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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

To Dye Green.-Boil the article first
in alum-water for an hour, then for three
hours in preparation composed of four
ounces of yerdigris, two quarts OF white
wine vinegar, and four quarts of water.
Saratoga Potatoes. Slice raw pota-
toes and throw into cold water. Have
ready lard, boiling hot; season the pota-
toes latter draining) with salt and pepper;
fry light brown. i -s.a
"A very good paste is made by taking
three ounces soft water, one ounce gum
arabic, and one-fourth ounce glycerine.
Dissolve by heat, and bottle for use. The
glycerine prevents it from spelling.
The Country Gentleman recommends
linseed oil meal for horses that are never
allowed to run out to grass, being slightly
aperient A handful in each feed, morn
ing and evening, is about the quantity
usually fed.
Hair Oil.-One pint of alcohol; two
ounces castor oil; few drops of per-
fumery. Shake well to cut the oil. This
is said to be splendid and nicely per-
fumed hair oil; it softens the hair, pro-
notes its growth, and prevents it from
falling out.
French Mustard.-A fine French
mustard, called moutard superbe, is thus
made: Salt, one and one-half pounds !;
scraped horseradish, one pound; garlic,
two cloves; boiling vinegar, two gallons;
macerate in a covered vessel for twenty
four hours, strain, and add enough of
mustard to make rather thin paste.
The Australian butchers have invent
ed an improved method of slaughtering
bullocks. At Sydney the animals are
driven, five at time, into the slaughter
house, where there is no person to be seen.
While they are quietly staring around the
strange, quiet apartment, man silently
passes above them, walking along the
open beams which closely cross the house
He is armed with lance with a point
like mortising chisel. One by one the
beasts are pierced with the weapon just
behind the horns. They drop instantly,
and, as soon as all are down, the other
men, waiting in the next apartment, enter
and bleed and dress the carcasses.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03
Diseases of the Blood.

"The Blood is the Life" When this source
is corrupted, the painful and sorrow-pro-
ducing effects are visible in many shapes. The
multifarious forms in which it manifests
itself would form subjects upon which I
might write volumes. But as all the varied
forms of disease which depend upon bad
blood are cured, or best treated, by such med
icines as take up from this fluid and excrete
from the system the noXious elements, it is
not of practical importance that should de-
scribe each. For instance, medical authors
describe about fifty varieties of skin diseases,
but as they all require for their cure very
similar treatment it is of no practical utility
to know just what name to apply to certain
form of skin disease, if you know how best to
cure it. Then again might go on and de-
scribe various kinds of scrOfulous sores,
fever sores, white swellings, enlarged
glands, and ulcers of varying appearance !;
might describe how virulent poison may show
itself in various forms of eruptions, ulcers,
sore throat, bony tumors, ETC.; but as all these
various appearing manifestations of bad blood
are cured by a uniform means, / deem such a
course unnecessary. Thoroughly cleanse the
blood, which is the great fountain of life, and
good digestion, fair skin, buoyant spirits
vital strength and soundness of constitution
will all return to us. For this purpose DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Purga-
needed. They are warranted to cure letter,
Salt Rheum, Scald Head, st. Anthony's Fire,
Rose Rash or Erysipelas, Ring Worms,
Pimples, Blotches, Spots, Eruptiops, Pustules,
Boils, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes, Rough Skin,
Scurf, Scrofulous Sores and Swellings, Fever
Sores, White Swellings, Tumors, Old Sores or
Swellings, Affections of the Skin, Throat and
Bones, and Ulcers of the Liver, Stomach,
Kidneys and Lungs.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03
How to Open Letters.

