The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-16
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brann' vein, signifying burnt wine.
THERE are 201, 100000 Roman Catho-
lies and LOG, 900, 900 Protestants in the
world.
A PALINDRoME is n word that reads
backward and forward alike. For in
stance, madam. The salutation of the
first man 10 tho first woman is said to
have been MADAM, I'm ADAM"
The highest mountain on tho North
American continents Mount st. Elias, in
Alaska, whose elevation is 1880 feet.
Next to it come the volcano of Popoca-
tapetl, in Mexico, in 17,700 feet, and
Orizaba, also in Mexico, 1870 feet.
The second Governor Of Bermuda
was Captain Daniel Tucker, of Virginia,
from which colony those islands were
settled. The old negro melody "Get
out o de way, old Dan Tucker" refers,
it is supposed, to this Bermudian dig.
nitary.
WooLsAcK, tho, name given to the
seat of the Lord High Chancellor of
England in the House of Lords, is so
called from its being large square bag
of wool, without back or arms, covered
with red cloth. Wool was the staple
commodity of England in the reign Of
Edward ILL.,, when the woolsack was
first used.
THE followers of Buddha outnumber
those CT oil other religions combined,
Buddhism being the religion of two.
iifths Of the human race. At the pres
ent time it is the religion Of the multi
tude in China, while the learned men Of
that most conservative nation cling to
tho more modern teachings Of Confu.
cius, which date back only some DOL
years b. @.
HERE is fact for smokers: The
choicest cigarettes in New York are now
made Of discarded cigar stumps, These
gatherings OF the "butt pickers 3" have 0
real Havana flavor quito their own.
They are used for "fillers for cigar.
cites, and quite an extensive trade is
done in them. Probably they do not
make such bad cigarettes after all, il
one could forget the association.
LICENSES, when first issued, were not
for traders, but were introduced by
Richard l., 119O, for the purpose Of
levying money, and were sold to those
of the nobility who desired to enter the
tournaments. The General Licensing
act was adopted in England in 1898,
though licenses for public houses were
granted in 1861. In the United States
the license tax was levied by act OF
Congress, July l, 1862.
In the year 1850 the Wings were
known as "Silver Greys." The " Hunk
ers were the Bourbon Democrats Of
that day. In England the Barn Burn
ers were ultra radicals or destructiycs
who burnt the barns "in order to reform
social and political abuses" In the
United States "Barn Burners wes tho
name given to n party having its origin
i'll the opposition to the perpetual rent
system which had taken root in New
York. The "Woolly Heads" were the
original Abolitionists.
YMIR was the personi6cation of Chaos,
or the first created being, produced by
the antagonism of heat and cold. He
is called giant, in the scandinavian
mythology, and was nourished by the
COW Audhumla. While he slept, mar
and woman grew out of his left arm,
and sons from his feet. Thus was gen.
Grated the race of frost-giants. Odin
and his two brothers slew Ymir, ant
threw his carcass in the Ginnungagal
(or tho abyss Of abysses), where Iii
blood formed the waters of the eartl
and the ocean, his bones the mountains
his teeth the rocks, his skull the sky
his brains the clouds, his hair plants o
every kind, and his eyebrows the wal
of defense against the giants. The COW
I Audhumla, which nourished Ymir witt
four streams of milk, produced man
hair, on the first doy, by licking th'
frost-covered stones ON the second day
mans head, and on the third day, {
complete human being, named Burr.