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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-28

Norway nail rod. 7c; German steel plow.slab, &c;
American drill steel 12c; Sandersons tool steel 15c
tire steel 4e; spring steel, &C. horse shoes, ~ keg
$500; mule shoes y keg $500 horse nails, " box.
Sd S5 cut nails 1Od and larger, 1920 v keg other
sizes at the usual advance.
TIMERS SUPPLIEs-Best brand charcoal tin-IC
and TX l2x12, Sc. 80 &c, 14x20, roofing tin, So 25
&c 2092S, $l2.50@1 block tin, in pigs, &c. in
vani7ed, 80 y cent discount. Sheet zinc, 6lsc Cop
per bottoms, 23c Planished copper, Sec. Solder
15016c. Wire, so p cent off list
PRODUCE.
BUTTER-CreamePv fancy Csc; dairy selected l 8
020c; choice country, 12613c; poor to fair, S010c.
from store at "a G25c.
% % ib.
HoNEY-2o9 age in 1 and . B cans.
VENIsoN-14 q i5c ~ 10.
GAME-Quails 81. rs p doz
PouLTRY-Hens; &c p tbj ROSTERS, 4c young chick
ems, &c v is: ducks, So " doz; geese, So W doz;
C1DER-Dufy's Rochester. Sc p bril-
WooL-Tub washed, 28032c unwashed. medium
zoe; unwashed, common, Iec; Cotswold, Tic; bury
and understandable according to their value.
PROVISIONS.
WHOLESALE PKIcEs-Prime lard, 7c; short; ribs
green zoe; cured ones here. Sweet picked hams
Sl2c. Shoulders SC.
JoBBING PRICES-Smoked Meats (canvased) or
-Sugar-cured hams, 10 to 121a TBS average,
12se; Is lbs average l9e; 1719 lbs average 124c
20 TBS and over, 12c; cottage hams, Sc; Cali
family shoulders pieces averaging g to 10 lbs, 7e;
dried beef 15c bacon (cear Sides medium weight 9c
backs and bellies, sac; French fitch lib pieces, l2c
Dry Sailed and Picked NIeats-English cured clear
sides backs (rfnsmoked) &c. bean pork (clear) "
brl 200 lbs, $1,000: clear pork y brl 200 bs $14
family pork (cear) y brl 200 lbs, 81; family beef,
T. brl 200 TBS. $1S. Lard-Pure kettle rendered, in
tierces Sl2c q bbls and 80 ID tubs l2c advances AS
ID tin tubs and 20 10 pals lie advance; 10 b pals
l2c advance Sausage-Blogna in cloth, 7c in skin,
7i2c.
SEEDS.
TINoTHY-S1 400 1.65 y bu; clover, $4.5004.75
y bu bluegrass, extra clean Kentucky, $l.400l. so
v bu red top 75e y bu; orchard grass, 81. 0l75
p bu, owing to quality.
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THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
THE FARM,



New England Farmer.
Our country is to large too young, and, per-
baps too poor to have uniformly good roads
everywhere yet it is time that we improve in
this direction. We expend vast sums of money
annually in repairing our highways but without
making them permanently better. There are
counties in some of the older States that have
spent over 50 600 per mile in road repairs since
the country was settled, and vet have very in
ferior roads, and little prospect of better in the
future. In and near Boston there are some
very excellent roads. They have been built as
roads should be built, and although they are
costly they will be cheap in the end
4aVery few of us realize what heavy toll we
are paying when we haul half load over a poor
road. On good, level, hard road, two-horse
team will easily haul load that would require
four or six horses to haul over many of our soft
billy, country roads. We sympathize with people
who have to pay to 10 cents to haul a load over
bridge, or few miles on shell or turnpike
road, but many of US often really pay ten times
as much in extra teams for doing the same pull
ing over our common free roads
We show too little public spirit in our road
matters. We put the care of the streets into the
hands Of men who know little of road making
and possibly care as little as they know, and
then we change them for others before they have
time to learn the business, even if such a desire
is manifested We never can have good roads
until we find or make good road builders, men
who know just how to go to work to make the
best road that can be made under the circum-
stances. The money that has been foolishly
spent might have given us roads that would cost
US little to keep in repair.
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Chicago Live Stool, Market.

