Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-06-18
INDUSTRIAL.

Mr. KELLOGG, Northampton (Mass.)
blacksmith, although ninety years DID,
continues busily at work at his trade.
THERE has been cut upon the waters
of the Presque Isle, Maine, during the
past winter, some 100000 feet of lum-
ber.
1T is said that an onion grower in
Massachusetts who refused three dollars
barrel for his crop lately sold 212
barrels for fifty dollars, the best offer
he could get.
THE Springfield (Mass.) Republican
says tobacco raising has proved the
financial ruin of North Hadley. Recent
failures foot up 1925 ,000 real estate has
fallen one third'in the town, and busi-
ness is almost hopelessly stagnant.
THE Taunton (Mass.) Gazette says
there is an old lady in that city, ninety
six years old, who every spring runs a
good sized garden, doing all the spading,
planting, hoeing, wedding, ETC., with her
own hands. This year she has already
started her peas and potatoes, and pro-
poses to obtain a full crop if working
will do it. 9H86
The testing Of oils in a. simple mode
has always been desideratum. Miss
Kate Crane, in the Aneric111 Journal OF
Pharmacy, gives an account of, a series of
experiments instituted by her, which
tend to show that much reliance can be
placed on the figures produced by drop
ing oils on the surface of clean water,
first proposed by Tomlinson. In her ex-
periments single drop of oil was al
lowed to fall from burette held at a
distance of four inches from the surface
of dish of clean water. Tie time re-
quired for the production of certain fig
ures was carefully noted, as it appears
that several oils will produce very SINH
lar figures ultimately, if sufficient time
be given. Oil of turpentine spreads out
instantly and begins intestine motions,
finally forming beautiful laee-work.
Oil. of cinnamon forms figure not more
than half the size of the above. In few
seconds small portions are detached and
separate into distinct drops. Oil OF nut
meg forms large figure instantly, the
edge showing a beaded line. Poppy
seed oil spreads instantly to a large fig-
ure, retaining an unbroken form for few
seconds; then holes appear around the
edge, and soon the whole surface IS
broken up with curved lines. Cod-liver
oil spreads into a large film. A little
way from the edge small holes appear and
in a minute or two the surface is studded
with them These gradually enlarge,
assume irregular shapes, and become sep
arated by branching lines. As these oils
give different figures and behave differ
emily when mixed with one another OF
with lard oil, this method may be OF very
great use in the preliminary testing of
suspected oils. M
/ THE celebrated " bath-bricks," which
are known in almost every commercial
market, are manufactured from the de-
posts of the River Parrett, Bridgewater,
| England Millions of them are made
annually, and large body of operatives
are employed in the industry, in some
cases whole families of both sexes and
almost all ages working at one molding
This deposit is not found anywhere ID
the world besides, SO that BridgeWaIel
has to furnish the whole world with 'ne
article, which for certain purposes mas
/ long been deemed Indispensable. II Is
| remarkable fact that these Dath- Dricas
are Just as we'll known in China as II
England-th they are known IN India ana
indeed. all over the world.