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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09
IN FLORIDA.

Strange Customer-"How do you sell
strawberries nowp"
Florida Grower dollar apiece,
SIR"
Customer-"Oh nonsense"
Grower-"That is the regular price.
You know it is very early in the SEQ.
son."
Customer "See here, I have no time
for joking"
Grower-"'Pon my honor, that is
what get for them. Have been selling
strawberries at that price oil the week to
guests at the same hotel where you arc
stopping"
Customer-"I am only stopping n,
that hotel for the day. I live about q
miles up the railroad. Been residen
Of this State for twenty years.
Grower-"Oh beg your pardon.
mistook you for Northern invalid
The price is six cents quart"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09
Foreign.

EMPEROR WILLIAMS eighty seventh birth
day was celebrated in holiday fashion in Bcr-
lin Many buildings throughout the city were
gaily decorated, and thousands of people
throngcd tho streets about the palace, and
greeted the cmperor's appearance Mt tho WIN
dows with prolonged cheers.
AT consistory held in Rome the pope Gre
ntcd two cardinals and twenty-one bishops
The whole country surrounding Khartoum
was reported to be in the hands of tho False
Prophets followers.
THE imperial tribunal Mt Leipzig has Sc.
qucstrated the property Of the Polish poet
KraSzewski until the charges OF high treason
against him have been tried,
UNITED STATES MINISTER SARGENT, inpro-
posing the toast to Emperor w lillian at the
dinner given on the occasion of tho openingof or
the American Exchange in Berlin n few days
ago,said "Empcror William is entitled TO the
vencluiion of all foreigners who live around
him. He will continue immortal in history.
He is already admired by mankind irrespcc-
tive of territorial boundaries"
A GAMBLING house for women has been un-
earthed in Paris by the police. Twenty-six
women were discovered in tho place gam
bling.
ANARCHY prevails In Crete. and numerous
murders of Christians by Moslcms and of
Moslcms by Christians arc reported from
various ports of the country,
A PRINCE of tho royal family Of AMMAN
has been hanged for promoting tho massacre
of Christians
THE Canadian government has been in
formed that extreme destituton exists among
tho Indians in tho northwest territory, and
that twenty deaths from starvation have oc-
CURED there since February |.
IT is officially stated that last year at
Ermslebcn small town Of Prussian Saxony,
4O3 persons were seriously i'll and sixty six
died from trichinosis. The disease was caused
by eating raw pork, which all came from one
hog.
GENERAL GRAHAM's force advanced on
Tamanieb, near which the recent battle with
Osman Dignas Arabs took place. The Arabs
offered brief resistance, firing upon tho
British squares from behind rocks and
then fleeing to the open country. General
Graham moved into +, ma lieb and burned it.
After exploring the neighborhood it was
stated he would return with his troops to
Suakim. The campaign was declared at an
end.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09
NEWSY GLEANTNGS.

THERE are GG9 Baptist churches in South
Carolina
CHICAGO in 1883 killed 100000 hogs and
l,ls3,OO0 cattle.
TIE London Times has become convert
to cremation.
FLORIDA is shipping large quantities of
Strawberries North.
THE cost of maintaining the Brooklyn
bridge is about $3.50, 900 year
OVER 100, 600, 900 feet of lumber have been
logged in Maine the present season.
LAST year in London 12i persons disap-
peared Of whom no trace has ever been
found.
AT present about 1000 persons arc exilod
to Siberia annually, and about sixty per cent
are mobiles
A LAWRENCE, Kansas, negro alto five
iozon eggs, pound of bacon and a loaf of
rye bread, on wager
Dr. HERMAN KERR, a celebrated statisti
can, says that the annual mortality from In
temperance in Great Britain is 40,5OO.
ENGLAND bought 1865, 900, 900 bushels OF
wheat during the last crop year, but she only
took one third of it from the United States
THE number Of prisoners brought before
tho Now York city police courts last year
was 70, ,7Ol, an increase OF 6S per cent, or
1884 people
MASSACHUSETTS, courts imposed y, ,sO son
tenccs last year against 2S, 149 in lsSo; Tho
prison population per day averaged forty-hvo
moie than during 1882
FRANCE offers $4,000 reward, open to all
competitors, to any one who successfully and
economically applies electricity TO tho heat
lng and lighting Of dwellings.
JAsEs RILEY, q telegraph messenger, was
soInd in the streets OF New York raving
maniac, Ho kept crying constantly: 81 am
Butts, the boy detective" His brain was
turned by boy novels
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09
A Robbers Nest.