CHICAGO. Nov 27-The Drovers Journal re-
Tbs fo ia 49, tbc
quality was very good. Fancy heavy, $3.50; heavy
packing and shipping, 81 80 al SO; mixed $4.100
4.30; light bacon, $43435.
Cattle-Receipts, 1000; shipments. 5000. The
market was rather slow; prime exports unchanged,
with sales high $6.75 other grades brought
20G25a lower than on Tuesday; inferior to fancy
shipping, $3.90a6.30, mainly at $460 as. so;
butchers stock, $2035o for common to good cows;
Texas cattle 81 20 so for bulls and So 1913 5
for steers; Western cattle nominal at So so IS;
stockers and feeders quiet at So. so 04.50.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts, $1,000 shipments,
700. The market 10020c lower. with very heavy
offerings Some inferior Nebraska sheep were unsal-
able inferior to choice natives $16003.7o.
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Household Hints,

Three gilded fans, tied together with gay pink
and olive satin ribbons, are much used for wall
decorations.
For cleaning white paint, take small guam
tity of whiting on damp flannel cloth, and rub
lightly over the surface, rinsing with clear water,
and wiping dry.
Sealskin garments should never be allowed to
get wet, but when they do, the fur must not be
dried by artificial heat, but by hanging out of
doors, or else in cold room,
A handsome table spread is of sage green
rnomie silk, lined with surah of same shade and
ornamented by design of pomegranates in gold
thread over sage green floselles the ends fin
ished with fringe of silk and gold thread inter
mingled.
A very ornamental foot-stool is made in two
colors in plush. The stool should be round and
soft, and have the plush pieces cut after the
fashion of quarters of orange peel Where they
join fancy stitches in colored silk should cover
the seams
If moths are at work at the edge of the car
pet it will sometimes suffice to lay a cloth and
press hot fatiron over it, but better way is
to take the carpet up, clean it, wash the floor
with benzine and scatter red pepper on it before
putting the carpet lining down.
Lovely tides are made of white muslin; they
are hemmed, and in the center is worked in silk
a suitable picture in outline stitch, If the silk
is used which is intended for this kind of EN-
brodery, it will not fade, or run" when washed,
and the tides are thus rendered seryiceable
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How to Color Feathers and Ribbons.

Harper's Bazaar
To ten cents worth of common varnish add a
few drops of Japan drying With this liquid
and an ordinary long-handled bristle brush
varnish your straw hat or whatever you may
wish TO bronze. Then take your gold or silver
bronzing powder, pour it into small saucer,
and with a small piece of velvet, dust the
powder over every part of the article you are or
namenting. Go over the article until every part
is smooth and even in appearance. The feathers
of ducks and Leghorn fowls make beautiful tips
when bronzed in this manner, or they may be
colored by the following process;
The mediums used for coloring plumes, rib
bons, or velvets, are the W1nsor 81 Newton oil
colors in tubes, and gasoline. Suppose that you
have white, cream, ostrich plume tip,
which you wish to change to a delicate shade of
pink. If only tip, take what pink madden
would 60 on the point of pen knife, and dis
solve it in two table-spoonfuls of gasoline A
large flat plate is good article on which to color
tips, Then lay in your tip, and with small
sponge go over it until thoroughly wet. Press
out the extra liquid, and shake in the air until
dry. If a cameo pink is wanted take of carTnine
and Chinese vermilfon, each a small quantity,
and dissolve in the gasoline Then dip in your
plumes, or ribbon, velvet, or satin, and you will
obtain desirable results. We would recommend
running ribbon through the solution about
quarter of a yard at time, having liquid &C
cording to the quantity of the ribbon.
Do not wiring velvet, satin, or ribbon, as
you may do with a plume, but press out
the extra liquid very carefully with the ends
of the fingers. AS a rule, the liquid absorbs so
rapidly in fabracs that there is little to press
out. Only the gros grain, ottoman rep, fine bro
cade, or satin ribbons color well. But cotton
velvets and ordinary satins color very nicely.
If you wish to color light blue into tan, use
burnt sienna, or if you wish to color cream into
rich reddish brown, use brown madden. Al
most any shade of green may be produced (if
the ribbon or plume is white or cream1 by using
chrome, emerald or terre-verte green. A little
experimenting on small pieces of ribbon or vel
vet will teach one how to shade nicely Light
yellows and yellowish browns are made with
lemon yellow and white for very light yellow;
and lemon yellow and Vandyck brown for rich
yellowish- brown. Use scarlet lake with a little
carmine for producing rich crimson. and add
a little ivory black to scarlet and crimson lake
for wine-color. Vandyck brown makes pref
ty shade of brown, if eolored on light blue.
Cadmium yellow colors on cream or white rich
dark yellow
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The Origin of Butter-Making

