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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-10
Valued Compliments to the Journal.

To tho Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal:
While seated around supper table recently
at friends house. the subject of newspapers,
referring more particularly to Indianapolis papers,
as compared with others, was mentioned when one
gentleman said that the Journal is now good
paper. An intelligent lady responded: "Yes,
the Journal is good paper 1t is a credit to the
city, and would be credit to any city" This
sentiment was heartily responded to by tho
whole company. The chief value perhaps, lies
in the fact that those who sat at the table were
people of unusual cultivation, and we'll able to
Judge of such q matter. s.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 9.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-10
Grave Consequences Feared If the Canadians
Retreat.

TORONTO, May GA cable dispatch to the
Globe says the accounts published in the London
daily papers concerning the battle between
Colonel Otter and the Indians under Pound
maker are so very conflicting that in many quar-
tiers fears have arisen lest the gravest conse-
quences follow upon the withdrawal of the Ca
madam forces from the field Of the engagement.
1t has been suggested from an influential quar-
ter that the Imperial government act as a me-
diator between the Dominion government and
the half breeds. An official telegram issued to-
day allays the anxiety to some extent There is
great need of official news being sent here early
concerning any important event
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-07-11
Facts of Interest.

The wheels of the English hanson cabs
are made in America.
Bed spreads and pillow-cases are now
made of white paper.
Only per cent. of the soil Of Florida is
fit for orange cultivation.
Great plantations in Guatemala are de-
voted to the culture of the cochineal bug.
If you weigh all the hair upon your head
and then weigh single hair you can figure
out how many hairs there are altogether
Mr.. Lennox Browne, an English physol.
ogist finds that drinking and smoking affect
the vocal organs, statistics furnished by nc
less than $50 professional vocalists having
shown him that singer should avoid all
stimulants.
One of the most convenient among the
various electrical contrivances which have
been brought forward as auxiliaries is
an English device, enabling person ring
ing bell to know whether, on making
contact, the bell actually rings.
Ozone is blue gas. That is what makes
the sky blue. Ozone is obtained from oxy-
gen by method known as the silent dis
charge When ozone is condensed under
great pressure it becomes deep indigo blue
gas. The compression must be very slow,
or it will explode with heat and lightning.
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stake it. That fall, when the plants have
been growing year, prune the strong
plants back TO three buds each, the weak
ones to one or two. They ought to grow
three or four feet the first year The second
summer cultivate the ground as before, and
hoe around the plants. Stir the soil, but dc
not disturb the roots. The three buds you
left last iall will this summer
become strong branches that are to
bear fruit next year. Let the two stronger
grow, pinch back the top Of the weakest.
Pinch all back when they have grown to be
three feet long. Then they are trained to a
wire trellis, which looks something like n
fence with only two strands of unbarbed
wire. The shoots are carefully separated,
so that the sun and air may get to all the
leaves and clusters. This is important, as 1t
prevents mi!dew and rot. Pruning is done
through the fall and winter.
The wire trellis method is claimed to be
far superior to the old-fashioned way OF
stalking the stalks.
Tie the vines to the wire trellis with willow
twigs or Irvine. Severe pruning back is
good for the vine. Pinching off the tops OF
long lank growths with the thumb and
finger, and rubbing off superfluouS shoots
in the summer when tine sprouts are greer
and tender is an excellent way TO prunt
grapes. Summer pruning is the prepare
tory, fall pruning the finishing part, says G
writer
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Wool.