A very snug and strong robbers roost
was recently discovered by q couple Of
Denver citizens in gulch near Webster,
Col. They had boon visiting in the
neighborhood, and on returning home
had lost their way, and in travelling
about came across cabin. In 1t was q
rude table, some chairs, large stove, a
good supply Of fuel, six loaded revol-
vers, cartridge-belts, and several spurs.
They took possession Of it for the night,
and fastened the heavy door with q huge
bolt that fitted into slots in the logs.
About midnight they were awakened by
sounds outside. The owners had re
turned. One OF the men wanted to know
of his companions who was in the cabin
and asked il he shouldn't force tho dool
open. The answer was that it was NJ
use, rs the door would stand as long a.
the cabin itself. About noon the mex
day tho occupants ventured out, ant
going to the stable, discovered several
mail-bags that had been opened. and
other evidences OF highway robbery.
Several United States officials are now
searching for the robbers.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09

Not over three-fourths Of the voting population
is capable Of reading and writing, says Senator
Blair. with such facility as to make these arts
source Of intelligent suffrage. About three
fourths Of the illiterate voters are found in
states that have large colored population. In
Georgia out Of 1871, ,43s males over 21 years Of
age, there are 2s,571 whites and 116, GIG blacks
who can not write. A little over As Of every
one hundred are illiterate, although the ratio
filliteracy in this state is not as high at 1t is
in Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina or
Mississippi. This state has 145,Os7 illiterate
voters There are in the state 446, 6S3 persons
over 10 years ofage who can not read. These
figures OF courselargely represent the iliteracy
that exists among tho negroes. There arc,
however, 1884 white illiterates in the state
OF the age Of lSyears and upwards.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09
Tied Up.

SirArthur Wellesley Peel, who succeeds
Mr.. Brand in the honors and emolnments
of the Speakership Of the English
House OF Commons, is the youngest son
of the late Sir Robert Peel, who was
twice Premier, and was born in 1929.
The present baronet, Sir Robert Peel,
elder brother Of the new Speaker, is
without n seat in the House OF Com.
mons at present, having been defeated
MS the conservative candidate for Graves.
end in July, 1880. He is a political free
lance, liberal and conservative by turns,
and is always changing his politics. He
was such spendthriit in early life that
Premier baronet, who had paid tens Of
thousands of his debts, tied up his estate
as tightly as possible, and left his heir
and namesake in state OF chronic i'm.
pecuniosity.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09
How DEVILS Bridge Got Its Name.

An old sea captain Of the Vineyard
tells the following story to q Boston
Globe reporter in relation to the name
Devils Bridge: 'It was going when l
was younester. Many years ago my
father told me about tho island being
visited by the devil, and the people in
those DAYS believed what I am telling
you. 'The old fellow said my father,
LANDED on the east side. There, right
over yonder-you see that point of land
well, that is where he first landed. He
was seen several days by the few natives
who reside on the southern side, when
# is said he took his departure, and as
n mem ento he left one of his footprints
On the rock where the City Of Columbus
struck. My father, / can remember,
one beautiful summers day took me IN
his his smack out to Devils Reef Bridge and
nointed out to me, which on a calm day
ron mite distinctly be seen, the loot.
r nrint upon one Of the most prominent
! rocks"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09
INCLUDES A MORAL

