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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-30

conclude that her husband was dead I;
the gold sent had been his dying
gift, and with the money she bought
u valuable farm near San Jose, where
wearing the weeds of widowhood,
she still lives. AS for the brother,
he spent portions of the last iiteGn
years in pursuit of some trace OF me
miner, hoping at least to ilnd ms
grave and sanctify it with a tratcrnal
tear: but now that he saw the living
man before him, nothing was left to
them but rushing journey to GER
tain valley farm near San Jose, wherG
the best, trucst, and staunchest, would
at once be the most surprised and hap,
picst little woman in the world
ARE this" concluded the story,
"thcrc has been meeting" The &C.
cline of life will pass in case, COM
fort, and happiness to a man who for
twenty years believed himself the
victim OF woman's pcrlidy.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-30
The Formation OF Caves.

II becomes an interesting question
to find out how this subtcrrancan sys-
tenn was made; for in SO many cases
valley passes into n ravinc, ana tliat
into n cave, that the cause which mas
formed one must have formed all. 1t
requires but n cursory glance to see at
once that running water was the main
agent. The limestone Is 40 trnverscd
by Joints and lines of shrnkagc that
the water rapidly sinks down into its
mass, and collects in small streams,
which owe their direction to the dip
of the strata and the position of the
fissurc. These channels are being
continually decpcned and widened 10y
the mere mechanical action OF the
passage Of stones and silt. But this
Is not the only way in which the rock
il gradually crodcd. The limestone
is composed in great part Of pure car
donate of lime, which is ins0Iuble In
water. 1t is, however, readily dis
solved in any liquid containing car
homie acid, which Is an essential part
Of our atmosphere, and Is invariably
present in the rain-watcr, and Is given
of by organic bodies. BY this inyisi-
bic agent the hard chrystalinc rock is
always being attacked in some form
or another. The very snails that take
refuge in its crannics leave an cndur-
able mark OF their presence ina surface
frcttcd with their acid cXhalations,
which very often pass current among
biologists for the bOringS of pholadeS,
and are the innocent cause of much
speculation IA to the depression OF the
mountain tops beneath the sea in
comparatively modern times. The
carbOnic acid taken up by the rain is
derived in the main from the dccom-
posing vegetable matter which gcncr-
ally forms the surface of the soil on
the limestone. La effects are to be
seen in a most marked degree in the
bare gray masses ofrock termed pave
ments,n that stand out like rOchcS
m0uiOm1cGs from the purple heather,
and are worn and tissurcd into the
strangcst possible shapes. Sometimes
thc surface is made up Of shcai OF
sword-h!ades; at others there are IA
vines and caves in miniature; ana
generally the strata Is divided into a
series OF large angular blocks, which
rock with the greatest freedom. The
minute fossil shells and fragments Of
crinoids standing out in bold relief
testify that the agent which has re-
moved so much rock is chemical, not
mechanical. This invisible agent il
equally at work in the caves "a well
ns above ground, everywhere attack
ING the surface even out of the reach
of the streams. The endless varieties
OF stalnctitcs and stalagmitcs are
mercly so much solid matter taken by
it ont of the rock, and redcpositcd
where the excess of carhonic acid in
the water happens to be taken up hy q
free current 0lair. TO it then, rs well
az to the mechanical power of the
stream, the formation and enlarge
ncnt of caves must he as1igncd.-
AEUcB,HlidR'S Mug0yWc.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-30
NO. ~.
CurlOsitIes of Memory.

