The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-08
Editorial Correspondence.
BURSEv Hocsr. !
CINCISNATi, March 3l>t. lSS0.{

last Friday. arrived IN Cincinnati at
els the same day, and here nm, at this
writing. snngly ensconred In Il room OF
the Burnct llousc-a very good hotel, but
II very dear one. have stopped ut many
hotels where equal accommodations could
bc had Tor half the money. When you
visit Cincinnati you can do better at 9TH
er hotels than the Burnct.
| Nv route was over the CINCINNATI
SOUTHERN RAILWAY, 1886 miles Ia length.
and built by the city OF Cincinnati ut Il
cost OF about S20OO0.00D The city leases
the road to Il company. 1t Is certainly
the hest new railroad ever tIavcled. The
bed Is solid. and steady hand could al
most write Il letter Us lcgiby while the
cars are going ut the rate of tl'irty miles
to the hour us IL could write one under
any other condition. And the route l.
not mouotonNus. You 90 for more than
one hundred miles through. and over, and
upder mountains. and there Is Il continual
change OF scenery. There are more tun-
nls aud longer ones; more bridges anG
higher ones; more .cuts and deeper ones.
on this road than ever saw .on any road
of equal length. One tunnel Is 1900 feet
lohg--nrarly three times the length OF the
tunncl tIlrVu9h the mountain near Win
chester. Another tunnel is 1900 feet in
length. and there are twenty eight tun-
nels in all. At one point The lr In goes di-
rectly out Of a,tunnel on to Il bridge, or vice
versa. And the High Bridge In Kentucky
Is Il wonder II is one hundred miles
from Cincinnati. and il is:.t'oo. hundred and
eighty-sin feet high! said to be- the highest
In the world! Think of going over Il
bridge more than twice rs high rs the
point of the .spire on the Courthouse in
Winchester! | have been to the top of
Brooks monument in Canada; have gone
up the inclined plane on the Gravity Rail
way ut Mauch Chunk. Pa. har" gaztd in
TO the abyss Of the tt aming Niagara. but
never have enjoyed any OF these NJ much
as | did ride over the Kentucky High
Bridge And was 80 glad when the
train was over past-bey ond--out OF dan
ger.
Well. CINCINNATI is go-ahcad city. 1t
contains about 100000 souls, without re
gard to race, color. or previous condition
of scrvitude. There Is boom" ia the
way OF manufacturing and a perfect e tiel-
yescencc in the way OF lager beer. 1t is Il
great city. bnt very dirty one. That IL.
you need to wash your hands heavily ifI
you expect to have anything nigh unto
clean hands. bought half adozen shirts
yesterday. istarted from home with one
clean one on. and one clean one to spare.
1t is no ones business why l did not
bring more than one clean shirt. But !
llave purchased six new ones, and paid as
much for them Ms If had bought them in
Nashville, or Winchester. You see, the
demand for clean shirts is heavy in Gin
cinnati, and Il large demand creates large
price.
Have been to the GEOLOGICAL GARDENS.
and no one who visits this Queen City"
should fail to visit them. The park con-
tains 65 acres, securely enclosed. Here
YOU will ind the best collection OF ami
mails in America. am sure that the COL
lection is ahead of any ever saw ia any
travelling menagcrie. Lions. uanthcrs.
tigers, leopards. giraffes, lamas. elk, bears,
all kinds OF birds, snakes. &c. are here.
The giraffe is wonderful quadruped. l
can't understand why 1t has the hoof OF
q COW and the limbs ola horse, unless it
be that Darwin is corrcc; in his IDEAS of
evolution. am sure that Darwin fitted
all through my brain when looked upon
the large number of monktes here on
view. I'm sure saw the negro monkey,
the mulatto monkey, and--alaS my own
progenitOr! What wonderful effects from
little causes come. Dear rcat or, did you
ever examine closely an ouranG -outans
or gorilla. or, even monkey? And did
YOU not feel als il there was Il link or two
only between you and them? tell you,
we are not separated so widely as your
vanity may lead you to assume. Give me
Il No. gorilla and low order of human-
ity, and would not give the toss of Il cop
per between the two 50 far as propagation
is concerned. In fact, believe could
make an improvement upon some Of the
people who claim they have souls and
brutes have none.
have not time to mention all the
creatures | have seen in the Geological
Gardens. The great ,sca-lionS, be flowing
In their pools of water, and the great boa
constructors coilcd up in Il state Oftorpid.
ity, after having gorgcd themselves with
pigeons and rabbits, deserve mention, but
AM in too mGcl, Ola hurry. Unjust write
currente cdldmO. he ostrich specimen
here is y fine one. lie has a sort OF com-
promise foot between the COW and horse
that Is, he has two Toes, near unto hoOt.
In look ing upon him was reminded that
ostricl, featheis cost heavily. have read
that these birds sell for 1916 cacL that
each bird tit for plucking gives two crops
of feathers y year. and produces, on the
average. feathers to the value OF $;5 per
annum. An ostrich egg Is worth so or
more. and IL young ostrich, Just Matched.
is worth $50. They are plucked before
they ars yeai old. and they will live to Il
very great ags-say 80 years. With all
these facts in view, want to suggest to
Or. Metcalfe to leave or cultivating
ginseng ut Winchester, and 20 into the
farming of Ostricles
I anust give you little mo:c OF my ex-
periencc in Cincinnati: Last Sunday
ninlt I went IN the GRIND Onera uouse,