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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27
A Ride in n Fly Wheel.

As the great fly wheel in the engine
room of =. Lorillard Il Co.'S tobacco
factory in Jersey City whirled around,
appearing to the eye like shining disk,
Chief Engineer Morrin said to the re-
porter, pointing to the wheel: There
is Il remarkable story connected with
that wheel. lost a little dog not long
ago, that went through an experience
with that wheel such as probably no
other living creature ever survived. My
little dog was Il playful fellow, Skye
terrier of good strain. jersey had an
inquiring turn of mind as to the machin-
cry, and when not watched, went about
snulling at every part within his reach.
But he stepped very gingerly, and we
never dreamed that he would trust him
self in harms way. At about $3.50
O'Clock one morning, nearly three years
ago, | saw him doing under my desk,
there. went out Of the room for Il
moment, and when | returned / missed
jersey. looked for him, but could not
find him. Then ! whistlcd and cal ed.
| heard a plantive wall coming from
among the machinery. 1t was so faint
that supposed jersey nigh have fallen
down the fly wheel race into the cellar.
lit Il lantern and CROPPED among the
machinery in the cellar but vainly.
Occasionally heard the wall repeated,
each time less distinctly. At twelve
o'clock the machinery was stopped.
The last revolution of the fly wheel threw
little fluffy object at the feet of one
of the iiremen in the cellar He picked
it up and, running to the light, saw that
it was poor Jersey. lie did not appear
to breathe, and his body was cold. The
fireman called me, and said that it was
all over with the dog. But the fireman
felt warmth in the tip Of his right ear
and we set to work to rcsuSCitate him.
In half an hour he got up, shook himself
as though he wanted to find out whether
he was all there, and began to frisk
around me. WE'LL he had been in the
fly wheel for fully two hours and half
revolving at the rate of about fifty reyo
lutions to the minute. lie was proba.
bly, making little private examination
of the working Of the wheel, when he
lost his balance and fell into one of the
segmcnts of the wheel. The rapid mo.
ton kept him in place until the macbin.
cry was stopped, He was snug enough
where he was, but the breath was almo t
out of his body when the wheel stopped
He liycl, apparently ia good health, un
til sonae time ago. Tim he died. =
--AGW lLrk SM.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27
Where Booth is RuriCd,

The Washington correspondent of the
Buffalo Commercial wri cs: 1t was only
after some patient inquiry that | could
ascertain the facts, which are interest
ing, and 50 far as know are yet unpub-
lishcd Booth died, as will he rcmcm.
bcrcd, in barn in Maryland, from
wound received from the muskct of
Boston Corbctt. His body was brought
t. Washington, and after having been
identified by the court martial before
whom his fellow-conspirators were tried,
was di-scctcd by the surgeon General Of
the army. The brain and hcartand son @
other parts of the body were preserved
in alcohol, and are now on exhibition 1T
the Medical Museum of the Surgeon
Generals office Ihc building in which
the assassination occurred was Ford $
Theatcr The Government confscatcd
ii, but aftcrward Ford was paid its full
value, and it has since been used as the
headquarters of the mcdica' corps Of the
army. The brain and heart of Booth
are in jars, standing in case that is
situated very near the actual scene of
the assassination.
After the surgeon had done with
Booths body, it was buried in grave
in the Arsenal grounds. Only half Il
dozen persons knew the exact spot,
which was unmarked. In 1861 Edwin
Booth, the actor sent Mr. Weaver the
sexton of Christs { hurch, Baltimore, to
Washington, with a request that the rc-
mains of his brother might be taken up
and removed to the family burial place.
After some delay the request WAS
granted by President johnson, who was
finally appealed to, and MIR. Weaver
took the body to the cemetery in Bat-
more and buried it beside the elder
Booth and others of the family. The
removal was conducted with great Sc.
crccy. and was concealed from Secretary
Stanton, who had refused to give his
consent.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27
A Winner Who Lost.

