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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-05
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HUMoRs of the day-Small-pox, saH-
rheum, etc.
DAMMIT is postoHlce name in Sewer
county, Tenn.
A NEw1Y-wEDDED husband says 1t
should be called matrimoney."
SOME Philadelphians named their
Colorado silver mine the "Scooper,"
and tbs name proved prophetic. They
have been scooped.
No WONDER the miser desires to take
his gold with him beyond the grave,
when even "death loves a shining
marc. "-Tumcrs Falls Reporter.
THERE are in Philadelphia 434
churches in New York city, 354, and
in Brooklyn, 24O. In no other Amer
can city are there more than 200.
FARMERS in Dallas county, Texas, Sc
cure ortesian wells, flowing six feet
above the ground, by boring to a depth
Of between sixty and seventy feet.
A CALIFORNIA woman, seven feet tall
and weighing 200 pounds, broke heE
heart for love of u little runt Of mag
wearing No. 4 boots and leading n poo
die by a in.-DetroH free Press.
INSANE by over.study of the Bible, q
young man named Pierce, of Theresa,
Jefferson county, N. Y, imagining that
his left hand had offended, deliberately
cut off every finger.
SMALL boy Crushing in front OF young
lady wearing large poke bonnet, and
staring her full in the face)-" You've
lost your bet, Charlie; told yer it
waln't an old woman"
DOGS chased the murderer of their
master, ut Navasota, Tex, but only held
him fast when they caught him. The
human pursucrs were less merciful, for
they hanged him to tree.
THE medical student of Maine must
dissoct before he can become an NJ. D.,
but the law provides that 10 bodies shall
be dissected except those OF executed
criminals, and another law abolishes
capital punishment.
AT Exeter, England, Young farmer
has been sent to Jail for n month for
shooting rabbit on farm of his own
occupation, while a man brought before
the same bench for brutally ill-treating
his wife was fined 3 shillings.
TIE Philadelphia Hcraid says that
the women of that city are busily en-
gagged in getting up political clubs,
They are about two feet long, and only
appear on parade when the husbands of
the women came home late ut night.
An old English miser named Rhodes,
who began making money as a Rubbish
gathercr, and lived and died IL squalor,
has bequcothcd 100000 between the
Royal FREQ Hospital, London, and the
National Lifoboat Institution, leaving
his relations penniless.
SOME philosophical paragrapher has
been struck with wonder at the persist
enco Of mothers in teaching their chill
drcn to talk, and tho equal persistence
with which they endeayor, n few years
later, to keep them from exercising their
talents in that line.
THE word "wclcome" on the door,
mat or worked in silk floss and framed
10 hang on the wall does not always
mean that tie relatives, even unto tho
third or fourth generation, may come in
Mt all times and make themselves per-
iectly ut home. --BOsi0n Globe.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-05

CHAs. G.. FA1RMAN, editor OF the Ell
mira IN. " advertiser, recently mar
ried Mrs. Welthy Whittett. Now j.
Lewis Whittett, step-son OF Mr.. Fair
man, becomes his son-in-law by marry
ing Miss Hattie B. Fairman, step
daughter of her mother. 1t will thus
be observed that Mrs. Whittett has no
father.in-law, and Mr.. Whittett, who
married his step-sister, has evaded the
complications arising from having
mother-in-law.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-05
A TROUBLESOME BOY.
BY BOB BCRDETTE.

