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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17
Country Life In Germany.

The Countess Won Bothmer writes !" In
Germany there are no smiling villages,
where squire and parson and lord of the
manor meet on terms of friendly equality {;
no big, red brick houses with paddocks and
shrubberies and brilliant gardens; no trim
villas with closely shaver lawns, geomet-
rical flower beds, and a man and maid
to keep things going. Germany is thin
ly-populated country; the scattered vii
lagos are mere assemblages of huts, dis
mally huddled together. The Pachter, or
tenant-farmer, may have smart, trim
abode, and the Bauer mot, as is often sup
posed, the patient, plodding peasant but
"a sort of yeoman farmer, tilling his own
little plot has doubtless gold AMI silver
and linen galore cunningly secreted in
chests and presses, after the manner of his
kind in other countries. And there, too, is
the parson; but neither he nor any one
else thinks of model cottages, drain
ing, window gardening, or the like
In short, there is no one to think
of it. The farmer is usually greedy,
grasping, extortionate man; the Bauer
much the same; the parson, farmer
like the rest, is very much like the rest, as we
shall see elsewhere, in other matters. The
lord of the soil is a great noble; the estate is
twenty, thirty, forty miles in circumfer-
ence, and his well-tilled acres bring him
vast revenue. He comes occasionally
for the shooting, and his stewards and
bailiffs transact the necessary business Of
the estate with him. From the foregoing
it will be readily understood why it is
that German women can know nothing of
the charm of country-life. There is no
such thing as Countrywide, as we under
stand it, in Germany; no cosy sociability
smiling snugness, pleasant bountles and
Inequalities; and, above all, for the young
folk, no freedom, filtration, boatings,
sketchings, high teas, scamperings, and
merrlments generally. Society in small
towns is neces, arily very restricted; COM
mercial people these have hitherto been
generally jews visiting among each other /;
professors and professional mems families
forming another circle; while society
proper, consisting of officers families, of
those splaced' about the court, of the
higher civil functionaries, with scatter
ing of the nobLesse unattached, who prefer
living in town, or have retired from
active service, regard all outside their own
exclusive circle with supreme indiffer-
ence, not to say contempt" @
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17

:, A patient has duh, heavy feeling about
the head, with dizzy, whirling sensation
when rising up suddenly, bad taste in the
mouth, with foul breath, feeling like d load
on the stomach after eating, with faint,
all-gone sensation at the pit of the stomach
that food will not satisfy, pains about the
side, back or shoulder, hands and feet some
times cold and clammy, alternating with hot
hushes, sour eructations from the stomach,
eyes tinged with yellow, blood thick and
stagnant, with costive bowels, and all at.
tendant symptoms. One doctor examines
the case and calls it liver complaint, another
kidney disease, another dyspepsia, and still
another impurity of the blood. Now the
fact is all of these doctors are right and they
are all wrong, because such patients have
all OF these diseases combined, and the
reason such diseases are not cured is because
the custom is to treat one of the diseases at
time. While one is being cured the other
gets worse. We should treat the disease
with a remedy tEat will act upon all at the
same time. The SHAKER EXTRACT OF RooTs
mot patent medicine) is so made by the
Shakers as to effectually remove all of these
distressing symptoms. Sold by A. j. White,
S19 Pearl street, N. Y. Agents wanted.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17
The Partisan Vampire.

During the excitement of 1913 there was
a great deal OF talk about sort of French
"spring -heeled jack who used to leap
the walls, dig out the bodies, cut them up
and leave the pieces strewn about the trees.
Watch was kept, mastiffs were let loose,
spring guns were set; but it was not till
after several months that Serg. Mai. Ber
trand, who had gone into the hospital
with number Of strange wounds in the
back, was proved TO re the vampire !"
According to his account it was period
ical madness which forced him to leap the
cemetery walls, to tear out the bodies with
his unhelped hands, and to dismember
them. The dogs sneaked off when he
walked straight up to them, which does
not say much for French dogs; and it
does not say much for the guardians"
that he had never come across a living
creature while he was at work. The
spring guns he had, till his last attempt,
managed to scent out and render harmless.
For days after his CHASTITY exploit the poor
creature used to be bowed to the ground
with bodily and mental exhaustion He
was Imprisoned for a year lthe code does
not, it seems, enforce q severe penalty for
ritling tomb), and they say he was quite
cured, and became, possibly, a model noE-
commissioned officer. -AHtbe Year Round,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17
So many things have to be taken in