A correspondent writing from POI
locksviIlc n. c., to the Cincinnati In
gtirr, under recent date, says: A novel
wedding occurred here to-day. 1t seems
that Moses John Miller and Alexander
Bib, two wcil-to do young farmers were
in love with the same lady, Leonora
Lloyd, u beautiful girl of this place.
She was not able to decide as to which
she liked best. Sunday morning Bib
walked home from church with her and
left under the impression that she sad
she would marry him. Last night lover
No. Miler-went to sec her and UNI
derstOod her to say she would marry
him.
Both men this morning went to the
Courthouse to get out marriage
license, aud there met each one armed
with the necessary documents, and each
left with license to marry Miss Lloyd
They met at the Courthouse door, and
finally after some talk they agreed that
the first man who reached the laGys
house should marry her The residence
of Colonel Lloyd, the lady's father, was
one mile distant, and both men started
on the race for the bride BIB so II left
the main road and darted into the woods,
expecting to make Il short cut and reach
the house before his rival, but Miller
kept the road, and got in on the home
stretch eight minutes before his rival.
Both men were in sight of each other go
ing up the lane to the house, and Blbb's
efforts to overtake his rival were almost
superhuman.
When they reached the house Bib
from sheer exhaustion tainted in the
porch, falling almost at the feet of hi.
lady-love. When the matter was stated
to her, she said that she had come to the
conclusion that she liked MIR. Bib the
best, and therefore she would marry HIM.
Her sympathies were won over by see
ing h IN faint. She said that she be.
lieved both loved her, but that he who
faints at the danger of losing bride
must love her more than he who is cool
and unconcerned in the midst of it all.
The affair causes intense excitement in
this small place. Tonight Rev. Aaron
Jasper, the we'll known baptist minister,
married Bib and Miss Lloyd.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27
Brain-WOrk and Bad Habits.

Pad habits, inn urc air, unheathful
food, neglect of exercise, the use of to-
bacco and whisky, have killed thousands
of students, where hard study has
killed one. More people die, think,
from want Of sufficient brainwork than
from too much of it. When school girls
die from tight corscts, heavy skirts, heat
ing chignons and other unnatural inHic-
tions, it is very kind in gentlemen to
say. "Killed by hard study" but WON.
en- know better. Some years since had
a hired girl who suffered almost con-
stantly from headache, but she wore
continually "A heavy chignon, supported
by wire pins in her hair, Her headache
was not caused by hard study. This
same girl often ent forty inutcs ut
night putting up her hair, and as many
minutes in the morning taking it down
again, But the worst Of it all was that,
after all her care, she was sick, and con-
scqucntly ugly Young ladies can't
safely study during school hours, and
then spend the hours allotted to eXer.
else and recreation in the eXhausing
labor of altering Old dresses into the
latest fashions, or even in embroidery or
stitching rullles, they can scarcely
afford an hour day for the crimping
and frizzing of their hair, 1t is rather Il
curious udy TO notice how women in
all their times and countries, have been
b-nt on changing themselves from what
God made them. in SOM countries
they blacken the teeth, and bandlge the
feet; and in Others they hatten the
heads and paint the face; while in others
they powder the face, friz the hair,
and yariously dcform the form di-
vine. Now, if all this was necessary
TO make woman beautiful, it would be
labor and care well spent, for every
woman should make herself attractive,
if possible. But is it no. true that the
highest beauty, as well as art, is to be
natural? Were not our grandmothers
in thear youth, though in plain attire,
admired and loved quite as sincerely rs
the present generation of girls are?
Good health, a good di position, and in
telligcnce are the best bcautiliers. |
have sometimes thought collection of
the various styles of chignous, stays,
hoop skirts, and other abom nations Of
woman's app arcl would make II valuable
and instructive addition to sou of our
muscums.-4HrS. Hickman, IN Cere,and
Leader.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27
EARTHQUAKES and GrayitatiOn.

The Eureka New Lender relates a
miners experiences, showing that earth
quake shocks are not felt very far below
the surface of the ground. This miner
said that on the occasion of the last
shake at Secret Canon he was at work
in mine on Prospect Mountain, and,
although the tremor was plainly felt by
his partners on the surface, he, at the
depth of eighty feet, noticed nothing
unusual, He also said that through an
experience of fifteen years under ground,
he had observed one very peculiar fact
that between the hours of twelve and
two clock at night, if there was
loose stone or bit of earth in the minei it
was sure to fall. Said he: "About this
time it seems that everything begins to
stir, and Immediately after twelve al
though the mine has been as still as the
tomb before, you will hear little par
ticles of rock and earth come tumbling
down, and if there is caving piece Of
ground in the mine it is sure to give
away"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27
ImnOsiug Philosophy.

