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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-26

Chopped Pickles.-Chop two quarts of cabbage.
ond two quarts of celery, put them into porce-
lain KETTLE pour over them three quarts of vine
gar, half an ounce each of crushed white ginger
root and turmeric one quarter of a pound of
white mustard Seed two tablespoonfulS of salt
and five of sugar. Let this cook slowly until
the cabbage is tender without being soft
Ice Cream Cake-Two cups of powdered sugar,
one cup of butter, one of sweet milk, the whites
of eight eggs. one teaspoonful of soda, two of
cream of tarter, three and half cups heaping
full of flour. Bake in jelly tins. The icing is
composed of three cups of powdered sugar one
cup of water. Boil until it makes thick, clear
syrup; pour over this the beaten whites of three
eggs, stir while boiling hot; add one teaspoopful
of citric acid. Flavor with vanilla, and spread
between the layers and upon the top.
Chocolate Custard. delicious chocolate Gus
tard to be served cold, with delicate white cake.
is made in this way. Break two sections of
chocolate in half dozen pieces, put it into a
bright tin pan, set this pan over kettle of hoil-
ing water, pour just enough milk over the choco-
late to cover it, mash it and stir until it per-
pecty smooth, then add enough milk to make a
quart reserving part of a teacupful in which
to dissolve a heaping tablespoonful of corn
starch or better still, the same quantity of
pastry -four; add to the milk slowly one cup of
sugar the yolks of six eggs stir all this slowly
into the hot milk and let it cook until it begins
to thcken; stir it ali the time to prevent Jumps
forming When it begins to cool add vanilla to
your taste beat the custard for several minutes
after putting the vanilla into it. Fill glasses
with it and place one beside each plate on the
lunch or tea-table. The whites of six eggs are
to be used in making the white cake.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-26

current quotations, food so valuable that it
should be much more generally used than it has
ever been.
IT. is old proverb that the first point 20 be
learned in successful stock raising is never to al
low an animal to lose flesh. The loss of pound
is equivalent to a loss of two as the animal
should gain instead of losing flesh.
A Peoria county farmer doses his hogs with
red pepper tea on their showing symptoms of
cholera, and claims that this has always proved
an effectual cure, and that he has never lost a
porker so treated, while his neighbors have suf-
fered seriously.
The approximate number of sheep in the world
is set down at 4l5 600 600. This does not include
large number of sheep in the Asiatic and some
of the North African countries, as well as upon
certain of the more important islands of which
no enumeration has been attempted.
Minneapolis Tribune: Many farmers are
complaining that there is little money for their
labor at the present low prices But they do
not estimate as they should the certainty that
their labor will give them a comfortable living.
Time was when farmers grew and made nearly
all the substantals of life they required If
necessary they can come to this again, and they
are the producers who can easiest get on on this
basis.
The recipe for the government harness dress
ing is as follows: Zone gallon neatsfoot OIL TWO
pounds bay berry tallow two pounds beeswax,
two pounds of tallow. Put the above in nan
over moderate fire. When thoroughly dis
SoIVeu aud Two quarts OF castor oil, then Whlle
Oh the fire stir in one ounce Of lamp black. Mix
well and strain through fine cloth to remove
sediment, let cool, and you have as fine dress
ing for harness or leather of any kind as can be
had"
Having seen some discussion about the shape
of eggs to determine SEX" says correspondent
of the Farming World, II can say from expe-
renee that to obtain the desired result, or pre-
domination. of either sex, you have to mate
fowls as follows: For cockerels, mate one year
old cockerel with hens not more than two years
old, and you will get the desired results For
breeding pullets mate three year-old cock with
one-year-od hens, l have never had any excep-
ton to this rule"
Cleveland Leader: When the ice is six inches
thick, and of good quality lose time in filling
the ice-house Delays are dangerous. as winter
sometimes has many changefnl moods. What!
no icehouseG Well, procure eight dollars worth
of cheap lumber, old fence-boards, if you have
them; in fact, most anything but rails, will suf-
fee. Bring out the hammer hand-saw nails,
and try your hand at frozen architecture, having
a care for good drainage and ventilation. After
wards prepare to smile next June when your
arctic butter defes the knife or refuses to be
spread on bread.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-26
Poisonous Candies.


