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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08
Training q Colt.


Put on him an easy collar, having a
pair of reins attached, or add two pieces
to lengthen the traces, and let a strong
man walk behind, holding these. After
q few minutes the leader may order the
man to pull the traces very gently, SO as
to press the collar but slightly at first.
In a little time he may pull tighter,
while the leader keeps his eye on the
colt, and if he shows any signs OF finch
ing, let him order the traces to he slack
ened, and then gradually drawn little
tighter, until the colt is seen to lean INTO
his collar, when the man who holds the
traces may use his whole force, for q
short time only. The traces must now
he slackened again, and the same course
gone over repeatedly, but stopping the
colt occasionally to gentle him, taking
care, however, to slack the traces Just as
he stops, and to turn little to one side
when startling each time while the man
pulls the opposite trace.
After the exercise let him be taken to
the cart or other vehicle for which he is
intended; allow him to smell and examine
it, then push it away and draw it up to
him several times, raising and lowering
the shafts until he takes no notice OF the
noise, or of the apparent difference when
raised and lowered. Now turn hlm
around and put him between the shafts;
rub them against his sides; push back
and draw up the cart, striking him behind
and on the sides with it, until he allows
himself to be "knocked about by 1t, so
to speak. This will do for one days les
son. Next day let all his harness be put
on, leaving chains or straps to hang and
strike against him, while the whole OF
the previous days lesson is gone through
step by step. Same on third and fourth
days. He may then be yoked or hltched
to the cart, and should have at least one
hours exercise in going up and down
hill, turning, etc. First start on Level
ground. If these directions are carried
out, the colt learns that the vehicle he
draws is not meant to hurt him, and he
will never try to kick it away or run OH
from it.
Rules for training:
|. Never try to beat colt into dong
thing, for if nervous, he may turn out a
vicious horse, and if stupid he may be-
come stubborn. Remember, by patience
and gentleness he can be got to do any
thing that will not hurt him.
2. When the horse shows signs OF shy
ing at an object, do not beat him, but
lead him up to it, allowing him to stand
and look, as he comes closer; and after
he examines it few times he will not
fear anything of the kind again. In
passing by hedges with colt throw In
stones and stop him until he takes no no.
tice of the noise.
3. Before putting on any article OF har-
ness let your colt smell it, and then rub
against his head and body.
4. Always start horse with the voice,
never with a cut Of the whip. p.-Fdrn
and Firesidc.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08
Ocean Currents In the Pacific.

1t had long been an accepted theory
that branch of the Gulf Stream or
warm current, which sets over from
Japan toward Alaska, was flowing north
ward through Behring Straits into the
Arctic Ocean. w. H. Dali, acting-as-
sistant Of United States Coast Survey,
in recent report published by Congress,
finds that there is no such warm current
setting in that direction The "Kuro-
si-wo," according to hisauthority, is not
marked in its approach 20 the American
coast by sharply defined walls of water
temperature such rs characterized the
Gulf Stream of the Atlantic. 1t is not
at all like river flowing in It's bed.
There is q general drift which is reversi-
bic and intermittent when opposed by
storms, and which shades off from n
temperature of 65 degrees, That part of
the Kuro-si-wo having temperature of
55 degrees approaches the northwest
coast in the vicinity of Vancouver Island,
There is detected arm of this current
known as the Alaska current, which has
n temperature varying from 50 degrees
to So degrees. The shoal watels of the
Behring Strait on the eastern side appear
to be warmer than On the western side
But Captain Dali says that there is no
proof that there is warm current flow
ing up through the strait. The whole
Pacific coast, however, from Unmak in
Alaska to Vancouver, is bathed by a sea
with summer temperature varying from
4S degrees to So degrees. The winter
along a coast Of this temperature never
can be severe. There is great precipi-
tation of moisture, but only moderate
degree of cold until the interior Of the
country is reached Southeastern Alaska
has beer described by explorers as having
more than tolerable Innate. For n
considerable part of the year it is pleas
ant and altogether agreeable It's essen
TALLY that of Vancouver The exhala-
tions of moist air are drifted inland Veg
citation is rank, and great deal of the
land can be made very productive, 1t is
not to be supposed that the influence of
the Kuro-si-wo is lost after passing Van
couver ip southerly direction. 1t no
doubt has some influence all along the
Oregon coast, and greatly aids in the
precipitation Jf moisture in Washington
Territory and Northern Oregon. In Cali
fornia we get only fogs rs n dividend,
but they greatly aid vegetation Capt.
Dali does not make his demonstration OF
non-howing warm current in Behring
Strait very clear. and the fact that the
water is warmer on ole side than on the
other would still leave some ylound for
the old hypoth esis.- San francisco
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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08
Instinct Of Animals.