BY BOB BCRDErTE.
81 hope nothing VIII happen to that
boy" the cross passenger remarked,
anxiously, as we were speeding north
ward from London. The boy in ques-
ton was about years old. He was en-
tertaiuing the passengers by running up
and down the aisle, shouting like a
Comanche Indian. He would run to
the rear door, kick the panels, and
shout "Ho~ Then he would run to
the forward door, kick it, and say
Ebay r When this performance be-
gan to grow madlening with the mo-
notony, the boy would lend it "a variety
by pausing to look into some passen-
gcr's face, while at the same time he
would strike ut him and shrek, "Il
kill your 1t was very interesting, and
we all loved the infant. Now and then
the mother would say, "Sammy, Sam
my, dear, you mustn't strike the gem
tlemau perhaps the gentleman doesn't
like it," And then the gentleman
would lie like Trojan, and say, "Oh,
yes, he didn't mind it; he liked little
boys"
And so we were all nervous and wor-
ried for fear the child might get hurt.
We fairly grew wild with anxiety. He
stopped at my seat, snatched the lap
tablets out OF my hands and roared,
"Gimmy that pencil ~ and when his
mother said, "Why, Sammy, | am
afraid you disturb the gentleman"
Sammy yelled, "TL Kill him!"
was so anxious about him that l
watched him all the way down the aisle
to see if he wouldn't fall and break his
neck. So we all sat and watched him,
with concern written all over our
faces. The boy snatchcd an apple away
from the fat passenger, kicked the cross
passengers vnlise, made faces at the sad
passenger, and hit the man ON the wood
box twice with Il stick. Once, and only
once, he made an offer to slap the woman
who talks bass ; but sheglarcd upon him
with croak that made his hair stand on
end, and he avoided her during t!.o rest
Of the trip.
At last, just as he was rushing up to
| the forward door to kick it, the impctu-
( Gus brakeman banged it open to an
nounco " station. 1t cracked that boy
on the head with the knob, and tho boy
acted very much as he would have acted
| had he been shot with a catapult, and it
/ took all the ice-watcr in the cooler to
cool off his head. and the boy was eff
fectually quoted down. And it was
really pleasant to see the wCaricd look of
anxious concern pass off the passengers
faces after the brakeman dropped the
boy. The cross passengers grim face
relaxed like u May morning; the fat
passenger winkcd at the man on the
wood-box, who was still rubbing his
knucklas with an air of tender interest ;
the sad passenger hummcd Il merry little
air, and the woman who talks bass gave
IL cheerful croall that was interpreted to
mean laughter. -Four passengers whose
names | could not learn gave the aston
ishcd brakeman 50 cents apiece. The
boy, with his head swathed up in wet
handkorchiefs, remained comparatively
quiet
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-05

THE tradition that Cologne Cathedral
would never be finished took its rise as
follows: A young architect in despair
ut the refusal Of his plans by Archbishop
Conrad went to the bank Of the Rhine
meditating suicide, when there APP
peared the devil himself, who offered
him, in exchange for his soul, the plan
of the cathedral as it stands to-day.
The young man demanded twenty-four
hours for reflection, and submitted the
matter to his confessor, who suggested
that on the morrow, when Satan
showed him again the design, he should
seize it with his left hand, and, drawing
rapidly a relic of st. Ursula from under
his robe with the right, strike the evil
spirit with it on tho brow. This was
done. Satan said "That's q cunning
trick of the church, but the design
which you seize shall never be finished,
and your name shall remain unknown
As he spoke he snatched away the upper
part of the design. The young archi-
tect died of modification without recon-
structlng the plan. For years events
seemed to bear out the old legend.
IT is a curious fact that the locomo-
tive which, with its train, went down
with the Tay bridge, is now running
regularly between Glasgow and Edin-
burgh. For three months it laid in the
bottom of the Tay, but when it was
brought up it was found uniniured, ex-
cept the funnel, dome, and weather
board, which had to be renewed. She
ran on her own wheels to Glasgow just
as she came out Of her long bath.
Strange feelings might arise in the trav-
eler's breast ON learning that his train
was drawn by that engine, but there is
locomotive engineer, it is said, In this
country running regularly upon raul
way upon which he was one time the
cause of q most terrible disaster
MAST, the caricaturist, has made tort
une Of $500, 900 by his pencil.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-05

IT is really getting tiresome to hear so
much about "the biggest crop" ever
known or heard of. First it was the
wheat then it was corn, afterward oats,
apples, potatoes, and almost everything
else. uptil now we hea, from the cram
berries. "Never was there anything
like it."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-05

WASHINGTON has had building boom
this year. So far 625 new buildings have
been erected, against 511 for the same
period last year. A large number OF
public men are building handsome resi-
dences at the capital.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-05

EDWIN BooTH is to act at the new
Princess Theater, London. The delay
in his appearance was caused by his re-
fusal to play Iago to the Othello Of
Charles Warner, which would in meas
ure subordinate him to a popular En-
glish star.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-05
MEMPHIS, in providing for the drain

MEMPHIS, in providing for the drain
apo of its houses, adopted an entirely
new system. The sewers are not more
than six inches in diameter, until they
have extended such distance that the
drainage they are likely to receive will
more than fill one-half the pipe. They
are then increased in size slowly, but
always with the view of keeping them
as small rs possible, while large enough
to do their work. They are used only
for house drainage. Storm water and
soil drainage are otherwise disposed OF.
The house Grains are uniformly four
inches in diameter, not trapped, and,
starting clear above the roofs of the
houses, are carried down to the culverts.
Fresh-air inlets are provided in the
streets, so that the house drains and
sewers have constant current OF an
passing through them.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-05
BRAINS AND BUSINESS.

