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The Indianapolis journal., 1884-01-01

engines made by these works have won a reputa-
ton for merit which no newspaper potoriety can
possibly enhance The semi-portabie engine on
sills, speciality of these works, is now meeting
with great sale as is also the Standard circular
saw and the side-cutting mulay. The Eureka
dran-t tile machine, an improved machine, the
outgrowth of sixteen years of manufacturing tile
machinery. has great and decided advantages
over any machine heretofore made, but as fully
illustrated catalogue is sent on application, set
ting forth the points of merit of each of their
manufactures, it is unnecessary to dwell on them
i'm this article
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-01-01
H0osier Wooden Factory.

This factory, established in 1876, is one of the
oldest houses in the city. 1t employs more than
half hundred hands, and the fabrics turned
out by them have wide reputation. 1t is not
this establishment. as the work of its looms is
generally known and conceded. SO popular are
the fabrics turned out by them that they are
able to note healthy and steady increase of
business.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-01-01
The Book Mans Paradise.

One of the most extensive book establishments
in the West certainly the largest in Indanah
is the well-known and well-managed establish
ment of Bowen, Stewart & Co. Their shelves
are always loaded with all the standard and
lighter works of the worlds thinkers. The
year now closing has brought to them large
and prosperous trade. As the sale OF good books
eXerts refining and educating influence their
business is a nuhIc hennft
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-01-01

The Art Emporium at No. 81 East Washington
street. so we'll known, was established in 1852.
This establishment is recognized as the art cen
ter of Indiana, and its display of oil and water
and beauty. make it known to all lovers of the
beautiful. 1t is one of the largest establishments
of the kind in the country, and no establishment,
East or West, contains a better variety of art
lists materials and art goods.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-01-01
Phoenix Machine Works.

These works, under theproprietorship of Chand
ler & Taylor, have contributed in no slight degree
toward making Indianapolis known far and wide.
The works were started in 1859, the present pro
prietors assuming management in 1864 They
employ over 100 men The business for the past
year has been highly satisfactory, and the pros
poets for S4 are equally bright The portable
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-01-01
BUSINESS EXHIBIT OF 1883.
ReView Of the Various Branches Of
Trade---PrOspects for 1884.
Generally Prevalent Opinion that the Past
Year Has Been One of Great and
Substantial Prosperity.

IT is customary at the beginning of each year
to devote considerable space in this paper to an
exhibit of the representative business houses of
this city. There is no deviation from the rule
this year, and the 1st day of January, 1884, it
is pleasant to present so comprehensive review
of the gains made in the past year in the various
and diverse lines of business as forecast for the
untriel new year just beginning.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-01-01

ming to realize the fact that it is no longer nees
sary to send abroad for tiles, but that this com
pany are making better goods, and at lower
prices than the same articles can be imported,
and, a result, this company is crowded with
orders.
Our city and State are justly proud of such an
institution, and we heartily wish them the larg-
est success
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-01-01

they keep ten constantly on the road has resulted
in successful raids into the territory formerly oc-
cupied by firms in the same line in other centers
of trade. This has been possible through their
direct importing facilities, which are such as to
enable them to compete successfully with any
house in the country. This past year they have
maid in EXCESS of $2l 900 in customs duties
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-01-01

ground spices it may be said they are all they are
represented to be- The house keeps three trav-
cling mon constantly on the road and their
trade in 1888 was eminenty satisfactory, being IL
great gain over the preceding year.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-01-01

THAT weak back or pain in the side or hips
you will find Immediately relieved when Hop
Plaster is applied. 1t strengthens the muscles
giving the ability to do hard work without suf
fering. Take none but this, It's sure.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-01-01

INSIST upon thoroughly testing the Wilcox &
Gibbs Automatic Sewing Machine before buying
exchanging for any other. No tension, bob
bin, or shuttle. 80 East New York street.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-01-01
1t Is Terrible

To have wife or husband with a bad breath.
All this may be avoided by using Sozodont 1t
healthful 1t confers comfort upon its users,
and prevents the aff1iction of unpleasant breath.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-01-01