SO many things have to be taken into
consideration in calculating the weight OF
hay in bulk it makes it difficult to get at
it precisely. For example: fine, new
mown hay, like red-top or herd grass,
would probably require 500 cubic feet for
the ton; timothy, $50; clover, $50; coarse
meadow hay, 100 or more. After being
! stacked thirty days the bulk would be
decreased from to 10 per cent, possibly
more, according to the size Of the stack
and the pressure upon it. Again, hay
will vary somewhat in measurement &C
cording to the time it is cut. If this be
done when it is just coming into blossom,
as it always should, it will pack closer
and weigh more per cubic foot than if left
till the seed begins to ripen and the stalks
and leaves have grown coarser and be-
come drier. Good judgment and some
experience in measuring and weighing is
required to get at this correctly. A
neighbor of mine informs me that he once
had the curiosity to weigh his timothy hay
as he put it into the barn in July He
sold it about nine months after, and on
reweighing it as it came out of the barn
he found, greatly to his surprise, that il
had shrunk to within fraction of rs pei
cent.-A. b. Atlen, TN N. Y. Tribune.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Mouth glue is made by dissolving,
with the aid of heat, pure glue, as parch-
ment glue or gelatine, with about a
quarter or one-third of its weight of coarse,
brown sugar, in as small a quantity of
boiling water as possible. This, when
perfectly liquid, should be cast into thin
cakes, on flat surface very slightly oiled,
and as it cools cut up into pieces of con-
venient size. When required for use
moisten one end. A piece kept in the
desk or workbox is exceedingly con-
venient. iue4{3 + B le9egn ew
"A Cracked Wheat Pudding Take
one quart of unskimmed milk, add to it
one gill of cracked wheat, uncooked, and
one gill of sugar and a small piece of
stick cinnamon. Place it in an oven of
medium heat. When about half done
stir in the crust already formed and leave
it to form another, which will be suffi-
GENTLY brown. Try when it is done by
tasting a grain of the wheat, which must
be very soft. This, when cold, makes a
delicious creamy pudding. A handful of
raisins is an addition.
Best Apple Pie.-Take deep dish, the
size OF soup-plate, fill il heaping with
peeled tart apples, cored and quartered !;
pour over it one teacup of molasses and
three great spoonfuls of sugar, dredge
over this a considerable quantity of -four,
enough to thicken the strip a good DEAL
Cover it with crust made of cream, if
you have 1t; If not, common dough with
butter worked in, or plain pie-crust, lap
ping the edge over the dish and pinching
it down tight, to keep the strip from run
ming out. Bake about an hour and a
half. Make several at once, as they will
keep we'll.
An exchange gives the following
recipe for the "Queen of ALI Puddings:"
Soak teacup of tapioca and teaspoon
full of salt in three tumblerfuls of warm
mot hot water for an hour or two, till
softened. Take away the skin and cores
of apples without dividing them, put them
in the dish, with sugar In the holes, and
spice if the apples are without flavor, not
otherwise. Add a cup of water and bake
till the apples are softened, turning them
to prevent drying, and then pour over the
tapioca and bake long time, till all looks
brownish yellow. Eat with hard
sauce. Do not fail to bake long time.
This can be extensively varied by mixing
chopped apples, or ounces, or oranges,
or peaches, or any kind of berries with
the tapioca, and then sugar must be added
according to the acid of the fruit, though
some would prefer it omitted when the
sauce is used. The beauty may be in
creased by cover of sugar beaten into
the whites of eggs and then turned to a
yellow in the oven. Several such pud-
dings can be made at once, kept in cool
place, and, when wanted, warmed over;
many relish it better when very cold.
Sage can be used instead of tapioca.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17

"A method of procuring fresh water
from sea water through the direct action
of the suns rays is among the foreign in
ventions. The apparatus consists of a
box of wood one inch thick, about four
teen feet long, two feet wide and of an
average depth of six inches. The upper
part Of the box is closed with ordinary
glass, which has an inclination of an inch
and half At the lower edge of the
glass there is semi-circular channel, DIES.
tined to receive the fresh water which is
condensed on the interior surface OF the
glass. The operation is entirely simple
The salt water is let into the box for about
an inch in depth, and it is then exposed to
the rays of the sun. A very active evap-
grafton then begins, and it is found that a
square meter of glass will condense daily
the amount of two gallons of pure water,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17
A Fashionable Woman's Cares.