A young lady recently called at the
Registry Department of the Sacramento
POstoffice, according to the Record, OF
that city, and asked for the privilege of
reopening letter which she claimed to
have dropped in the box that morning.
The Postmaster, after finding the address
and taking particular description of
the missive sought, obligingly searched
among the letters in the "drop," and,
finding the letter, proceeded to open it In
the presence of the writer. In doing this
the Official used common lead pencil,
but the lapel of the envelope was stuck
to stay stuck" and general mutilation
was imminent. Observing the unprofes-
sional method, the lady said decidedly:
"Give it to me; let me show you" The
letter was handed over, when the fair
manipulation deity ran the thumb.nail
under the edges of the lapel: raising it
neatly. Following this up with delicate
touches in kind, it soon became apparent
that the opening, without leaving trace
of the manipulation, was only question
of time. The Postmaster and deputy
looked ON in charming and innocent in.
terest. The performance was high art {;
a deft facility eloquent of patient practice.
Neatly the work was done, and as the
careful opening was completed the lady
remarked, by way of explanation merely
and lest some inference unfavorable to
the legitimacy of this skill might be
drawn: =" | used to be in Postoff1ce my.
self, you see; / learned how it's done, as
you know" That Postmaster and that
deputy depose that they "see," but they
aver that the obvious meaning of the
words "you know" contains an insinua-
ton, and that anybody that says so is
another"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03
Effects of Tar on Fruit Trees.

I wish to state curious effect of tar
upon fruit trees which came under my
observation this year, and I hope it may
prove warning to all your readers who
may think of painting trees to prevent
hares or rabbits from barking them or for
any other purpose. These trees were
painted from the ground upward, one or
two feet; almost every tree-apple,
pear, peach, ounce, and all-ceased to
grow where painted, while that part of
the body above the painted portion con-
tinued to grow, expand, and thrive, as if
nothing had happened = the bark,
branches, and leaves all looking very
thrifty. A few of the trees died suddenly
while in full leaf; the others are now fine
looking above, but the body, where the
tar covered it, looks as though it had had
a laced jacket of iron around it for one
year, and is half inch or more less in
diameter. I think the whole orchard will
finally die, for some of the trees, from
weakness of the stem below and growing
weight above, are topping over. Does
this not show that the entire bark of a
tree as we'll as the leaf is an organ of
respiration? I shall continue my obser-
vations, and give you the result-R. N.
Wilson, IN Southern Form Home.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03
A Temperance Item.

In the last twenty years 24,602
convicts have been sent to the Peniten-
tiary at Albany. OF these 2I,057 have
acknowledged that previous to their con-
viction they were addicted to drunken
ness. 1t is more than probable that the
greater number of these convicts would
never have been guilty of the crimes for
which they were sentenced had they not
been inebriates. When we add to the
Penitentiary expenses of these criminals
the costs of police officers, courts and iails
previous to their conviction the question
arises whether it would not be more
economical to provide State asylums for
all pauperism directly attributable to in
temperate drinking, and make the asy-
lums also places of retreat and hospitals
for all inebriates who are willing to in
carcerate themselves and submit to neces-
sary rules and regulations for their cure
and reformation. The work performed
by the inmates of such asylums could
certainly be made much more remuner-
alive than convict labor. There is not
doubt that were ample provision to be
made for the safe-keeping of incurable
inebriates the expenditures of the public
treasury would be no greater than the ag-
gregate that is now paid 10y the people in
the form of fees to officers in every city,
village and town tor the suppression Of
disorders, misdemeanors and crimes d.
rectly consequent on drunkenness.-N. Y.
Sun
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

form of bombardment with moral plati-
tudes it is specially offensive. The soph-
istry, moreover, is in this case so trans
parent that one feels that ones intellect is
insulted at the same time that ones moral
character is deprecated. The statement
that things might have been worse" is as
universally applicable, and therefore has
as little special application in any case as
the statement that two and two make four.
Things might have been worse" said
the man in wise old popular legend, as
the devil was carrying him off to hell.
GLOW 500" asks his acquaintance.
Why, the devil" he answers, "might
have made me carry him." Fortunate,
indeed, is the person who has not been
irritated by friends acting in the spirit of
this consistent optimism, and who take
credit to themselves for SO acting as
though it were an indisputable proof of
virtue.-Loaadon Saturday Re0ieD.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03
An Exciting Rowing Match.