George Merritt s. Co., the Unknown and
leng-established woolen manufacturers and wool
dealers, No. All West Washington street. have
in the last year built the largest and most conve
nient weolen house in the Western country, and
are now making a speciality of wool dealing.
They now carefully and systematically grade all
manufactures. This method is new here, and
are glad to learn that it is meeting with favor
and success
The indianapolis Coffee and Spice Mills.
The trademark of this establishment of
which McCune, Schmidlap e Co. are proprie-
tors is equivalent to guarantee against adul-
teration. Those purchasing its cefees put up in
packages can do SO with the assurance that they
are getting pure straight goods. They manu-
factare the 'Real Baking Powder" which is alb
solutely pure and wholesome, and is rapidly
meeting with the success it deserves, being su-
perior to anything in the market. Of their
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-01-01
Western Machine Works.

These works were established in 1850 by Du-
mont & Co.. and were conducted successfully by
the firms of Sinker & Dumont, Sinker & Co., and
Sinker & Davis until 1871, when a stock compa-
ny was organized with capital of $500, 900. The
officers of the company as at present organized
are Thomas Davis, PRESIDENT Charles E. Davis,
secretary and E. H. Hooker treasurer. These
works. the largest of the kind in the State, have
frontage of 342 feet on South Pennsylvania
street, extending back 400 feet to Delaware
street, and upon this ground are numerous build
tings thoroughly equipped with improved ma
chinery especially designed for the production of
the various articles for which this establishment
has acquired widespread reputation. These
comprise portable and stationary engines, tubu-
lar and hue boilers, circular sawmi1ls, the
new patent band sawmill, patent sawmill
heaabOcks and buhrs, boiling chests and
complete machinery for -four mills In addition
to this. there are made here castings for rolling
mills, blast furnaces and heavy works, improved
vertical fuel mills, plantation and quartz mills
pulleys, shafting, hangers, couplings and every
variety of special machinery for any desired
purpose. Over 200 skilled wOrkmen are en-
ployed in the different departments of this large
and well-managed business. A large amount of
repair work fully 20 per cent. of the
repair work of this city, is done at this establish
ment, embracing all kinds of wood and iron
work, pattern making, carpenter and machine
WOfk, DOller ana SlleeJ-lfOh WOIh LII CdStllls5S
the range is from articles weing quarter Of a
pound TO ponderous pieces weighing five tons or
more. Besides this the Western Machine Works
handles complete line of engineers appliances
embracing wrought-iron pipe and fittings, brass
goods, betting, gum and hemp packing cotton
waste, etc
Engines of the manufacture of these works
are now being used in eighteen States, several of
the Territories and in Mexico with the most sat
isfactory results. The subdivisions into which
this estensive establishment is arranged may be
enumerated briefly as follows:
The main machine-shop, boiler-shop, foundry
patternro carpenter-shop sheet-iron depart
ment, blacksmith pipe-room, bolt-room,
buhrroom governor-room, paint-shop, iron
warerooms and enginehouse, containing one
75-horse power engine and two boilers, from
which is derived the motive power required in
the various departments. The various depart
ments of this extensive establishment are con
Quoted in the most thorough manner, under the
immediate supervision of the efficient officers
above named, and promptness and reliability
characterize the transactions of the company,
whose operations have been largely instru-
mental in disseminating the fame and reputation
of Indianapolis as manufacturing metropolis
throughout the West and South.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-01-01
The United States Encaustic Tile Works


This company is little more than six years old,
but owing to the enterprise and far-seeing
ability of its managers has grown unprecedently,
and has become known far and wide as the
largest tile works in the United States.
Starting with the idea that tiles could be
made proftably in this country, and being with
in easy access of fine clays adapted to this pur-
pose, the company erected substantial buildings,
with kilns and proper machinery, and procured
number of skilled workmen from England.
Few processes of manufacture are more inter
interesting or more complicated. The utmost
care is necessary in every stage-in the selec-
tien of the material and in its proper handling.
The tiles made are not surpassed by any
manufactory in the world. During the past
year the company has entered largely into the
manufacturing of high-art majolica tiles for
mantel facings hearths, wainscoting and orna-
mental purposes.
The increasing demand for these goods has
made 1t necessary for the company to greatly
enlarge their works. Recently extensive addi-
tiens have been made in buildings, kilns, presses
and other machinery, until now they have ca
pacty Of over 1000, 900 square feet per annum
They employ over three hundred hands, and
expect to double that number during the coming
year.
The company has just completed two very
large contracts one being the State-house at
Des Moines, Iowa, and the other, the custom
house and postohice at St. Louis Mo. Among
the many contracts now on hand might be
mentioned the new government building at To-
peka, Kas two hotels in Kansas, three court
houses in Indiana, one in Illinois, large State
building at Columbus, o., containing 10000 feet,
arge six-story apartment house, also a fine
jdence at Cleveland, o.. and ten national
inks located in different parts of the country.
Tile dealers throughout the country are begin
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
Red Tape i'm the Customs.

