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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28
The Irish Thirst for Gore.

An Englishman landed at Dublin q
few months ago filed with apprehen-
sion that the life of any loyal subject Of
her Majesty was not worth n farthing
there and thereabout. The Land Leag-
uers, he imagined, were all bloodthirsty
assassins. and all that sort of thing But
it was his duty to travel in the land--a
duty he approached with fear and trem-
bling. Now, there happened to be on
his route number of towns, tho names
of which begin with the suggestive syl-
liable "Kil." There were Kilmartin and
so on. In his ignorance of nomencla-
ture his af'righted senses were startled
anew on hearing fellow passenger in
the railway carriage remark to another
Us follows
"Tm Just after bein' over to Kilpat-
rick" ,.
"And T." replied the other, cam
after bein' over 70 Kilmary." :.
"Whst murderers they are " thought
the Enclishman. "And to think that
tbey talk of their assassinations so pub
licly
But the conVersation "on' o' al
"And fhare are you goin' now?'
asked assassin No. !. ,,
Sim goin' home, and then toShll
more" was No. 2's reply.
The Englishman's blood curdled. !.
"Kilmore, is itp" added No: l
"You'd betther be comm along wud M
to Kilumaule =,
1t is related that the Englishman LEI
the train at the next station, probabl,
to 20 back to the tight little island an
report an alarming increase in the mum
ber Of outrages in Ireland.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28
The Owl as a Poet.

Since the arrival Of the pig by express
last year, sent by wicked man at
Watertown, no package has created the
CONSERVATION at this Office that q box
containing. an owl did, which arrived
Wednesday from Oak Center. The
name of the donor was not given. but
the name "Old Parker" is on the box,
and that is probably the name of the
owl. He is lively bird, and would
make q good "bird poet" such as we
wrote OF short time since. Who knows
but this is a girl poet who has been
taken at her word, and turned into bird.
Ii this Is the girl poet who wrote, ~
would were bird, she has got her.
self into the worst scrape of her life.
The eyes look more like a'girl than any
thing, and when the owl winks with one
eye, and looks at us as though she
meant to be so understood-presuming
that it is she--it makes us tremble,
and forget business, and wink back. II
this is a girl poet turned into an owl, we
wonder whether IL is the girls or the
owls appetite that enables the insect to
eat three pounds of beef. If it is the
girls appetite that has been sawed off on
to an owl, it would be mean trick on
the owl, if he had to get his own living.
When the bird winks, and makes its
mouth go, we think it is a girl poet trans
formed, and retaining many of the girls
best qualities. To see whether there
was any girl left in the owl, We put q
mouse in the box with the bird, expect
ing if the girl symptoms predominated
the owl would take its feathers in both
claws, and climb up on something to
get away, and scream. But there is
moro owl in the bird than girl poet. be-
cause the bird snatched the mouse i'll its
| claw, and with its bill tore the little ami
nal into fragments and eat him. SO, if
there is any girl left in the composition
of that owl, the girl poet has got her
| stomach full Of nasty mouse. We warned
the girl poet not to become bird, and
| if she has not taken our advice she knows
by this time how it Is herself. But what
a wink the owl has got. That wink on
girl would break up prayer meeting.
A girl with such wink as that could 90
to church and not man in the congre'
cation could ever tell where the text was.
And what wise look the bird has got
1t sits and seems to be thinking Of the
hereafter, or maybe it is wondering
where the next meal is coming from. II
is possible that some friend, knowing We
wanted an associate editor, has sent the
owl to take position on our staff. May
be some dear friend has been transformed
into an owl, and caused themselves to bt
shipped to us, to get into the sanctun
and see what is going on. If the eye'
were another color, and they should
wink that way, We should be sure jok'
was being played on us. Any pcrsoi
that wants to hire good owl to cat mea
on shares, can apply at this Office
| PCcEs Sun.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28
Religion In a Turkish Bath.