The Washington correspondent of the
Louisville Courier-J Journal, writing of the
perplexities of the fashionable in the cap
ital, says: There must be no question
about the selection of dress that is to in
cur the criticisms of the foreign ladies
who are familiar with courts The
woman who makes a study of the art of
dressing well, and gives her whole mind
to it, feels the importance of selecting
wisely and discreetly. BY an memorable
law she must dress we'll. 1t makes no
difference whether she can afford it or not,
if she has husband in public life she
has to help sustain the position. There
is no time for preparation as the occa-
sions arise. The dinner-dress for state
dinner at the White House must be ready
before the invitations are out. Another
for the diplomatic dinner must be thought
of, for there i, fixed etiquette for such
occasions. Then there are dresses for
home receptions, carriage or visiting
toilets, and something from last season
fixed over for levees and brushes. There
are many things to be thought of besides
the dresses, as nowadays there are so
many accessories to the toilet. For in
stance, sixteen is the regulation number
of narrow silver bands for the arm. There
are fichus for low-neck waists and sleeve
less jackets for high; there are jabots,
flowers, laces, gloves, feathers and jewels;
there are hats for full dress, for demi-
toilet and for ordinary wear; there are
wraps for operas and parties, for visiting,
and something suitable for every dress.
There are enough things to occupy every
moment of time, even if the dress
makers come up to time and prove salts
factory. Besides the important occupa-
ton of what the fashionable woman is to
wear, there are hundred things left for
the last week prior to the opening of the
season. Lace curtains cannot go up too
soon or they will lose their freshness be-
fore the New Years reception, when all
must be CONNIE IL faut.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17
The investigation made of the circur

! The investigation made of the circum-
stances attending the wreck of the Ottawa
on the Taraniki coast tends to confirm the
belief long since entertained by scientific
men, that the magnetic iron sand, which
there abounds in such immense quantities,
is the cause of the steering compasses OF
ships and steamers running along shore
in that region becoming deranged. This
has been alleged as the, cause of the loss OF
the steamer Airdale, and some three or
four other vessels. 1t will be remembered
that some fifteen years ago many vessels
were cast ashore on the South American
coast, and, after many close investig cations,
it was discovered that the base of some OF
the mountains along the coast line con-
tanned large Quantities of iron ore.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17
The Prairie Farmer.

This, closes the thirty fourth year of this
old and popular Agricultural paper, during
which time it has been the leading paper OF
its class in the great Northwest, visiting reg
ularly tens of thousands of families.
The next year being the Centennial Year
the publishers have made extraordinary ar
rangements to increase the value of the same,
Its contents are varied, treating of all farm
and stock industries, news, markets and mis-
cellaneous matters, to interestold and young
The regular price of the paper is 50 Is pei
year, postpaid.
Liberal inducements to clubs.
Agents wanted where we have none now, tC
whom good pay will be given. Sample copies
sent free. Address THE PRAIRIE FARMEF
COMPANY, Chicago, Ill.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17
To be provided for by next Legislature yslss,175

