The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1869-09-16

The Springfield Republican thinks
that John y, Hoffman will be the next
President.
A huge circus tent Wa recently
blown down at Dayton Ohio, causing
great fright
An Indiana farmer has taken a crop
Of mustard from field planted with po-
tatocs.
The Rcvolutionist asserts that Vic.
toria's large feet condemn all English
women to long dresses.
Owiie Gardener, the reformed
prizcfghtcr, is said to he an expert
special policeman in New York
A New York paper thinks that Susan
B. Anthony was too much for the
Labor Congress.
An American has given Patti a sill
yer bucket with The sentiment that he
hopes it may be long before she kicks
! it.
A MANN st. Louis committed sui
eide last Tuesday because the sickness
of his wife rendered her unfit to sup
| port him.
The London authorities have secured
seven acres and half in the heart of
the city as : site for the new London
Law Courts.
The talk is revived Of bringing to
France, with great pomp the remains
Of the Duke Of Reichadt, the son Of
the the first Napoleon.
A correspondent wants to know
why some passengers in the steam cars
always cndcavor to monopolize two or
three seats?
A grand banquet to the friends Of
woman suffrage was recently given in
Paris, at which gathered many distn
guished men and women.
1t is cruelty to animals in England
to carry fowls with the head downward
and man has just been fined in Chat
ham for the offence.
Australia desires to become indie
pendent, thinking, from the success of
the United States, that a republic is
more successful in attracting emigrants
than colony can be.
Chicago has paper edited By ghosts
1t is conducted with spirit.
A French journalist has recently ex-
cuscd his bad hat on the ground that
he worked too much wi tn his head.
A polite philosopher once said to
lady who had been singing to q party
for an hour: "Madam you have was
ted our time charmingly."
Everything has its poetical aspect in
Tennessee. A country editor says:
"lIcre at Squan, where apple-jack is
the common beverage red noses are
called applc-blooms."
Glow old are you asked r.a
road conductor Of = ...G" g.G wh'w
her mother was try. to pess on mt
ticket. Il am nine at home urD -
the cars am only six and Il nal
/ During Il recent treshet in Conncc-
ticut Waterbury editor photographed
another at the scene Of action, "Send
me full particulars of the food" The
answer came, "You will find them in
Genesis"
A sentimental editor says: at is
comforting to know that one eye waite!
CT fondly for our coming, and looks
brighter when we come" A cotempo-
rary is grieved to learn that "hs bro
thcr Of the quill has wife with but
one eye"
/ A Philadelphia paper comments on
the weather :husly: "Ihe showers of
the last three days will cause every
stock of corn to carry ears like Il jack
ass while every watermelon will fancy
itself lager beer kcg dressed in Par
is green
1t is not IN uncommon complaint
against q newspaper that it "has'nt life
enough" But brother editor reports
the old objection made to his paper
by gossip-lovng old lady: 81 like
your paper very much; l have only
one objection to tit hasn't deaths
enough
Before contemplated attack, when
q regiment was honndering through
the mud in a very wild part of the
country, company became scattered,
and the officer called to the men 'to
form two deep" "Why hang it,"
: shouted out soldier, up to his kcees
in soft clay, "Tm too dep already"
The following isa young minister's
idea Of the expansive nature of The hui
man mind: ayes my friends the mind
Of man is so expansive thatit can soar
from star to star, and from sachelite to
sachelite, and from seraphenc to sera-
phene, and from cherryleam to cler-
rybeam, and from thence to the centre
of the dome OF heaven"
An editor speaks Of his political OPP
ponents as "quibblesophical.'