The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1860-10-04
Notes and alemoranda.


Happiness must arise from our own
temper and actions, and not Immediate.
y from any external conditions.
so long as men are imprudent in
thelr diet and business, doctors md
lawyers will ride in carriages.
What good would centuries do the
nan who only knows how to waste his
time?
Little drops of rain brighten the
meadows, and little acts of kindness
brighten the world.
The infant daughter of tho Princess
Frederick William has been christencd
Victoria Elizabeth Augusta Charlotte.
lie that knows useful things, and not
he that he knows many things, is the
wise man
Every man cherishes in his heart
some objcct-some shrine at which his
alteration is paid, unknown to his fel-
low-mortals.
1t is comforting q kindness to DENY
at once favor which you intend to re.
fuse at last.
Let persons understand one another
in good faith as honest men, and not as
thieves who wish to cheat each other,
81 never WONDER" says Dean Swift,
"to see men wicked but often won.
der to see them not ashamed"
There are ten thousand places for the
sale ofsprtuous liquors in the city of
London.
'@&c vibrations communicated to the
air by Che human voice are occasionally
sufficient to break glass vessels.
Ram neve. falls in Peru. The trade
wind blowing cross Brazil condense all
their moisture upon the Andes.
Tho name "miliner" is derived from
Milan, the city from winch Mlan-ery
goods were first imported into Eng
/ land.
Fame is an undertaken that pays but
little attention to the living, but bcdiz.
ems the dead, furnishes out their funer.
ais, and follows them to the grave.
Lorouzo Dow once said to grasping,
avarlclous farmer, that it he had the
whole world fenced in single field he
would not be content without u patch
Of ground on the outside tor potatoes.
The State House artesian well, in Co.
lnmbus, Ohio, is half mile and four
feet deep. The augcr is in sandstone
rock but no water.
The fruit crops in the Connecticut
valley are very plcntitul this year
Many trees have broken under the
weight OF their fruit.
A great step is gained when a child
has learned that there is no necessary
conn ,ction between liking to do thing
and doing it.
The average yield Of oats in Somer-
set county, Pa, this season, is set
down at eighty bushels to the acre,
and the weight forty five pounds to tho
bushel.
Mackcrcl are very abundant Oh tho
coast Of Maine, and arc being caught in
large quantities. They are too small
to rank us No. |, but they are tat, and
Of excellent quality.
Extreme cold produces the same per-
ception on the skin as extreme heat
10 touch frozen mercury which con-
geaIs at forty degrees below zero, has
the same effect rs touching red hot
iron.
Many condemn the organization Of
the past; but they all subserved their
purposes real y done gleat good
and The world would have suffered more
without them.
Sounds are more intense as the airis
denser In the Arctic regions persons
can converse with ease ut more than q
mile distant, when the mercury is be.
low zero
In Algie"s, great Lerro" was spread
amoug the natives by the recent solar
eclipse. 1t was nearly total in that
place, and they lighted in their houses
small wax candles, and made loud nois.
cs on their terraces with mortars and
pestles.
The Emperor has authorized the in.
sttution oi'a national shooting associa-
ton in France 1t will be on the same
plan rs that recently organized in
Great Britain, and Julius Gerard, the
famous lion killer, will be ut the head
ofthe enterprise.
The improved edition Of the self.rul-
ing stamped envelopes has already
nearly supplanted the old stamped en-
yelope. The novel and beautiful stamp
adopted for this envelope is universally
popular.
A minister had quarrel with one OF
his parishioncrs by the name Of Hardy,
who showed considerable resentment.
On the succeeding Sunday the divihe
preached from the following text, Which
he pronounced with great emphasis
| and with a significant look at Hardy,
who was present lherc - ~ ioo'
like the o[Hardy.
student went intoa book shop, and
manfred of the proprietor if he had any
nnaLet 1estaments in Greek. "In
i;rcek?' echoed our good friend, hest.
tatingly, IL believe not, sir but have
lot oi elegant ones in Morocco"