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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29
A CnnNdinn View.

IN speaking of our Indian troubles,
the Toronto Vail says
1t is gratifying TO perceive that there
are at length some signs OF an aroused
public opinion On the Indian question,
The outbreak of the Utes in Wet Col.
0rado, the massacre of the Cheyennes,
the removal of the Poncas because they
were being decimated by the unhealthy
climate of the Indian territory, the
visits Of complaining chiefs TO Washing
ton and finaiIy the decision OF the Courts
that Indians have the same legal rights
as white men, have all been so many
cOnvergent rays meeting in a focus to
cnliehten with lurid glare the Ameri-
can understanding. How comes it, AS
tho Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota put
it few years ago, that the Dominion
manages to keep the Indians under its
charge conterted and peaceful? Can
any doubt that the essential difference
IN the condition and behavior of the
aborigincs is due to the humanity and
straightforward honesty of Canada, and
the chicancery, fraud and cruelty ol the
Indian AGENTS across the border? AS
the National Quarterly RericlC, to which
ye ara Indebted for our facts, remarks;
" Humanity il outraged by the wrongs
which onr Government permits to be
rcrnctra,od IN the Indians" Treaties
mn5e with all the necessary forms,
nro de,;herstalv set ot nought by the
c corrnnt indian AGENTS: tine clothes and
rations slthonoh ordered in abundance,
aIwsys fail short because the puryeyors
e., Tho arants divide the major mart of
ato SnoiIs, and tho nrope,tv of the
I ImJ;anrs '' ~ SYSTEMATICALLY stolen, when
',,,,,N;,,,, ,,u,,s, hv rockIoGe whites Anv-
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29
What the Whale Looks Like.

4 nun who has never seen whae
can have little id a Of its heIp'essness
on land. 1t is as awkward as IocomO.
tive in a mill pond. The back of the
Stauton.slrcet whale shone like pol shed
b3ny. Its sides were lighter, while its
immense belly was ike Egyptian ivory,
with massive wrinkles below the jaws,
running back at least twenty Feet. The
mouth yawned like the vault OF raw.
ished saving bank, and its scuIptured
tail embodied the outlines OF the tlnkcs
on White Star propcll.r. The flesh
was hard as yulcauized rubber, and great
liyiL. spI It's on the side showed where
wounds had brought the blood to the
surface The captain explained TO the
visitors that the whale was MT so large
~ he was before they cut him open and
removed the contents OF his internal
revenue department. ave found ten
bushels of herrings in him" said the
captain, "but no boots, nor watches, nor
pawnbroker,' tickets" The eyes are
small and placed far back in the head,
80 as to leave room for the whales coun-
nance. His head forms quarter OF
his whole body. A few hairs sprout
FRI M his nose, like the chin whiskers on
Chinaman. If he had fur like u seal
the market would be ruined. Whales
breathe through tire tops of their heads,
and the water they spout out prevents
friction, consequently they never snore
when Sleeping. Ii they did, thunder
would be ut . discount. The tail il
forked, flexible and formidable. and with
it the whae is able to prevent sharks
and flies from disturbing the slumber OF
his young Whales never laugh ever
when in school. Authorities on whale
culture say that It's skin is affected with
the cruStdcean cyamuS or whale louse
consequently when he itches he has t.
scratch himself against iccbergs and
ships. The stomach is bulkheaded into
from three to six water-.ight com
partmenta, 50 that he does not sink
when absent minded, and sailors and
fish do not get mixed when swallowed
AS a rule their teeth are scarce, but they
carry $500 worth of whalcbone in theii
mouths These boHes terminate in n KING
of scrubbine brush frinse, which strains
food, and in foggy weather prevent,
whales from swallowing sharks and
steamboats, and other things that nigh
derangc their liver and spoil the qualit!
of their oil. The flesh Of whale is red
substan ;ial and vigorous, but it is not 81
delicate as venison nor SO palatable a
woodcock, but it will 90 further in {
clearinghouse if the weather is warm
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