"Ahi old man, how arc you coming
ON p' said one young chap TO another on
the street. ,..,
"First rate. How's yourself"
GOOD By the way. l believe
borrowed a dollar Of you last week, and
I might as well return II"
"Borrowed dollar OF meP" he re-
piled, in affected surprise. II had for
gotten all about it."
"Well-er-er-.I was under the inn
preston that it was you borrowed 1t
Of, but I must have made mistake"
"Ah-er-come to think about 1t do
remember Of lending you o dollar last
week."
But his friend had got mixed with the
crowd and was ont Of hearing.
The moral Of this is, dear reader, II ,
FNan says he owes you dollar take hi.
word for it and don't try to put on style
or you may lose your money.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09

INew York, Philadelphia, and otner COM
mercal centcrs, the merchants have inaugura.
teda war on the druggists; and physic has
dropped fully forty per cent below the regular
rates. The cut rates apply mainly to the pat
INT medicines. The grocers and other mer-
chants rllO are competing with the druggis 3
Soy that the average merchant has to be sat
sdcd with five or ten per cent profit, and there
Is no reason why the druggist should reap
any more. or course the druggists are mad,
but what can they do about III The war may
honly furry after all, or it may result in
aprmanent reduction in the prices of patent
medicines. The matter will shape itself accord
Ing to the laws Of trade.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09

out referring u TO a committee to consiicr
and report. Mr.. Sargent had been savagely
attacked recently by the German govern
ment organs, and his relations with that gov
el1lment had become strained and unfriendly.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has sent to Congress a
message recommending appropriations for
the construction Of naval vessels He SUI.
gests that provision be made for the buldIn,
Of three new steel cruisers four gunboats,
and tho completion of the four double
turrcted monitors He suggests such action
,as will enable the government to construct its
ordnance on its own territory.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09

TIE entire winter packing Of pork in tho
west is 5,4O2,O6i hogs, against 6,l32, 2l2 last
year. average weight 25l.4i pounds, decrease
ofl55S compared with last year. The de-
crease in the yield of lard per hog was 2.lS
pounds. The pork production shows 273,SjS
pounds less than last year. Stocks Of meat in
the west, including barrclcd pork, were 49,
100000 pounds less than year ago. Exports
since November are 47,OOO,0OO pounds less
than year ago, and A5,OOO,OOO pounds less
than the average Of the seven previous wears
reported. The outlook for hog supplies indi.
Gates about Is per cent shortage for the sum-
mcr. The total packing for the twelve months
ending March was 9,lS3, 100 against 9,3i2,-
800 the previous year.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09

The Chicago Live Stock Exchange mas re-
foycd hat there is no such disease as conta-
giors pleuro-pneumonia in the United States,
no foot and mouth disease in Illinois, Iowa or
Kansas and that at no time within twenty
years have the cattle, hogs and sheep Of this
country been so healthy as now. 1t has also
snt delegation to Washington to lobby
against all cattle disease legislation.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09

sMA1u.-Thc smallest invention some
fines proves the most lucrative. A San
Francisco lady, inventor of baby car
rage received S14, 600 for her patent.
The paper pail, the invention Of a
Chicago lady, yields large income. The
cimlet. t.pointed screw, the idea of a little
Girl, has realized millions of dollars to
It's patentee.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09
FULLY PREPARED FOR THE SITUATION.

ut is my duty 70 inform you," said
the superintendent OF New England
railroad, as one of the train conductors
entered his presence, "that the salaries
OF all train men are to be cut ten per
cent. with the beginning Of tho month"
eyes, sir" was the calm reply.
81 am glad you take such cheerful
view of the situation"
"Oh, I've been expecting it for six
months past" said the conductor. IL
have put all my real estate in my wifo's
name, clapped chattl mortgage on all
my personal effects, and raised 5000 on a
bank note which the indorser will have
to pay. Make the old cut thirty per
cent. il you want to, for this is the only
time in my life I've been in position to
beat my creditors. - IVaN 81. Nc,Os.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09
CURRENT COMMENTS,

CHARLES BARRETT, Of Ashburnhnm, Mass,
now sG years old, had his life insured for g.,
900 in 1916. Having reached the extreme
llpi. Of life according TO the table Of mortality
on which the insurance company does bust.
ness, the president sent him the other day
check for the amount Of his policy. 1t is be.
lieved to be the only case on record where
man has beaten an insurance company by out.
living death policy.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09

