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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15
Why Cinnamon Drink Ten,

Prot. :. Williams Lecture at Sheffield, Engaudl
If the sanitary effects of tea upon the
system are 80 great and wholesome, its
effects since its general introduction
among Occidentals cannot be over.
looked, The domestic quiet life and
habits of the Chinese owe much of their
strength to the common use of this bev-
erage, for the weak infusion which they
sip allows them to spend all the time
they choose at the tea-table. If they
were in the habit of slipping weak
whisky in the same way, misery, power
erty, quarrels and sickness would take
the place of thrift, quiet, and industry.
The general temperance seen among
them is owing to the tea more than any
other cause. One who remembers of
the carousings described in Scott's nov
els, and compares those scenes with
what would now he considered good
society will acknowledge an improve
ment and tea has had much to do with
it. .One of Wilson's stories in Lights
and Shadows of Scottish Life of the
the same date, about eighty years
ago, makes one of the characters lay
great stress on the complete disuse of
tea as one of the prime means of success
in life. But it has won its way more
and more, till in the present genera
ton the associations that cluster around
the tea-tabe form an integral part of
the social life among English.speaking
people.
One of the most likely means to re-
strict the use o. spirits among them is
to substitute the use of warm beverages
of all kinds by those whose system has
not become vitiated | think tea is one
of the greatest benefits to the Chinese,
japanese, and Mongolians, and its uni
versal use for at least fifteen centuries
throughout their territories has proved
its satisfaction as a nervine, stimu-
liant, anu beverage. If one passing
through the streets of Pekin, Canton,
or Ohoska, and seeing the good -natured
hiliarity of the groups of laborers and
lOiterers around the cha-kwaus and the
cho-yas of those cities, doubts the value
of tea as a harmoni2er and satisfer of
human wants and passions, il must be
taken as a proof of his own unsatisfed
CRAVINGS
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

a day or two. Taking the train, he went
to Charlotte, was married to a widow
lady of respectabili'y, and took up an
abode near Winston. His first and law
ful wife being alarmed at his absence
traced him up, discovered what had oc-
CURED, had him arrested, and he was
convicted of bigamy and sentenced .
ten years hard labor in the pen,tyn-
tiary.
THE East Florida Railway Company
has been organized at Jacksonville.
This is the last link of the proposed
short route between Jacksonvi lie and
Savannah, consisting of the Savannah,
Florida and Western Railway (nincty-
six miles), the Waycross and Florida
Railway (thirty-scvcn milcs), and the
East Florida Railway (thirty-iive milcs).
The track for the entire distance will be
laid with steel rails, and the road will
be first class in all its appointments.
Upon the completion of this railway the
time from Jacksonville to Savannah
will be made in six hours, and from
Jacksonville to New York forty hours,
against sixty hours "a at present.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

HA, HA! Says late issue of the
Portsmouth CO., Tribune: " Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, Theodore Tilton and Eli
Perkins were all guests under the Biggs
House roof last Thursday night. Mr..
Beecher had arrived in the morning,
Perkins came just before supper, too late
to catch the boat for an appointment to
lecture at Ashland, KY. After supper
he sent his card to Mr.. Beccher's room
with the following characteristic mes
sage: Am wrecked; failed to meet
lecture engagement for this evening, and
want spiritual advice The tempest
tossed Theodore arrived at 1890 clock
p. m, on his way to fill an engagement
at Ironton."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15
Something Young Doctors Should Know.
New York Herald.l

