The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-09

else. Several Of the scenes represented
in the large show windows Of onr great
cities during the holidays cost as much
as 5000. This style of window dressing
originated in Paris.
ALTHOUGH the revised edition of the
Old Testament has not yet found its way
into print, several notable corrections
made by the revisers have been pub
lished, much to the surprise OF tho good
people who have been accustomed TO re-
gard the translators of King James's YER
sion as showing the inspiration of the
Hebrew writer's Joseph's coat OF many
colors has been ruthlessly sacrificed, and
the varigated patchwork affair has been
replaced by "a tunic with long 'eeves."
The reader will find other surprises
equally as remarkable and distasteful.
Heretofore the Bible has represented the
hlppopotamus as thirsty beast that
"drinketh up n river and hasteth not : he
trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into
his mouth This exaggerated account
oil the ugly brute has always been i'm
phcitly credited by the readers of Scrip
lures, bnt it now appears that Job never
used such extravagant language. What
he did say was simply this "Though o
river swells, he is not afraid fearless,
though Jordan washes to his mouth"
In other words the hippopotamus has
sense enough to keep out Of the wet, and
is not going to flee to the mountain tops
every time he sees the river at high
water mark. The passage in which
Isaiah speaks of "chariots with flaming
torches" appears in the revised version
as "chariots with flashing steel" In
stead Of representing the woods as being
filed with 'satyrs" and dragons" we
are now informed that goats" and
'jackals" roamed the forests in the old
Isaiah We are told that the "nation scat
tered and peeled whose land the rivers
have spoiled" but the ruthless revisers
turn the distressed people into" "a nation,
tall and shaven, whose land the rivers
divide" The new version will doubtless
meet with objections from conservative
people, but if it proves to be a better
TRANSLATION it will make its way in time
COMPARATIVELY few people understand
the uses of asbestos. The Grt cks and
Romans made napkins and towels of it,
as well as wrappings for the dead, when
bodies we're cremated For centuries,
however, the art Of spinning or weaving
the material WIS lost, and 1t is only re-
Gently that it has again been discovered.
Asbest ,s ran be made into cloth, thread,
paper for writing AMI printing, and for
sheathing buildings, and pasteboard. II
has been made into garments for profes
sional fremen, millboard sheathing,
packing for engines, lamp-wicks, gloves
for the use of workmen handling hot sub
stances, fireprooi roofing, paint, cement,
and curtains for theatres. For building
purposes asbestos may be utilized in
various ways, and there is nothing equal
to it as preventive of the spread of
flame. Asbestos is composed of silciate
of magnesia, silciate of lime and protoxide
of iron and magnese. 1t is variety of
hornblende, greasy to the touch, and
having sometimes long tibres, resembling
in their better qualities, fine silk. The
material when taken from themines is in
every shape, from bundles of loose tibres
to hard blocks which may be broken into
o fibrous state. 1t is produced by some
unknown process of decomposition and
effectually resists the action of fire and
of acids. Great Britain, Hungary, Italy,
Corsica, Canada. and the United States,
all produce this material. In this coun-
try it is chiefly found in Georgia, North
Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, Vermont
and New York. The Canadian fibre has
supplanted the Italian in popularity, but
several of the southern states now pro-
duce its rival in Georgia asbestos is
found in large deposits, and the fibre can
be easily woven into threads, The Geor-
gia article is of very superior quality.
Recent inquiries in New York have de-
veloped the fact that the demand for
asbestos is practically unlimited, and the
prices paid for the material range from
fifteen dollars to one hundred dollars per
ton.
GEORGIA is one of the chief items in
the luxurious expense attendant on the
federal judiciary. During the last fiscal
year there was paid out in the northern
district court of Georgia Tor marshals'
fees $24, 500, for Jurors $500, for wit
nesses 1856, 75O, for support OF prisoners
81, 300, for attorneys $6,2i7, for clerks
$l1, ,656, for commissioners $7,73S, for
miscellaneous items 81, 400. These items
make a total of $111,1S3 as the cost to
the government for running the district
court which meets in Atlanta. There is