John Kcmblc used to say that no
could learn whole number Of the
Morning Post in four days; and
Gen. Christie made similar asser-
ton, but il is not known how far ci-
ther of them verified this statement.
Robert Dillon could repeat in the
morning six columns Of a newspaper
he had read over night. During tho
repeal debates in the house OF com.
mons thirty-scvcn years ago one OF
the members wrote out his speech,
sent ii to the newspapers, and repeat
ed it to the house in the evening IL
was found TO be the same verbatim
rs that he had written ont. John
Fuller, Il land agent in Norfolk,
could remember every word OF n SER
mon, and write ii out correctly after
going home; this was tested by
comparing his written account with
the clcrgymans manuscript. Schli.
ger could repeat hundred verses or
more after having read them a single
time. Seneca could repeat 1000
words on hearing them once. Mag
liabccchi, who had n prodigious
memory, was once put to n severe
test. A gentleman lent him manu-
script, which was read and returned.
The owner some time aftcrward,
pretending he had lost 1t, begged
Magliabccchi to write out as much
as lie could remember; whercupon
the latter, appealing to his memory,
wrote out the whole essay. Cyrus,
if some Of the old historians are to
be credited, could remember tho
name of every soldier in his immense
army. There was a Corsican boy
who could rchearsc 10000 words,
whether sense or nonsense, as they
were dictated, and then repeat them
in reversed order, without mB rs
single mistake. A physiciava Of
Massachusetts, about half century
ago, could repeat the whole of Para
disc Lost" without mistake, although
he had not read it for twenty years.
Euclcr the great mathematician,
when he became blind, could repeat
the whole of Nirgil's "fnid,' and
could remember the first line and the
last line on every page Of the par
ticular edition which he had been
accustomed to read before he became
blind.
One kind of rctentive memory
may be considered as the result OF
sheer hard work, a determination to-
| y,rIs nup partirulor och heypment
without reference either to cultiva-
ton or to memory on other sub ects.
This is frequently shown by persons
in humble life in regard to the Bible.
An old bcggarman at Stirling,
known some forty years ago as
Blind Alcck, afforded an instance OF
this. He know tic whole of the b.
bic by heart, innSmuch as if a sem
trncc were read to him, he could
name book, chapter and verse; or If
the book, chapter and verse wero
named, he could give the exact
words. a gentleman, to test him,
repeated q verse, purposcly making
one verbal inaccuracy: Aleck hcsi-
tatcd, named the place where tho
passage is TO be found, but at the
same time pointed out the verbal er-
ror. The same gentleman asked him
TO repeat the Hingticth verse Of the
seventh chapter of the book Of Num-
bers. AIcck almost instantly re-
piled, "Thcrc is no such verse; that
chapter has only cighty-ninc verses" i"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-30

The Everglades are just a submerg-
ed prairie, and they exhibit the man
ner in which the great Western prai-
rics were formed. Drain the Ever
gladcs, lit could be done, and the
present islands would be hills. Sub
merge prairie, and its hills would
lccomc islands. No tree Is found on
the Everglades, because they are
constantly covered with water; no
trees are found on the prairics, be-
cause they were long covered with
water. Time will come when tins
vast plain will be clear of water, ana
then we shall have Il large surface,
like the prairics, clear of trees, ana
fitted for cultivation by man. IN
these little Evcrglade islands the
palm fouri-hcs, and also the orange
and every other tree Of Florida. The
castor oil plant grows up to be a large
tree ofscvcral years life. The arrow
root and sweet potato patches merely
REQUIRE that stirring OF the ground
necessary in removing the full grown
roots to cause the younger ones to
grow and keep on growing. 1t Is
really not necessary to plant more
than once. Ii is a lazy mans para
disc. No wonder the Indians were
unwilling to move to the West; it was
uot the graves of their fathers they
were unwilling to leave, it was their
potato and pumpkin patches; Their
pumpkin is small, round and sweet;
they cut it open, put in a raccoon or
opossum, cover il with ashes and bake
it in the fire. The hunters think 1t a
superb dish. Another plan is to take
fish Just of the hook, and without
scaling or cleaning, wrap IL up III
Green leaves and bake it in the same
way. Hunters use a wet newspaper.
1t IS done when, if you tear piece OF
the wrapping, the skin and scales
come of with it. You tear OIL SKIN
and wrapping from one side, eat the
aesh, turn it over and eat the other,
and throw bones and inside away.
Indians in small numbers are still
fo,rud near the Everglades. They do
not like the whites, and are not socla,
bic. but there is n talisman that VIII
moye them out of stOicism into corul-
,ji,v there is sesame that will open
an Indians heart and mouth, ana
thot is whisky. They are the only
saynges who have never invented an
Intoxicating liquor of their own.
Their only idea of civilization Is u 10
ret drunk. Ride into their country
but up with Chief, give him whisky
and promise him more, ana ne anu anu
his are at your service so long as your
whisky lasts.-Lippincotfs Mo9os'"e
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-30