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-. "', ,,,II,. o.I,.L nSs an erc'niric old
""S "s"f,ni o'io'' ,o wa, 81 ~ ,he suburban
.'inl'' i,'ns 81 u"o or " rorto NV in.
w." 80, or ,I' ,o,Iovdranco he mad hccome
""'.,y a." y ono "f thc finest farms in
i,, ,,; W. o"I IS ~ rnhinS 10 was ;ns,lv
yn"v '1G''V", ~ ,r"mior ya, be ,b,n of
t!oun ~" S, Nv f'V s,rono,b and ar;Iitv
, ~" J h,h ppp;;.toJ HIM in acoumulatipg
Via h;", nr n'," and madn him an excellent
hivp, nnI ,ryn.,Ior and he had n cor.
r uoH dir" cnntcmnt for men of inferior
iesi no Gn o",, ,yhan holm was nm.
pow 'a,,, , m"t Sp h "' ietarmined to have
L Lo"T ra - I'V rrn ,hot yeor Inv n strong
u '"' =; "ton '" = man r,n.cnted him,
'e 1f al ,'' ,.oJ I I"r w"rt af,er inouiring
80 -, 49, i,n" , a." NV 40 ,o his bahits ETC., he
VI ,,' 'nI r"; ;. ,n no a.I,,ng him 10 6rh,,
To0, ~; '", .a', " ~ di.n SEA Of quite n
:" I"a W, w." 55n,i;c,m,s md was heriu.
m ,,i'n 70 Jrynrir Of rct,inr his " strong
"'nS ~ ,,Lan n,o rorn;ng "a he was
't ,"'i i,o W., , u, Jnor a younc man came
S'"" ,ra . q, a." on J' ,e.;nr Tim called
~" WV ''''''
o ' SCool a,or,;,c .irn
q G 'o"G '' "",m;nr' y rru,Hy
{. n"D NV" '..n ",,7 =, hiro hand 70 wo, k
~" ' s., " 81" 81, ~
U" SD"' i"' ~, ga ,,o,t 70 hire ou,?"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29
The lmpositional Hotel.

New Yor, Grn,h,cl
Very high.toued aud stylish at the
rate OF ten cents per minute, Owe
never make less than half Il day in our
bills" A dollar extra charged on the
least provocation. It's beneath the I'M
positional Hotels dignity to trAe with
Il lesser sum.
The traveller buys a meal for : or
$l.25. The man hired by the landlord
to bring him the victuals expects rs
cents gratuity for doirg what he has
already been paid for. The traveller is in
the tolls of the Imposilional; he feels
that he must keep up a style" behtting
the hotel; besides, who likes to appear
small and picayunish in the eyes Of a
negro man and brother who waits on
him?
If the traveller at the meals wants a
glass Of lager, whisky, or other bever-
age, he must pay twice or thrice the
amount asked az bar forty feet dis.
tant. Ditto if he requires the same
brought to his room, besides another
quarter to the negro man for bring.
ing it, Nobody pretcnds to give any
reason for these high taxes and eXtor-
tions. It's necessary in order to con-
form to the style betting the lmposj-
tional. No one dares to do otherwise.
The public is u most patient and tract
able beast, and seldom rebels or kicks
over the traces of the Imp sitioual har-
ness.
Washing at rates double those at out
side laundries, and one collar over,
counted as an additional dozen.
A plate of soup carried to sick WON
ans room 81 extra. All oranges taken
from the table charged extra. Board
ST per day, and every violation of the
lmpositional Hotel etiquette fined 81.
Newspapers at the hotel stand double
the price OF the same outside the hotel
door.
All requests deemed needless by the
dignified lmpositional Hotel clerk, so
cents extra. Extra fees to chamber
maid and porter on leaving. Tooth.
picks used after midnight SO cents ex-
ira. Terms ST per day, AMI everything
extra. If accompanied By wife and
children all "extras" doubled. Blths
at the Impositional three times the
price charged ut the BARRIERS, next
block. Mattress punched once by
chambermaid constitutes an lmposi-
tional made-up" bed.
Gloves, etc, dropped accidentally on
your room floor, chambcrmaid's per
quisites, and never seen aEterward.
French dictionary necessary to inter
pref bill of fare. Rancid batter in the
GRAVES, and patent powder for doctor
ing the soup to rich brown hue
twenty-five different names for the
same kind of soup, month in and month
out. "E Plurlhus Unum," if not
Unum f Plurbus." For chicken
understand old hen. Old eggs in every
style. Fried parrish kept warm four
hours in the oven and dried to skin.
Boiled tea; fresh cup any minute.
Fifty cent? extra every fifteen minutes.
The lmpositioual is now running in
several parts Of the country, and ready
to do guests dav or night.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29
The Keely Motor.