TIE discussion Of the red sunsets continues
Probably the volcanic dust theory has tho lar
eest number OF followers. As recent scien-
tfc writer expresses it, tremendous volcanic
eruption hurls into space dust, steam and gas,
and this mighty mass hangs like cloud over
the earth. How long this dust is to envelope
the globe is a question, but it is suggested that
Il the clouds owe their elevation to electrical
rpn!Sion there is no reason why they should
not stay in the upper air for years, but if they
arc slowly settling to lower levels the action Of
the rain drops will drag them down
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09
HOW WE DO THINGS.

81 see 1t stated that the author Of
Kathleen Mayourneen' is starving in
Baltimore.
"Don't believe it; the same report was
published once before, and it turned out
TINT he was not in great want, but only
in very poor circumstances"
"Bnt this time there seems to be
some foundation for the rumor."
"Indeed?"
"Yes, il is given rs fact. Don't you
think something ought to be done ?"
wndeed I do. Twill this very day
take steps toward starting movement
to get up fund TO erect monument to
his memory. philadelphia CAL.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09

HIS TREASURES An Illinois man bad
accumulated o few thousands, and n's
health was such as to convince hun ,na,
be had not much left Of life. Heplckea
out the scriptural clause, e,.,,..sy that
treasure in heaven," and peaevsI es ~ 'l~' IN.
he could obey. The process ,sI ma =; ;ntn ~
vented was to convert bis wealth. ih'o
naper money and burn It prayerfuiiy on
i,'a altar He went so far as to bnild
ibe altar and kindle sacri6cial fire, but
he had burned only $40 when his rela-
tiyes deprived him Of his liberty.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09

VIZ now make opo-fifth Of the iron a.,1 one.
fourth Of the steel in the world and we furnish
Oue.half OF the gold and ono-half of the silver
Of the worlds supply. Taking all the mining
industries Of the world, the United States rep
rse4t SO; Great Brittian, 80, and all other ma
lions 81 per cent Of tho total. Anglo-sa1on-
dom, therefore, represents 90 per cent Of the
mining industry Of tho earth. ..t,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09
POOR BUT PROUD.

"Yes; he is poor, but awfnlly proud
"What IL he proud aboutp"
81 don't know. II comes natural"
"He certainly cannot boast OF birth,
breeding, learning or fortune?"
"No; but he il proud from tho top Of
his head to the soles Of his feet; in fact,
tho proudest man l ever saw"
"1ndeed y
"Yes, sir. II that man were starving,
and too weak to stand, he would start q
report that he was laid up with the
gout. "-Philadeiphia call.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09
THE J0KER'S BUDGET.
WHAT WE FIND IN TIE HUMOROUS
PAPERS TO SMILE OVER.
FIRsT.NIdHT PREPARATIONS.

FIRsT.NIdHT PREPARATIONS.
Hall Janitor-"The furnace IL out Of
order, but I can get it fixed in time for
the performance"
Travelling Theatrical Manager-'Don't
do it. We are to stay here week and
want the first night to be brilliant
popular success
Janitor-"But how can 1t be II the
hall is as cold as barn?"
Manager-"Easy enough. At every
opportunity the audience will clap their
hands and stamp their feet TO keep
warm. ."-EUening call
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09

CONSIDERING the quantity of tea used in this
country, one would naturally suppose that our
people would know something about tea, but
The fact ia, they know next to nothing Most
Of our tea comes from China, but it is the infe-
Nor grades, the spurious stuff which has been
artifcially colorcd. The really good tea is
,ither consumed in China or is sold abroad at
fancy prices. The emperor of Russia imports
Tea at $40 per pound, and itisa common thing
for wealthy people to pay $40 per pound for il,
When good tea is secured you should use ono
full teuspoonful for each person and one for
he pot; boil the water in clean kettle, and
when it boils put the required quantity in a
teapot and pour on tho boiling water, allowing
ITO stand about fifteen minutes. Then pour
into fine china teapot to serve at the table.
Never make tho tea in anything but china or
brown stone pot.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09

