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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07

1t has no more relationship to the cur
rant jelly which she has stored in her
cupboard than butyric acid has with
truth. In fact, it has no connection, not
even of the most distant kind, with cur
rants at all.
Jellies and canned fruits constitute one
of the most grossly adulterated branches
of the manufacturers business. They
are made principally at the East, although
there are some manufactures in the West
But by far the greater proportion of the
jellies in general use which are
sold in tumblers are manufac-
tured by few firms who carry
on extensive works in New York, Phil
adelphia and other Eastern points. The
business has grown to immense proper
tons. 1t is to-day so large that the sup
ply of fruit is altogether inadequate to
meet the demand
The result is that there has been gen
eral resort on the part of jelly manu-
facturers to processes of adulteration.
In this case, unfortunately, the articles
used are not always harmless. They are
often very deleterious, always most Of
fensive. In jellies, calves feet glue is
the principal thing used, which, sweet
ened with sugar and colored by aniline
dyes, is passed off upon the innocent pub
lie as being the very fruit itself. Of
course the very general adulteration
enables the manufacturer to sell a tum-
bier of currant jelly to the purchaser at
far less than would have to be paid if
nothing but the Simon pure article was
used. But the advantage thus obtained
by the consumer of a cheap article is one
not worth possessing. 1t would be far
better to pay the price necessary to Sc
cure the pure currant Jelly than to be de-
frauded by paying less sum for foul
compound, consisting principally of glue
with some dangerous chemical prepare
ton thrown in to give the glue the neces-
sary color. But the race of fools is i'm
MORTAL" and the genealogy of knaves
stretches back to the flood, and will con-
tinue unto the coming of the millennium,
The value of currant and other fruit
jellies consists principally in the citric,
melic and tartaric acids that they con-
tain. The artificial jellies are altogether
innocent of any of these acids. They are
simply glue.-Ch5cdg0 Times.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07

hence the Importance in this connection.
of fall blowing and using the roller upon
land that is loose and friable and hence,
if old corn ground is sufficiently clean, it
is good plan to harrow in crop of small
grain upon it without blowing at all.
The earlier, also, that wheat gets well
started and natures the less it will suffer;
because it may be harvested before the
bugs acquire their greatest growth and
power for harm; hence, and from the
greater compactness Of the ground, winter
wheat suffers less than spring wheat.
Heavy rains are destructive to the
chinch-bug; hence, if such occur in the
fall, the farmer may plant with little fear
of injury the following year, while if they
occur in spring he need suffer no anxiety,
so far as chinch-bugs are concerned;
hence, also, where irrigation is practica-
BILE, the pest may at all times be over
come. It injuries no other plants than
grasses and cereals. In it's migration
from field to field it may be checked by
line of tar poured on the ground, or by
deep burrows or trenches, but the tar
must be kept soft and the surface of the
burrows friable and pulveriZed.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07
Weights and Measures

A CORRESPONDENT of the Ruraz Neao
Yorker says the imperial gallon (English)
holds ten pounds of water, the United
States gallon holds $3.50 pounds, and the
New York gallon holds exactly eight
pounds. 1t is a MISUNDERSTOOD fact
that the Constitution of the United
States provides that Congress and Con-
gress alone shall have power to regulate
the weights and measures used in this
country. Congress has enacted that the
gallon used in these United States shall
contain exactly 231 cubic inches or $3.50
pounds of water, and when the State of
New York passed law providing for a
gallon that would hold exactly eight
pounds of water the wiseacres at Albany
exceeded their power and the law was
unconstitutional and consequently null
and void. There is but one standard
gallon in the State of New York and
that gallon is the United States gallon.
Before leaving this subject it may be
well to allude to the laws passed in the
different States, declaring that the bushel
shall contain SO many pounds OF different
kinds of grain. 1t is a serious question
whether these laws are constitutional
We have no doubt that when contract
is made for so many bushels of grain the
courts would enforce the delivery of so
many measures each of which should
contain 2,150.42 cubic inches. The def
milton Illinois bushel" or "Iowa bush
ell" would not affect this decision. Hi
nois, Iowa and other States have no
right to adopt bushel which differs
from that of the United States.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07
A NIammOth Dispensary.
From the st. Louis Republican,

