The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-11-28
FACTS AND FANClE.

HUNDREDS OF thousands OF peasants
in Italy are without work, and those who
are employed are glad to labor twelve
hours day for Nineteen cents day and
food, which invariably consists of black
bread at 10 a. M, and aqua sale soup at
the close of the day-the said soup being
a bowl of hot water, sailed and Favored
with few drops of olive oil.
IN Mexico and South America FIRE
flies are very common, which shine byso
strong a phosphoric light that q person
may read by the light OF three OF them.
The largest species have luminous
patch under the belly, and one on each
side OF the htad. Another species has
the light under its wing. When the fly
is dead, the light continues, and may be
transferred.
ECIIPsEs return in the very same
order every eighteen years and eleven
days, surprising four leap years in the
interval; and If five, then ten days,
Other cycles of motion, however, vary
the phenomena or measure. The moons
shadow is less than ITO miles broad, but
the eclipse is visible, in degree, for 1000
miles; 500 miles diameter gives II digits,
and then digit less every $50 miles.
Mr.. HENRY BERGH has been much
impressed by the efforts OF Georgia
lady to found society for the protection
of animals. He writes to the president
of branch society in Savannah "Sup'
pose this world were composed OF such
public-spirited and benevolent ladies,
instead of the fashionable creatures who
flock the bathrooms of noted watering
resorts, what blessed abode this planet
of ours would be"
THERE is horse.railroad at Troy and
Lsnsingburg, distance OF three miles.
Recently stage.line over the same
route was established, by way of opposi.
ton. The stages have the appearance OF
cars, and the wheels are arranged to run
easily on the car-tracks, which are
always used by these odd vehicles.
Indeed the stages are 80 large that, fully
loaded, a pair of horses could hardly
draw them on the pavements, and the
drivers manage TO be always just ahead
of the cars. The railroad company mas
begun q lawsuit to settle the legal point
! involved.
OUR charming old friend, Col. John
w. Forney, sends us a prospectus OF MS
new weekly journal, Progress, TO pc
issued November Is He says he will
"at;cmpt to create n journal that Will
be temperate without being timid, cour-
teous without being too cautious, fear.
less without recklessness, and national
with due respect 10 sectional interests.
We trust, also, that this model journal
will be red hit without being obnoxious,
inqui>itoiial without being incompre'
hen>ible, sensational without being venal,
perspicuous without being incandescent,
luxurious without being meretricious,
disingenous without bling evsnescent--
in fact, that it will be all that the
human heart could desire without being
at least dozen other things TOO tedious
to mentisn 49, Baltimore Gazette.
A ST GATHERINGS merchant recelved
a dispatch rom one of his Thorold Gus
toners saying: Come up. Want 10
see YOU" As the man owed him con-
siderable sum he obeyed the summons
with alAcrity. % arriving at Thorold
he found his man in tavern, somewhat
the worse or liquor. swell, SAID tine
Saint, "what do you want me Tor r
"Oh," replied the Sinner, Gust to see
you-haven't seen you before Tor a good
while-take suthin2' The Saint did
net know what to make of him, but
eventually said, 81 hear you have sold
OUT Yes said the poor debtor,
that's ract. I've sold out and given
the money to the old woman and say,
jim, ! CUES. the old woman means 10
beat you out of that money. The
creditor went back to st. Catherines
very mad.
The sleep of winter and that OF night
are different in those animals which are
torpid .or months. The bat, the hedge
hcg, the tswrie, the marmot, the nam
ster, the tortoise, the toad, snakes,
mollu.ca spiders, bees, flies, bears
badgers, etc retire to their closed notes.
and, in various degrees, undergo tenn
porary death OF four, FIVE. six and seven
months of the year. They usually roll
themselves up, but bats suspend tnem-
elves in caves. Those who lay up pro-
visions use them before they become
torpid, and on reviving before they VEN
ture abroad. Their temperature lowers
their respiration is less frequent ana ~
interval, the circulation is reduced they
lose their feeling, the digestive organs.
are inactive and they sufer loss OF
weight Tho confined air in which they
shut themselves, added to the cold, isa
cause OF their torpidity. Facts lead TO
the belief that some birds hibernate.
ARcHERs are a formidable part OF
all ancient armies, and the use oil the
bow seems to have been known to all
nations when first discovered. The
Scythiars were the best ancient srchers,
and the English among the modern
The victories of Cressy, Poictiers ana
Agincourt we're chiefly gained by the
English srckers. The Scythisn bow was
of horn. The English long bow was nvs
feet six, and they were made OF steer snu
bras. Arrows we're from three TO nve
feet. Ash used by the Engtish anu
goose-ieathered, two Of toe Hedges WHO
and one black. The heads were IRON or
brass, with light steel points ana s MAJ
barbs. The strings were OF gut OF n.ue
ar bemn A sheaf OF arrows was twenty
tour and the srcher was armed Win
mani and A dsgger. rhe English hcnefs
drew 10 the tar steadily. A fufiong We"
The distance OF the butt In snoo'ns AZ