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He had not slept wiak for twenty
four hours, coughing ell the time. His
sister bought 25c bottle OF DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup at the nearest drug store,
gave him dose, aud the cough was
broken at once aud he slept quietly
during the night.
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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-22
Street.cleaning Which VIII Pass.

II is an interesting sight to take a seat
on the top of street-car at an early
hour in the morning and witness the
cleaning process that everything is
undergoing. The hOusekeepers bring
out ali their rubbish and pile it up in
the street, one pile for every four or five
houses. 1t is no sooner emptied than
the rag. piekers, who swarm the streets
with their bags and buckets and hand
carts, pounce upon it and gather all the
fragments of paper, rags or metal to be
found in the piles. They are go numer-
GUS that there is scramble on every
street, and they move from pile to pile
as if their lives depended on their
activity. They seem TO take away one
third Of the rubbish. Servants are every.
where to be seen with broom and bucket
in hand cleaning off the fronts. The
streets are being spriDkled with hose,
and an army of men and. women, with
birch brooms, are sweeping the streets
On tbe boulevards, horse.brushing ma.
chimes are in molten, and the garbage,
carts are removing the piles thrown out
by the housekeepers. Water is turned
ON in all the cutters, and women are
engaged in washing them down. Mer
with hose are watering all the roots o
all the hundreds of Thousands of trees OF
the boulevards, and taking up the graf
ings so as to loosen the earth arount
them. All, or nearly all, this work i
being done by the city authorities, anC
by 9 O'Clock the city is as clean as broom
and brush and water can make it,
] Paris Letter.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-22

the last spark of life out Of the ugly varmint
with heavy grub hoe. The gator measured
six feet and eleven inches long, ....
Galveston News; Capt. Kennedy's
pastures in Nueces county now embrace 800
square miles. His stock consists OF 46OOo
head of cattle, $4,000 head of horses and
mules, and 1000 head OF hogs Mr.. kenN
nedys cattle are rapidly being improved by
breeding with the Durham and Brainah
Mr.. Kennedy also owns large interest IN
the Corpus Christi, San Diego and Rio
Grande railway which is now completed to
the Precenos, forty.fve miles from the
starting point. Engines and rolling stock
have been sent for to better equip the road.
Ii is not calculate to run the road by San
Diego unless the people subscribe $4,000.
Wilmington IN, o. Star: A few days
since two or three men were coming down
the river on fiat, and had reached point
about fourteen miles above this city, when
two small, black clouds came nearly to-
gether with the sun shining through the
open space, constituting a focus of the suns
rays of such strength and power that
white man who was steering the fiat at the
time, and who happened to be in a position
to get the full force of the piercing rays, had
his back and arms blistered to a cake, and it
was found necessary to run the Nat ashore
with all possible dispatch, when the man in
question crawled into the bushes in shady
place to cool of,
New Orleans Democrats report of a
meeting of the board of health DR., Chop
pin took the floor to say that the first focus
OF infection had occurred within Magazine,
Chippewa, Thalia and Felicity streets; the
second between Poydras, Magazine and Julia
streets and the river, which supplied the
charity hospital the third, limited one,
between st. Joseph and Girod, back to
Franklin street; fourth between IRENE or
Franklin, Cont, Gravier and Galvez streets.
There was also small focus at Josephine
and Coliseum streets, which seemed to be
travelling upward. and another small one on
Customhouse street, between Royal and
Bourbon streets The new cases arose out
side of the large focuses-a fact which gave
him hope that the fever might be stopped
Still, the germ was an active one, but he
proposed to fight it until he overpowered
it or it overpowered him, and the disease
shall have become epidemic,
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Remarkable Echoes.