The clip Of wool is ready waiting for mar
ket, but the price Is still in the trough of the
sea. Wool growers are in the dumps. In
some localities the clip is below that of last
year The market presents some unparalleled
features. For four years prices have been
depressed to the lowest notch. Such long
continued poor prices are unheard of.
Every body is waiting for something TO
turn up. The Texas wool clip will amount
to 10000, 600 pounds, prices down to nothing.
In Ohio small sales Of the finest wool have
been made at 33c. In the New York market
prices are at the lowest, with very little
demand. 1t is the same in Boston. Every
body is grumbing, and at the same time
hoping for better things. This much 10 GER
tain. Better times always come by and by,
il people can only afford to wait long enough.
The stagnation cannot continue forever. 1t
begins TO look already as though the ten
dency was to start upward. AT any rate,
even now don't sell off your sheep. They
are bound to pay again in time.
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All the large wooden sailing ships now on
the seas were built in America. Before the
dav of iron steamers America headed the
ship-buildiIw industry That was before the
war. But nov we are nowhere We have
no navy. no iron steamers and no nothing.
On the Maine coast, however, wooden sailing
vessels Of large size are still occasionally
built. Workmen in a shipyard at Camden,
on the Penobscot bay, are finishing four
masted vessel 2Sj feet long, somewhat more
than half as long as the great Atlantic
steamers The largest sailing vessel atoat,
however is the Three Brothers, 3l5 feet long
She was built in a New York shipy ard be-
fore the war But she too, has left us, fol-
lowed the departed glory Of the American
merchant marine over seas, and is owned in
Bremen and sailed under the German flag.
In size Of wooden sailing vessels there is
first the Three Brothers, 2, 972 tons; next, the
unfinished one at Camden, $500 tons, and
third, the Ocean King, 2,5r6 tons. There
are scarcely more than dozen wooden sail
ing vessels afoat that register over 1920
tons.
There are some large iron and steel sail
ing vessels, but, with one exception, these
were all built in British shipyards. The
largest is the New York, 1900 tons, built at
Greenock, Scotland. The wooden snip
building industry seems to be dying out.
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ROLLER.

1t is of pattern invented by Nathan G.
Herre,hoff, the blind builder of the Stiletto.
The figure with cone-shaped top, a, repre-
sents the tirebox. 1t is 8 feet inches
square. Inside is a system of tubing, which
constitutes the boilers. Sets of the tubes
run alternately lengthwise and crosswise to
the yacht, the last set being placed cross
wise At the ends the tubing is bent into
U-shaped joints. The boiler consists, in fact,
OF alternate layers of lengthwise and cross
tubes, connected together. The last layer is
only little above the fire. The boiler Is
fed from the top by a pump That which
goes in as water circulates all through the
tubes, gets hotter and hotter, and comes out
steam and boiling water below, in the
last layer. There it passes into separator,
viii CHI is seen at b. One of the fire doors OF
the furnace is open at c. The separator is
feet long, conical at the ends, as seen in
the illustration. In it the steam and water
divide The water sinks to the bottom,
which is connected with the pumps, and
these return it to the boiler The steam
passes directly to the engine from the sepa-
rator. A blower is used, giving artificial
draught.
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The author of the following excellent hints
in The Indiana Farmer should have added
one point. He should have mentioned that
the right way to break a colt is TO begin 10y
petting and handling it when it is only few
weeks old. Feed it from your hand, rub and
stroke it, train it to follow you till it be-
comes ''as gentle as dog" Then, when
breaking time comes, half the battle will b.
fought. 1t is common mistake, moreover,
to break colts to labor too young. They
ought not to be put at hard work before
they are four to five years Odd. The writer
in The Farmer says:
In breaking colts to work one should be
very careful with them. Let them know
that you are not going to hurt them and
they will soon learn that you are their
friend, and you can teach them almost any
thing. But if you commence to whip and
jerk them right and left in the start for
every misstep they make they will be afraid
of you and make more blunders than they
would if you had treated them kindly and
gently. Colts are very often spoiled when
working to plow or harrow by allowing
them to get their feet out of the traces, and
to kick. They very seldom forget their bad
habits. The hest plan is not to let them get
their feet out of the traces, but if they do
unhitch the trace and get them back all
right before they know it, and there will be
no trouble.
To break colts to work in the shafts they
should be worked to a cart for while. Teach
them to walk first. That is where n great
many farmer boys make mistake in break
ing their colts to drive. They will start them
into brisk trot, and for a long distance,
before they will let them walk Then they
will whip them every time they shy. That
only makes them worse, for every time they
shy they will expect to be whipped Colts,
as a general rule, are more easily broken
from shying at objects on the roadside by
letting them have time to look at the object
they shy ut a few minutes. till they sec what
it is, but if the driver whips them and makes
them go by in hurry, and don't give them
time to see what they are shying at, 1t will
be some trouble to get them broken from
this bad habit. 1t is all very well to have a
whip handy AMI use it if nothing else will
do, for sometimes it is necessary to use the
whip, if the driver knows when to stop.
But that is too often the fault with some
drivers; they whip too much.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-07-11

