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Curious Advertisements.

Some English journals contain Il class
Of advertisements which are seldom
seen in American papers They are
called - Exchanges" and are inserted
by those who wish to exchange one ar
ticle of any description for another of
equal value. The QUecR, Iady's news
paper in London, appears sometimes
with two hundred such advertisements
in one issue. To an American reader,
many Of them would be amusing, as,
for instance:
- l wish to find a happy home for q
very handsome setter; color, liver and
white; he is extremely gentle and good
tempered with children. Wanted in
exchange q harp music stand or musi-
cal box playing four tunes.-JOTN.N
81 have a very handsome Indian
scarf, for which I want a chilus silver
cup or Il little silver candlcstick.-JEN-
N.Y.
/ 81 want 10 exchange an old Latin
Bible, more than 500 years old, full o
+ curious pictures, for real pearl oTna'
mcnts, old point lace, OF old china
HECTOR
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g0EtEu.
- -
THE SONG OF THE GRAyE-D1GGEE.

THE SONG OF THE GRAVE-DIGGER.
of Death,'' in the same spirit with HOlbei II
as viii be seen in the following Song Of the
Grave Digger"
Poor mortals Imagine they stand on the
supported by all that is solid and sound;
Iis plank, and beneath it nay works 10 be
found;
] gather them in,
/ gather them in.
The child, strong and healthy, careers on the
Not thinking, not caring, scarce knowing OF
In an instant lie draws his last innocent
gather him in,
L gather him in.
The youtLin the vortex of foHy and crime,
Advised to repent answers mot IN my
Hewould If he knew he had run out his
J gather him in,
l gather him in.
Says Fifty, poor Sixty is breaking apace;
SeIf-deceiyer! he dreams not he's first IN the
He must long for the health that he secs in
gather him in,
gather him in.
" "Huzza!" says the dotard, " I'm turned OF
four score
And now shall live to a hundred or more >
4 nightfall his coffin is brought to the door;
gather him in,
gather him in. ~S-.----~-r--zs
The drunkaTd eXclaims, 9 FIJI my cup 10 the
In water iir life sinIzs-in brandy twill swim p
He dies as he speaks, and make sure OF him
gather him in, 4
1 gather him in. 81
The rich man observes his poor nCiGhborlOol2
old,
And hugs himself on his resources OF gold;
y lackey all Lace says, ." Il knell must be
TOLD ."
I gather him in,
/ gather him IN.
Even while he was speaking, the mOralist eli
Was digging, unthinlIing, a pit for himself
His spade and his mdttOck are lald on inc
shelf;
They've gathered him in,
They've gathered him in.
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SIN NND RAEN.

y young wife stood at u lattice pane,
In a study sad and brown,
Watching the drCary-, ceaseIess rain,
steadily pouring down
Drip, drip, drip,
It kept on its tirClCSS play;
And the poor little woman sighed. "Alr me
What a wTCtched, weary day!'
I'm eager hand at the door,
4 step as one III haste,
\ kiss upon her lips once more,
Au arm around her waist;
ThrOb, thTOb, thrOb,
Went her little heart, grateful and gay
As she thought, with smile, " WClIs after al
II isn't SO duh 4 dag -
Forgot was the Splashiug rain,
And the lowering skies above,
For the SOmbrc room was lighted JgI}u
BY the blessed sun of love;
Love, love, love!
Ran the little Nyifc'S murmUrCd lay
'' Without, it may threaten ana trOWn III 81
Will;
Within, what a glorious day.
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i)cakln3 OF IllS 1lleulClll4 proper
ofApumpkins, says that he once
Very. bad case of inflamatory
81 in WOman's arm, which
ed to an enormous size, by
8n it a pOulticc made of stCwed
Pdnipkin, which was renewed every
fifteen minutes till cured. He also said
-he knew of man cured of inflammation
bf the bowels by the same remedy.
He said that i'm his travels in Syria he
found pumpkin seeds almost universal
~ used by the people because of their
supposed medicinal qualities. Not be
cause they are diuretic, but as an anti
dOtc against aninalculse which inlest
the bowels. They are sold in the
streets as apples and nuts are here.
Ii is a medicinal fact persons have
been cured of tape-woTm by the use of
pumpkin seeds. The outer skin being
removed, the meats are bruised in Il
mortar into an oily, pasty mass. 1t is
swallowed by the patient after fasting
some hours, and it takes the place of
chyle i'm the stomach, and the tape
worm lets go its hold on the membrane,
and becomes goTged with this substance,
and in some measure, probably torpid.
Then Il large dose OF castor rs al
ministcred, and the worms iected
before they are able.to their
hold
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American BeesWax.