Much is said and written, nowadays,
about the reasoning power Of animals.
But did you ever hear Of a leech reason
ing? Says medical man: ~ had
occasion lately to keep some leeches and
water beetles; they were put into round
open glass vessels, about six inches
high, and about two-thirds full Of water.
A medical leech which was put into one
of these vessels got out, and within an
hour after it was found on the table, and
replaced in the water. Now, although
the vessel was left uncovered as before,
this leech never again tried to get out.
A horse-leech and two beetles treated in
the same way did the same thing once,
and once only; each preferred the water
to the dry table; and on being replaced
they never tried to get out again; there
fore they had been taught by experience.
Is this not high order Of intelligence" :"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08
A Man Who Knew Everything.

Chas. Congdon, in his "Recollec-
tions in the New York Tribune, says:
l have spoken of Mr.. Taylor as a
man Of what l may call consllltable
turn of mind, but in this respect he was
surpassed by Mr.. Robert Carter, who
was for several years the Boston CORE
spondent of the Tribune, and who died
not long ago. Among his personal
friends he was known as "the Don, " be-
cause he had particular knowledge OF
Spanish matters, and had been the
amanuensis of Mr.. Prescott, when that
admirable historian was engaged upon
his earlier works. Mr.. Garter is en-
balmed, I believe, in James Russell
Lowell's "Fable for Critics" where that
writer speaks Of going "to the Don for
facts" Mr.. Garter was the only man l
have met who knew everything. l
could almost make oath that 1 never
asked him for information upon any
point without getting it. His mind, if l
may say SO, was full of pigeon holes.
He was a perfect master of the art Of
book-manufacture, and happy was the
book-selling business which secured his
services as reader and secretary. He oc-
cupied that position for some years in
the famous house Of Little, Brown & Co.,
in Boston, and afterward he was EN-.
ployed in that capacity by other like es.
adjustments. But before that he had
much experience in journalism had
started magazines and seen them fail
had, in the course of his life, passed
through almost every imaginable vicis-
situde. It was a painful pleasure to
hear him tell Of the sorrows Of his boy
hood, which were many, and some Of
them tragic.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08
The Chinese Cuisiup.

The sharks fin is delicacy which is
rarely omitted from the menu of Chi
nese feast. 1t is one of the "great clas-
sic dishes" forming the pieces de re-
sistance of an official banquet, and is
eaten either in the form of q Joint, gar
nished with crabs, or served up in small
pieces in cups placed before each guest
The consumption of rats, though it
seems to be somewhat on the decline, is
the cause of very important traffic in
the principal towns of certain districts,
and especially in a street in Canton
called Hing-Loung-Kai. Here these
animals may be seen in enormous multi
tudes hanging up in the shop windows
among chickens and ducks and geese.
They are for the most part dried and
salted. and when in that state are es-
teemed sovereign recipe for those
whose hair is getting thin.
Beside the dishes peculiar to the Ce-
lestials alone, there are a variety OF dill
ferences in their mode of eating and
cooking food unknown to our cuisine,
Hams, for instance, are kept for a year,
or even two years, buried in heaps OF
sawdust, which imparts to them taste
of wood much appreciated by the gour-
NETS. Broad beans are fermented, and,
after being mixed with salt, form very
favorite sauce eaten with all sorts Of
viands. Finally, the habit of eating
"rotten eggs" which sounds so strange
to European ears, is explained by show
ing that the so-called rotten egg is only
ducks egg preserved for a long time in
an air-tight envelope made Of ashes,
chalk, tea-leaves, and number Of other
strange substances, until the yelk turns
first to a green color, and then to fine
black, when it is considered fit to be
eaten.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08
chinery instead of steam at fifty per cent
less cost than steam-power The medium
OF this power is the Backus motion.

chinery instead of steam at fifty per cent
less cost than steam-power. The medium
of this power is the Backus motion.
AN overture story comes from "kussed
Kansas" to the Little Rock Democrat.
One good crop in eight years; no rain
since last November and hundreds Of
farmers looking back toward Arkansas,
and the negroes in Graham County liv-
ing on the buds and berries of wild
roses, wild roots, corn bread and water,
and no meat; hard work and no pay,
are some of the sweets of that Eden of
the West.
The Tillandsia usnceoides, or Spanish
moss, is an air plant and not n parasite.
1t feeds on the malarial exhalations of
the Southern soil, and consumes enough
Of these noxious properties to render the
country habitable. 1t grows everywhere
in the lowlands of Louisiana, Mississippi,
Texas, Alabama and Florida, and should
be considered the salvation of the local.
ties in which it is found.
ATLANTA is agitating the construction
of canal from the Chattahoochee River
SO as to furnish the city with increased
water power sufficient for manufacturing
purposes. The length of the canal from
the Chattahoochee River to the Sewuncr
will be about thirty-one miles. The
canal can be built at n cost of $4,000 a
mile at present prices, making the entire
cost of the work from 81, 200, 600 to ST.
100000.
A GOOD joke is related on one of the
most prominent bankers in Lynchburg,
Va. While marketing several days since
he inquired of an old negro woman the
price of Strawberries. She informed him
that they were fifteen cents per quart,
but, "bein twas him." if he'd take three
quarts they might 60 for half dollar.
He decided to take the three quarts, and
it was some time afterward that the
thought struck him that he had been
financiered out of five cents by country
darky,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

