The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-08-30

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front of the stoop of r. /. Stuart's
house, at Fifth avenue and Sixty eighth
street, New York. The stone measures
26 feet 6 inches by Is feet 6 inches, is 0
inches thick, and weighs nearly 1000
pounds. II was cut in Sullivan county.
at the same quarry from which came
Mr.. Vanderbilt's great nagstone. 1t was
drawn by IS horses to its destination.
Pittsburgh Telegraph: 1t is mistake
to suppose that Maine passed the first
prohibitory liquor law in America. An
old act passed by the Trustees of Ogle.
thorpe's colony has been unearthed
which "enacted that the drink of rum
in Georgia be absolutely prohibited, and
that all which shall be brought there
shall be staved." This historical record
has considerable interest in these days,
the act having been passed in 1888, or
forty-three years before the Declaration
of Independence was signed.
While the foundation or pillars for
the railroad bridge across Flint river, at
Montezuma, Ga, was being constructed,
one of the workmen placed toad in the
crevice of rock and fitted another rock
over the crevice, and then made the
abode of the toad air tight by means of
morter. Sixteen years rolled by, when
it became necessary to repair the pillar,
which was done by the same workman
that placed the toad in the pillar when
it was first built. He remembered the
circumstance, and, upon examination,
found the toad still alive.
Mrs. Sykes on the Egyptian war as
it not strange to reflect upon, that all
these mighty engines of war, these splen-
did ornaments, these wonderful equip
ments, this pomp and circumstance, are
directed upon distracted enemy by the
mere penstrokes Ct two gentle old-lady-
ish persons-the Queen, to wit, and Mr..
Gladstone? am sure the Queen-moth-
cr would not personally harm dove,
and as for the peoples William, no
'oubt Uncle Toby, who freed a captive
ay, was a bloodthirsty creature beside
him. Yet by the irony of fate it is
these two who are thrown into positions
which force them to be the arbiters of
war and death, of cannonading, famine,
bodily anguish and every manner Of
mortal suffering"
Rhode Island is the State that has the
largest population in proportion to its
area, the extreme smalness of the latter
giving it an exceptional density of hab.
itation. This State, with its 255 per-
sons to the square mile, being excepted.
Massachusetts then becomes very re-
markable with its 222 to the square
mile. No other is near it; but New
Jersey is next conspicuous with its 1852,
and Connecticut with 129. New York's
cities bring her fifth on the list, with
lOS persons, in spite of her great extent.
Five States only have q population be-
tween 100 and so to the square mile,
these being Pennsylvania and Maryland,
with about 95 each; Ohio with rs, In
diana and illinois with 55. At the 9TH
cr end of the scale of States is Oregon,
with NOT quite two to the square mile,
while even California and Nebraska
have not quite 6. The territories are
all, of course, very thinly peopled in
proportion to their areas, except the
District of Columbia, if indeed this can
be classified among them. The District
naturally is far more densely populated
than any of the States, having 1850 to
the square mile; but obviously it is to
be compared in this respect rather with
cities or counties containing cities.
These various densities are based on the
census Of 1880; in all cases they are
now greater, as the populations have
since then increased, while the areas
have remained the same.