Atlanta Constitution.
There is no way of ascertaining when or how
this familiar process of butter-makng was first
used. Butter is mentioned in the Old Tesla
ment but modern biblical scholars think that
the word thus translated denoted liquid prep
aration of cream. The Oldest reference to true
butter is probably that made by Herodotus, in
his account of the Scythians. In the writings
of Dioscorides native of Cilicia, Asia Minor,
who lived in the first century, we have descrip-
ton of the process of making butter from
Sleeps milk by agitation Frequent mention is
made in these old writings of the use of butter
as an ointment whence we may conclude that the
process OF making it was not so well under
stood as to give very palatabe article The
Greeks obtained their knowledge of butter max
ing from Asia Minor and the Romans learned
it through the Greeks. But butter making, as
we are now acquainted with the process, was an
acquisition of the inhabitants of northern
Europe, and by them has been transmitted to
us. Even now butter is little valued in the
Southern countries of Europe, olive oil being
much preferred there.
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Picked Cabbage.-A pickle which will keep
a few weeks and which is very appetizlng and
will help to save the other more expensive
pickles, is made of red cabbage. Choose firm
heads, cut them into quarters, and after remov-
ing the stalk cut the cabbage across into very
Finishes; spread this upon large platters scatter
salt with liberal hand over it. The next day
drain through a colander Then put the cabbage
into jar, and pour vinegar heated to the boil
ing point over it. some whole black pepper, and
if You choose little cayenne pepper or curry
powder or ginger may be put into the vinegar
and be heated with it
Apple Puffs. Stake pint of -four, to which
before sifting you have added a salt spoon of
salt and heaping spoonful of baking powder
Mix this with sufficient sweet milk to form @
rather stiff batter Two eggs we'll beaten, may
be put into the milk To this add four to six
apples according to sizel, chopped fine; they
must be of sort that is tender and will cook
quickly. Have some boiling lard, and drop the
puffs fre-a tablespoon; dip the spoon first in
the hot fat to prevent the dough from sticking
to it. When boiled, they may be rolled in fine
sugar and cinnamon mixed, or eaten with a
sauce of sugar or molasses.
Plum Pudding. pound Of raisins, stoned
one pound of currants washed and dried one
pound Of rich beef suet minced, one pound Of
stale bread crumbs, one pound of -four. Mix
the bread crumbs, -four and suet together.
Beat six eggs well, and add to them a pint of
sweet milk, a teaspoonful of soda in the milk.
Beat the eggs and milk with the suet and -four
for some time, then stir in the currants and raj
sins, mixing well as you proceed. Mix in also
one fourth of pound of candied orange and
lemon peel, cut in small pieces one ounce of pow
dered cinnamon, one-half ounce of powdered GIN
ger, one grated nutmeg, and little salt; either
bake or boil, according to taste. Bake nearly two
hours. If boiled, pour into cloth, allowing a
little room to swell, and boil for six hours. 1t is
peter boiled Serve with vanilla sauce
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sought the cross stitch is used for free, run
ming patterns, without canvas or counting of
threads. Sometimes a line of dots indicates
where the stitches are to be placed, but often a
bit of card, like tuck measurer, is the only
guide for setting the stitches, which are always
large. A table cover, as an example, has the
edge covered with points, or pyramids, worked
like an exaggeration of the sampler letter
A, without the bar. Each point is an inch and
half high, and the apex is extended upward and
made into a cross. The points are worked with
gold-colored wool; the cross the top is done
with light blue filosele and four cross stitches,
forming a sort of hollow square, in scarlet flo
selle. occupy the inside of the point Walls of
Troy, chain and key patterns, and all similar de-
signs worked in large cross stitch, and the
work is so rapid and easy that it is becoming
very POPULAR but those practicing it must not
even
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-28
Farm Notes.

