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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11
A Curiosity.

One of the curiosities in Chicago is a
huge cannon ball weighing 1875 lbs, be-
longing to the big gun at Fortress Monroe,
the largest ever used in this country, If
not in the world. It is easy to imagine
that the sides of any vessel, either of wood
or iron, would present weak barrier to
such ball sped with the explosive force
of nearly half a barrel of powder. AS
those visiting Chicago may wish to see
this souUe7a6q of the late war, will tell
them where to find it. 1t lies on the side
walk next to the Chicago postofice, in
front of the office of THE LITTLE Cor
PoRAL," which-as its name indicates--is
the Napoleon of juvenile papers, having
in three years reached larger circulation
than any Juvenile magazine in the world.
1t is purely original, and its able corps OF
writer's have given it SO high literary
and moral character, and made it so at
tractiye, that it is everywhere eagerly
sought for. Though enlarged and greatly
improved, it is still kept at the old price OF
one dollar gear. The publisher, Alfred
L. Sewell, will send the November and
December numbers free to all who will
subscribe for 1869 during these months.
He will send sample copy for ten cents
and free to all who will try to raise club.
Large premiums are given for clubs. For
beauty, excellence and cheapness, it is the
King of Juvenile Magazines, and should
be in every American household. The
West may well be proud Of it and of its
unparalleled success.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11
Following and Manuring.

WHEN garden vegetables have been Sc
cured for the winter, the soil they occu-
pied should be MANFRED and turned up
into rough ridges with the spade or the
digging fork. Exposure to the atmosphere
and the yicissitudes of the weather will
ameliorate the soil, and render soluble
those inorganic ingredients which are
known as plant food When soil is fall
lowed in the fall, it will be dry, mellow
and friable in the spring, and consequent
ly in fine state of preparation for the
early crops. Following is very destructive
to weeds, and if it possessed no other
property to recommend it for adoption, It's
effect in exterminating weeds ought to be
sufficient to bring it into notice.
Manure for the coming season may be
prepared cow and applied to the soil at
every favorable opportunity. A mulch or
top dressing of rich compost will be very
beneficial to all fruit trees, bushes, vines
and canes When manure is applied in
the fall or winter, the ingredients will be
rendered soluble by frequent freezings
and thawings, and the action of the at
mosphere in connection with frost, snow
and rain, and as soon as vegetation COM
mences in spring, there will be an album
dance of plant food in immediate contact
with the roots. Composts for the orchard
and garden may be made OF substances
and liquids which are usually allowed to
go to waste, such as wood or coal ashes,
SCOT, dissolved bones, soap suds and other
slops from the kitchen, etc. Seasoned
muck, saturated with liquid manure, is an
excellent fertilizer for the orchard or gar
den Wester72 R1JTdJ
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11
How to Cook a Beefsteak.

A BEEFsTEAK ought always to- be broiled
to be the incest; but the following method
of cooking is recommended by lady
writer on the subject, which even those
who are accustomed to frying may be
willing to try "The frying-pan being
wiped very dry, place it upon the stove,
and let it become hot, 0ery hot. In the
meantime mangle the steak-if it chance
to be surloin, so much the better-pepper
and salt it, then lay it in the hot, dry pan,
which instantly cover as tight as possible.
When the raw flesh touches the heated
pan, of course it seethes and adheres to it,
but in few seconds it becomes loosened
and juicy. Every half minute turn the
steak; but be careful to keep it as much
as possible under cover. When nearly
done lay small piece of butter upon it,
and if you want much gravy add table
spoonful of strong, good coffee. In three
minutes from the time the steak first goes
into the pan it is ready for the table. This
method of cooking makes the most deli
cious, delicately broiled steak, full of juice,
yet retaining the healthy beefy flavor that
any John Bull could require. The same
method may be applied to mutton chops,
only they require little longer cooking
to prevent them from being rare. An ex-
cellent gravy may be made for them by
adding little cream, thickened with a
pinch of flour, into which, when off the
fire and partly cool, stir in the yolk of an
egg, well beaten"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