There is story around town that is
good if true. II seems that an attend
ant at Turkish bath establishment was
converted at revival in church, and be.
came quite interested in thonew faith.
He asked his minister what he should
do, in his daily life, to induce others to
get religion, and the minister told him
that in his business, in his recreations,
everywhere, he should impress upon
those about him that they had never.
dying soul to save, and that they were
upon the brink of precipice, liable to
dio at any moment, and to frighten them
into seeking after the truth, If he
couldn't do it in any other way, but to
be always alert in the Masters cause.
The bath attendant made up his mind
that he would try it on some of the Gus
toners that visited the bath-house. The
next day six hard old nuts that take
Turkish bath together about twice
week, came to the place, and went INTO
the sweat-room, after disrobing until
there was not rag on them as big as
child's handkerchief. They were men
well along in years, who had steamed 1t
good deal, and became rheumatic and
equity, and the whole party had no more
religion than could be put in a canary
birds eye. They were sweating away,
Joking each other on being pretty near
played out for this world, when sepul-
chral voice that seemed to come from
the confines of the damned, filed the red
hot air and said, Prepare to meet thy
God" The old pelters looked at each
other and turned pale. Then the VOICE
said, "Get down on your knees, every
man, and repent before it is everlastingly
too late, for in such moment as ye
think not your goose will be cooked. "
This thing Was getting q little bit inter-
esting, and every man would have per-
spired if there had been no heat on at
all. Just then the attendant came
through door into the room and began
to pray for the salvation Of the souls OF
the barefooted old fellows, when they all
got out of the door into the cool room
and got into their clothes without being
dried, and before the poor fellow had got
through praying they had gone to sa'
loon and were taking q drink and were
wondering if it WAS warning from Oh
high to them to get in their work for
glorious immortality beyond the grave
They will not know that it was oil owing
to the enthusiasm Of recent convert
until they read this. It is amusing L
, hear the old fellows tell how all-iiret
) scared each Of the other fellows was
They are taking their Turkish baths nov
brought to themin bottles. --Peck's Sun
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28
How Jesse James Showed Ills Gratitude.

Six years ago the james brothers, who
sacked the express car, and "went
through" the passengers on the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific, at Gad's Hill,
stole the money box at the Kansas State
Fair. They rode into Kansas City on
horseback, and when the cashier was
walking to the bank with the receipts of
the day, about -, 900, they pointed their
pistols at his head, seized the box, and
| gallopcd off. This was done in broad
daylight, in the midst Of great crowd.
Some time afterwards one of the Kan
sas City reporters wrote an article about
these highwaymen, saying some kind
things. He called them brave, and said
they had done tho most daring deed in
the higwayman's record. A few nights
afterwards one Of the James brothers
rode into Knnsas City, went to the news
paper Office, and, calling the reporter
out, presented him with o handsome
watch and chain. He said the article
in question touched them in tender
spo;, and they desired to show theil
gratitude.
"But + don't feel at liberty to take
this watch" said Che reporter. :.
"But do it to crafty u.s. We didn't
steel this watch; We bought and paid
for il with our own money" continued
the desperate.
"No; you must excuse me-" contin.
ued tho reporter.
"Well, then, il you can't take thil
watch, replied he, regretfully, "wha
can We do for you? Perhaps you ca
name some man around here you Wan
kikedp
DURING an address by Prof. w. T
: Ayrton on the "storage of power,' th
lecture theater was lighted, circuls
saw driven and an elevator operated b
I. means of electric energy which had bee
0 stored the previous day in Faure hoe,
mulating batteries. The total quantit
. Of energy was 50,0O0,00O foot-pounds-
little more than twenty-five hors
d power exerted for one hour. A singl
! cell, containing 81 pounds Of lead al
rcd-lead, is found to store /, ,440,0'
foot-pounds of energy.
d The cutting and pnlishing Of diamond
u is on art supposed to have been disco
!" cred in The middle Of the fifteenth cel
l. tury IL was fret carried on at BRUCE
TO in Flanders, and soon passed INTO u
hands Of the Jews Of Amsterdam.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

was found that is quite curiosity in its
way On the diverse side appears the
figure OF six masted steamer, full rig.
ged, over which is the inscription, "The
Great Britain" "and below the ship is the
dimensions, number Of state-rooms, etc.
On thcIeverse side appear two medal
lion heads Queen Victoria and Prince
Albert. This medal commentaries the
launching of the Great Britain at Bris
tol, England, on July 10, 1S43, and de.
notes an important era in ship building,
from the fact that she was built of iron
and fitted with the newly invented
screw propeller.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

