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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21
Language Of Insects.

A MOST singular discovery is that of the
antennal language of insects. Bees and
other insects are provided, as every body
knows, with feelers or antenn9. These
are, in fact, most delicate organs of touch,
warning of dangers, and serving the ami
mails to hold sort of conversation with
each other, and to communicate their de-
sires and wants. 4r
A strong hive of bees will contain thir-
ty-siX thousand workers. Each of these,
in order to be assured of the presence of
their queen, touches her every day with
It's antenna Should the queen die OF be
removed, the whole colony disperse them
selves and are seen in the hive no more,
perishing every one and quitting all the
stores of now useless honey which they
had labored so industriously 70 collect for
the use of themselves and OF the larvae
On the contrary, should the queen be put
into a wire cage, placed at the nottom OF
the hive, so that her subjects can touch
and feed her, they are contented, and the
business of the hive proceeds as usual.
This antennal power of communication
is not confined to bees. Wasps and ants,
and probably other insects exercise it. If
a caterpillar is placed near an ants nest a
most curious scene will often arise. A
solitary ant will perhaps discover it, and
eagerly attempt to draw it away. Not
being able to accomplish this, it will go up
to another ant and, by means of the anten-
nal language, brings it to the caterpillar.
Still these two are perhaps unable to per-
form the task of moving it. They will
separate and bring up achievements of
the community by the same means, till a
sufficient number is collected to enable
them to drag the caterpillar to their nest
O11ce n Week &
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21
The Power of Music.

ESSAYS almost without number have
been written on the power of music, but
none of them have SO touchingly and so
powerfully shown its wonderful effective
ness as the following narrative, which we
find in the New York JouraaM Of Music :.
One evening some time since, as Mr..
Theodore E. Perkins was sitting in the
room of the Howard Mission, New York,
conversing with the Rev. Mr.. Van Meter,
they were interrupted by wild looking
man, who exclaimed:
!" Is Awful Gardner here?"
"No," replied Mr. Van Meter.
"Then," exclaimed the man in accents
of despair, 81 am lost. If Awful Gardner
was here he could save me. He'd know
how because he's been the same road but
now I'm lostP' and drawing bowie knife
from under his vest, he was about to
plunge it into his bosom, when Mr. Van
Meter sprang forward and caught his arm
Seeing that It would be useless 70 attempt
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21
Sllaftered Constitufions.

Our constitution are elastic. They are not
easily shattered. In fact, strictly speaking,
Death alone can shatter them, for they represent
the reserve of vitality, which enables the en-
feebled system to react when the pressure of dis
ease is removed from it. But it is the fashion,
when the body is weak, the circulation 1apguid
the nerves tremulous and the mind depressed, to
say that the constitution is ruined, or broken
down. or shattered. In cases of the kind described
administer HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BIT
TIERS, and it will soon be seen how little ground
there is for this stereotyped note of alarm. The
tonic and Alternative properties of the specific, rap
idly diffused through the whole organization by
the stimulant which forms its basis, will immedi
ately create favorable reaction, and this reani-
mating process will go on as the medicine is con-
tinued until strength, health and mental activity
are completely restored Every day cures OF this
kind are accomplished Let the debilitated lnva-
lid when told by his condoling friends that = his
constitution is shattered, - have recourse at once
to this strength-recruiting preparation, in which
the finest stomachics and alternatives of the vege-
table kingdom are represented, and he will soon
be able to meet their gloomy forebodings with
confident smile, and to announce that he has
taken a new lease of life under its vitalizing
DeratfOn.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21
An Amusing Exchange of Pulpits.

THE Railway IN. j. Adv0cate, OF July
80, relates the following incident:
'sThe First Baptist and the First Metho-
dist Churches in Railway had each ar
ranged to have their pulpits supplied by a
clergyman named Miller, who was to be
found at the railroad depot at Elizabeth
on Sunday morning, and conveyed hence
in carriage. AT the appointed time the
Methodist vehicle drove up to the depot,
and the driver seeing gentleman in black
promenading on the platform, accosted
him, found his name was Miller, told him
his errand, and finally took him on board
and to Railway, where he preached for the
Methodists, though he is Baptist preacher.
The Baptists soon after found another
gentleman of the name of Miller, also
walking by the depot, and took him to
their church in Railway, where he gave
them good sermon. Both parties were
pleased, which is more than can usually be
said in the case of double mistake, and
all enjoyed the joke when it was known
how much their sectarianism had been in
danger without receiving any actual dam
apen - .slte rua
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21

