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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-04-13
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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-04-13

Both houses Of the Tennessee Legs
laurc adjourned zine die at noon on the
9TH inst.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-04-13

Newspaper reports say that q large
number Of Indianians are Iookius to-.
ward Tennessee for homes.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-04-13

Washington reports say that the
wives Of two Senators got to quarreing
at the entrance to the Senatorial gallery,
the other day and each one got out Il
biz shawI-pin and threatened to run it
into the other if she dared come near
her. The scargeant-at-arms had, final.
iy, to interfere, but before he did. the
woman that was padded got the best of
the other who wasn't.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-04-13

it is claimed that Nashville il the
most progressive city in the South.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-04-13
VARNISEIES.

We have now completed our new Narnish
Factory, being the LARGEST aud MOST
COMPLETE in the United States, and ma
King Narni,h superior to any in the World
and at prices that defy competition.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-04-13

TIE Eausas liquor laa forbid. tae
Us. nrvia IN the sacrament furnishing
The ministers "hos Administered ~.'.
two years in the prniicur.a. n5 ".-
ing up.tne church as a nuisance.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-04-13

The following is the output Of the
Scwance Coal Mines for the month Of
March:
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-04-13

81. Rfcrs5UA h, Jan. 10, 1879.
MILLER Bros Gentlemen: We have sold
large quantities of your Paints and Narnishcs,
and parties having used the same speak high
!y OF the durability and finish Of your Paints,
and find the cocrs and mixture just as you
There can be no better Paint for
exposure to the heat and cold, and any one
using it will surely do so again. Your Narnish
is also giving the best Of satisfaction and is
the best goods ever sold in this
section. You are at liberty to use our name
as reference. Respectfully,
CIIALFANT & GRANT.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-04-13

The Nashville Exposition will open
on the 9th Of thi, month, Several
thousand citizens Of Nashville have
signed apottion requesting President
Garfield to be present on the occasion.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-04-13

Both houses Of the Tennessee Legs
Iat,wc adjourned sine die at noon on theI
9TH inst.
Reports from different parts Of the
State say that the peach crop Is almost
ruined, but without any NOR, froczo~
apples will be abundant.
sec
10 is said that Hon. lsham G. Harris
i, the most popular Southern man in
the United States Senate And Ma.
hone i. the most unpopular with Dem
ocra.-
4 lady is suffering with smaiIp,&
near Columbia, Tenn, and il i. JAo
opinion of physicians that She caught
the disease from reading Il newspaper
printed North,
The Nashville Exposition will open
on the 9th Of this month Several
thousaod citizens Of Nashville have
signed petition requesting President
Garfield 10 be present on the occasion.
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Inc "'iI 10 uclFay 'Ne '"P'".'7 VI '''
State government passed by the AoIjs-
Ja,urc lust before adjournment, cover,
tho .nuo Gtlc sum Of lso million
f.rr hrod,.J and tbnty.g1rr Thousand
d,ly,,s
.,oe.--
The ne" revenue BILL passed by the
ccn,. an hn 9Ioo worth Of ,rgun,ty
u.;.,,. .,... al ,,l..n,n, ,, r,.r,Lorl,
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-07
MYSTERIOUS Jim.

A man who used to live in Chicago ac-
quired the nickname of mysterious Jim
One day he called at a livery stable on the
North side, and motioning the proprietor to
follow him, led the way into a remote stall,
and, in mysterious manner whispered in
his ear:
II hear you want to sell that roam mare 2"
The horse dealer grasped mysterious Jim"
by the arm, leered at him with his eyes in
tragic manner, and said
Ssh follow met"
Up the ladder, over the piles of hay, into
corner of the attic he went, and there grip
ping Jim's shoulder, he uttered in hOarse
whisper:
"Pve sold her"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-07
Love at First Sight.