For the past two years Mr.. Kcely has
had but little to say, but has been hard
ut work vi h Ms experimental engine.
The claim now is that he has sncct eded
in perfecting vibrat ry engine which
is entirely distinct IN appearance and
method OF working from any other en-
CINE in the world.
When Mr.. Keely first began his ex'
pcriments, his design was to furnish
power to drive the ordinary piston or
cylinder engires, but he found that this
could not be done very hanlily, SO he
set to work and devised an engine after
his own ideas, where the vibratory power
could be controlled. He has expert
mented with this day and night, and at
last has arrived Mt such degree OF per-
lection IN his experiments that he Is
satisfied the great motor Is an assured
thing, and before many days roll
around, the fact will be demonstrated
to the public,
The great difficulty TO overcome was
found to be speed. An eighteeninch
pulley was attached to the engine, and
a first it made but one revolution IN
five minutes. The power confined here,
though, was 50 great that it snapped a
wire of 500 pounds tensile strength IN
twain. Having the power, the next
thing was to secure speed. Further ex-
perments resulted in securing about
twenty. i've revolutions per minute.
Mr.. Kelly is having another engine
constructed, containing all the latest
improvements, aud this will be com
peted ia about one month from date.
He expects it in two weeks. but thirty
days may be required. With this he
proposes to show the power and speed he
has obtained, and will cause threc,leet
circular saw to revolve 1900 times IN
minute and cut hard woods, such as ash,
cherry and oak. How this is to be done
with the pulley from the engine revolv-
ing only twenty-five times per minute,
Mr.. Kcely does not undertake to explain
lie hold. that, having ascertalned how
to increase the speed from one revolu-
ton in five minutes, he now has the
secret of causing as many revolutions
per minute as tho machinery can stand,
and sullic ent to do all the work required.
The new engine will have about the
same power as an ordinary tsn'horse
piston engine.
In addition to this, drafts of plans
have been made for another engine,
which is to be monster keely motor,
and is to be equal in POWER to a 2oo-
horse engine. One portion OF this has
already been completed, and was re-
ceived from the Eureka Iron Works, at
Chester, on Saturday. The bed of this
will occupy space of : ven feet square:
! Negotiations are pending for plot OF
ground Il adjoining the present workshop,
on Twentieth street, near Master, where
the new engine win be set up lh's Is
constructed upon the same plan as the
smalle engine,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29
Driven to Suicide.

DR.. Calderwood, Professor OF Moral
Philosc ply in the University of Edin'
burgh, has, in his work recently pub.
lished, entitled "The Relations of Mind
and Brain" the following story of a
dog: "A dog belonging to United Pres
byteriau minister, killed the fowls while
the family were at church, and buried
them in the garden. The bodies were
found. The dog was taken to the garden
and Immediately confessed his guilt.
His master took him to the library, and,
having shut the door, began a repri-
mand, after this fashion: What a
wicked thing you have done in murder
ing the hens. You are minister's dog,
ard should have been an example to
other dogs, instead of doing such a
thing as this. Then this is the Sabbath
day, and the deed is ali the worse on ac-
count of the day on which it has been
DONE Thus admonished, the dog was
put out of the door and the door shut.
Next day he was found dead. A veteri'
nary surg, on was consulted, and de-
clared that the dog had died of broken
heart"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29
Habits of ThurlOw Weed.

