The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-01-10
MISCELLANEOUS,


In the express business there are Is, 900
men employed.
Seventy kinds of bricks are made by
Philadelphia company.
The United States now use more postal
cards than any other nation.
OF si1ty.nlne words which make up the
Lords prayer, only Eve are not Saxon,
In Austin, Nevada, has been ret up
whpping'post for the punishment of wife,
beaters.
1t is said the duke of Norfolk's we'd
ding day cost him little short OF 600, 600 "a
couple of months income.
The ordinance providing for the arrest
of boys found on the street after s o'clock p.
M, is enforced in Virginia City, New.
A New York court has decided that
wedding presents are the property, not OF the
husband aud wife, but Of the wife alone.
Sixteen persons have mysteriously
disappeared in New York during the past
month, and all endeavors to trace them have
failed.
The Springfield, Mass armory, which
has been idle for yenr, is about to resume
operations, and will give employment to 200
or 800 men.
Europe has, as near as can be calcu-
lated, 500, 900 miles OF railroad, and America
225,000; India has $4,000 or 1900, and
Australia $4,000.
The prevalence of diphtheria in some
parts of Indiana is alarming, 1t is epidemic
in many localities, and schools have been
obliged to close.
VIM. Roberts, of Bradford county, Pa,
aged twenty-five, asked his girl to marry
him. She jokingly refused, and he went and
hanged himself. Now the girl is nearly
crazy. Two fools met
A Venetian has succeeded in making
a violin, the box Of which is porcelain, and
the strings Of metallic wire. Upon it are
said to be produced tones of rare purity,
richness, harmony and power.
To remove foreign bodies from the
throat an English naval surgeon recommends
reflex action is produced, during which the
foreign substance is expelled.
John Bright said, lately, that "you
might almost as well ask spider to give up
weaving his web, or to destroy that he had
woven, as to ask the great body of lawyers
to consent TO simplicity and publication
Of the law"
Col. @. @. Long, an ex.confederate
officer, who resigned his place in the Egyp,
tian army, has arrived in Washington, and
says that only about nine Americans remain
in the service of the khedive, and that they
have but little influence.
The secretary of war has appointed
Gems. Barnard and Wright as commission
of the engineer corps to make an inspection
of the Eads ietties, with instructions to re.
port at the earliest day possible, Capt. Eads
Is in Washington to facilitate matters.
Oak wood which has remained long
time in water finally acquires the appearance
the old sluice dam in the Rhine, oak which
had lain for lac years was found to have be-
come possessed OF the characie erstics Of
ebony. The modification is due to the
peroxide of iron.
English capitalists have raised money
to build an underground railway in New
York city running under Broadway, from
the battery to City Hall park, thence through
adjacent streets to Union square, and through
Fourth avenue to Forty.second street. Sir
Edward Watkin, president Of the London
underground railways, is said to be at the
enterprise.
Mr.. Darwin must look to his laurels.
A Japan correspondent says that he saw
wrought in inlaid wood on door in the
great temple of Ligmoto, a scene showing
first monkey, then an ape, then gorilla,
and so on up by gradual development until
the final one of the series was perfect man
surrounded by elephants and curious birds.
The door was several hundred years old.
In recent lecture in New York, Mr..
Joseph Cook made some interesting specu-
lations on the future of this continent. He
observed that America could sustain a
greater population than the whole of the old
world, and 1t was unquestiOnable that some
day she would. The pivotal point about
which the population of the United States
would swing, if solid body, was now little
east of Cincinnati, and was moving westward
at the rate of about As ieet daily. The
possible population of America he placed at
100000.
In France each inhabitanI drinks, on
an average, three.quarters of gallon of
spirits annually. Sudden deaths, the con.
sequence of drink, are most frequent in
those departments in which spirit is drunk
| they are rare where wine only is consumed.
| Cases of intoxicatiOn, sufficient to bring the
drinKer under the notice of the law, are also
i've times more frequent in the departments
which consume much alcohol than in those
| in which wine is consumed. So, also, with
respect to alcoholic delirium; the number of
cases stands in almost direct relation to the
amount of spirits consumed, and particularly
| to the amount OF manufactured spirit which
| is taken. Vendee and Chsrente present the
only exceptions to this rule, and there
large quantity Of white wine is taken--al-
most as dangerous as brandy.
New York Bulletin: The project some
time talked of, Of opening up direct trade
between the northwest aud the West India
islands, we see has at last eliminated in a
practical step on the part Of some of the
southern and southeastern railroads that
promises to be rewarded with success. A
line OF steamers has just been established
connecting Savannah with Cuba, the boats
to leave Cuba every two weeks. The rates
on -four from Savannah to Cuba will be so
cents barrel, and 40 cents per 100 pounds
on fourth. class. To draw the attention of
shippers of the northwest to the business
possibilities in this direction, arrangements
have been perfected so that freights can be
shipped from Chicago aud st. Louis direct
to Cuba. The roads which have taken the
initiative in this movement are the Central
OF Georgia and the Nashville and Chatta.
4 nooga.
| FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.