A most exasperating case occurred in
New York not long ago. Mr.. Clarke, of
Cambridge, Mass, who makes most of
the large telescopes purchased in the
United States, had an order for an in
strument with larger object glass than
had ever yet been made. The glass
from which to make this tense was simply
understandable in the United States; no
one here could make it-no would
even attempt to make it; so Mr.. Clarke or
dered it from abroad. 1t arrived at the
Port of New York, great, rough look
ing lump of glass, of no possible use to any
one but the man who ordered it. But
because he had never seen anything of
the sort before, the customs officer, into
whose hands the import fell, seemed, in
his ignorance, to determine that there
was some deep mystery about this mass
of raw material. There was no pro-
vision in the tariff for Jumps of glass, so
the officer acted as if the stuff should not
have been imported at all. Mr. Clarke
was put off, snubbed, suspected and
bullied, his anxiety to get possession of
his property so that he might fulfill his
contract in time increased Custom House
suspicion. Suddenly the officer dis
covered that a very small portion of the
surface-two or three square inches of
rough sphere more than ten feet in
circumference-had been ground fiat
and polished, SO as to show the quality
of the glass. Then he saw his way
clearly; he ruled that the entire mass
should pay duty as ''cut glass % Against
this stupid extortion the importer re-
belled and let the glass remain; it lay at
the Custom House months and years
possibly it still is there.-THe Hour.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
Mechanical Means of Producing Cold.
garrett replied:
"Soss |"

1t is probable that within a few wears
the storing and selling of ice will be dis
pensed with. By mechanical and chem
ical devices a cold atmosphere can be in
duced of temperature so low that arti-
fetal ice very readily forms. These are
used where many animals are killed and
stored for food between the decks of
vessels which take dressed meat from
America to Europe, and in storage ware
houses IN which are kept eggs, butter,
cheese, meat and poultry. In the ST.
Johns railway depot, in New York city,
are series of some ninety rooms, cover
ing an area of 10000 square feet, which
are kept at a freezing temperature all
the year round by means of a pipe run
ming along the ceiling through which the
freezing mixture from the tank is sent
In great apartment-house in West
Odd street, in New York city, there will
be cooling as we'll as heating appar-
atus affecting all the rooms. In addition
to being lit by electricity, and heated by
the steam from the engine that runs the
dynamos, every room will contain a coil
through which will circulate freezing
mixture forced up from the cellar Thus
on a burning hot day in July and August
the occupants of this great apartment
house can turn on the cooling air and
produce ice in their rooms, if they wish
to do so. Saloon and sleeping cars can
be refrigerated in midsummer, and thus
kept comfortably cool The manufac-
turers of the apparatus say that after
the first cost of the plant, the running
expenses would not be two cents a day
for each refrigerator, which is far cheaper
than ice. apart from the cost of handling
and storing the latter. With this APP
paratus, the heated plains and the burn
ing sands of the torrid zones may be
made not only habitable but comfortable
for the average man or woman of the
temperate regions of the earth.-Denao-
rests MOalthLn
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
A New Danger TO Dudes.

