Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-08-13
INDUSTRIAL.

A NEW industry is the shipment of live
| frogs from this country to England for
breeding purposes.
A VERY ingenious method Of making
inlaid or mosaic work in wood has lately
been introduced Two contrasting kinds
! of veneer-say bird's-eye maple and black
walnut-are laid one on the other, and
confined between the covers of whitewood
or something similar. The desired design
| is then cut through the whole by fine
| jig-saw hardly larger than a horse chair.
| The part that is cut out of the light-col-
| ored veneer is then set into the place OF
the corresponding part in the dark veneer,
| and gSce 0ersG, and glued firmly upon tbs
article to be Ornamented in the usual
manner of veneering.
| THE trade In tlssue-paper patterns is
enormous One house recently ordered
5000 reams of paper and 100000 envel
opes in which to place the patterns. These
patterns are so perfect that dresses for Co.'S
tune parties are easily mac e, and are fast
| becoming popular. These patterns are a
real boon to the mother of a family living
far from any village or settlement. Every
garment worn by meu, women or children
can be made from them; they are notched
at the places to join them; the number of
wards for each garment and its trimming
is faithfully given, ingenuity is fostered,
comfort is promoted, and, in fine, we are
inclined to class paper patterns among the
great inventions of the age.-N. 7. Sun.
AN extensive manufacture of lock and
morticed bricks is carried ON at Water.
bury, England. These bricks, while pro.
| ducing workmanship greatly superior to
walls built with pressed brick-being
| tongued, grooved and locked at intervals
at each angle-are also found to be strong
| er than common handmade bricks, be-
sides possessing the additional recon-
| mendation of effecting a saving of two
thirds in the material used. These lock
and morticed brick, it also appears, are
adapted to extensive and varied uses, and
are specially serviceable where space and
| light with solidity are an object. Their
| usefulness is likewise very manifest it is
stated, when employed for the building Of
or sustaining and retaining entertainments,
sea and other walls, quays and river front
ages, as also in the erection of shafts, and,
| in fact, the formation of all works to
which bricks can be applied.
! A VERY important, but, until quite re-
Gently, neglected, constituent of the waste
heap are the old iron, battered saucepans,
old pals, rusty hoops, and horse-shoes and
nails from the road. All waste soldered
articles now have the solder extracted from
them, as it is more valuable than the iron,
and the cheaper metal is then melted. MOI
are the horseshoe-nails mixed with the
common castiron, as they are much sought
after by gun makers for the purpose OF
making stub-twist barrels. Scraps of iron
it is found, may be made very useful ms
curing the copper in the streams washing
veins Of copper pyrites; pieces of bat
tered iron are placed in tanks, into which
these are collected, and under these cir
cumstances the copper incrusts the iron, in
process of time entirely dissolving it, 9
mass of copper thus taking the place o.
the iron, and the residuum, in the shape
of colored deposit, is at times taken out
dried and smelted. These are but few
among the almost numberless examples OF
utilization processes now in vogue, and by
means of which the merest and apparent
ly most worthless waste is made to yield
an important value.