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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24
The MOsqnitO in England.

riere it must he observed that mos
quitocs are especially hard on two sorts
of people. Young ladies and children,
and many men, they sting, till the vie
tins are all covered with hlisters and in
danger Of erysipeas This is pretty
bad, but we think the nervous persons,
whom mosquitoes sting little, but keep
awake with their bu2zing, are even more
to he pitied. They find the mosquitoes
bark worse than his bite. The latter
may not mark or hurt them much it is
question of constitution and there
are people with whom the bite does not
"take, as they say of vaccination. 8ut
they suffer all night long from the shril,
persistent noise of the mosquitoes trum-
pet. At the first warning they leap up,
light candle, take it into bed, and try
to catch the intruder. No one cnn guess
| how difficult this is. You soon find the
mosquito on the curtain, where he lies
apparently asleep. Very cnntionsl y You
stalk him, your hand is just over him,
and Justice is about to he done, when
the vicious creature flies away and
amrses himself in mid-air. Presently
he settles, and the chase begins again,
till the hunter sets fire to the tlimsy cur
tains, and has quite enough work to do
in extinguishing the fire. After that
mosquitoes come and go as they please,
without let or hindrance, and day dawns
on feverish and frantic man, who has
only bagged two or three Of his innum'
erablc enemies. Late in the morning
mosquitoes sleep, overcome with triumph
and the relreSllment which they have
snatched from their enemy, They may
now be killed, and it is curious to see
as any one who crllshes them will See
how much of mans vital fluid one mos
quito can absorb. They who nre fortu-
nately inexperienced i'll the ways of
mosquitoes will now understand that the
insect is one Of the greatest players that
nature tolcrates. There are more dan
gerous lies-though the mosquitoes bite
is sometimes poisonous and severe--but
there is no more irritating creature III
the world than the mosquito.
Norway and Sweden suffer more even
than the South from mosquitoes. The
mild Bulgarian drends them, and there
is ghastly story Of drunken Bulga-
rian who tied up his wife in a mosquito
trap. The poor woman was bitten to
death, and her husband observed in the
morning that he had suffered almost rs
much as if he had not thought of his
savage expedient. Greece is, perhaps,
more remarkable for the insect whence
is derived the verb to flee" than for
mosquitoes and the same remark holds
good of the Baden contingent None Of
the countless snakes of America or In
dia cause more trouble, when the host
of minor miseries is added up, than
mosouitOes do - LOndOn NgUS.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24
Freaks of thp vpIsurNuII,

Names are always great stumbling
block to tho clerks, and addresses are
composed of names. Most of us have
tricks OF writing names in any but
distinct fashion; and, although the post
Office pelsistently reminds us, on the
forms given us to write our kilograms
on. that the writing should be plain,
this advice, like most other advice, Is
but too often neglected. Hence many
kilograms get altogether astray, some
times to the not slight discontinue of
those into whose hands they fall, and
who, unwilling that any error has been
made, forthwith act upon them. 1t Is
related that woman residing III some
small street in Manchester once re-
ceived what appeared to be summons
from her husband to come up to HIM IN
London. Very much alarmed, she ut
once started On her way she got IN
conversation with another woman who
was in the same carriage, and who she
found was also going to see her husband,
WHO was in London i'll. This woman
had been expecting to receive tele-
gram from her husband, and, not hear
ing, had grown anxious, and had hnally
set off without tho telegram. Further
parley revealed the fact that their names
were the same; that their husbands
names we're the same ; that they both
lived in thesame quarter in Manchester;
and it finally transpired that the tele-
gram which had been delivered to the
first woman was the very one which the
,ocond had been waiting ior-the error
in delivery having been caused by some
,uch mistake as "Hamilton street for
Henrietta street "A mistake very
likely attributable to want OF distinct
ness in the writing. Another curious
case of coincidence of which we have
hoard was that of telegram addressed,
mJobn Stillingwise, Brookdean, mr..
Mirkby Lonsdale, from Robert StilllnS-
wise his brother, begging him to come
ot once TO him at hotel which he lndl-
coted in Leeds. The address Brook
dean was in some way altered, and the
telegram was delivered to another John
StiIiingwise living somewhere in the
ns;abborhood of Kirkby Lonsdale.
Tbis unfortunate man, who had not
haard from his brother Robert Tor some
v twenty years, at once started off II, in
stormy, wintry weather, reached Leeds
IN the evening, and was told by the
inndIord that he could not see his
brother that night, as he was very lar
from we'll, and had gone to bed; Inc
next morning he was ushered into Robert
St;iIingwise's room, expecting to see his
Iong.lost brother, when, to his extreme
ostonishment , and disgust, he found HIM
soIf confronted by an utter stranger =
Rinckwood's Magazine.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

