The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-08-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

NEW UBRhEl HAD piA ouo ''''A~' wa ~
planted with cranberriss.
TuRRE areabout five hundred miles
of railway open in Brazil.
THE ORDNANCE factory at liege IN
Belgium is one of the largest in the
world.
Roruscu1Lp pere advertises his
magnificent chateau in the suburbs
OF Paris, for sale.
IN New Grenada last year, more
than two million dollars was appro'
priated for normal schools alone.
Mr.. G. H. MBEuAS, assistant libra
ran of the library of Congress, IN
charge of the law department, died
suddenly of appoploxy Friday
OVER ruP western half of the At
lantic Ocean, there are three times
as many storms as there are over the
eastern side.
Mr.. DELANE, managing editor OF
the London Times, said recently: 81
can find any number of men to write
for me, but very seldom one man OF
common sense"
GEN. FREMONT is perambulating
about the Isle of Shoals and prom
enading Mount Desert occasionally,
trying to ascertain what he knows
about fishing.
TnE PRESENT cost Of living in Paris
is said to be nearly twice what it
was previous to the late war.
BERLIN is famous for its excellent
public schools, but teachers are paid
only about txo hundred and fifty
dollars per annum.
KpUrp's great iron works at Essen,
Germany, cover nearly eight square
milos, and one and q half are under
cover. They furnish employment
for 10000 men.
NIAGARA FALLS have been stormed
by bridal parties Of late, and their
Romeo and Juliet exhibitions in pub
lie have disgusted bachelors, and
drives old maids almost crazy.
PAPER collars and cuffs to the
number of 150,000,000 are manufac-
tured annually in the United States,
and now paper clothing arc being
imported from Japan, which will
wash five or six times.
TIE independent thinks that whom
child is whipped just as hard for
breaking dish as for breaking a
commandment, there is need that
somebody should pray for his par
ents, that they may be able to dis
tinguish between things that diflor'
Tom THUMB and his party have
completed their tour around the
world, having travelled 35, 600 miles,
$1,000 of them by water, given l,4ll
entertainments, without missing a
single day or performance through
illness or accident.
IT IS rumored about the interior
deparl ment that Gen, o. o Howard
will soon be appointed commissioner
of Indian affairs, Gen +. A. Walker,
the present commissioner, to be APP
pointed at the head of the pension
bureau. Mr.. Baker, the present head
of that bureau, will be placed in
charge of another bureau, or be ask
ed to resign.
ONE OF the religious journals,
speaking of another, says that ut Is
an excellent paper, though we some
times wish it would mix little more
Christianity with its intelligence, and
add little intelligence to its Chris
tianity.
COUNTING in Lorraine ard Alsace
as taxpayers, Germany will receive
S1.44O, 100000 from France. Hei
own expenaes were in the aggregate
only 1923, 800, 900, leaving balance
on the tranaction of $l,l62,5 ,5OO,O 600
or about 500 per cent. interest on
the capital invested. This Is the
nost gigantic commercial operation
in the history Of war.
IN THE four largest provinces O.
the Argentine Confederation, having
n population of 36S,471, there arr
22,'525 children at primary schools
and G252 in other schools. There
are also, university, model school
and thirteen colleges.