and Wade Hampton the reversal OF re-
construction, which is rebel revenge.
Then Horatio Seymour was made candl-
date for President, who had declared that
the success of the war would be the rum
of the Union; and Frank Blair tor vice
President, who had insisted that recon
struction should be subverted by force,
and who said that he wished to be noml-
r .ted upon that declaration only AFTER
eight years the spirit of the old slavenold-
ers-arrogant, inhuman, un-Amerlcan,
arbarous-whieh had been laboring to de-
stroy the Government by force, and only
because it promised peacefully progressive
liberty, returned to its familiar arena, a
Democratic National Convention, ana I'M
mediately resumed control OF its old ma
chine-the Democratic party secure us
old purpose; exclusive political power.
Could any misfortune be so disastrous
to civilization as the restoration OF such a
spirit and such party to power IN TINS
Government, which is truly the van guard,
of equal constitutional liberty? Think OF
Wade Hampton, of Robert Toomos, OF
Howell Cobb, of Vallandigham, OF Pen
dleton, of Seymour, of Forrest. OF Fer
nando Wood, with policy founded upon
their declarations and principles, succeed,
ing Abraham Lincoln and the policy OF
the war for the Union! Is that by any
possibility or sophistication policy OF
peace or an era Of anything but the most
exasperated hatreds? Does any Amerl-
can citizen, still open to argument and re,
Election, honestly suppose that the spirit OF
Wade Hampton is more the spirit OF peace
and fraternal union than that of General
Grant, or that the career and the declara-
tons of Frank Blair promise wiser coun-
sells than those of Schuyler Colfax?
Yet this is the sharply defined issue
which the Democratic party has chosen to
offer to the country; and it could not have
done greater service to civilization. Had
it followed the advice of It's shrewder but
unprincipled minority, instead of its re-
lentless and naughty majority-bad it
yelled its hatreds and its hopes-it might
have pushed its hand nearer to the power
and plumber it burns to clutch. But it de-
ploys upon the open field. It flaunts its
black flags in the sunlight 1t loudly de-
mands reputation, disgrace, anarchy. 1t
eagerly threatens civil war if the country
will but give it chance. Let the country
lift its eyes-let it behold the years from
Sumter to Appomattox-let it reflect who
and what made those years-and answer
Hdrper's Weekly.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21
to wrest the knife from his grasp, Mr.. Van

to wrest the knife from his grasp, Mr.. Van
Meter sought to distract the mans atten-
ton from his suicidal purpose; but the
unfortunate creature was seized with mt
of delerium tremens and became unman'
ageable.
M. Perkins, not knowing what else to
do, sat down to the melodeon and began
to play and sing, Come We disconsolate."
The effect was magical. The man was
sufficiently calm for Mr.. Van Meter to
march him up and down the room, while
Mr.. Perkins continued to play and sing.
From Come we disconsolate," he struck
into "Jesus, to Thy dear arms I flee" The
effect was still marked After singing
that beautiful hymn, Mr.. Perkins COM
menced "Flee as a bird to your noun
tain" AS the strains of this exquisite
composition filled the room, the maniac
paused, sat down, covered his face with
his hands, and sobbed like child-or
rather like a broken hearted, remorseful
man. By this time, Mrs. Van Meter, who
was present when the man first burst into
the room, came in with bowl of strong
coffee which she had thoughtfully made,
and as soon as the weeping stranger be-
came sufficiently composed, she gave it to
him. That Quoted his nerves and re-
newed his strength, and in little while
he became completely restored to the pos
session of his faculties.
"Who is this man, was the question
which rose spontaneously to the lips OF
his deliverers. But all efforts to ascertain
who he was proved fruitless. He per-
sistently refused to give his name, or
to furnish any clue to his residence or
identity Mr.. Perkins accompanied him
to the St. Nicholas hotel, where he took a
room under an assumed name. But in
his conversation he had CHANGED to men
ton clergyman living in Newport, r. l.,
whom Mr.. Van Meter knew. The latter
Immediately wrote to the clergyman, stat
ing the case, and asking him to come to
the city. The clergyman came by the first
boat, and was taken at once to the hotel
where they fortunately found the poor
man. The clergyman knew him well. he
was rich resident of the city of Hartford
Connecticut, highly connected, married
man, and the father of several children
On coming into has patrimonY, he had
taken to dissipation, and the result is lndl
Gated in the foregoing sketch. But his
| day of salvation had come. The clergy
man took him back to Hartford. He threw
off the thraldom to rum which had de
graded him. He took his former position
! in society; and he is now living in Hart
| ford, respected Christian man, and afford
ing in his own person and history the mos
remarkable instance of the triumph O.
music over delirium that has ever come tt
our knowledge.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21
'g"d Preserving Green Corn for Water.