Men of practical talent are now
sought for in country and city. They
are wanted everywhere and will be
called for hereafter more than ever.
Where are these men to come from.
these thousands of Major Generals in
commerce. Now is the time to train
young men for business pursuits, for
the great avenues to wealth, and dis
tinction and power which wealth con-
fers.
We are preparing young men for the
army at West Point, for the navy at
Newport, for the learned professions at
various universities. This is well. But
where one is wanted as q graduate ct
these institutions thousand arc
wanted in the great army OF busl-
ness. Parents, as you value the happi-
ness of your sons, give this matter a
careful consideration, a thorough bust
ness education will ever be blessing to
your children. -BWlington HatOk-Eye.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-05

A YOUNG man in Georgia has taught
the public lesson in respect to the
danger of hasty generalization. When
Tanner triumphantly tasted for forty
days the conclusion was jumped
to that the limit of life under priva-
ton has been very much understated.
Acting upon this assumption, the
Georgia man. Tuck Jackson by name,
refused food, expecting, no doubt,
he would live forty days, at least.
But alas for the force OF Tanners ex-
ample. He died on the seventeenth day,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-05

AN exchange says that the Rev. Mr..
Parsons, of Baldwinsyillc, n. Y, the
missionary who was recently robbed and
murdered by Turks, was IL remarkably
quiet and brave man: The following
incident is told of him. Some years ago
Mr.. Parsons, riding alone. unarmed, and
with nothing of value about him save a
small package of Bibles and Testaments,
was stopped by three desperadoes, who
commanded him to disburse i'll their
favor. 81 have no money about me,
mildly remarked the missionary. "What
are you carrying in your package
there?" roughly demanded one OF the
men. "Only good books" was the
answer; and, taking one Bible out, by
dint of exhorting and talking, these
hardened criminals were persuaded to
purchase and pay for Bible apiece,
they leaving money with him who had
intended stripping him of all he had. Mr..
Parsons would have been worth go, 600
a year to any insurance company.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-05
BIO FARMING.

A correspondent of the st. Louis Re-
publican tells of the wonderful farming
operations of DIR. Hugh j. Glenn, OF
Colusa county, Cal. The farm consists
of G5, 900 acres, 1000 of which are in
wheat and has 175 miles of fence. The
acreage yield is % bushels in favorable
seasons, and this is considered n favora-
bic one. OF this years crop DR.. Glenn
says, although he has on hand 100000
sacks, each holding 140 pounds, he
thinks they will not hold his wheat
He has his own machine and blacksmith
shops; boring, turning and planning
machines buzz saws, etc. lie manu-
features his own wagons, separators,
headers, harrows and nearly all the ma
chinery and implements used. He has
employed 50 men in seeding and l5O III
harvest, 200 head of horses and n4IIes,
SIS headers and other wagons, $50
ScIS Ol 1ldTucSS, IL IhClFc-looo ii''''i'j
3 slllky hay-rakes, u eignt-mule cult
vators, 4 Gem seed-sowers, 8 Buckeye
drills, 8 mowers, forty-eight-inch sep
arator, SO feet long and 1871 high, with a
capacity of 10 bushels per minute; l
forty-inch separator, SO feet long; 2
forty.feet elevators for self-feeder, l
steam barley or feed mill, twenty
horsepower engines. The working
force to run the separator is 66 men. 8
headers, 90 header-wagons, 100 horses
and mules. The average run OF the
machine is 1900 sacks, containing q
bushels each, per day. The utmost ca
pacitv OF the machine is 5000 sacks or
1000 bushels per day. The harvesting
force cut and thrash simultaneously,
and in fifteen minutes from the time the
header begins in the grain the wheat is
in the sacks.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-05

If you want to keep your boy at
home, make it pleasanter for him than
the street. Chalk a hop-scotch in the
hall, put hogshead Of molosses on tap
in the kitchen. have dog fight in the
back yard, make a "bully slide" on the
cellar door, have hand-organ and
monkey in the reception-room and a
German band on the stairs, hire a
"Geevus to be chaffed, let the boy
chalk callers backs on the LIST OF Janu-
airy, throw his baseball through the
windows, ring thu bells, and run away,
and "plug" the cook with fish-balls
Sunday mornings; but even then you
will have to engage a circus to drive
through the premises two or three times
in the season to "make it pleasanter
than the street."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-05

CANADA has definitely offered herself
up to the capitalists. She has definitely
agreed to turn over to a syndicate the
new Canada Pacific Company, in per-
petuity, that portion of the line which
has already been built and all informa.
ton in its possession, and will grant sub
sides in the form OF $200,O00,0OO Of
Canadian Government bonds and several
million acres of land along the line OF
road for the sake of its completion to
the Pacific coast.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-05

