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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-19
Queer Things About Bees,

THE poppy-bee makes her nest In the
ground, burrowing down about three
inches. At the bottom she makes large,
round hole, and lines 1t splendidly with
the scarlet leaves Of the wild poppy. She
cuts and fits the pretty tapestry, till it is
thick, and soft and warm, then partly fills
the cell with honey, lays an egg, folds
down the red blankets, and closes up the
hole, so 1t cannot be distinguished and
there, In its coy cradle, with food to eat,
safe nook to rest In, she leaves her baby
bee to take care of ITSELF The leaf cutting
bee makes her cells of green leaves.
shaping them like thimbles These little
jars she half fills with rose-colored paste
of honey and pollen from thistles, lays
her eggs, and covers the pots with round
leaf.lids, that fit exactly. The mason bee
makes its nest of mud and mortar. 1t
looks like bit Of dirt, sticking to wall,
but has little cells within The mother
bee does all the work, sticking little grains
of sand and earth together with her own
glue. The carpenter-bee bores holes in
posts, and makes her cells of sawdust and
glue. The carding bees live in holes,
among stones and roots, making nests of
moss, lined with wax, to keep the wet out,
with long gallery by which to enter.
They find bit of moss, and several bees
place themselves in a row, with their backs
toward the nest ]; then the foremost lays
hold of the moss and pulls it up with her
body as far toward the next as possible.
The second does the same; and in this
way tiny heaps of prepared moss are got
to the nest by the file Of four or five, and
others weave it into shape.-Me1rys Mu-
scum.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-19
Some Facts About the Dome of our Ma.
tiOnal Capitol.

THE dome of the Capitol at Washington
is the most ambitious structure in America
1t is 108 feet higher than the Washington
monument at Baltimore, 6S feet higher
than that of Bunker hill, and % feet high
er than the Trinity church tower of New
York. 1t is the only considerable dome
of iron in the world. 1t is vast hollow
sphere of iron, weighing $685. 200 pounds.
How much is that? More than 1000 tons,
or about the weight of 10000 full-grown
people; about equal to 1000 laden coal
cars, which, holding four tons apiece,
would reach two miles and half Di-
rectly over your head is figure in bronze,
America" weighing 1896 pounds. The
pressure of THERON dome upon it's piers
and pillars is 13,477 pounds to the square
foot. st. Peters presses nearly 10000
pounds more to the square foot, and st.
Genevieve, at Paris, $4,000 pounds more.
1t would require to crush the supports of
our dome pressure of 755,2S0 pounds to
the square foot. The cost was about
$1,100,000. The new wings cost about
$6,500,000. The architect has plan for
rebuilding the old central part of the
Capitol and charging the park, which will
cost about $3,200,000
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-19
Peach DOrer and Fellows.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Hort6culturist,
writing of the attacks of the peach borer
says: Having tried all the plans pro-
posed for the last five years-merely as an
experiment upon neglected trees-I have
found them all deficient in one thing, .. e.,
in preventing a renewal of attack Nine
years experience fully proves to me that
the waste water of salt works called
mother liquor or bitter water is sure
preventive. I will not aver that it will
kill the worm when once in the tree, as
my experience is not conclusive on that
point, but l do assert that it has killed
them by thousands when partly in the tree
and not entirely shielded by the bark We
apply it any time during the summer, but
when possible, in June and last of August,
putting about one pint of the liquid
around the base. of each tree. At the same
time we wash the body and main limbs of
the tree with the same liquid, which re-
moves scales of dead bark and kills the
eggs of insects. My observations in the
treatment of trees to this liquor leads me
to declare it to be the most powerful agent
in preventing the dreaded disease known
as 'yellows' that has yet been discovered.
Trees in a rapidly declining state from the
effects of this disease. being treated to this
liquor, took on a new life, as it were, cast
ing their yellow leaves and throwing out
an immense healthy foliage"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-19
Dying of Questions.

You hear of people dying of this dis.
ease, or of that disease, but what they
really do die OF, is of questions believe
l have pretty strong will-some people
would say it amounts to willfulness- but
when I am unwell I lose all strength of
will, and cannot bear to be bothered with
questions. "Will you have your cruel
made of grits or barley? viii you have
your vapor bath now? When will you
take your medicine?" These weighty
questions-and they are weighty to the
poor sick .man-thoroughly overcome me.
Now I am quite serious. An invalid
ought to be treated mentally and morally as
he is physically; namely, with gentleness,
yet with perfect irmness. Don't give him
any choice about anything; don't burden
his mind with decisions remove from him
all responsibility, which is so fatiguing a
thing. have no doubt that the excellent
Miss Nightingale has said all that in her
way, butt venture to say it in mine. A
person in health can hardly have con-
ception of the helpless irritability of real
invalid. The most difficult case does not
disturb my equanimity when am well !;
but when am ILL., the question of grits
or barley is an overpowering one, and
raises the pulse seven beats at least
Mdcn1iEEd7o's Magazine.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-19

