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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06
The Chinese In Society.


The evening parties at the Chinese En-
bassy have been proving attractive
Every week the Marquis de Tseng has
given soiree, preceded by dinner.
His house in the Avenue Kleber is large
and handsomely fitted, and the last recep-
tion was particularly brilliant. His
excellency receives his guests at the
drawing-room door, to gain which, mo-
tionless Chinese has been passed on every
step of the staircase and a row of Chinese
children on the landing. The marquis
wore short yellow robe; red coral
button ornamented his cap, while two
tails prOtruded at the back of it. The
marquise was seated. with her little boy
of five, at the end of the salon, and was
surrounded by European ladies'. She
was in black, with gay patches of color
about her dress, and wore large amber
necklace. The child was in scarlet,
braided apparently with cOlors. Every
nationality was represented, but the
crush was too great to show the tOilettes
in detail. There is no doubt, however,
that these Chinese receptions increase
the taste for rich Eastern brocades inter.
woven with gold, for which decided
partiality has already been shown. The
Chinese products are often confounded
with the japanese, but no matter-both
add picturesque element to Western
toilette. Chinese silks are made up into
Louis XIV. coats; the foundation or
groundwork is either silk and gold or
silk and silver: small dragons and
fantastic flowers in dark coloring
stand out in relief from the fond.
Large pockets and revers are worn on
such coats, which are fastened with
either enameled or silver niellO buttons.
Chinese fringes are very popular; they
are composed of tiny tufts of floss silk
mixed with pearls and coral beads, and
likewise with gold and silver threads.
New Chinese embroideries are to replace
last years trimming; they reproduce
the letters of the Chinese alphabet, and
are worked in red on an almost trans.
parent ecru foundation; also birds fly.
ing, as are to be seen on Oriental screens,
and Chinese personages exquisitely
sketched in red silk. Parasols are to be
bordersd with Japanese designs. An
other trimming to be seen on spring
costumes consists of satin ribbon, with
small Eastern designs interviewer with
gold; for example, red and blue pines
outlined with gold on a black satin
foundation.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06
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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06
"Wildcat" Silver Mining.

Silver mining is as honest a business
AZ ever was done, and as safe. There
are as many more millions in it as have
been taken out of it. Even at Lead
vile only few acres comparatively
have been opened up, but enough has
been discovered to warrant the state.
ment that Leadville alone will yield
twice as much as the Comstock lode,
which is said to have added three hun.
dred millions to the worlds stock of
silver. Indeed, it is claimed that beds
of silver equally rich underlie a strip
of country twenty miles wide, with
numerous branches extending the whole
breadth of Colorado, from Denver to
New Mexico. But mining even as
richly profitable as this can be so min
gled with the frauds of hasty cupidity
that it becomes dishonest, "wildcat,"
and dangerous. The temptation to
mining company managers comes in this
way: The mine is hugely ever capital.
lied, and in order to pay few monthly
dividends on its stock, it is gouged." 4"
The straining for monthly dividends to
sell new stock compels "gouging," "
and gouging" brings on speedy col.
lapse. It Is obviously for the interest
of those engaged in the great business
of developing the immense mineral
riches of Colorado net to permit these
gougings" and collapses.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06
Writing Materials. .

London Nisc"lanyl
The materials used for writing have
varied in different ages and nations.
Among the Egyptians slices of limestone,
leather, linen and papyrus-especially
the last-were universally employed.
The Greeks used bronze and stone for
public monuments, wax for memoran-
dums, and papyrus for the ordinary
transactions of life The kings of Per
gamus adopted parchment, and the
other nations of the ancient world
chiefly depended on the paper of Egypt.
But the Assyrians and Babylonians EN-
ployed for their public documents,
their historical annals, and even for
their title deeds and bills of exchange,
tablets, cylinders and hexagonal prisms
of terra Gotta. Some of these cylinders,
still extant, contain valuable records of
ancient history. To this indestructible
material, and happy idea of employing
it in this manner, the present age is in.
debted for detailed history of the As
syrian monarchy; while the decades OF
Livy, the plays of Leander and the laws
of AnacreOn, confided to more perish.
able material, have either wholly or par.
TALLY disappeared among the wrecks Of
empires.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

THE Earl of Dunmore, who owns a
property of 10000 acres in Scotland, and
is one of the best known cattle breeders
in the United Kingdom, is on his way
to Helena, Montana, where he intends
starting ranch on very extensive
scale. He intends buying several thous-
and head of cattle in Texas and having
them transported to his ranch during
the coming summer. 1t is his further
intention to import 200 or 300 bulls of
his own favorite breed, and he is san
guine of raising stock of cattle second
to none. His ultimate plan is to ship
beef to England preserved by the re-
frjgerating process.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06
Talk Mt Home.

