The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-01-28
FACTS AND FANCIES.

The Mexican congress has offered q
reward of 800, to the first mine
which shall have produced 500 TASKS Of
quicksilver.
Think OF that? When you take q
girl to spellng-school in Nevada you
have to ride twenty-four miles, and you
have to keep your arm around her all
the time
1t is reported that the Mexicon
government is garrisoDing small towns
on the Rio Grande, for the purpose OF
assisting the authorities on this side in
breaking up cattle stealing.
Three Chicago girls are about Open
ing BARRIERS shop in that city. Ona
is to do the lathering, another the shaw
ing, while third, beautiful blonde,
is to sit on sort OF throne, and play
on harp aud sing. The outfit OF this
establishment, it is said, will cost
$4,000.
In the bank OF France they have
got o brick for which they paid 1,OOO
francs in specie. 1t was taken from the
ruins of burnt house, and the image
and figures of note for 1000 francs
are burned on the surface, transferred
by heat from real note. This brick
the bank redeemed on presentation, as
if it we're q note itself.
When the English government took
the telegraph system into its own hands,
and introduced young boys as messen.
gers and young ladies as operators, /.
WAS forgotten to issue q new code OF
examination. To the young ladies the
following questions have to be put d.
rect, as they stand in the existing code:
care You in the militia q "When
will you be entitled to your dischargeE
GLOW many inches do you measure
round the chest, under your waist
coat ?"
AT the Hotel Dieu, Paris, recently,
young woman, who became the victim
of SO dangerous an attack OF hemor-
rhage that her safety was despaired OF,
was made the subject OF fresh experl,.
mont in the new branch OF medical
science (transfusion OF blood.) The
chef dc clinque of NJ. Bohier young
physician, cheerfnlly offered himself as
the fountain from which the necessary
life's fluid was to be drawn for the OK,
pertinent. The necessary pump, heated
to the temperature of 35 to 40 degrees,
was prepared, one of the young mans
veins was opened, and quantity OF re-
storative blood WAS transvasated INTO
the diving woman. The next day she
could eat, and few days after tho
patient left the hospital cured.
The high-tonel California may
make mistakes, but he is ever ready to
acknowledge them. A California Journal
tells this "Not long since German
was riding along SAMSON street. near
Sacramento, when he heard g pistol shot
behind him, beard the whizzing OF q
ball near him, and felt his hat shaken.
He turned and saw man with revolver
in his hand, and took of his hat and
found fresh bullet hole in it. DID
Won shoot at me.' asked the German.
sYes,' replied the party that's my
horse it was stolen from me recently
you must be mistaken, said the Ger
man: Il have owned the horse for
three years. "Well, said the other.
when come to look at him believe
am mistaken. Excuse me, sir; won't
you take drink p"
-Lohse has investigated what would
be the effect and appearance OF spher-
cal gaseous mass, as eeen by an op,
server passing over the solar disk, and
has sought to apply his results to the
possible effect OF the atmosphere OF
Venus on the phenomena of the Venus
transit. In conclusion, he stateaa, with
reference to the 80 called black.drop
phenomenon, that if the atmosphere OF
Venus has density 80 great that II
uni es the solar rays in one point lying
between Venus aud the earth, it must
then have the same effect as an obaque
body that is to say, the solar limb Will
by this atmosphere be broken or IN.
dented before the body Of Venus itself
touches it and, conversely, the solar
limb will not regnin its integrity at the
close of the inner contact until the at
mospherio layer is entirely within the
solar disk. 1t is possible that at tic
inner contact the effect OF the atmos-
phore OF Venus contributed considera.
bly, to tho appearance of the so'callod
back drop.