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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13
Horror Seekers.

The individual who has a mania for
attending circuses in the hope that he
may be present when some tight-rope
walker or trapeze performer is killed
has been often disappointed. There
have been a good many serious acci-
dents which he might have witnessed.
There have been dislOcated joints and
broken homes and on one occasion there
was nearly death caused by shooting
young woman performer from a stage
hOwitzer through a rotten net intended
to break her fall. But up to last week
there was no case of actual death in the
ring. If the hOrror.seeker had been in
Philadelphia snort time ago, however,
and was still engaged in his search, he
might have been satisfied at lat. For at
a circus exhibition in the good City OF
Brotherly Love a trapeze performer, a
young girl only IS years of age, actually
met her death while going through her
performances. A misstep, a fall, and
the sickening result. so long anticipated
was reached. Whether the occurrence
will lessen the public demand for spec
tacles involving such frightful risk of
limb and life is question. The chance
is, we are afraid, that the effect will be
exactly the reverse, and that trapeze
performances will hereafter have an ad-
ditional charm. Perhaps if they were
vigorously forbidden by the laws Of the
several States.the country might out.
grow the morbid taste which now CON-
pels managers to supply them.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13
New POStOllice Rules.

Postmaster General Key assures us
that an arrangement has been perfected
by which letters without postage will
be Immediately forwarded TO the Dead
Letter Office.
A pair of onions will 60 for two
scents.
Parties are compelled to lick their
own postage stamps and envelopes; the
postmaster caunot be compelled to do
this.
Ntro-glycerine and dynamite must
he forwarded at the risk OF the sender.
if they should blow up in the post
masters hands he cannot be held re-
sponsiblc.
When letters are received bearing no
direction, the parties Tor whom they arc
intended will please signify the fact to
the postmaster, that no may at once
forward.
IT is unsafe to mail apple or fruit
trees with the fruit on them, as some OF
the postmaslers have weakness
for such things. Bottles of whisky
should be well Corked.
1t is earnestly requested that lovers
writing to their girls, will please confinc
their gushing rhapsodies to the inside
of the envelope.
Ducks cannot be sent through the
mails when alive. Their quacking
would disturb the sluInbers OF the
clerks on the postal cars.
When watches are sent through the
mails, if the sender will put notice on
the outside, the postmasters will wind
up and keep in running order.
Old maids, feather beds, and inflated
balloons are unavailable.
John Smith gets his mail from GA, q!
postoffice, hence n letter directed tc
John Smith, United States, will reach
him.
Babies can be scnt as third.clas nat
ter, provided sucking bottles and nap,
kins accompany them.
Eggs are not mailab'e unless fresh
and should they become chickens on
transit they become the property OF the
PostOffice Department.
When you enclose q money order in a
letter always write full and explicit
directions in the same letter, Sd that
any person getting the letter can draw
the money.
Alligators ,pver ten fee. in length are
not allowed to be transmitted by mail.
Garlic, onions, assafoedita, gum cam
phor, switzer, limberger, and sausage
sent through the mails should be left
open at the ends.
Letter. carriers are required to have
penetration enough to know when let
ters should be delivered to jealous
wives; hence if he delivers letter from
your girl to your wife you can have
him discharged.
The placing of stamps upside down OF
letters is prohibited. Several post
masters have recently been seriously
injured while trying to stand on thei
head, to cancel stamps placed in thi
manner.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13
The Effect OF n Baby.


