The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-12
CURRENT EVENTS.

Egypt exports more rags than any
thing else.
The young ladies take degrees at Cor
nell university,
The public library of Boston now CON
tains 3li 265 volumes.
Rural Kentucky continues to clamor
for the whipping-post.
Germany is the principal buyer of
Kentucky bluegrass seed.
The Knoxville Tribune has absorbed
ten different papers in its days.
The attendance at the Philadelphia
permanent exhibition is very meagre.
Colorado is shipping wild sage to the
east to be used for medicinal purposes.
A Genesce, n. Y, barber advertises
" Ecstatic Shaving and Phisiognomical
Hair Cutting"
Jacksonville, Fla, has Just been
forced by a mandamus to raise money to
pay the city bonds,
4 Marshall, Mich, saloon bartender
made his three year old boy beastly
drunk for the amusement OF his patrons.
The clipper Canterbury has sailed a
race from New Zealand to London in
sixty,fve days, the fastest time on
record.
The San Jose (Cal) Mercury says that
"the stubborn fact is presented that the
grain crop this year will not suffice for
hOrscteed.'
A mansion now building in New York
has n Pompeiian room, the woodwork of
which is of ebony, with ivory inlaid fig
ures, and panels of amaranth wood
painted by hand. The furniture is up
holstered with raw silk of reseda tints,
bordered with crimson velvet.
A Battle Creek, Mich, tramp WAS
given breakfast at the house OF Judge
Hall, says the journal, but Mrs Hall
noticed that he did not eat, and present.
ly he got up from the table The host
eSs asked him if be was sick. No, ]
amt sick, but am going to go where 7
can get Il decent breakfast"
OF the forty members of the gradua-
ting class at Williams college, twelve are
to he ministers, seven lawyers, four ply
sicians, three business men, three teach
era, one journalist, and the rest are
undecided. Every man is a free.trader,
and there are ten who class themselves
as Independent in politics.
A statement published ia the Globe
Democrat, shows that, while there were
2,SSS deaths in St. Louis during the
period from Jan. to June 90, there
were only seven hundred and twenty
eight births for the same period. This
shows a net los of 2,l60. st. Louis re-
lies principally upon her directory
maker for gain in her population
Torpedo balloons are proposed by n
correspondent of the Scientific Amer
ican, The idea is to float the balloons
over the 'nemy, and drop the torpedo
by means of electricity sent over wire.
1t is calculated that a city could be
totally de troyed in this way by dropping
sufficient quantity of nitro-glycerine.
Tho other day William Kief, of New
ark, n. J. was cleaning his finger nails
with pair OF scissors. His young wife
began teasing him to buy some furniture,
and he became angry and threw the
scissors at her, The two blades penetra-
ting her eyes Just beneath the eyeballs:
A physician said that the woman could
not recover her sight
The German American matrimonial
help society is a Philadelphia concern
which promises to give every member
$500 on marrying; but the mem ber tinds
that In initiation fee. monthly dues, and
assessments he is compelled to pay much
more than he gets. The assessments,
too, are in many cases made on the pos
sibly fictitious marriages OF members IN
distant parts of the country. The COM
pany has sent out gorgeously litho.
graphed circulars, referring TO nineteen
Philadelphia merchants and clergymen
as indorsers OF the scheme; but every
one of them has, in a published state
ment, repudiated it.