The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19
Violets won't grow in Chicago.


The hollyhock is only happy in the
front yards of st. Louis.
The century plant doesn't like Phila-
delphia, but manages to grow there
Seaweed dies on approaching Cincin-
natl, and southern vegetation wlthers at
Somerset.
Russians, Poles, Servians and Rou-
manians have little eyes.
Lager is so lively that it comes in hops
whenever you call torit.
The British national penny bank an
nounces 81, 900 deposits.
The printing of one and two dollar
notes by the United States government
has ceased.
The English Quakers have become re-
duced to about 1900 persons, from
60, 600 century ago.
There are in this country nineteen
libraries containing each $4,000 or more
volumes.
The fortune-hunter Of our day does
not dig in the mines He marries the
widow of California forty-niner.
Fig culture in Florida, which has been
50 greatly neglected during the war, is
now attracting the attention of capital
lists.
A quart of peaches for every man, wo-
man and child in the country, is the esti-
mated crop from Delaware alone this
season.
The military authorities in Paris are
enumerating the horses and mules which
could, in case of need, be pressed into
their service.
North Carolina has paid for fertilizers
within the last twelve months 81 ,OO0,0 OO
Georgia $2,0O0,0OO; Virginia probably
more.
A twenty-four pound turtle recently
captured near Norfolk, Conn, was strong
enough to move about from place to place
while bearing on his back man weigh
ing two hundred pounds.
1t has been discovered in Paris that
the little yellow marks on certain brands
of Havana cigars, which cause them TO
be greatly priced by smokers, are created
by the sprinkling of acid.
While Mr. Adam Miller was blowing
his farm in Undertook, he brought to
the surface large turtle, which was
alive, and had marked on its shell ::
Z" May 80, 1871, II. A. d."
Thirty years ago u Shebsygan Wis,
school teacher struck a boy on the head
with ruler. One day recently the boy.
now man of forty, met the teacher and
pounded him. The wheel of time never
stops.
They tell us of Kentucky schoolmas-
ter who had his wife for pupil, and
found it necessary to chastise her one
day. Next day a notice appeared on
the door, saying; School closed for
one week schColmaster is ILL.,"
To-day Berlin is covered with the
wrecks Of speculative credulity. Many
of the millionaries of few years ago are
in state verging on absolute poverty.
Over production and over speculation
have caused the crisis.
Glass bottles were first made in En-
land about 1858. The art of making
bottles and drinking glasses was known
to the Romans eighteen hundred years
ago, as they have been found among the
ruins Of Pompeii.
Among the curiosites of the Columbia,
n. Y, college library are the old arm
chair in which Gov. DE Witt Clinton
died and the armchair in which Benja-
min Franklin was wont to sit.
A Young gentleman who ventured
west in the prevailing fashion OF neck
wear, was Immediately utilized by the
thrifty grangers, who smeared his collar
with coal tar and set him up as a grass
hopper trap.
The little town of Salem, n, G., with
two thousand inhabitants, has gathered
and sent to market during the past three
wears more than three million pounds OF
hlackherries, for which the gatherers re-
ceived nearly half million dollars.
War helps great many trades. a
paper concern in Ohio has an order for
$50 tons of paper for cartridges for Iur'
r key, and Pennsylvania town Il shipping
six hundred tons of spelter to Europe as
v fast as it can be made, for cartridges
Z One of the newspapers tells of a man
. whose life was saved by plug of tobacco
carried in his pocket. A pistol bullet
fired at him lodged in the tobacco, and
the man was unframed. Moral: II you
J., use tobacco, don't take it out of your
,, pocket.
A French velocipedist Of note, NJ.
, Emile Houberdon, has won a consider
able wager by making the trip from
/ Luneyille to Strasbourg and back, 244
, kilometers, say 1915 miles, within twenty
four hours, including stoppages. He
won by about an hour.
The German government is preparing
the organization and equipment OF the
Landsturm, which comprises all able
bodied men from seventeen 10 fifty years
of age not belonging to the Line, Re
serve, or Landwehr The Landsturm
has not been summoned since 1918.
The full capacity OF the salmon curing
factories in Oregon, on the Columbia
! river, for one season, is 81 $4,000 cans.
This amount will not be reached this
summer. If hatcaing stations are not
established, this season says the Oregon
Astorian will be the last profitable one.
A prand-niece of Lord Nelson is sueipg
, for the possession of certain yaluaoie
Jewels given her by the emperor ana
empress of Russia during her thirty
( years' residence in that country, anu
entrusted by her to the son OF VICE
Admiral Sir William King Hall, Is. ~,
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