The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-01
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Fished from the Boiling Pot of Trade Jour.
nalism.

OUT West the folks telephone along their wire
! fences.-ElectIican
THE Midland railway England, has adopted
the Pullman cars.-Wood and Iron.
STEAM heating has collapsed in Troy after
| sinking 1928, O00.-Mechanical News.
! THE Illinois Central railroad is holding out
against the new time.-Railway journal.
THE steamship City of Rome has twenty-four
| independent engines ON board.-Age of Steel.
SHoDDY is a good thing; it is a waste product
| applied to good approximation Economist.
THE East is healthier than the South, and the
| West is healthier than the East-Sanitary En-
gineer
Four years ago the two-mile-long Tay bridge
| fell down. The new bridge is about half done.
Engineer
ANTHRACITE sells at $14 ton on the far north
west corner Of Lake Superior, where the folks
! will have it-Coal
THE loggers of the Northwest employ pole
railroads ON which they run strong pole-road7
cars. worker.
THE Americans have got hold of the grain
| trade of Russia, and are building elevators
| there.-ContTact Journal.
TERRA GOTTA is now used largely in New York
buildings for outside ornaments, for interior lin
| ing and for fooring.-Building.
VISITORS to Alvan Clark's slow-coach optical
! works say the great Lick telescope will not be
| done for a long time yet.-Mechanics.
/
railroad have proved that American steel rails
are superior to English-Age of Steel.
An electric railway is to be built for carrying
| peasure-seekers about the isle of Mt. Desert, on
the coast of AIaine.-Eleetrical Review
THE pine and spruce of the Northwest will last
| just seven years longer. After that the South
| Will be cleared OF its tlmber.-Bullding.
Wool blankets are sold for 81 80 pair. They
are made of cow-hair, thoroughly cleaned and
mixed with low-grade wool.-Textile Record.
/ INVENTORS are studying up metal railway cars.
| These would be beautiful, light safe, in
combustible, and would run an age.-Machinist.
WILLIAM NJ BARR, formerly of indianapolis,
now superintends the 800 mechanics of the
Worthington Hydraulic Works, Brooklyn, N. Y.
| Engineering.
NEW Atlantic cable is to be soon laid 1t is
an American enterprise, in the interest of the
newspapers. and will reduce the cost of mes
| sages.-Electrical Review.
GENERAL GRANT has lately presented Pratt
| & Whitney gun to the Mikado of Japan, and one
to the Viceroy of China. These guns each fire
| 5000 shots in thirteen minutes-lron
| In Algeria, at the foot of the Atlas range, are
vast forests of colossal pines chestnuts, oaks,
| olives and cedars. The cedars are eighteen feet
round the bole and 100 feet high.-Lumber
| World
THE Territory of Dakota has chartered car,
| has loaded it with specimens of her productions,
and is sending it all over the country adver-
tlsement hoping thus to attract immigrants.
| Grain.
A WHOLE library has been written in the West
ON tornadoes, the gist of which is that tornadoes
| occur in the afternoon and on sultry days, and
| that the best protection from them is woods.
Electrician.
| THE London Times remarks that Canada is
| the least costly and least troublesome and vet
| the greatest of British colonial possessions
Yes if you count icebergs, it is the greatest,
Agents Herald.
THE window-glass makers are out on a FIVE
months strike and lockout Glass has gone up,
and the glass manufacturers are making money
| by importing and selling glass, instead of manu-
| featuring the same.-Manufacturer
STANLEY, the American explorer conducts
| himself ike a monarch, in Africa He has a
body guard and sways, it over the natives auto
cratically. This is what comes of pioneering
and exploring Disguised European Mail
| A PERFECT duplication of the Arch of Titus in
| Rome has Just been completed in Tilton, N. II.
| This great memorial symbolizes the victories
| of peace, and is present to the town from
| Charles Tilton, of that ilk.-American Manufac-
| turer.
| MACHINE guns in the field are now entirely
abandoned in Europe because they have no pow
er against walls or earthworks, and the slightest
error throws every bullet out of range, especial
| ly where the mark is unsteady. - Contract
| Journal.
THE Pennsylvania railroad has erected in
Il H1le Dullul1lS IOf IUS Gftt1l
| containing bath rooms, with hot and cold water
smoking rooms, rooms for quiet games, reading
rooms supplied with papers and magazines and
hbrary.-Railway Journal.
BREWERS are great patrons of inventions.
| They use all sorts of ingenious machinery
machines that jerk up bags full of malt and
| empty them, machines that make ice, that wash
bottles and tubs-n short, machines that do
every sort of work.-Brewers' Journal
A HINT for pure water supply is given in the
| report that the water supply of Brooklyn is in
creased 10, 900 gallons day by drivewells
| in the suburbs, ninety feet deep well at Du
buque la, 800 feet deep, flows 400 gallons per
minute-.- enough to supply the whole eity.-En
| gineer
Mr.. SANGUELsoN, an English NJ. P, who has
| lately Travelled in America, has been making u
speech in England in which he said that the pros
perity of American workingmen was beyond any
| thing i'll the world elsewhere, and the comfort
and independence of American artisans were
| marvellous to him-Mechanics.
THE present methods of disposing of Chicago
| sewage violate every rule of economy of wealth
| and economy of nature The efforts of the city
| to get rid of sewage though very expensive, are
failures. These efforts have burdened Chicago
with a nuisance of the worst sanitary character
| The Chicago river is an elongated cess-pool
Plumber.
THE Mexicans have the knack of making very
durable adobe houses. These houses last, floors
and all, in their even, dry climate, for 300 years
or So They make the adobe of stiff mud, mixed
with straw. The mud is poured into wooden
molds, where it dries into large bricks. These
bricks are fastened togetherin the walls of houses
and fences by means of mud.-Buildimg.
WOODEN pavements have lasted longer in Lon
don than in American cities, but they are being
abandoned because of their absorption of mois-
ture and dirt and their giving off, when dry, the
same dirt in fine dust Chicago has given up
wood for stones All great cities have proved
at their own expense, that wooden pavements
are money wasted.-Carpentry and Building.
THE wealth of the United States is now esti-
mated at $50, 000 600 000 that of Great Britain
at $40 1000, 900, 00O The wealth per inhabitant in
the United States is $780, and in Great Britain it
is 81, 900. In the United States Y parts of the
wealth go to labor, % to capital and ) to govern
ment. In Great Britain Al parts go to labor, Sc
to capital and % to Observation-Disclosures.