DIR. STRONG's WIr.-RGv. DR..
Strong, of Hartford, Conn, was not
often outwitted by his ispeople. On one
occasion he had invited Il young min
lister to preach for him, who proved
rather dull speaker, and whose SER
mon was unusually long. The people
became wearicd, and as DIR. Strong
lived near the bridge, near the com
menccment of the afternoon service
he saw his people ilocking TO the
other church. across the river. lie
readily understood that they feared
that they should have the same young
man in the afternoon. Gathering up
his wits, which generally came at his
bidding, he said to the young min
ister:
"My brother across the river is rath-
or feeble, and know he will take it
kindly to have you preach to his peo-
pie, and if you will do so | will give
you note To him, and he will he rs
much obliged to you rs would to
have you to preach the same sermon
that you preached to my people this
morning.
The young minister, sllpposihS 'illS
to be n commentator of his sermon,
started on'i good spirits, delivered
the note, and was most cordially III
vitcd to preach. lie saw before him
onc-half of DR.. strong's people, and
they had to listen, one hour and Il half,
to the same dull, humdrum sermon
that they heard in the morning. They
understood the joke, however, and
said they would never undertake to
to run away from DR.. Strong again.
The dearest spot on carth--Thc
store that don't advertise.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-30
The Tunnel Under the sea.

The grand project Of tnnn cling
under tEc sea from Dover to Calais,
which was necessarily suspended
during the progress Of the Franco
Pmsslan war, has been revived, with
improved prospects Of success
Communications ON the subject have
passed between the French and
English Governments, and it l.
thought that the necessary privileges
will soon be accorded, and the pre-
Iiminaric9 arranged for entering in
earnest upon the work.
Some OF the difficulties (which it
was feared would defeat thc enter.
prise have been dissipated. The en-
ginccrs who made survey in 1857
and 1868 feared that the tunnel, if
co Npletcd, might prove useless for
want of sufficient ventilation. This
apprehension has been disposed of
by the opening of the Mont Cents
Tunnel. 1t is found that the differ
encc of temperature at the opposite
ends OF tie tunnel is sufficient to
causc n strong draft and keep the
air perfectly wholesome. The same
cause would doubtless operate as
strongly in the case OF the Dover
tunnel. Another difficulty apprc-
hcnded was a rush of sea water
through seams in the chalk fornla-
tion underlying the the channel. In
onyt-nr IN tbil iIn fact iC Citpl thot
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-30
HEAUTIFEL LEAS ES.

r,lire beneath our pressing feet
si,rwu mon lawn and lane and street,
Beautiful leaves!
uvrd with the hucs Of the sunset sky
Filling in glory so silently.
Beautiful leaves!
Mover to frrshcn another spring,
Nc,cr to know what tho summer may brin(
Beautiful leaves
Withcrcd by wntry frost and cold,
Srou 10 decay in tho common mould,
Beautiful lcavos
sowill the years that change your tint,
Mark upun US their autumnal print
Beautiful leaves!
So shall we fall from the tree Of time,
Fule like yc, in Il frosty cline,
Beautiful leaves
Dut when the winter of death is past,
And we wake in eternal spring Mt last
Beautiful leaves!
May lie, who paints you every hue,
Form our lives Il chnplct new.
Oh beautiful leaves
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-30

MANrFACTTrRB OF TEETH-A re-
cent computation states the huiiipcr
of artificial teeth made yearly IN tne
ITniteJ States at three million. lhis
renreseuts, we may suppose, AT
least fifteen million tOothaches.. Min
araI tecth arc now chiefly made, prov
mo more serviceabie than any other.
Their ingredients are feldspar, silica,
,n,, ,.;c, with few metallic oxides
'is' i,Ice the natural tints of discol,
&c $ I These substances are ground
To-, sS,.timpalpable powder under WAFER ir,
o,;G ..hen made into paste me ne
Goth are cast in brass molds. Inc
n,sto which forms the enamel oi the
t"ntb IL first introduced, then the pia-
tinum riycts. and lastly the paste
which forms the body of the tooti.
Next ensue powerful pressure, drylnG,
trimming and enameliDg, WIN Il
wash of ingredients more fuslbIe thal
those of the tooth. Ihen the gun,
mer applies gum OF oxide o, ST,u
and other ingredients: fliiaily .i.'
tooth goes into mullie, or ename-
1or.' oven, when it is placed on a lay
.rof crushed quartz strewed over II
sj,b oft;re resisting clay. After eA-
nnsure to nm intense heat the toolh II
taken out and cooled, henceio'r"aru,
To remain "beautilul forever" anu
perhaps to he the despair OF some III,
lure geolOgist who may dlScoNei y
among the remains of the hlhete"H''
century.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-30

And now another Republican Gov
ernnr is in trouble. Already we have
had Holden impcachcd in North Caro-
lima. Butler impcached in Nebraska,
Bullock stampcdcd from Georgia, and
Davis buried under 10000 Democratic
majority in Texas; and now comes
Governor Austin, of Minnesota, into
court To say that he did not take II
bribc of 1900 for signing certain
railroad bill, rs charged on the 18th
uIt. 10y the St. Anthony Falls Demo
crit. The editor of that paper being
cited for libel stoutly maintains the
truth Of his alleged SANDER.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-30
FUN
Nursery nrs mcs For LITTLE Scientists.
FOR TIE LITTLE BorANIsr.

