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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-02

The best mode of resting, when
fltigued depends upon the cause OF
the iatigurs and the condition Of the
person at the time, There is one
thing, however, which will always
rest u tired person, and that is a
sponge or towel batn over tho entire
surface of the body, followed by y
thorough rubbing and friction Of the
surface. OF course the temperature
OF the water and the vigor and
amount Of the rubbing mus, bs grad
uatcd to the strength of the person.
It's generally best If given by a sec
onl person. when the fatigue il
mental, arising from over cxcrtion
of the brain, the muscles should be
called into action, as by walking,
notwithstanding, rowing play I'M.
ball, pitching quoiis, gymnastics, &c.
General muscular fatigue il quickly
relieved by Ning ON the face and
having some one TO rub the back
vigorously. Also. hU' less readily by
lying fat upon the back upon huJ'
couch OF bed, or rpon he floor, wi,h
the bands back If or under the head.
but the head not otherwise raised
and t"siug luIi deep brca'ts. Local
muscular fatigue may tc relieved by
rub1ju"n nd pcrcus>ing thc part, or b,
1 l a.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-02
Peculiar View of Heaven.

Among the Pensioners of Welsh vii
lage there was model woman: 80 pi-
ous, SO clean, and moreover such q
scholar, for her station In life. She
lived to n great age; and, in her illness,
she sent to the parsonage to beg Il little
preserve. Nov, as the parsonage
was at the time out of that commodity,
some good Jelly was substituted for 1t;
and the clergyman took 1t himself, with
excuses, to the old lady, whose cottage
WIS near. ~ thank you, sir" said the
sick woman; "but | hope soon to be
where can have plenty Of preserve and
jam. There Is no waste there" waving
her hand In the direction Of the person
age; "no waste there "Whcre do you
moan, ma'amI' said the parson. II
mean Heaven, sir; for you know we
read the tree which bears twelve fruits
weddings its fruit every month. Now,
you don't think that so much fruit will
be thrown away? No, sir; depend upon
1t, the angels are busy for const.ncy
preserving 1t. So, when get to lleav
tn--whlch do hope to do ere Long,
shall ask IN n pretty manner, and no
doubt | shall there receive as much ami
and preserve ~ | can want"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-02
NO. 3S.
Arrangement of Rooms.

Give your apartments expression
character. Rooms which mean
nothing Nrc chCcricss, indeed. Study
light and shade, and the combination
and arrangement Of drapcry, fnrni.
uan red pictlrC,. Allow nothing
TO look isolated, but let everything
present an air Of sociability. OBJ
serve q room immediately after a
number Of people have left it and
then US You arrange the furniture,
disturb as Iittle rs possible the rela-
tive position Of chairs, ottomans and
sofas. Place two or three chairs in a
conversational attitude in some
rhccry corner, an ottoman within
easy distance of sofa, chair near
Your stcrcosCopc views or cngrav-
ingS, and one where a good light
viii fail on the book which you may
reach from the table near.
Make little study of effect which
shall repay the more than usual OBJ
server, and do not leave it possible
Tor one to make the criticism which
applies So many homes, even Of
wealth and clcgancc--"Fine carpets,
hnudSomr furniture, few pictures,
and elegant norhings--hut how drea-
ry : The chilling atmosphere is felt
Mt once, and we cannot divest our
selves Of The idea that we must main
tain stitl, 4 severe dcmeamor 70 ac-
cord with the spirit Of the place.
f..l. l..
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-02
A Strange Dance.

There is a singular kind of dance
on the greens of country villages in
Russia. The dancers stand apart
knot Of young men here, knot OF
maidens thcre--cach sex by itself,
and silent as crowd Of mutcs,
When a piper breaks into A tune, y
youth pulls Off his cap and challenges
the girl with wave and bow. Il
the girl ia willing, she waves her
handkerchief in token Of ascent; the
youth advances, takes q corner OF the
handkerchief in his hand and leads
the lassie round and round. No word
is spoken and no laugh is heard,
Stiff with cords and rich with braidS
he girl moves heavily by herself,
going round and round and never
allowing her partner to touch her
hand. The pipe goes droning on foI
hours in the same sad key and meas.
urc and the prize of merit in this
"circling,' az the dance is called, is
given by spectators to the laasic,
who, In all that summer rcvclry, has
never spoken and never smiled.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-02
Crimes -.ire They %pilcmic !

