Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-10-18
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

THE Washington Life Insurance Com
pany is increasing more than TWO thous.
and dollars per day, above all losses and
expenses.
WHEN at work in the garden or other
Mace where purslane grows, pull up the
weed and give it to the hogs; they will
eat it with a relish, and do as well upon
il as clover or tender corn-stalks. A Suf-
folk pig may be summered and kept fat
upon the purslane which ordinarily grows
in village garden, and with the aid OF
table Stops.
AT a meeting of the British Associa-
ton at Dublin, Mr.. Charles Blanconi, OF
Caspel. read paper relative to his extern
sive car establishment, after which a
gentleman stated that at Pickford's, the
great English Carrier, they could not
work a horse more than ten miles day,
and wished to hear Mr.. Blanconi's
opinion on the subject. Mr.. B. stated he
found by experience he could better
work a horse eight miles day for six
DAYS in the week than six miles day for
seven days. By not working on Sunday,
he effected saving of twelve per cent.
Mr.. Blanconi's opinion on this point is of
the highest importance, for he has over
900 horses, working sixty-seven con-
veyances, which daily travel 4, 2444
miles. 1t is also the result of forty
three years experience. Scientific Amer
lean. ---~
AN English journal impresses on the
minds of all sportsmen, old and young,
the necessity of caution in the use of
firearms. Every year witnesses some
dreadful accident-many fatal, Others at
tended with the loss of eyesight or a
limb. A large portion of them might be
averted with .tolerable care. The follow
ing "golden rules" are suggested: 1.
Never load or leave a loaded gun in the
house. 2. Never carry a quinn position
that if it went off accidentally it would
injure anyone. 8. Never carry gun
cooked when scrambling through a hedge
or leaping ditch. a. Never leave a gun
loosely againt tree or wall, as if it falls,
or is suddenly moved away, it is liable to
go off fe5. Never in sport. point toward
another d loaded or un1oaded piece OF
firearms. By strictly adhering to the
above rules many serious accidents would
be avoided. .,.s ..t,... 81, .....
RIVED shingles of clear pine are the
best, not only because of the durability OF
the stuff in and of itself, but because the
smooth cut of the drawing knife leaves
the least possible rcughness upon the sur
face for decay to take hold Of Next tC
these come rived spruce oand hemlock,
which, being far from as durable, may be
placed near the peak of the roof, while
the pine shingles are placed lower down
where the greater quantity of water pass
! ing over requires greater resistance tC
wear. Sawed shingles have, a = rough
surface which holds water and
causes rot; but if these were planned by
machinery and treated with some anti
septic substance, their durability might
be, doubled. Shingles made from steam
ed oak blocks, cut by q power machine
have an excellent shape at first, and last
well, the albumen of the wood being
coagulated by the steam, bat soon cur
up When exposed to the sun on roof
and are both unsightly and leaky. The
durability of even poor shingles can be
much increased BY covering with white
wash tinted gray by the addition Of ashes
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