Endeavor always to talk your best be-
fore your children. They hunger per-
petually for new ideas. They learn
with pleasure from the lips of parents
what they dream is drudgery to learn
from books, and, even if they have to be
deprived of many educational advant.
ages, they will grow up intelligent If
they enjoy in childhood the privilege Of
listening daily to the conversation of
intelligent people. We sometimes see
parents, who are the life of every com.
pany which they enter, dull, silent, and
uninteresting at home among their chill
dren. If they have not mental stores
enough for both, let them first use what
they have for their own households. A
silent home is a dull place for young
people, a place from which they will
escape if they can. How much useful
information, on the other hand, is often
given in pleasant conversation; and
what unconscious, but excellent, mental
training is lively social argument! Cul.
tivate to the utmost the graces of con-
yersatiOn.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06
Indians Customs.


A correspondent of the Ottawa Citizen,
who states that he has passed eighteen
years of his life among the Indian
tribes of the Northwest, contradicts the
assertion of. the Globes Fort Walsh cor
respondent as to the virtual prevalence
of slavery among them, and the practice
of Indian parents selling their daughters
to white men. He states that it is COM
mon upon the marriage of daughter
for the husband to give the brides
father horse, not as the price Of his
wife, but as pledge conirmative of the
matrimonial obligation he assumes. The
Globes correspondent appears to have
taken q wrong view of an ancient In.
dian custom. Still, it is open to ques-
tion whether the white men who are
parties to these transactions regard the
matter in the same light as the Indians,
or recognize the binding character Of
the primitive ceremonial.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06
Starting a Paper.


Why any man, sane or insane, with
a sound body and chance to cultivate
his neighbor's watermelon-patch and
smokehouse after night, should ever
want to be an editor is more than we can
tell, 1t is conundrum that stumps
us as plumb as sumac grub does a sore
toe, or as common sense question does
an average American statesman. As
for NJ, give us liberty, or give us re-
spectacle death with an undis' 0rted
corpse and good looking girl to kiss
us for our mother.
An editor! Everybody's pecking.
block, scapegoat and sway backed pack
mule. Ten thousand times one mil
lionth rather let us be a boot black,
chimney.sweep, penitentiary-bird or
congressman be mud-clerk on coal
barge, deck-hand in tripe factory, ell
gineer of acknowledgements canal.
boat, dairy-maid with an aged OK and
two he-gOats as our stock in trade, or
servant gal in poor. house or an orphan
asylum; be a stock-gambler, railroad di-
rector, president of a sausage machine,
rag vender, charcoal-bawler, governor
or darkey preacher; anything, every
thing but an editor.
And yet there are victims, self-doomed,
ever ready to sacrifice themselves on the
ink. smeared altar of endless and thank
less drudgery.
Mans vapor
Full Of woes
Starts paper,
Up he goes"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06
DO.NQthing People.
Youths Companion.l


Before the French Revolution the
members of the royal family and the
grand lords and ladies never thought of
doing anything for themselves that
others could do for them. Taine, in his
"Ancient Regime" gives curious il
lustration Of the effect of this enforced
helplessness. In the course of con-
versation with Nine. Louise, the daugh-
ter of Louis XIV, who was Carmelite
nun, Nine. de Genlis said: 81 should
like to know what troubled you most in
getting accustomed to your new pro-
fession." "You could never imagine"
she replied. at was the descent of q
small flight of steps alone by myself.
AT first it seemed to me dreadful prec.
ipice, and | was obliged to sit down on
the steps and slide down in that atti-
tude." The Princess had never de-
scended any staircase save the grand one
at Versailles and only that when lean.
ing on the arm of a noble cavalier. The
steep and winding steps of the convent
therefor seemed appalling when she had
to descend them alone. A story is told
of the Duchess of Edinburgh, the
daughter of the Gar of Russia, which
exhibits similar training. Shortly
after her marriage with Victoria's son,
the Duchess was entertained at a mob E.
mans house. A party was made up to
visit the extensive greenhouses, the
Duchess leading, as was her right, the
way. In passing up the narrow aisle of
one of the houses the royal lady came
to closed door. The passage was too
narrow for any of her suite to pass her
and open the door and she stood as mo.
ti0nless as statue.
"Oblige me-" said the Duke in
whisper, "by sending some one around
to open the door from the other side,
for she'll not open it if she stands there
for month" 1t may excite smile
to read such illustrations as these of
physical helplessness involved in the
etiquette of royal households, and we
fear that training similar in kind, if
not in q degree, marks many American
families. In recent sermon the Rev.
Washington GLADDEN., of Springfield,
Mass, spoke OF the fact that some
American girls are broght up to learn
nothing and do nothing. He referred
to one woman who was proud that her
daughter never did any sweeping, and
to another who never let her daughter
do any kitchen work. Such training
must foster selfishness and Incidence
and a loss of respect and of true re-
gard for others
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06
SeIf.ApDreciatiOn.
" Mans a vapOr
Full Of woes;
Starts n paper,
Up he goes"

