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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28
The Best Studies for Sons Of Farmers

THE sons of American farmers can pur-
sue no studies that will rebound to higher
educational advantages to them in future
life than the study of their own mother
tongue, and the sciences taught in the
English language. 1t is a prevailing
fashion in nearly all bigh-schools and
seminaries to require young misses to
study French, Italian, music and draw
ing before they know anything at all, as
they should know, of their own language,
in which they always expect to speak and
to write. A similar practice is true con-
corning the education of lads, boys and
young men. Long before they can spell
correctly one-half of the words in common
use when speaking and writing the En-
glish language, long before they have ac-
Quired even a superficial knowledge of
English grammar and of rhetoric, they
are required to pore over Latin, Greek or
the German language. After a student
has acquired a fair knowledge of English
grammar and has become moderately
versed in rhetoric, in the geography OF
his own country and some of the sciences
that are taught in the English language,
if he then desires to pursue the study of
Latin, Greek or German he would be able
to make much more satisfactory progress
than it would be possible to make before
acquiring fair knowledge of the English
studies alluded to. 1t is always better for
babe to creep before the little thing is
encouraged to make an effort to walk. 1t
will be far better for a. lad or young
miss to learn to read words in monosylla-
bles before he or she is encouraged TO read
short and easy sentences. 1t will be in
fnitely better in every respect for young
people who have a great desire to travel IN
Europe to spend year or more IN visit
ing different parts of America that are as
famous in the Eastern Continent as are the
great sights and marvellous wonders of
America in the estimation of the devotees
of pleasure residing in Europe. 1t is far
more benevolent to educate the numerous
heather all about ust han to reach out the
hand of beneficence to the unenllghtened
East Indiaman. We have in mind a
young man Eyes, several suchl who pur-
sued six years course of study IN far
famed university of this country. When
these young men appeared before the au-
thorities for admission, they were so de-
ficient in the study of English grammar,
in rhetoric, in photography, in the geog-
raphy of their own States, and IN their
general knowledge Of men and COM
mercial affairs, that the examining COM
mittee conditioned them" by advising
them to study for a few weeks some OF the
common English branches of education,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28

after which they were admitted into the
Freshman class of the university. Well,
after devoting six years, they have been
honored with the cheering title of g A.
NJ" or "B. A." They have studied
drawing, German, French. some of the
higher mathematics, while they cannot
compute the interest correctly on a note
covered with half dozen Endorsements
nor measure a tapering stick of timber
without first looking up the rules in some
book. Even then, after the measurement
has been made, they feel in doubt as TO
the correctness of the figuring
Let young people commence with the
rudiments and master such studies as will
be attended with practical advantage to
them In social, domestic and commercial
life. Algebra is an excellent study for
some persons. But of what service is all
zebra to farmer who always keeps his
accounts In arithmetlcal numbers? OF
what advantage is algebra to an architect
who is not an arithmetician of fair abili-
ties? How much aid will knowledge of
algebra render a, surveyor of land who is
required to do all his figuring in chains
and links or in feet and inches? OF what
use Is fair knowledge of German to any
one when he is required to talk and write
always in the English language, even
when he cannot prepare correctly ii com
munication of 800 words for publication
The practice of requiring young people
to pursue studies that will give them no
definite ideas of the great duties of life,
that will not prepare them to fill stations
with efficiency, is one that should be dep
recated, and should receive no sympathy
| from the people. Let lad be taught
something that will prove of practical adj
vantage to him when he has become a
man; and let girls be taught to feed and
clothe the body, which is one of the most
important lessons a young miss can learn.
Let young people of both sexes be taught
to speak and to write the English Ian
guage with correctness; then let them
learn the names of plants, flowers, rocks
and soils all about them; and let them
exercise their faculties in the geography
| of their own States, and they will be far
more estima5le citizens than if these
studies were neglected for knowledge of
German and algebra.-N. Y. Herald.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28
rheumatism Symptom OF other Dis