There seems to be in certain crime,
q tendency to become epidemic
About the middle of the seventeenth
century, LaSpar ofaa andS nai CART.
ed on the poisoning trade in Italy
and almost simultaneous y the crimes
and execution Of Madame de Iiriu-
villicrs gave rise to mania for poi8-
oning in France, which lasted more
than hundred persons had been
executed.
A celebrated poisoning case in
England in 1915, was followed by
M extraordinary increase OF the same
form of crime, especially among lae
| poor in the agricultural countries.
After the execution OF the English
prisoner, Palmer, about fifteen years
ago for killing his wife with slrych-
nine, an English gentleman named
Dove got rid of his wife in precisely
the same way, and acknowledged
that reading about the Palmer case
induced him 10 do it.
Between 1888 and 1888 occurred The
murder of William of Orange, the
Duke Of Guisc, Henri ILL.,, liouri
w., the Duke Of Buckingham Wal
lenstein, and perhaps Gustayus Adolf
phus, whose tatc is surrounded in
mystery
Suicide by drowning was once
80 prevalent among the women OIL
Lyons, that to check it theal,horitias
orderdcd the bodies Of all the victims
70 be publicly exposed ~ th" market
place, At Versailles. toward the
close Of the last century, there were
l,3OO suicides n single year.
Several eases ofepidcmira' uc.u1 |
iarsmhlvn occurred in this country
and NV poison is again brcom'ng |
prevalent, rs cXcmpliiod f.. the Shor- !
man case in Counccucu;, ag RU'l .
case in Kansas, the VIA 80 case in !
Baltimore, and one or tYo olner-
hat have recently come t. light.
RUu! cp li0yhcr.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-02
City Life.

I A carefully prepared article or
New York life, in the Ouyier des
Etdts Unis, contains the following
statements:
There are not less than ten thou.
sand families in New York whose
annual expenditures for mere liveli.
hood are at an average of $4,000
there are one thousand who spend
from $25,0O0 to $4,000; and from
sixty to scycnty families 60 to the
extent of from $4,000 to 10000
The main motive prompting this ex.
travagance is the overwecning am.
bition for notoriety. as is seen in the
fact that so many live in hotels In the
Winter at New York, and in Sum
mcr at popular resorts admid every
form of discomfort, at an expense
greater than is requisite to keep up
the most princely palatial establish
ment of European noblemcn. OF all
the thousands thus living, the writer
estimates that not more than one
half have any permanent reliable
business on which to depend; the
remainder consisting of spectators
and adventurers, who may in II week
be left without resources.
Aa specimen which thus builds
up city of luxury rather than of
fortune, the editor gives this example;
"people truly rich, are not those who
live the most extravagantly. To be,
and to appear to be, are two things ;
and as it is necessary to appear at
any price to be what one is not, it is
>nly those whose fortune is estab-
,ished, as the Astors and the Stewards,
who can afford themselves the luxury
of simple style of living. When n
man owns sixty millions of dollars,
he has no need Of weaving in his shirt
bosom brilliants worth ten thousand
dollars, and to have himself dragged
about by six horses. He has right
to have only plain white shirt-bos-
oms, and to take his walk on foot
after dinner without fear of passing
for n s,ingv man, or ofsponging on
his bootmaker. When Prince Ar
thur was al New York he went
every evening Oh foot, cane in hand,
from the Brevoort House to the Cen
tral Park, and no one would take
him for splurge. If an agent on
Change had done this he would lose
the confidence of his customers, and
what is worse, the esteem of his wife
and the respect Of his servants"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-02
Queen VictOria's HallucinatiOn.