FOR TIE LITTLE BOTANIsT.
Little -pccpalS
Had los, her ScpatS,
And where do you lhlnk she ii ma en-!
In the inNOiuCre,
By hook or crook, or
Shell make up her mind not to find 'em.
FOR THE CIIEMlCALCHlLD.
sing song OfAcidS,
Base and alkaIi,
fOur-and-tWcnty gases
Baked INTO pie;
When the pie was opened,
Wonderful to say,
Oxygen and nitrogen
Both flew away!
FOR THE AsrRoNoMIcALI INFANr
Hy-Baby bunting,
Fathers gone star hunting,
Mothers at the telescope
10 read the baby's horoscope.
By-Eay huntoid,
Fathers found an aStcroid;
Mother makes by calculation,
the angle of its inclination
ruE THE YOUNG GEOLOGISr.
Tniobte Graptobltc,
Nautilus pie.
gCGS were CacarcOuS,
Oceans were dry,
Euccnc, miOccne,
pIOccnc, luiI,
LIuS and trlaS,
And that IL enough.
A SOSG FOR SENTIM MENIAhlSIS.
(Noin hi, more siipthan some we haze heard tdtcl5'
HneYer | cease TO love,
The moon may change her hue,
And mid the Stars above
The sun no more burn blue.
Among the woodland trees,
The whales their song may cease,
And oysters ut their ease,
May keep their beds in peace.
lfncver cease to love,
The COWS may catch the Group,
While the turtle dove,
Lord Mayors no more make soup,
Tho frogs may pow the main,
Tho tigers soar far above,
Tho rain beams cease to reign,
Ifncyer | cease to love.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-30

Tho most experienced -uccinators,
Oh The one hand, and those who have
bad most to do with the treatment of
imiantilG ailments, on the other, agree
in the belief that disease is not COM
municablc by vaccination. Mr.. Mar
son, an English physician, in the per-
Torrance OF more than fifty thousand
vaccinations, "has never seen other
disease, communicated with the vac
cine disease, nor does he believe in
the popular reports that they are so
communicated. Mr.. Lee, whose
observations are equally extensive,
has borne similar testimony. DR.. W.
Jcrncr, who in six years had some
thirteen thousand sick adults and.
children under observation, states
"that in no case had he reason to be-
licve OF even to suspect, that any con-
stitutional taint had been conveyed
from one person to another by vacci-
nation" Duringa period of seventeen
years ;Dr. West treated twenty-six
thousand infants and children with
like experience and Prof. Paget after
an extensive familiarity with tho dis
eases of children, expresses the opin-
ion that the worst which can be
charged upon vaccination is that, by
disturbing for a time the general
health, it may rarely give opportuni.
" for the external manifestation and
complete evolution of some constitu-
tionaI affection which but for 1t
might have remained rather longer
latent.
Where every person in a commu.
nifty has been vaccinated, there is lit
tie chance for smallpox to obtain O
foot hold and it is also verv certain
that the presence ofthe unvaccinated
is standing invitation to the devel.
opemeDt and spread of epidemice.
The opponents of vaccination, and .
far larger number who from ignor-
ance or careles5ness neglect the pre-
caution, thus become. so far as the
public health is concerned, "dan.
gerous Glass; which like other dan.
gerous classes it is for the interest OF
the community at large to remove
Galaxy.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-30

ENGLIsu OPINION OF AMERICAN En-
ERGY.-The London Times of the 10th
inst. concludes Il review OF the probable
effects of the Chicago fire upon British
interests with the following paragraph
'In the midst of all the confusion and
loss, it is necessary to bear in mind the
yigor and elasticity with which the
American people meet and repair every
adversely. The consequences OF the
two fires which within the past thirty
tive years have devastated the business
portions OF New York were encountered
with a promptt tude which soon effaced
their traces, and at later period q like
visitation at San Francisco caused n
still greater development of indoniiable
energy. Hence il is some Satisfaction,
in the midst Of the present disaster, to
predict that, whatever may be Its mag
n,udc. there will bc nothing more as
tonishing in connection with 1t than the
way in which the sufferers will effect
the work of restoration"
And tli; prediction, 1t may be AL deA
is In ull course vi veriheatton,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-30

Among the towns destroyed by the
Michigan fire was Holland City, a
stronghold Ofthe Dutch reformed faith.
Their two beautiful churches were
swept away.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-30

When is clock OH the stairs dam
gerOus! When il runs down.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-30

The question Of the hour-wh"'
Zinc is it,!
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-30

The dearest spot on carth-Thc
store that don't advertise.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-15
Savings for Oh Age.