An almost incredible romance has happen
ed in Wisconsin, and if it had not been
vouched for by SO reliable authority as the
Racine Journal, it would be rejected alto
gether. The story, as the Journal tells it, is
that "a resident of Racine named Johnson,
who has roamed through this world for about
thirty-fve years, having never met the choice
of his heart, was walking up Main street
when he was met by buxom looking coun-
try girl and some friends He was not ac-
quainted with the girl, but an introduction
soon followed she blushed, and he was con-
fused, and there was NO getting around it, it
was case of love at first sight They talked
earnestly for about half an hour, the friends
having departed. They soon parted with
kiss, she going north and he going south. In
the course of two hours both made their ap-
pearance ON Main street, dressed up in fine
style. They kissed again, and she took his
arm and they walked Off, and at 2 o'clock
were united in marriage He made acquaint-
ance, popped the question, and married her
inside of three hours
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-07
Little Johnny on Dogs.

One time there was feller bot dog of a
man in the market, and the dog it was
bitter. After it had bit the feller four or five
times he threw clothes line over it's neck
and led it back to the man in the market
and he said to the dog man, the feller did
"Ole man, didn't you used to have this dog?"
The dog man he luked at the dog, then he
thot awhile, and then he said: ''Well yes
had him bout haf the time, and the other
haf he had me-" Then the feller he was few
rious mad, and he said: What did you sell
me such dog as, this'n tor?' And the ole
man he spoke up and said For $475 loffle
money" Then the feller he guessed he
would go home if the dog was willing.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-07
Helena, Montana, Thursday, July 7, 1881
Thumbs.
Baltimore Every Saturday.

Every saturday.
If anybody will look carefully at the END
OF his thumb. he will find that the surface is
ridged with little threadlike ranges of hills
wound round and round in tiny spirals. II
ne will take magnifying glass and examine
them closely he will find that there is great
deal of individuality in the way in which
these are arranged, No two thumbs in all
the world are exactly alike. The miniature
mountain ranges are fixed and decided as
the Alps or Sierras, the geography of the
thumb is unmistakable. The Chinese have
made use of this fact for establishing a
rOgue's gallery. Whenever a criminal is ex-
amlned by the law an impression is taken of
his thumb. Smeared with little lamp
black, partially wiped, and then pressed
down on piece of white paper, an engrav-
ing OF the thumb is made and kept on the
police records. 1t serves iust the same pur-
pose which is served by our photographing
our burglars and pickpockets. The accused
can be identified with great certainty Moth
ing short OF mutilating or burning the thumb
can Obliterate its features. Sometimes q
CHASTITY proof of guilt is furnished mur-
dcrer, red-handed with his crime may touch
his fingers end upon a white wall and So
leave in the color of his guilt photograph
on the accusing wall. His signature is left
Just as unmistakably as if he had signed the
bond of his iniquity. and thus great crimes
have been brought to light and deeds of
blood made to tell their own history But
this individuality i'll the skin of the tip Of
the thumb, strongly marked as it is, yet ad-
mlts of strong family likeness Brothers and
sisters who will take impressions of their
thumbs will find resemblances among each
other that they will not find when compar-
ing them with the thumb of strangers Even
thus minutely does that strange thing, fam
lily likeness descend What wonder is it
that faces look alike, voices sound alike;
how can 1t seem strange that members of the
same family should have similarities of tenn
per, of mental apttudes and hereditary dis
eases, when such minor peculiarities as the
texture at the end of the thumb, and its
ranges OF hills, should also have family re-
semblances in the midst of their infinite di-
1ersities. The hairs of our head are all !
and not only so, but each hair if
with powerful magnifying glass |
shows peculiarities as strong as the trees of
orest. No two are alike Everything, from
he smallest to the greatest, is impressed ,
With specific character and individuality .
The Creators invention is eXhaustless, and
lie no more repeats Himself in the geography
# thumb than in the geography of a con
inent. Now, if anybody doubts this let
lim take little black, or analine color, and
ry. He will acquire an acquaintance with
lis thumb and q respect for it that will be
ute interesting. 81
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-07
Power of the Waves.