A dollar per year to the hen is considered
a fair profit on poultry.
Pinch back the long main shoots of melons.
squashes and cucumbers.
There is at present great discussion as to
whether bees injure young fruit or not.
Opinion seems about equally dIvidel. How
Is It'll
The red wood posts Of fence erected in
Napa, Cal, thirty two years ago were re
Gently removed and found in as good con-
dition as when first put into the grOuni.
White clover is abundant, and the bass
wood never promised greater amount Of
bloom. Up 10 the present tims everything
that has bloomed has yielded honey pro
fusely.
Cultivate the potatoes fully AMI thor
oughly before the roots have so extended
that cultivation will sever them. Never
run a plow between the plants after they
are foot Highland the same may be said
of corn.
The strawberry crop of the eastern shore,
Md, Is more profitable than the oyster crop.
This region promises to become the great
trucking garden OF the Atlantic coast, and
there is very little improbable land in 1t that
is not now under cultivation.
Extra frames Of comb packed away for
future use will require looking after occa-
sionally to see that thew do not become in
fected with worms Should the latter make
their appearance they may be destroyed by
tumigating with sulphur.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-07-11

To he able to properly temper steel springs
and implements may be considered gift
similar to that possessed by the poet born"
a man whose business in a certain toolshop
was to temper springs, worked 22,O00 con-
secutively, and of the whole number only
six failed to pass the test; but during his
temporary illness more than half the springs
handled by his assistant, who had been under
instruction year. failed. In a large manu-
factory of sword blades one man does all the
tempering, being called in from other EN-
ployment at intervals, because, although he
has always been willing to instruct others,
he has never had pupil who could equal
him in the work. There is a large scythe
mandatory in New England town max
ing H. 900 dozen scythes year, and the presi-
dent of the company has for years hardened
and tempered every scythe that leaves the
works, because no other man in the works
can do it SO we'll
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-07-11
Flo g.


We present here two tasteful gowns de-
signed for us by Redfern, the ladies' tailor
of New York. Figure shows a costume of
bottle green, trimmed with red. The red
faces the folds down the skirt in front. The
cuffs are bound with it. The high, standing
open collar is lined with red, and the epau-
let's and folds that meet in point at the
button on the waist line are also of a red
wool striped trimming fabric. Bottle
green hat lined with red. Red plume
and light brown bird upon the front.
Light brown gloves and white linen
cuffs and collar. The costume may
be made of either silk, cloth or sateen.
Ths large buttons are covered with gilt
braid.
Figure two is a brown cloth costume,
trimmed with buttons and dull gilt braid.
The waist opens at the side A corner of
the overlapping front is turned down and
faced with lighter brown. The cuffs are
arranged in the same way. Turban OF
brown uncut velvet, with feather pompons
of the lighter brown. This is neat, trim,
LITTLE dress, without so much punching and
hustle as most of the present costumes have.
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Faith and Mind Cures

Do not scott at them; do not accept them.
1t is very possible that there is force in
nature that is not yet understood. 1t may
be as powerful as electricity 1t may be as
much finer than that force as electricity j.
finer than steam. Much as we know in our
day, it would be preposterous to say we
know everything This force, not yet
known or understood, may be at the bottom
Of faith and mind cures and of spiritual
manifestations of all grades. That there is
such a force some of the most learned and
scientific men OF the time are inclined to ad'
NIT. Those who seem to work, wonders are
those who begin to understand how " use it..
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-07-11

