The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-12-09
FACTS AND FANClES.

Losses ON vessels and cargocs by the
recent gales on the northwestern lakcsup
to latest accounts will aggregate nearly
$500, 600.
A large number of excursions from
England to America during the Ccntcn-
NAL have been arranged, some OF when
will come by special steamers.
Tho Gar recently gave n young He
brew commission in the Russian army,
This is the first instance in which a jew
has been made an officer in Russia.
Tho California trade with Australia
now employs more ships and more ton
mage than with any other portion of the
world, with the single exception of China.
To such an extent have we become
the purveyorS to foreign governments of
arms for warfare that we export yearly
between 500 OOOand 800 O0Ostand ofNms.
In this dim world Of clOuding cares
We rarely know, till wiIdercd eyes
See white wings lcss'nng up the skies,
The angels with us unawarcS,
-.-.Gcrald Massey.
Nearly all the fat cattle in Colorado
have changed hands recently or will do
so soon. Never in the history of the
territory has the trade in cattle been so
active,
1t cannot be that the spirit of poe
try is dead. As long as there are women
A f., L., 4 ,.;,,, an nun't la,
exhausted, whatever may happen to the
reader This little fragment as it is
Called from the Brooklyn Argus, is II
real heart reacher:
A Norwegian paper reports that one
Captain tiunncrson, recently returned
from an Arctic voyage, has discovered in
Nova Xcmbla diary written by Barcnt,
the Dutch Arctic explorer, in the year
1880. The manuscript is said to be i'll
perfect preservation, and its publication
is anxiousy looked for by scientific anti
quarlcs.
Not long since, the mother of Katie
Curran, .JcSscc Pomcroy's victim, applied
to DR.. Cults for admission to his con-
sumptivcs' homc saying that she con
tractcd the disease which was wasting
life away by sitting outdoors in cool and
damp evenings, waiting for the murdered
daughtcrs return. She was received
into the retreat at Grove Hall.
The English are IN unreasonable
people. They complain that Queen Vic
toria has too many grandchildren to be
clothed, fed. educated, and sent ON cX-
cursons at public expense. The Queen
is not to he blamed for all these. If the
Group, measles, whooping cough, and
other roya diseases have done their duty,
Victoria could not well have less of
grandchildren.
Hers was n face
| Whose occult charm no limncrS art
Could steal; whose namrlcSS grace
Elusive was, ilS light that falls
Where waters part
A face so fair,
So haunted with sweet mysteries,
It sccm'd Il face astray from heavenly scenes,
And not of one who c'cr
Had break tasted ON buckwhcat cakes,
Or dined on beans.
An American writer, dating his letter
from Gibraltar says: "lhc more ! see
of Gibraltar, the less | wonder at the
tcnacity with which it is held by Eng
land, and the dislike the Spaniards have
for the English tenure of the place. The
strength of the position is something
wonderful. Nature and military art seem
to have worked together in making Cab
as invulncrabIc rs it is possible to be.
Nor does the engineer department allow
modern progress in either guns or bat
tcrics to pass unnoticcd. OF the former
there are some fifty or sixty about to be
changed for others of much larger cali
hrr. Even .,s it is, the army OF men has
never vet lived nor has one of the fleet
of ships vet been built, that could for
> TWO hours withstand the whitening fire
of the guns now in position ON various
- parts Of the Rock
The Athcnnum says that Il transa-
lation of the "pilgrim's Progress has
- been issued by Il native japanese pub
N Usher. The ycrnacular literature ot ia
" pan is extending at Il rapid rate, adapta
/. tions of the best English textbooks OF
geography and physical science being
published almost monthly, and, though
far from being perfect productions, are
attaining wide circulation. Japancs'
=, writers have the greatest difficulty il
), finding accurate equivalents in theil
! own language for European words useC
:, to denote recent European dlscoyerie!
= and scientific terms. They are almoS
" always obliged to paraphrase; thus dy
, Mantle becomes "thc powerful thing,
,r torpedo" underwater rburstcr,' and so on
B, The great evil is that each ditleren
y writer chooses his own paraphrase 10
'n u, such terms as "polarization" spectre
M M scope" "protoplasm," etc,-PM Ma
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