To be provided for by next Legislature .S1S9175 90
THE towns of Patosi and Lancaster are
greatly exercised by an unseemly contest
waged over the burial of a dead person.
1t seems man named Coyle died in Lam
caster five years ago, and was taken to
Patosi by his father and buried Recently
his wife, wishing to have the remains
near her home, had them taken up and
reburied in the Lancaster graveyard. This
proceeding not being agreeable to his
father, the latter, with another son, rifled
the grave in the night of the body and
placed it in its old resting place. The
wife appealed to the law, and warrant
was issued under the statute against desc
Grating places of the dead. He was tried,
fined $500, and ordered to restore the re-
mains from where he took them.
ABOUT one month since young lady
came to Oshkosh with her parents, and
her fine appearance and lady-like man.
ners attracted the attention of some of our
young men,. On Nov. q she became en-
gagged to one ofthem, but getting weary Of
the engagement within three days she
was subsequently engaged to no less
than three men. The last one started out
to rent house, and during his absence
No 2 put in an appearance, and after con-
versing with the lady short time pre-
vailed on her to consent to marry him,
B discarding all others. But for fear she
would change her mind he insisted on the
ceremony being performed at once, to
which she consented, and in short time
the two were made one. To express the
feelings of poor No. is impossible, as he
has not only lost wife, but has rented
house on his hands. aal T4 9s3!
THE report of Hon. Fred Kuehn, State
Treasurer, for the fiscal year ending Sept.
80, 1875, has just been published, and
from it the following statements are
taken: On the 30th of September, 1874,
the balance in the State Treasury was
S37S, 344.9S. The balance on Sept 80,
1875, was $277 ,691 "A. The general fund
at the latter date showed balance of ST.,
S46.5S. The receipts during the year
were 81, $50, S06.4S, and the expenditures
1851, 470.02. The receipts of the gener-
2 al fund were $1,136, 4s5. 81, and the ex-
. penditures 81 60,f6S.39. This fund had to
its creditat the beginlng of the year $685.
$3.50. Of the sum appropriated to the
several charitable and penal institu-
tions of the State, amounting to
$503, 927 81, on the 30th of September
$S7, $50. 10 had been withdrawn. The debt
of the State the Treasurer states to be ST.
252,057. The State tax for 1874 was $780,
1898. The valuation of real and per-
sonal property as determined by the State
Board of Assessment was S421, 2S5, 1859 and
the rate of taxation lao mills. The
Treasurer remarks that it is matter of
congratulation that the State taxes have
s. been promptly paid, only 81, 06s. SO
& from st. Croix and Wood Coln.
ties being lacking. Out of $3.50, 766. 80
due by the railroads $436,414 has been
paid, leaving only $14, 351 .se outstanding.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17

viii be found to possess those qualities necessary
to the total eradication of all bilious attacks
prompt to start the secretons of the liver and
give healthy tone to the entire system. Indeed
it is no ordinary discovery in medical science to
have invented remedy for these stubborn COM
plaints which develop all the results produced by
a heretofore free use of calomel, mineral justly
dreaded by mankind and acknowledged to be de-
structive in the extreme to the human system.
That the properties of certain vegetables comprise
all the virtues of caomel without its injurious ten
denotes is now an admitted fact, rendered indis-
putabe by scientific researches; and those who
the Mandrake Pills will be fully satisfied that
the best medicines are those provided by nature IN
the common herbs and roots of the fields
These pills open the bowels and correct all bill
ious arrangements without salvation any Of the
injurious effects of calomel or other poisons.
The secretion Of bile is promoted by these pills, as
will be seen by the altered color OF the stools and
disappearing of the sallow complexion and cleans
ing of the tongue.
Ample directions for use accompany each box of
pills.
Prepared only by J. Fl. Schenck q Son, at their
principal Office, corner Sixth and Arch streets,
Philadelphia and for sale by all druggists and deal
ers. Price 25 cents Der hnv
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17

Ats meeting of the Connacticut State
Teachers Association, lately, the Superin-
tendent of the Waterbury schools advo-
Gated the study of language lessons in
place of the system of grammar in use,
and the abandonment of a great deal OF
the minuti@ which is now taught in geog-
raphy classes, and which he thought
should be reserved for the higher grades,
the time thus gained 10 be devoted to the
proposed language lesson, which will
leach all to acquire q taste for good read.
ing and good style of composition.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17

THE BEST METHOD of healing Catarrh and
Lung diseases is by inhalation, but for the
want of proper inhalants the highest re-
suits of direct application have never been
attained Tar has long been known as the
best article for this purpose, although little
used in it's crude and impure state. The
difficulty is now overcome, and Forest Tar
Solution (being pure tar) is offered as the
best inhalant in the market. The "Forest
Tar Book" explains the application and the
use-apply to your druggist.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17