among the notable physicians of this
country, DR.. r. Y. Pierce, of Buffalo, n Y,
stands deservedly high. He has obtained pro-
fessional eminence through strictly legitimate
means, and fully deserves the enviable repu-
tatiOn which he enjoys. A thorough and
careful preparation for his calling and extern
sive reading, during a long and unusually
large practice, have made him extraordinarily
successful in his private practice, and gained
the commentator even of his professional
brethren. By devoting his attention mainly
to certain specialties he has been rewarded in
a very great degree, and in these lines is rec
ognized as leader. Not few of his prepa-
ratiOns compounded for these special cases
have been adopted and are used in their
private practice by physicians throughout
the country, and his pamphlets and larger
works upon these subjects have been wei
coined as valuable additions to medical litera-
ture, and placed among the regular textbooks
of many medical schools. Acknowledgement
OF the services which he has performed for
medical science has been made by presenta-
lions OF degrees from two of the first medical
institutions of the land, and by the translation
OF several of his works into German, Spanish
and other foreign languages. The increasing
demand for his specifics some time since ne
cessltated the opening of a regular dispensary
for their preparation, and from small begin
ming the business of this establishment has
now grown to mammoth proportions. Thus,
during the three months ending March 81
1874, the sum expended for postage alone
not to speak of that paid on newspapers
amounted to s2,osO70. Over hundred per-
sons are employed in the various departments
and5a corps of able and skilled physicians are
retained as an advisory board in difficult
cases. Elsewhere in to-day's Republican
whole page is devoted to a communication
from DIR. Pierce setting forth something of
the history and details of this vast establish
ment, which will be found not uninteresting
reading"
If you would patronize Medicines scientifi-
cally prepared by a skilled Physician and
Chemist-use DR.. Pierces Family Medicines.
Golden Medical Discovery is nutritious, tonic,
Alternative or blood cleansing, and an une-
qualed cough remedy; Pleasant Purgative
Pellets, scarcely larger than mustard seed,
constitute an agreeable and reliable physic;
Favorite Prescription, an unequaled remedy
for debilitated females; Extract of Smart
weed, a magical remedy for Pain, Bowel Com
plants, and an unequaled Liniment for both
human and horse flesh; while his Dr. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy is known the world over as
the greatest specific for Catarrh and p" Cold in
Head" ever given to the public.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07
Scientific Men.

SCIENTIFIC men hinder scientific prog
ress because they fail to apply their
knowledge to practical use. They are
known to the world as learned men; but
their knowledge is of little more use than
the Yankee side-hill pillow was to the Vir-
ginia planter whom l met in Lynchburg,
Va, under the following circumstances !:
l sat in the store of Yankee agricu,-
tural implement dealer one hot July day.
A tall, swarthy, intelligent-lo gen
tleman, on horseback, rode up to the
door He was followed by four-mule
team, attached to a heavy, covered Vir-
ginia wagon, driven by colored man.
"Good afternoon, Col. -" said the
dealer.
"Good evening"" was the response,
with an accent indicating irritation.
"What brings you to town so soon
again." asked the dealer, who evidently
feared something wrong, as he had sold
the planter pillow a day or two before
"Well, sir, I've brought that pillow
back" was the reply.
Brought the pillow back! Why, what
ails it? That was one of my best plows-
perfect in every respect"
"Well, sir" said the planter, with a
freezing dignity, "you remember there
was small piece OF iron attached to
that pillow with a string?"
EYES," was the response.
swell, sir, I'll be dog goned if either
[ or my old man could find place where
it would fit! We tried it every way and
could do nothing with it, and so there it
is in the wagon. / reckon you had bet
ter take it back or give me another"
The planter had hauled it twenty miles
in an empty wagon, with a four-mule
team.
"Why," said the dealer land you may
imagine there was broad smile upon
his face), "ttat ao0s an extra point for y0u
to use aohen the one 1a0ao on the pl0ao had
aoor7o out."
The planter, graduate of the Univer-
sity of Virginia, and really sensible
man, saao the point, and allowed he was a
fool. He knew he had pillow, but he
did not know how to use it. so men of
science have the implements of useful
ness, but too generally fail to use and to
teach others how to use them; and what
ever is useless is valueless; and for that
which is valueless there are no seekers.
Cor. RurdI Neoo Yorker.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07

