The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-09-05

mics must be deposited in the pits OF
Egypt.
Texas has more miles of railroad being
constructed than all the rest OF the Unicn.
Tabasheer is transparent fluid in
the joints of the bamboo. 1t hardens into
solid lump which will cut glass,
One hundred and iorty.three Cubans
who were transported to Spain during the
insurrection have been liberated there.
Spencer thinks that the custom of
touching the hat is only relic Of the pro.
cess of unclothing himself, by which, in
early times, the captive signifed surrender.
Two butchers, at Sunderland, En-
gland, have been sent to prison for three
months at hard labor for butchering dog
and selling the flesh to their customers Tor
mutton, and, as several large dogs have been
missing of late, it is thought that this was
not their first offense
Another cremation is recorded at
Milan-that OF Nine. Adelaide Oliver, ma.
tive of Paris, aged so. The process lasted
three and three.quarter hours, and was per-
fectly successful the body being reduced to
fine ashes, which were placed in an urn and
sent back to Paris.
A boy named Crowley, an inmate of
the New York Juvenile Asylum, dreamed
that he was struck by lightning and killed.
He related the story at the breakfast table.
In less than IN hour AFTER while playing
ball he was struck by the bat, and killed
| instantly.
Miss Betsey Barr, deaf mute, has
died at the Sullivan county IN. H.) poor~
| farm, aged ] IL years and months, She
was born at Salisbury, Mass, her age being
proved by records there, and up to within a
! short time she WAS as active as most people
of rs.
There are many women in tho better
walks of life who have imbbed the love of
strong drink, and it is charged that the
drunkenness among them, to considerable
extent, is due to the practice of physicians
in recommending the uss Of liquors as stimu.
lants.
The steamer Seine has picked up
the lost Atlantic cable of 1866, which she
was sent out 10 look for. Who would have
ventured to predict fifteen years ago that
after twelve years men could 60 out to hunt
for and infalliby recover rope no thicker
than ones thumb from the depths OF the
mid.Atlantic?
A Late Chirese Masonic funeral in
Eureka, New, was the most gorgeous barbar-
c display ever seen in Eastern Nevrda, in
which brass bands, Chinese bands, heathens
in their robes, and hired female mourners
were inextricably blended. The defunct
one was All Hing, big Mason, and he went
out in blaze of glory.
Evidently organ-grinders have no
rights whatever in the country. One of
them found it necessary, at Pottstown, Pa,
the other day, to compel woman to pay
for the music she had listened to by pointing
a pistol ather heod. For this he was pur>
sued and arrested, lbut not until he had
struck the the officer over the head with a
club.
San Francisco has large number
of very rich lawyers. The fortune of Chief
Justice Wallace, of the Supreme Court is
estimated at from 100000 to 100000. Ex-
Judge o. G. Pratt is thought to be worth a
million or so. Eugene Casserly and Judge
Hagar are accounted wealthy. j. B. Hag-
gin, who took to finance more than law, is
re puted to be worth $5,O00,000 or Sc, 600, 600.
Lloyd Tevis, of similar tastes, is worth
about the same. Many other, wealthy LAM
yers might be mentioned.