Touching the demand for American
beeswaX, and its annual consumption
in Europe, As. NIacrae, of Liverpool,
writes
As an in5sance of the consumption it
may be mentioned that one European
palace alone is said to burn ten thou
sand wax candles nightly! The meth
cd of lighting them is insenious. The
respective apartments being prepared
with the candles, an inflammable and
scented web-like link fgum cotton
runs from wick TO wick. Immediately
one end of the link is lit, the flame
flashes round the connected wax lights
with lightning raj iity, and i'm mo-
ment they are Simultaneous ntianl-
ed As the link consumes and lights
each candle, an agreeable scent il emit
ted, and the apartments at once, from
one end to the other, are thus not only
Illuminated, but perfectly refreshed and
perfunIed, as if by magic
American apiarists are, perhaps, not
aware of the enormous consumption of
/ the above article in Europe, and
the pTe-eminent value of the United
( States supply. Independently of the
very large yield of mineral and vCget-
able wakes, England alone must con-
sumo some 1000 tons Il year, to the
a NGAuC Ol3 oCtg s'-3--OyfOUOs AGo WI Nit 10
assessed by color, purity, and melting
point, and the latter process readily CN-
I poses adulteration or foreign matter.
GREEN ENVELOPES Treasury
4 Department annually uses many thou
sands of envelopes of a peculiar green
Ssh tint, which are rarely seen outside
I OF Government offices. No one, OH eN-
aiaining them, would suspect Of what
they are manufactured. They are
strOag, smooth and businCss-like i'll ap-
/ pearance, and have the letter IT y
stamped through the fibre. Old green
backs form the material of which they
are made. The Treasury Department
saves up ali the bits and remnants q
paper used in the manufacture of on
currency, with old stamps and bills
and all the nutilated greenbacks which
have come back tO It, and instead o
Z destroying the mass of rubbish, as wa:
formerly done, the Department turns
III over to the paper-makers, who re
turn it i'm the shape of servieeable en-
vel0pes. Many dollars are annually
saved to the Government by thi'
means These envelopes are used eX
tensively in the Custom Houses, tlit
Postoflice, Sub-TreaSury, and othc
Government offices.
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How VIC spend GdF Money.

There are pcdS e who think ita small
matter whether beef cost fifteen or
thirty cents per pound. What are tif-
teen cents to IL lofty soul ? But more
thoughtful persons find that the large
results of the life of a civilized cOmmu-
nifty are varied by the size of the f'rac
tiOns which are incessantly multiplied
itOn each other.
If one makes it personal question,
it may be laid down as one of not more
than three or four rules for living, that
one must know just how many cents
there are i'm a dollar. Or, to take Mr..
NIicawbeI's version: Income, twenty
pounds; expenses, nineteen pounds and
eleven pence; result, happiness. In
come, Wcnty pounds; expenses, twenty
pounds and one shilling; result, misery.
Take your bills for any year, and
look through them carefully. The
stems bclOw one dollar are not only the
most numerous, but theN make the
largest sum. Tie trifies spent for post
pradial cigars and like nameless eIc-
ments of expenditure, do not get into
bills at all; but twenty To forty per
cent. of our earnings dribbc out of our
purses in fractional currency. Most of
Us arc engaged in Il war with cents, and
eternal vigilance i the price of liberty.
list of necessities. But though no
general statement is possible, il i easy
to set down the necessities of any Peo-
pie. With the middle class-a class de-
termined by means Only-thcse prime
wants are meat, bread, vegetables,
: fruits, coffee, tea, sugar, and few 9th
els. To this it must be added that
houses and furniture take one-third ot
our incomes. Clothing, fuel, service
and items take another third, and arc
kept within that limit only by very
vigilant management of the bureau OF
the interior. The man who has a spend
thrift ut the head of his office may IA
well go under at once. In short, not
more than One-third of our incomes can
be saved for the table; generally less Is
left for this purpose Western jIOr,tHLql
1t is well-kHOwn fact that the En-
peror of Russia has repeatedly bad tc
ribic attack of delirium tremens. Dur
ing these attacks he is always tortured
1 by the belief that he murdered his t;C
thcr, Nicholas, and poisoned his Oldes
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Pulaski College.
Re-opens Monday, Jan. oath, 1870.