WOMAN suffrage has at least made
some progress, whatever individual
opinions Or preiudices may be. The
committee in the United States Senate to
whom the matter was entrusted for con-
sideration, have made majority and
minority report, the majority report
favoring IN amendment to the Constitu-
ton granting the elective franchise to
women, the proposed amendment to be
submitted to the several Legislatures.
The minority report favored submitting
the matter to the several States upon the
basis of States rights. 1t is not likely
that Congress will net upon the question
at the present session, but advocates o.
woman suffrage may take courage aat
hope for q full discussion Of the theme
next winter.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

The Mohammedan populace of Egypt
is getting more excited and fanatical
every day. Europeans are leaving tho
country by thousands, and more trouble
is expected. Under the circumstances
it is only matter of life and death
with Europeans. Many who are in good
circumstances, prosecuting a lucrative
trade, voluntarily leave all for the sake Of
Kidding themselves of uncertainties that
must ultimately result in ruin and
death,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

TIE quicket time on record in di-
vorce suit was made last week at Fort
Wayne. A wealthy farmer named j.
V. Gilbert drove to town with his wife,
and she handed in an application for
freedom on the ground of cruelty. The
couple then agreed that the wife should
have $1,000 in cash, new false teeth
every three years, half the furniture,
fruit, and milk, and two-thirds of the
children. Both appeared in court, and
the divorce was at once granted.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28
Rules for Spelling Children.

Try to forget us much as possible that
you were young yourself.
When they amuse themselves torment
ing animals, look and laugh.
Always tell them to hit back when an
noyed by neghboring children.
Tell them all tho lies you like and half
kill them if they tell you one.
When they tell you they won't do
thing, laugh at them and let it go.
When they fall and hurt themselves
scold them for their awkwardness.
Dress them in style that they will be
afraid to play for fear Of spelling their
clothes.
Make religion such long-faced pokey
thing that they'll hate the name Of it as
long as they live.
Don't give them anything to read but
bible stories, Sabbath-school books and
dime novels.
Don't give them the habit Of kissing
: them good night; if you happened to
die they'd be awfully lonely without Il.
Tell them it is sin to be dishonest
but if they bring you back too much
| change from the grocersskeep it and tell
them to say nothing about it.
Let them sleep till you have started to
work in the morning, and then have
them put to bed before you get home OF
night, to avoid becoming too intimately
acquainted with them.
Threaten to tell their father and get
them punished for every blessed thing
! they do, 50 TINT by degrees they'll come
to the conclusion that father is some
!. sort Of whipping machine.
. Tell them it is sin to laugh or play OF
Sunday, and make the day as dull AM
J. stupid as possible for them. Then
Q when they grow up and go to Congress
" they will be apt to pass bill doing ava
y with the observance Of the day altt
N gether.
L If you happen to be m gruff moo
y and feel little palm trying to nestle !
: yours, or little arm trying to twine !
G. self around your mech, give q erowl sn
10 snarl out something about wanting y J
10 let alone. The oflense wo1,1 ~ roll1
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

An rDIcr signed by the Gar, and pub
lished in the official Ga=eHc of st. Peters
burg, virtually bankrupts every wealthy
jew in Russia. 1t Professionally suspends
all payment for contracts or debts due
to Jews, prohibits them from settling
outside towns and villages, and other
wise provides for their speedy extirpation
throughout Czardom.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