In the sepulchreof MttalIa, the wife of
Sulla, in the Roman Campagna, there is
an echo which repeats five times, in five
different keys, and will also give back
with distinctnes hexameter line which
requires two and half seconds to utter
it. On the bank of the Naha, between
Bingen and Coblentz, an echo repeats
seventeen times. The speaker may
scarcely be heard, and yet the responses
are loud and distinct, sometimes appear
ing to approach, at other times to come
from greater distance. Echoes equally
beautiful and romantic are to be heard
in Scotland In the cemetery of the
Abercorn family, at Paisley, when the
door of the chapel is shut, the reverber>
ations are equal to thunder. If single
pote of music is breathed, the tone
ascends gradually with a multitude of
echoes, till it dies in soft and bewitching
murmurs. In this chapel is inferred
Margery, the daughter of Bruce, and the
wife of William Wallace. The echo at
the Eagles Nest" on the banks ol
Killarney, is renowned for its effective
repetition of hugle call, which seems
to be repeated by hundred instruments
until it gradually dies away in the air
At the report of cannon the loudest
thunder reverberates from the rock, and
dies in seemingly endless peals along the
distant mountains. At the castle of
Simonetta, nobleman's seat about two
miles from Milan, surprising echo is
produced between the two wing, OF the
building. The report of pistol is re>
peated sixty times; and Addison, who
visited the place on a somewhat foggy
day, when the air was unfavOrable to the
experiment, counted fifty-six repetitions.
At frat they we're very quick, but the
intervals were greater in proportion as
the the sound decayed. 1t is asserted
that the sound of one musical instru
ment in this place resembles a great
number of musical instruments playing
in concert. The echo is Occssioned by
the existence of two parallel walls OF
considerable length. between which the
wave of sound is reverberated from ont
to the other until it is entirely spent.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-22
Lemonade.

1t is affirmed by learned historian
that in the wear 1912 lemonade was
served at Sunday school picnic in
South Lee, Mass, in which distinct
trace OF lemon was detected by an
eminent chemist. at that time professor
OF chemistry in Williams college, who
happened to be present. The event
naturally created great excitement
Many persons denied the whole story
from beginning to end, while Others,
among whom were nearly all the
chemists in the state insisted that the
professors analyses were worthless and
he knew nothing of the first principles
of chemistry. There is no doubt, how
ever, that the story is true. Never
before, or since, has lemon been found
in Sunday school lemonade, but,
probably in accordance with some obscure
freak of nature, the South Lee
lemonade was contaminated either with
crude lemon-peel or citric acid, precisely
which the historian has not informed us
The Sunday school lemonade of com
merce isa harmless fluid, since it con
sists entirely Of water mingled with 8
small quantity of sugar. 1t may be
drank in large quantities by the weakest
children and the most delicate teachers
without any serious disturbance of theil
interiors. It's reported that in moments
of enthusiasm President Hayes ID ac
customed to drink freely Of this re-
spectable beverage, retaining the clear
ness of his intellect unimpaired, even by
the deepest potstions. In fact it IS
believed that Sunday school lemonade Is
less exhilsratiDg than weak tea, ana
there are thousands OF teachers who have
drank it Two or three times year iof
twenty successive years, without snow
inc any visible marks OF its action. A..
il is unnecessary to say that profane
nersons scoff at Sunday-school lemonade,
and find fault with it because it has no
strength. What would, such persons
have? Do they wish that children ana
teachers should wallow in beer or clder,
or will they pretend that chamtagne
and the other varieties Of rum denounced
by temperance people are proper beVer'
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-22
Some Facts to RENE mber About the sun
The sun is 800, 900 times as large AZ

The sun is 100000 times as large AZ
this earth. ...
The sun is 400 times as far off as the
moon.
A lady who weighs 100 pounds here
would weigh 2,7O0 pounds il oh the
surface Of the sun.
The heat given off by the sun would
melt 287 200, 900 cubic miles OF ice every
second ..
The diameter Of the earth bears the
same relation to- its distance from the
sun as the breadth of hair to l25 feet.
A railroad train travelling without
stops at the rate OF forty miles an hour
would get to the sun in 263 years. a.
The sun is believed 10 become some
$50 feet smaller every year. ,.
This contraction would be sufficient to
&c enerate the enormous quantity of heat
which it radiates. ..Y .....
Another theory is that comets anC
meteoric matter falling into the sun may
be its ailment to offset the tremendous
loss which combustion certainly involves
It would require the combustion o
thirty feet of coal over the entire sur
face of The sun every second to generate
the same heat. s
The stars are supposed in average
larger than our sun and to have planeta
~ systems like his. ,
The nearest star is $50, 900 times as far
off as our sun.
1t takes light eight minutes to come
from the sun, but it must have required
!, 80, COO years to come from the farthest
visible starr. .- A.
When the eleven>yesr storms on the
ann occur, the magnetic needle en- the
earth is variable and sometimes consider
ably DETECTED. -.
The earth Is flying arond the sun at
the rate of 900 miles minute.
The sun and all the stars are moving
though space, accompanied by their
planetary sy stems, at a rate varying from
20 to 200 miles second.
Some of the son spots (craters) are
| 100 900 miles in diameter, and one OF
them would easily swallow up the whole
| Of the planets, Jupiter himself6nly max.
ing mouthtul. .yFI NUlgs
Msedler's curious and brilliant specu-
lation is that + g star Alcyone ia the GEN.
tral sunof our universe, and that our
sun and the visible stars are swinging
around 1t in orbits measured by millions
of years .f... f
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-22