The conduct of the present King of
Bavaria in excluding not only the pub
lie, but even single spectator from the
performances OF operas and plays given
before himself, has often excited COM
ment; but it may not be generally
known that the example was given to
him by Lully, the "father" of French
opera. This illustrious musician, who
had risen from the position of scullion
of Mile de Montpensier's kitchen to
the rank of Gentleman of the Kings
Bed-chamber, disgusted at the want of
public appreciation of one of his finest
operas, ordered that work to be per-
formed solely before himself, on which
occasion he reversed the verdict of the
public by rapturously applauding both
the piece and the performers, whom he
afterward entertained at sumptuous
supper prepared by his own hands.
Louis XIV, on hearing of the occur
renee, Immediately ordered the opera to
be produced at Versailles, saying that
the greatest composer of the period
must necessarily be better judge of the
value of his work than either the critics
or the public. This decision was speed
lily indorsed by the Parisians, who, on a
second hearing, declared the work to be
the masterpiece of Jean Baptiste de
Lully,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

So long as the priests at Mandalay
were not compelled to submit their own
carcasses as human sacrifice to
God for the good of the country, and
the penalty fell upon others heads,
everything seemed to be all serene, but
the other day when the astrologists an
nounced to King Theebaw that God
demanded that one hundred out of the
seven hundred human sacrifices should
be priests, such scattering of white
chokers was never before seen. They
began to get out of the country just as
fast as the Lord would let them.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

FROM June 80, 1876, to February |,
1880, twenty-five revenue officers were
killed and forty-nine wounded in trying
to break up the illicit distillation of
spiritsin South Carolina, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia,
Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, and Ken
lucky. As a result, however, 3,043 stills
were seized and 6, l53 persons arrested,
and now the revenue receipts from that
district are more than doubled.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

IT will not surprise any one to hear
that the peach crop has been entirely
destroyed. 1t always is. There is too
much reason to fear, however, that this
time the cry of "wolf" is genuine, and
that the late frosts, following an ex-
traordinarily warm winter and spring,
have indeed killed the prematurely ex-
panding buds.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

KING THEEBAw has his imitators out
in Nevada. The Eureka Sentinel of last
week says that number of Indians re-
Gently buried warrior known as "Old
ADAM" alive. The Indians explained
that Adam was about to die anyhow.
This world is hardly yet Sunday
school out for an airing, even if we do
live in the nineteenth century.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

The proposition seems to exist that
the balance of the Geneva Award now
in the Treasury be donated to the suffer-
ing of Ireland; this upon the hypothesis
that it was paid to us by the British
Government. That sort of business is
what boys used to call an "lndian
tradpD
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

IN France the Jesuitical question be-
comes daily more and more intricate, on
account of the irresolution of the Gov
ernment, which, in its anti-clerical cam
paign, is equally assaulted by the Re-
actionists and the ultra Radicals. The
Cabinet will probably be destroyed by
the workings of that question.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

"WHERE is your mother" said a
worthy man to little street miserable.
She answered diffidently, "She is dead"
"Have you no father?" "Yes, sir but
he is sick" "What ails him?" con-
tinued the questioner. "He has got
sore finger, sir" "Indeed~ ayes,
SIR" "Why; don't he cut it of, then3'
bPlease, sir, he hain't get any money to
NY q knife"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