Did you ever notice how much differ
cnce bright eyed, idiotic looking little
baby will make in street car? On
Yesterday afternoon when Times re-
porter stepped into West Madison
street car, he discovered that the sole
occupants of the car beside himself were
little happy looking woman with n two
months old baby upon her lap, aud
proud looking father next TO her The
baby was one of those rcd faced infants
whose cheeks are 40 fat MS to make it
impossible for them TO shut their mouths,
and whose eyes are big, and blue, and
staring. Little chubby hands with deep
dimpes down their backs, and restless
little legs that would kick away the
dress and expose the fat sturdy little
legs, with their blue sockcd feet. The
car had not gone far before it stopped
for little girl, who, when she entered
the car, sat down first in corner, but
discovering the baby, moved up next to
it and its mother, and began kutchey-
kutcheying it, and thinking up new
natural positions in which to hold her
dolly when she got home. A pretty
young lady in light ulsterette and a
blue veil stepped into the car, sitting
down demurely beside the little girl.
She, too, spied the baby, and when it
twisted about and stuck its little fist out
at her she gave it finger to hold, and
reached over and kissed it. A little
further along cross looking, hooked
nosed, sharp featured old man thrust
himself into the car, and PLANTED him
self in the first corner he came to. He
glanced about the car with an expression
that indicated hatred of all mankind,
and then settled back into the corner
determined to let no one say word to
him nor to give any one a pleasant look
Suddenly the baby caught sight of his
carroty beard, and making desperate
lurch, almost threw itself out of its
mothers arms. 1t could not reach the
old man, but, in straining and growing
and kicking to get at him, it softened
the old mans heart, and he pinched It's
fat cheeks and clucked at it with asmile
on his hard old face.
Other passengers who had entered the
car during the meantime laughed and
smiled at the baby, and when it hung
its head 80 far over backward that it
looked at them upside down, they poked
their fingers at it and called it a
"tootsey. .pootmy." When the time
came for the mother and her baby to
leave, there were many good by smiles,
and the ladies' kissed their hands to it,
sorry that it was going, After it had
gone the car relapscd into silence, the
old man in the corner drew himself
within himself again; the pretty young
lady with the blue veil dcmurely
perused book; tho little girl grew list.
less; the passengers generally looked
solemn. The reporter felt that N4he
light of the car had gone and there was
u vacancy that nothing but baby could
| 6ll. "B!cSs its little heart! 1t was
bcltor'n a circus, so it was.'
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

ENGLAND seems to have overthrown
the Beaconsfeld government because it
was tired of wars and rumors of wars.
Yet it really makes very little difference
to England whether it has war on its
hands or not Its loss of men and ships
keeps going on with the greatest regu-
larity, and it would really be much
pleasanter for its marines to lose their
lives in a sharp naval engagement than
to go to the bottom helplessly in one of
those overgrown monsters that comprise
the British navy. The Captain, an iron
giant, went down with all on board.
The Eurydice capsized in sight of land
aud not soul was saved but two of her
1926 men. Now her sister ship, the
Atalanta, with over 300 on board, is lost.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

THE work on the tunnel under the
North River to connect New York with
Jersey City seems to be going forward
at very lively rate, although not
much is heard of it. The tunnel will be
two miles in length, from Washington
square, in New York, to the terminus
in Jersey City, and three-quarters of a
mile will be under the river. 1t will
carry double track, or, rather, it will
be double tunnel. Three gangs of men
are now employed, and work never stops,
day or night. As the mud and rock are
taken out the sides of the bore are lined
with boiler iron, and inside of this a
circle of hard bricks three feet thick
is laid with cement. Some difficulty
is expected when the work reaches the
channel of the river, but the engineers
have calculated all the possible troubles
and are confident of success. 1T is ex-
pected to have the tunnel completed in
three years.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

THE English language is rich in
synonymous terms. "a mechanic in
search of work is "out of a job" a
clerk in the same predicament is {" dis.
engaged" and a professional man simi-
larly placed is cat leisure" The me.
chanic gets work, the clerk connects"
himself with some establishment, and
the professional man "resumes" prac-
tice.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

SARA BERNHARDT is taking a rest.
Because critic found fault with her
acting in a new play in the Theatre
Frahcaise, Paris, she resigned, and now
has lawsuit on hand. Immediately
upon the announcement of her rcsigna-
tion she received two propositions from
managers in this country, either of
which seemed fabulous, but she rejected
them. Sara knows how to get free ad-
vertising. She'll be over here next
winter.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

