The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-06-22
NO.. 90.
BRIEF MENTION.

about $4,000 day.
Boston has opened her free public,
baths.
The King of Spain is hard at work
learning Spanish.
tits proposed in Jamaica to abol-
ish trials by jury.
New Orleans has her ice machines
in full operation.
The best inheritance any one can
have. is an honest employment.
Detroit has colored base ball club
called the "Wavino Lilies"
The Germans Of New York are 90
ing to erect a $4,000 thcater.
The London AihenDVm mildly
tells Mario he has lived too long.
And every day makes the offenss
worse.
The Indians call locomotive
"Coughing lIoss."
Over 100000 people, it is reported,
left Paris at the outbreak of the re-
cent troubles.
The population Of London in
April was 3,25l,S ,S0l.
Londoners say that one-third OF
the population Of that city never saw
grain field.
Josh Billings Lecture for next
summer is to be "What know about
hotels"
All the Communist leaders but
two, in Paris, are said to have been
killed or executed.
'Soliiied beer" is very poplar out
West. a man can carry enough of. it
in his waistcoat pocket to ruin a
temperance society.
A colored men has been elected
Alderman of an interior town in In
diana on the Democratic ticket
Miss Nellie Noe, an Iowa sculp-
trcss, wants to rival Winnie Ream,
and lay hands on Congressman
bust. No, Noe.
Two Ohio girls filled lighted kcro-
sonc lamps last week. 1t was the
explosive kind, and both sleep in the
valley.
The King of Bavaria has had a gar
den laid out on the top ofthe palace at
Munich. In the centre of it is lake,
upon which swans are seen SWIM
ming.
A few days ago 256,00O quarts Of
Strawberries passed through Will
mington Delaware, on their way to
market. They weighed $50 tons.
On week days you buy your music
, by the sheet; on Sundays you can
| have it by the choir for nothing.
Chinese cucumbcrs are said to grow
five to eight feet in length, and from
six to nine inches in diameter.
June 18th, the anniversary of tho
battle of Waterloo, is to be the day Of
h the triumphal entry of the Germans
d into Berlin.
n The fifty post offices of the United
! States in l776 have increased to over
:, twenty thousand.
d 1t is the general belief that the
n troubles of France are far from being
it ended yet.
~ IODlll Ill ljttlOlJ HIS DCCll luu8 III
. to whsle Yankee Doodle.
!, Mr.. and Mrs. r. Thumb and Mr..
d and Mrs. Commodore Mutt, are an
it nounccd in London.
n A handsome cottage at New York
e is built upon rock, and has an iron
= band which goes across the roof and
y Eastens the house securely to the
y rock.
h The Boston Post thinks the Ken
a tucky Republican,, must be in stew,
t. as at their recent convention they
Is nominated $. 5. Fry, of Boyle county,
y for State Treasurer
!, Nisalia, California, claims to
q q have thc biggest tree Of the Big
. free" region, tree with a trunk 40
feet inches in diameter.
The New England fishermen are
complaining that on account of the
of excessive catch this season, the prices
al of Goldfish and 'nackerel have not
is been so low tol many years.
he Much ir tercst i, bre:aning to be
Is manifested in the scientific world in
- regard to the transit Of Venus, which
" takes place in 1871. Germany and
10 10 Russia are to unite in sending out
q. commissioners to observe the transit.
e The King of SwcdcI hos been near
'r ly killed by dying his ha,r with a
V, hair restorer said to be uHda o. veg
Z, ctable ingredients, but containing, as
u u most of these restorers do, powerful
- - mineral poison.
d Near Geneoa, Illinois, an agricul-
1t alist is carrying on an extensive
n poultry farm, and expects to keep
$4,000 hens of the choicest breeds.
The announcement is made by a
Spanish newspaper that General
Sicklcs, American Minister to Mad
IS rid, is soon to be married to SPAN
~ ish lady.
Somebody has written book ell.
l. titled "What shall my son be-"
,e Upon which some one replies, 'lf
d the bow be as bad as the book, the
3, chances are that he will be hanged
Y Rochester boasts gold fish with
e two tails-a sort of Maltese cross af-
if fair one being attached at right an
e giles to the other.
= y The pigeon killing industry is so
q q thriving in Wisconsin that from TO-
$ 900 to $4,000 birds are daily forward
( ed OH the trains east.
}, Wisconsin farmers complain Bit
o terly of the damage done to their
J wheat fields by millions Of pigeons.
J They make regular raids every morn
. ing, and leave little ofthc sowh wheat
= = behind them when they retire.
# Mr.. Whitehead, the inventor OF Tho
n ''fish torpedo" it is said, will receive
$75 1000 from the English government,
in consideration of his making over
l. his invention to it.
- - Chief Justice Chase, whose health