"Here, conductor, this young mans
tainted"
The words were uttered in tone of
great excitement by a stout woman
of about 40 years of age in street car,
and rs she spoke a slim youth who was
seated beside her in corner of the car
fell forward and dropped in heap upon
the straw.
A doctor was hurriedIy summoned,
and after disappearance of about ten
minutes the young man and physician
came out of the room, which had been
kept closed, arm in arm. The Young
mans face was still pale, and he walked
with avery perceptibfe tremor. fhe
| Doctor said: ''That is the fourth case
! this month I have seen of the deadly eff
fects of wearing tight trousers, and had
that young man not been attended to
promptly he might have been in great
danger"
"Tight trousers ?" queried bystand-
er, incredulously.
Eyes, sir; tight trousers Why, you
cannot imagine how often we doctors
have to treat cases of illness brought on
by no other cause. Take that young man,
for instance; his trousers were at least
four sizes too small for him; not too
short, of course, but too tight, and for
hours and hours he had been walking
about with a pressure of at least 275
pounds to the square inch on his olexn
vivisectori arteries, which are situated in
the calves of the human leg. This ire
mendous pressure forces the blood into
channels not able to carry it without I'M
due straining, and although the victim
feels no pain he is liable at any moment
to topple over in swoon, and unless re-
lief is promptly given long and serious
illness is likely to follow. It is similar
trouble to that experienced when it was
the lasnlun Ior ladies to wear tight
sleeves, except that in the case of tight
trousers the material is heavier, the
arteries larger, and the result apt to be
more dangerous and difficult to relieve"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
Impossible to See the Doctor.

The other day Bismarck gentlema,
was coming up from Standing Rock
and stopped to see man who lives nea1
the Cannon Ball River. In response to
knock at the door he heard a shrill
sharp "Come in !" and, on entering
found sharp-faced, angular woman sit
ting in the room under an open scuttl,
hole leading into the loft above, with ,
shotgun on her knee.
els the gentleman of the house in o.
he asked.
eyes, sir; he air."
"Can l see him moment ?"
"No, sir; you can't see a hide nor q
hair of i'm"
"Why can't I, MADAME I would like
to speak to him on business"
eff you was a dyin', and Jim war the
only doctor in Dakoty, yo' couldn't sol
an eye on him till he gives in an talks
decent. AT dinner, while ago, he told
me to pass i'm the apple soss, an tol'
him it wasn't soss, but sass, an he said
he knowed better, it was soss, an I tol'
him that wen he TUX a notion that a lit
tie apple sass'd feel soothin' to his stom-
ach to say so, an he said he'd have that
soss or die. Then I top him I'd defend
that sass with life, an made break for
the shotgun, an he made break up
through the scuttle inter the loft. When
his senses come to him, an he gives in
that sass is sass, he kin cum down; but
if he makes break afore that, off goes
the top of his head. Thar sets the sass.
stranger, an thar's Jim up in the loft,
an that's the way matters stand iist now,
an 1 reckon you'd better mosey along
an not get mixed inter the row."
AS the gentleman moved away he
heard her voice saying: "Jim, wen
you get tired O yer durn foolin' an want
this sass, jes' squeal out p
And gruff voice from the darksome
garnet replied:
ssSogs %
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
Taking Him at His Word.

This anecdote of Red Jacket was re,
lated by Judge Sheldon at the meeting
of the committee of the Buffalo Histori.
cal Society: "There was a blacksmith
shop on the corner where the Post Office
now stands, kept by a man named
Reese. He was very fine workman, a
real artist in his line. One day Red
Jacket came into the shop with his inter-
preter-he would never speak English,
you know. He wanted new tomahawk
made. They had some talk, but Reese
finally said he would make the toma-
hawk for him, and told him to come in
two weeks for it. When the time was
up Red Jacket came for the tomahawk.
1t was fine piece of workmanship, too.
He went off, but in day or two re-
turned with the tomahawk. It didn't
suit him.
OF course, Reese was mad, but he told
Red Jacket If he would make model
out of maple wood of Just such a toma
hawk as he wanted, he would make it
for him. So Red Jacket made his model
and brought it to Reese, who told him
to come after it in week. Red Jacket
came in a week with his Interpreter, as
usual. Reese had told several people
and several people were in the shop
when Red Jacket came in. Reese handed
him the Ratchet.
Red Jacket looked it all over, flung it
across the room, grunted ugh p and
went off mad as thunder. He had for
gotten to make an eye in his model, and
Reese made the Ratchet without an eve.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
Oriental Superstition.