From France an extraordinary tri-
cycle journey is reported to have been
made by tho Vice President of the Lyons
Bicycle Club, accompanied by his wife.
They travelled in one of the two-seated
tricycles from Lyons to Nice, Gonoa,
Rome, and Naples, and home again,
through Florence and Turin. The entire
distance is about 1890 miles, and they
averaged between fifty and sixty miles
q day.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

LAMrToN, of tho Louisville Courier
Journal, has become something of a
political punster He turns his attention
to affairs in Pennsylvania as follows:
Cameron q Son, Successors to Wm.' Pom
Attention il called to the varied resources O.
our State. Every adalt male allowed to vot,
for us. Our own Legislation in session ever,
year. Sead for circular.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

HUXLEY compares Darwin to Socrates,
saying there was in him the same desire
to find some one wiser than himself, the
same belief in the sovereignty of reason,
the same ready humor, the same sympa-
thetic interest in all the ways and works
of men. Just so, Professor Huxley
but do you suppose if they had found
men wiser than themselves, either one o
them would have admitted it?
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28
Ay Austin teacher was instructine hi

AN Austin teacher was instructing his
class in natural history. "To what
class Of birds does the hawk belong ?"
he asked. "To the birds Of prey" was
the reply "And to what class do quail
belongP" There was pause. The
teacher repeated the question. Where
does the quail belongp" "On toast,
yelled the hungry boy at the foot OF the
! cclass.-Teras Siftings.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

AFTER a serious illness of one of the
jurors in the Malley case, the trial has
been resumed, but the interest in the
proceedings has waned. There is no
probability of conviction of any of the
parties Who stand charged with Miss
Cramer's outrage and murder, although
there is little doubt in the minds of any
who are familiar with the facts and tes.
timony, as to their guilt.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

REV. JoHx DEWITT, D. D., of the
Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadel-
phia, resigned the pastorate OF that
,hurch, paying him $4,000 a year, to
accept a Professorship in Lane Sem
injury, Cincinnati, at $1,000. But this
Is only one case in million.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

IL THE Atlanta Constitution speaks
correctly, more reapers have been sold
In Georgia this year than the entire cot
ton belt possessed one year ago. If true,
This is good thing for the State.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

WHISKY is to be made Independent OF
the corn crops. A number of railroad
men are buying timber lands, and are
going to make whisky out of smoke.
This is a question which requires the i'm.
mediate attention of the forcsters. In
q few years rain will be unknown.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

LAWYER HIRsT. of Philadelphia, left
will bequeatl,ing $1SO,OO0 for the
founding of free law library, and $40
week to his sisters. Thus he loved
the public, dear man, better than he did
his sisters.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

Miss BELLE BRADEN is said to be the
only female railroad officer in the
country. She has just been elected
Treasurer Of the Waynesburg and Wash
ington Railroad, in Pennsylvania, and
is acting Paymaster.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

tricity will be stored so successfully and
cheaply that little boxes of it will be
used to propel tricycles, and people will
journey about the country by that
method rather than by rail.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

The condition of crops is good in
France, Germany, md Holland. Rains
have improved prospects in Southern
Russia. Gold weather has checked veg
citation in England.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

SERGEANT MASON says he can't COM
plain of the treatment he is receiving in
the Albany Penitentiary. only he would
like to get ont. Being imprisoned is the
meanest feature of the whole thing.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28
AFTER all, the Keely motor is fraud

Says the Scientific American:
Tho truth is that "tho secret was divulgod
long ago. Tho power exhibited by the motor
il simply that of compressed air introduced
surreptitiously by pipes which connect 1t with
condenser.
Perhaps the company who have in
vested so heavily in the motor, and have
been patiently waiting for years to real
ize their dreams of scientific revolu-
tion-and fortunes now turn their
attention to hard facts as as they ind
them,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

A CONTEMPORARY whose patriotism il
bubbling over in fond anticipation of a
Fourth of July celebration, says
There is going 10 bo moro of 4th of Ju.
gloriousjuly In this country this year than the
oldest inhabitaiit ever saw before. 'Tis we'll.
We whipped 'em. We can do it again, il they
don't kick nor bite. Turn loose the whang.
doodles aud let tho rockets fz.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