A.D. WALLACE, y. M,
Principal and Professor of Mathematics.
Mr.. 4. u. WALLACE,
Drawing, Painting, SUpcryiaiu" of iEima-
rv Department and Matrou.
PEoF. CIIAS. O. PAPE,
Professor Of Music.
MRS. CHAS. O. PAPE,
Teacher of Music.
MRS. ELLA G. Raspberry,
Preparatory Departments
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The Agc Of MethuseIah.

NTCthuseIah WIS the oldest man that
ever lived, yet the Bible tells us he died
before his father. We suppose that If
Enoch ,the father of AIethuselah) was
carried of by a Divine dispensatiOn,
d" and 1rds not, ," when his healthy boy
was only three hundred years old,
Gen. Y. 23, p, the latter might prop
crIv he called his " survivor" without
reference to the particular manner of
departure lby death or otherwise) OF the
parent. Methuselah, for all that ap-
pears 10 the contrary, might have lived
TO the destruction Of Jerusalem, had he
not been prcmatuTCly carried off Ill the
very prime Of his patriaTchal vigOr, by
that sweeping catastrophe the Noachlc
dcluge. We read that he was born lSf
wears before his eldest son; or i'll other
words, that he was lS7 years old when
Iamcch was born, Gen. Y. p, that
Lamech was 1S2 years old when Noah
was born, Gen. Y. 2S,) that Noah was
COG wears old when the flood OF waters
was unon the earth" Gen. vii. g..
Bv adding these three periods together
we find their sum to be9G0 years, which
would bc NIethuselah'S age, " when the
flood of waters was upon the earth >
and we know that he was not included
i'm his grandsOn's ark. This accOrds eX
actIv With the statement of the sacred
historian, Gen. V. %, that all tn,
davs of AIethuselah were nine hundred
sixty and nine years" before he died
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-05-06

Ohio farmers have novel way of
killing mice. They saturate piece OF
cotton with chlOrofOrm, and place il in
a barrel of grain, and in the morning
they will find mice enough in the bar
rel Tor a breakfast for q large family.
And. thcu. mice killed under the intlu-
cucc of chloroform can't bring action
against man for cruelty to animals.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-05-06

y San Francisco judge, speaking Of
taking the testimony of Chinaman,
said he would take the testimony of a
dog, if the dog could make him under
stand. That reminds us of our taking
testimony of a dog Onee,s in q case
where some apples had been stolen
from a farmer. We couldn't sit down
for week. He made us understand,
ylu know.
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and a W6C muse va
very day 50 Suset
bolical act, but still
ment, sought the 4
away from her OWL
ter a lapse Of years,
made a full confess
The family seek
x-apxr C,11iot A I9H
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facts ere secrecy had been enjoined.
The foster child of the poor widow
wilIkf@ reinstated in her full rights, and
bei.ssslllss,, a lady OF, !" sure enough; the
wide :entire family are amply pro
Yids 4, and the poignant sorrow ol
IN reared in luxury will be as
ID in great degree, by retaining
ihei' position of daughter.
p Truth, indeed, is OftentimCs stranger
than fiction Auburn DdiLy NctrS.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-11

A SMALL electric battery has been ap-
piled to ordinary sewing machines, and
has been found to operate them very sue
cessfully. Two small battery cups fur
nish sufficient power for all ordinary ma
chine-work, while three drive the needle
with astonishing rapidity through ten
thicknesses of material. The expense OF
operating by this means is said to be
about five cents day.
A FEW weeks ago merchant Of this
city was married. In the second week of
the honeymoon business required his
presence in ST. Louis. He notified his
wife of his intended departure and made
his preparations for the trip. At the
moment of leaving, his wife approached
him, put up her mouth and asked him to
kiss her goodbye. AS he intended re-
turning to the house before going to the
depot, he playfully refused, saying that he
had not time to wait. Unfortunately he
was preventcd rom going home again,
and left the city without bidding his wife
good-bye. After an absence of about two
weeks he returned and hastened to his
domestic bower, where he expected to
find his little wife waiting with opened
arms to receive him. But what was his
to find the house deserted, and
furniture sold, and his wife absent on
visit to her relations. And what was his
horror soon after to learn that she had
sued for a divorce. An interview fol-
lowed, mutual explanations were made,
and a reconciliation was effected, the sole
cause of the young wife's singular pro-
ceedings being g jealousy and the refusal OF
her husband to kiss her good bye.-Csn-
ca71,1dtS Gazette
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The Gold Investigation.