lecture recently delivered by DR..
Semens on the utilization of heat and
other natural forces, some very suggestive
facts were stated. He showed, among
other things, how heat can be made to do
a greater amount of work than ever by
means of electricity. One hundred
horsepower of steam or water may be
used, for instance, at central or conve>
uient place to drive dynamo.e!ectric ma
chimes. The current there produced
could, by pipes, be conducted to halls or
factories and then converted into light
or mechanical power. If light were
required, the equivalent TO 1867
600 candles would be given at
an expenditure Of three and three.fourths
hundred weights of coal instead
of three and three>fourths tons. The
amount of force which is lost to man
from not utilizing the Falls of Niagara
is enormous. Every hour 100000, 600
tons Of water descend there a height of
150 feet is equal to 16,8OO0OO horse
power. To pump that water back, es>
timating the consumption of coal at four
pounds per horsepower per hour, would
require 266,OOO,OOO tons of coal year,
OR quantity equal to the total coal
consumption of the world. Evidently
the best means of employing the avails-
Bile forces for work have not yet been
put into use, and the neglect of wind,
water, and tide power is surprising when
the whole subject is considered.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-22
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Since the beginning of the year the
value of domestic exports from New York
alone have been $l52, 1926. This is $34,-
10000 more than the same period last year,
and SlOS, 100000 more than the same period
in 1876.
The Navajo Indians have about 900,-
600 head of sheep, which are grazing in the
eastern portion Of Yavapai county, Arizona,
Their revenue from wool this yesrwill be no
small item. Eastern purchasers are in the
Navajo country negotiating for the purchase
of their fleeces.
The wife of an ex-congressman and
daughter of former United States senator
now makes an honest living selling milk at
Washington.
In a suit between Cinnamon in the
New Orleans courts, the witnesses were
sworn by burning piece of paper.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-22

4 distinctive symptom and char
acteristic Of yellow fever ISIS suppression
of the urine. Another symptom, which
can be readily recognized by any physi-
clan, nurse or other person who has ever
been with yelow-fever patient, is a
peculiar odor or nasty smell from of the
patient, and which can ever be perceived
in the streets during an epidemic, it is
indescribable, and belongs to no other
fever, and with doctors experienced in
yellow fever Is of itself sufficient for a
diagnosis. The patient secs that the
poison has also struck the nervous sys'
tenn he il tremulous, easily excited, and
startled by the least noise, The fever
takes generally from twenty.tour TO
forty eight hours, the sufferer becoming
delirious and raving in a large proper
ton of cases. If asked why he screams
he can give no adequate reason. Usually
Oh the third day the fever abates and
thore il calm-the third stage-which
lasts from few hours to a day, and is
the turning point of tho disease.
This ,calms ends either in conva-
lescencc or else in the fourth or
fatal stage, that of collapse or black
vomit, from which not one in fifty ever
recoveTs. The vomit, which seems to
come up without effort, looks life coffee
grounds, and is the death warrant OF
THE POOR PATIENT. ....
About the fourth or fifth day the eyes
turn yellow. The skin also assumes a
yellowness like that of bruise, or a
bright jaundice yellow. However, the
patient does not turn yellow in more
than in one case in six. AS to the causes
Of the scourge, the old atmospheric the
ory has gone by the board, and the best
writers now seem to have settled down tc
the belief that the poison is of animalcu'
lar origin, these animalcules generating
and spreading over surfaces like grasshop
pers and caterpillars, and beins
introduced into the human blood
| II they exist, the most powerful
microscope has hitherto beel
unable to discover them. One fact tina
seems to point to their existence is tina
the same extremes of heat and cold tina
kill all other insects also kills yellow
fever, whose contagion cannot exist anC
becomes innocuuus at 800 and 2l2o. Vel
low fever is always killed out alter goOt
freeze. Yellow fever never spreads abov,
600 feet above the level of the sea. Ac
climatization does not prevent, and NJ
person has Il second attack. The perio,
of incubation il generally four to Mint
days, though persons have been know
to carry it in their system twenty three
days, and then take it. Without treat
ment seventy.five cut of every hun
dred will die. With treatmen
and good nursing, however, abou
one in three is the average mortality
In the great epidemic of 1867, il
some Texas towns, one-half died wht
took the fever. AS TO the cure, no rem
edy has yet been found, and ali treat
ment so far, even by the best physicians
il as empirical az the causes OF yelloN
, fever are.unknown beyond conjecture.
HISTORY OF EPIDEMICS IN NEW ORLEANS
According TO the best writers, tn
great epidemics that have scourged Me-
Orleans in the past may be tabulated &
follows, with the time of breaking ou
and whole number Of deaths: ...
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-22