At this juncture the janitor announced
that Fauntleroy Wahoo, the Alambama
sage and orator, had arrived in the
ante-room and desired to make speech
before the club. The committee on re.
ception brought him in, and after he had
been introduced he mounted the plat
form and began:
Ladies and gem'len, | is here befo'
you tonight"
Perhaps he noticed the absence of
aides at that point, for he stopped, grew
Embarrassed and finally started of with:
GAS we look back inter de dim past,
we see -we-we-"
No 20. He stuck right there. He
took a drink of water, moved to the
other end of the platform and tried it
again. By this time his knees were
shaking and his chin quivering and Sir
Isaac Walpole gently escorted him back
to the ante-room, where he soon rccov-
cred sufficiently to slip down stairs.
When he was out of the room Brother
Gardner rose and said:
"Gem' lem, de bizness of maxim
speeches am one fling an the business of
sawin' wood am anoder. Make no mis-
take in what you do. If you kin saw
wood better den make speeches doan
let de saw git cold. De man who bites
off more dan he kin chaw am wuss dan
de man who doan tbite at all. "--DetrOt
Free Press.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27
Travelling Oh n Hymn.

Randall had got seated in his office yes
terday morning, there came II steady
tramp! tramp! down the hall, and a
solid, hearty voice led off with;
There's Land that Is fairer than day,
And by faith we shall see 1t alar,
For our Father watts over the way,
TOpr,parC Us ~
"Gool morning, sir, | am going ON to
Nebraska"
"This isn't the route" replied the
Commissioner, as he cooked up.
Z" know it, sir, but I'm doing little
singing and collecting q title money to
help pay my way"
What do you sng?'
GO The Sweet Bye AMI Bye That's
my gait, and it has taken well so far
"We shall sing Of that beautiful shore,
The meloiOua songs -
"Been travelling on that hymn Gear
from Providence, and it has struck 'cm
every time"
1--WE don't think much of it out West
here remarked the Commissioner
You don't! Why there's nothing
like it! If had a brother, AMI he WAS
a blamed heather, and that hymn didn't
melt him right down and make him con
own LinI yam MiI;~,n nconlr Lc
worse tbaI boathon.9n
" .,' on, .,i'i,s ,h,,, s,rrou NJ marc
NotasisG -
" don't believe they are"
Z" think you'll find that our people
prefer something lively, instead of melt.
ing. We arc not much on the me t, OK.
ccpt in hot weather.
IL willnow sing the Sweet BYE and
Bye" said the man as he put his bat on
the desk
"Don't."
But will. You've never heard it
SUM at it should be. WHY, man I cu,
across corner of Conucc,icut in March,
and hardened old sinners followed me Gol
miles and cried like children! IN one
case went twenty miles To sing it to a
back,lidcron his diving bed
"Did it finish him?J
(" No. sir! lie rot WELL WHY. when
/ got into Canada they turned out a, if
| had been a circus.
.''we shall snson t,l.t beautiful shore,
The mrb-'
lay, N'''t W. lVu CHdIgt HoJ W SUI!
IL lH''rrHPd'a tl'''"hi''!lS'oher' "
l toId you before Wc."ant NomrtIin&on.
" a''' way more Oh l'lc o ger OF ~" !" u.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27

Mr.. JAMES RIDPATH, in letter from
Ireland to the New York Independent,
says: at is quite commonly believed
that the Irish peasant is lazy and i'm
provident. English writers have re-
peated the libel for so many generations
that most of us have accepted it as a
truth. For one, l believed it until !
visited Ireland. The Irish peasant is
one of the hardest workers on this
planet. That was the first fact discov-
cred, and it faced me everywhere. No
class OF men that | have ever met work
more steadily and support their families
more frugally." This is probably the
truth. The mass of the Irish who come
to this country are hard workers and
most of them are thrifty. They do not
change their natures in the process of
emigration. They succeed here because
they labor under conditions which give
them fair chance.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27
THE Arkansas Africans who passed

THE Arkansas Africans who passed
through Memphis some weeks ago N
their way to Liberia are now in New
York in destitute condition. Several
of the numbor have died, and the re-.
mainder will be compelled to go to the
poor-house, as the funds contributed by
the charitable for their subsistence have
been exhausted.
In Howard County, Ark, Sarah
Stokes, only eighteen years old, stabb d
and killed Linda Stephens, aged twenty
The cause of the murder was Qusnel
begun by the mothers of the two :irls
and continued by the young pepple
The. murderess made no attempt 10
escape, and is now on trial. The FAINT
lies live on adjoining farms and have
been nelghbors Tor many years, and
both sides have many friends, between
whom there is much feeling.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27
Two Princes In One Turkish Bath.

