The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-15
FACTS AND FANCIES.

THE diver Russell can walk eight
miles under water in less than five
hours.
RECENT soundings show Lake Baikal,
in Siberia, to be the deepest lake in the
world the greatest depth sounded was
10000 feet,
EVE never took her husband five
miles through the heat and dust for the
purpose of finding new kind OF bug
and having picnic.
AN indianapolis man gave his poor,
starved horse two miserable nubbins of
corn and five or six blades of hay,
remarking as he did 80, "Thar, now,
eat till you bust"
WHEN bridegroom finds all the
clothes he owns in the world hung one
over the other on hook behind the
psntry door, he realizes for the first time
that the honeymoon is over.
AT Scottish hotels, according to a
recent letter, "women receive you lat
the door; women show you to your
rooms women make out your bills, and
women deal out the ale, porter, brown
\ STOUT ana WnlskY.
AMONG the splendid tombs in Agra is
that of the wife of Sha-gehan, which en-
ploved 10000 artists and workmen for
twenty-five years. 1t Is of black and
white marble, and has three platforms,
with four towers and magnificent dome.
CADMUs, the Phenician, introduced
the first Greek alphabet into B1otia,
where he settled, B. G. 1900; though
Diodorus says the Fslasgian letters were
prior to the Cadmean. But there is
little doubt that the Cadmean, Pelasgiac
and Phmnician had the same origin.
A NEW clerk in drug store was dis.
charged the other day because he didn't
know how to look wise roll his eyes,and
say "seventy-five cents" without turning
red in the face, az he handed out little
powder that had cost the concern two
cents and a fraction. Emotion and bus
inees don't jingle,
EVERY student of Nature should meet
nature at first hand, and learn to observe
her phenomena for himself, Lecture and
text books are but minor accessories to
study; in the sciences they play wholly
subordinate port in the laboratory, the
field and museum, the chief work is to be
DONE Popular Science Monthly.
GEORGE (who has just engaged himself
to the girl of his hearty breaks the happy
news to his friend Jack (who has been
married some time). Jack-"Ah well,
: my dear fellow, marriage is the best
thing in the long run, and | can assure
you that after year or two a man gets
: used to it and feels Just as jolly as If he
, had never married at all.
3 FRANK and Willie we're discussing
3 which were the most economical men OF
e women and Franz seemed to be getting
e the best of the argument, when Willie
a suddenly brought the argument to /
: close by saying, Gone thing | know
g my father can make piece of butter g
}, over moren twice as large piece o
d bread for me as mother can"
; IT is well known that persons wht
i have been deprived of one or more o
!. ). the senses commonly acquire increased
acuteness in the remaining ones. Th'
following case cited by DR.. Erasmu
Darwin is remarkable instance
1 "The late blind Justice Fielding wake,
, in my room for the first time, when III
once visited me, and, after speaking
few words, said, 'This room is abou
twenty-five feet long, eighteen wide anC
, /, twelve high ; all of which he guessed
! ! with the greatest accuracy by the ear.