8. Has he ever had heart disease? Yes
BIZ was cured of 1t by Rev. DR.. Hawks
years ago.
8. Has he been afflicted with any other
serious diseases Yes He once had "tax-
ing bonds on the brain. ->s>-e--~
III. Has he been afflicted with any mental
arrangements Yes, decided insanity
shown by reading the Herald and voting
with the Democratic party.
II. Do you esteem him a healthy man
See last answer. 1
IL. What state was he in when you saw
him last? The State of Michigan.
II. Has his application ever been reject
ed? Yes, onoe-promptly, by a lady.
IA. Do you think his life safely insura.
Bile? Not at his own valuation. Bought
at his own estimate and sold at that OF the
public, he would break any bank in the
country.
IS. Do you call his lungs sound? No
| call them inflated air tubes.
16. What age do you consider him9 Old
enough to know more than he does.
IL. Does he smoke or chews He smokes
when he chooses.
II. Is he of steady habitsg Yes, he is
agent for Fairbanks scales and balances.
~. What is his height? That depends
on the thickness of his boots.
20. Has he any children? Yes-two
nephews.
p. Has he any physical popularity cal
culated to render him unfit for insurance
Yes, a counterfeit half eagle which he car
ries constantly in his pocket, and which, il
found upon him, might interfere with his
enjoying the exercise that is essential tC
good health. PETER PUNDIT.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-19
Science Advances.

AS soon as an article purporting to be of utility
has been tested, and its merits endorsed by public
opinion, unprincipled parties endeavor to replen-
ish their depleted purses by counterfeiting, and
substituting spurious for the genuine article.
Some time since, mercury, in the disguise of pills,
powders, &c, was given for all diseases of the
stomach and liver, while quinine was freely adj
ministered for the chills. At length HOSTEL
TIERS STOMACH BTTTERS made its advent.
and an entire new system of healing was inaugu-
rated. The beneficial effects of this valuable pre-
paration were at once acknowledged and mineral
poisons suffered to sink into that obscurity to
which an enlightened age has consigned them.
There have been many spurious Bitters palmed
upon the community, which, after trial, have been
found perfectly worthless, while HOSTETTER'S
has proved blessing to thousands, who owe to it
their restoration to health and strength.
For many years we have watched the steady pro-
gress of HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS
in public estimation, and its beneficent effects as
cure for all complaints arising from the stomach
of morbid nature, and we are free to say that
can be relied upon as a certain relief and remedy.
Its proprietors have made the above preparation,
after years of careful study and sitting, and are
now reaping the reward claimed by this valuable
specific, and which they so richly merit 1t is the
only preparation Of the kind that is reliable in all
cases, and it therefore demands the attention of
the afflicted. ssr
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-19
Recuperatiye Powers of Nature.

AT the session of the Massachusetts
Medical Society in Boston, DR.. John M
Harlow gave the history of man named
Gage, who, while blasting rocks at Caven-
dish, VT, in 1S47, had tamping iron,
three feet seven inches long, and one
and a quarter inches thick, and taper
ing to a point, forced through his head,
entering the left cheek, and coming out
about the centre of the top of the head.
DR.. Harlow, who attended the man, gave,
in detail, the daily symptoms of his pa
tient, and said that in fifty-nine days he
was able to walk and ride, and was soon
nearly as well as before, although his in
tellect was somewhat affected. This is
considered the most remarkable case of
the recuperative powers ofnature, and has
been doubted by many prominent sur
geons. Gage died May 81, 1861, twelve
years, six months and eight days after the
injury. DR.. Harlow procured his head,
and has presented the skull to the Warren
Museum of the Harvard Medical College.
DR.. Bigelow said he saw Gage twenty
years ago, and was then satisfied of the
reality of this wonderful case. He also
said tube of iron, five-eighths of an inch
in diameter, and about five feet long,
passed through a miners head, while
blasting coal in Ohio, and was pulled out
by fellow-miner. The injured man was
introduced to the audience, and Dr. Jewett,
the attendant physician, recounted the
case in detail. The young mans mind has
not yet been fully restored.-Neso York
Times
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-19
Stable Floors.

