The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-12
HISTORICAL.

Tue Koran was written about Clio,
A. d.
TIE whale fishery first sprang up in
the Bay Of Biscay, in the twelfth cen
fury.
TgE cat was first dOmesticated i'll
Egypt. The Greeks and Romans did not
possess il.
ONE hundred md ten mouasterieswere
suppressed in England by the order OF
lIenryV.
| TIE original name Of the city Of Al
bany, when founded by the Dutch, was
Beaverwick.
D PARACErsus is said 10 have cured a leper
by keeping him for sixty hours in bath
Of hot mud.
| An inventor named Cools, who died
recently in Saratoga, used to boast, when
q young man, that he was master OF
twenty-six trades.
TuE ancient Pncblos were tho only
aboriginal people within the limits OF the
United States who possessed the art OF
Glazing their pottery.
CArsAR was one Of the best judges OF
pearls TINT ever lived. He could at once
tell the weight and value OF pearl when
he took it in his band.
THrRr Is n fairy mythology, similar to
that of Europe, among the native tribes
Of America, which embraces even the
superstition of the cbangelings.
Is the reign of Titus 5000 men were
compelled to fight as gIadiators, and TO-
coo during the reign of Trajan. Both
Empcrors we're noted for their clcmcncy.
AccoppIYG 10 Spanish historians eight
centuries of warfare elapsed, and 3,70O
battles were fought before the Moorish
kingdoms in Spain submitted to Chris
tian arms.
PnuLr STRozyI, when accused OF the
a, assassination of Alexander |. of Tuscany.
killed himself through fear that torture
: might extort from revelations injurious
to his friends.
!. In THEIR general bearing toward So
O ciety ana i'll the nature and minuteness
@ of their scruplcs the carly Chriataina
: bore o greater resemblance to Quakers
v than to any other existing sect.
THERE was question among the
n carly Christians as TO tho propriety OF
r wearing, il military festivals, laurel
/ wrcaths. because laurel was called after
l. Daphne, the lover Of Apollo, the heather
y god.
l. In 1896, David Black, n Protestant
If minister in Scotland, delivered sermol
m in which he said that, as to the Queen o
D. Scotland, they might as well pray TO
il. her because it was the fashion to do so
ie but no good would ever come OF it, A
" consequence he was thrown into prison
III In PERU, as soou rs death occurs
re ashes are strcwn on the floor Of the room
~ aud the door fastened. Next morning
III the ashes are carefully examined for foot
in prints and the soul OF the dead is said {
oy have passed into the body OF whateye
Ter animal the imagination traces in th
cn ashes.
re ONE method u2cd by the Angle
ma Saxons for asccrtaiuing the intentions
he fate was to take slips Of wood from son
ose fruit bearing tree, mark them, and ai!'
me q solemn prayer, shake them toGeth'
hat and throw them into white GARNER
us spread for the purposI. The number
ed, marks lying uppcrmoSt decided Il
an greater or less degree q ;a.Innc to com
iu' In 1886 Nicholas loN.Hgt"n, Abbot
us Westminster, then neatly seventy yea
old, prepared himself with two of b
,rd. monks to go armed to the sea coast,
has assist in rcpellng threatened lnyasi,
vm. of the French. One of his monks is d
Gle. scribcd rs so large that when his arm
" YVES alicrward offered Tor sale no
his could no found OF sufficient size
in Wenr it,