The healthiest pork can not be obtained from
clear feed of dry corn. The digestive organs
of the animal so fed sure to get out of order
upon so heating food, and thus the whole sys-
tenn becomes tainted and impure.
Sugar is fed to the COWS on large dairy farm
near London, England, with good results. 1t
induces cattle to eat every mouthful of food in
the manger, instead of leaving part, as cattle
usually do. The sugar also improves the flavor
of the milk.
Strawberry beds should be covered when the
surface freezes using straw, swale hay, leaves
eornstalks, covering the plants but slightly
and the soil between them more heavily. Leaves
may be kept in place by laying on light brush or
sprnkling soil upon them.
In laying drains it is best to cover each Joint
with a collar so fitted that the soil will not work
in and fill the tile. If the bottom of the ditch is
cut down to point exactly the size of the tile,
the latter will not move laterally nor cause
trouble. 1t is best to make it secure and safe in
the first place.
Root crops, which often demand the use of the
hoe, cause the land to be kept very clean, thus
destroying weeds. 1t is best to put down such
crops occasionally for that purpose, as they are
important in proper system OF rotation, and
also prove remunerative crops as compared with
other kinds. crop that assists in destroying
weeds saves labor the following year, and is,
therefore more valuable than may be supposed
in some respects,
Country Gentleman: The fault Of the wind
mill is, its makers try TO do too much fer too
little money. and the result is unsatisfactory to
all parties apprehehd the farm windmill of
the future will do something more than pump
water. When the problem Of the astorage OF
electricity has been solved more completely then
it Will perhaps not only pump water and do
other familiar jobs, but furnish the material for
electrical lighting
The bending forward of the knees in horses is
caused by sprain of the back tendons, which
become thickened and shortened, drawing the
limb so that it bends ut the fetlock and knee
joints. 1t should be rrated as follows: Give
the horse rest If leg is tender and too
warm, apply cold dressings After this
apply some strong liz II, rubbing it in we'll.
Moderate work or exc should follow until
strength returns In sod cases hlistering with
iodide of mercury should be resorted to-
For the benefit of my sister bee keepers, who,
like myself, are so constituted that they can rot
work against bees with bare hands" says a lady
in the Bee Journal Il will tell how make my
bee gloves. 1 take piece of small unleached
linen jean, which wears we'll for the outside,
and for lining use canton flannel, with the full
next to the hand. Cut them after the pattern of
gloves used for binding grain with thistles in,
By dipping the gloves in cold water the hands
are kept cold, and the bees will notsting through
wet gloves"
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Daniel Drew's Christianity.

wall street news
One day, when Uncle Daniel Drew was in the
zenith OF his power, so to say, gentleman
stopped him on the street and said:
mani"
Well yes, answered the Spectator.
Then ask you to do the right thing by me.
A month ago | sold you some Blank & Blank
railroad stock at 3S, IL two weeks it jumped TO
60 1t is only fair that you should present me
with at least 81 000."
''My Christian friend" replied Uncle Daniel
with lonesome squint to his left eye, 81 re
member that transaction Next day after buy
ing the bonds l concluded that had made a fool
of myself, and therefore resold for 30. Let us
embrace and console each other, and divide my
loss between us"
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Improved Methods of Storing Fodder.