The tremendous power of sea waves was
illustrated at Wick, on the extreme northern
coast of Scotland, where break-water was
being built. 1t may give an idea of what
wave power really can do. 1t was found
that stones of ten tons weight were as peb-
bles to the waves, which have been measured
to be there tifty-two feet from crest to the
bottom of the trough. The outer end of the
break-water, where the storms beat most
violently, was built of three courses of one
hundred-ton stones, laid on the rubble foun-
datiOn next above these were three courses
of large fat stones, and upon these mass of
concrete built on the spot, of cement and
rubble. The end of the break-water was
thought to be as immovable as the natural
rock, yet the resident engineer saw it yield
to the force of the waves and swing around
into the troubled water inside the pier 1t
gave way not in fragments, but in one mass,
as if it were monolith. The displaced mass
is estimated to weigh about l $50 TONS
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-07
Oatmeal as Food.

The appetite often Graves food which the
stomach rejects but long period of forcing
enables it to receive it under protest. Nor is
it the quantity of food that is nourishing,
but the quality. A pound of choice meat at
twenty cents is worth as much Tor nutriment
as two pounds of inferior meat at ten cents.
An egg is one OF the best and most nutritious
articles of diet that can be put upon table,
and the less it is cooked the more valuable
it's digestive and assimilating properties
Since oatmeal has become delicacy, retail
ing all the way from four to twenty-five
cents a pound, according to localities, people
of wealth add it to their cuisine as valuable
breakfast dish Carlyle said of Lord Macau-
lay: well, any one can see that you are an
honest. good sort of fellow made out OF Oat-
mealn There is story told of a shrewd
Scotch woman who used to tell her fine
healthy BARNS, 1.-The one that eats the malst
parritch will get the maist meat" And when
the meat came there was no room for it. Dr.
johnson defined oats as in Scotland food for
men, and in England fodd for horses.
"And where" asked an indignant Scotch
man. will you meet with such men as I'D
Scotland or such horses as In England
The apolOgist for national dish says: II
oatmeal can make such men as SIT waiter
Scott DIR. Chalmers and Lord Macauiay, we
NAV well heap high the porrldge dish ana
bri6e our children to eat it. One thing we
do know. 1t is far better for the blood and
brain than cake, confectionery, and the score
of delicacies on which many pale little pets
are fed by their foolish, fond mothers"
A regiment of almost giants, recruited from
the Scottish highlands, are as Carlyle said CT
Macauley, Made of oatmeal" SO boys VINO
want height and breadth and muscle, ana
girls who want rosy cheeks and physical
vigor, should turn from hot cakes ana other
indigestibles to this food for scotchmen ana
horses.
There is still something to take into ac-
count. The air and exercise of that glorious
country Scotland, bonnie Scotland, and the
tramping tours which her sons take, giving
them robust appetites for porridge and BAN
nocks, and such plain, wholesome fare. 40 u
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-07
A Curious Fact.

1t is a curious fact that Russia, one of the
poorest of civilized countries, makes greater
parade of wealth in one respect than any
other European State. The domes of all the
great churches in St. Petersburg, Moscow
and other large towns are plated with gold
nearly one-quarter of an inch thick. The
new church of the Savior, dedicated and
opened in Moscow last August. represents a
value of fully $15,OOO,OOO. The Isaac cathe-
dral in st. Petersburg may safely be credited
with at least thrice that amount So strong,
however, is the old Sclav belief in the inviOl-
able sanctity of s.holy places" that during
countless seasons of widespread and bitter
Distress no attempt has ever been made to
plunder the gold thus temptingly exposed.
Indeed, one of the finest churches in st.
Petersburg (the Kazan cathedraD owes its
massive silver shrine to voluntary offering
of the plunder taken by the Cossacks in 1912.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-07
THE GRIND.

w. listen to the water mill. through all the live
., long day
'''r salary will stop about the time you lose
~ your pay;
,rlo" o at the ladders top, to him all glory
ne me fellow at the bottom is the fellow one
Soou are all the had beens,' for in country and
% cares how high you've been, when once
Nh you ia' come down.
G 1nce You have been President and are Pres
Van ldeht no more,
,,aa & run a farm, OF teach school, or keep a
"a country store
rI ri VIII ask about you; you never will be
''lll ,hI VIII only grind for you while you supply
VIZ Sfl>t. -IHawkeye.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-07
AN IRISH GIANT.
4 Pennsylvania Coal Miner Performs
Extraordinary Feats Of Strength.