Nav York Correspondence New Orleans Picnynncl
The veteran journalist and diplomat
attributes his remarkable phy'ical pres
ervation, at the age OF elghly-tw0, TO
regular habits long continued. Before
his eight O'Clock breakfast, he eats
either half large apple or an orange
rom his daughters orange grove IN
Florida. For breakfast he has Oat meal,
the yolk of hard boiled eggs, piece OF
toast, fish in season, like Spanish
mackerel and porgies, and English
breakfast tea Occasionally the bill OF
fare is varied with cold roast beef,
saddle of mutton, or clrned beef hash
the latter usually on Sunday morning
A light lunch of corn bread and butter
is served at one, varied by cold corned
beef or mutton end sometimes sardiDes.
Only water is drank at this meal. Az
six o'clock fish in season is the chief
dish. No dessert except a little fruit.
Mr.. Weed rises at seven and devotes the
forenoon to literary labors. In the
afternoon he sits in his library and
chats with friends, and the evening Is
also given up to social intercourse as
rule. At ten O'clock he go to his room
and some member of the family reads
from such authors as Dickens, Thackeray
or Scots for an hour. Then prayer Is
read from Rev. Ashton Oxendeh's
HPrayers for Private Use and at n
quarter past eleven the venerable gen.
tleman drinks a glass of st, Croix rum
and vichy, and rctires to what Is almost
invariably sound and refreshing sleer.
Since his sunstroke, twelve years ago,
Mr.. Weed has declined dinner partles
and evening receptions. lie smoked the
best mild Havana cigars for fifty years,
but tn rteen years ago physician told
him that tobacco was etiecting his
nerves, and he gave up its use imme,
diately and entirely. He soon found
that he wrote with greater facility than
before. In his earlier editorial 10 he
drank sparlngly of champagne at din,
ners but only socially. When he went
to the West Indies Tor his daughters
health, in 1854, he acquired a taste IoI
the famous rum brewed by planters FOL
their own Use and has used 1t since a.
described for ght cap" He drink.
no other time, although his cellar is full
of wine. In regard to the temperance
cause he says: Z" am with those who
seek to mitigate the evils of intemper-
ance: for while human nature is what II
il, eli prJhibitory laws must fail. A
like yigor of efforts in other directions
would Weld good results. IL | were,
younger man l would labor to make
ours great grape.growing country, 81
that wine might be as cheap as cider
and would impose an almost prohibi
tive tariff upon imported and distilled
liquors. / would strive to make Americ
what France is-a sober country"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

To certain class of readers, and Il
very large class, as we'll, May Agnes
Fleming, who died ia Brooklyn on the
24th ult., was one of the best known Of
writer's She began to write under the
signature of cousin May Carleton"
and her novels at that stage was very
much in demand by boarding school
girls. Her later works were considered
to be rather dramatically constructed
Like many others, Miss Fleming was
driven to authorship by necessity. She
lived in neat little cottage in the east
ern outskirts of Brooklyn, in very com
Portable circumstances. She has writ
ten twenty-five or thirty books, and re-
ceived $50 week from an English pa
per, and 800 week from an American
paper, for her stories. She leaves over
$4,000.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

A LIMERICK jury awarded $4,000
damages to young woman in a breach
of prom Use case. Among the witnesses
for the plaintiff was Roman Catholic
priest, who, it was proved, had been
asked to give u sacerdotal document,
known in Ireland as "a certificate OF
freedom" to enable the defendant to
marry his present wife. Judge Dowso
said that he had never before heard of
a certificate of freedom except in the case
of a slave.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

4 COOPERATIVE tenement house pro-
ject has been brought out in st. Paul,
where it is proposed to put up one thou
sand buildings on plan which includes
every modern improvement. The fact
that the chief city in Minnesota begins
to feel the want of tenement houses is a
curious Illustration of the rapidity of
the growth of that section of the coun-
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29
Valuable Child's Play.

A mine which has recently been pur-
chased in Denver, Col, for sG5,OOo, was
discovered by two children aged nine
and ten. years. They were playing
niue" at the time and had dug down
four feet on the Little Chief, near Rudy
Hill, drilling AMI lasting i've feet
more, until valuable body OF ore was
brought to light. Their father, Who
owned the claim, gave them 81 900 each,
and now has sold his interest.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29
phe Naughty Villain.

tNHhhIN N'N7sl
He was quiet, bashlul'looking
young man who got on the train at
Hawleyville. To the gentleman who
occupied the seat by the stove he said;
"Will you let me sit there? am very
cold"
said the passenger:
There are hot pipes under all the
seats"
said the young man in a painful
whisper, Il, d blushing a. he said it.
{" But it's my feet that's cold.
The passenger got up, and went out
and stood on the platform until New
town was reached.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

RECENTLY large party of negroes
from the South started for northern
ports TO emigrate to Africa, under the
idea that a vessel soon leaves for Liberia,
but it is now authortatively stated that
no boat leaves for several months to
come. Evidently the negro is paying
for his geographical knowledge.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

KELLY, of motor notoriety, says Edi-
sons electric light will not be success
until his motor is, because electricity
will never perform what is asked of it
until it has his motor to make it. 1t is
little discouraging to learn that lit
will take a whole year to demonstrate
the secret of his engine and generator,
and twenty years to fully understand
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

