Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-01
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

BREAD and cake should be kept in q
tin box or stone jar.
CRANBERRIEs will keep all winter in
tirkin of water in a cellar.
ORANGES and lemons keep best wrapped
close in soft paper and laid in drawer.
DIVIDENDS are paid in cash in the Wash
ington Life Insurance Company, of New
York.
WHEN poultry or other meat is fresh
and good, it has firm, hard feel, and is
elastic; tainted meat feels soft. and returns
to its shape slowly when indentcd, like
dough when pressed with the finger.
Fresh meat, well killed, does not moisten
the finger; tainted meat does and has q
Shiny feel.
IF children could be taught few simple
rules about avoiding drafts, changes from
heavy to light clothing, sitting down in
cool room when prespiring freely, after
exercise, and so forth, what vast amounts
Of money would be saved in doctors bills.
But such things are not taught the chill
dren, hence they are to be learned as
adults later on in life, generally to their
sorrow american Builder.
THERE is probably no more delicious,
nutritious, and digestible food than chest
nuts properly roasted. If taken fresh
from the burr they may be placed in
covered chatting dish, and placed over a
brisk fire for ten or fifteen minutes, shak-
ing them all the time, as you would pop
corn. Ii they are somewhat dried, as we
usually find them in the market, they
should be boiled for about an hour and
then roasted over Goals or in hot stove
oven, for few moments. Raw chestnuts
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Digestion Western Ratr0l
AN EASY ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENT.
Take an open-faced watch that has a
crystal considerably convex, or full, and
lay upon it, nicely balanced, a common,
long-stemmed, clay tobacco pipe: Then
take wine.glass or plain surfaced goblet,
and, after vigorously rubbing it with a
silk handkerchief hold the edge of the
glass to the tip of the stem of the pipe,
and you can cause the pipe to revolve
upon the face of the watch, with the cleo
tricity degenerated on the glass. This is
a very pleasing experiment, and one
which almost any one can try.-Sch00tday
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A WRITER in the Western Ratrdl says: 81
have been invcnting a machine for trim
ming off strawberry runners, and it works
so well that thought others might like
to try it. The strawberry trimmer is
hoop of sawplate, say two or three
inches wide, and about three feet long
the lower edge sharp. Long, thin strips
of tin secure the hoop to wooden han
die, about five feet long. A set screw
fastens the Tapped ends of the sawplate
together and thus allows the hoop to be
made larger or smaller. Use the trim
mer' as the housewife cuts biscuits with
a cake-cutter, the rim being large enough
to encircle the plant and cut the run
ners."
WASHING FLANNELs.-It is said by
some, wash in warm water; by others, in
cold water. We know that warm water
will cause shrinking. A large, fine rose
blanket, washed at three different times,
shortened six to seven inches each wash
ing. In the center it pulled up and made
a shapeless thing. We were told to wash
in warm water and rinse in water of the
same temperature 1t was done, and
with perfect success. The blanket is even
longer and more even. The shrinking
seems to take place on the sudden change
of the temperature from warm water to
cold. The gradual cooling and drying
afterward does not seem to affect any; so
the slow change in the temperature of
frozen fruit leaves the fruit unhurt.
change.