An amusing story is related in II Erene-
ment. The Prince of Wales, it seems,
went to take a Turkish bath a day
or two ago, and while reclining on slab
after indulging in the luxury of the
bath he perceived standing beside him
a very dark man whom he took for a
negro attendant. The dark man was in
the usual undress uniform peculiar to
the Turkish bath. The Prince tapped
him on the shoulder and commanded him
in a curt manner to rub him down. To
his establishment the dark man drew him
self up to his full height with lofty
and tragic air, draped himself in towel,
as if it were miniature toga, and, with
a parting look of scorn and defiance, he
walked away. The Prince had mistaken
Don Carlos for darkey servant, and all
the Castilian blood of the Spanish heir
rose up against the heir Of the English
throne,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27
Fate of the Cars.

The Russian provcrb which predicts
evil for the reign of any Car which
overpasses twenty-five years has been Gu
rously sustained by the facts of history.
Ivan the Terrible enjoyed twenty-five
years of prosperity on the Imperial
throne. In the twcnty-siXth year Of his
reign his troubles began. His lonquests
were wrested from him; he lost three
successive wives and his son and heir
was murdered. Peter had twenty-five
years of substantial prosperity, but the
ten closing years were shrOudcd in gloom.
Alexander | was among the most iOrtu'
nate sovereigns until he had crossed the
fatal line. In the twentysiXth year of
his reign the liver Ncva OverIIOwed
frightfuIly, st. Petersburg was threat
ened with destruction, and widespread
conspiracy was formed against the Gar
himself. He left his capital, sick at
heart, to die in the distant Crimca. His
brother Nicholas began the Crimean
war in the twenty-sixth year of his
reign, and so lost his prestige, and soon
thereafter his life. Finally, it was as he
approached the end of a quarter century
on the throne that disasters began to
thicken around the present Gar. The
news of his violent death would not now
be anywhere received with surprise, so
great is the internal disorder of his do
miniOn.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27

THEEBAw is reported to be inconsola-
BILE for the death of his twelve months
old son. The child was declared heir ap-
parent, Ain-Shay-Min, before he was a
week old, most uncommon thing in
Burmah, where the successor to the
throne is not usually named till the
King is in his last illness. Vast sums
were spent upon him. He was rocked
in cradle incrusted with diamonds,
rubies, sapphires, and emeralds of in
credible value. His outft-he was to
be dressed en- Anglais-cost5 900 rupees.
Ali the people living round the palace
stockade had to buy new cooking pots,
lest the smell of rancid oil from old
dekcheese might offend the tender
uostrils. And now the poor little thing
is dead. 1t is just awful.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27

IT has been stated that Freeman, the
Pocasset religious fanatic, who sacrificed
his little child in 50 cruel way, is to
be defended by Colonel IngersolI; but
it was not known just how the Gaze was
coming up again. 1t is now stated,
however, thai writ of habeas corpus is
to be issued to carry him from the Dan
vers Hospital, where he is now confined,
to Barnstable, where his mental cOndi
ton is to be once more judicially ex-
amined into. If Ingersoll should take
his case, one OF the most remarkable eX-
aminations of the day will probably re.
suit.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27

A GERMAN physician claims to have
discovered a means of dying the eyes Of
animals in general, and of man in par.
ticulsr any color he pleases. He is az
companied On his travels by dog with
a rose coloped eye, cat with an orange
red eye, monkey with chrome yellow
eye, a negro with one black and one
blue eye, and negress with one eye
gold colored and the other silver white.
The doctor says that his process, instead
of injuring, strengthens and improves
the sigh,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27

