-
Gle, we need not marvel at the French
having adopted faere. Victoria. clar-
ence. brougham, are so many proofs of
the ease with which the names of per-
sons are given to new forms of car
riages.-AU the Year Round.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-04-04
Lecture by the Father Of Charley
Ross.

About 600 people assembled at Ire
mont Temple last night to hear Mr..
Christian K. Ross tell the story of the
abduction of his little boy from his
home at Germantown, suburb of
Philadelphia, on the LIST day of July,
1874. The speaker stepped forward,
and, after the applause with which he
was received had somewhat subsidized,
said: Ladies and gentlemen, 1 don't
presume TO come before you as lect-
urer; that is not my forte; my sole and
only object is to state plainly, simply
and clearly to you the leading facts of
case that is nearest to my heart.
There are certain events belonging to
persons and families that assume such
an enlarged sphere and become Of such
deep interest as to excite public atten-
ton, and the case of the abduction of
my boy was a case of this kind. The
letters exchanged between the parties
in this case" said he, "show that the
business was to have been made per-
manent had the attempt to extort
money from me been successful. re-
fused to compound the crime, and my
own home has been desolated. l think
my refusal to compound the crime by
paying the villains the sum of money
they demanded, $4,000, has made the
children of other people much safer
than they otherwise would have been;
for the popular cutlery that ensued
when the fact of the abduction of my
little boy became known showed the
kidnapers that their lives would not be
safe minute if they were arrested
Mr.. Ross then went on to relate the
facts connected with the abduction, oc-
casionally reading extracts from letters
received from the villains to show that
the men really had the child in their
possession, and that up to the time the
reward of $4,000 was offered by the
citizens of Philadelphia, for the return
of the boy and the arrest of the abduct- \
Ors, they were, if not in the city, very
near it, and that the offering of the re-
ward and the renewed activity among
the officers that Immediately followed
had the effect Of driving them from the
city and out of the State. He also read
letters showing that the men Mosher
and Douglass, who were killed 1T Bay
Ridge, L. l., while attempting to COM
NIT burglary, were, without doubt,
the men who kidnapped the boy. Their
death he regarded Is an unfortunate
because they would have |
been very soon arrested, and then they |
might have revealed the boy's where |
abouts. As the lecturer related the |
many journeys made BY him in the |
vain attempt to recover the child It |
was very evident that he had the full |
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Notb,,o 4 10 we'll calculated to promote
GOOD health and good humor, q light, easily
Assessed. nutritious cookery. With that unn.
vailed article, DooLEr's YEAST POWDER, In the
kitchen, elegant, white, light and Wholesome
bread, rolls, biscuits, cake OF every kind, ana
corn-bread, waffies, mullins, buckWneat CAKES
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sundsy-Sehooi Lessons.

BCOND oUAKTER. lo1o.
Auril 7-Jusiahis Early Piety.. Chron. 81: l. 9.
Aprill4-The Scriptures Found
and Searched. .....-..-...--. Chron. 81 II Y.
April Jeremiah in Prison jeremiah IS: T. =.
April 8EThe Rechabites.. - Jeremiah s. IL -.
May 5-The Captivity of Ju-
M Won. . - Daniel l.. SIT
NEAR. ...,.-........-... Daniel 2:36 IS.
MAY 6-The Fiery Furnace. Daniel S21-N.
'9 the VALE Wall ', n@as :. Daniel s2sl.
June 9NDaniel in the Lions
Den. 49,. --..a. 1uuic! ~ -,
June l6-Messiahs Kingdom Daniel Z: s-da-
Iune 23-The Decree of Cyrus. 2 Chron. 80 ~ -,
une 9O-Review of the Lessons for the Quarter
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