JUST TAKEN HIS BITTERs.-We heard a
seedy-looking individual with an alarm
ingly red nose remark to brother soaker
that he had "just had his bitters, but he
did not mind taking another nip" His
remark suggested train of reflection.
How was it, we asked ourselves, that the
word "bitters" had grown to be a syno-
nym for gin, whisky, rum and other alco-
holic stimulants, to which it was applied
Unfortunately? Bitters, we reasoned,
suggested the idea of healthful tonic.
not of a poisonous stimulant; something
invigorating to the system, not an alco-
holic irritant, full of fusel-oil, producing
present intoxication and ultimate insan-
ity, idiocy, or premature DEATH More
over, our idea of bitters was totally irrec-
oncilable with "gin cocktails rum
punches" and "brandy smashes," which.
we are informed, are sweetened with
sugar, and rendered doubly Injurious
with essences colored by means of min
eral poison. This was bitter-sweet with
a vengeance. We mentioned this prob
lem to friend. He solved it by exclaim-
ing: Why, don't you know that most
of these bitters advertised as RENE
dies are only drains in disguiseg
Topers know it if you do not.
/ must make one exception, how
ever" he said, and that's Dr.. WALKERS
CALIFORNIA VINEGAR Buffers: there
isn't particle of alcohol or fermented
liquor in it, and it is the best vegetable
tonic and Alternative in America. y
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07
An Alligator Allegation.

THAT alligators swallow their young !
have ocular demonstration in single
case, and have the universal tradition of
negroes and whites in this region of
Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas that
such is their habit. In the winter of
1884 l was engaged markings survey on
the banks of the Homochitto Lake The
day was warm and sunny, and, as /
halted near the margin of pond partly
dried up to pick some shells, | started a
litter of young alligators that scampered
off, yelping like puppies, and retreating
some twenty yards to the bank of Lake
Homochitto. saw them reach their
refuge in the mouth of five-foot alligator.
She evidently held open her mouth to
receive them, as, in single file, they
passed in beyond my observation. The
dam then turned slowly round, and slid
down beneath the water, passing into a
large opening in the bank beneath the
root of an ash tree. Doubtless this
refuge is temporary, and the young are
released at their own or the mothers
pleasure.-PopuEar Science M,nthly for
august.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07
Very Peculiar Jellies.

JELLIEs, generally, are frauds. They
may be described, indeed, as base, double
frauds. They are not what they seem,
either il. size of tumbler or in quality of
article. They look beautiful and tempt
ing, and accomplish that peculiar feat of
making ones mouth water as speedily as
anything. Every lady visitor to a res
taurant looks with envy at the clear,
bright color of the jellies that occupy the
post of honor on the top of the pickle
bottles in the windows of the establish
ment. If she be visitor from the country
she generally insists that her husband
shall carry home sample, to be tested
on the first opportunity. Woman-like
she learns" with Goldsmith's heroine,
too late that men betray." Her beauti-
full currant jelly is villainous mixture.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07