FEARS are entertained of famine in
British India.
SECRETARY SEWARD win, it is said. here
after live in New York city.
AT Toronto, Mr.. Hosken sues Miss
Graham for breach of promise of mar
rage. The lady denies a promise.
THE two daughters of Chief Justice
fancy are copyists in the Department of
the Interior at Washington, and are very
poor.
A BUFFALO family recently left their
house in charge of a servant girl. who
gave several balls, at which she shone in
her mistress dresses and jewelry.
The dentists of the United States have
oeen holding convention for the pur-
pose, as the chairman said, of devising
some means whereby they can null to.
gether
THE editor of the Louisville Democrat
IN his valedictory, says: "The worst sin
1 nave on my conscience is helping to
MAKE great men out Of small MATERIAL
In the lunatic asylum near Toronto
there is man who has been an inmate for
fifteen years, and during all that time. he
has not been known to speak a word to q
living soul. He is not dumb, either.
JOHN NEvIN, native of Ireland, and
living with his son at Underhill, Va, is
claimed to be one hundred and seventeen
years old, and yet as vigorous as man of
sixty. He has worked on his sons farm
during the past season. He is the father
OF thirteen children, the "baby" Of the
taiI'lly being fifty years old,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11
Potatoes q Remedy for Bots.

LATE in the summer-the large horse
or CAD fly, is busy in laying its small, vel.
low egg on the hairs on the sides and legs
of horses, which, being glutinous, adhere
there. The horse, in licking himself
touches the eggs, which burst, when q
small worm escapes, which adheres to the
tongue and is carried with his food to the
stomach, where it clings to the coat of the
stomach, and feeds and grows there until
spring, when it passes out of the body and
soon becomes fly. Youatt and Spencer,
in their work on the horse, claim that bots
do not injure horse, and cannot be. re-
moved from the stomach by medicine
they say the bots pass away IN the spring.
For more than fifty years have heard OF
horses, and have seen them, said to be sick
of bots, and to die of them. Many with a
view to remove them, pour molasses and
milk down the throat of the horse, of which
it is said the bots are fond so that they
are thus led to let 60 their hold Of the
stomach. This is soon followed by pint
of tanners oil or some other active ca
thartic, causing the horse to discharge the
bots.
When visiting a friend few months
since, worthy brother clergyman, he in
formed me that horse having died of the
bots in his neighborhood, his stomach hav-
ing been eaten through and through by
them, some of them were put in spirits of
turpentine and other fluids commonly
fatal to the life of worms and insects, but
did not suffer from them. They were
then put in the juice of the common po-
tato, and died instantly Cor. ~ r Oh
serDeT
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11
Desperate Encounter Between a Weasel
and Snake.

The following singular occurrence is
narrated by an eyewitness as having
transpired sometime last summer on the
farm of Mr.. William II. Bibbins, in Fair
field The narrator was spreading hay in
field, when his attention was attracted
to clump of tall grass some little distance,
from which a weasel was constantly
springing up in the air. Approaching
cautiously nearer he discovered the cause
Of this singular conduct. On little
mound of hay large copperhead snake,
at least three feet long, was coiled up, and
with head erect, darling tongue and ex-
posed fangs, was watching the weasel, who
was making a series of springs at the rep
tile. evidently with the intention of seiz-
ing it by the throat. The snake lodged and
the weasel continued his attack till at
length by sudden spring he caught the
snake by the throat, and furious strug-
gle ensued. The weasel held on, and the
snake wound himself around the body of
the animal, almost entirely covering it, and
seemed about to crush It to death, when
his weaselship Jet go bis hold on the
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11
An Astonishing Writer.

