The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-06-22
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year salary, and manages, by strict
economy, to get along.
Jim Sims, a colored gentleman
who used 10 fiddle in saloons in
Savannah, Georgia, is now a District
Judge in South Carolina.
The steam power employed in the
United States does the labor of 100
100000 men ; whilst that of Great
Britain is equivalent to 40O,000,000.
The four new iron revenue steam.
ers now in curse of construction
are to DO named: Ulysses S. Grant
Scuyler Colfax, Alexander Hamilton
and Albert Gallatin.
Thousands of the finest estates in
Virginia arc said to be for sale.
A parson, reading the funeral servi-
ces at the grave, forgot the sex ofthe
deceased and asked one of the
mourners, an Emeralder, "Is this q
brother or a sister ?" "Nather," replied
Pat, "only a cousin"
The Indian Chiefs now on a visit
o Washington have so far capitula-
cd to civilization as to purchase silk
ats, which, worn with buffalo skin
obcs, moccasins, and war-paint,
omplete a costume more novel than
elegant.
The original portraits Of King
Louis XVI and his Queen, Marie
Antoinette, which were taken from
the walls of the Tuileries at the time
of the arrest and execution of these
two distinguished persons, are now in
Philadelphia.
There is an ice factory in New
Orleans which turns out sixteen tons
of ice per day, running six machines
which cost $4,000 in gold. The water
is pumped up from the Mississippi,
purified and frozen into blocks about
two feet long, a foot wide and three
inches thick. These works were c.
tablished in 1866.
Sir William Jenner, the great
. English physician, has been examined
before the vaccination cOmittee OF
London. No evil effects from vac
cination had ever, he said, come I'M
der his notice and, as the father of
six children, he should consider him
self wanting in his duty had he neg
lectcd to have them vaccinated,
An exchange says that arrange
ments have been made in England for
an excursion to this country of a
number of publishers and editors of
London journals, They expect to
leave Liverpool sometiome this
month, and will make IN extended
tour through the States.
Here is tie last of a shoemaker,
beyond which let no cobblcr go: A
lady complaining that the soles of
her shoes were too thick, the artful
manufactures said TO her, as that
your only objection to them,
madame ?" at is" replied the lady.
DWELL then, madame, if you take
them think | can assure you you
will find that objection gradually
wear away"
A curious and beautiful effect was
produced by one of the ice-making
machines built lately in Philadelphia.
This was a cake of manufactured
ice, in the centre of which, complete
ly incl0sed by the translucent mate
rial, was a boquet of fresh flowers.
Every leaf and flower was perfectly
visible, while the brilliancy of the
colors was enhanced by the refrac-
ton through the ice.
The quantity Of game annually
Filled in the provinces of Prussia
Yields 7,750,4G4 pounds of meat, val
urd at $G72,G02, and skins valued at
$l07, 074. The Prussian Government,
therefore, derives an annual revenue
of $7S0,57G from the enforcement
of the game laws. When the returns
are published of the recently annexed
territories of Hanover, Hesse, Mas
sau and Slcswick-llOlstein, it is be-
lieved that two millions of pounds
of game will be added, and that the
revenue from this source, will be i'll
creased by One-fourth.