A BILL has been introduced into the
New York Assembly allowing servant
girls TO collect their wages by summary
process. The law is already in force as
regards New York City, and it is now
proposed to extend it to Brooklyn and
to Troy. An amendment intended to
defeat it, by making it apply to the
whole State, was itself defeated. Under
it any servant girl is allowed to levy on
property where the amount due and re-
fused her is less than $50. If her EN-
ployer has no property, the debtor may
be imprisoned for fifteen days or until
the amount is paid.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

The philosopher of Pecks Sun has dis
covered flaw in the Irish suffering
business He says: "At Enniscorthy,
where Mr.. Parnell attempted to speak
the other night, he was driven from the
platform by shower of bad eggs. 1t
will be seen from this that eggs are 50
plenty in Ireland that they are allowed
., ,,o;ID
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

PECK's Sun: Just six months ago
the tax on tobacco was reduced by
Congress, and the result has been an in
crease of $4,000 in the revenue over
any other six months of the last ten
years. This proves, what we have al
ways claimed, that Congress occasionally
does sensible thing. We have been
abused for holding this view many
times, but we were conscious that we
were right and stuck to it,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

The Detroit Free Press gives the fol-
lowing good advice: "Keep your eye on
Congress, and mark she men who refuse
to vote for free paper. Every man who
refuses is an enemy to the people at
large, and should be shelved as soon as
possible"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

THE Australians do not take kindly to
the polygamic idea. One of the salt
Lake priests, who has just returned
from a proselyting visit to the big
island, says that four attempts were
made there to murder him, and the Salt
Lake Tribune is abusing the Australians
for their poor Workmanship.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

CHAIRMAN BARNUM, of the National
Democratic Committee, says if the Gin
cinnat authorities do not permit proper
arrangements to be made for telegraph
ing from Music Hall, he will certainly
call the committee together to select an
other place for the convention,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

IT is estimated that 10000 Canadian
cmigrants will seek new homes in the
West and Northwest the present sum-
mer. The emigrant movement to West.
crn points is already heavier than at any
time last year.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

GEN. HATCH surrounded and cap
turcd, few days since, four hundred
Apache warriors, in the San Andre
Mountains. He also captured two thou
sand mules and horses, which have been
turned over to the Government. While
disarming the Indians thirty made a
dash for liberty, and twelvcwere killed.
No casualties are reported in General
Hatch's command
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

The difference in Mr.. Vanderbilt's in
come as the result of converting SOL
100000 of New York Central Railroad
stock into United States four per cents
is, if we estimate the stock as yielding
ten per cent. per annum, $4,000, 900; but
AS it still leaves him an annual revenue
of$2, ,O4O, 900, or nearly $l75,O month; !;
$46, ,25O week; $6,607 day; 1878 an
hour; and 81 60 a minute, he need not
yet sell his fast horses or his new pictures
in order to make both ends meet.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

EXTRACT from Puck: "The new
comic paper, copy of which is before
lis, is called the Congressional Record.
We areglad to have n competitor; il
keeps us to the mark. We note that it
is in its tenth volume. Strange that
We never saw il befOrcl'
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

EDIsoN's new process of getting gold
out of tho tailings Of mines is to be put
in practical operation beow Quebec.
Some New York capitalists have the
scheme in hand, and are now investigat-
ing the mines.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

HERE is a nugget from the Pacific
Coast: A Dutch Flat man the other
day picked up a rock to throw at COW.
The weight of it attracted his attention,
and on examination it was found to con-
tain over 800 in gold.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

The new French cable that was to
break the monopoly of ocean telegraph
ing is undergoing the gobbling process
it is the old story of small companies
organized to compete with great estab-
lished corporations
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

MANY sad heart will be g!addencd,
many torn spirit healed, by the joyous
announcement that His Celestial High
ness, the Head King of Siam, is to visit
this country during the present year.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