A YOUNG man of this city being at an
up-river town few days ago took a
skiff to row to the next town down stream.
About the time he put out he noticed a
man and woman in similar boat on the
opposite side of the Ohio, the man pull
ing with all his might down stream. The
Evansville youth did not want to be
beaten by man who had load while he
= had an empty skiff, so he bent himself to
the work with great energy. Row as hard
as he might the Oarsman on the other
side kept ahead CT him, until the young
man made up his mind that there
was something wrong with the current,
and he tried to cross.
This seemed to give additional energy
to the other Oarsman, whose "feathered
oar" was piled with such will that he
gained sensibly, and our Evansviller
dropped back, but still kept the couple in
sight.
After half a days row the single oars
man stopped at town, rested, and did
such business as he found, and took the
next steamer for home. On the way down
the steamer was hailed, and the couple
from the skiff got aboard. The young
man, after short time, approached the
champion oarsman and remarked: Well,
you beat me, didn't you, but tried hard
to get ahead"
Thunderation exclaimed the man,
"was that you pullin' after us? | tho't
it was Lies dad, an jest lit in with all
my might; but it's no use now; we's mar
ried for good now, stranger, an wouldn't
row that hard even eff the old man was to
heave in sight. "-Boans0iWe (Ird.) Jour-
NAL
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

COMMON SENSE REASONS why DIR
WALKERS CALIFORNIA VINEGAR BITIERs
should be used.
LIST. They are an entire Vegetable Bit
tiers, free from all alcoholic stimulants.
I'd. They are the result of careful
study, experiment and labor.
Sd. The greatest care is taken to Sc
cure Medicinal Virtues and exclude every
thing Objectionable.
4th. They unite, as a life-restoring sci.
entific tonic, the greatest Strengthening
and vitalizing principles.
9th. Persons of Sedentary habits and
overworked find in them "a specific for
soo'at Of appetite, palpStatson, debility, con.
sttpdtson, and many other nameless all.
ments.
9th. The aged find in them guarantee
of prolonged health and lSfe, and weak and
delicate females and mothers find especial
benefit from their use.
18th. They are the MASTER OF DIS.
EASE. *
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

AN OLD bachelor in Orleans County, Vt,
has been deferred from committing matri-
mony in the following way: Thinking
over the subject, and particularly the ex-
pense of maintaining family, he set the
table in his lonely abode with plates for
himself and an imaginary wife and five
children. He then sat down to dine, and
as often as he helped himself to food he
put the same quantity on each of the 9th
er plates, and surveyed the prospect, at
the same time computing the cost. He is
still bachelor.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03
Making the Best of Things.

There is no more generally accepted
maxim amongst writers of sermons and
moral essays than that which prescribes
the duty of making the best of things. In
one form or another it contains the pith
of the consolation generally offered to us
when suffering under any calamity. You
have lost one of your dearest friends you
are eXhorted to remember that if he had
lived longer he would have suffered many
more pangs; that if he had lived at Tim
buctoo you would never have had the adj
vantage of his acquaintance; and that if
you had not paid him some proper atten-
tons you would now have been bitterly
reproducing yourself. In short, you are
invited to send forth your Imagination
unto the boundless regions of the might
have beens, and to take comfort in reflect
ing that beneath the actual abyss into
which you have fallen yawns another
conceivable abyss of which you have
been lucky enough to stop short. From
the most serious down to the most insig-
nifcant troubles of life the same kind of
soothing ointment is applied to men IS
spiritual wound. You have lost fortune
rejoice that you have Eittance left to
keep you out of the workhouse: you are
suffering from the toothache-be thankful
that you have not also pain in our stom-
ach; steady rain sets in just as you are
about to take holiday-congratulat
yourself upon possessing an umbrella,
and think of the beautiful lights and
shades which might have been one mono
tonous breadth of sunshine
Everybody must have suffered at times
under well-meant exhortations of this kind,
whose conventional nature is indeed more
or less carefully hidden, but whose SUBJ
stance is formed out of these old common
places. The general formula is painfully
simple. However much you are suffer-
ing, the boundless fertility of human i'm
aglnatlon will always enable you to pic
ture some additional aggravation; it can
hardly be said of anybody that all the
avenues by which pain could approach
him are SO thronged that there is not
room for some additional grief to force
an entrance; and until that happens
there is always room for applying this
wearisome comfort There are people
who, if they saw man being broken on
wheel, would remark to him that at
any rate he had fine weather for the pur,
pose.
Now to the unregenerate human being
nothing is more vexatious than this mode
of consolation. AS general rule, all
comforters have been oficious and disa-
greeable people since the days of Job.
The difference between comforting
a sufferer and triumphing over his
misfortunes. is occasionally imper-
ceptible, and when the triumph takes the
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

