The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1869-05-06

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There are still over 4 million acres
Of swamp land in Arkansas unsold. 4
Cotton strikes are now Of daily o.
currence in all the manufacturing cen |
tres of England. ~ I
The Potomac has been accidentally
stocked with gold fish.
At a recent fire in Liverpool ESQ.,
900 worth ofhops were destroyed.
A West Texas millionaire farmer
has fenced in pasture Of 100000
acres. af IN ss
In the near neighborhood Of Colds
borough, North Carolina, there are
one hundred acres of land devoted to
the cultivation of strawberries.
Very few of the French Emperor's
foreign ministers are Imperialists.
They are either legitimists or Orlean-
lists.
An Oregon paper exults in the sup
posed fact that the headquarters Of
poetry in the United States will be on
the Pacific coast ..f,... ,a.
The Saginaw pine crop this year will
reach the enormous amount OF four
hundred million feet.
A large number ofsummer residences
are to be erected by the Union Pacific
Railroad Company at Laramie.
Five years ago no white man lived
within six miles of Ottawa, Kansas.
Now the place has 5000 inhabitants.
So many disturbances have been
made by the students in Russian uni
versitics that several Of them have been
closed.
The great aquarium of Berlin is near
ly finished. When occupied it will be
one of the largest establishments Of the
kind in the world.
The population ofSayannah is now
estimated at 40, 0OO-the increase since
the war being nearly 10000.
A Lockport groceryman found a full
grown bean buried in the core of an
apple, which he was eating few days
since.
A movement is now on foot which
looks to the transfer in body to this
country ofall the unemployed cotton
operatives in Lancashire England.
A rich and pious old citizen of &C.
neya, Switzerland fears a food, and
has begun the construction of an ark.
in which to save himself and house.
Very rarely are Spanish authors paid
anything for their writings, and even
when they do the labor gratuituously
they generally have to bear expense
and risk Of publication.
The Grand Duke Nicholas of Rus
sia lately met with railroad accident
The only injury done was to the Min
lister OF Public Works, who lost his
place for allowing the accident to &C.
cur.
A paper in Texas says that more
rain has fallen in the last six months
than in the proceeding three years. The
streets of San Antonio have not been
dry since last October.
"A Detroit woman whose sole occu-
patton is peddling matches has thus
earned enough to buy good house
and rear up three children, who have
good trades and are able to take care
ofthemselyes and her.
The skulls of dead Confederate SOL
diers buried near Fort Harrison, Va,
are burned by enteTprising negroes as
means of securing the gold filings
OF the teeth. A white renegade from
secessionism "bosses" the ghoulish
business.
Several men who wrote to the Pres
ident in favor of the appointment oil
friends have been astonished at receiy-
ing unsolicited commissions themselves
The mystery was solved by the fact
that they closed their letters by saying
81 have the honor to subscribe myself
etc." it being the rule to give all sub
scribers something.
Western boys adopt queer playthings
The Lawrence, (Kansas) Journal of
the 22d says; "Last evening lad of
about 10 years old came into our office
and asked us if we wished to see some
thing, at the same time putting his hand
into his bosom and pulling out a large
black snake six feet long. He WIS
caught last Sunday, but he has it COM
pletely tame"
Scientific men say that the time of
the diurnal revolution of the earth is
gradually being shortened on account
of the shrinkage of the earth by cool
ing in the interior. '' ~'-
Prentice epitomizes the Ross Grant
by stating that the Senator
requested Gen. Grant to exchange
tie Presidency for foreign mission"
Monsters of the deep arc flockino To