THE canning of corn in families so gen
orally fails that we cannot recommend the
trial. The next best thing to canned corn
lis that which is properly dried. The first
essential is good corn, and the next is to
dry it carefully before it gets too old
Mrs. M. L. Gage, of Ross county, Ohio,
communicates the following sensible ideas
about preparing it;
''" 1t is wonder that so few should have
any thing but field corn for table use; and
for drying there is still greater contrast
between the common field corn and the
garden varieties. / have been used for
years to drying corn. Boil the green ears
!, q minute or two, just to harden the milk,
ID then cut from the cob and spread ON a
cloth in the sun for two days, taking it in
at night; it will then keep anywhere.
When cooked, it is better to soak it few
hours, and boil in the same water. In
cold weather all that is wanted for a week
sorjtwo may be wet 1t cooks quicker and
Z tastes better. A little milk and flour
boiled in is almost as good as cream. I
have not given up drying corn, but for
two years past have put some down in
salt, which gives another variety, and is
more quickly prepared. At first had diff
ficulty in freshening it, and then it was
comparatively tasteless, but now l boil
the corn in one water a minute or two,
turn the water off, add few sliced pota-
toes, boil until they are done, drain off
the water, and add cream or butter. We
think this preparation tastes more like
summer corn than the dried corn does.
In sailing, | cut the green corn without
boiling, and pack it, alternating, one pint
of corn and small handful of salt. When
the. vessel is about full put on cover that
will fit down to the corn, and place small
weight on it, as it must be kept under the
brine which it makes from its own juice.
have, for the past two years, been can
ming green corn with tomatoes. l use
about one fourth part corn, cooking, the
two together. dFnave never heard of but
one case where green corn canned by it.
3 self did not spoil, but corn and tomatoes
canned together is perfect success. am.
,Agricultaftst.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21
Mental and Manual Labor.

PROF. HoUeHToN of Trinity College,
Dublin, has published some curious chem
ical computations respecting the relative
amounts of physical exhaustion produced
by mental and manual labor. According
to these chemical estimates, two hours of
severe mental study abstract from the hui
man system as much vital strength as is
taken from it by an entire day of mere
hand-work. This fact, which seems to
rest upon strictly scientific laws, shows
that the men who do brain work should be
careful, first, not to oyertask themselves
by continuous exsrtion; and secondly,
that they should not omit to take physical
exertion on portion of each day, suffi-
Gent to restore the equilibrium between
the nervous and the muscular systems
Med. and Slir0. RepOrtey.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21
A Hundred Years Ago

There were no railroads.
Not even a horse car.
Only one church in Brooklyn.
Ferry-boats not running.
Wall St., N. Y, slave market.
Not telegraph wire
Not even WoLCoTT's PAIN PAINT,
N. Y Herald not printed,
Harper's Weekly unknown,
Horace Greeley and JEFF. Davis unborn.
Grant had not smoked a cigar,
No President to impeach,
DR.. WoLCoTT No. 10 Chatham Square,
Did not remove pain free of cost,
Times have changed wonderfully,
Bleeding Blistering and Mercury are play
ing out,
Burning Liniments made of Turpentine. and
Cayenne Pepper lie on the shelves unsold not
even fools can be induced to purchase Them Pills
are Wondering for want of customers, although
coated with sugar. People know better than
dose their stomach with Paysic and Pukes.
This practice was worse than british, for even
a beast would not swallow such heathenish nos
trums.
WoLcoTT's PAIN PAINT cools Inflammation, heat
and fever without smart or stain, and everybody
knows they can prove it free of cost, at No. ITO
Chatham Square, N Y, and No 553 Broadway,
and that Paint is all the go at every Drug Store,
and is one hundred years ahead of the WORKOUT
nostrums formerly used.
Call and test it free OF cost
In. IRWIN 81 CO.,
Wholesale and Retail Agents, No. 159 South
Clark street, Chicago.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21
Agricultural Jokes.