DR.. WMHoFT's ANTI-PERIoDIc OR FEVER
AND AGUE ToNIo!-Wilhoft's Tonic has estab-
lished itself as the real infallible Chill cure.
1t is universally admitted to be the only reli-
able and harmless Chill medicine now in use.
Its efficacy is confirmed by thousands of GER
tificates of the very best people from all parts
of the country. It cures malarious diseases
of every type, from the shaking agues of the
lakes and valleys to the raging fevers of the
torrid zone. Try it! 1t has never been known
to fail. WHEELoCK, FINLAY q Co., Propri-
etors, New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALI. DRUGGISTS.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

DoN'T TAMPER WITH A CoLD.-Perhaps in
the whole category Of diseases to which hui
manity is susceptible, the cough is most neg
lected in its early stage. A simple cough is
generally regarded as a temporary affection
unpleasant, and nothing more; but to those
who have paid dearly for experience, 1t is the
signal for attack for the most fearful of all
diseases-C Consumption. cough Will lead to
consumption-if not checked-so sure as the
rivulet leads to the river, yet it is an easy
enemy to thwart, if met by the proper remedy.
Alle's's Lung Balsana is the great cough remedy
of the age. and it has earned its reputation by
merit alone. Sold by all good druggists.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

Nearly 1900 coke ovens in the vicin-
ity of Connellsville, Pa, have suspended,
owing to the inability to obtain satisfac-
tory freight rates ON account of the war
between the Pennsylvania and Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad Companies. If matters
are not adjusted nearly 5000 men will be
thrown out of employment, occasioning
great distress
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

SMALLPOX was shorn of its terrors by Jen-
ner, but the nineteenth century can boast of
the greatest improvement for the relief of de-
formity and suffering from Paralysis, Diseased
Joints, etc. The National Surgical Institute
of Indianapolis, Ind, stands without a rival
in the treatment of such cases; also Catarrh,
Chronic Diseases, Piles and Fistula. They
publish most striking and interesting jour
nal Send for it,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

B ARLEY WATER is said to be very bene
fetal for patients suffering from infiam-
matory diseases. Place two ounces pearl
barley in two quarts boiling water; boil
down to one quart, and strain. A little
lemon juice and sugar may be added if
desirable. 1t may be drank at pleasure.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

THE MAGIC INKsTAND.-This delightful lit
tie gem saves ninety per cent. of the steel pens
that are oxidized and ruined by the use of
ordinary ink. This item alone though great
is but one of its merits. 1t makes its own ink,
by adding water, and it will make any desired
color and keep up the supply for a lifetime.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

AT Binghamton, N. Y, the other
day, man was blown into the air ninety
nine and half feet in consequence of
the bursting of boiler. The local papers
refuse to stretch the distance six inches.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

+ "A stingy husband accounted for all
the blame of the lawlessness of his chill
dren in company by saying his wife al
ways gave them their own way. "Poor
thingsl It's all / have to give them. y
was the prompt reply.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