Mr.. MAsKELYNE, the noted conjurer
of the Egyptian Hall, London, has in
vented an apparatus to check the fares
taken by the London omnibuses. Bear
ing in mind that separate fare is
charged for each section of the distance,
to accomplish this was no easy matter.
Naturally, it is rather complicated
affair; it is automatic and works by
clock-work, each person receiving a
ticket marked for his particular distance
and the fare. A self-register is made by
the movement of persons entering and
leaving, by their weight on the steps
acting as lever.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

SETH GREEN advocates frog culture.
He says that many farmers have for
tunes in frog ponds, and that a little
care and cultivation will produce crop
of frogs large enough for family use, af-
ter supplying the market
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

GENERAL GRANT has again returned
to his home at Galcna, and by this time
is probably off again on a tri p to Col
orado, u point which he has desired to
visit for some time.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13
"MoTHER ssid the seyen-year-old son

mother ssid the seven-year-old son
of an energetic mother not thousand
miles from Rochester, the other day, as
he watched Eer vigorous manipulation
of a kitchen utensil, you ought not to
90 to heaven"
"Why not, my son?' in surprizsd
manner.
because yol would wear out your
harp before eternity wss half over" was
the quiet reply of the young philose-
pher.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

CHICAGO Times: 1t Is SAID that his
Holiness the Pope contcmplates creating
four additional carinals in the United
states. Is this another chance for the
inevitable Ohio man ?
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

FIFTY thousand emigrants are eX-
pccted to arrive from Europe in May
A few more conscriptions for European
armies will populate al our public
lands.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

A New York dispatch intimatcs that
II. B. Payne, of Cleveland, is Tildens
choice for President, in case he himself
is not nominated.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

EDISON, it is reported, is spending his
leisure hours constructing flying ma
chine with which it is proposed to cross
the ocean in twenty four hours.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

The 0belisk which was ordered by
Queen Victoria to be erected on the
spot where the Prince Imperial fell, in
Iululand, has been put in position.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

The friends of Francis Murphy, the
temperance lecturer, in that rural-like
town, Philadelphia, have presented him
homestead in their midst, for which
they paid $4,000.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

THERE is trouble between Mayor
Kalloch, of San Francisco, and his physi-
clan, the Mayor refusing to pay $500 for
having the bullet dug out of his body.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

BETWEEN the lst and Goth of April
eight and half inches of rain fell in
California. Such rainfall is quite an
unusual thing for the Pacific slope.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

SEVERAL of the coal companies have
announced their purpose to suspend
operations for few weeks, so as to re-
duce stocks and increase prices.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

The idea seems to. be becoming popu-
lar that oatmeal is better for brains than
fish. This ought to produce universal
rlemand for the article.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

The decline in stocks, in Wall street,
during three weeks, it is estimated, will
aggregate over S40,000,00O.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

QUEEN CHRISTINE of Spain continues
to be excessively nervous, and nearly
faints when any stranger approaches the
King.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

MEMPHIS will enforce strict quaran-
time on a | tropical fruits on and after
May 10.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

CINCINNA1l's May Musical Festival
will occur on the 18th, 10Th, 2Oth and
2lst of the month.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13
A Forged Letter.

"I've got letter here" said Colonel
Solon yesterday, (which some one ur
nutheri is tryin' to play oft on me as IL
reg'lar letter from Joe Kuntz," and the
Colonel laced the lettero on the desk. 1t
was neatly written and Joe's name was
signed to it correctly.
Certainly, Colonel, that's Joe's let
ter" said we.
"No, stree bob, no sir" said the CJlo-
mel, very positively, "that air letter Is
forgery; coz Joe shutters worse ths'
whisky lowin' outen bottle, an lhi'
'ere letter r ads as straight rs a mill
race"
And the Colonel wouldn't be CON
vinced that Joe didh't stutter in his
riting
AT an examination of medical stu
dents who have gone up for their de-
grees: -,
First Examiner" Guess we ougnts
to pluck about half of these fellows
never saw such an ignorant lot.
Second Examine:-"Ssh Let. pas
them. They'll have t9 call ns j. ieF
consultations.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