The greater part Of the Indian corn
imported to France from America Is
used in making alcohol. All French
wine of last vintage is so wretched It
can't be used unless dosed with alcohol.
So we are drinking Yankee whisky ioi
Clos Vougeot, Chateau fquem ano
Chateau LATTE, and while We tninf our
salads seasoned with olive oil, We nave
cnlv Yankee cotton seed oil. This Is
really too bad.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

WE take the following highly season
able extract from Peck's (Milwaukce)
Sun: Wilbur F. Storey, of the Chicago
Times, announces that he desires to meet
a practical paper-maker to build mill,
Mr.. Storey to furnish portion of the
capital and the Times to take Il large
part of the product. If the stakes are
not too high, the Sun would like to
buy stack of chips and set in that game
at Mr.. Storey's left. We are now play
ing against brace game, with marked
cards, and the more money we put down
the less we take up.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

THE Supreme Court of Indiana has
struck severe blow at the employment
of experts as witnesses in court, by de-
Gliding that they are not limited to the
fees allowed ordinary witnesses, but are
entitled to charge as for professional
services. As the prospect of getting
valuable service at low price is one of
the chief charms about securing expert
testimony, there will be less of it in In
diana in the future.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

AN interesting suit is now in the
Courts of New York in regard to the
right of n firm of carriage-makers to pay
a commission to mans coachman on
the repairs to his carriage. The famous
Wall-strcet operator, Rufus Hatch,
noticing that his carriage was constantly
breaking down, discovered this arrange
ment with his driver. He refused to
pay the bill, the Court decided against
him, and he has appealed the case.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

Mr.. BREWER, of Michigan, presented
a petition in the House of Congress the
other day 1873 yards in length and signed
by 33,4S4 temperance women. 1t asks
for legislation to prohibit the manufac-
ture and sale of alcoholic stimulants.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

THE New York Herald says the Saliva
ton Army already counts sixty captives
converts, rather-and for threescore of
bad New Workers to abandon mi chief
within single fortnight is something
uu,,a,ol
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

HERE is another evidence that the
times are improving, and all necessary
household articles are increasing in
price. A young MN in FredOnia sod
his wife to neighbor few days ago for
$50. They used to be "given away"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

IT is said that Prince Leopold is not
to marry Miss Maynard, in spite of her
beauty and her $150,o00 year, and the
peers and commoners of England are in
clined to approve of the arrangement.
Princes should not have everything,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

DURING the past year the average
daily receipt of dead letters at the Post
office Department at Washington was
$4,000. The principal reasons assigned
are instruction and badly written or
undecipherable addresses.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

THR Philadelphia Times suggests that
the Congressional Record be suspended
for want of funds, and in all probability
there would be twice as much business
and less than half as much talk in either
house of Congress There's something
in II
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

The late M. Cremieux never lost an
opportunity of telling his young friends
how happy life can be made through the
choice of sympathetic wife, who stands
on an intellectual level with her husband.
He declared a short time before his
death that the affection which he bore
to his bride in her young days had made
his married life, even amid many trying
sorrows, a cloudless day of domestic
hiss,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

IT is stated that good land can be pur-
chased in Northwestern Texas (Cresby
county, for fifty-fve cents an acre. a
Colony of hio and Indiana p ople in
that section report ths mselves contented
and doing we'll.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

THE Consolidated Bank of MOntrea |
which suspended some months ago, is
rapidly paying its creditors i'll full. This
is something of deviation from the
method of the States.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

A CHURCH nearly completed in Mos
COW has cost over 100000. Dome
and Gro are thickly plated with gold,
and it is calculated that millions of this
metal are on Russian church roofs.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

WINsLow, the sanctimonious Boston
forger, has turned up under an assumed
name in Buenos Ayres, where he has
married again, is publishing news
paper, and making addresses to Sunday
Schools
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

A CHICAGO paper boasts that Mr..
Vanderbilt can do what he plcascs in
New York, but he hasn't yet acquired a
mortgage on Chicago. No; it is said
Mr.. Vanderbilt is very particular about
the character of his securities.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

IT is stated as fact that a candidate
for the nomination for Governor of
Missouri is down with the me s'e',
caught in kissing the girl baby of a dele
gate to the convention
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-29

TIE most conflicting statements con-
tinue to be received in regard to the
Diplomatic relations between France
and Russia. But the bu k of the reports
is to the effect that the status is not at
all improved.