Whatever may be the truth III regard
TO the report that Queen Victoria in
tends to abdicate the throne of Eng.
land, it is known that she has been
)aboring for some years past under
1t least one phase Of mental infirmity.
She has a firm conviction that Prince
Albert is always present with her
and that she can hold communion
with him. Her private rooms are
arranged as they were when he was
alive. His chair is placed opposite
her own in the library, and the books
which he delighted to read to her
are arranged lovingly, in order, upon
the table. In some OF her moods she
will converse with him for an hour
together, conducting her own share
of the conversation aloud and with
the vigor and interest Of old times.
he had taught her by his example,
the success of his business enterprises
especially bv his management of
the Duchy of Cornwall to superin-
tend as much as possible all her pri
vate affairs herself; to reduce all un-
necessary expenditures and to forbid
ext, ,avagance. Hence the greatest
.simultcity is observed at the Queens
table, and she imagines that her hus-
v,and looks Jn well pleased. AT times,
when shc is more than ordinarily i'm
,reased with a sense of his presence,
j pcor, fond woman will order n
,.";,,, "i and fork to be placed Oh The
'1,nmer. lima table for him, and cause the
"ttondsn " " to place every course be-
fnrc thc on, 'uty chair as if the master
still still t" occupied it. Every morning a
T,,ir nair " Of hpo,s are cleaned and set
down against the door OF the aa cham. n.
Der which he once oeeapleo anu IL u. "
breakfast. when in Scotland, she
will often sit long ti'ue IN Sllehce'
waiting for the Prince. A.
The Queens strong beli@1 IN we WE
communion of the living H'lli tle
spirits of the dead she received, NO mo
doubt, from Prince Albert himse''
who was a sort Of theOsoplust-H
something between Jacob Behmen,
the mystic, and j. G. Fichte, the phi
lesopher of ftranscendentalism. What-
ever may be thonght Of it as theory
of philosophical or religious belief by
sober, common-scnse people, 1t is to
Victoria a source ofgreat consolation,
and she often talks with the Prince
concerning the state of the soul after
death. She has been gradually with
drawing from public life for some
wears past, and lives in the world OF
her own. Her harp and her casel
are both neglected, and shc neither
sings, or plays, nor paints, except at
rare intervals, when she will sweep
her harp strings for few moments
in memory of some sweet German
air that ncr hus band loved to sing OF
10 hear s,ln0.-Nep York Post.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-02
Causes OF summer Diseases.