The Chinese Government will return
fifty students to American colleges, hav-
ing discovered their removal was a mis-
take. 1t seems that the meaner we treat
China tho better they will think Of us.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

SURGEON WOODWARD, U. S. A., one Of
the attending physicians on President
Garfield, is reported to be in a hopeless
condition at Nice, from brain fever.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

Mr.. WEED, of Newburg, N. Y, lost
$4,000 in one hour at n game OF poker
and is now creating fuss oil over the
continent about it. Mr.. Weed doesn't
seem to know how to play the game.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

I,EApvILLE exults over the fact that
there has not been q natural death in
that city for two weeks. A natural death
out there, by the way, is a death by
shooting or stabbing.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

We ARE informed that the Star Route
trials are finally in progress. The trouble
will be to get them to end-at least sat
isfactorily to tho people.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

ROBERT BONNER, the New York Ledger
man, has 1882, 900 invested in horse flesh,
for his private use and to crafty per-
sonal ambition.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

The New York Sun tells Of man who
sent q written note to an apothecary for
"ogsallegasset." He wanted oxalic
acid, He had bad spell.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

One hundred and ten thousand per-
sons, over twenty thousand of them
women and girls, used the free baths in
New York last week.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

A MISS Chamberlain, of Cleveland,
Ohio, is creating sensation in London
as n professional beauty. Bear in mind
that she is an Ohio girl.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

LET US say to our Christian friends that
Mr.. Beecher has taken to playing bill
liards. He keeps table in his house
for the purpose.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

The census returns in Japan shows
nearly million more men than women.
This is not a usual thing for old settled
countries.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

"MAyoR, see two cocktails carried
IN your room every morning, as II you
had some one to drink with" YES"
air: one cocktail makes me feel like an
other man; and, Of course, I'm Bound to
treat the other man.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

Portions of Washington's farewell ad-
dress are published in French news
paper as appropriate to the condition of
that country.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

TINS years graduates at West Point
are said to be better walters than those
of any former class for years. In mil
itary point of view this is important.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

In THE destruction Of the barley crop,
is it possible that the army worm, too,
is fighting the brewers?
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

The army worm is the object upon
which the farmer may lavish his curses
this year.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

SINCE her marriage Sarah Bernhardt
is not popular, although she is perhaps
as good an actress as she ever was.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

PHILADELPHIA is taking steps toward
the construction and adoption Of an
electric railway.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

BETWEEN the army worm and the
weather there is little preference. The
one seems to augment the other.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28
TOPICS OF TIE DAY.

WARMER weather has given corn and
votton boom.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

STocK of the Bank or Ireland sells at
319-that is higher than stock of the
Bank of England.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

A MOTHER advised her daughter, who
was going to party to oil her hair, and
tainted away when that candid damsel
replied: dOh, mol ma, 1t is so apt to
spoil the gentlemen's vests"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

GARIBAnDI's body bore scars Of ten
gnnshot, and one bayonct, wounds.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

A LONDON scientist predicts that the
inie is not far ahead Of US when cleo
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

QUEEN VICTORIA is fat and hearty--
weighing 200 pounds.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-06-28

DELAWARE promises to give the coun-
try the largest peach crop since 1876.
The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1882-08-19
Summoned Hence.

The death ofthe infant daughters
of MIR. and Mrs. j. L. Ashby and Mr.
and Mrs. John d. Freeman, occurring
this week, is the sad occasion of great
grief in the families SO afflicted, in
which we assure them of the SYM
pathy of tho community. These
bright little angels whom God has
chosen to glorify and brighton his
heavenly kingdom. although their
absence casts deep shadow of gloom
upon the bereavcd. have crossed the
dark valley, mounted the golden stair
aud Joined the holy choir in songs OF
praise with bliss eternal. "Suffe +
little children to come unto me-"