WITH reference to the early life OF usmap
Digna, the Suakim correspondent OF the Lon
don Times writes that he was originally bro
ter and trader, and principally slave trader
In Suakim and Jeddah, where he received
severe financial blow, when, some six years Ego,
aBritish cruiser captured two slave dhows fuli
Of Victims on the way to Jeddah. Osman Dig
nstrade then fell from bad to worse, his house
property in Suakm was all mortgaged, and no
became hopelessly involved. Being OF no great
distinction by birth, his selection by the Manai
blead religious rebellion is attributed to the
',cident that Osman Digna met the Mahd',
Gao formed high estimate Of his ability ana
aauegpA, acquired through successful trading
u'his history be trustworthy, passions iof
blher objects than holiness are the key noVs
o. osmen Dgna's character and motives anu
hsagainst all probability that he will cast NIB
foods and his position into the broken Daiahce
Tbattle. He is no ignorant fanatic, ana ne
cannot himself believe the myths winch h'
multipl in order to control his followers
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09

0UR preparations for more efficient navy
will cause the public to feel interested in the
progress Of Krupp's latest ventures in the gun
lin. Several trials have been made with
Krupp's six inch guns, thirty-five caliber
length. A target representing the sides of an
iron man-of.war was constructed Of tcn.inch
hard wood timbcrs, with iron plates seven inch
es thick on cach side, making fourteen inches
Of iron and ten inches Of wood. Tho range
was $50 metres and tho proiectilo passed en-
tircly through the target and buried itse.l in
the sand hill beyond. 1t is understood that
Krupp is now at work on gun that is expected
to accomplish 3 i'll greater results. 1t goes
without saying that even the most heavily
armed vessels cannot withstand guns Of the
Krupp stamp. In future ships Of war will
not be relied upon very largely in attacking
we'll fortified seaport strongholds.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-09

In 1880 there were 6, ,2a9, o5s persons over ~
years Of age who could not write. There are
rr'bably now 100000. Over nineper cent Oh
the whites in this country can not write; 20 per
cent OF colored persons in the United n'a'es
cannot write. or males over 21 there arc y
$4,000 that can not write. One voter in seven'
ID other words, cannot write his own name
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-17
The Hotel Of the Future.

The following is the translation OF
an article in a Berlin paper, which Will
convey an idea of the German estl-
mates of the coming American hotel {:
'"The latest American progress ID
building will be the mammoth hotel,
soon TO be erected on the Shell Road,
st. Augustine, Fla. This enormous
hotel is TO have a frontage of three
English miles long, and depth OF SIX
miles, the hight of seVenty-seven
stories will measure 3,6lO feet from
the ground floor to the roof. The hotel
will have no stairs, but 800 balloons
will always be ready to take guests up
to their rooms. No room walters are
to be employed, but visitors will be
served by newly patented automa-
ton, put up in every bed room, which
will do all shaving, shampoong, etc,
for the guests 10y very simple and IN
geniOus mechanism. Supposlng the
guest requires hot water, the automa-
ton will be able to call downstairs, "a
bucket of water for room No. 3,lO|,
and the water will be up III seven
seconds by IL patented elevator. Halt
an hour before table dhOte, instead
of ringing bells, a gun twenty four
pounder) will be fired on each floor to
call the guests to get ready for their
meals. The tables in the dining rooms
will measure four miles each, attend
ance being performed by twelve wait
ers on horseback on either side of the
table. Music during table d'hOte will
be played, gratis, by eight bands, OF
seventy seven men each. For the con-
venience of visitors ii railway Will be
built on each floor, us well as telegraph
offices. The price Of one bedroom
will he from ! To $40. The cost OF
this building is estimated to he $3.50
900, 900. The billiard-room will con
tain nine hundred American, ninety
nine French and one English table
1 and most of the visitors are expected
to he Americans. The billiard-roon
will he fitted ont with IL spittOOn OF
Que hundred feet in circumference"