SPEAKlNG Of the hot weather just ex-
perienced east of the Rocky mountains,
the San Francisco Chronicle says there
has never been a well.authenticated
case of sun. stroke in California, although
tits not unusual for the thermometer to
rise to 1120 in some parts of the state,
and to 1862 and 1882 in Sacramento and
Marysyille. In June, 1859, from the
effects Of sirocco blowing from Colorado
'.s-desers, the thermometer marked 1922 in
Stanislaus county, and 1899 in the shade
at various places in San Bernardino and
Santa Barbara counties. At the mines
1l00 10 114' in the shade has not been
uncommon; yet 50 pure and dry is the
- atmosphere there that thousands Of
miners here worked all day in the sun,
during the greatest neat, without pros
NtratiSn. In San Francisco the tempera'
TUE u much lower than in the interior
of the state, and seldom rises much above
7es;=but during the last years the heat
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-22
YELLOW FEVER.
Causes, SJmptomH. iy,d Treatment.

As there is now alarm in all the
southern cities subject to its inroads a
few facts from the best and latest author
ties who have had personal experience
with the disease may be of interest. A
day OF two OF laDguor and bad feel
ings'. generally. prectde an attack OF
yellow fever. Then comes a chill much
like that Of common ague, but accompa.
MED by pain in the head and spine.
The chill lasts frc m a few minutes to a
few hours, snd Institutes the first
stage, or that wherein the morbific
causes are invading the system: The
next is the febrile stage which follows
the chill. Generally it is noted OF a
very high grade, the pulse being 100.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-22

These were the years in which yellow
Jacks chief ravages occurred, but the
disease has been in New Orleans every
year and fall since 1917, except three
years during the war, when Gen. Butler
kept the city so clean and SO isolated
from West India vessels, which almost
always import the fever. that New Or
leans during 1862, '63, and ga remained
perfectly healthy, not single case of
the malady appearing So much for
quarantine During several years not
mentioned above the fever was pretty
bad in New Orleans as, for instance, in
1922, when 239 deaths occurred; 1929,
2l5 deaths; 1897, 442i 1889, 452; 1871,
54l; 1S4S, $50. In 1873 the fever broke
out in,the most filthy quarter of the city,
There were 223 deaths, but the disease
was successfully stamped. out by car
bolic acid. At present the prospect for
great epidemic is promising.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-22

perhaps on account of dry winters and
intermissions in the trade winds, has
been greater than formerly, the summer
of 1877 having been the hottest in the
history of the state. June II, 1876, the
thermometer rose to 95', and June II,
1877, to 99' Those tive years have also
been marked by an unusual mortality,
owing, possibly, to the heat and to a
miasmatic north wind.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-22

A YOUNG and comely white girl of
sixteen was publicly whipped at Eliza.
beth City, Va, by big negro constable,
for stealing pair Of shoes. A crowd of
loaiers assembled to see the girl stripped
to her waist and the twenty-five stripes
laid on. The law authorizing such
punishment went into effect only on the
lst of July, and will be repealed at the
next session of the legislature.