The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-08-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

years old.
A new style of wedding card i.
pure white with gilt edge.
Montreal is TO have new maga-
Mnc-"Thc Brtish-Amcrica."
Old Bull is writing book entitled
"The Soul Of the Violin"
Chicago boasts of man who can
lift 5000 lbs.
There arc said to be 3OGj spoken
languages and dialects,
General Spinner is coming home
from Europe the beginning of next
month.
In London you can get through
ticket round the word Tor $3.50.
The female population of Edin-
burgh exceeds the male by nearly
1900. In Glasgow the excess is
10000.
Ireland has now less than twice the
population of the City Of London.
Mrs. Valandigham is rapidly re-
covering from the proslration which
was caused by her husbands death.
The rcvolutionists now in arms in
Guatemala demand the expulsion Of
the Jcsuits from that country.
Punch thinks that dealing at slop-
shops is n sure safeguard against fits.
Colorado announces the discovery
of new silver mines Of great rich
ness.
A great scarcity Of bcaux is COM
planned OF at most OF the watering
| places.
A Ncw England preacher recently
! based his sermon on what he called
the unhappy fate of Mrs. Lot"
The Indian tomalawk that i.
plowcd up every summer has this
season made its usual appearance in
Ohio.
The Boston religious papers COM
| plain that sumner has produced
there "thin clothes and thin congrc-
cations"
An agriculturist who has been re.
Gently travelling through southern
Illinois claiming that that section OF
the country "hcats the world on
wheat"
The manufactures ut Piltsburg
and Allegheny city are said 10 en-
ploy 35,635 hands, who arc paid an
nu.lly Sl7,Gh,jGG wages,
Mobile, Alabama, has found a new
material for street paving, in cypress
shavings. 1t is said this road-bed
will lcnain firm and solid from eight
to ten years.
Mr.. NallandiXham's intimate per.
sonal and political friends are to
meet in Dayton, Ohio, about the Iu
OF August, to take measures 10 raise
funds for q monument TO his mem.
ory.
The editor OF the London Spncta.
tor declares that no toll faligllcs like
reading manuscript,
Roast anaconda is said TO he the
Fashionable dclicacy among the M.
tivcs at ArcTrpa, Peru.
1. A storm in Texas Travelled IN,
miles in two boure. Th,s beats Wcs.
toms time by upwards Of considcra-
Bile, and h0 should hand over the
belt.
Alvin Adams, the founder OF the
express business in this country, who
was poor msn W years ago, now
rcsidc' in Waicrtown, Mass, and is
one Of the wcallhicst men in New
England.
The Princes Joachim and AchiIlc.
sons OF Lucicu Nurat, who hnyr
been released from Imprisonment,
have gore to Versailles and placcj
themselves at the disposition of the
French Government.
The sun, shining through SLIGHTLY
convex pane Of glass, ignitcd 4 box
OF matches in house in Canandaiyua.
n. VA few afternoons since.
The English divines engaged in re.
vising the New Testament have held
their eleventh session, and got as far
In their work rs the end Of the six
chapter of st. Marks Gospel.
Lightning struck the "a. pipcs
in q church and exploded the street
mains all over Iowa City, the other
day.
New England complains or wan,
of rain, and cnvics the Middle States
their recent drcnching showers.
DIR. Livingstone is the only tray
cllcr OF rcnown who docs not write
letters, or make speeches.
Pittsburg sold $S5l,sUO woriI, .,
llostcttcr's Bittors last year, and vet
the smoky city isn't happy.
a balloonist, who, last week, made
an ascension from Ogdcnsburg,
passed through several snow SQUALLS,
and at one time had two inches of
snow in the basket. lie suffered
greatly from the cold.
The King Of Belgium is described rs
a man - or 81 years of age, over 6 feet
III fcight, and very graceful form.
His complcNiou is fair, his features
regular, and extremely gentle in en-
preston, Though Arm enough to in
dlcatc character and to insure re-
Spcct.
Medical authority SAYS sunsl.pl,r
may bc avoided by carrying certain
things in the hat. Almost auythiny
damp will do, but it should never be
n brick.
The Lsndon Spectator declares
that dislike Of Il defined and CON
spicuous position, il one of the most
c, crvating Of the results of uol,ru