An exchange which devOtes special
attention to sanitary affairs suggests
that the several hundred young ply
sicians just graduated should supplement
their studies by course in hygiene.
The advice is eminentiy good, but many
a man will open his eyes in astonish-
ment when he realizes that physicians
need any such counsel, it seems as
strange as to advise business men to
study arithmetic or preachers to peruse
the Bible. The plain truth is, however,
that while the medical schools teach
young men how TO alleviate pain and
heal the sick, the greater art of prevent
ing disease is in its infancy. How many
physicians are com, etent to discover
whether the atmosphere of residence
is pure or poisonous by reason of imper
feet drainage? How many can detect
impurities in drinking water--one of
the most prolific cau.es of death in
county homes? Have deathdealing hot
air furnaces been banishe from any
considerable number of hoTes by
medical advice? Have many families
DceH lnStIuC ny tHtIl lcspcCtiNc
physicians upon the necessity and
methods of home ventilation? Is the
family food supply and the manner of
preparing it frequent subject of pro-
fessional advice? All these are matters
of tbs gravest Importance as affecting
human life, yet nine families in ten are
continually violating sanitary rules re-
garding one or the other without word
of remonstrance from their medical
advisers, and there is good ground for
belief that physicians own families suf-
fer as much as any others from neglect
of these and kindred higienic require
ments. Until the days of this ignorance
are gone medical attentions will not
rise above the level of mere pottering.
Let the new generation Of physicians
regard these things if they would secure
and retain good class of patients. To
attend family OF children through
diphtheria, without losing any, is quite
success, but greater one would be to
discover and aboli.h the cause when the
malady first manifests itself, and the
same is true of the many other diseases
that are due to local conditions.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

THE approaching Democratic National
Convention at Cincinnati is already gen,
Grating trouble, the difficulty herein re.
ferred to being the telegraphic arrange
ments at Music Hall, where the Conven-
ton is to be held. 1t is asserted that
newspaper correspondents present will
require the use of sixty wires. The tel
egraphic companies state they can fur
nish ample facilities and to that end de-
sire to at once set to work erecting pc es
to conduct the necessary wires to the
hall, but the city authorities, upon some
pretext-what, no fellow can find out
refuse to let them use the streets for that
purpose, and hence there is an awkward
and altogether perplexing blockade.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15
WOlfDOgs.

About two years ago, the DeadwoOd
Times says, two bulldogs, for some un-
known cause, wandered from the ranch
of Bratt & Co., near the head of Bird
wood, and joined band of rowing
wolves. They did not return to the
ranch, and have lived with the wolves
ever since. Within the past year
species of half dog and wolf has been in
Testing that section and committing dep
relations. They possess the cunning
of the wolf combined with the ferocious-
ness and pluck of the bulldog, and are
consequently much more to be dreaded
than the common prairie wolf, and are
far more bold and savage in their dep
relations upon the herds and the be-
lated traveller across the plains. These
wolf.dogs, or wolves, are supposed to
be the oAsprings of the bulldogs alluded
to. They are becoming quite numerous
and troublesome.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15
A Demand for Men Eighteen Feet Long.

A soldier who served in the swamps
of South Carolina during the war tells
the following story: Among the
officers whom remember we'll at Morris
Island was Col Sewell, of New York, a
most excellent officer and an accom-
plished engineer. Col Sewell was en-
gagged on the Swamp Angel and being
very energetic himself, he was not
afraid to enter the swamps. His sur
prise can be imagined when one day one
of his leutenants whom he had ordered
to take twenty men and enter the
swamp, said he could not do it.
"And why, sir, cant you do it?'
cried the energetic Sewell.
The mud is too deep, Colonel," +" re-
piled the Lieutenant.
You can at least try" said Sewell.
The Lieutenant did 50 and in an hour
returned, his men covered with mud
from head 10 foot.
Here, now" cried Sewell, on seeing
them, what brings you back"
Colonel, the mud is over my mems
heads. can't do it,
Oh! but you can make a requisition
for anything that is necessary Tor the
safe passage of the swamp, and | will
give it to you, but you must go through
it."
The Lieutenant did make a requisi-
ton in writing, which was as follows
ii want twenty men eighteen feet
long to cross swamp fifteen feet deep"
The joke was good one, but Sewell,
who was terribly in earnest, could not
just then appreciate it, and he promptly
arrested the Lieutenant for disrespect to
his superior officer. Another lieutenant
was detailed, and he went to the swamp,
feIled the timber, and accomplished
what his unfortunate predecessor had
failed to do. Col. Sewell built his bat.
terry with tic aid OF wheelbarrOws and
sand, and the remains Of it sill stand
rs monument to his energy and skill
as an engineer.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15
A Glyccrinc Barometer.

