The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-08-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Two velocipedists beat railroad train
near Havre, France, in 10 mile race
A TREE in New Mexico fell the othei
day upon Matthew Lynch, and thoughhe
was worth 81, ,000 900, killed him.
Ir costs the Queen of England $40, 900
a year to ride between England and Scot
land.
A RUSSIAN teacher committed suicide
by jumping off a precipice into river op
horseback
THERE is not much difference, says an
exchange, between grass widow and
grasshoppcr. Either will jump at the
first chance.
ALTHOUGH paper collars have to great
extent gone out OF use within the last ten
years, 200, 600, 600 of them are now man
ufactured annually
THERE is said to be q cabinet maker in
Paris who fires small shot into his cabi-
nets to give them an appearance OF
worm-eaten antiquity.
IN the London geological society's col
lection there is black haired spider
which can stretch itself to several inches
in length, and eats mice.
Or the bishops, judges and other otfic-
ial personages who took part IN tile cere-
mony Of Queen Nictoria's coronation
forty-two years ago, all are now dead,
LYDIA THOMPSON says that the costume
worn by an English lady at q ball would
produce IL hiss il worn on the variety
stage But then English ladies don't
kick up their heels.
KANSAS girls walk seven miles bare
footed to trade dozen eggs at n country
store for spool of thread. Nothing
stuck up about girls who are cut out for
No. ! wives.
A STATEMENT was filed recently OF n cor
poration iththenume: Halls Air Blast,
Dry-Placer and Pulyerized Quartz, Gold
and Silver Extracting and Amalgamat-
ing Machine Company"
A cat at Wappingers Falls, Duchess
County, n. y, revently gave birth to
five living kittens that We're joined to-
gethcr by ligament after the fashion OF
the Simese twins. The kittens were
drowned.
FROM the fact that the lower animals
arrive at maturity much earlier than man,
and the inferior races of men develope
more rapidly than the superior, French
biologist infers that precocity indicates Il
low order of development.
HE was little vcrdant, or he never
would have said: "Perhaps we had bet.
ter walk on till we come to asettee where
we can sit together Ohl no" she re-
piled sweetly; you sit down in the chair
and will he the settee.
AREspEorED woman at Lafayette, Ind.
has never been legally married to the
man whom sho regards as her husband.
This is her way of keeping the property
which, by the terms of her first hus.
bands will, she would lose by marrying
, again.
A YOUNG man in Dubuque, Iowa, ha
, become partially deranged over a mus
4 tache which refuses to sprout. Tie wa
Y formerly happy and good tempered. ii
= is now morosc, despondent, and melan
choly. One day he visited prominen
i drug store and purchased all the the dit
s ferent hair restoratives to be had. Afte
i completing the rounds he carried the bot
+ ties to his room and put them aside fo
@ future use. When he left the room hi
n sister found over a hundred bottles III til
g bed tick, and all were warranted to caus
1 hair to grow on the smoothest skin.
: A NATURAL ice house is one of the cul
n iosities of northern New Jersey. 1t lie
It behind Blue Mountain. The ice gorg
: is several hundred yards in extent, ten
}, thirty feet deep, with caves and clefts
e the rocks where the ice lies. The shad
d at the gorge is very dense, the sun al
Q parently never penetrating it. The bo
tom Of the gorge and the little caves al
e creyices are filled with ice. The the
y mometer which registered the nineties
: Newton, marked thirty light degrees
r the bottom of this gorge A few feet fro
e one end OF n spring the most dellclol
: sparkling water bubbles up The wat
d in this spring stands at thirty-fo'
y degrees.
THERE is wide difference of opinion
:. to the number of apples eaten by Ada
Il in the Garden of Eden. Some say Eve
(ate), and Adam 2 0wo); total, 10; other
. Eve 3 and Adam s, total l6; others say
. Eve 8 and Adam 8 2, the total is 80; b
y if Eve 8 / and Adam 2, the total IS 10
u if Eve 8 | and Adam 8 l 2, the total
e 1893; if Eve ate lst (ate one tirst) NJ
Adam 8 | 2, the the total is | ,623; If -
r r Sl4 Adam, and Adam 8 | 2 4 Eve !
y y total is S,93S, if Eve 4 Adam, and A
- - am 8 / PAP oblige Eve, the total
!" 81, ,O56. Still wrong. Eve when she
sl2 many, and probably felt sorry I
it; so Adam, in order to relieve her grl,
812. Therefore, if Adam 8 l 8 AZ Az
n Ewes depressed spirits, they both u, ,SS
IN | II al