QEEEN VICTORIA, though one of the
greatest sovereigns in the world herself,
evidently does not believe in women's
rights. She gave notice that her name
would he withdrawn, as a patron OF the
international Medical Congress, recently
adjourned, if women were admitted to its
meetings, and they we're thcreupon ex-
cluded. Now it would seem that il
there is any career open to women it IS
that of medicine, and Of course il they
can be doctors they should have repre-
sentation in the medical councils. The
Queens opposition to them is a notable
instance of woman's want of confidence
in her sex.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

The Baltimore SWa tells of Robert
Pryer, of New York, who has devised a
yelocipede steamer, of which the hull is
to be ont of water. The vessel floats in
three hollow spheres Of sheet steel, one
forward and two astern, and all provided
with flenGes to grip the water as they
are revolved. The upper works of the
ship are to depend upon the spheres
that do the propelling, and vii! be
made as light as possible. An ocean
steamer 200 feet long by 100 feet deep
has been designed, Of which the spheres
or paddles are 60 feet i'll diameter.
Grcat speed is expected 20 be made.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24
Show her the notice, and say that of

Show her the notice, and say that Of
course she will not want you now that
she is rich; that you cannot submit to be
called mercenary; that will fetch her"
The uncle and nephew called together
that morning, aud after the former had
told Acantha of her grandfather's be-
quest, the latter uefully withdrew his
proposal.
"Oh, Mr.. Sunilge, what poor opin-
ion you must have Of me! Do You think
that I would permit the wealth of the
Indies to come between Inc and the man
] love? No true woman ever weighs love
against money"
Miss Edlitlc, you overwhelm mel
You are nobler-" stammered Jasper
"Nobler than you are?" said Acantha,
sarcastically, with a sudden change in
voice and manner. 81 might easily he
that Gentlemen" confined she, slow
ly, opening the door that led into the
hail, aud laying her hand within the arm
Of Hubert Luttrell, who stood there with
n smile on his face, "let me present to
You my husband, he who loved me when
| was poor, and to whom | was married
this morning"
Tho two plotters gasped and turned
pale. Jasper was the first to recover
himself. He exclaimed: "N1iss Edlitfe,
your conduct has been unwomanly!
You encouraged me-"
"Why did | encourage you?' she
asked, quietly interupting him. "For
your own good TO teach you a lesson.
Mr. Surridge, your conduct has been
most unmanly! You Tilted Miss Lottie
solely for my money; you would have
married me with a lie on your lips! All,
you both look surprised; you wonder who
revealed your secret? Mr. Clabaugh
was my informant"
81 was not" Mr.. Clabaugh rctortcd.
Eyes, you were. | was an unnoiced
listener to part Of your conversation at
the Peagood Hotel, and your dilatori-
ness, Mr.. Snmidge, gave me the one
days start needed to come home and
instruct my mother and Hubert as to
my plan. Perhaps you remember that
the walters at that hotel were all young
ladies'; several of us schoolteachers
needed both money and change of air,
SO we engaged ourselves during the va
cation as walters at the Peagood Hotel,
and gained some money, plenty of oxcr-
else, mountain air and little fun In
addition, gained material for n parIor
comedy, in which you, Mr. Surridge,
have admirably performed the part Of
first villain. Ring down the curtain"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24
Health Food,

1t is no economy to use inferior food.
II is saving of money and time and
health to give ahigh price for what we eat,
if it be fresh and perfect, than to obtain
it for less on account OF it's being wilt
ed or old or partially decayed. Some
people prefer their meat tender by
keeping, which means that decomposi-
ton is taking place in palmer phrase,
it is rotting Such meats require less
chewing and may appear very tender,
but it is physiological fact that they
are not digested as easily or as quickly
rs solid fresh meat. When vegetable
begins to wilt it is no longer that vege-
table, because change OF particles has
taken place, and in such proportion it is
unnatural--it is dead-and to eat it
tends to death. One of the most horri-
BILE forms of disease is caused by eating
sausages which have been kept long
time more common in Germany than
elsewhere. Scarcely anything saddens
us so much in passing through some Of
the by-streets and the more obscure ~.
enues as the sight of the long-kept meats
and shriveled vegetables which are sold
to the unfortunate poor at the corner
Dutch groceries. But the poverty.
stricken are not the only sufferers the
richest men come in for their share, for
themselves and for their families, in pro-
portion as the mistresses Of their splendid
mansions are incompetent or inattentive
to those household duties, the proper
performance or neglect Of which makes
all the difference between true wife
and a contemptibls doll. With all the
high-sounding advantages Of pretentious
"Young Ladies' Boarding Schools" and
Institutes" and all that, with all the
twaddle about learning French and Ger
man, and music and aesthetics, how
many OF these paint-like girls are any
more fit to take charge Of q mans house
hold that to navigate ship or calculate
An eclipse
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24
Prospect OF an American POmpeii.