IfVVOIH'
parents who have any lore for their Children
should be careful not to allow them to eat some
of the tempting candies that are now placed on
sale for the holiday trade" said an old candy
maker yesterday IF it were known how much
poisonous stuff was used in the cololng of can
dies here would be less sweetmeats sold, he
continued The cheap candies contain the most
poison, particularly the so-ealed specialties,
such as toys. Only the pure sugar toys are
harmless. Smooth almonds contain carmine
and chrome yellow, about onehundredth part
of q grain in each almond. Only
burnt almonds are pure Cheap gum
drops such as are sold for twelve cents per
pound, contain oil of vitriol and gum arabic. The
former is employed to kiln the sugar grain, and
the latter to make the drops tough and spongy.
Light pink earamels are mixed with carIniue,
and all artificial flavors are produced by the
of acids Black cough drops are highly injuri-
GUS. as one-quarter of pound of lalnpblack is
mixed with forty five pound batch OF drops.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-26
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
How to Thaw Out a Frozen Pump.


1t is not often that the water in pump tubes is
frozen cold nights, if care is taken to let the
water run down on the approach of evening, by
means Of the movement for opening Of the fixed
valve by raising the handle Pumps out of doors,
or those not frequently used, may be secured
from freezing by means of small opening
few feet from the surface of the ground, allow
ing all the water to run out from the upper por-
ton in the course of few minutes. The small
opening does not interfere with the ordinary use
of the pump But when the water in the pump
becomes frozen solid, it is difficult to remove
the ice unless the light means are adopted If
hot water is poured in, it only remains at the
top and scarcely thaws half an inch down. A
eontrivance which shall drive the current of hot
water directly against the ice will melt it rapidly.
For this purpose. says the Country Gentleman,
procure small tube, which may be of lead Tor
even the hollow stem of weedJ, place small
funnel in the upper end, and let the lower end
rest on the ice. Now, pour hot water into the
funnel, when its weight will carry it directly
through the tube on the ice, which will be
quickly melted. the weight of the settling tube
keeping it all the time in close contact with the
ice. foot in length may be thus melted in
minute or two, while merely pouring in hot water
from pitcher would not effect as much in an
hour
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-26
What a Real Blizzard Is.
ommereial Advertiser.


We observe disposition on the part of some
of our contemporaries to call the recent cold
weather blizzard; and in the interest of acura-
cy and truth we desire to inform them that the
resemblance of such weather as we have bad to
that which is called blizzard, is about as re-
mote as any resemblance can be-
We have simply had season of cold weather,
with the thermometer at zero blizzard means
greatly more than that 1t means sudden de-
scent of the cold of interplanetary space, or
something like that 1t means time when the
mercury freezes; when the very atmosphere
sparkes with spicule of ice; when blast blows
at the rate of hundred miles an hour; when
there is positive and immediate danger to life
upon the briefest exposure; when all going about
out of doors must bestopped, whatever the oc-
casion may be.
The cold of a blizzard is uncomfortable in its
intensity. He who passes into the open air at
sucn time is in danger of death even at his
own doorstep for the cold penetrates to the very
marrow, producing stupor and utter bewilder-
ment even in the strongest men. This loss of
faculty is SO quick in its coming that men who
know what blizzard is do not venture even to
make hurried journey from their doorsteps to
stables fifty yards away without fastening one
end of a rope to the door knob and carrying the
other with them as means of retracing their
steps when the bewilderlhent of the cold shall
come over them.
have died with cold within a few yards of their
doors while holding the ccw cord in their hands.
Sometimes the cold is too intense and the blast
too searching for any venture out of doors at ALL
and men who know what they are about have
permitted their cattle to starve at distance of
fifty yards, because they knew that any attempt
to feed them must be fatal to the person making
season of zero weather is summer afternoon in
cOmDariSOn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-26

