The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-09-01


varieties, etc. Perhaps most persons do
not know that few of our present weeds are
native. The largest number are foreigners
that nave come from all parts of the globe.
Many weeds, especially those that ave re-
sisted destruction for ages, have become
c~osmopolitans. Wherever we go we are
sure to find them. Many weeds follow the
track of civilization. Wherever the white
man goes certain plants are sure to follow.
In this case probably the most common
source of distribution is unclean garden
and farm seed carried by the emigrant to
his new home. The railroads bring in many
more. Often plants that in their old homes
showed no inclination to spread, do so un-
der changed conditions; as climate and
soil.
Mr.. Hessler has q record Of t~hirty-two
new weeds which have appeared within
the limits of Fayette county during the
past seven years. OF these one half are
American, having travelled from some other
part of this country, and the other half are
old world plants, principally European.
Fifteen of the number were discovered
along the railroads, showing that these
lines of communication furnish facilities
for the distribution of weeds as well as for
human travel. Mr.. Hessler has a record OF
every one of these plants, with the time and
place of it's first appearance in the county.
its common and botanical name, its Pc
culiarities. etc. Weeds are the tramps and
criminals of plant life, the thieves and rob-
bers of the herbaceous world, and it is q
good thing for farmers and gardeners that
some detectives. like Mr.. Hessler, are able
to recognize and spot them.
The result of the baking powder investi-
CATION in the Agricultural Department at
Washington is not entirely satisfactory to
an inquiring and anxious people, compelled
by the exigencies of life to absorb large
quantities of that commodity into their
respective systems. Two statements, at
least, involve a contradiction that needs
explanation. One is that the analyses do
not show a result that should create any
alarm lest the people should suffer in
health, and the other that even with the
best of the powders a loaf of bread pro-
cured with it contained q residue of
the same character as seidlitz pow
der n in quantity exceeding that
of an ordinary seidlitz powder by so per
cent. Now. baking powder does not, as a
rule, enter into the composition of loaves
of bread. bakers having q preference for
cheaper yeasts, alum and other pleasing
substances, and. therefore. the amount of
baking powder consumed by each person
cannot be estimated by measuring the
bread he eats. 1t is il the morning biscuit,
the tOOthsome pancake. the f~ritters, the
rolls, the sweets cake, the dumping. the
hundred other culinary CONNECTIONS made
of dOugh-it is in these that baking
powder enters largely. Just how many
biscuits are equal to a loaf of bread is a
spective sizes of the articles and
other circumstances, and the num-
Der of seidlitz powders consumed at
a sitting depends, therefore, upon
I these circumstances, the liberality of the
hired girl who mixes the biscuits and the
capacity of the eater. Seidlitz powders
may not be a dangerous compound. but as
a matter of choice most people will decline
swallowing one or more with each meal.
When it is discovered that they are being
administered whether or no q strong feel
ing must arise in the community in favor
of bread of q character less medicinal.
AIRPORT issued by the Bureau of Ethnol-
ogy in Washington, contains a map show
ing the different cessions of land made in
this State by the Indians to the United
States, in e~xtinguisbing Indian titles.
From 1875 to 1872 there were fifty-four dis
tinct cessions, in each of which the Indians
snrrondaroI aviofinn rinhfo onA ATLAS
map shows that central and northern Indi-
ana once contained many Indian villages
and settlements. Among the present cities
or towns which occupy the sites of former
Indian villages are Lafayette, Kokomo,
Muncie, Fort Wayne, Warsaw, Ply
mouth, Logansport and others. The
villages were mostly of Miami, Del
aware and Kickapoo Indians, though
other tribes had some settlements. We
have Delaware and Miami counties, but
the name of the Kickapoo tribe is not pre-
served. Lafayette was q WyandOtte viii
lage. There was a Kickapoo village near
Tippecanoe battle-ground called Prophets
town. Kokomo was formerly O Miami viii
lage; Peru was Godfrey's clearinghouse;
near Fort Wayne was a Miami village
called heAlOnga; MOntlcelIO was known as
MOrris's TradIng-house; Plymouth was a
Menominee village. In fact. Indian vii
| lagos were numerous along the tributaries
| of the upper Wabash. There were several
Indian villages near the small lakes in Kos
ciusko county. Near the head of Turkey
lake was Flat Belly's village; on Tippe-
canoe lake was M~usquebuck's village: at
the present site of Warsaw was Ghekase's
| village, and at a little distance were Memo
| quet's and Mola's villages. these being the
names of Indian chiefs. At Maxinkuckee
lake was Mankekose village, and a little
east of there were the villages of Masac, of
| Toisa and of Chechawkose. The location
and names of these villages and many 9TH
| ers are determined from the official record
| of c~essions, treaties, etc.
THE San Francisco market has been
glutted with watermelons this season, and
on at least one occasion the commission
| men found it necessary to use heroic meas
ures to keep prices up. This was nothing
less than dumping $50 crates of fresh melons.
| about 5000 in all. into the bay, to float of
on the tide. The scheme was successful. foI
the next day the price rose fifty per cent.
| Even then, however. it was low, for the San
Francisco paper which relates the incident