THE Ohio Farmer let's off the following !:
Large horses are generally most admired
by farmers; but farmers are most ADMIRED
who pony up.
Prosperity is generally based upon
knowledge and industry; the swine VIII
always get most that nose most. =,
Farmers are like fowls, neither Will get
full crops without industry.
Because a man who attends f1ock OF
sheep is a shepherd, makes it no reason
that man who keeps cows should be
c0ac-drd.
We like to see farmer increase the
growth of useful plants and shrubs around
his home, but do not like to see him use
rails, poles, and boards to prop-a gate with.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21
Pigs in Summer.

FRoM late circular from John Haight,
our well known swine breeder, of Du Page
county, we take the following on the above
subject:
Summer is the time to make pork ;
making it in winter is much like running
a boat against wind and tide; it requires
too much food to keep up the animal heat.
If hogs have plenty of grass in summer,
and about half the corn they win eat, they
will fatten rapidly; and my belief is that
three pounds Of pork can be made from
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21
The RreYitY of Life.

6 TITS not for man to trife, life is BRIEF,
Our age is but the falling Of a leaf
We have no time to sport away the hours,
All must be earnest in world like ours.
Not many lives but one have we,
How sacred should that one be-
And still how many fritter away their lives nm
able to fill any useful purpose, because some lin,
gering disease units them for it, and they neglect
or refuse to use the remedies within their reach
God in his wonderful arrangement OF nature has
provided an antidote for all the ills that human
flesh is heir to, and by the aid of science, the
medicinal virtues of certain herbs, roots and
barks have been combined, and the result is now
known all over the civilized world as Mishler's
Herb Bitters. 1t thoroughly purifies the blood,
invieorates the nervous fbres, elevates the stand
ard Of all the vital forces, and sustains most
heathful tone of the entire human organization
Sold by all druggists and dealers. DR.. ). D. Hart
man g. Co., Proprietors, Lancaster, Pa.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21

heard him calculate he will bite mel he
will bite mel and replying with the jerk
or pull he gave him, he said, Yes. he will
bite YOU sure enough if you don't come
AWAY The enchantment was now at an
end, and turning to his friend, he fell pros
trate into his arms, and was very faint and
sick, and it was long ere he recovered
N.ntea hli o. Trn0eLer ...
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21

Some American ladies at Copenhagen,
who recently called on the Queen of Den
mark, were not a little astonished to see
that she wore cheap dress, and that, on
rising to receive them, she laid on her
working table a cotton stocking, on which
she had been working
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21

Twill send post paid four ounds of any of the above
varieties for dollar One ead post paid ten cents,
or twenty heads of different varieties paid for one
dollar
Send money by Money Orders, Registered Letters,
by Express, to GEO. A. DEITZ, hambersburg,
Pa. and your orders will be promptly filled. n,
es- This is the only Seed Wheat Experimental Farm
in the United States, where Seed Wheat is accmated
and grown for sale
SEND FOR A CIRCULAR. y '%
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21

yNANTED-An Agentin every township in ILLINOIS o,
wv Michigan and Indiana to sell the National Pen
Picture of lincoln and the Generals, with the Enamel
patton Proclamation. This picture Is full 81 historic
success of our Agents and their very atterng reports
will testify Send 70 cents for sample or two red stamps
for circular. HANEY & FROST, p. o. Box 65l chi
cago, Illinois. For Wisconsin, address b. NJ WORTH
INGTON, Madison, Wis.
TO YOU WONDER how we can sell thou
~ sands of Shawls Bed Blankets, Boots, Shoes 5liK
Dress Patterns Sheetings Shirtngs by the WeD Watcn
es Jewelry Silver Plated Hard and Glassware and give
choice in 800 articles of elegance and utility Tor On
DOLLAR each article? Send for circglar. AGENTS
Wanted. Address g. Y. MESERVE q CO., Llcensed
Brokers, IS Sudbury street, Boston, Mass.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21
An AntidOtN for Tobacco.