Not Quite So Fast, MIR. JOnes!-A horse
doctor in Philadelphia caught changing the cele-
brated Mexican Mustang Eminent into other bottles
and using it as his recipe Honesty is always the
best policy. These medicine men like to follow up
such fellows 1t cured the lame horse all the same
but it damaged the Doctors reputation, and benefited
the proprietor in proportion. We have heard of so
many Rheumatic persons and lame horses being cured
by the Mustang Eminent that advise every house.
keeper lveryman and planter to invest In 50ct or
S00 bottle against accident Beware of eounterfeits
1t is wrapped in steel engraving, signed &c. w.
Westbrook, Chemist"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07

WILHoFT's FEVER AND AGUE ToNIC.-This
medicine is used by construction companies
for the benefit of their employees, when en-
gagged in malarial districts The highest tes-
timonials have been given by contractors and
by the Presidents of some of the leading rail
roads in the South and West When men are
congregated in large numbers in the neigh
borhood of swamps and rivers, Wilhoft's Tonic
will prove valuable addition to the stock of
medicines, and will amply reward the compa-
ny in the saving of time, labor and money.
We recommend it to all. WREELocK, FINLkY
Il Co., Proprietors, New Orleans.
FoR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07
The Ladies' sorosfs Club, of New York,

The Ladies' Sorosfs Club, of New York, re-
Gently changed their discussions from Woman's suf
frage to Hair Preparations and Pimple Banishers.
They declared that where nature had not endowed
them with beauty, it was their rghtyea, their duty
to seek it where they could So they all voted that
Magnolia Balm overcame Sallowness, Rough Skin and
Ringmarks, and gave to the complexion most dis
angae (Sorosian) and marbleke appearance danger
Gus to men, no doubt); and thatIgons Kathairon
made the hair grow thick, soft and awful pretty, and
moreover prevented it from turning gray. If thepro
pretors of these articles did not send the sisters in
voice, they are not smart.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07

le Grand Revolution IN MEDICAL TREAT
MENT, which was commenced in 1850 is still in prog
ress. Nothing stop it, for it is founded on the
principle now universally acknowledged, that phys.
cal vgor is the most formidable antagonist of all hui
man ailments, and experience has shown that PLAN
TArIoN BITTERs is peerless invigorant, as well as
the best possible safeguard against epidemic diseases
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07

WANTED-1oO,0 MEN.-Apply for a
situation at the nearest gents furnishing
store. They viii engage you by your paying
the price of box or more of Elmwood Col
lars, which you can take home with you.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07

For stumbling horses shoe the foot
as flat as possible, not having corks on
the shoe except in slippery going, and
then as low and short as possible and yet
prevent the horse from slipping. The OPP
posite foot should be shod like the lame
one. Never let the smith pare the frog
of the foot, whether sound or other
wise
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07

III Os w dthOI OdllIUTitId v lU~
e.yar BitterS are a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the ma.
tive herbs found on the lower ranges of
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor-
MIA, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted therefrom without the use
of Alcohol. The question is. almost
daily asked, "What is the cause of the
unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIT
rERSW Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re-
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and life giving principle,
a perfect Renovation and Invigorator
of the system. Never before in the
history of the world has a medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities of VINEGAR BITTERs in healing the
sick of every disease man is heir to. They
are gentle Purgative as well as Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation of
Che liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious
Diseases.
The properties of DIR. WALKERS
VINEGAR BITTERs are Aperient, Diaphoretic,
Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretie
Sedative, Counter rritant, Sudoritic. Altera
tive. and Anti Bilious.
II. III. MCDONALD u CO.,
Druggists and Gen. Agts., San Francisco California
and cor. of Washington and Charlton Sts, N. Y.
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07

THE raising of clover is found tobe
the most successful and cheapest mode
of enriching the ground. Wherever
clover can be successfully cultivated the
land can be made productive and re-
munerative.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07

To BOIL meat place it in large pieces
in boiling water, and keep it there for
five minutes. The high temperature
coagulates the albumen at the surface of
the meat, stops up it's pores, and thus
prevents the juice from escaping. After
this boiling for about five minutes, add
enough cold waterto reduce the heat to
about $50 degrees Fahrenheit, and keep
it at that temperature till the meat is
sufficiently cooked 1t will then be
found to be tender, juicy, savory and nu-
tritious.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07

THE NORTHWESTERN HORSE NAB. CO..,
g Finished'' Nail is the best in the world.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07
WOman's Work i'm the Domestic
Sphere.