HANNAFoRD & THOMPSON, Publishers,
Chicago, sold the first large edition of
Periam's History of the Farmers Move
mentp in two weeks. A second edition,
embracing proceedings of the St. Louis
Convention held in Feb, 1874, is just be-
ing issued. Agents are reaping rich har-
vest with it. We advertise it this week.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

WITHOUT doubt hundreds of people who
will read this item are suffering with Kidney
Disease in some form, which might be cured
with bottle or two of JohnSon'S Anodyne Lini-
naeast, used internally. Why not try it?
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

A Springfield (Mass.) firm who have
already supplied the Russian Government
with 4o,0 900 cavalry pistols are now COM
pleting an order for 10000 more.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

Parsons Purgatiye Pills, which are now be-
ing extensively sold in this State, are purely
vegetable, and are mild and gentle in their
ce rtainly fae 'N 7.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

AGENTS desiring to canvass for popular,
QWack-sellsng, standard aoorks, as Art of
Money Making" by Mills, ETC., see card
of Allen Broomhall, Muscatine, Iowa.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

Domestic duties, many wives think,
should be written after the phonetic
fashion--do-teaze,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

KUHN'S EUROPEAN HOTEL is the place
to stop at in Chicago. $1.00 per day and
none better s
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03
why VIII You Suffer .

To all persons suffering
from rheumatism, Neuralgia,
Cramps in the limbs or stom-
ach, Bilious Collie, Pain In the
back, bowels or side. we would
say THE HoUsEHoLD PANAcEA
AND FAMILY LINrIENT Is Of all
Others the remedy you want
for internal and external use.
1t has cured the above COM
plants In thousands of cases.
There is no mistake about it.
Try it. Sold by all Druggists.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

sNOTHING BETTER said DR.. John Ware, of
Boston, than Catler Bros celebrated VEGETABLE
PULMONARY BALSAM, for Colds and Consumption,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03


gy- ASTHMA can be cured. See Hurst's advertise.
ment.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

WHEN WHITING TO ADVERTISERS
w please say You saw the advertisement
I'm this paper
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03
THE PIONEER,

handsome Illustrated Paper, containing the Home
stead LG1o, mailed free to all parts of the world.
Address o. F. DAVIS, Land Commissioner U. P. r. F..
tt OMAHA. NEB
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03
New Method for Reed ORGANS

Price $S.5O. by WIN. HI. CLARKE.
"A thorough Method. containing not only abundant
best Reed Organ Music, arranged and fitted with Mr.
Clarkes wellknown exquisite taste and skill. Sells
immensely.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03
Thirty Years Experience OF an Odd

Thirty Years Experience or an Odd
Nurse.
Mrs. WINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP is the prescrip-
ton of o. the best Female Physicians and Nurses
in the United States. and has been used for thirty
years with neverfailng safety and success by mill
ions OF mothers and children from the feeble infant
of one week old to the adult 1t corrects acidity of
the stomach, relieves wind colic regulates the bow
els and gives rest health and comfort to mother and
child We believe it to be the Best and Surest Rene
dy in the World In all cases of DYSENTERY and
DIARRHGA1N CHILDREN, whether 1t arises from
Teething or from any other cause. Full directions
for using will accompany each bottle. None Genuine
unless the fac-simile of CURTIS g. PERKINS is on
the outside wrapper.
SOLD BY ALL MEDICINE DEALERS.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

CURTIS & BROWN, Proprietors,
No. 215 Fulton street, New York.
Sold by Druggists and Chemists and Dealers IN
Medicines, at TWENTY-FIVE CENTS Box.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-03

Children Often Look Pale and Sick
From other cause than having worms in the stom
ach.
BROWNS vERMIFUGE COMFITS
will destroy Worms without injury to the child being
perfectly WHITE and free from all cooring other
injurious ingredients usually used in prepare
tiOns.
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