The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-10-05

Wo rode in the dark post-wngon,
We two through the pltch-dark night
We laughed, and sang, and chartered
Like magpics, I'LL dawn OF light.
But, then. how We hushed my darling!
| We saw that we We're three;
For Cupid the imp! had stolen
a ride, love, with you ana mo-
Miss Spaulding, M. d., OF Sandusky,
amputatcd u mans leg few days
ago.
Silk dresses with brocaded 1ounccs
are coming in fashion again TINS
winter.
The new style Of dress in three
colors are called the patchwork cos
tunes"
1t is said that Sallic Ward Hunt, of
Louisville, is engaged on book to be
entitled "Thc History Of a Belle"
The wife of Sir Walter Scott did
not appreciate his literary attain
mcnts. She called his novels mon
| sense books"
Ladies in the country have taken
to wearing thick boots with broad
square heels, as the Louis Quinzc
boots and heels are not at all adapted
for rough service.
Queen Victoria, an English paper
says, is troubled with visions of tho
poor house. The table Of the Queens
servants is about the worst served of
any in the country.
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Miss Mary G. Rca carries the honor
of being the first woman who has
made a pro-emption purchase of ono
hundred and sixty acres of public
land in Montana.
Miss Lydia Nye wears the honors
of champion female pedestrian of
Bennington, VT, having walked the
other day thirty miles within eight
hours over rough and mountainous
road.
/. y LyncAburg colorcd woman fell
lirty feet out Of Il third-stCry VIM
dow, striking the ground head fore
most, They are filling up the hole,
She wasn't hurt any.
The Washington "Womn's club
have conceived thc strange idea that
,aG MJot },ompt way, 10 cure the so-
.'.l evil Is 30 describe in glowing
lnrus .he spirndog, Of Tie houses de-
voted To- wire.
\ Belle al >aIatoga boasts of hay
ing haI twelve Offers tui7 .eason,
Tier friends thjn}. ha.l OF them must
nave been done by letter as there has
al. net been th2t number OF unmar-
ricd mcni in the nGuscall the summer.
An Illinois agricuItdin society
lla, hit upon II shrowd plan for in
crGasing the population. II is to oiICra
heavy prcmium ten years in advance,
to the couple WHO will at the end OF
that time show lie largest number
Of descendants.
Among the lamp-ligbtcrs in Nil.
WaUkcc, Wis, is Il little girl ten years
. old, who makes her rounds IN all
kinds OF weather, and runs up the
ladder like squirrel, while her
elderly mother watches for her safety
below.
) a Louisville (Ky.) girl, whose bridal
dress was white satin and point lace,
and whose train was carried up the
aisle by u page, caused the choir to
sing, by her own special request,
during the ceremony:
"Strip me of the robe of pride,
Clothc me with humility"
st. Winifred Stubbs, an elderly
maiden lady of London, was directed
by the health officer to discharge from
further service fourteen dogs who
lived with her as companions, and
she was so sorrowstrickcn at the sac
riticc that she died instantly on re-
cciving the order.
There is food for thought in this
extract from the writings of Madame
Guizot: "a woman who has reached
the end of youth must not suppose
that she has any further concern with
passion-not even with vanquishing
it. Her strength must henceforth lie
in calm, and not in courage"
a Honolulu paper relates that as
a native man and woman were out
fishing on reef q shark appeared
ana attacked the man, and by sue
cessive bites took off his arms and
legs; that the woman made for the
shore with the limblcss trunk of her
husband that she reached it in safety,
and that the man still lives!
a party of Polish ladies, of great
though peculiar beauty, are among
The late arrivals at Newport, and
have made quite sensation and put
all the cd bellies in the shade. They
arc jus, from Paris and dress in a
style entirely different from that in
vogue here. They dress with their
hair classical style--a small coil high
on their head, from which drop two