NEARLY $4,000 sheep are reported to
have been killed by dogs the past year.
Probably enough more not reported were
killed7to swell this to 100000, for there
are large districts not reported. In some
parts of the Southwest understand that
wool growing has been abandoned on &C.
count of the destruction of the sheep by
these useless animals. And at the same
time there are vast ranges for sheep un-
occupied
So great has the loss been in every
neighborhood all over the country that
the question of giving up sheep raising
has often been seriously considered by
farmers who grow fine wooded sheep, each
of which is worth more than the whole
number of dogs in an entire county.
The laws thus far enacted for the protec-
ton of sheep against dogs have not eff
fected the good our Legislators have at
tempted to accomplish; and the wool in
terest is now exposed to the same hazards
that it was before the matter became the
subject of legislation. What to do with
the dogs Is as puzzling question as ever.
They are the most expensive animals on
the face OF the earth. The service they
render is infinitesimal by the side of the
immense damages they inf1ict on one of
the most productive industries of the
country. We have tried making the own
ers of dogs pay for the damages their
favorites commit; we have tried TWO
modes, at least, of taxing dogs, to very
little purpose. Now what is to be done
Dogs are on the increase, and the destruc-
ton of sheep is annually greater. We
see no plan but to compel owners to keep
them shut up athome. This would prove
effectual. 1t is the rambling ours that
destroy sheep. The dog carefully trained
to stay at home is never tempted into de-
stroying sheep. Let the Legislature now
pass a law making it a penal offense to
allow dog to run at large; let there be a
fixed penalty, reserving to the court no
discretionary power. We believe such a
law would prove more effective than those
taxing these animals.-Detrost Tribune.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17

PROPERTY valued at from SO ,OUO,ooV
to $20,0O0,000 is exempt from taxation in
Wisconsin "a -
ANDREW SHEPPARD, not many years
ago leading lumberman of Black River,
has been pardoned out of State Prison. F.
OLD BoREAs went for the Appletonians
-a heavily on-the goth ult., and sent the mer-
: curry down until twas almost out of sight.
IT is said with considerable confidence
that Frank II, Putney of Waukesha, is to
be the private secretary of Gov. Ludington.
HARRIsoN's planning mill and factory, at
Kenosha, was burned a few mornings ago,
-g involving the loss of property valued at
81 $4,000. - a
y ~ HERMAN NUNNEMACEER, one of the
indicted Milwaukee whisky men, it is UNI
D3 derstood, has forfeited his bail and will
not appear for trial
THE private household furniture be-
longing to LOUIS Rindskopf was sold by
the United States Collector at Milwaukee,
the other day. 1t brought 81 ,67s, and one
of his friends bought it.
a@ THE Supreme Court has lately held that
an extension granted to principal debtor
of the time of payment of debt, without
r the consent of the surety, discharges the
latter from all liability OF e9#l4a5
The Fond du Lac Commonwealth says
at is whispered in certain quarters that
an attempt will be made during the COM
ing session of the Legislature to get the
capital removed to Milwaukee - 6
THE investigation of the charges pre-
ferred against Gov. Taylor in connection
with the Marshalship Of the State Agri-
cultural Society has come to close, Mr.
Clark having withdrawn the charges
JOHN BEcK's brewery, at Milwaukee,
has recently been seized upon the charge
that he reissued beer stamps, and John
Beck has been held to bail in the sum Of
"a $1,000 to the January term of the United
States Court. s'4@~ ''+
A FEW nights ago Mrs. Lund, wife of
Gen. N. f. Lund, of Madison, went to bed
feeling slightly unwell, and refused the
offer of friend to stay with and watch
her during the night, her husband being
absent from the city. Next morning she
was found dead in her bed. Death sup
posed to be the result of heart-disease.
The following table exhibits the total
valuation of personal property and real
estate in Wisconsin during the last six
years
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17

MILLIONS of bottles of BURNETT's Coco
AINE have been sold during the last twenty
years, in every civilized country, and the
public have rendered the verdict that it is
the cheapest and best Hair Dressing in the
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17

W. II Loftin.-"I have used the SIM
MONS, LIVER REGULATOR and do not
hesitate to give it hearty word OF commen-
dation; indeed, too much cannot be said Id
praise of such 3 remedy