Never put hot iron directly upon silk-it
lakes the life out of it.
Pickles or vinegar will not keep in jar that
has ever had any kind of grease in it
Venetian glassware is fashionable at table, and
a recent fancy is not to have two tumbers of
the same color.
A pretty bag is made by cutting two circles
out of the rim of an old black white summer
hat, embroidering them, binding the edges and
joining them by puff of light colorod satin.
The hoop of barrel neatly covered with bur
lap is bronzed or gilded, and satin crescent.
the semi-circle of which is the exact size of the
hoop is fastened to the inside rim. This makes
the new wall pocket, and is very snowy.
popular mantel lambrequin is made of
panels vandyked at the lower edge each hang
ing separately from the plush-eoyered shelf, and
of different shades and coors. Each panel is
embroidered, painted or has on it Japanese
figure.
pretty, simple baby-carFiage rug is made by
scalloping around the edge of a square of fine
blanketing; on the upper point and lower edge
of each scallop is fastened a quite large white
worsted ball; bow of satin ribbon is sewed on
the center.
To initiate ground glass, boil teaspoonful Of
rice in pint of water for half an hour. dip in q
painters brush, press the brush against the side
of the saucepan, to squeeze out the surplus LID
uid, dab the brush on the glass; it will give the
appearance of ground glass when dry.
The best cement for mending broken dishes
is white lead 1t is better than all the adver-
tised cements, With bit of stick spread the
paint which must have plenty of oil in it,
smoothly on each piece, press them tightly to
gether and, if necessary, tie them in place, wip-
ing away all paint which oozes out. They must
stand for months. or year to harden, but at
the end of that time they are as strong as if
they had never been broken.
The newest fashion in embroidery is Queen
Anne darning" which resembles Kensington,
but which also looks like uneven running, and
is more delicate than the real Kensington. A
white linen bureau scarf, edged with fringe and
bordered with the openwork insertion, is COW
cred with thick design of wild roses and leaves
in green crewel A pongee tidy is embroidered
in Queen Anne darning with large yellow
oranges and green leaves an effective pattern.
The readiest and most useful remedy for scalds
and burns is an embroeation of lime water and
linseed-ol These simple agents combined form
q thick cream-like substance, which effeetually
excludes the air from the Injured parts, and al
lays the Inflammation almost instantly, The
mixture may be procured in the drug stores, but
if not thus accessible, slack lump of quekiime
in water, and as soon as the water is clear NJ tx
it with the oil and shake we'll If the case is
urgent use boiling water over the lime, and it
will become clear in five minutes. The prepare
ton may be kept ready bottled in the house, and
it will be as good six months old as when first
made.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-26
Linen Travelling Bags.
Philadelphia Press,

Very convenient dressing cases for use when
travelling may also be made from gray linen anG
braid-red. blue brown-one yard of linen,
and either two lunches of skirt braid or seven
yards of another braid will be required. Cut
two pieces each twelve inches wide, one twenty
inches long and the other twenty-four. Round
off the top of both pieces exactly alike for the
flap of the case when rolled up. Cut two pieces
of linen, each three inches deep by four long,
bind three sides with braid and stitch on the
shortest piece OF the foundation in the center,
one on each side, with the raw edge, which should
measure four inches, on the edge of the founda-
ton. Cut tive flaps, bind them with braid and
stitch on so as to come over each Of these peck
cts, work button-hole in each and sew button
on the pockets to correspond. These are for
sponge or wash-rag and soap. Cut strip FOUR
inches in length and one and a half wide, bind
and fasten lengthwise between the two pockets,
dividing the strip into three straps tohold tooth
brush, nailbrush and small comb. Set a pocket
four inches deep at the top, binding the strip
with braid on both the long sides, and furnish
with flap as before This is for hairbrush and
comb. Set on another pocket three inches deep,
four inches from the bottom of the case, the top
case Now lay the two parts of the case to-
getheF. having first bound the straight
end of the long piece, and turn the
extra four inches up to the other to form
another pocket the top of which should
just miss touching the top of the one last set on.
Cut an oval piece Of linen eleven and half inches
long and four wide, bind with braid and stitch
it between these two pockers, so that it shall
form flaps for them both. Bind all round with
braid; sew yard of braid on the upper end of
the case. directly in the middle for strings to tie
when it IS rolled up. The case is, of course
much handsomer when furnished, but this is not
at all necessary. 1t is also improved by work
ing in eross-stitch on each pocket the name of
the article for which it is intended-towel on the
bottom pocket; clothes brush. on the next; soap,
sponge, comb and brush each on their respective
places, and the initials of the owner on the out
side of the flap, where it will be seen when the
case is rolled up.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-26

