The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-10-17
NEWS AND NOTES.

READING, Pa, is beginning TO furnish
England with iron.
DRUNKENNESS il fcarfully on the in.
crease among young men,
FRUIT culture is making rapid pro-
gress in the United States
LIGHTNING travels nearly million
times faster than thunder,
MAKING Photographic impressions
upon silk is n new industry,
The frequency of colliery explosions
in Great Britain is appalling
LETTER paper with the day of the
week printed on it is the latest,
A BONNET reversible is an achieve
mcnt in millinery architecture,
THERE are fewer Cinnamon in this
country now than five years ago.
THE French author, Victor Hugo,
has a writing chamber on the roof of his
house,
INDIAN maidens on the Northern Ne
bra8ka Reservation have begun 10 carry
paraoOls,
HE military authorities of Germany
have introduced n telephone drill into
the army,
THE heat given Off by the the sun
would melt PSI, POO, 600 cubic miles of
ice every second.
A FlYE-YEAR-OLD child in Indiana
tried to commit suicide in order to see
her dead mother.
THE new fashionable shade is called
lees Of wine 1t is used in combinations
Of satin and velvet.
PorE LEo XIII is an enthusiastic
amateur in music, and is able to sing
mass with due effect.
Bucks COUNTY, Pa, does not have Il
criminal dock The prisoners sit in the
bar with the lawyers.
lr is said that the African explorer
Stanley's name is =, Brodgan and that
he was born in Ireland.
DURING 1877, LIS persons were
killed, and 3,7O5 injured, by railroad &C.
cidents in Great Britain.
SINCE the modern improvements in
machinery, l,Gj0,0O0 men do the work
40 'l'''jN'V 'il lDl Hltl w.
The exports Of the United States were
greater in 1877 and 1878 by hundreds of
millions than our imports,
AN Ohio Iadys glossy black hair
turned white rs snow when she saw
snake in her path before her
IT costs as much 70 bury Il man de-
Gently in New York as to live six
months in fine style in London.
A THIEF at Summit, Miss, stole the
spade left at the grave awaiting the
coming Of the funeral procession,
WIru the thermometer at thirty de.
grccS below zero, the sensation of cold
is undistinguishabIe from that of heat.
LORD BEACoNsrIELD's physician,
who WAS summoned from London TO
Berlin during the Congress, has pre-
scnted bill for $3.50.
TnE rumor Of the contemplated mar,
riagc between King Alfonso Of Spain and
a sister of the late Queen Mercedes is
scmi-oflicially denied at Madrid.
In the rivers of Canada are varieties
of fish originally from salt water, which
can swim by 2iz-zag movements from
the bottom to the top of sheet of water
fifty feet high.
LADY CAROLINE NORTON left $500
by her will to " the good cause of woman
suffrage" and Mrs, George Oakcs, an
other Englishwoman, has lately con
tributed ~, 800 to the same cause.
WIFE (anxiousIy)--What did that
young lady observe who passed us just
now? Husband with smile of calm
delighU-Why my love, she observed
rather good-looking man walking with
quite an elderly femalc--that's all
THE report is that in some cases teIe-
graphic messages from the infected fever
districts have been refused in the South,
for the fear that through some mystic
rious agency of the wires the yellow
scourge may be propagated.
On single farm in Todd County,
kyo there were killed in one week
twenty-six rattIesnakcs, nineteen of
them in one pile, the largest being five
feet four inches long, and ringing"
nineteen rattlcS and II button.
AUSTRALIA has carried of the high
est diploma for wheat at the Paris tx
position, She gained the prize for each |
OF seven samples of wheat and flour.
Adelaide wheat gained the gold metal
at the London Exhibition of 1851.