The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-01-14
FACTS AND FANCIES.

The great desert Of Africa has
nearly the present dimensions OF the
United States.
Queen Victoria carried off the first
prize for pigs and Herefordshire heifers
at the Christmas cattle show in London.
Forty girls will run after snoh
with gold. headed cane where one will
shy up to a fellow with sound horse
sense.
Says Miss Kellogg: ga young
girl in her training to become singer
must mako covenant with her Dyes,
and not look upon a man.
If Eve should come now people
would say, What big feet she has No
one would tempt her with apples. They
would throw thom at her. York
Herald.
Petroleum springs have been dis
covered in Northern Germany, which
in purity, clearness and specific weight,
are said to surpass those OF the United
States. There are also many in Russia.
"A Georgia paper knows man who
went all the way from Cassville to At
lanta. On his return he looked solemn
with the weight OF garnered wisdom,
and said "If the world is as big
t'other way as it is that, lisa whopper."
The fact that twenty-seven men are
wanted by the Sa~ Francisco police for
deserting their wives indicates change
of sentiment from the time when the
first white woman was received in Cali
fornia with procession.
We don't want to make anybody
mad, nor discourage true genius, yet we
can't help but believe that the man who
spends his time writing the Lord's
PRAYER in a circle the size OF three
cent piece had better be seen working
around his woodpile.
Worse than evolution.-Ben Butler
said in a speech in congress the other
day that he "stood erect in the image
of the God who made him, and dealt
with principles as seemed to him right"
If it gets out that Ben. Butler is an
image of God there will be a mighty
spread of infdelity through the country.
The navigators of the boistsrous
Bay of Biscay lately encountered a new
terror in the shape of iceberRs which
had been driven there by the late
severe storm. Icebergs, though found
farther south, have rarely entered the
limits OF this bay, and, hence their
presence there is an event OF peculiar
interest.
The New York Tribune notes that,
whereas, Brooklyn preacher is pitch
ing into theaters, the builders OF the
new Globe play house in Boston have
to some extent initiated the pew sys-
tenn. One hundred seats have been
sold outright in a kind of fee simple,
TO be held by the buyers, their heiss
and assigns forever.
A German journal, published in
the interest of sugar.refiaers, makes the
intorestisg announcement that the lllc
iencv Of bone black as decoiorzne
medium is independent OF the quantity
of pure carbon it contains. This being
tho case, it is stated that bone burned
to whiteness decolorizes the liquor ever
better than the now universally used
bone coal.
In the official account just issued
by the Prussians, it is admitted that at
Gravelotte Comte dc Moltke nearly lost
the battle. The official document says:
"Comte de Moltke was not always so
we'll informed ms if he were the director
of both armies. Ho attacked, as lie
believed, the right wing of the enemy,
when il was their centre, the error was
soon corrected from the want OF ability
on the part Of Bazaine; but it is honor
ably avowea that the error might have
proved calamitous."