The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-03-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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WE sent lastyear to Eurore 1900 900
hides,
CHICAGO makes $l5 100000 worth of
cloth year.
NEARLY 800, 600 persons are employed
on British and Irish railroads,
THE defenscs of Paris have been i'm
proved until that city is believed to he
impregnable.
some enterprising Bohemian has dis
covered that Mrs, President Hayes
weighs ia pounds.
THE fifteen car manufacturing es-
Establishments in this country turned out
1880 cars in eleven months,
TIE town of Waltham, VI is eighty
three years old and has never had o
church or post office within its limits.
The Israelites of Austin, Texas,
are building synagogue which will b"
one of the handsomest buildings in the
ity.
THE Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road is building a new bridge over the
Minnesota River that will be 1000 feet
long
CHcAGo's lumber receipts the past
year have been greater by 25 per cent,
and its shipments by l5l per cent. than
in any previous year.
a LEAD mine has been found in
Denton County, Texas, and this was
not found in the body of hor.etbiei
either.
Mrs. OURAy cannot play the piano,
but she can chew tobacco" which
shows there is always some compen2at-
ing blessing in this world.
NORTH CAROLINA has six newspapers
edited by negroes Louisiana three.
Tennessee and Texas two each, and
Virginia, Alabama and Mississippi each
| one.
L.FADvlILE mer look with contempt
on a man who would wear a collar, but
the man who appears without gold
collar button in the neckband Of his
shirt can't claim to be dressed up.
MANUFAcTURING clothing in Chicago
gives employment to $4,000 people, and
the value of the goods mado is $500
GOO This industry has doubled in four
years
THE Alabama planters are wild on
cotton planting. Food crops are neg.
lected, and exclusive attention given 10
cotton. Same in Northern Mississippi,
very little wheat is sown.
COUNTERFEIT gold coin is abundant
in California, and must gradually find
its way eastward. 1t is in the form of
five dollar pieces exact imitation, but
light in weight.
The total value of the imports for the
year 1879 was $5lS,745,74S, and during
1878 was $iSl, l,Sl2, 1873 The value of
domestic exports in 1879 was S754,656.-
1855 and the value of exports in 1878
was 1923, ,O23, 23S.
DR.. ENos Lowe, the founder Of
Omaha and the gentleman who directed
the survey of the first town site, has
just died in that city. Only one of his
companions in that pioneer excursion
now lives.
LAST year GIG people were divorced
at San Francisco, lOI of the DEGREES be.
ing granted on the ground OF cruelty and
desertion. In the same city 207 persons
came to their death by violence, eighty
eight of whom committed suicide.
Mr.. CHARLES FREEMAN, of Illinois,
near TIE city of Boone, Boone County,
Iowa. 1t is to be run on the principle
of collecting only the cream from
farmers.
LESS than fifty years ago one man
could not make over If pins a minute;
now he can make more than 400.
Then one girl could stick on papers
about 10000 pins day; now n fair
days work is from 500 GOO to I,O00,-
900.
OSHKOSH, Wis, has the largest match
factory in the world. 1t cut up 2,000,-
600 feet of logs into matches, and used
100000 worth OF revenue stamps dur
ing 1879. Besides, it manufactured
one.fourth of all the merchant work
sash, blinds and doors made in the
United States.
THE new ferryboat for the Central
Pacific Railroad Company now being
built in San Francisco will be the larg-
est in the world, and will have greater
breadth OF beam than any vessel ahoa'.
Its length will be 424 feet, width llb
feet, and the wheels will be thirty feet
in diameter.
MADEMoIsi LIE ALICE DE GILBERToN
DE BREuILLIs, young lady of distin-
guished family, mas just fallen victim
to her love for mountain climbing. She
resolved, without a guide, to ascend the
Pic du Larmont, in the Pyrenees. She
had mounted some distance when her
foot slipped and she fell into the abyss
below