THE Dundee Free Presby terry, Scot
land, have, by vote of fifteen to thir-
teen, adopted an overture to the general
assembly, recognizing the hand of God
in the Tay bridge disaster, and asking
the assembly to devise means for remov-
ing temptations to Sunday travelling and
traffic. One speaker said that he re-
garded the disaster as judgment of
God upon mercantile trickery in build
ing bad bridge.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

A HERD of 23,S00 cattle are being
driven from Oregon to Montana; 120
men do the driving, and the outfit in
cludes provision wagons, arm9 and
ammunition, 500 horses and forty dogs.
The journey is made slowly, days
travel not exceeding nine miles, and the
speed will be lessened when hot weather
comes on, in order not to get the beasts
into bad condition.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

THE Pennsylvania stonemason who
went raving mad over the fifteen puzzle,
is reported cured. While in the asylum
he insisted on cutting up everything, in
Guiding physicians and attendants into
fifteen pieces.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

AN investigation into the influence of
females in the public service of the
United States, if pressed into personali-
ties, would be the biggest scandal this
country ever had. But there is no fear
of its taking place, and when it came to
be opened the defense need only write
against the wall in large letters: "Let
him who is without offense cast the first
stone," and these will never be full
committee raise1 in that whole Congress
and Senate.-"Gath" in Cincinnati En-
guirer.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

JUNK dealers will be tickled to death
to learn that there is prospect that
three hundred thousand copies of Com
missioner LIE Dues ideas on the beet
sugar business will be printed.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

IT is strange that every attempt that
has ever been made in this country on
the life of Ia President proved successful,
while in the old world, such attempts
have been almost as universally a fail
ure. Why is this?
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

CINCINNATI Commercial: Is there
really any great necessity for the con-
tinued existence of West Point? Army
officers appointed from civil life sue
ceeded during the late rebellion about as
well as the graduates of the Military
School.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

THE present year promises to witness
the arrival of the largest number Of
emigrants that have yet reached these
shores in twelve months. The arrival
the first three months are greater than
were ever before recorded ina correspond
iny period,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

TaE Memphis appeal says that Gin
cinnati, st. Louis and Chicago are all
within the "yellow fever belt" whatever
it means by that, but suppose it means
they will get belt from yellow fever.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

MRS. VAN PELT, the local editor of
the Dubuque (Ia.) Timer, is also base
ball editor of that journal. Last year
she reported more than sixty games.
She is considered the best authority in
Dubuque on the national game.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

PECK's Sun: Congressman Springer
has been charged with receiving letter,
and he will be investigated. We knew
Congressman were pretty bad, but we
had no idea that they had got so they
received letters.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

The Navy Department has been ap-
prised that coaling stations for United
States vessels have been established on
both sides of the Isthmus of Darien.
Now we must wait and see what the
English press proposes to do about it.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

THE burial of Jewess in New York
the other day, who had, during life,
been converted to the. Christian faith,
was the cause of so much turbulence
that it became necessary to call the
police to protect the remains.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

The horrible sacrifice of 700 men,
women and children at Mandalay to
stay the disease of!.tbe gin-drinking, lep-
rosy-st ricken King, as an atonement
demanded by God, is step in the wrong
direction of Christian civilization.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

The next annual regatta of the Mis-
sissippi Valley Rowing Association will
be held in Moline, Illinois, on June 22d,
23d and oath. The Moline Boat Club
have to raise $4,000 to $4,000 to defray
the necessary expenses.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

Boston culture will tell. There, for
instance, is Hart, the walker, who halls
from the Hub. His success shows that
in such intellectual contests as walking
matches the Modern Athens will hold
her own
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

GENERALJ. J. BARTLETT's little four
year-old daughter, recently travelled
alone from Chicago to San Francisco.
She carried letter adressed to the con-
ductOrs.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

A BABY show is to be held in Portland,
Maine, under the auspices of Sweden.
borgian society, and the advertisement
says: PORTRAITS of the loveliest babies
of Portland to be thrown on mammoth
screen by means of stereopticon and
the Drummond light. All sections of
the city represented. Your baby may
be there" The portraits have been OBJ
tanned from various photographers.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

ONE thousand five hundred families
are going to take up land in Maryland
Peninsula. The farms will range from
ten to one hundred acres and the
farmer will have from ten to one hun
dred years to pay for them. Go East,
young man, go East.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-06

A CONTEST over an 0leomargarine
patent in the United States at Chicago
develops the astounding fact that tallow
butter has sale in this country of 9S,-
100000 pounds year.