sailed Zoe Damaged one-third of the above prices.
SHEEPsKINs--30 060c.
TALLow-Primo, &C.
GREASE-Brown, 4c white, 565a2c.
OIL CAKE.
Oil cale and oil meal 1000 TBS. SIS; 1900 fbs
$50. Bags and drayage extra
PRODUCE.
BUTTER-Creamery fancy 2Sc; dairy. selected IS
02Oc; choice country, 130 15c; poor to fair, SOLO,
EGGs-Shippers paying 22c, loss off; selling
from eat 23024c
FEATHERs-Prmeg geese, 45c % II; mixedduck, zoo
rs ~ Ii.
HoNEY-2O022c in and 2-iS cans
VENIsoN-140 sc " tb.
GAME-Quails 81 2501.50 % doz.
PoULTRY-Hens, &c p ID; roosters, &c; young chick.
ems &c y ID; ducks, So y doz; geese SO y doz;
turkeys, Sl209c a. fb.
OIDEE-Duffy's, Rochester, Sc ~ brl.
WooL-Tub washed, 28Q32e unwashed. medium
zoe; unwashed, common, l6c; Cotswold, TIC; bury
and unmerehantable according to their value
PROVISIONS
WHOLESALE PRICEs-Prime lard, $3.50; short
ribs green, 5.50e; cured ones here Sweet picked
hams S1ae. Fresh packed shoulders, 5e.
JoBBING PRICES-Smoked Meats Sugar-cured
hams 10 to 121s lbs average, lie; Is TBS average
cottage hams, Sc; California hams 7l4c; English break
fast bacon, clear, l0l2e; English shoulders, 6s8c
family shoulders pieces averaging 6 to 10 lbs 6l4ci
dried beet loc; bacon tclear sidesl medium weight
fitch, 7-ib pieces, 6a4c. Dry Sailed and Picked
Meats-English cured clear sides or backs (unsmoked
7c bean pork tcearl, % brl 200 lbs, SIS; clear pork
y brl 200 lbs, $13; family pork telearl v brl 200
Tbs, $1l; family beef " br 200 fbs $1S. Lard
Pure etterendered in tierces 9l4c; also in 1e bbls
and o0-ib tubs lec advance on price of terces 4Sib
tin tubs, and 20 tb pals lie advance lob pals,
lec advance Saasage-Bologna, in cloth, 612ci in
skin, 7c.
TrMorHY-$1. 40 al Go ~ bu; clover, S45o04.75
" bu; bluegrass clean Kentucky 81 40 % l. 60
" bu; red top, 75c ~ bu; orchard grass $1.5001.75
p bu, owing to quality.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-26
A Cheap Stained Floor.