%his great remedy invariably ren,o0es dN.desFe
for kbdcco and is entirely ge6etable and hdrzsess.
invigorat the system, possesses great nonTshing and
Strengthening power, enables the stom9h to digest
the heartiest BOD, makes sleep refreshing and estab-
fishes robust heah Smokers and C&eaeers for Fiy
A Treatise the In(Sions EGccts of Tobacco, with
lists OF testimonials, reHsrenc%, etc, SENT FREE.
Agents wanted. AddrexDr. T. L. ABBOTT, Jersey
City, N. j. ~
DorE cured my brSner and myssX IT NEVER FAILS.
Rev. l. W<snoEMAKER, KelNy's Station, Pa
HEALTH AW STRENGTH GA1NEp.ONgaaned eleoen
t6S 9fHesh and am restored to sound hSlM by using
tne ANTIoTE S. d. BowLEs, Prospect MI Mo.
FgSG THE q. S. TREASURY, Secretary's Ndgce-
Plefse send supply of ANTIDoTE. The one reSeiycd
ZoS acne as s00rG SURELY 0. I. EDGAEN
tCOpyrigdted1 % ,,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21

NoTEs-From letters and reports received:
l. Your Axe is bound to be THE AXE.
III. 1t will cut 80 per cent. better
III. My brother lost one arm in the war; but with
your Axe, he can cut well as any one else can.
". If could not get another, twenty 1--WE (5) dol
lars would not buy it.
V. 1t will cut hooppoles better than any other Axe.
vi. would not be without it for anything.
For sale by all responsible dealers and the makers,
LIPPINC0TT 81 BAKEWELL,
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sole owners OF the Patents
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21

gLANDY's PORTABLE STEAM EN-
GINES 8. SAW MILLS.
Unequaled for ACCURACY, SPEED and DURABLE
ny Will saw from 6.OOD to $1,000 feet per
day. All machinery fully warranted. over
1900 now in use in the United States, Britlsn
Provinces, and South America. For Prices ana
Descriptions address,
FL q E BLAND1
ZauesvliIe, Ohio.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21
Twincs, COrdage. &c.

GILBERT HUBBARD 81 CO..
W TWINEs AND CORDAGE. Cotton Canvas1 "a,
widths TENTS, AWNINGS, d WAGON COVERS.
Tar Pitch Oakum Tackle Blocks, FLAGS-either
SILK or Bunting. 205 and 207 South Water St.,
irofa
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-05-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

SPRINGFIELD, H., May 20.
The Republicans held a meeting last nigh,
to ratify the nominations of Grant and Col
fax The attendance Was large. Hon.
James c. Conkliug, General John NJ. Palmer
and others, delivered speeches.
New HAvEy, May %.
The Yale Courier proposes that the stu
dents who graduated under the late Presiden,
Day contribute one dollar each TO erect q
suitable monument to him on the College
grounds.
The bill increas4ng the capital Of the New
York and New Haven Railroad, from ST..
600, 900 to Sle,00d 900, which recently passed
the Connecticut Legislature, has become a
law BY the expiration of the Constitutional
period. while the Senate was debating wheth-
er it should be recalled from the Governor or
not.
OMAHA, May 2s.
The Republicans held la arge meeting to-
night to ratify the nominations Of Grant and
Colfax.
Three miles of track were laid on Tuesday
on the Union PaciEie Railroad. The road
is now forty miles beyond Laramie City, the
present terminus. A new town is being built
ct the North Platta crossing, where the ter,
minus will be fixed shortly.
ST.. JoHs's Canada, May %.
Three hundred Zonayes, with Priest in
attendance, left here for Rome, via New
York, to-day.
BIobaISGTes, ILL.,, May %.
The Democracy of the 8th Congressional
District held their Convention yesterday, at
the Academy of Music, in this city. Hon.
B. s. Edwards was nominated for Congress
by acelamation.
WORCESTER Mass, May 90.
The venerable exsGovernor, Levi Lincoln,
died this morning, in his Seth year.
Hppsos, N. T., May 30.
brown, the Canaan child murderer, has
made lengthy written abatement, which he
will read from the scafold tomorrow.