THE growing habit of judges to make
moral or sem-political stamp speeches
from the bench is attracting much un-
favorable comment among intelligent
men. Eminent lawyers and statesmen
are in favor of prescribing forms for
charges and sentences, with blanks left
for names, odenses and persons or &C.
grees of enalty and places of confnc-
ment. To these forms, they would re-
auire the judges by law to adhere and
not to go beyond them The idea has
the practice of the best judges in its
favor already.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27

Now the news comes that the Indian
Instructors" sent up to teach the red
men of the Northwest how to farm, are
worthless for the object they were APP
pointed to achieve. The fact is, that
instead of being competent to teach,
they have to be taught themselves how
to make the best of their opportunities
for cultivation on the prairies.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27

AN English journal reports that a
man who cut his finger while opening a
can of preserved meat was so poisoned
that he died within twenty days.
Query-Was the meat so very bad, or
was the mans blood in condition to be
infamed on slight provocation? The
paper from whicr we take this item
speaks of it as poisoning from decaycd
meat but how can we be sure of that
when cut inoculated with blood from
perfectly fresh meat has often produced
Just as serious results9-Dr, loote's
Health Monthly.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27

CINCINNATI Commercial: Joaquin
Miller, having revisited California, is
shocked by social decadence and bust
ness dry rot in San Franci.c,, and re-
marks that nothing ever happened half
50 disastrous to the Pacific States as the
building of the Pacific Railroad. 1t is
needless to add that joaquin would
rather have an ounce of wild-eyed
poetry than pound of political econ-
Omy,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27

SENATOR BURNSIDE, himself West
Pointer, declared in the Senate, refer
ring to the Whitaker outrage, that if
the academy cannot be made "a Ma
tional institution, in which all classes
OF American citizens shall receive equal
treatment, then it is the duty of Con-
gress to strike it out of existence"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27

IT is said that some of the Oneida Com.
munists have emigrated to Canada, AID
settled down near Niagara Falls. 1t is
also said that while popular sentiment
in Canada is decidedly adverse to such
associations, there is no law prohibiting
them. TIE women have discarded the
Oneida uniform, and dress as other
females, and the neighbors thus far have
found no cause to complain of the de-
pertinent of the colony.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27

The Minneapolis Tribune, speaking
of the King of Siam, now on his way to
visit this country, says that he chews
tobacco, likes beer, and isn't bit stuck
up. One of his Jokes is to walk home
with laboring man to supper, and hold
the baby on his knee at the head of the
table
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, who will
soon be again in collision with his
brother, said to an Interviewer that " the
world will find out after while that b II
hasn't any brains" Cornelius asserts
that he has cleared 800 600 in socks in
six months. He has as much money as
he wants, but he doesn't want trustees
put over him as if he were lunatic.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27

AT the recent meeting of the Institu-
ton of Naval Architects, England, Adj
miral Selwyn recommended every one to
study Professor Rankine's admirable
paper on Combustion" when they
would know the exact amount of oxygen
necessary to burn the different varieties
of coal with the greatest advantage.
The student would learn, he said, that
the British were far behind in what has
been done In America with anthracite,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27

SEVERAL factc ries have been estab-
lished in the United States for extract
ing glucose or grape sugar from corn,
the product being used in confectionery,
syrups and jelies. In Germany ton a
day of glucose is obtained from old rags,
but such glucose does not seem to be
any more in favor there than oleomar
garine is here.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27
A MACHINIsT in Nevada has invented

A MACHINIsT in Nevada has invented
an effective improvement on common
door-key which renders it impossible for
a burglar to use the key in opening the
lock by taking hold of it with nippers
from the outside. All tn, re is about it
is that the end of the key revolver in
deFendently of the key itself. The
burglar may turn it around thousand
vines aid the key 10 not moved.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27

THERE will be plenty of peaches. as
usual, although frosts occurred in the
peach growing districts of Delaware
and Maryland. The peach will bear a
moderate amount of frost, if the atmos.
phere is dry.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27

The U. S. revenue cutter Tom Cor
win is being fitted out to start the re.
lief of Arctc-bound whalers, and to
search for the missing jeanette. The
Corwin will be ready to sail about
luna TX
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-27

THE Cincinnati Commercial is author
ity for the statement that Chicago and
Cine nnati brewerits are wo-k ng day
and night to make their supplies equal
to the anticipated demands during the
Presidential Conventions.