The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-16
A CHOICE REPAST.

Iron Age.
South America is buying barb-wire fencein the
United States-Age of Steel
The Baldwin Locomotive Works are building
motors for South Australa-Iron Age.
Turkey is beginning to buy American stoves
pianos and sewing machines.-Exporter
Vermont produces yearly 81, 900, 900 pounds of
butter, Iowa 100 900 900 peunds.-Exporter.
South America is largely buying sashes and
blinds in the United States.-Wood Worker.
In California, they say if a man buys water he
can have the land thrown in.-Engineering.
Sixty-four thousand Canadians settled in the
United States last Industrial Review.
Wages are going down and profits to manu-
facturers are growing small.-TeXtile Record.
A black plug hat is as useful in a mill as an
upstairs girl in one-story house. Roller Mill.
Ship-builders on the Clyde are not doing any
thing Free trade does not help them.-Wood-
Worker
The land reclaimed by the Okechobee canal
will be the richest sugar lands in the world.
Florida Dispatch.
The English are now making American loco
motives with cowcatcher, balloon, funnel and
an.-Railway Register.
The Australians have made failure of ship
ping frozen meats to Europe. The Carcasses
widowed Trade Journal.
In France the telegraph cables are placed in
cast-iron underground pipes, having frequent
chambers for repairs.-Iron.
There will be no tariff changes this winter, be
cause a protective sentiment has grown up in
The South.-Southern Miller.
A Chicago builder makes buildings fire proof
by covering ceilings with thin sheet iron and fill
nag in with ashes.-Building.
Thirteen strikes occurred in the Illinois coal
fields last year. In three the miners carried
their point-Mining Journal
Persons who can tell when knots are of value
are making considerable money going about
looking for them Apprentices Journal.
Englishmen are making huge purchases of
timber lands in South America, and in the South
ern and Western States.-Saw Mill Gazette.
In Holland they are trying free trade. Whole
branches of industry are ruined and the people
are petitioning the King for tariff.-Trade
Gazette.
The Turkish Sultan wants proposals from
American contractors for a railroad in Turkey
All supplies will be imported free of duty and
nothing taxed. Contract Journal.
In a carload of wheat from st. Louis the body
of man was found frozen stiff He preferred
to be graded rejected frozen" to staying in ST.
Louis.-American Miller (Chicago.)
The Crystal Palace Company, of London, has
set aside central court on the main floor for
American exhibitors at its six months exhibition
beginning April next.-Metal Market.
americans are becoming large owners OF Gan
ada timber. If there is any main chance" over
in Canada the Northwest Yankees are bound to
get good slice of it.-Lumber World
In the Northwest pineries two horse teamsters
get $50 per month"; four-horse teamsters, $40;
OK teams ters $35; choppers, $40 cooks, $780,
savers, $40; swampers, $40.-Saw Mill Gazette
The con mon willow, being coarse feeder and
rapid grower. and having widely spreading roots
and an enc rmous LEAKAGE will, if planted thick
ly, destroy malaria. Northwestern Lumber
man.
The contractors making tunnels into the Sierra
Madre mountains have found gold and silver
mines. The tunnels also bring forth streams of
water that readily command large sums of
money.-Mining Review.
Eighteen savans assembled in Philadelphia,
the other day, to make arrangements for receiv
ing the British and American Associations for
the Advancement of Science which meets there
next Septer ber.-Industrial Gazette.
Photographing on linen will never wash out
Henry Irving's portrait each napkin used
at the London banquet given him ere he left for
America, the napkins being intended as souven-
irs for the uests to take photographer
Southern cotton mills pay dividends of "a per
cent Nortl ern capital is quietly and steadily
flowing Southwark. New England expects soon
to feel the con petition from the South so far as
regards cheap cotton cloth.-Southern Trade
Gazette.
The loggers are having good luck this winter
enough for good hauling The skidded logs are
being rapidly banked. Full crews are at work
and all the logs needed will be obtained -Lum-
Der Trade.
San Francisco had fine trade with the
Samoan islands. This trade was destroyed by
the bad conduct of the late consul. The govern
ment has sent out new consul, who will have
his hands full try ng to build up the destroyed
trade.-Tradesman.
Americans have taken our cutlery trade away
by causing all cutting or working parts of their
cutlery to be highly polished, and by covering
Oh, not with tar, but with red paint and gliding
The Timber Trades, England
American threshers, reapers mowers and
horse rakes are made both light and strong, and
they are sold cheaper than English agricultural
implements can be sold The Americans arc
therefore suppantine the English trade in those
articles in Russia.-British Trade Journal
In Illinois thorough tiledraining of the soil
some times raises its temperature fifteen degrees
Filing of the ground is equivalent to moving $50
miles further south. Around Champaign the
fields of cane, which were tile-drained looked
still green. white those undraincd were touched
by the early frosts.-Farmers Review.
Timber lockers" are exploring the Yazoo
Delta. On the Suniower and Culver rivers
they have found wonderful growths of oak.
Tim er-lookers" have lately examined the for
ests of Mississippi cypress. They have also
looked over the areas of yellow pine and live oak
jim Florida. They are going about among the
precious woods of Mexico. -Southern Trade Ga
Eette.
More natural gas" companies are being
formed in Pennsylvania The pressure at the
mouths of the wells is very great, and the gas
can be conveyed in common mains wherever it
is needed for light or for manufacturing Pitts
burg expects to get rid of its smoke and see the
sun again. Lines are being laid to Baltimore
and to some of the lake cities.-Gas light
journal.
The mishaps of the Northern Pacific railroad
have caused the people to see that to work out
these great railroads is no matter of JOY or of
compensation. The people do not now talk
against land grants or against the railroad en-
dowment The individual cares ard sufferings
of the men who built that road, sustained that
majestic property like human arms-Railway
Review.
In the Adirondacks are many abandoned farms