THE Committee on Banking and Cur
rency made report to the House on the
1st concerning their investigations into
the gold conspiracy in New York last fail.
The majority of the committee announce
that, in view of all the testimony, they
have come to the following conclusions:
1. Prominent bankers and merchants who
testified before the committee were nearly
unanimous in the opinion that there was
no sufficient reason for the existence OF the
Gold Exchange and Gold Exchange Bank:
that they were the source of measureless
evils, and ought to be destroyed.
2. The gold conspiracy dealt heavy
blow at our credit abroad by shaking the
faith of foreign capitalists In the stapllity
of our trade and honesty OF our people.
Hundreds of firms, engaged in legitimate
business, were wholly manned or severely
crippled. Importers of foreign goods
were. for many days, at the mercy of gam
blers and suffered heavy losses, in fact
that the entire country was injured, the
foundation of business and morality was
shaken, and the numerous delalcatlons
that shortly followed, are clearly traceable
to the mad spirit engendered by the specu-
lationS.
8. The committee find that the wicked
and cunningly devised attempt OF the
conspirators to compromise the Presl-
dent of the United States or his family
utterly failed Corbin, using the oppor-
tunity which his family relationship to
the President offered, and under that
worst form Of hypocrisy which puts on
the guise Of religion and patriotism, used
all his arts to learn something from the
private conversation of the President
which could be made profitable to him
and his eonspirators. But with all the
efforts of his associates the testimony
has not elected word or act OF the Pres-
ident inconsistent with that patrlotlsm
and integrity which beft the Chief Exec
utive of nation. The message sent 10
Corbin when his duplicity was nrst sus-
pected, and the order which laid the
strong hand of the government upon the
conspiratorg and broke their power, are
the most significant declarations that the
President held and treated them as enc
mics of the credit and business OF the
country.
The committee recommends the adop-
ton of the following resolutions
Res0lyed That the Committee of Ways and
Means be instructed to report bill levying such tax
on The transactions of the Gold Exchange and Cold
Exchange Clearing House, as IN 5helr Judgment
the interests of the country demand
Res0Eve0, That the Committee on the JuulSiaIy
be Instructed to inquire into the expedency OF re-
porting bill to define and PUNISH conspiracy
against the credit of the United States ana pusi-
ness of It's people. ,,. "a
ResoEUed That the Committee on Banking ana
Currency be instructed to inquire whether any
further legislation is necessary to prevent tpe nh
proper use of certified checks by National BANKS,
and that they have leave to report by Dill OF o1ner-
wise.
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Selected Miscellany.
BABY RHYME.


So new the kiss, so new the bliss
OF baby fingers tender
weight so warm upon the arm,
A sleepy, breathing spiendor;
O baby-bird sleep in thy nest,
Dear, warm wee bird, sleep in thy nest.
Two hands clasped fast, two lids downcast,
fEyes-brown or blue, which motherY)-
A heart as white as flowers at night,
Moon-kissed thai kiss each other;
Like bird at rest, so thou in nest - =
Sleep, baby-bird, sleep in thy nest.
So white the earth grew at thy birth,
(Thy tiny feet were whiter)--
So light the fall of snow Ger all,
(Thy warm home nest was ighterD
o baby rest, i'll folded nest,
And sleep, sweet bird, within such nest'
But baby dear, it is go queer,
Sometimes tn S world is clouded
And grey. and grey, beneath the day,
It. looks like friar shrouded.
But little guest, sleep in thy nest, ses
Nor know the rest--sleep in thy nest.
And over thee, all warm see
Two tear-bright eyes bend fondly;
And folded fast upon thee cast, /g Is
Are kisses falling softly. a.
Then bird at rest within the nest,
Sleep well, sleep wel-sleep in the nest.
o tiny thing without wing, y = Il
o bird with song yet hidden;
The guests with glee would welcome thee
Toile'sfesst la .r bidden; e.
And while the We . calls day to rest rf
We say, dear bird sleep in thy nest
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PERSONAL.