A new glycerine barometer has been
invented by Mr.. James b. Jordan, of the
London Mining Record office, and is
being tested at Kew. The cistern is
cylindrical vessel of copper lined with
tin, five inches deep and ten inches in
diameter, fitted with screwed cover, the
air having access through small hole
in the cup attached to the cover, which
has a recess holding cotton wool for
filtering out the dust. The main tube,
twenty-seven feet long, is connected
with the cistern by attachment with a
soldered joinD to projecting piece of
tube which enters the cistern through
the bottom, and is fitted at its opening
with a screwed plug. The tube is an
ordinary piece of metal gas-pipe five.
eighths of an inch in diameter, furnished
at the top with gun-metal socket, into
which is cemented glass tube four feet
long, with an inside diameter of one
inch, terminating in an open cup, and
fitted with an India-rubber stopper.
The fluctuations of the level of the
columns of glycerine are observed and
read off on brass scales, placed on either
side of the tube and fitted with indices
and verniers moved by mill heads at
the bottom of the scales. One of these
scales gives the length of the column of
glycerine, the other corresponding
length of a column of mercury. A
variation of tenth of an inch in a
mercurial column is shown by a change
of more than an inch in the glycerine
column and the latter is therefore
expected to show minute variations
which are imrerceptible in the former.
Glycerine absorbs moisture freely when
exposed to the air, but this is prevented
in the new barometer by covering the
exposed surface in the cistern with a
layer of heavy petroleum oil specially
prepared.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

TaE correspondent of the New York
Tribune now travelling in Ireland, Says
that in one cabin he visited, the earth
was the only floor, Il calf shared the one
room, which was stable, kitchen, nursery,
all in one. An old woman ghastly and
yellow, and covered with rags which no
one in America would have kept even in
the ash barrel, lay dying of slow de-
cline. The mother Il young woman
with six children, all in rags was in the
room. Nine persons occupied the hovel.
II was tolerably decent cabin-com-
pared with what he saw afterwards
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15
Handicapped at li5 Pounds.

II lNttB" lllhuh'.l
A distressing occurrence, which should
be warning to all unmarried men, oc-
Cured the other evening on the West
side the victim being a youth Of the
most exemplary habits, and almost the
sole support of poker game into which
he had been roped early in the season.
For some time past he has been paying
attention to a beautiful but experienced
girl of twenty, his natural tinidity,
however, serving as a shield to ward Oft
dangers which always attend enterprises
of the kind in which he was engaged.
Seeing that he was not to be captured
by ordinary means, the cold-bloodei
siren conceived plot which she imme-
diately proceeded to put into execution.
The next time her victim called he was
ushered into the lair commonly known
as the parlor, and induced to deposit
himself in large armchair, while the
assassin of his happiness occupied an
adjacent sofa Knowing that he was an
admirer of fast horsefesh, the striped
stockinged demon artfully directed the
conversation in that dire ction, and
finally asked what handicap was.
"Why," said the young man, 1T is a
race in which the horses carry different
weights: for instance, one that carries
200 pounds, while all the rest are in at a
100 or so, is said to he handicapped" :"
"Then," said the sorceress, while a cold
light seemed to be emitted from her
eyes, "if | were to sit on your knee you
would be handicapped at l45 pounds,
wouldn't your 1t is hardly necessary
to say that the unfortunate man made
no resistance, that in moment she was
seated there, and that the old man
opened the door at precisely the right
time.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

