The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-08-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

The manufactures AZ rittsbure
and Allegheny city arc said TO en-,
ploy 3j,G35 hands, who are paid an,
nually SIT, 1886 wages.
Mobile, Alabama, has found n new
material for street paving, in cypress
shavings, IT il said this road-bcd
will lemain firm and solid from eight
to ten years.
Mr.. Vallaudigham's ultimate per.
sOnal and political friends are To
meet in Dayton, Ohio, about the lSt
of August, to take measures to raise
funds for n monument TO his mem.
DRY.
The editor of The London Spcca-
tor declares TINT no toll fatigucs like
reading manuscript.
Roast anaconda is said 10 be the
Fashionable delicacy among the ma.
tives Mt Arcqnlpa, Peru.
A storm in Texas Travelled $50
miles in two hours. This boats W"s-
tons time by upwards of considcra-
bic, and be ShonId hand over the
belt.
IL is said that ground aCOrns aud
horse ClIcstnuts enter into the COM
position Of n large portion OF the
cheap maccaroni and vcrmicclli man
ufaCturcd in New York.
Alvin Adams, the founder OF the
express business in this country, who
was n poor man ~ years ago nov
resides in Watcrtowu, Mass, and il
one Of the wcallhicst men in New
England.
The Princes joachim and AchilIc,
gnns OF Lncicn Murnt, WHO have
been released from imprisonment,
have gO'c to Versatile, u It placed
themselves NJ the di"l"~i'iou ct The
French Government.
The sun, shining through n -%ligtlIy
convex pane OF glass, igniicd u box
Of matches in II house in Cauandaig,d.
n. VA few afternoons since.
The English divincs engaged in re-
vising the New Testament have held
their eleventh session, and got AS far
in their work as the end of the six
chapter Of ST. Marks Gospel.
Lightning struck the gas pipes
in n church and exploded the street
mains all over Iowa City, the other
day.
New England complains OF want
of rain, and cnvics the Middle States
their recent drCnching showers.
DR.. Livingstone is the only tray
cllCr OF rcnown who does not write
letters, or make speeches.
pittSbur. sold SSjl,SDO worth of
lIostctter's Bittcrs last year, aud yet
the smoky city isn't happy.
A %balIoonist, 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. lilo suffered
greatly from the cold.
The King Of belgium is described rs
"A man 3Or Sc years OF age, over Il lccI
IN height, aud n very graceful form,
His complexion il fair, his features
and extremely gentle in cN-
preston, Though nrm enough to ~
licatc character aud 10 iun,r" go
spcci.
Medical authority says 6lnstruhr
may be ave- idrd 10y carry iuy certain
things in the bat, Almost anything
damp will do, but it should never BE-
"A brick.
The london Spectator declares
that "dialikc OF Il defined aud con
spicuouS position, is ono Of the most
., Crvating Of the results of modern
culture
The population of Utah has been
nearly doubled since the first of
last, in consequence OF the
and development. in dis.
i,icts adjacent I" salt Lrkr, o. II
OF vastly rich silver quartz
veins.
II is reported that the interest of
tho family OF the late Henry j. Ray
Inond in the New York Times
about onc-third-has been pur-
'hascd for $4,000 by the other
ownrra OF that paper, :
Nirginin papers say that the pow
Ter tanks found 10y the wrCCkcrr in
lr Confederate iron-clad Richmond,
,"w lying in thirty or forty feet of
water, arc in good condition, and the
'"Wdcr as dr., sud ready for NE AZ
it, Subncrsion siN years ago.