The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-07-04

80 fine as to deceive the largest dealers.
The great fire OF London originated in
November, 1868, in the time OF Charles
III. The great plague occurred in the
previous year (l665), when 1886 per-
sons we're said to have perished
The Philade!phia Ledger suggests
that the benefits OF the eight hour law
might be EXTENDED to a much larger class
ifit was made to apply to the working
hours OF housewives, with special clause
providing that the babies should sleep
during the hours devoted TO the rest and
recreation OF the mother,
The ChinchOni bug is the last pest.
1t is ravaging japanese plantations,
and also has taste for tea. 1t saps the
chinchona bark and the leaves witber and
die. Quiniae is frightfully dear already
and if this bug gets the upper hand it
will be quite beyond the reach OF the
million.
CLEVELAND has what is called Diet
Dispensary" which furnishes food for the
sick. Great care i. taken in the health.
ful preparation o! food, and it is fur
nished to those who cannot pay for it,
gratis. The society is supported by
subscription, each member paying four
dollars year.
Our of 2,540 emperors, kings snd
royal rulers over Ct nations, 296 were
dethroned g. abdicated, 2s committed
suicide, II went mad 100 died on the
battlefield, 1913 were made prisoners in
battle, % were pronounced martyrs and
saints, l5l were assassinated, 50 were
poisoned, and 10S were sentenced to
death.
RUSSIA has purchased the steamer
Saratoga, one of the fastest OF the line
running between New York and Havana.
Unless peace is soon assured Russia will
gather Il handsome fleet at any rate.
The United States has few more steam.
ers to sell, and we hope will soon be in
condition TO build vessels for all the
world.
The Japaneae have record of all
earthquakes in the larger cities of the
empire for the last 1900 years. The
number of slight shocks is very large,
and there have been l49 destructive
earthquakes during that period. There
were twenty eight of these latter in the
ninth century, and sixteen have oc>
Cured in the present century.
RECENTLY arrangements have been
made for reporting the arrival of vessels
off the Scicily Islands by service of car
rier pigeons. The pilot boats that 60
out cruising for ships now take along
these birds, and as soon as they pick up
ship and know its name they let loose a
bird with note containing the informa
tion. Thus vessels are now reported at
distance of twenty and thirty miles at
sea.
Ny son, learn not thou even the huns
bic art of basket making or other skill
with thy hands, for by go doing thou
wightest at some future day be enabled
to provide thyself with honest bread.
Nay, rather improve thyselt in those
ancient games yclepted polo and base
ball, the exercise of the which shall
furnish thee much muscle wherewth to
break stone when in prison. Courier
Journal.
A SIMPLE method of postal delivery is
said to prevail in Spanish provincial
town. Those who expect letters come
to the postoffice and form a queue. The
postmaster then hands all the letters he
has received, in basket, to the first
conner, who looks through them leisurely,
takes his own, if any, and passes the
basket to the person Immediately behind
him, and this goes on until the basket is
emptied or the queue exhausted
SIR w. THoMPsoY's souudings OF the
Atlantic, by means of the apparatus on
board the Challenger, showed that the
great ocean has three immense basins,
viz, one extending from Ireland to the
upper North American coast, with an
average depth of 5000 fathoms, ono
dividing Europe and Central America
with an average depth of 5000 fathoms;
and one running from S)uth Africa to
South America with an average depth OF
$500 fathems.
The latest scare in New York is the
wind. That eminent engineer, MIR.
Roebling. maintains that great peril will
attend the crossing OF the Brooklyn
bridge, when completed, by horse cars,
during a gale. A resisting power of
twenty-one pounds to the square foot is
necessary to ensure safely. This state