THE Gold Hill NeUs says that cover
at Bodie the burial ground is so wet that
they have to bail out the freshly dug
grave to get the coffin in, and then to
pile rocks on to keep it from floating un-
til the funeral services are over, when
the grave is filled in solid with rock
and earth. This idea of putting mans
corpse in soak for his funeral expenses
is original with Bodie."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

ENGLAND has been snubbed again,
this time by Portugal. The Lawrence
Marques Treaty, signed just a year ago,
has been thrown out by the Cortes-not
for any particular eason,apparently, but
simply because the Portuguese Radicals
want to give England rub the wrong
way. Really, the English do have a
very uncomfortable time of it nova
days.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

ACCORDING to the Washington cor
respondent of the New York Herald,
Secretary Evarts will deal decisively
with the Spanish Government in the
matter of the firing by Spanish man
of.war on two American schooners. He
has looked into the case of the "Mer-
ritt," and finds no shadow of excuse for
the outrage.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

HAVING procured a divorce from his
wife, Charles Ledwell, of Jefferson, o +,
went to her at the end of week and
besought her to marry him again. Mrs.
Ledwell waited until he had got down
on his knees before her and then she
struck him over the head with club.
The mans skull was fractured.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

The Legislature of New York has en-
acted law which will save good deal
of unnecessary litigation. 1t is to the
effect that the amount of insurance writ
ten in fire insurance policy shall be
deemed the value of the property at the
time of the loss, and the amount of loss
sustained, and shall be the measure of
damages.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

WESTERN Pennsylvania and Virginia
are troubled with locusts. The noise
these insects make at times on sunny
day is said to be deafening. They are
the seventeen-year locusts, and people in
the infected districts think the pests
have been to China and back, taking
eight years each way and year in the
Celestial Empire.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

Rev. EDWARD CowLEY, late Of the
Shepherds Fold, will still continue his
ministrations at Blackwells Island.
His contemplated change of scene has
with the concurrence of the Supreme
Court-been abandoned; and he will re.
main for the time specified in his settle.
ment
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

The emigrants are coming in fast, but
there is room for all. In the territories
alone there are still 4S9,53O,000 acres of
land still unsurveyed, many of them
believed to be the best wheat fields in
the world. The portions of Montana
alone still unsurveyed exceed the whole
acreage of Great Britain.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

MORE than one hundred years ago
Harrison Gray Otis, of Boston, owned
large tracts of lands in Maine, and three
towns were named after him, respec-
lively Harrison, Gray and Otisfeld.
The citizens of Otisfeld intend to hold
a reunion next August, to which are to
be invited all persons who have gone
forth from the town, and their descend
ants.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

In 1875 Governor Albert G.. Browne,
of Mississippi, wrote letter to young
friend, in which he argued against the
manner of life in which he had been the
most successful-that of the politician
and office.holder-and declared that
farming was the noblest of occupations
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

A BRICKLAYER writes from Manitoba
to the Toronto Globe warning mechanics
not to go to the Northwest, as there is
hardly any work to be got there, and
living is very expensive. Many are
leaving Manitoba, he says, and are going
to the States, which shows that there
are sensible people in Manitoba as else
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

The action of the Nicaraguan Gov
ernment in making concessions to the
American InteS-Oceanic Canal Company
has been ratified by both Houses of the
Nicaraguan Legislature, and their action
has been received with demonstrations
of approval by the people of that
country.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

OLIVE LOGAN, in Paris letter to the
Cincinnati Enquirer, says of the French
capital: at is the most beautiful capital
the hands of man have ever reared. 1t
is the wickedest city that exists on the
face of the earth. 1t is lovely place
to visit, either for week or twelve
month. 1t is the cruelest spot in the
world to pass a lifetime in" Naughty
~; ri
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

A CIRCULAR compiled by the Census
Commissioners estimates the census this
year will show that the United States
has population of 100000 of people,
or about one-sixth as much as the whole
of Europe. This will place the United
States second to Russia, which has 72,-
000, 900 people
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

MRS. CHRIsTANcY, it is said, will not
insist upon the $3.50 month alimony,
but will soon marry the lover who at the
time of her marriage with the Michigan
Senator, promised to wait until-the
present moment, apparently.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