THE Vermont Record mentions approx
ingly mixture of small stones, coal tar
and gravel as flooring for stables. The
small stones are placed in heap, and tar
poured over them and mixed, with shovel
or other suitable implement, till properly
coated. When thus prepared, the stones
are spread over the ground to the depth
of about three inches. Over this founda-
ton coarse gravel prepared in the same
way is spread to the depth of two inches,
and the whole rendered compact by the
use of a maui and heavy roller. The
quantity Of tar need not be profuse, as a
large amount renders the drying process
very slow, while needlessly prolonging the
scent arising from it. While the mauling
and rolling are going on, fine sand should
be applied, by which compact and
smooth surface will be secured. This
species of floor is said to be very durable
healthful for stock, and, after being some
time in use, entirely free from the disa-
greeable odor arising from the tar on its
first application.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-19
Potato Culture.

PoTAToEs that have great reputation
are sometimes pronounced worthless.
Contradictions occur here to a great extent
more in potatoes than perhaps in any
other fruit. 1t is in consequence of plant
ing, mostly. To plant close-close in the
hill and close in the row-will give a
chance to develop quality, if not planted
too close Hills wide apart, a potato will
grow rank-and rank is the quality; it
will be coarse, hollow potato. Hence a
good sort win suffer. This is especially
the. case with Garnet, which is a great
grower, and rough hollow potato if left
to grow unchecked But contine it, both
in hill and row, and it will give you a
uniform fair size, with fine grain and
havor-there will be no hollow potatoes,
at least in a general way.
In England they have tested this matter
Tor many years, and have at last hit upon
tne right plan; To plant, if we remember
right, some ten inches in the row, and the
TOW, some twenty-seven inches apart.
an rms confines the tuber to medium size,
Iew small ones, and good quality, the
treatment. '''''' "a osi'ei
We find the same system among our
Irish friends, who are supposed to Rnou
something about the potato, their nrinc;.
pal food. Our American mode of culture
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-19

q li:tis private chapel, ard then hear:
another. AT eight he drinks a C'p Of
chocolate, and half an hour later receives
his ministers until half past ten. Aud.
ences are then given until one O'Clock. Al
two he dimes, very frugally, and subse.
quently takes. a nap until three, when he
reads his bleviary, and at half past five
takes drive In carriage drawn by four
horses, with two priests. On the out.
skirts Of the city he sometimes alights
from his carriage and walks.
Upon his retuFn he gives audiences
until ten, and then sups. lie retires to
bed at eleven. .. 80 .a
Though advanced in years, the Pope
sings very well, and plays upon the vic.
loncello.
The only European language he is said
to speak beside Italian is French, and in
doing SO betrays strong accent.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-19
How to Make Soup.

One of Dr. Letheby's lectures on food,
| published in the London Medical Press
and Circular, has the following concern
ing soups:
In making soup, the object is to ex-
tract, as completely as possible, all the
soluble constituents of the meat or bone
and, when the latter is used, it should be
chopped or broken into small pieces, and
| boiled for considerable time-nOt less
than nine or ten hours. Shin bones will
then yield about nineteen per cent. of
their weight of fat and gelatine; the soup
being, according to DR.. E. smith, very nu-
tritious, so that six pounds of bones will
produce a soup that contains the nutritive
power of two pounds of meat, as far as
carbon is concerned, and of one pound of
meat in respect of nitrogen; but although
this may be so in regard to the actual
quantities of carbonaeeous and nitrogen
Gus matters present, yet it is very doubt
ful whether they are equally nutritious, for
IN the renowned experiments of the
French gelatine commission, it was found
that the soup or jelly from boiled bones
would not support the life of dogs, al
though raw bones, in like proportion,
would.
Ox-tail soup is much richer than that
AAol1 OolCo dlouC, DIS III COuGdlIlS lie saline
and other constituents of flesh. 1t is now
a favorite and rather expensive SOUP. all
though at one time it was the humble fare.
and almost the only heterogeneous food of
the poor Protestant French refugees of
Clerkenwell Prior to the year 1859, or
thereabout, the butchers of London left
the tails attached to the hides, which were
sent to the tanners of Bermondsey, but the
poor French refugees, in their extremity
OF want, bought the tails for mere trifle,
and converted them into soup, which was
soon found to be of excellent quality.
Soup made from meat should be OBJ
tanned in the way already described-that
is, given weight of meat, chopped fine,
should be allowed to macerate in its own
weight of cold water, and should then be
gradually heated to the boiling point,
after which it should be strained and
pressed. In this way about three per cent.
of the nutritious matter of the meat is
dissolved, beside the saline constituents.
If the soup be simmered with the meat for
some hours, larger proportion of organic
matter, chiefly gelatin, will be dissolved;
and good soup thus made from shin of
beef will contain about 600 grains of solid
matter to pint, and of this about thirty
niue grains are saline
Lean meat contains about twenty-five
per cent. of solid matter, the rest being
water, and of this from seven to ten parts
are soluble in cold water; rather more
than half of this is albumen and myo-
chrome (coloring matter), which are coag-
ulated by heat, and thus, if the cold solu-
ton of flesh be boiled, it contains only
from three TO four per cent. of the meat
and when evaporated to dryness it consti
tutes the ertractum ca7nis of Liebig.
In the case of Liebig's extract, one pound
of the preparation is sufficient, with the
usual rations of potatoes and other vege-
tables, to make soup for one hundred and
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-19
Trials of a Life Agent.