Milwaukee Sentinel.
The idea is being advanced, and supported by
foreign testimony, that the silo is unnecessary
in securing the perfect keeping of ensilage. The
plan proposed is to stack the clover rye, or what
everfodder is used, to certain hight and then put
over it tight floor and cover with heavy
weights, that whenever sufficient weight is put
perfect, as though it had side walls of masonry
This may be so where clover, etc., is used, but
in Ohio, so far as we are informed, corn fodder
is used Without side walls to exclude the air
it would, with this coarse material be nearly
impossible to put pressure enough upon the
mass to prevent large amount of the outside of
the mass from becoming entirely ruined With
finer folders, like clover, it might be interesting
another year to try the experiment, and if it
proves successful the work of curing clover
would be much reduced, from the fact that the
clover could be cut, raked and ''roped" within
few hours, and all the danger of rain, heating
in the mows, ETC., avoided
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Level Cultivation of Corn.


The experiences of the present season, no less
than that of several seasons past, has strength
ened our faith that fat culture for potatoes, as
well as for Indian corn, will give larger crops
than killing up. Except that under level culture
some of the tubers are occasionally exposed to
the air and light and become green or 'burn, !"
we know of no objection to this mode of culture;
while, contrary to what is the case in killing up,
the roots which would naturally extend from
hill to hill, are not interferred WITH and the
rain may sink directly and evenly into the
ground instead of being she'd by the mounds of
soil about the stems, and carried to the valleys.
We have practieed this system for five years,
both in sandy and clayey soil. and we feel very
confident that the crops so raised are more than
enough to pay for the burnt potatoes found here
and there.
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THB SUNDAY JOURNAL.
9 Cts.

The SUNDAY JOURNAL is distinct
in all respects from the regular six
day Indianapolis Journal. 1t con-
tains all the News of the day-Tel-
egraphic, State and Local-and is
filled with the choicest Literary and
Miscellaneous Matters. The latest
Market Reports and Commercial
News are given. 1t is BRIGHT,
NEwsY, READABLE, and is sold for
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The Turk on American Politics.

COnstantin0pIe Letter.
The Turks take languid and not too intelli
gent interest in the presidential election. One
Turkish paper has heard of Mr.. Beecher, who, it
saws. lis the son of the famous Mrs. Henry
Beecher Stowe, and the pastor of the province of
New York. and seems to think that the decision
of the election rests with him In 1880 the lead
ing Turkish paper declared the only point at is
sue in America was whether America should
make an intimate alliance with Turkey, General
Garfield being in favor of such an alliance, and
General Haccock being against it; that this
rock the two great parties split
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THE HOUSEHOLD.
An Old Stitch Revived.
Good Cheer.


ne 'lsio nonoreu ou. i .3 WINE ooSoleGe
great credit to itself 1t is used very freely
upon heavy materials for decorating Afghans,
table and piano cloths, portieres and lambre-
gums In earlier days the close. beautiful pat
terms, then in vogue, were worked in sampler,
or cross stitch, upon fine canvas basted upon the
material to be adorned and afterward labor
iously drawn ont from the over-worked stitches,
thread by thread. Now that strong bold effects
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= Gents 3
- Cents e)

THE SUNDAY JOURNAL is not po-
litical in character; but gives the
News, and in all departments
is a heightened, pure, honora-
BILE Newspapers welcome visitor
to every family, and indispensable
to anyone who wishes to be served
with a Sunday paper.
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THlINdeI phIa FTtbs.
Mr. Cleveland is surprised that there should
be any popular distrust of the Democratic party,
though there Is nothing strange about that In
fact, we should have been surprised if man of
Cleveands limited political experience had not
been surprised
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Preserve the Teeth.
Endorsements from leading authorities, med
ical and dental, claim Wards Cream of Chalk
the best Twenty-Five cents. Browning & Sloan.