MINISTER CHRIsTIANCY, profoundly
jealous of his wife, accepted the appoint
ment of Minister to Peru with the fond
hope that in a strange land, and far
away from any probable admirers of his
wife, he would have her all to himself,
and no cause to feel i'll at ease in his
marital relations, but the rent had be-
gun and there was no preventing it re-
sultng in Il final separation. Mrs. Chris
tiancy says he treated her illy-or
meanly. He was positively jealous of
her, and there is not always limit TO
the conduct of a jealous person.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

AN exchange very thoughtfully re-
marks that the spectacle of an elderly
Senator from a sovereign State dodging
behind the marble pillars and through
the stately corridors of the Capitol to
keep out of sight of fearful woman
who claims him as the unacknowledging
parent of musical infant in her arms,
is not calculated to enhance the respect
in which the United States Senate is
he'd by newspaper correspondents and
gallery visitors" in all of which we are
forced to observed there is good deal
of truth.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

SAYS PecRs Sun: Two Congressman
who own paper mill have got more in
huence in Washington than all the
friends of all the newspapers in America.
A hundred paper manufacturers can
hold this country by the nose, and the
newspapers are as helpless as pulling in
fants. The boasted influence of the
press don't amount to a row of no headed
pins, and the sooner newspapers quit inn
agining they have influence the better
il will be for them. Better all turn
newspaper pirates, and when a man
comes for office prove conclusively that
he has Just escaped State prison, where
he was sentenced for numbering his
grandmother. The papers have always
tried to do the fair thing and it don't
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

THE Knoxville (Tenn.) Chronicle takes
the following pleasant view of the re-
cent banquet extended by Cincinnati to
Southern merchants: "We have not
seen in our exchanges, nor heard from
those who were present at Cincinnati
last week, a single word of criticism,
much less disapprobation, of the man
agement of the great event The uni
versal judgment is, the people of the
Queen City are as hospitable as they are
public-spirited and as sociable as they
are enterprising.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

THE Chicago Board of Education has
enacted a rule that Hereafter the mar
riage of female teacher shall be con-
sidered as equivalent to the rendering of
her resignation and the acceptance
thereof" 1t received much opposition
from several members of the Board itself,
and the Lnter-Ocean publishes both
editorial criticisms and sharp letters
from correspondents which made it
warm for those proposing the innovation.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

WIN. Fl. VANDERBILT is reported to be
worth $l30OG0,000. His income from
money invested in United States per
cent. bonds alone amounts to $3,450 per
day, or s145.75 per hour, sleeping or
waking, yet this is but one third of the
capital he has invested, and which is
constantly multiplying itself.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

before the animal has breathed its last
The butchers console themselves, doubt
less, with the idea that the feeling of a
dumb animal is only skin deep; but per
haps the dumb animals MT give the
butchers credit even for that depth Of
feeling.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

THE London fog does more than make
the place as dark as dungeon. 1t is
killing off Londoners with somewhat
alarming rapidity. During the past
winter the fog was very prevalent and
the death rate has correspondingly in
creased. In one week last month, the
deaths amounted to 1876, most of them
being caused by diseases Of the respira.
tory organs.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

THE Duchess of Marlborough would
seem to be drawing distinctions very
fine when she says there is destitution
but not famine in Ireland. 1t is prob
ably as disagreeable to starve to death in
six months as in six weeks, and that can
be the only real distinction in Her
Grace's definitions.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

THE procession of Nihilists and sus-
pected persons which for months has
been vending its way from st. Feters-
burg.to Siberia, is receiving heavy acces-
sions under the dictatorship of Melikoff.
Private advices from the Russian Capt.
tai representa- statcof things that can not
exist long without driving the people
mad
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

IT is reported that Professor Smith
contemplates severing his connection
with Dartmouth College in order to ac-
ccpt position at Yale. He is consid-
cred one of the finest mathematicians
in the country.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

THE failure of the scheme to annex
to the State Of Kansas, Kansas City,
has prompted an effort in Eastern Kan
sas to split the State bodily in two,
Eastern Kansas taking the best half, of
course, and going into business on her
own account.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

