The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-08-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

CATS have no liked poltlcal peiei'
They are usually on the fence.
The cattle drive from Texas this year
will reach nearly million head.
The census taken last February shows
that Denmark, including the Farce Isles,
has ! ,9sO,675 inhabitants. Ten years ago
the total was ] ,7Si, TAI.
EVIDENTLY trade is improving in elias
cow. One Monday morning last month
the police returns showed 359 "drunks,
against only 287 last year.
The constructors Of the railway up
Mount Vcsuyius have adopted the Amer
lean double iron rope system as the
best means for raising and lowering the
trains.
THERE can be no longer any doubtthat
the alligator does exist in the old world,
as two fine specimens taken from the
Yang-tse-kiang are now III the Berlin
geological Museum.
The Bayard family has had four mem
bers in the United States Senate, grand
father, two Sons and grandson. The
grandmother was the daughter Of a Sen
ator, Richard Bassett.
THE reduction Of the incomes of the
landed gentry in England is sending
many TO economic abroad, where they
can live in u style in which they would
not like to live in England.
HARD times have led 10 English squircs
docking the allowance Of their army sons,
and there is nuw much murmuring about
officers expenses, which are higher in the
British than in any other service.
SEVERAL ladies in Memphis have made
applicationfor positions as letter-carriers,
but the law provides that lettercarriers
shall wear only the registration uniforms,
and the ladies will not submit to this.
The newspapers Of Ireland say it is
time that the tide Of emigration from the
Emerald Isle to the United States be ar
rested, as young lNborcrs, at the present
rate Of outflow, will soon become scarce
II. A. BREcKLEBARK estimates that il
n single decade 5OOOOO persons engaged
in industrial pursuits i'll Great Britain
sustain personal injury or are killed; II
mines, 800, 900; in railways, 10000; anC
in rurirrirs lSO OOO
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"Lar""aI7 nj,;Ia M ndor from tba nrocas,
is thrown into the room.
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Two editors were seated SIDE by SD
at circus, a trapeHe woman was com
ing down me rope Dolt" bottom sac up' SOW
the rope "o'lla around her iil'ipS s,r a'l
BODY so tl'aI She scarcely moved nov
gradually sho comes down. sad ON
editor. yes, sad the oIhcrf, ,rluS
liko some OF my SUBSCRIBERS lheI