THE following somewhat facetious reply
to Life Agents circular, requesting in
formation as to the health and habits of an
applicant, was received at prominent life
Office in New York:
1. How long have you known B /?
Since two years after was born.
2. What are his general habits In win
ter, red flannel and blue beaver; in sum-
mer, straw hat, canted to one side, and
nankeen trousers, very loose in the legs.
8. What is his profession? Congrega-
tionalist.
4. Do you know, or have you heard,
that he has ever been afflicted with govt,
asthma, consumption, splitting of blood, or
any other disorder tending to shorten life
No; but he can have them if required by
the company
5. Has he ever had vertigo, or singing in
the head? Yes, he SHORES nightly, and
daily hears the music of a sewing
machine.
6. Has he ever been afflicted with fits or
rupture? Never had a tit in his life-his
tailor being always unsuccessful-bu once
had rupture with his landlady.
7. Has he ever had fever and ague? Had
a fever last summer, when the thermome-
ter was at ninety-siX, but it was no great
shakes.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-19
Salt and Lime to Prevent Grain from
Lodging.

Two years since noticed in one of my
agricultural papers, that mixture of salt
and lime would stiffen the straw of the
growing wheat, and to a certain extent
prevent it from lodging. I resolved to try
the experiment l made mixture in the
proportion of two parts (weight) of lime to
one of salt. I permitted the mixture to
lie in the heap some three or four weeks
before applying it. I then spread it over
part of field at the rate of ton and a
half to the acre. The result was, that on
that part of the field my wheat all stood
well, while on the remainder it went down
before the heads were entirely filled. l
need not tell you how much easier the for
mer was to cut than the latter. The yield
was decidedly better, and in addition to
these advantages, found the clover, on
the part to which the mixture had been
applied, larger and finer than where it had
not been.-C0r. Farmer and Gardener.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-19

thirty men and a strong broth is made by
dissolving teaspoonfal Of it (about one
hundred and fifty grains) in half pint OF
boiling water and tiavoring with salt and
pepper. .
A still more nutritious broth, containing
the albumen of the meat, is obtained by
infusing a third of pound of minced
meat in fourteen ounces Of cold soft water,
to which a few drops -four or five) of
muriatic acid and little salt from ten to
eighteen grains) have been added. After
digesting for an hour or so, 1t should be
strained through seive, and the residue
washed with five ounces of water and
pressed. ;. -,
furnish about pint of cold extract of
meat, containing the whole Of the soluble
constituents of the meat (albumen, crea-
tine, creatinine, etc., and 1t may be drank
cold or lightly warmed-the temperature
not being raised above one hundred de-
grees Fahrenheit, for fear Of coagulating
fhe aibumen
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-19

THE New York Framsiner has compiled
a curious table, comparing the cost of
liquors sold by retail in this country during
one year. Mr.. Wells, in his report for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1867, shows
that the cost of liquor to the consumers,
that is, the value of the retail liquor trade,
Gas deduced from the receipts of internal
revenue" reaches the sum of 81, 483, 491,-
S65, that is forty-three dollars for every
man, woman, and child in the country.
1t is more than one-eighth of the entire
annual sales of the merchandise of the
country, more than the entire product of
the precious metal from all the region west
of the Rocky Mountains for twenty years,
which is estimated by J. Ross Browne at
81, 100000. 1t is nearly ten times the
value of all the church property in the
United States, given in 1850 by the census
as $171 ,398, 532. 1t is more than one half
of the national debt.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-19
Daily Life of the Pope.

A CORRESPONDENT of French paper
describes his visit to the Pope. He says
that the Holy Father is rather tall and
stout. The furniture of his private room
is square table with three chairs, in
Guiding an armchair for himself The
room is small, with low ceiling, without
window curtains, and walled with cheap
paper. His bedroom has yellow curtains,
brick floor without carpet, and little
iron bedstead without curtains.
lie rises at six, shaYes, says his mass in
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-19

Is too hap-hazard. We have not yet come
down to the experimental facts in the case !;
but are fast approaching it. The impetus
was given bv MFR. Goodrich. After this,
potatoes will be an improvement on
former culture. The interest has sprung
up, and is extending rapidly-6da'an's
Rural New Yorker. b