HYDRo-CARBON comes to the front as a
motor Just now, and steam is supposed to
be trembling in the pipes at its impend'
ing displacement. 1t is good standby,
however, and electricity may be handi,
capped heavily in the race for power.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

IT is said that Governor Andrew, OF
Connecticut, has appointed a State De-
tective to make further effort to solve
the mystery of the murder of Mary
Stannard, for which the Rev. II. IL.
Hayden was tried.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

The water supply for the city OF Mem
phis is obtained from Wolf River, and
has TO be filtered before it is used. The
Memphis Araianchc says that the water
is so impure that it will kill any vegeta-
ton it comes in contact with.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

A FAMOUS counterfeiter named Har-
rison was captured at Toronto some days
ago, and, being Gan old man and not
likely to have further use for them,"
gave up a number of well executed
plates for printing United States and
Canadian bills.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

Two exhibitions on a small scale are
now being held in Europe an Inter-
national Fisheries Exhibition at Berlin
and the Belgian Exposition. 1t is salts
factory to hear that America will be
r, resented both 1T Brussels and Berlin.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

FOURTEEN girls, studentsin the Elmira
College, are writing a continued story,
which one of the Allegheny County
papers is publishing from week to week.
Each girl signs her initial to the chapters
which she writes.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

father of James Fisk, Jr., has gone to
Michigan to enter the show business.
His show isan unique affair, combininga
golden chariot and tent for holding re-
ligious meetings and for exhibitinga a har-
ness which he has invented.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

This is big country. The other day
the dispatches contained little items
about sunstrokes, freezing to death,
foods, cyclones, vessels becalmed, snow
storms, deluges and droughts, all picked
up that day from different corners of
Uncle Sans little farm.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

"DARwIN is right" said an awkward
youth. 'There are moments which come
to the young man who doesn't know what
to do with his hands, when he longs to
climb tree and be smonkey, and throw
nuts at the old bipeds in the front seats.
Man has never really tasted the bene-
fits Of true freedom since he was mon
bav -
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

CHILL demands rather exacting terms
of peace of Bolivia and Peru. Bolivia
will be obliged to cede its coast territory,
and Peru to pay the handsome sum of
5000, ,OOO, 900 as war indemnity.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

THE French people, after fifteen years
of trial, do not appear to be willing to
renew the reciprocity treaty with Eng
land. Free trade ideas make slow
rogress in France.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

MINISTER MAYNARD has sentenced
Miriam, who murdered an American in
Egypt, to be hanged. His authority is,
however, disputed, and an appeal will be
taken.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

LYMAN TRUMBULL, the Democratic
nominee for Governor of Illinois, is sixty
seven years old and changes but little in
appearance from year to year. His
Youngest child is not two years old.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

GARIBALDI says that Italy is scourged
by robbers, throttled by office-holders
and kicked by taxpayers, and he pre-
diets rebellion within ten years.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

ANNIE LARocK, of Kansas City,
though only sixteen years old, has al
ready caused a separation of two mar
ried couples and the suicide of two
bachelors.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

In the next fifteen years almost all
the Russian railroads now in operation
will undergo the process of redemption
and become government property.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

Mr.. ALFRED TENNYsoN is mentioned
as receiving 81 500 for "De Profoundis,"
his poem of sixty-five lines recently
published in the Nineteenth Century.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

OF ten candidates voted for at Chi
cago, seven-Grant, Sherman, Garfield 1,
Hayes, Window, Sheridan and Harrison
ARE natives of Ohio,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

CHINA seems to be determined to
come to the scratch with Russia. She
will catch Tartar.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

The Lords of the Treasury have re-
fused to lend the municipality of Dublin
more money. 1t already owes over
SIS. 600 900.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

The popular actor, Joe Emmet, has
peen committed to an inebriate asylum
in New York
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

GREEK pirates have been ravaging
the coast of Asia Minor recently. One
town has been entirely sacked by the
marauders.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

THERE will be no trouble in finding
plenty of uses for the sparrow. lie is
recommended for pot tpies.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

EDUCATE your boy to be railroad
brakeman. There are seven Senators
who started life in that line of busi-
ness,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

TASTE and smell are chemical, touch is
mechanical, hearing and seeing are
ethereal, the ear is emotion and the eye
intellectual.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

The walters at one of the hotels at
Rye Beach, N. H., this summer, are all
students at Dartmouth College.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

THE poet Tennyson is worth 81 ,OOO,-
900, all of which is simple enough for
man who gets $50 line for his poetry.
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TOPICS OF.THE DAY.

THE prices for Newport cottages now
range from 81 900 to $4,000.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08

JAMES Fisk, Of Brattleboro, VT, the