The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-12-26

Lou LoU8RIE, editor of the Memphis
Sunday Times, and famous as Count
de Noses Of the Memphis Marli Gras,
states that there will be no carnival at
Memphis during the coming year.
SIN cE GaliIeo first turned telescope |
upon the moon, the lunar craters have
been among the wonders and mysteries
of astronomy. With each increase OF
telescope power, more and more craters
have been seen, till now almost the whole
surface of the moon may be said to be
pitted with depressions of all sizes, from
mighty gulfs 300 or 400 miles across
down to minute, saucer-shaped shadows,
such as only the most powerful telescope
can reveal.
SINCE last August Paris has expended
upwards of $4,000 in experimenting
with tho electric light. The avenue OF
the opera, the theatre Francois and Corps
Ilegislatif were lighted up at the cost OF
from twenty-five to thirty.fve cents
hourly for each burner. For the same
money from sixty-eight TO ninety'fve
gas burners could have been used, with
far greater Illuminating power. The
city council is negotiating for fresh ex-
periments at reduced rates.
In Joe Emmett's play of " Fritz" as
now performed, donkey is introduced
in one of the scenes, and, in order to
render particular situation striking,
the animal must bray. In order that he
may respond OPPORTUNITY to his cue,
singular ruse is said to have been
adopted. The donkey is exceedingly
,ond of carrots, yet none are ever given
him during the day, but when it comes
his turn to "speak his line" some one
steps to the wings and shakes q bunch of
the vegetable. An enthusiastic bray at
once follows, and when the curtain drops
the carrots are given him as reward.
"A RECIPE to produce giddinoss is
kindly furnished by Nature. Stand in
the middle .of soft field, and putting
both hands on the top of an umbrella or
walking stick, bend down until your
forehead rests on the back of your hands.
Now move with a sidelong gait three
times around the umbrella as an axis.
Finally raise your head quickly and try
to walk straight ahead. What will occur
is a frightful giddiness and sickness, a
sense of the ground rising up tumultu-
ously on all sides, wild rush to save
yourself, snd a headlong tumble. APP
preciative spectators are requisite to the
entire success O. the experiment.
MIN his "True Law OF Population"
Doubleday points out that populations
are universally found thin in pastoral
countries, where the food is chiefly ami
NAL; dens er where it is mixed +; still
denser where vegetable and plenteous
densest of all where it is vegetable ant
scarce" The natural inference is tha
in the plethoric state proauctiveness il
arrested, while in the deplethoric it i
reinvigorated. In the poorest time
Irish families subsisting on potatoes ant
meal averaged seven, against five il
England and three in France. In rice
eating countries the population is dense
A NEW and useful apple alton OF cleo
tricity has been made by'an America
inventor to the apparatus for reelin
silk from the cocoon. The delicate tils
ments of silk a,e carried over wire ARM
which are so nicely balanced that the
do not press against the silk strongl
enough to break it, and in this relation
current is kept open, but if the filameu
breaks the arm falls, the circuit is closet
and an electro magnet instantly stol
the reel until the break is repaired. a
the work is. now done, the detection OF
broken filament depends entirely upo
the skill of the workmen, and the wor
must be carried on so slowly that I'll
eye can note any break.