The Household.
Putty up carefully all the cracks in the floor.
Take a sufficient quantity of boiled linseed oil,
mix in with a small quantity of burnt lumber ia
oil, to color the wood as dark as you like it. A
pound can of it mixed with oil costs only eigh-
teen cents in New York, and that would be more
than enough to do all the floors in the house.
If you have not the linseed oil, which costs
about sixty or seventy cents gallon, common
kerosene oil will answer very well instead, and
the dsagreeabe smell entirely disappears In
day or two after it is applied. This mixture OF
oil and lumber must be applied with cloth, not
with paint brush.
The floor is to be stained not painted, and the
beauty of it is that it shows all the natur, grain
ing of the wood so much more perfect and dura-
BILE than any artificial granting, but far less
pensive.
1t is also very easy thing to accomplish. An
intelligent young girl in my employ of about
fourteen years of age put on a pair or Old kid
gloves and kneeling on a. large newspaper began
atlthe further end of her sleeping room and fin
ished it nicely in less than half an hour.
If the base board is painted white, care must
be taken not to hit it with the cloth. If it is
grained it does not matter.
After two three days apply turpentine and
yellow beeswax melted together III the proper
ton of one gallon of turpentine to one pound of
wax. Apply with a wooden cloth as before,
warm. This last preparation may be applied
more than once to good advantage. The first
time began experimenting upon floors put on
too much wax, having an idea that the floor was
so rough that it would need more wax to fill up
the cracks and leave it smooth. The result was
that the floor did not dry we'll
Floors look very well without using the wax
and turpentine at all, but they lack polish, un-
less they get it by constant use. In visiting an
orphan asylum in Brooklyn, | was attracted by
the neat dining room floor, which looked like oak
The sister in charge who was courteously show
ing me through the building. informed me that
it was only plain floor of pine boards, simply
stained with kerosene. was very much sur
prsed, especially as not the least odor was per
ceptibe; but on going home had it tried on a
small floor in the barn with similar results. The
linseed oil is preferable think some ac-
counts For one reason it does not evaporate
SO quickly, and so retains its color longer.
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The DAILY JOURNAL.

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Our arrangements for the collection Of news
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Whole oats, wheat, bran and cornmeal forms
an excellent ration for young stock. The health
and complete and symmetrical growth of the
body are best secured by feeding variety OF
grain.
Corn gives strength to the horse. Therefore,
where his work continues the same give a little
more corn as the weather becomes cold. But If
the work fall off. as in winter, the feed of corn
may be decreased
Within few years the manufacture Of cheese
has increased in this country from 70, 900
pounds to $50 00O But cheese is as high
priced as ever compared with other things, and
the market seems no nearer being gutted than
it was years ago, More than that it is still, at
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-26
Chicago Live Stock Market.

CHICAGO Dec 25.-The Drovers' Journal re-
ports: Hoes-Receipts. IS 900: shipments. none,
Supply on sale $4,000. The market was slow
buyers; heavy grades, 81. 25 "a 40 rough qualities
81 05 04.25; light varieties $4.35; few fancy at
$40.
Cattle-Recepts, 3,4O0; shipments. none. The
market active shippers and local dealers buying
freely values rmer at 5 Zoe advances export beeves
$6.l006.50; good TO fancy shippers, SIS. 20 CO.
poor to fair, 81 % 0510; butchering cows, So. 75d
3.75j bulls, So so 325 stockers and feeders So 10
D4.40.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts. / 900; shipments
none. Good sheen in demand and firm common quail
titles remain weak; poor to fair, Sl.7502.25; good
to choice, SO 20 04 fancy, 81. % 04.50.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-26

Cheap mixtures should also be avoided, as web
as colored lozenges. Besides the poison. heaps
of dirt become mixed in the preparation of can
dies. Green lime drops should be Stunned. as
well as all kinds of candies containing a green
color. as they contain acid. All candies now are
made with sugar costing five cents per pound.
and yield profit of about so per cent to the
manufactured
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-26
Standing Up for Tennyson.

MinneapoIis Iribune.
Tennyson's metrcal assault on freedom still
affects the newspaper critics even as the scarlet
cloth exasperates the gentleman bovine. And
yet the wretches VINO are loudest in their ad-
verse criticisms of Alfred's lines have not read
the first verse 1t is the fashion Of the hour to
persecute the poet laureate, and the self styed
critics are nothing if not fashionable. The fact
that Colonel Tennyson receives more current
coin of the realm for ten lines of his matter
than his critics do for whole cartloads of theirs,
may have something to do with their attacks.
Aft we are With you, and when you can't find
anybody to print your pigeon toed poetry, just
whistle.