OLEoMARGARINE has only one alvan.
tage that we ever heard of. If you
don't wish to use it as butter-and the
chances are pretty heavy that you don't
You have only to run wick through
it and use it for candles. 1t is also use.
full for chalking the bridge of the nc Sc,
in case Of local colds,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

ALTHOUGH Miss Jessie Raymond is
making it rather warm for Senator Hill,
in Washington, it is authoritatively
stated that she is not of good reputation
in her native State, Georgia.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

"PA, DEAR" asked his son and heir,
tell me what is the difference between
and accident and misfortunep "Pa,
DEAR" gave it up. "Well," said his SON
and heir, if my tailor were to fall into
a deep pond it would be an accident;
but II anyone were to pull him out 1t
would be q misfortune"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

"SEND us $4,000 women at once" is
the cry from Arizona. And the Detroit
Free Press adds that the men out
there have evidently grown tired of
splitting wood and knocking down
tramDs
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

THE Ohio Senate the other day passed
a bill prohibiting pool-selling on horse
races. A member proposed to include
pools on elections, but the Senate held
that the line had to be drawn some
"a. boro
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

RUNNING to fire is one of the un.
deniable privileges of an American.
Run he will. And it doesn't make any
difference whether he is lame in both
legs, and wears porous plaster and a
chest protector. he's bound to get to the
fire. We mention this simply to show
that men have some advantages over
women.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

ALTHOUGH the Lower House passed a
bill to that effect, the Rhode island Sen
ate rejected the proposed Constitutional
samendment granting to women the
right to school suffrage.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

THERE is no reason why an Indian in
this country should hold any more land
than any white man. They did not
make any of it and have done nothing to
imnrova IT,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

A REIGN of terror exists in Orange
County, Ind. A band Of unknown men
have whipped Il number of the most
prominent citizens of the county whom
they caught out late at night
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

THE Kentucky Senate has passed a
bill to strike from the general statute
the qualifying word "white."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

THE reduction of salaries of Govern
. ment employees is under discussion by
the House Committee on Public EXpendi-
turpS
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

ACCORDING to the reporter of the
Chicago Tribune the cattle in the stock
yards Of that city are skinned alive;
that is to say, the operation begins long
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

THE statement has come from Hayes
own lips that Hayes is not opposed to a
second term of the Presidency.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

EX-EMPREss EUGENE has sailed for
South Africa, to visit the scene Of the
Prince Imperial's death.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

THE whipping-post bill passed by the
Lower House of the Kentucky Legisla-
ture some time since was rejected in the
Senate,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

THE New York HeraMs Irish fame in
fund now considerably exceeds three
hundred thousand dollars
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

THE labors of the Salvation Army in
New York are not being crowned with
any great amount of success.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

THE inventor of "Fifteen was N. 7.
Chapman, of Boston, and he holds no
letters patent.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

PANsIEs, carnations, popPics, mari
Colds, dahlias, astors and dandeiionS
standing straight and stiff on their stems,
are to be much worn.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

Mr.. STORY, of the Chicago Times,
proposes to manufacture his own paper.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

The total subscriptions to the Parnell
Relief Fund, in the United States is
Sr5l .O32.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

THE Democrats of Rhode Island have
nominated Horace NJ. Kimball for Gov
ernor.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

SENIOR ROMERO has been appointed
Postmaster-General of Mexico.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

The clip of wool for 1879 is the larg'
est ever shorn in this country, amount.
ing to 23S, $50, 900 pounds.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

PEOPLE do not like to acknowledge
that they are poor, eXcept to book
agents.
The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1880-01-28
Musical Instructions.

Prof Wise, late of Ashland, KY, who
came here for the purpose OF instrueting
the Cornet Band, has concluded to settle
permanently with. US, and will give ia
structions on the Piano, Organ, Violin,
or any other musical instrument. Will
also give instructions in Harmony and
Thorough Bass. Pianos tuned on short
notice and at reasonable rates
Office ON Third Avenue in Doolit0s's
Building. h4lu =