The alarming extent of chronic rheuma-
tism in the country has led to persistent in
vestigation. 1t has lately been ascertained
that the disease is the result of other COM
plicated diseases of the liver, kidneys, PAN
creas, blood, absorbents, etc. In other
words, that rheumatism is symptom. 1t
is also found that, by the removal of the
complicated disease, the rheumatism disap-
pears, as a result which seems TO substantiate
the theory. We all know, to our sorrow,
how fruitless the ordinary treatment of this
disease has been, and we now hail with joy
the dawn of this new discovery. We all
know that the symptoms of these diseases
are generally present in eases of chronic
rheumatism, but few have supposed the
disease to be an effect. as
To remove these diseases the surest remedy
can be found in the SHAKER EXTRACT OF
RooTs OR CURATIVE SYRUP; it appears to
be working many cures. We refer to the
article sold by Druggists and Al. White,
New York.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28
Man and Monkey.

The wonderful resemblance of some OF
the larger apes 10 human creatures is
especially remarkable when they are suf.
terlng from illness, or from what, so great
is their intelligence, we must acknOWl-
edge to be sorrow. An ape of no common
merit having lately died in the Geological
Gardens at Dresden an account has been
published of its last moments, which give
an extraordinary idea of the almost human
dignity and pathos of its behavior on the
occasion. A few weeks of the destroying
malady, says Borrowing friend, had been
sufficient to change this being, so full OF
life, strength, courage-this magnificent
prototype of all quadrummana-into a
spectacle of misery. The most complete
apathy had taken the place of exuberant
freshness and vivacity. Mafuka, as this
interesting creature was called, appeared
to suffer under a DIM consciousness that
she could expect no reliet but only the
alienation of her pains, from those about
her. This state of things lasted until
within few hours of her death. Then as
Director Schopf Qhe director of the gar
dens) leaned over his favorite, the ape
drew him toward her, placed her arm
around the neck of her kind friend, and
looked at him for some time with clear
and tranquil eyes; she then kissed him
three times, with short intervals between
each salute, motioned to be laid upon her
couch, gave her hand to Schopf- as
though bidding farewell to companion
of many happy years-and slept never to
wake again. Thus died the quasi-human
Mafuka, fortified not indeed by the rites
of the church, but by those common to the
wider brotherhood OF trusting and affec-
tionate hearts, London Echo.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28

THE following is a Frenchman's En-
glish advertisement: Family Hotel lbs.
Avenue de l'Imperatrice, near the Arc de
Triomphe de 'Etolle. This establishment
is situated in the finest position of Paris;
and we have been able to say, without
fearing of lie, that there is nowhere a
greatest geographical situation. This es-
Enlistment is in Paris, ten minutes no
more from the Center, and surrounded by
the stations of omnibus and railway The
boarders are able to go, on foot, to the
middle OF Paris, without leaving the
bltumen. This for the inside The chief
OF the house is a shy, dainty mouthed one,
1t is to say, dear reader, til 1t his table and
wines are excellent, and nothing to be
wanted as regard 10 the comfort and lux
ury. The Society is composed of French
men and Strangers men, they live in fam
lily & are pretty well talking. The con-
versation is often spiri.aous and amusing.
After dining they are going in pretty
saloon contiguous to the eating room,
where they are making any music. Some
times the boarders are able to go to the
theater, without paying anything, this is
a kindness made by the propriety. The
apartments or rooms are elegantly newly
adorned, opposite 10 the South west
Moderate price"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28
How the Fast Trains Are Run BE
tween New York and Philadelphia.

