Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-24

1.-The fire engines of that city is kept con-
ISstantlyGhot,by Jets Of gas which are brought
into contact with the boilers. 1t said that
gas costs in Syracuse only a ]. dollar per thou
sand
The principle of rotation in tanning
watts is again attracting the attention of
leather manufacturers. H is asserted that
the action of tanning is increased 500 per
cent. by keeping the hide slowly moving
through the water.
TO test the quality Of wool, take a lock
from the. sleeps back and place it on an
inch. IF the spirals count from thirty to
thirty-three in the space OF an inch, it
equals the finest Electoral or Saxon.yf wool
grown. The gdiminution inrnumber OF
folds to the inch shows the inferiority.
!, Sand mixed with d solution of silicate
of soda, is reported to make a stone Of un-'
euualed hardness. 1t can be cast into any
form, and of any tint, while soft, and when
laid in cement Of the same, may be said to
produce an almost imperishable structure
of solid rock x company is gnianufactur-
ing it in Chicago.
1t is stated that the Atlantic cable is in
first rate condition, and is a perfect success,
though it has not more than one fourth OF
the business which it is capable of doing,
owing probably to the high tariff charged
for messages As an instance OF It's rapldlty
in sending intelligence it is stated that a
single flash is transmitted in the thlrty-tye
hundredth of a second.
The pyrophorrs used for lighting CT
CARS is highly combustible powder, re-
quiring only exposure to the air and slight
warmth to ignite. 1t is preserved in
small tin case with a narrow orifice, from
which d little is dropped on the end of the.
cigar, and ignited by the aid of the breath.
1t seems to be even more dangerous to
property than the cigar itself
"A new kind of gunpowder has been
made by a Saxon firm. The experiments
made on it demonstrate the truth of the
pon-ekplosive character of the gunpowder
when in open air; and that when pent up
in air tight cylinders, whether i'll blasting
holes or in firearms, it acts as ordinary gun
powder, SCATTERING the rock or projecting
thebullet,, ssthe ease may be- Il Z go
The chief manufactures of beet sugar
inaGermany areaat Stassfurt.- Three or
four of them employ from five-handred
TO a. thousand operatives, turning out as
high as million pounds Of sugar to the
hundred laborers. 1.-The price of the re-
fined sugar is ten cents. q pound at the
IdCtOTf, anu VIC n lSG VI DCCto ID VII NOiie0
& hundred pounds in the fields.
To straig htena piece of steel already
hardened and tempered, heat it lightly, not
enough. to draw the temper, and you may
straighten it even on the anvil, ifnot really
dead cold, by hammer; but it is best to
straighten it between the centers ola lathe,
ifa turned article, or ona block ofWood with
mallet, where the article, cold would break
like glass. Warm, it will yield readily to
such blows as are said to kill the devil easy.
An apparatus has recently been in
vented for purifying the vitiated air of thea
tres, churches and crowded lecture halls.
1t consists of a metallic vessel, which re-
wolves, and containing perfumed water, the
latter lis given off by the application of
heat, in the form of steam, through jets
placed outside of the vessel This steam
being degenerated throughout the apart
ment, absbfbs- and precipitates the poison
Gus matter. present in the atmosphere.
Irish American whisky, according to
the Revenue Commission, may be made by
the, following delightful receipt: Forty
gallons of whisky, 80 gallons of water, 5
gallons tincture of Guinea pepper, quart
tincture of killitory Tor killaliberaD, 2
ounces acetic ether, l = gallons strong tea.
TO improve the. flavor, add 3 ounces pull q,
verified CHARCOAL and ounces ground rice
to the gallon, and let it stand for a week,
stirring daily. Mix in any nasty receptacle
convenient, in any subterIanean den which
the revenue officers are least likely to pen
BESIDES "the thousand natural shocks
that flesh is heir to-" smokers are liable to
peculiar attacks upon the senses of sight
and hearing and the faculties of will and
memory. Paralysis of the optic nerve,
and torpor, GOODNESS, and Kissing noises in
the ear, promonitory of paralysis of the
auditory nerve, are the forms in which
nicotine attacks those two organs. Medi-
cal observers have often remarked the fall
ure of memory, and also general charac-
teristic of irresolution or indecision in
habitual smokers Exceptions are abnn=
dant, but this pathological Characteristic of
the drug is undisputed.
/ The cooling down of the planetary
masses has been gradual, and modified by
their distance from larger bodies commu-
nicating heat by radiation. The smaller
interior planets, Venus and Mercury, still
have a temperature much above that of the
earth AS vitality can only exist at a tenn
perature ranging from 100 deg. to 40 deg
Fahrenheit, Professor Loomis has suggest
ed the hypothesis, that. organic life on the
planets Uranus, Saturn, and the asteroids,
has long since passed away THAT on Jupi-
ter, its existence is doubtful; that Mars
and the earth are. now populated; and
Venus and Mercury have yet to cool for
some millions Of years before being adapted
for organic life. :fg4
A reason is now given why the stars
didn't shoot last month as advertised The
awkward mistake is explained as follows;
When the mololygistric. temperature Of
the horizon is such as to- colorOcise the i'm
perient indentatiop of the hemisphere ana--I
logy, the cohesion of the boraX eurbistus
become; surcharged with infitisimals, which
are thereby virtually deprived of their fis
suriol disqtrisitions.T This effected, a rapid
changeis producedLin- the lthoramoumber
of the gympasticustns polerium which caus-
es a convacular in the heXagonal antipathes
of the terrestfiurn aqua yersula. Clouds
then become mass Of deodotomized spec
uIe of ceremocular light, Which can only be
seen when tits visible E@B
For every thiftyzor forty feet of de-
scent toward the center of the earth, it has
been observed that the temperature is
raised one degree. 1t has thus been ac-
cepted as aLforegone conclusion that this
increase goes on in the same ratio for al
depths, till, after few miles, everything
is in a melted condition. A comparison
with the diameter of the earth, 5000 miles,
seems to show a very thin crust. But no
guaranty exists that this increase in tenn
perature goes on according to this law.
Hopkins, in England has calculated, from
the procession of the equinoxes, that the
earth's crust. cannot be less than 300 to
1000 miles in thickness. Butwe may sup