A CINCINNATI correspondent of the
Washington Star, writes: "The ENQUIRER
has specially in the shape of an editorial
writer, named Bloss, whose hand writing
is of such exceeding badness as to make
him an object OF considerable pride to
that establishment. They will tell you
exultantly that there are only three COM
positors in the Office who can decipher his
writing, and that they are able to do it
partly through great natural gifts and
partly from close study. To compensate
them for the trouble of setting up from
such manuscript, they are allowed the fat
advertising copy When Bloss writes
more copy than the three can set up, it is
requisite for one of them to read it off to
a photographer, who copies it out in a
fair hand. This remarkable bad writer
covers his page with set of characters,
linked together without an interstice, of
the size OF pea, resembling nothing so
much as pound of fish-hooks spread over
the space of ones palm. Great induce
ments have been held out to him to use
more paper; and wide-ruled foolscap has
been provided in great quantities to be-
guile him into legibility, but it is no go.
The question arises why employ the
writer of such manuscript, and the answer
is that he is prodigy insthe way of polit-
ical data walking cyclopedia of polit-
ical figures He can write two-column
article sristling with figures, and giving
the exact vote of any township in the
country, for any year, without needing to
refer to an authority"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11

OCCUPATION of some kind is necessary
to the health of mind and body in most
persons. Yet we are so lazy that, unless
we are forced to work, we are apt to do
nothing. For this reason it is that Cole
ridge would have every literary man
exercise profession. The body requires
a certain amount of atmospheric pressure
to the square inch. The mind must have
the pressure of incumbent duties, or it
will grow lax and spongy in texture for
want of it. For want of such pressure,
we see so many rich people always rest
less in search of rest, who cannot be easy
in Fifth avenue or Beacon street for think
ing of the Boulevards, and once there, are
counting the days until they are Lome
again. A life of mere gossip and amuse
ment may do well enough in some Old
World capitals but it is desperate in
American cities. A wicked Partisan
would find it punishment enough to be
sent to Philadelphia or New York or even
Boston when he dies.-AHGnt5c Almanac
for 1869.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11
The Musical Tone.

1t is curious fact in the history of
sounds that the loudest noises perish al
most on the spot where they are produced,
whereas musical tones will be heard at a
great distance. Thus, if we approach
within mile or two of a village in which
fair is held, we may hear very family
the clamor of the multitude, but most dis
tinctly the organs and other musical in
struments which are played for their
amusement If Cremona, real Amati,
be played by the side of modern fiddle,
the latter will sound much the louder of
the two, but the sweet, brilliant tones of
the Amati will be heard at distance to
which the other cannot reach. DR.. Young,
on the authority of Derham, states that at
Gibraltar, the human voice was heard at q
distance of ten miles. 1t is a well known
fact that the human voice may be heard at
greater distance than that of any other
animal. Thus, when the cottager in the
woods or in an open plain wishes to call
her husband who is working at distance,
she does not shout, but pitches her voice
at musical key, which she knows from
habit, and by that means reaches his ear.
Inc loudest roar of the loudest lion could
not penetrate so far. This property Of
musical sound in the human voice." SAYS
Young, :" is strikingly shown in the cathe-
drals abroad. Here the mass is entirely
performed in musical sounds, which be-
come audible to every devotee, however
placed in the remotest part OF the church;
whereas, if the same service had been
read, the sound would not have travelled
beyond the precincts of the choir"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11
A Discovery.

A writer in the Boston Post Democrat
icy, thinks he has made discovery, name
1y: that Grant is a Radical, and that the
idea which has been somewhat prevalent
in Democratic minds that he will pursue
a conservative policy, will prove delusive.
He has ascertained that at the last session
of Congress, Grant was in the lead on
what are termed the Radical measures
with reference to reconstruction, which is
undoubtedly true. A study of Gen.
Grants military orders since the war closed
will show any one clearly that, so far from
having no policy, he was always in adj
vance of Congress, pointing out the course
which legislation subsequently took in its
successive steps.
The writer in the Post has in truth only
got his eyes open to q fact of which the
people generally of the country have been
aware for long time, and those Demo
cratic politicians who have counted on
seeing the Republican party Tylerized or
Johnsonized through Gen. Grant, may as
well at once give up the delusive hope.
Gen. Grants administration will prove
radical enough to suit the party that elect
ed him, and if that is any consolation to
the Democracy, they are welcome to it,
Toledo Blade. - s-e
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11
The Law and Manners Of the Road.