This division OF the Pennsylvania Road
is nowrun on the "block system" The
whole line is divided into sections of two
or three miles, each supplied with tele-
graph operator and signaman on con-
slant duty. A frame for displaying sig
nal-target, or light, is placed at the COM
mencement of each division. When the
road is entirely clear white signal is
shown When a passenger-train enters
any block or section red one is substi-
tuted. While this is the case, no other
train is allowed to go upon it. The en-
gineer of the next following train, if he
secs red signal, must wait until it disap-
pears and the while one goes up. If the
white light is already shown he goes on
over that block without stopping. From
four to eight minutes are consumed in
traversing block, according to the speed
of the train, and different fast-trains can
follow each other at intervals of this
length, which would not be possible under
other circumstances. The moment train
passes off of any section the fact is tele-
graphed back to the next preceding tele-
graph station, so that the white light may
be shown aud the block declared to be
clear. Thus there is a constant pClsatiOn
of intelligence all along the line between
the train are totally unconscious. They
speed of the wind that their every move
ment is recorded by the finger of electrici-
ty, shooting back and forth with the We
locity of light. Beside the numerous pas
senger trains, there is great number of
freight trains constantly in motion These
have to make their way as best they can
out of the way of passenger trains.
When freight train is running
on any block a green signal
is shown, which indicates that sue
ceeding trains may follow with caution
If the next train carries passengers, it is
the business of the freight to get out of
the way; if it is also a freight train it will
probably not overtake its predecessor
Some of the principal side-tracks have
telegraph stations at both ends, so that no
time need be lost by the train-hands
There are more than fifty telegraph offices
along the ninety miles of road. The ar
arrangements usually work so perfectly that
it is seldom necessary for any train to halt
before entering block. At the Superin-
tendent's office in Jersey City large chart
is kept upon which is marked perfect
record of the progress of each train upon
the road as recorded by telegraph. If a
train is minute behind at any station the
fact is instantly known at headquarters.
The passenger conductors usually make
one round trip per day. The active work
is thus about six hours, but additional
time is needed to make returns and settle
up with the agents. There are three con-
ductors and three tiremen to every two en-
gines in daily use, so that each set of men
works two days out of three. Running a
passenger engine for a fast train is very
usting.-RatlaoGy Regseao. ~
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28
EooNoMY.-Yoa VIM save money by using

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Proctor d CANDLES Original Notified German
Soop 1t will not waste nor become soft
like ordinary yellow soap when used in warm
water, nor is it cheapened with articles inju-
rious to clothes. Remember, you obtain FIJI
one-pou,ed bar if you purchase their brand.
To protect their brand from imitators
Proctor & Gamble patented i and the patent
was sustained in the United States Courts.
ExaDaise the stamp on the bars sohen you
BAN. Take their Soar Onlu.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28

REV. WALTER CLARKE, of Minot, Me-,
writes of Forest Tar Soap as follows: The
soapyou sent me for trial have used for
shaving, and like it better than any have
ever tried. We have dealt pretty largely in
toilet soaps for years, and know of no one
kind that think would sell as well as your
Forest Tar Soap were Unknown" If your
druggist cannot furnish it, send IS cents to
The Forest Tar Co., Portland, Me-, for a
sample. cake. e-....---.-...-..-
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28

The King of Burmah interposes no
objection to the coming of missionaries to
his Kingdom On the contrary he has re.
quested those now in the country to write
to England, Scotland and America sand
ask for teachers to come and reside in
Mandalay The King said he should like
to have them, would protect them and see
that all their wants were supplied"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28
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LITTLE FLIRT, OR LANGUAGE OF LOVE, will take
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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28

PERSONALITY j. McEzroy.-sAs a gem
eral family remedy for Dyspepsia, Torpid
Liver, Constipation, etc, hardly ever use
anything else but SIMMONS LIVER REGU-
LATOR, and have never been disappointed
in effect produced; it seems to be almost a
perfect cure for all diseases of the stomach
and bowelsn ~ ~
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28

Good joke on Bret Harte. He went
to visit relative in a suburb of Troy, N.
Y, recently, while the family was alb
sent. He was muddy and travel-worn,
and servant mistaken him for tramp
reluctantly admitted him to the kitchen,
where she. set coachman to watch him
until her mistress came!
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28

GENTIAN was our grandmotherS' hobby fol-
tonic, and no bitter would be considered
complete without it; hence it enters into
nearly all. But experience has proved that
it is injurious to the stomach if frequently
used. far better touic is found in Guaraaau
Ritters
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28

AND Patti has paid s12, 500 for fur
cloak May we ask what fur?-Bufalo
Express. No. She's sable to pay for it,
so mind your own affairs and let er-mine
hers-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser
Wh-otter fuss over a ftlrriner. -Ph5ladel-
phSa Chronicle.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28
The Common-Sense school.