The journal Of Health for June,
under u different heading. stat Cs the
following facts concerning the caus :
Of diseases:
The mis,lctoc bough, like The Span
ish moss, which drnpcs the trees Of
southern sUamps in such sad t'uncral
xarb, is r growth outside Of the ma
turaI condition Of the tree; it IS 4
parasite, fungus; very low form
Of life, exceedingly slow in develop.
mcnt In some cases, in others so in
concciyably rapid NJ to be rcprodur-
ed in millions in few hours, a. IN
the toadstool and mushroom. The
common yeast, with which VIC make
eur bread, is mass ofliving thing,
dozen Of them generating m riad-
more in night these fungi, sporulcs,
or germs, are not only the pests of
living plants, eating out the entire
life in the course Of time, but they
infcst animals and man, carrying
with them, sometimos, the most
dreadful death. The mushroom, the
the morel, and the truillc, among the
greatest delcacics OF the table with
some, are fungi. In somo cases they
kill, or cause diseate, or poison. Er-
got, blight, mildcw, rust, brand, dry
rot, are all diseased results Of fungus
growth.
There are similar growths or pro-
ducts In the animal word, called
"ccll' life. Vegetables come from
seed, animals from eggs by cell de
velopmcnt, and these cells or eggs are
as amazing in their fccundity as
fungus growth. A man swallows a
few mouthsful Of raw pork in which
are few strichinD In very few
days, living things are found burrow
ing in tire flesh by millions, causing
most agonising pains and dreadI'u
death.
Between the effects Of fungi and
cell products, the vegetable germ and
the animal egg, men perish in mil
lions every year. Asiatic cholera
scems to be by the latest researches,
the product Of thing Of life. but
whether vegetable or animal admii-
of question thus far. .
Whooping cough is apparently OF
vegetable growth; for when the ex-
pectoration ofa child suffering from
it is examined, it is crowded with
germs. On one occasion a small
amount of it was introduced into the
windpipc ofa healthy young rabit;
i'm few days it had u troublesome
cough, and on examination Il count
less number of these same germs
were found al along the throat,
windpipe and lungs.
Plague and pcstilcnce, and all those
diseases called epidemic, which sud
denly fall upon y whole community,
such as fever and aguc, bilious fever,
yellow fever, diarrhTa, and dyscn'
terry, are caused by marsh miasm.
In the worst time of yellow fever
and cholera in New Orleans, the cv-
cning and the morning air was 50
cool and delicious and balmy, that
many time we have brcathed it by
the hour in perfect delight; and yet
the resident knew that it was but the
sure milmation that the disease
wonld be more fearful in u day or
two. But if this air be bottled and
taken thousand miles away, put in
to a close room where o healthy man
is sleeping, he have the ordinary
sy,aptoms Of chill and fever in day
or two, and myriads of these rcsti-
ferrous things will be found about
his tongue, his throat aud windplpe,
and MS lungs and stamach,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-02
The False Education ofour Daughters


The English nobl"man who sends to
Paris for his daughters dresses is rras-
onabIy certain that he, and his dnuGh-
tcr's huSbtnd AFTER him, can continue
sending, and that in the training OF his
Guild he is fostering no habit that cjn-
not be "ightfully lndulgcd IN. The
| that the habits &C luxury in which bis
child is reared, unfit her for the duties
ofthe life 10 which she will In All like
| lihOOd be callCd-that he Cpnuot hplr
that his family wealth can long survive
him. any more than that his daughter
will love m IN to- whom that wealth
will hc unimp0ran,. HXpriruc" ana
| observation alike tell him that wealth
| in this country rarely continues in a
| ianlNthrCc generations, and tuu at
any time he may find himself 4 poor
man agIin. Vet hc regulates his laic
and that of his children rs if hS wealth
and theirs wore assured forever, and as
though ihc habits of 4 litctim' wcr" To
DE broken like wi.nI ot straw. His
llught"r hrC not III 90 marry any bat
the rIrh men they experience 80 inUCt
difficulty IN liudiHg. and q man oi mod
crate means is careful To avoid asking
them To change their hHIitS Df lie
There are few Saddcr pictures thnn the
one We see when som" such woman Of
bravcr hearts than most of her sex
chooses The portion Ola poor mans love
and yainlv seeks to adapt herself TO Il
,fr Of which she has tthcrto known
nothing. Tho hahtS of her girlhood
bind her like strong f"ttprs her igno-
rance Of domestic duties weighs her To
the earth, the loss of social pusitiou, or
the icyercd efforts she makes To sup
port it wear out her life in bitter ~
piuin@S, until her health gives way and
She dies, lcavin. her faults to ycx tin
world in her children, and her virtues
undiscovered slvc by the husbmd. who
hides all else OF her memory --LppiR-
cOYS Ndyd-D1c JOr OctOJc".
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-02
The Last King of Ireland.