Two young ladies stood gazing at the
white elephant as it stood enthroned in
all its sacred splendor and surrounded
by the mystic embIems of its holy char.
acter and the adoring priests who were
kneeling devoutly on every side.
"How curious it is, remarked one,
''that any race of people should be
so deluded as to worship a white ele-
plant.
cit is, indeed" replied the other.
sadly. "When [ look on this worship
ing throng of ignorant, superstitious
creatures and realize how earnest and
sincere they are, cannot but feel that
there should be no rest until the mis-
sionary message is borne to the last one
of these benighted heathen."
'"True," asserted the first speaker: sit
is grand and solemn duty"
just at this juncture the animal ficked
his tail and struck one of the Buddhist
priests in the mouth.
"Howly Moses !' he exclaimed, in
terrupting his devotions, eye hathen
haste" and then the young ladies
strolled on to the monkeys cage. -
Phita. EUe. Call.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
Opium in Tobacco.

The Elmira AdUertjser publishes the
following interview with a chemist of
that city: sit is stated that you have
found the highest toned grades and
forms of tobacco to be badly aduIterated
with opium" said the writer interroga-
lively to the doctor. eyes, sir. replied
the scientist, ''that is in a measure true.
Not long ago, 1 collected, by purchase
OF reputable dealers, dozen packages
OF the most prominent and high-priced
cigarettes to be had. These l forwarded
to a Plttsburg chemist to be analyzed
with special reference to the opium
which public opinion had only half led
me to believe might be found in them.
With them L sent some cheaper grades
of cigarettes. The result of the analysis
was to me an astounding one. The
chemist found that in all the standard
brands of cigarettes there was consid-
cradle quantity of opium Now, the
effects of opium smoking, eating or
absorption in any form are generally
known to be very dangerous, and, if car
ried to the extreme, deadly. Hence 1
need not dwell upon the significance of
the discovery. So much for the best
cigarettes. The poorer ones also were
tested with reference to opium, but were
found to be devoid of anything so ex-
pensive. In them there were found
quantities of various vile drugs mixed
with refuse tobacco of the most I'M
wholesome sort. Take these facts, in
addition to the well recognized narcotic
effects of the purest tobacco, and they
indicate such dangerous practices and
habits as ought to be corrected without
delay"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
A New Reason.

The temperance question has been sc
thoroughly threshed out of late that il
scarcel y seems possible to find a new
argument on the one side or the other
But certain DR.. Troth, of Perth, Scot.
land, recently delivered a lecture in
which ADVANCES some exceedingly
ORIGINAL pro POSITIONS:
'The drinking of alcoholic beverages is
necessary evil, and is not likely ever
to be discontinued. It is like cholera.
plague, or war-one Of the wise dispen-
Stations of Providence for preventing an
undue increase of mankind. It prevents
the accumulation of all the property OF
the nation in the hands of few 4 i
By its means the son scatters the saw
ings of his fathers lifetime in a few
months, enabling another man to fill his
position, creates a class of drunken
tradesmen to neglect their business. so
that energetic men may succeed where
they fail In short, it benefits
directly or indirectly everybody but
those who drink it, and if they are fools
enough to sacrifice themselves and their
families for the good of the sober and
industrious, why should we interfere
with them?"
There is, says the Hour, really a
certain amount of sound sense in the
Malthusian selfshness of this ingenious
doctor
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
The North Polar Region.

In natural history several disputed
points will be settled on Lieut.. Lay re-
turn to Washington from the vienna
convention. The preserved specimens
will show for themselves in SNORT
time. Lieut.. Ray has also made study
of the currents in that latitude, ana
when his views are given to the Pu0hc
they will find many advocates. he DE-
Iieves the so-caIled great japanese cur
rent flows through Behring Strait, meets
the ice pack further north and is divided
easterly and westerly, the westerly cur
rent describing a half circle, pushing
against the ice pack and flowing west OF
Wrangell Land until it met current
and was turned down along the Aslastlc
shore. The easterly current is turned
against the British North American
shore, forced to the east of Mackenzie
river and flows past said river, the lex
pick-pong and Mead rivers, and is only
stopped by the stronger current flowing
through Behring Strait at Point Bar
row. The long nine-mile spit, called
Point Barrow, where Lieut.. Ray was sta
toned, would assist in carrying out this
theory