The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-11-14
NEWS AND NOTES.

students in Munich and vicinity.
IT is stated that one hundred pounds
of bran are equal 10 one thousand five
hundred and fifty pounds Of potatoes for
fattening cattle
THE divorce market must still be easy
in Indiana. A country paper in that
state heads it's list Of marriages
"Limited Partnership"
An island floating down the ST. Law
renee River passed Ogdcnsburg, 1t was
Of swamp grass and willows, and looked
like runaway marsh.
PETROLEUM has been discovered about
one hundred miles south Of Dcadwood,
and it il pronounced by experts 10 be
superior to that Of West Virginia,
Ar Long Point Texas, the colored
people put bells upon the nccks OF their
children 10 keep them from getting lost
in the high weeds that surround the
town.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has started a
new school Of medicine with the creed;
"Stop alcohol, tobacco, brandy quinine,
drugs, But above all, keep in the open
air. Abolish hcarses, funerals and the
graveyard"
DURING the last two weeks more
crimes have been committed in the
United States than ut any previous time
Of a like period II seems that crime is
rs contagious AZ any Of the plaques
which visit us periodically.
THE Railroad Go9cHc says that a few
years ago 10000 pounds was the maxi
mum for a car. load, but now many com
pancs permit $4,000 pounds TO be put
upon car, and very few accidents due
to overlooking are on record,
The English dailcs used 10 say that
Mr.. So-and.So was married on such a
date, and ignore the bride altogether
but Of late years even the London T6mcs
has concluded that the bride can be
mentioned in sort of careless way.
ATasitting Of medical congress in
Pisa, one Of the doctors committed sui
eide Immediately after the subject
Suicide" had been discussed A
conscientious physician is never sat
isfcd with thcori1ing, He expert
mCnts.
Mr., CARRow, Of PittsicId, did not
treat his wife with that amount Of con
sidcration which makes matrimOny at
tractivc. lie married her in A priI,
hanged himself in May, and left her
with six children by his former wife to
provide for.
Ir is said that the roots Of the red
clover plant will reach the depth in the
earth OF nearly five feet; that those Of
Indian corn will descend seven feet
those Of onions three feet, thO'c Of
luccrnc fifteen feet, and of rye, beans,
and garden peas, seven feet.
THE Boston whiting school has been
in operation several years. A large
room is provided with seats and benches,
and a certain space is appropriated to
each whittier The pupils are boys, and
the sessions are held in the evening,
The aim is to teach the element Of wood
carving.
A YOUNG man residing near Lyndon,
Kansas, put a stop to thcague in singu-
lar way. Hearing it said that to 90
into the water when the fever was on
would effect cure, this young man tried
the water. lie went into a little stream
where the water was only about two feet
deep. In a short time after he was found
dead there.
SENATOR JONES, Of Nevada, spent so
much money in Washington last term
that when he left for home he said that
his fortune was gone. But mining
stock took raise of Ono-eighth of one per
cent, and his purse was rcplcnishcd
thereby Sl,5OO,O0O, 50 we may expect
him TO live through the year without go
ing 10 the poor-housc.
MIR. BEEcmER is thought to have
aimed the following at Theodore Tilton
on Sunday night; "1herc be men who
are great gcnuscs, who have large fac
mtics of thought and expression, who
are orators, accomplished speakers.
Then there comes small fry of sputter-
ing speakers who have the gestures, the
hair, the bad grammar, running about
in imitation
A FAVORIrE relaxation Of Alexandra
Dumas's later years is the tidying up of
his own room. When his ideas are not
so clear rs he could wish, says a cor
respondent, "of goes his coat, and for a
day or two he combines the functions of
Molly and a furniture porter in his own
person, until, as the trainer might say,
he feels himself fit for dramatic phi.
losophy once more"