From the Pottsville pa Miners Journal.l
The strongest man in Schuykill county, il
not in the State, is James Ryan, of st. Clair
He stands six feet one inch in his socks, tips
the beam at 296 pounds, measures fifty-eight
inches around the chest, is so well proper
toned that his size does not appear remark
able, and is as straight as a rush. Ryan was
born in county Cork, Ireland, but has lived
in this country since boyhood. He is of quiet
disposition, fortunately, and possessed Of tre-
mendous bodily strength. His biceps meas
.ure twenty-one inches and the rest of his
limbs in proportion. He is now over sixty
years Of age, but is still possessed of extra
worked iii the mines, and his companions tell
wonderful stories of feats of strength per-
formed by him. He goes to his work, winter
and summer, in his shirt-sleeves Years ago,
before he turned over new leaf and settled
down, he drank five gallons of whisky and
One-half barrel of porter every week This
is vOuched for by men who have known him
twenty years. This amount of liquor seems
large enough to have killed even stronger
man than Ryan, but he survived the strain,
and to-day, in spite of his years and the i'll
treatment his constitution has received, is
the strongest man in this part of the State.
Some years ago Ryan was in POttsville with
a friend, when their attention was called to
litting-machine in charge of a travelling show
man, who was inviting the passers-by to try
their lifting capacity. The capacity of the
machine was 900 pounds Ryan was asked
by Il friend if he could lift that amount? Il
can break the machine man. he replied. The
owner of the lift heard the remark and Of
fered to give s. to the man who could lift
900 pounds Or break the machine. Ryan
braced himself and lifted ior all that was in
him. He broke the machine and, strange to
say, he got the s..
He works at Pine Forest colliery. One
day, not very long ago, as he came out of the
mine he noticed a piece of cast iron weighing
1 100 pounds lying ON the ground. A friend
jokingly asked him to lift it. He lifted it,
much to the astOnShment of the lOOkers-On,
all of whom knew of his great strength. AS
stated, he is peacefully inclined. Whenever
he sees trouble brewing he gently takes a
belligerent in each hand, and if they refuse /
to listen to reason, bumps one against the .
other until they cry enough and agree to i
peaceful settlement. He was standing OH the
track one day with his back against trip of
loaded cars lin the mine) when another trip
dashed around a curve and was upon him
before he could jump from the track. He
braced his back against the stationery trip
and received the other with outstretched
hands He broke tho force of the collision,
but feels the strain he received to this day.
An ordinary man in the situation would have
been crushed to death. He comes from a
amily noted for great bodily strength. His
mother is still alive. Some years ago she
carried a barrel of -four from the store of Fox
Bros on Center street, to her home in St.
lair
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-07
Outdoor Air.
Popular Science Monthly