Roderic O'Connor, of the ancient
line of Connaught, was the last kins
who sat on the throne of Celtic Ire
land. His character and exploits arc
painted with no hattering hand by
! the monkisn writers, who longed fol
his destruction, or later historians
who have written in the interest OF
the Roman Church. All the crimes and
woes of fated (Gdipus are attrib.
uted to the unhappy king who ven
tured to strike last blow for the
freedom of Ireland, who resisted
with obdurate patriotism the steel
clad lcgions ofthe Pope and Henry
H., and who more than once seems
to have been on the eve Of final
triumph. 1t is said that Roderic was
thrown in chains by his father, who
feared his savage temper, that he put
out the eyes of his two brothers, and
that he wasted in civil feuds the for
ces that should have been turned
against the foe. He seems, indeed,
to have wanted prudence, and too
often to have been deceived by the
treacherous hearts of Dermot and
the priests. Yet one cannot avoid
reviewing with sympathy the story Of
he unhappy monarch whose disas-
trous reign was at least marked by
sincere patriotism, and whose mis-
fortunes were never merited by his
treachery or his scrvilc fear. Amidst
his savage wilds and ancestral wilds
the O'Connor, terrified by novel
dangers, assailed ny the most power
ful monarch of the age, exposed to
the anathemas Of the Italian Church,
surrounded by traitors, and scarcely
safe from the intrigues OF his own sons
OF his ambitious rivals, still main
tained a spirit not unworthy Of that
long line OF patriotic chiefs of whom
he was destined to be the last; and
it is a graceful trait in the character
of Rodcric that he strove once more
to revive, by liberal cndowments,
the famous college of Armagh, as If
conscious that Ireland could only
hope to secure its freedom by gen
eral education Of its people, From
"We Conquest Of Ircland," by Eugene
Laurence, IN Hnrpcr's Magazine for
October.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-02

Artificial Ivory is now produced from
india rubber by means OF Il simple and
ingenious process In the first place,
two pounds of puro rubber arc diss0lr>
cd in 32 pounds of ohloroiornl, and the
solution Is thon saturated with current
of ammonia gas. When tho rubber has
been completely bleached, tho admis-
sion Of the gas Il interrupted. and tho
mass il transferred toa vessel provided
with stirrer, In which il is washed with
hot water until the bleaching agent has
hecn entirely removed. During this op-
Grafton the temperature may lie incrcas-
cd TO lS5 degrees Fahrenheit. in order TO
eyaporate the chlorOiorn, which ny con-
ducting IL il. an apparatus OF conmehSa-
ton. may again be n.ado we Of. the re-
manning product forms kimd "t ifn'';
which, being pressed out, dried, ana
again treated with n small quantity OF
cS,0u2rorm. is finally obtained ~ con,
slstent past5. This paste is now mixed
with Il sufficient Iuan,ity oil hheiy Pul-
! verized phosphate of limo, On carbonate
/ of zine, until it assumes The appearanGf
of moist -four. In this condition II y
pressed I'M hot i..clds, which leaves II
sufficiently hard to be burned, p'anch
kloJ, or bored. In order to iri!tate
corals, pearls, enamels, hard woods, etc
| it is only necessary to mix the paste
with the desired colors previously TO its
being compressed.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-02
Hints TO IIOnsc.BuilicrS.

Avoid such lots ~ will require your
house to face North. Have your liy-
ing rooms face South always if possi-
bic. Put your hall on the North side
of the house. Don't spoil yOur sunny
win,iu. : :ty stretching n piazza out
side which wifi keep the suu aoas
Live in yourplcasautcst room. Build
no parlors to shut up; what is good
enough for you is good enough for
visitors. Have a bow window iii
your ii,iug room. Make yuur win
dows large, and enough nf them,
Have plenty Of cIosct,. 4 goodiS
pantry and a closet -ld1ild he cou-
;;rrtca with the kitchen. Build q
Grc-placcin sour living room. The
height Of your rooms should hc one
third the sum Of the width aud length
of yuur living room.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-02
The Sin Of Borrowing Trouble.