As newspapers call Prof. Jones' School of
industrial Instruction, at Evanston, ILL.,,
grows in numbers every week. Chicago
papers report fifteen accessions from other
schools Jan. 8, seven on Jan. 10, and twelve
on Jan. II. Students now at other institu-
tons are engaging rooms for next term.
Think of teachers spending all their time
in teaching scholars, one by one, instead of
hearing Rotations Think of scholars adj
vancing independently, instead of like
chain gangs This Is common sense.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28
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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28

MATHEMATICS is a science with many
parts-a bureau with an elaborate series
of drawers. The foundation of all is
arithmetic, and in the almost countless
compartments of this drawer is contained
the whole of the science as it pertains to
financial and commercial transactions,
small and great, simple and complex. 1t
is only as one branches out in surveying,
navigation or astronomy that any use is
made of sc-called :" higher mathematics.
Every man and every woman needs to I'M
derstand arithmetic. 1t comes in use con-
stantly. 1t is only one among ten thousand
who has any use for any other department
of mathematics. Chicago EUening Jour
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28

Mr.. GEORGE WANG died recently in
New Orleans from hydrophobia, the result
OF the bite few weeks before of a pet dog.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28

IT is a fact perhaps not generally
known, says the Oakland (Cal.) Neaos,
that there is a firm doing business in San
Francisco who purchase the thousands OF
dogs slaughtered by the Pound master of
that city, or that may have been otherwise
killed, for which they pay forty cents
each. The carcasses are conveyed to their
mandatory at South San Francisco,
where the skins are removed and sold to
the tanneries, the hair taken off and re-
sold to plasterers, the hide tanned, made
into gloves and sold in the market. The
denuded carcass is then thrown into a
huge caldron and boiled until the bones
are easily separated from the flesh, when
they are removed and sold to the sugar
refneries, where they are ground to fine
powder and used to clarity the sugar. The
oil that rises to the surface of the boiling
mass is skinned off and manufactured
into cod-liver oil, and the remainder used
for the purpose. Of fattening hogs.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28

SCHENcK's PULMoNIc SYRUP SEA WEED Tonic
AND MANDRAKE PILLs.@These deseryedly cele-
brated and popular medicines have effected a rev.
olution in the healing art, and proved the fallacy
of several maxims which have for many years OBJ
structed the progress of medical science. The
false suppostion that " Consumption is ncurabe''
deferred physicians from attempting to find rene
dies for that disease, and patients afflicted with it
reconciled themselves to death without making an
effort to escape from doom which they supposed
to be unavoidable. 1t Is now proved, however,
that Consumption can, be cured and that it has
been cured in a very great numberoT cases (some
of them apparently desperate Ones) by Schencks
Pulmonic Syrup alone and in other cases by the
same medicine in connection with Schenck's Sea
Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills. one or both, ac-
cording to the requirements of the case.
Or. Schenck himself, who enjoyed uninterrupted
-.ood health for more than forty years, was sup
osed at time, to be at the very gate of death,
his physicians having pronounced his case hope
less and abandoned him to his fate. He was
cured by the aforesaid medicines, and, since his
recovery, many thousands similarly affected have
used DR.. Schenck's preparations with the same re-
markahe success.
Full directions accompany each, making it not
absolutely necessary to personally see DIR. Schenck
unless patients wish their lungs examined. and
for this purpose he is professionally at his princi-
pal Office. Sixth and Arch streets Philadel-
phia, every Monday, where all letters. for advice
must be addressed Schenck's medicines are
sold by all druggists
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28

A PHILOSOPHER says: II never yet
heard man or woman much abused that
/ was not inclined TO think the better of
them, and transfer any suspicion or dis
like to the person who appeared to take a
delight in pointing out the defects of a
fellow-creature.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28
8N9 BOY . 81 Flowers

My illustrated Floral Catalogue for 1876
is ready. Price 10 Cents less than half the cost.
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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28
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