Every happiness has its shadow. In
the perfect sunshine of San Rafael, Cali
fornia, over against tho purple lines Of
the perpetual summer sea, the inhabit-
ants have been awakened from their
dreams of earthly paradise by unmistak-
able signs Of the neighbOring mountain
of Tamaulipas that the internal fires are
making ready for such volcanic eccen.
tricities as make the lovely wales that
border Vesuvius an unceasing menace of
destruction. Vesuvius has within three
thousand years destroyed two cities and
tens OF thousands Of lives. San Rafael
is now contemplating with anything but
composure the fate that Pliny describes
at Pompeii and Herculaneum 800 years
AGO.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

THE size of Frances African engage
ments can be judged from the fact that
she now has 10000 troops along the
coast of Tunis and Algeria, and is ar
ranging to send 0,0O0 more Frenchmen
to take their chances in that precarious
struggle for glory. Africa is sponge
Which has absorbed good deal of
French valor, but Frenchmen forget the
struggle for Algeria, which lasted from
1880 to 1860 and cost millions of francs
Yet the French Government will hold
Algeria and Tunis, and eventually work
into little Tripoli.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24
mixed up Just as badly as ever we were.

SPEAKING Of the rumor of the Pope
transferring the Holy See to America,
the Buffalo Courier says "There is
no reason why the Pope should not
come, certainly, if he chooses. He would
have to leave his ideas of temporal
power behind, of course, and come pre-
pared to see all subjects discussed in an
unlicensed press with perfect freedom"
Probably this is the sentiment that
caused the Pope, the other day, to say,
" L will not leave Rome anti 1 am COM
nelled To-"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

MORE than 1000 cakes Of toilet soap
we're stolen from the Fifth Avenue Hotel
last year by lady guests, and 2, 800 towels
went after the soap. Who's thief p
Free Press. What kind Of guests did
you say? Persons who "lave not
wisely, but towel" are not ladies. II
the Fifth Avenue people were wider
awake, We should not hear Of such soap
hcrriio proceedings. None but guests
of the lowest caste-steal soap. The
Windsor ought 10 be the iavorits foe
soap thieves
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

EX-SENATOR PLATrs loss is his gain.
by reason of being President of the
United States Express Company, the
Southern Central Railroad, a National
Bank, and State Quarantine Inspector,
his total annual income, in salaries
amounts to $4,000 However, the glory,
or perhaps =" "honor," attached to being
United States Senator. and that. too,
until in 1887, is thing that no one could
give up without feeling little sore
about it, and who will question but that
Platt is human.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24
THE GROCHRS BeTH.

When hrst saw my Mary Jane
said that would WOO her;
Her face made pris'ners OF my ayes;
My heart, alao, Glove to hsy.
When to her nrst told ny love,
Oh, how my heart did nutterl
And yet 1t pleased her when said
III wed with no one butter.
Our love in smoothess oarrants ran;
Her parents didn't chide her
When We sometimes took moonll. Walks,
Nor when l sat be-cider;
And mover, never, no, not once,
Did my love treat Inc lily;
'Tls not surprising, them that she
Should be my picca-lilh.
An years have passed since FIRST We met
Aud life still smoothly passes;
a girl and two small boys arc ours
wish we had mo-lasses!
We hope these three will bo preserved,
For us to love and handle,
Until tho time when old grim Death
viii SNUFF out lfs'a burned candlA
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24
THREE boys at Lynn, Mass, who's

THREE boys at Lynn, Mass, whose
patriotism compelled them to break into
a church on .he Fourth of July and ring
the bell, have finally been fined $40
each and costs. The object Of the boys
was perfectly right, and so was that of
the Justice that fined them, but then
when these boys are wanted to go forth
and fight the Indian they will be apt to
refuse to bulge IN inch.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

A MINISTER out in the far West, who
has been troubled good deal over mar
riage fees, issued the following price
list: Zone marriage, plain, ~ ditto,
kissing the bride, So; ditto, trimmed
with one groomsman and bridesmaid, 81.
Fifty cents for each additional grooms'
man or bridesmaid. Bachelors past forty
will he charged extra. Maids Of age, III
per centum of. Mileage will be charged
In long distance matches. Liberal dis
count to clubs. Payments In cash no
notes or securities accepted. No money
refunded, or rebates made for poor gooda
Come early and come often"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

