The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-08

should begin to earn good wages. An appren-
tice law would secure a boy and his employer
both.-Stationer and Printer.
The Hindoo carpenter has no bench; he squats
on the ground and makes the ground his bench.
He holds his lumber with one hand and his adze
with the other. The Hindoo smith has no anvil;
he makes his fire on the ground and squats be
side 1t, using a bit of iron for an anvil. The Hin
doc confectioner works his candy on the skin of
his chest into smooth, round balls London En-
gineer.
Clara Morriss husband, Mr.. Harriott, former
ly a flour merchant. saws: sit is impossible to
counterfeit the Minnesota -four by any process
Of manufacturing or mixing. It's the best flour
IN the world to-day. 1t has forced itself into all
the markets of Europe. In Paris l found barrels
of 'Pillsbury's best with its familiar brand, hold
ing its own against the fours of Hungary.-Mill-
ers journal.
The Suez and Panama canals have brought a
new principle into the world They are built by
the combined capital Of all peoples. Hereafter,
when nations have begun to use them, all coun-
tries at peace with each other will insist that
beligerent nations shall not obstruct these
canals. Seas, straits and sea-channels should
be freely open at all times of war or peace.
Contract journal.
The Ohio valley is still heavily timbered.
Only the hard woods have been culled from its
forest. The flood was not caused by cutting
away the forest. The flood was caused by heavy
rains and by the draining and ditching of low
lands, which will cause q stream to rise rapidly.
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the Red rivers of the South where no woods have
been cut.-Wood- Worker.
There is an unlimited demand for edible fish
among the starving. swarming peoples of India.
Yet they eat but little or no fish, because the
English salt duty is so high they cannot buy
salt. They cannot make salt, because the En-
glish law prohibits them; the English want to
sell them salt. Yet they have a coast line of salt
water full of fish, 5000 miles long, where they
might make salt the year round. -Mercantile
journal.
Tar is differently made from turpentine. Tar
is made from the dead wood of the longleaved
pine which has lain for centuries in the forest.
1t is a concentration of the juices of the pine in
the heart of the dead, wood. A tar-kiln is made
like a charcoal pit. The dead wood is piled in a
pit, a fire is kindled at the top, and the slow com
bustion forces the tar out at the bottom through
a duct prepared for it. Pitch is tar boiled down.
WOODY Worker.
Our own internal trade consumes our own pro
auctions so well that at present the steamers for
Europe have to take petroleum in barrels for
freight. Petroleum was formerly shipped only
in sailing vessels of inferior class. Steamers
take even pitch and the residue of gas-works to
Europe, where it is mixed with coal-dust, made
into bricks, and used as fuel. If the steamers
could get anything valuable to export they GER
tainly would not take rubbish. Exporter.
There is a growing disposition to get an en-
employer in "a ''hole." The moment the men
discover that an employer has a shop full of
work and more coming, they forget the hours
and days he has paid them to lie around waiting
for this time to come, and N to look
sour and mutter like distant thunder. Some
times a splendid workman, to all appearances a
gentleman, will foment such discord and discon
tent in a shop that he will spoil all hands in the
shop.-Apprentices Journal.
A runaway on Fifth avenue, N. Y, a few
nights ago, broke down one of the electric lamp
poles and trailed the wire upon the pavement.
A passing horse stepped upon the wire; there
was a flash of purple light, a report like a pistol
shot, all the lights on the avenue went out and
the horse fell dead. A moment later another
horse fell dead like the first. The avenue was
Immediately closed to travellers of all kinds. 1t
was a stormy night and few people were out,
otherwise many persons might have been killed.
Sanitary Engineer.
Glu is made of hides, horns, skins, hoofs
and ears of horses, oxen, calves and sheep.
These are first cleansed of grease and dirt in
lime-water, then stepped in clean water and the
water pressed out. They are then boiled in clean
water and the skimmings taken off. after which
they are strained. The liquid thus obtained is
then boiled down until it is thick enough to be
poured into moulds, where it hardens and is cut
into cakes. The cakes, while still soft, are cut
into thin slices. The slices are dried, and are
ready for sale.-Wood-W Worker.
Enforce free trade. and millions of spindles in
this country will be idle, looms will stand still,
and boilers and engines will rust out. Pennsyl-
vania, Michigan, and Alabama will no more
have a cloud of smoke from their furnaces. Men
will no longer work at the melting or the smelt-
ing furnace, the pudding furnace. the steam
hammer, and the rolls. Millions of dollars will
be idle. The traffic of our railroads and steam
boats will be reduced. Millions of people who
now work at mechanical work will be turned
into the street We shall buy what we now pro
duce. and where is our money coming from!
Railroad Age.
Men who talk and write fuently in favor of
free trade are men who have never earned a
dollar in manufacturing. They know little of
the care and anxiety which their theories create
for the manufacturer who has thousands of
money and hundreds of people in his employ.
Let the theorists step into his shoes when bust
ness is greatly disturbed by their agitation. and
they would find themselves in a state Of worry
they had never experienced before. The teach
ings of the professors in colleges would close up
our manufactures, if practically carried out; yet,
when those same professors want
they have to go to manufacturers for money.
The ocomotlv
The 'oil spot" in the gulf of Mexico is soapy,
not oily, and its properties come from the bottom
of the gulf. Mud from this spot is used for
scrubbing ships decks, and is very cleansing.
The ''oll spot does not show very distinctly in
calm weather, but during a gale it is wonderfully
defined; towering foam then marks its circum-
ference. Storm-driven craft, creaklng and strain
ing in every timber, on passing through this wall
of foam. find themselves on a smooth lake, and
walled in by lashing waves. where the sailors can
sleep, unframed by the winds. The ''oil spot
is ten miles from shore, is two miles long, one
mile wide, and is only twelve feet deep.-iron.
New England is already suffering from South
ern competition. At Fall River the attempt to
put down the price of cotton goods, and at the
same time the wages of workers, has brought on
a strike of 5000 operatives. Stocks of goods are
large and prices are not remunerative to the
manufacturers, Machinery in New England
cotton mills is being changed in order to pro
duce finer grades of goods, and the machine
shops are busy. The New England cotton spin
ners are not in the habit of saving their wages,
ana are badly prepared for a strike, yet the
demagogues are urging them to hold out.
Southern prints undersell all others. They are
driving English prints out of China and Japan.
and are about to invade England's colonial
markets, a thing never attempted by New Eng
anders.-TeXtil Record.
Cotton grows at the very doors of our mills.