The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-07-20
TIMELY TOPICS.

during the war, Is now in large demand
II supplies the place of almond and olive
oil for various uses, and is lower in price
retains its purity and flavor for n long
time, and is less susceptible 10 the effect
Of light than oliva.oi. The oil Is
extraced entirely from the meat of the
nut by pressure, the refuse being used
as cattl', feed or fertilizer.
Miss MULoCK mentiont four profes,
sional pursuits in which women can
now support themselves in England
teaching, painting or sculpture, ltera.
turc and public entertainments In Amer.
lea we have added the medical profession
to the list, as has been done also in
France, The university of Michigan
and some other institutions graduate a
few lawyers also each year,
The carrier-pigeon is likely to come
into favor again. Tegctmcer, the ccle-
bratcd pigeon trainer, has perfected a
plan for employing them to establish
communication between light.Ships and
the shore in case Of shipwrccks. BY
using the marine code of signs he is con.
fdent that information as to the need of
assistance can he conveyed from points
which otherwise would be cut Off from
all communication.
Ir is profitable sometimes TO own fast
running horse. NJ. Balthazzi, the owner
oi The thrce-year old colt Kisber, which
has already won the English Derby and
the Grand Prix de Paris, has netted n good
sized fortune through the victories. The
stakes alone were more than $50, ,000 and
an enormous sum was won on outside
beta. If NJ. Balthazzi were n prudent
man no would retire from the turf as
soop as Kisbcr ceased winning. The
probability is, however, that, elated by
his success, he will plunge heedeSsl y and
rccklcssly into racing ventures and rae
ing spcculatiOns, and that in the course
OF a few years, at most, he will be no
better off in this worlds goods than he
was before he owned horse that carried
off the "blue ribbon" of the English
turf.
A WRITER in Macmillan's Magazine
presents some interesting statistics to
show that battles are not near assanguin-
AIRY since the comparative recent great
improvements in arms und munitions of
war as they were when weapons were of
more primitive type. Thus in the
great battles which occurred between
1858 and 1915, the loss in killed and
wounded ranged from one-eighth to two
tifths of all the combatants engaged. At
Xorndorf in 1858, 32,S0O of $4,000 COM
batants were killed or wounded at
Waterloo, the loss was onc-ffth of those
engaged; at Marenge, onc-fourth, at
Leipsic, nearly one-third, and at Eylau,
more than One-third. At Solferino, in
1889, only one-eleventh of the combat
ants were placed h0rs de cOmbat; at Ko-
niggratz, one-fifteenth and during the
late Franco-Prussian war, the proper
tions in the most important engagements
were as follows: Woerth, Ill; Grave
lotte, LIZ, and Sedan, LILO.
IVY
ITALY thinks she can make some
pretensions as military and naval
power, and that her views are entitled to
some weight in Europe. The nominal
strength of her army is upwards of
100000 men, of whom 265, 900 men have
had fifty days drill, 10000 men have
had six months drill and $4,000 men
are well disciplined. The Diritto, a
semiofiicial journal, says that an active
force of 800, 900 men, well drilled and
perfectly furnished with material, can
be placed in the field within two weeks
from the day an order for concentration
and mobilization may be given. The
infantry are armed with breech-loading
rifles, one-half of each cavalry regiment
with lances and 'revolvcrs and the other
half with sabers and breech.loaders.
There are sixty vessels in the navy,
mounting 400 guns, and with crews
numbering S, ,ll5 men. One Of the iron
rlads-the Dulio-which has Just been
launched is the heaviest armored ship In
the world and will carry guns of the
enormous calibrc of 100 tons each.
IT is proposed in Great Britain to take
'he management of the prisons in the
country into the hands of the general
government, and to largely reduce their
number. There are now lls prisons in
England, and in forty.nine of these the
average number of persons confined |
ualiy is less than iorty-nine, while in
Twelve the daily average is less than
Twelve, and and in only twelve prisons
Is there daily average of 400 persons
III confinement. The cost of mainter-
ahce OF prisoners ranges from about SIS
Per head to $3.50. The small prisons
are maintained at an excessive COST and