ALL of us have ideas more or less correct,
in regard to the law which regulates our
use Of the highways; and at any rate good
sense and good nature are usually very safe
guides. A few words on the subject, how
ever, may not be amiss.
1t is commonly said that every one has
right to half the road This is practical
~ true, and comes about in this wise.
You and meet upon the road-our legal
rights are exactly equal, and both have q
right to go our several ways without OBJ
struction, so, popularity, wesay own half
and you half The law steps in to facili-
tate matters, and, directs each to turn to-
wards his right hand. This is true what
ever the load or the team for if one can
drive such team that another can pass
him but with difficulty or at all, then their
rights are no longer equal This point be-
comes very important in winter, for it is
no joke to turn your horse and all into the
deep snow while your neighbor goes
smoothly along the beaten path. No one
has a right SO to load his team as not to he
able to give up half the track to whoever
demands it.
A footman may choose the part. which
pleases him of any portion of his right
hand half of the way, and the team must
yield it to him. This is clearly soin win
ter, and no man is obliged to step into the
snow for one or two horses. This is the
law and the court awards it.
Now for the manners Of the road which
in some instances vary from the law there
of.
The first requirement of the road man.
ners is good nature and an accommodating
spirit. Do to others as you would have
them do to you. Always be willing to
yield more than half the space, then you
will be pretty sure to be equally well treat
ed. They who exact inches will have
inches exacted Of them. Ifyour neighbor
has heavy load, consult his convenience
as far as possible; you may sometimes be
loaded. 1t has become practical rule of
courtesy to turn for heavy teams, especial
ly in winter, and when the tracks are
heavy. But remember it was favor, not
your right, and you have a reciprocal
duty to perform, and one which, | am
sorry to observe, is not always borne in
mind. -
One word in relation to teams going the
same way, in which case mary seem to
think there is neither law nor manners.
When team comes up behind you, that
team has right toa reasonable space and
opportunity to pass on-in fact, to half the
road for that porpose-and your obstruct-
ing him in this lawful desire is both bad
manners and bad law. If your load is
heavy, do the best you can. In most cases
the very least that can be asked is that you
should stop. This is particularly so in the
winter, when it is heavy tax on team
to force it into trot in deep snow, or deep
mud, or frozen and deep ruts-made neces-
sary by your continuing to move on Re-
member the good old aphorism, which can
be so opportunity applied here" Wheel
grease is great lubricator, but good man.
ners a vastly greater one."-Erchanoe.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11

able ailments as distressing as itself, the BIT
TIERS are the only article proved by expert
dy. But although 1t was as a remedy for dys.
pepsia and biliousness that they first obtained
prestige twenty years ago, it is now well under
stood, both by the public and the medical profess
sion, that their curative properties take far
wider range. In nervous complaints, spasmodc
affections, fever and ague, and every variety Of
general and local debility, their effect is most sal
utary; and as a means of preparing the system
to resist damp, cold, poisonous elements in the
water or the air, privation, exposure, &C., no
medicinal agent at present known can be justly
compared with this powerful yet harmless tonic.
The feeble and sensitive, who can i'll Withstand
the inclemency of the winter season, will find the
BITTERS exactly the article they need to fortify
and sustain them
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11
Love lies bleeding !'-this is probably

Love lies bleeding r'-this is probably
one of the darndest lies that ever was
told.
When man loses his health, then he
just begins to take care on it. This is good
Judgment this is
An individual to be fine gentleman,
has either got to be born so, or be brought
up so from infancy, he cant learn it sudden
any more than he can learn how to talk
iinjun correctly by practicen on toma,
hawk. t:' 92eH i 50 ''t
If man wants to get at his actual di-
mansions let him visit grave yard.
L have often set down square on the ice
by having my feet git out of place., but L
never could see anything in it to laff at,
especially if there was some water on the
top of the ice,) but l notice other folks
can. E $50
Precept are like cold buckwheat slap
jacks, nobody feels like being sassy to-them
and nobody wants to adopt them.
II any man wants to be an old bachelor,
| and get sick at boarding tavern and have
back room in the fourth story and have
red hair chambermsid bring his water
cruel to him in tin wash basin, have
always said, and | stick to it yet he has
got right to do it. sle sa g
| 1t is dreadful easy work to repent OF
other folks sins-but not very profitable
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11
Physical Vitality