In Maine they have about as close a
"corner" on doctors as Chicago ever
GOT on pork. One law forbids man
practicing medicine without having dis
sected. Another forbids his dissecting
ANYBODY but criminals. A third has
abolished capital punishment. So that
the number of doctors is limited to the
number of persons who happen to die
in prison. Longevity there, it is said.
is becoming absolutely appalling
the undertakers.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-01-05

MAST, the caricaturist, has made a tort
une Of 5000, 900 by his pencil.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-23
YES7ERDAYS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

The whrIigig of Time does somewhat more
than bring about revenges. We had in the
commemorative ObseIvances of yesterday a
striking instance OF the way in which historical
miscellany arranges itself, and in which dis
similar persons and events widely separated by
time or CHARACTERISTICS get an equal hold upon
the human memory, without much sense of
proportion. IL is far reach from the days of
Thotnmes the Third to the days of George Wash
ington. What is the century and half which
has elapsed since the birth Of Washington to the
thirty-tive centuries which have gone by since
the pillar which yesterday found new sky and
a new continent was erected with sure faith
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-23

bags which were seized by tho Washington
Postmaster in October for having been fraud
ulently franked. This makes an average or
nearly two complaints for each Congressional
District in the country. They seem to have
done business on large scale. It might be
we'll to inquire further as to the force en-
ployed to mail go many documents, and who
paid for it, and as to the items in so large q
stamp account.
General Walker further complained that
letter from Virginia-"One of the
most important of theA campaign -
was opened by Republican officials,
although addressed 9" in a bold hand to the
Democratic headquarters, and when received
was Endorsed, I'm Treasurer's mail and opened
by mistake" Precisely what this important
letter contained we are not informed, but
General Walker can easily show its great i'm
pOrtance by producing it, when the public
would be able to judge of the magnitude OF
this particular outrage and learn just how the
Republicans took advantage OF its con-
tents in their conduct of the campaign.
The last complaint of General Walker
ia contained in letter from Ohio,
saying that 1000 copies of q Republican
speech by Congressman Frye had been re-
ceived there under the frank of Senator Hill,
of Georgia. which, it is stated. ''inust have been
forged" Precisely why a Republican CAM
pagn committee should forge the frank of q
Democratic Senator, and unnecessarily incur
suspicion thereby, when they might as easily
have forged that of Republican, we do not
understand; but General Walkers Ohio corre-
spOndent seems to have discovered that they did
commit just such foolish and unnecessary crime.
People who remember an occurrence some
what similar few years ago, which turned
out to be the work of some of the blunderlng
Democratic clerks then newly appointed, may
account for it upon an entirely different the
DRY from that Of General Walker and his
Ohio correspondent.
1t is now said upon Democratic authority
that the Investigation has been disastrous"
to the Washington Postmaster, and General
Walker is so anxious to have the testimony
published that he will publish it him
self if the Committee does not. He
seems enviOus of the fame of the Investigat-
ing Glover, who also published independently
on one occasion some of the results of Con-
gressional investigations. But his party were
not by any means disposed to rise up and call
nln DleSSeu OIL dCCOuuL VI lJ' OouONSoo OhO
public will read with interest General Walk
er's revelations concerning the detention OF
Democratic mail matter. But we take leave
to suggest to him that the public is
much more curious to know where some
of the Democratic documents came from than
where any Of them went to or were stopped.
If he wants to catch the public ear at once
let him tell whom the MOrey letter-a much
more important document than even the inter-
cepted Virginia letter-came from.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-23
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

Joseph Gung1. the famous composer of dance
music, is conducting the orchestra at the Balls d.
Opera in Paris.
The receipts at Haverlys three theatres in New
York and his theatre ia Brooklyn, for tho Washing
toms Birthday performance aggregated $0,6SO.
Tho sale of seats for the Strakosch and Hess
series Of opera in English at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre will open tomorrow at the box Office. The
season will begin with Boito's MehstOfee," with
Mime. Marie Roze heading the cast.
Mr.. Francis Korbay, the eminent baritone and
composer Of this city, is to assist Mr. Lang, of Bos
ton. in tho first of his chamber concerts which will
take place on Thursday afternoon in the fremont
Temple.
The company selected to support Patti in her rep
reservations at the Theatre des Nations, in Paris
is composed IS follows; Pedemonti and Pozzl.
soprani Tremelli, oontrato; Nicolini and Panzetta
tenor; CotoRn and Vaselli, baratoni Campo
6ufto, and Pinto primo basso. Signor Maneinelh
is the conductor.
Saint-Saens recently produced q curious septet
for piano. trumpet and strings at one of the Coonne
concerts in Paris 1t had great success In spite of
its original form, perhaps partly because of it. An
other novelty at tho Same concert was ono OF Mem
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