Such q habit Of mind and heart is
wrong, because its p,ts one into =
de- poudency that i'll ill4 him for duty.
| planted TWO rose bushes in my gar
d'n:tNe one lhriycd beautifully, the
Other EogshCd. | fuInu the dead
one on tuc shady side OF the house
Our Jispo.lions, Ike our plants,
ncoG ,.m.hjnc. Expectancy of re-
pnlsc is the cause ofmany secular and
religious failures. Fear OF bankrupt
cy has uptorn many fine business,
and sent the man lodging among the
nOto-shavers. Fear of SANDER and
abuse has often invited all the long
beakcl yuIturcs Of hsckbting. Many
Of the mj,fortuncs Of lite, like hyenas,
lGo if you couragcously meet them
How poorly prepared for religious
duty j. q man who sits down under
the gloom otexpcc!ed misfortune!-
Ithc prays he says -" | do not think
| shall be answered" If he give, he
says :-"l expect they will steal the
money" Helen Chalmers told me
that her father, Thomas Chalmers, in
the darkest hour Of the history ofthe
Free Church Of Scotland, and when
the woes 0fthe land seemed to weigh
upon his heart, said to his children,
Il" Com-, let us 20 out and play ball or
fly kite" and the only difficulty in
the play was that the children could
- q. E,p,, Tl,,tin 10 1'bp
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-02

C0InNEL LEWIS w. WASHINGTON,
the head of branch OF the family to
which the first President belonged,
died Oh October l-t, after a brief III
ness OF concestive fever, at his resi-
dence near liarper's Ferry, West Viz
SIhla. lie Will be remembered as the
most conspicuous Of the gentlemen
Wh2 Were seized and held as hostages
by john brown in his famous raid on
l.aiperS Ferry, in October 1859. He
P9S.esst'I Il valuable collection ofreliss
OF aShingtom, aruung Others tho et-
CANT s>oid SeIt by Frederick the
Great, with .he inscription. From
the oldest Genera! in the world TO the
greatest"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-02

SPATN.-f'rom official tabular stat.
istirs, it appears that thc area ~
Suain Is "a. .,in2.Gi2 or lN,.9!n sGuar"
miles. OF uic l-i,rr2,Gi2 arr"- ~
Spain, there arc G,,,If, irl or ~ i",
cent. cultivated, and 5i,526"b per
cent. uncultivatcd. The population
ofS'pain is l5, ,G73. .53G persons, "' whom
2,i33, sol are landed propfictor'. The
tenants number 80, ,G35, and the 'r-
ricultural laborcrs 2,3ij, ,iln. Tu'
livc stock nfa!l kinds numhcr %i,G21,-
3l3 hcad. p Tx ,uijraiCi ar.a 'n-
cludes arabic aud pasture lands ana
forest plantations, it is stated that
40 psr cent, Of the country is entirely
waste.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-02
Who are CrcUlcs.

a correspondent nsAs, what is the
meaning OF the word Creole" We
answer, that the strict and original
definition Of the word was, person
born in tn" colonies Of French OF
Spanish parcntnge. But, In process OF
time, and since the intrusion of the
Anglo Saxon race into the old coIoui-
t. OF France and Spain, the word has
been commonly cXtcnded 40 ~ to in
cIude all persons born in the colonies
once owned hy Spain or France, with
oltt regard to parcntaTc. no, TmcS
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-02

,pua, EVIL IN HORSES If it has
l~olSen, wash the sore clean win cas-.
t;le soap and warm water. then inject
.lJ M d, .ess it with spirits Of turpentine,
pyroligne aus and llnseed oil, e1'mial m
nsrta mixe,,. Fir balsam has also
q very good effect on indolent anu
morbid parts. s. soon, however, a.
d. parts show q disposition to neal
dress with tinctUr, of aioes anu MYTH. y.,
Keep the bowels open.-ffom A"'e'''
.cuJt Stock Jo.iyrH.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-02

There are seventeen t.Ju saltwater
baths in full use in Boston. Twelve
iC. Eieu and five for women. These
cstapli shmen : originally cost $4,000
and the cost Of each bath 10 "a city
Is about four cents 2i1i,iUnll. The
Board al ,,cal,h reports that the
haths have had very mavnednCne-
ilcial effect upon the general health
of the city.