The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-08-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

London celebrated the Fourth
more enthusiastically than Washing
ton did.
An inch of rain falling on an acre
of land weighs about one hundred
tons.
A Madrid dispatch, Of the 10Th,
states that the murderer of lrim has
been arrested
About S75,OOO,OOO foot up the mon
cy losses of the Rothschilds as the
result Of the war in Europe.
In Georgia, sunilowcrs Of three
and four feet in circumference are
among the production of tho sea-
son.
At the Portland Catholic Cathedral
they charge admission fees of five
cents to half dollar, according to
tic location of the seats.
Cincinnati has made piano with
out strings or reeds, small bars Of
steel being hammered instead. The
effect is striking.
Dom Piatt has abandoned his Gul-
acy department, The attempt to be
funny to order, even once a month,
was too much for him.
| Assistant assessors Of revenue ia
different parts of the country are still
being dismissed, under the govcrn-'
mental policy ofrctrcnchmcnt,
Fossil lions, tigers, lcopards, clc-
|phants, hcifcrs, lemons, palm leaves
and cocoanuts have been found in
Colorado.
Mr.. Il. {, Fcnimorc has sold from
ninety acres of land, within the last
ten years, near Wilmington, Dele
ware, peaches to the value of $780,
ISL.
The story of William Tell and the
|applC is said to have been distinctly
told in an ancient Persian manuscript
Lust discovered in the library at
Brcslall.
An old German who crossed the
ocean to see his friends in Lyons,
Iowa. reached them just in time to
fall dead before Il word Of greeting
could be uttered.
The inn-l'llUstcllclicdc Zane
Rayc-whcrc Joan of Arc, father
and mother were entertained by the
city of Hhcims in ll2o, still cX-
lists and is still an inn.
4 greyhound, which at one time
belonged to "Jacatro, Commodore
Stockton's guide" died recently,
near Los Angeles, at the advanced
age of twcnty-thrcc years.
The Connecticut Legislature has
passed II law compelling railroads to
fence unoccupicd lands lying bctwccl
the line of the road and a high way
The striking of soldiers in battle
by shots is said to vary according tC
the uniform. Thus, of those dressed
in red, II arc struck to in green
G in brown and } in blue.
a London letter says that two pro-
nincnt Communists talk Of visiting
the United States and oflccturing In
defence Of their ideal federation
The steam power employed in the
United States does the labor Of lO,-
OOO,OD0 men, while that Of Great
Britain is equivalent to l90,OOOOOO.
The contemplated tunnel rdcr the
Detroit River, between Detroit and
Windsor, Canada, will extend SOS
feet from portal to portal, The csti-
mated cost is S2,GjO,WO0.
The Emperor OF Brazil now in
, London, is said to utterly astound
that city by bcin@ out Of bed and
stirring as carly As six O'Clock i'll the
morning.
OF the siA thousand pcopI" At Sar-
aloga last week it is estimated that
: only five hundred were there ON &C.
count of their health. The Others
came to see and be seen.
The Greeley Tribune, Il bright lit.
tic paper published in the new town
Of Greeley, Col, displays its title in
the form of fac similc Of the hand
writing Of the modern Horace.
Mr.. Henry w. Peek, NJ. l. has OF.
fcrcd prizes of 5000, 5000 and SJU
, for original trcatiscs in favor of tht
maintenance of the Church of Eng
land as an established Church.
A man in Los Angeles, who had
been in perfectly good health, sud.
IDENTIFY lost the power ofspccch with.
out any apparent cause. As he can
neither read nor write, he i, unable
to give his own views in regard IL
what led to his sudden dumbncss.
J In q number of the Maine towns
the drought and dcvastations Of the
grasshoppcrs have left the fields as
bare as q ledge. Farms which last
year produced fifteen tons of hay
will not be mOwn over this season,
and the crops are utterly destroy
cd.
Tho number of horses in Russia is
greater in proportion to the popula-
ton than il is in our greatest horse
rcgiOm--kcntucky. Russia has ono
horse to every three persons. Ken
lucky has one horse to about four
; and half Of its population.
The New Bedford Mercury says
Charles ID. Wrightington, n mcchan.
, ical genius of Fairhavcn, has recent
ly completed miniature steam cn-
, sinc perfect in every detail, of about
! one mouse power. The boiler Is
three inches long, and the machine
contains over 500 pieces, some OF
> which arc of gold. 1t runs finely.
, In Pckin, new, ,papcr OF cAtraor-
! dinary size is published weekly on
silk. II is said to have been publish
cd more than thousand years ago.
In 1927, a public officer caused some
, false intelligence to be inserted in
this paper, for which hc was put to
death. Several numbers OF the pa
per are preserved in tho loyal Libra .
I ry OF Paris. They are ten and quar-
f ter yards long.
4 a Philadelphia physician writes To
, tho Past TO correct an impression