Cannot be attained while the digestive organs
lack tone and soundness. Inactive digestion af-
fects the whole physique of man, from the crown
of his head to the soes of his feet 1t is the fore
runner of Dyspepsia with its Undesirable miser-
les, and even prepares the way for worse disorders
We speak from experience as wellas on the author
ity ofall liberalminded medical practitioners, who
present voluminous array of testimony in its
favor. when we say that MIsHLER'S HERB BIT
TERS not only gives instant relief to every suf-
ferer, but affords the means for quick effectual
and permanent cure of all diseases arising from
a disorderee stomach, liver, &C. 1t completely
purifes the blood, cleanses the secrstfons, cor.
reefs every irregularity of the system re-frvig-
CRATES the constitution, and restofes the different
organs OF the body to healthy condition and
proper action. Sold everywhere.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11
Josh Billings Sayings.

There seems to be four styles of mind;
LIST, them who knows its so
ID, them who knows it amt so!
Sd, them who split the difference, and
guess at i'll
4th, them who don't care darn which
way it isl
There is but few men who hez character
enuff to lead life of idleness.
True love is spelt just the same in Chloe
taw as it is in English.
Those who retire from the world on &C.
count of its sins and peskiness must not
forget that they have yet to keep company
with person who wants Just as much
watchin as anybody else.
a puppy plays with every pup he meets,
but old dogs have few associates.
It costs good deal to be wise, but it
don't cost anything to be happy.
Necessity begot convenience, convent
ence begot pleasure, pleasure begot luxury;
luxury begot riot and disease, riot and dis
ease, between them, begot poverty, poverty
begot necessity sgain-and this is the re-
volution Of man and Is about al he can
hgsg On,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11

snakes throat, and popped" in true
weasel style, out of the convoluted en-
brace of his enemy, springing at least two
feet into the air. The snake then crawlee
under the mound Of hay, and in a few mo-
ments the weasel reappeared and crawled
after him, and from the tossing of the hay
a desperate fight seemed to be going on
beneath it. It ceased in short time, and
the weasel came out dragging the snake
after him, dead, with his throat bitten
open. The weasel dragged the snake into
a neighboring fence, and there they both
disappeared. -Bridg6p0rt Comm Stan
lGr6.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11
Revolt In the Interior,

When the stomach Is rebsllious, the liver contu-
nacious, the bowels disordered, the brain con-
fused, and the nerves In tumult call in the aid of
would restore quiet, regularity and harmony to
the action Of these important organs A large
proportion Of the complaints to which the human
family are subject, originate in indigestion. For
tbs distressing nasladys end psreat Of iarETaer
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11

rising up thro ugh that unwonted channel.
AS its trunk gradually grew through this
aperture and increased, its power to raise
the ponderaus mass of stone was specu-
lated on by many. Would the filbert tree
die in the attempt9 Would it burst the
milestone? or would it lift it up? In the
end, the little filbert tree lifted the mill
stone, and in 1868 wore it like crinoline
about its trunk; and Mr.. Waterton used to
sit upon it under the branching shade
EICcHd15qe
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-11
Power of a Growing Tree.

Walton Hall, England, had at one time
its own corn mill, and when that incon-
venient necessity no longer existed, the
mill stone was laid by in an orchard and
forgotten. The diameter Of this circular
stone measured five feet and half, while
its depth averaged seven inches through
out its center hole had diameter of
eleven inches BY mere accident, some
bird or squirrel had dropped the fruit of
the filbert tree through the hole on the
earth, aaa II 1919 the Seeding wss seen