Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-04-08
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

PREPARE for sickness in the day of
health, and for old age in thy youth.
BEAUTY eventually deserts its possessor,
but virtue and talent accompany him to
the grave.
No character can be lastingly injured by
fearless discharge of duty. Calumny or
prejudice may obscure it for time, but in
the end it will shine the brighter for the
clouds which obscure it.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Western Ru-
raj sent 1898 pounds of sunfower seed to
an oil mill and had returned to him 2l2
pounds of oil and 1871 pounds of oil
cake. The oil he finds superior lubri-
Gator, and thinks it may be valuable for
other purposes.
FL. GRIFFEN, Of Vermont, says in the
N. H. Farmer, have pumpkin that was
raised in the year 1868, that is about as
fresh looking as it was the fall it was
taken from the vine. / think it was the
largest one l raised. I kept it where it
would not freeze in the winter, out of the
cellar, and in the milk room in the sum-
mer. 1t bids fair to winter again.
In letter to an editor of the american
AgrscultaraSt, John Johnston, writes eff
you put good sounding bell on one of
your Cotswold sheep, the dogs will not
be so apt to hurt them; but he best
thingT ever tried is little strychnine on
piece of meat-and if the meat is tainted,
they find it better. | have often got rid
of dogs in this way. Put it around your
yards in the evening, and if the dogs
come, you will find some dead ones in the
morning. 1 once got two in the morning,
and several times one"
VERY high chimneys, such as two near
Glasgow, which are over 400 feet high,
are very apt to get out of perpendicular,
under the influence of high wind, before
the mortar has time to harden They are
generally Strengthened by repeatedly saw
ing into the bullying side and on remov-
ing the saw the chimney settles the
thickness of the cutting. The Scientific
american mentions the case of a chimney
345 feet high, in Barmen, Prussia, in
which the method tried was to replace
whole layers of brick by thinner layers
and allow the chimney to subside.
SECURING KNIvEs.-A lady correspond
ent of the american Agr5culturist writes
that for five years she has used water lime
for securing knives, forks, tins, and the
ike. She says: 81 have box with
partition and keep the lime in one part
anu Tie ciOtnS IN the OIner- wet
small cloth little and dip it in the lime,
and after the articles are well washed and
wiped, rub them until the spots are re-
moved. Then take larger, dry cloth,
dip it in the lime, and rub the articles
until polished to suit me. Wipe off the
dust from the knives and forks with a
dry cloth, and they are ready to put
away"
A WORD TO PARENTS. Remember that
the time must come in every family when
1t is the children's right to begin to think
and act for themselves, and the parents
duty to allow them to do it; when it is
wlsest gradually to slacken authority, to
sink command into g | wish" to grant
large freedom of opinion, and, above all,
in the expression of it. Likewise land
this ls most important element in fami-
~ union) to give license-nay, actual
sympathy = to wandering affections,
friendships, or lives which, for the time
being, seem TO find the home circle too
narrow and too dQll.--M5ss Mul0ck.