Popular Science Monthly
The surest of all prOphylactics is active
exercise in the open air. Air is part of our
daily food and by far the most important
part. A man can live ON seven meals a week.
and survive the warmest summer day with
seven draughts of fresh water but his supply
of gaseous nOurishment has to be renewed
at least fourteen thousand times in twenty
four hours. Every breath we draw is
draught of fresh oxygen, every emission of
breath is an evacuation of gaseous recrements.
The purity of our blood depends chiefly on
the purity of the air we breathe for in the
laboratory of the lungs the atmospheric air
is brought into contact at each respiration
with the fluids of the venons and arterial
systems, which absorb it and circulate it
through the whole body; in other words, if
a man breathes the vitiated atmosphere of a
factory all day, and of a close bedroom all
night, his life blood is tainted fourteen
thousand times in the course of the twenty
four hours, with foul vapors, dust and nox-
ious exhalations. We need not wonder, then,
that i'll ventilated dwellings aggravate
the evils of so many diseases, or that
pure air should be almost panacea
Hunters and herders who breathe the pure
air of South American pampas, subsist for
years on a diet which would endanger the
life of city dweller in a single month. 1t
has been repeatedly observed that individuals
who attained to an extreme old age were
generally poor peasants whose ayocatiOns re-
quircd daily labor in the open air. though
their habits differed in almost every other
also,. that the average duration of
life in various countries of the Old World
depends not SO much on climate peculiarities
Or their respective degree of culture as on the
chief occupation of the inhabitants; the
starved Hindoo outlives the well-fed Parsee
merchant, the unkempt Bulgarians enjoys an
average longevity of forty-two years to the
West Austrian citizens thirty-fve.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-07
Russian Babies.

4 correspondent speaking of Russian ba-
bies, describes as follows what one sees in the
house of Russian peasant: He looks Gu
riously at one odd little bundle laid upon a
shelf, another hung upon the wall on a peg,
third slung over one of the main beams of
the roof and rocked by the mother, who has
the cord looped over her foot
why, that is child ~ cries the traveller,
with a feeling similar to that experienced on
treading upon toad, which was supposed to
be stone.
why, what else should it be?' answers
the mother.
Having learned so much in so short time,
the inquisitive traveller wishes to inform
himself about the habits of the creature in
the bundle, but his curiosity being somewhat
dampened by the extreme dirt of the little
figure, he inquiries of the parents when it
was washed.
"Washed"' shrieks the Mortified mother
What, wash a child! You'd kill it."
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-07
The First Newspaper.

Boston possesses the honor of having is
sued, in 1890, the first newspaper printed in
America. Only one copy of this paper is
now known to be in existence and this one
about the size of an ordinary sheet of let
ter paper-is deposited in the State Paper
Office in London, having been suppressed by
English authority. The Boston Ne,cs Letter,
issued in 1904, was the first regular paper,
and was printed by John Allen, of Pudding
Lane. Among other interesting items, it
contained speech of Queen Anne, delivered
to Parliament 100 days previously, and this
was the latest news from England. 'ka
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-07
EXPECTATION.
ny ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS.


We rode into the wooded way;
Below us wide the shadows law
We rode, and met the kneeling day;
We said; 1T is too late.
The sun has dropped into the West
The mountain holds him to her breast
She holds and bushes him to rest
For u il il too late.
TO see the leaf take fire now,
10 see, and then to wonder how
The glory pauses on the bough
While painting grass tops wait
When, 10. the miracle came OH.
road side turn-a moment gone
And far the sun low lying shone;
me forest stood in state,
.Inransiigured, spread the silent space;
Inc glamour leaped about the place,
And touched us, swept from face to face,
We cried: Not yet too late."
but one, who nearer drew than all,
Leaned low and whispered: suns may fall
or Hash dear heart speak and call
lour soul unto its fate
:, read bravcly down life's evening slope,
nelore the night comes, do not grope!
Forever shines some small, sweet hope,
AND God is not too late"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-07
WIND ON THE CORN.

70 watnl, a. a. ! rove by path or style,
SlowIv ~, me harvest ripening i'm the vale,
A smile |tu tha SWeGtly, like growing smile
Upon tbe eiial h ends i'll laughter-the quick gale
While 'nG si ihreadths of goldgreen wheat descends
About bis Iri,i , 'he swallow with unbaffied grace,
And all I,1 ny Diewless quarry dips and bends
Lies in thn t. me excitement of the chase
0fthat hra9 fnt hunters beauty; in the eclipse
Tits AZ PREF tE1 shadow, how the barleys beard
AMONG tho passing gloom, and wild-rose dips
And hedaow he tae white tops i'm the bitches rear'd;
Family i9 Nv pW nowery breast of laceworks stirs
ing frs' mat iull wind that rocks the outstand-
Charles Tennyson Turner