The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-04
INTERESTING ITEMS.

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lp in California. t
Street costumes recently sent over n
from Paris are made short enough to
clear the ground. lii
Forty.cieht million one hundred and =
thousand collars and cults f
are annually made in Troy, N. Y. It
The Goodyear hard rubber patent OK {
pired May 9th, 1872. The Goodyear
soft rubber patent expired some time
ago.
There is said to be $25, 900, 900 invest
ed in silk manufactures III this country,
and the productions of these manufac.
taros sell at $3.50, 100000.
The first seventeen weeks of this year
the New England manufacturers shipped
to places outside of New England 49,
g26 cases of boots and shoes.
In the State Library at Albany, New
York, are the very papers that were
found in the boot Of Major Andre, ana
which led to his conviction as spy.
A rubber company has been formed
in New Britain, Conn, for the manufac'
ture OF all articles of merchandise made
by combination of rubber with wood,
metals or any other hard substance.
The Saturday Rcricw thinks that
among the lost arts it is painful to have
to reckon the art of writing prayers.
That art, it alllrms only existed in Eng
land during few years in the middle
Of the sixteenth century, and it has been
going down ever since.
England manages to get along with
killing ono passenger i'll | ,256, wv ON her
railroads; France, ono i'll l,950, 800 !;
Belgium, one in 1861 ,80l; Baden, ono
in II, ,5ll, l,977; Prussia, one IN 2l,4ll'-
i8S.
Walnut stumps have become an arti-
clo of merchandise, and many OF them
ore yery valuable. The curly grain OF
tbe roots is used for venecrlnB, ana
some stumps are worth $3.50, after being
properly worked into shape.
The Creek Nation have a well-organ
;zed public school system, where then
children aro taught the rudimcnts Of
tho English Seminary. They arc now
rcody to give ten thousand dollars lol
the erection of Baptist Seminary
when the teachers are provided Tor IT,
! A roportcr in the New York Wmc
l has made lively sketch OF the pcopl
who board in Brooklyn, and OF TN
boarding houses and their keepers. III
statistics represent that 100000 pcopl
who board in that city pay nn aNoraE
of scvcn dollars n week, making 'o.'
;, Of Al ,l2O, 900 weekly, or &5S,2loOoO
a year.
d The quantity of meat consumed !
the British Islands in 1871 was one mi
ic lion four hundred and forty-scven tho'
=, sand one hundred and eighty-one ton
II, of which one million two hundred al
re and sixty-six thousand four hundred a,
X soyenty.cight tons were supplied
-, homc-brcd animals, cighty-onc tlo
!" sand five hundred and scvcnty.olght
o, ;mportcd animals, and ninety-nlnc tho
IN sand ono hundred and twenty ilve TO
i consisted of imported provisions 1ro
III Australia. This was IN excess oV
In 1870 of upwards Of eighty thousand tor
Almost half tho increase consisted
imported provisions, Oncthlrd was
rosplt of improved home production
he and one sixth was from imported al
10 mails.
VII What Washington knew about far
''i ING was worth knowing. In 1877 he II
III fye hundred and eighty acress IN gra
sowed six hundred bushels OF oa'
seven hundred acres with wheat, and
much more in barley, potatoes, beal
Ven peas, etc, and one hundred ana IL
Inc with turnips. His stock consisted
10 one hundred and forty horses, one Ut
rvs rvs drcd and twelve COWS, two hundred Il
~ tbirtv-six working oxen, heifers, a
an m Steers and five hundred sheep,
mol nal constantly employed two hundred
as. m fifty hands, and kept twcnty-four PIC
fol- Going during the whole year, when
,ta ,o oartb and the state of the weather wo1
M ths hermit In 1870 he slaughtered
MD hundred and fifty hogs Tor the ust
It his own family, and provisions ior
negroes.
.Yl2 According to London journals, lat
X received, great despondency preVaii
,..a the South African diamond fields.
Is nv of the English diggers are disgust
ii At the best life to those, even 70
80. manor born, p is bad enough; whii'
",.s the cockneys, born within the so'in'
. ID 10 Bow-bells, it is simply unenduraoiG;
.-- 9 il no Joke breaking ground IN shaii
''' 2 less sand, under scorching sum-
' r,tiops of tough OK flesh to eat, scaso
zee" 3 with condiments at the prlce Oh 3
80, 3 and dispensing with vegetable ana c
bread. For sleeping place ono ha
'.ao7 he content under bush, or wagon,
oral a f;msy bell-tent. For drink, notl
on ;s Ito bs had bnt tepid water, 50
,icc. need;p0 the services of filter.
Tho worst of it is that the diamonds
nooh- -poohed by the Jews OF Lon
+, and the cutters of Amsterdam. At
lie first going off diggers not only beli'
. re- in their fields, but exaggerated
'ros- value; while their expectations
and raised continually and their illus
rom fostered by middlemen and mercha
able Patriotic South Africans assumed
ltire the stones from the Vaal River wei
IN is water as pure rs those from Goiconu
,ver- Minas- Geraes. But when they com
and, remit, dealers in London and Amster
later shook their heads and pronounced
osed con-ignments valuable and curious; rs;
and, of decidedly inferior quality; l Desl
pro. markets necessarily select must spec
and become glutted. The London Jour
that now predict that the populations o'
duct once thriving canvas cities must
'rred fast, and the mines be left to
some knots of plodding adventurers who
le or resign themselves to severe ana 81
also work and moderate pay, with the cn
1 not Of their toll being occasionally s"e'
leans cd by a dash of speculation.
We met an old darkey trudging
n the with heavy side of bacon, whie
ionod had bought, swinging over his sh0u
~ an. We observed that he was miserably
, was and we felt sorry for him, for
;,,t;no cold wind was blowing. We remoI
'''''o | l. gsxuhy do Won qnnuu