No one denies that it is wise to make
provision for old age, but we are not all
agreed as to the kind of provision it is best
to lay in. Certainlywe shall want little
money, for destitute old man is indeed a
sorry sight; yes, save money by all means.
But an old man needs just that particular
kind of strength which young men are apt
to waste. Many a foolish young fellow
will throw away on holiday a certain
amount of nervous energy which he will
never feel the want of until he is seventy,
and then how much he will want it. 1t
is curious, but true, that bottle of cham
payne at twenty will intensity the rheu-
matism at threescore.
1t ia fact that everlasting the eyes at
fourteen may necessitate the aid of spec
tacles at forty instead of sixty. We ad-
wise our young readers to be saving of
health for their old age, for the maxim
holds good in regard to health as well as
TO money. "Waste not, want nct." 1t is
the greatest mistake to suppose that viola
tion of the laws of health can escape its
penalty. Nature forgives no sin, no error !;
she let's off the offender for fifty years
sometimes, but she catches him at last, and
infiicts the punishment Just when and
where, and just how he feels it most. Save
up for old age, but save knowledge; save
the recollections of good and noble deeds
innocent pleasure and pure thoughts save
friends, save love. Save rich stores of that
kind of wealth which time cannot dimin-
ish nor death take away.-RErag Neto
Yorker.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-15
The Fly on the Ceiling.

How the fly supports itself in opposition
to the laws of gravitation is one of the
first questions that the juvenile philoso-
pher undertakes to solve. AS his small
stock of science is not sufficient to enable
him to master the mystery, he consults a
book or questions friend. From one or
the other of these he learns that the insect
supports itself by means of tubular shaped
vessels which enable it to exhaust the air
from beneath its feet when they are press
ed against a surface. This being done the
upward pressure of the atmosphere holds
the insect in its place. The simple little
piece of apparatus known as the" sucker"
is designed to illustrate how hy supports
itself from ceiling.
Recent investigation, however, seem to
clearly show that viscid fluid and not an
atmosphere pressure is the means whereby
a fly can walk on a ceiling. The follow
ing wonld seem to be convincing proofs of
this theory: An insect was chlOroformed
TO prevent its relinquishing its hold, and
being in q receiver the air was exhausted
but it still kept its place. Every foot-st
leaves a mark. on the surface of clean
piece of glass that can be distinguished
with a microscope. The existence and
secretions of this fluid being thus clearly
proven, it is plain that it would interfere
with any attempt at suction; and 1t seems
certain that exhaustion of air and the
secretion of this fluid could not go on at
one and the same time, through one set of
vessels. This fluid is very tenacious, and
nearly insoluble. In all probability 1t is
the material that so often holds flies and
other insects so securely to the place
where they spent the night that they can
not in the morning leave the spot without
leaving portion Of their limbs behind
PfdiTis Farmer.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-15
Suited to q I.

"How did your wristbands suit you,
Frank?" said Fannie Grey to her brother
Frank, a young man Just home in his first
college vacation. Il stitched them every
bit myself, on the machine. Were they
nice? Did they fitY'
"They were splendid, Fan. / told the
fellows they were done by an old lady OF
seven years. Fit? guess they did. Fit
to t. Thank youP
And Frank Gordon pulled his coat
sleeve up little and showed the shining
linen, fitting his shapely wrist much to
his little sisters admiration.
Frank" said Fannie, few moments
after, "msy ask you something?"
"Of course you may, little one; III an
swer if l can" And Frank clasped his
hands over his head, tilted back his chair,
and put his feet upon the table, and looked
down into his sisters eyes that were say
ing Just then, as if there was anything
you didn't know, you splendid old fel-
low
But aloud she said, What do you mean
by fitted to To- I'm sure I don't know ;
and 1 want to-"
"Whew" whistled the young man."
What do I mean, sure enoughI Well, 1
mean suited exactly, fitted perfectly, l sup
pose"
"Yes," said the little girl in a disap-
pointed tone; al know that; but 1
thought, perhaps, it came from something.
I don't see the sense Of it, I'm sure. Suit
ed to t. 1t meant something else in
the first place, know"