IT remains to add that Dr. Priestley
was eminently fortunate in his domestic
relations. His wife possessed rare
qualifications as helpmeet to her hus-
band, and had large share in the sue
cess of his career; for, although, as far
as we can learn, she did not participate
in his special studies, yet it appears that,
but for her, he never could have carried
through his numerous and formidable
undertakings. His testimony to this is
explicit. He says: "My wife was
woman of excellent understanding, much
improved by reading, of great fortitude
and strength of mind, of temper in the
highest degree affectionate and generous,
feeling strongly for others and little for
herself Also, greatly excelling in ev-
erything relating to household affairs,
she entirely relieved me of all concern of
that kind, which allowed me to give all
my time to the prosecution of my stud
les and the other duties of my station"
His son states that his father used to say
that he was merely lodger, and had all
his time to devote to his own pursuits.
All honor, then, to the wife to whose
womanly devotion the world is indebted
for whatever is great and good in the
achievements Of the husband! We have
attributes all his profoundest thoughts to
the genius of his wife, he being really only
a scribe and editor; but we here see how
a great man may owe his intellectual en-
inence to his wife, even though she be
not so gifted as to be able to furnish all
his best ideas Of the two methods this is
certainly the most encouraging for
woman, as it assigns the highest office to
her acknowledged capacities, and pre-
cludes all question of rivalry. The
united pair work in separate spheres and
different ways to the same end; and the
wife's affections become as indispensable
to the result as the husbands intellect.
Had Mrs. Priestley been animated by
modern views, and essayed to carve out
her own separate fortune in the field of
science or theology, it is eminently prob
able that she would have failed to do
any great thing herself, and quite certain
that she would have effectually defeated
her husband. This must have been the
result, if what DR.. Priestley says is true,
that her efficient domestic aid and her
sympathetic support in his trials and
sutferings were among the indispensable
conditions of his own success. And thus,
in the seclusion of her own family, alb
sOrbed in social cares, forgetting herself
in instructive solicitude for others, and
probably with no ambition beyond, this
true woman and model wife was really
joint-partner with her illustrious husband
in the good he accomplished, if not in the
fame he won. And who shall say that
hers was not, after all, the nobler and
happier share of the work Pc. L. You
mans, IN Popular Science Monthly for
august
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07

THERE is new hat for rainy days
simple frame with a handkerchief
over it.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07

WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS
w please say You saw the Advertisement
In this DaDer
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07

w- ASTHMA can be cured. See Hurst's advertise
ment.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07

d.S d.1A per day at home. Terms Free Address |
spO epHUGE STINsoN & Co.. Portland, Maine. |
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-01-31
The Forenoon Tonlo of the Arn.

Taking into consideration the character Of its
vouchers, tho history Of its cnres and its I'M.
menge annual sales, HostetteI's Stomach Bitterb
may befAirly entitled the Foremost Tonic Of the
Age. ills not only tonic but . constitutional
Ana local Alternative, and tte tendency Is to sub.
the system. II the stomach 10 feeble and torpid
II produces vltalizlng impression upon its nu.
cous tissues. No sooner has the dyspeptic swal
lowed dose oft than no knows BY his sonSa.
tons that bis stomach has received an accession
ability 70 digest and ssslsmllAtO It n the liver
is detelict, II improves the condition OF the or.
gan and impartS 70 II tGwAhd healthlll I'm.
pulse. The bowels being DISTRACTED, It promotes
the flow Of bile into the intestinal canal and
thereby relieves them and re.estAbllAh0b their
nerves and the kidneys Is equally sAlutary. In
short, II tones, alters and regulates the whole
system. ldGW