THE health of Paris is below par Ty-
phoid fever and small pox are the pre-
yaiing epidcmics.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

OUT in Colorado man who refused
to either pay his fare or get off the
train, was coolly shot by the conductor
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

CALIFoE'SIA is moving for National
Bureau of Agriculture for the Pacific
Coast.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

GEN. HANCOCK is one Of the Presi-
dental heavy weights He weighs 2S7
pounds.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

LEADvILLE is to have street cars
shortly.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13

The gate money at the walking
match will be properly divided accord
ing to the gait maintained
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-13
The Servant Question.

As yet, writes the New York cor
respondent of the Hartford Times, there
is 10 sign of n special demand FOX
Chinese servants. Probably not more
than fifty Of tho twenty i've hundred
Chinese in New York are employed in
this way. understand that some who
have tried Cinnamon have been glad to
get rid of them after p few weeks.
There is no par icuar complaint, but a
sort of gen, raj dissatisfaction. All the
Chinese who offer themselves as house
servants ask more wages than are paid
to white girls, and this alone would be
n barrier agair st them. II there is one
thing that calls out the mcdnnCss of n
pretty large class of housekcepors more
than another, it is the payment of serv-
ants wages. 1t is common thing in
New York q have seen much of it, and
can speak to the point) for women who
dress we'll and live well, and 60 to church
TO boot, to cheat their servants without
blush. 1t is also common thing to
refuse to pay them their wages when
they are leaving place, in which, per
haps, one servant is expected to do the
work of three. Another common prac-
tice is to feed them on the refuse of the
family table, and if there isn't enough
of that for meal they may go hungry.
Complaints about the tyranny of ser,
vans are often made, and IN many
cases, no doubt, with very good reason.
But there are many other cases-a great
many more cases, in fact--in which the
servants are vastly more sinned agairs,
than SHINING.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-01-03

of decoration, and streamers of every
imaginable hue are tackled promiscuous-
ly all over his attire. Thus arrayed.
he created decided sensation bv
tramping to the centennial exposition
at Philadelphia in 1876.
Persons familiar with his life say he
spends no money, and it is very gen
orally believed that he has a goodlv-
sized hoard of cash hidden away some
where in the vicinity of his park
The major portion of his food it is
known he secures through charity.
A great number of half-wise, half
simple ssyings are attributed to him by
the people hereabouts; that which has
struck our fancy as best and neatest
being the assertion that "There are
lots Of fools in this world; some know
it, and some don't know it."
He would not talk to us of Jenny
Lind, and, in fact, we could not gather
aught of conference from him, though
questioning him at great length
GIaSco, N. Y. Cor. Chicago Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-01-03
QuE nontsg daks.
CHRISTMAS.

How did they keep his birthday then,
The little fair Christ so long ago?
0 many there were to be housed and fed,
And there was no place in the inn, they said,
So into the manger the Christ must go.
To lodge with the cattle and not with men.
The OK and the ass they munched their hay,
They munched and they slumbered, wonder
ing not,
And out in the midnight cold and blue
The shepherds slept and the sheep slept too,
Till the angels song and the bright star ray
Guided the wise men to the spot.
But only the wise men knelt and praised,
And only the shepherds came to see;
And the rest of the world cared not at all
For the little Christ in the oxen's stall,
And we are angry and amazed
That such dull hard thing should be!
How do we keep his birthday now?
We ring the bells and we raise the strain,
We hang up garlands everywhere
And bid the tapers twinkle fair,
And feast and froic and then we go
Back to the same old lives again.
Are we no better, then, than they
Who failed the newborn Christ to see?
To them helpless babe-to us
He shines Savior glorious.
Our Lord and Friend and all-yet we
Are half asleep this Christmas day.
Susan Coolidge, IN Christian Union.