The engine is compound condensing one.
It has a piston stroke of IL inches, Is cut
off, and . cylinders, 12 and 81 inches. The
exhausted steam passes INTO surface con-
deulser and turns to water Thence it Is
taken by the pumps into the boiler again.
Thus thereis one steady circulation of water.
First it is fed into the top of the set of tubes,
thence it passes to the separator; thence the
steam goes to the engine, to the high and
low-pres sure cylinders, and is used from
that it passes to the condenser and becomes
water, ready to be pumped back to the top
of the boiler tubes. The water Is fed into
the boiler constantly, and only in the needed
quantity, a little at a time. 1t regulates
itself. There is no ned of a raging
fire to heat a vast bulk of liquid at once.
This is the strong feature of the little Still
etto's engines. 1t has force of $50 horse
power, and yet consumes only 300 pounds OF
coal per hour The saving in fuel is I'M
hear. Of. Besides this, the boiler will be
always full of water, and there will be no
danger from explosion. The next point of
interest in this engine is is light weight,
and the small space it occupies. Steel is
largely used in its construction, and it
weighs only 4,215 pounds. The tubing
which constitutes the boiler has a heating
surface OF 6l5 square feet. II will safely
bear 100 pounds steam pressure but in the
race with the Powell only 125 pounds was
usad
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-07-11
Mental Power.

Dr. Charles Heitman says that intellectual
force depends on the amount of gray matter
and the number of ganglia in the brain. A
ganglion is little reddish-gray knob or
swelling in the brain matter. The more OF
these knobs, or ganglia, the more brain force
the person will have. A funny writer says
that, according to some, the brain is a sort
of gland that secretes thought as COW pro
duces milk. In this the funny man may be
nearer right than he thinks.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-07-11
A DAVIS Work in Flowing.

A smart team turning good furrow in
spring, either stubble or sod, should be able
to turn over one and half to two acres.
When larger days work than this are re-
ported it is usually at the expense of the
team. or perhaps of the blowing. so much
depends on the character of the work in fit
ting the land that poor plowman should
not be tolerated, however large days worl;
he may claim to be able to do.
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No Work. No Orangea.

The idea that fortunes are to b, made in
Florida without sweat of the brow is the
fiction of land spectators An orange
grove in Florida is not worth a cent more
than an apple orchard in New Eng
until its owner has. put into it years of hard
work, much money and much impatient
waiting. A writer thinks it could be demon
strated that a good apple orchard pays a
larger interest than the best orange grove
in florida
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Science z.P20cRESS
Engine and Boiler of the Fast Steam

Few things appeal to the enthusiasm Of
an intelligent person like fine piece Of
machinery. 1t is the cOnquering of inert
matter, the taking possession of 1t and inn
buing it with life, AMI making it do the
bidding of mind. We admire it; we pay
homage to the brain that created it.
Such piece of mechanism is presented by
the propel.ing apparatus Of the Stiletto
This, the reader will remember, is the little
yacht which recently beat the crack steamer
of the Hudson river, and didn't half try, "
either We reproduce some portions of her
machinery from a sketch in The Scientific
American
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-07-11
Our Continent Before the Advent OF
Human Life.

In mapping out the public domain it has
been found that our western plains and
mountain ranges furnished rare opportunity
for the study of the conditions of the CONT,
nent before man existed here. There were
two great inland seas in the western basin.
Salt lake is all that Is left of them. The
Gulf of Mexico covered nearly all OF what is
now the southern states. The great noun
tain ranges had already been thrown up
but they were higher and rougher than they
are now. A great ice-shset poured down
from the north and west, and covered the
country from the Atlantic coast to the west
ern edge of the middle portion OF the country.
Wisconsin was an island in the midst of a
sea of ice. We think the ice river has not
got done flowing yet when Manitoba wave
comes down upon us from the north.
A map of the continent as it was thea
would be worth seeing. There were AL
mails to the south Of the ice. There was
small horse with toes, hairy mammoth
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-07-11
Novelties.

UoT-wEATHER CoRsET--BoYs' STRAW CAP.
Among the devices to help woman to
keep cool these days we have the corset
above. It is woven of tapes cros5wlse, with
space between to let air through. Next to
nothing it is about as cool a corset as can be
worn. 1t is very different from the heavy,
padded article, woven so stiff and close as TO
be entirely imperyious to air. That walls a
woman in, 30 TO speak Another light and
airy corsst IS made, between the steels and
tapes which bold the stays and whalebones,
entirely of a coarse and heavy bobinet. This
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bigger than an elephant, pig with nose
like knife blade, and buffalo three times
as large as he of our day is Man was no,
and did not come for several thousand years.
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