The following nominations were sent
to the Senate on the 25th: Geo. B. Good
win, to be Assessor of Internal Revenue
of the First District of Wisconsin. Post
masters-Theodore c. Phillips, Bay City,
Michigan; Geo. F. Clark, Los Angeles,
California.
Ex-Secretary Seward arrived in New
York city ON the evening of the 25th.
DIR. Livingstone's brother at Fernando
Po writes to London paper expressing
his belief in the safety of his relative.
The trial of George Vanderpool, at
Manistee, Michigan, for the murder Of
Herbert Field, as concluded on the 26th
ult, with verdict of guilty of murder in
the first degree. The prisoner solemnly
averred that he was innocent. He was
sentenced to solitary confinement for life
At the Police Court in Chicago, on the
26th ult., Miss Thompson, Miss Markham
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-11

ing hour having expired, the bill went over -.
Resolutions were adopted insructing the judiciary
Committee to INQUIRE by what means. and by
whom, the privileges of the House have been in
vaded by the publication of testimony taken before
the Committee on Banking and Currency in adj
vance of it's being reported to the House; also
Congress from conspiracies of offce-brokers and
others to make charges against members for extor-
ton; calling on the Secretary OF the Nay Tor for
steamer Oneida. The Indian appropriation bill
was further considered in Committee of the Whole
Various Executive documents were presented
Adjourned.
; In the Senate, on the Sd, bills were in
troduced--to regulate the foreign and coastvise
trade on the northern, northwestern and north
eastern frontiers OF the United States to enable
the Leavenworth, Lawrence 81 Galveston Railroad
to extend branch of its road: to repeal certain
acts passed by the Territorial Legislature Of Wyo
ming The bill to change Judicial circuits was
called up and the amendments defining limits OF CIR
cults were agreed to, "A resolution was adopted,
directing the Secretary of State to inform the Sen
ate what States have ratified the fifteenth amend
ment and transmitted notice thereof to the State
Department; also, from time to time, as any State
may hereafter ratify the same, to communicate
to the Senate The Funding bill was taken up
and debated, after which the Senate adjourned
In the House, on the Sd, the Senate
joint resolution allowing settlers on the late Sioux
reservation NIinnesota) to the 1st of March, 1871,
to make proof and payment on their claims, was
passed . Several resolutions of inquiry We're
adopted :. The bill to authorize the building OF
military and post road from washington TO New
York was reported. and an amendment providing
that the road should not be constructed without
the consent of the States through which 1t passed,
was rejected--iS to 49,. Bills were introduced
and referred-to build bridge aud railroad to the
Uintah mountains; giving to the Atchison, Tope.
ka d Santa Fe Railroad Company continuation of
its franchises and right OF way through the terri
tory. :. The Indian Appropriation bill with amend
ments, was reported In Committee of the Whole,
and passed. The Tariff bill was considered in
Committee of the Whole "A resolution was
adopted calling on the Secretary of War for in
formation relative to the late expedition against
the Piejan Indians. ..Adj djourned
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-11

ENGLISH papers announce that John
Bright has received from Mr.. Pullman
the offer of free ride from New York to
San Francisco. Mr.. Pullman promises, if
Mr.. Bright win come to America, to carry
him and as many of his friends as he may
name, across the continent in special
train of hotel and drawing-room cars,
stopping whenever he pleases on the
route, and making each halt as long as he
likes
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Democrats.

THE Muncie, Ind, Times has this to say
of a "female fiend in that county: :" By
her cruelty she literally drove two of her
daughters from her to seek home among
strangers. She beat and bruised them un-
til they were forced to fly from her pres
ence. The last thing she did to them was
to take as many pins as she could in one
hand and rake up and down their arms
with the points! She also took the orphan
child, living with her, and put it in pen
where several hogs were fattening, and
tried to make the brutes tear the flesh from
the child's body"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-11

THE Wayne county PENN Herald says;
cat or near Beech Pond, this county,
there lives German who may safely lay
claim to being the champion wretch of
this vicinity. His wife died some time
since, and he made her coffin himself, of
rough hemlock boards, in which he placed
some straw, upon which he placed the
corpse, entirely naked, then dug grave,
and buried his dead wife with as little
ceremony as one would a dog. A few
weeks ago, little son of his, or 5 years
old, died, and he inferred him in the same
manner. Some days after he was buried
pair of shears was missed from the house,
and could not be found Finally, this
monster remembered dropping them in
the straw of his little boys coffin while
he was working at it, and he forthwith
exhumed it, opened it, found the shears,
and coolly reinterred the box and its de-
clying contents"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-11

Gold closed In New York on the 8
af 11k
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DODGEvIILE, WISCONSIN, FRIDAY, MARCH II, 1870

and her armament would possibly be
recovered. A thorough investigation
was being held.