QUEEN VICTORIA has taken occasion 10
snubb the philanthropic Baroness Bur-
dett- Coutts- Bartlett The Queen ought
to call to mind the fact that the fortune
of the Baroness exceeds her own, that
she hasn't begged it from Parliament or
the people, and that she has habit OF
occasionally giving literally to suffering
humanity. She does not deserve to be
suubbed even by q queen, although she
has a young American for a husband
ondisnot the mother of fourteen children,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

Boston people,-an intellectual set
will scarcely hesitate to claim anything,
even ones pocketbook. A Boston man
now claims to have been born with a
bullet in his liver. Liver in his bullet
would have been better, but bullet in his
liver, we can't believe.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

TIE one-cent subscription fund raised
by the Cincinnati COn'ncrcial for @. A.
Cook, of Brownsville, Ohio, to pay fine
assessed him for slapping a man in the
mouth who wished the President would
die, has grown to unexpected proper
tons, and will place Cook, who is poor
man. in rather comfortable circum-
stances. The contributors, so far as one
is able to Judge, have been irrespective
of party.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

MORE ladies' and children are said to
be learning to swim this year than dur
ing any other similar period The pos
sibility of accident on frequently
crowded excursion boats should make
this kind of tuition almost imperative.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

AN EFFORT Is being made to draw a
line in Ohio between people who drink
and people who don't drink, whisky.
There is little doubt, however, as to
which side the crowd will be found upon,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

GENERAL HANcocK expresses the
opinion that the President will be able
to attend to his duties in few weeks.
He bases his belief on observations of
gunshot wounds during the war.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

People in Cincinnati have almost
forgotten what water tastes like. They
believe that it is unfit to drink, averag-
Ing nearly two pounds of sewage to the
1000, 900 gallons.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

THERE is another widow in England
worth marrying. She is the Hon. Mrs.
Meynell-Ingram, daughter of Lord Hal
flax, and has an income of $4,000 a
year. Don't somebody want to love a
widow?
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

HENRY WILLARD, the great protector
of railroad and other enterprises, was,
not so many years ago, Washington
correspondent. Newspaper men will
come ont and shine in spite Of every
thing.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

AMERICANS are said to have spent over
$4,000, 900 in France last year for works
of art, engravings and books. We will
not let our needy suffer if we can help it.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24
A MISS McCARrY was married in Lou.

A Miss McCARrY was married in Lou
isville, and the Courier-JomnaPs ac-
count of the event was headed, "Mated
in May" We suppose that Joined in
June" and Attached in August" will
be the fate of those who come later in the
season. Chicago Tribune. May we
also suggest "Spliced in September, 4"
Fastened in February" Modern
ArQO.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

drummers employed by the merchants
of the United States are $12O, 600, 600 a
vaar exclusive of salaries. The con
sumer pays it all without a grumbie.
but that may be because he hasn't
heard as much about the drummer as
be has the railroad and other monopo-
lies, When we get rid of the perpie1i-
ties that we have now, we can ny 70
those that We know not Of and ges
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

MORALITY in Michigan is losing its
grip on the female population. As
last measure the State is compelled to
establish reform school for girls
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

NELLIE GRANT We scarcely ever hear
of her now. She and her husband, and
the little Sartorises of course, are liv-
ing on an income of $4,000 year.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

The President has been doing so well
80 long, according to the doctors, that
there are some people who think he
ought to be up, but he is not.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

ENGLAND gave the cold shoulder to
the international Money Conference.
England ought not to be disturbed.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

The New Hampshire Legislature
spent several weeks trying to codify a
new railroad law, but gave the thug up
in disgust.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

IHE crop prospects OF this country are
Just about as poor as any one wants to
see them.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24
TOPICS OF THE DAY,

SECRETARY BLAINE is sufferer from
malaria.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

The Cincinnati Commercial is author
ity for the statement that opium kills
100000 Cinnamon every year.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

STANLEY is charged with using chain
gangs of slaves in making a road in
Africa.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

PROF. HUXLEY reaps salaries to the
amount of $l5O,0OO year.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

A PARIS journal says that Baron. tho
e;noer il of an unusual height-so tall,
indeed that when he went the other day
70 consult a doctor about severe cold
in the head, the physician said, MY
friend, you must have got your teet wet
last year.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-24

PROHIBITION was defeated in North
Carolina by a majority of 100000.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-01-16
THE sun FOR 1881.

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