The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-08
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"calf-weaner. Manufacturer.
The mechanical illustrations Of foreign trade
papers are hideous. Mechanical News.
In Venezuela is found a vegetable wool, beauti-
full. silky and elastic. 1t is very cheap.-El His
panO Americana.
The rainy season has set in in California. The
fruits and grains are promising eu.-Elevato
and Grain Trade.
Floods occurred hundreds of years ago the
same as now. Forest-cutting does not cause
them.-Lumberman.
In Java is found a vegetable wool which may
be earded. 1t is worth Is cents a pound.-Moni-
teur DIES Fills ct Tissus.
A tariff is q tax. Reduce the taxes.-State
Leader. The schools are a tax. Away with
schOols.-TheT radesman.
The Panama canal is going to require locks, as
the Pacific is ten feet higher than the Atlantic.
Two Republics, Mexico.
Luminous paint has been made FLOR ages by
Chinese out of sea pearls ground and mixed in
a paste. Manufacturers Record.
Ten carloads of wheat have been received at
Duluth from the basin of the Columbia and
Snake vers.-Northwestern Miller.
The South Americans complain that English
beer contains too much alcohol. American lager
suits them better.-Malt and Hop Trades.
There is a mine of fine. brilliant coke in New
Mexico. 1t is supposed the coal was changed to
coke in some volcanic uproar long since.-Mi-
ner.
Some people in sucking a lemon seem sur
prised to find it sour. There is a moral lurking
somewhere in this idea. )-Southern Miller,
Tenn.
The Great Eastern. after having ruined every
body connected with her, is now a collier, carry
ing Goals between London and the Frith-of
Forth, Coal.
Englishmen pay Canadian farmers for the
privilege of placing their sons on farms i'll Can
ada. The boys pay for being allowed to work
like hired men. Modern Miller.
Free trade would give us cheap clothing Free
trader. Yes, but without labor there would be
no clothing. Better steady pay and little clothing
than no wages and no clothing. Steel.
Free trade has ruined the manufactures of Ire
land. and made the whole people dependent on
agriculture, and therefore serfs of the soil. 1t
would make us the same.-Age of Steel.
"Death to monopolies, is a politicians cry,
and 1.-THE rights of workingmen." The work
ingmen, as a mass, would thank the politician to
let business, the tariff and the monopolies alone.
Iron Age.
The coming triumph" which means the mo-
nopolization of our markets by the English will
not occur, if the people have any hand in the
election of their representative American
Metal Market.
Events move rapidly in America and the com
ing triumph of the free-trade movement is at
hand. This will open an immense field for the
sale of English goods in America. Machinery
Market, England.
Flood, the rich, is building a 1877 -feet-long palace
of Connecticut stone, in San Francisco. Front
and rear are alike, and are richly decorated with
porticoes, balconies and Doric columns, all Of
stone.-Building.
There are more woods in the United States
now than there were fifty years ago. Twenty
years after u forest is cut away a new forest has
sprung up in its place, where the soil is poor.
Wood and Iron.
The electric light is found useful in exploring
caves. 1t lights up a dome hung with stalactites.
pierces the darkness of galleries and arches, and
brings out the crystalizations on the walls with
astonishing lustre.-La Lumiere Eleetrique.
Twenty persons lately assembled in New York
to discuss a system of underground electric
wires. Terra Gotta pipes, with wood boxes at
intervals, into which a man could get for repair
ing, were appreved.-Telegraph and Telephone.
A bull is a man who talks about the prosperity
of the country. the vast earning capacities of the
railroads, and the big crops out West. A bear
is a man who talks about the depression in the
iron trade, production, and too many rail
roads. GRAIN.
Canada is talking of a railroad from Manitoba
to Hudson's bay. Surveys of a road from Win
nipeg have been made to that bay, and charters
have been given for two railroads i'll that direc-
ton, with subsidies of 6, 200 acres to the mile.
Grain Cleaner.
Every DAY sees D., ,UUU auueu TO Inc wealth.
of our republic, or one-third of the daily accUmu-
lated wealth of mankind. And this is in spite of
the adverse efforts of schools and colleges, and of
the Golden Club, which pays folks for talking
free ~trade.-Steel
A freehold in Wales, containing a harbor, a
town with houses. schools, ancient churches,
town hall and market, a magnificent manor
having a sea frontage of seven miles, with rights
of hunting and fishing, is advertised for sale.
Mark Lane Express.
We urge (doubleleaded) upon the senators
from the timber States of the South the necessi-
ty of making every effort to kill off the move
ment, headed by the press of New FORK. to place
from Canada ON the free lst!-American
Lumberman, New Orleans.
Rum is made from sugar-cane. TIL cane is
reduced to a solid mass. This mass is changed
by heat into a liquid form and turned into great
yats, where it ferments. From these watts it
goes to a distillery, where il undergoes the com
mon process of distilling. -Confectioner.
The sole reason that England and Scotland
are so thickly wooded is the perseverance of the
landed class in tree-planting. The dukes of
Athole alone have planted sixty millions of
trees. The present Duke of Athole plants one
million trees a year.-Timber Trades, England.
Barbed-wire fencing has increased the demand
for fence boards and posts immensely. Stock
raisers now fence immense areas with wire, al
ways using IA top board that the cattle may see
it, and planting posts for thousands Of miles
where formerly they dld without 1ences.-N ood-
worker.
The climber lockers" are finding whole en-
pires of rich land in the Yazoo delta. They find
clouds of ducks hat darken the sun and make a
noise like thunder, and also deer, bears and
panther, on the Sunflower and Culver rivers. 1t
is a paradise for winter sportsmenthere.-Wood
Worker.
In Colorado, companies with large capital are
organized to bring under cultivation the vast
tracts, otherwise arid, which, with proper irriga-
ton, become fertile and arabic. This new in
dustry of irrigation furnishes labor for many
and increases the acreage of arabic land.-Engi-
neering.
The Califonians have got from the United
States Court an injunction against hydraulic
mining. The unlimited mud washed off the hills
by the miners covers the farms and fills up the
river-beds and causes the rivers to overflow at
every rise. Thousands of miners will be out of
work.-Hydraulic Engineer.
The old Pompeiians had folding-doors and