The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-04

And life was worse than death.
one venomed word,
That struck It's coward, poisoned blow
In craven whispers, hushed and low,
And yet the wide world heard.
Twas but one wh.pered---one-.-
That muttered low for very shame,
That the Slandcrer dare not name,
Yet It's work was done.
hint so slight,
And yet 50 mighty IN Its power,
human soul, In one short hour,
Lies crushed beneath us weight
The taking of the census in Franco
will begin on the lst of May.
Five new English war vessels have
been launched during the past two
weeks.
Three Swiss engineers are about to
construct u railroad to the summit OF
Versuvius.
Sixty thousand lives are annually
destroyed by intempcrance in the Uni
ted States.
One hundred thousand men and wo-
men are yearly sent to prison i'll conse-
quence of strong drink.
Twenty. thousand children are year
ly sent to the poor-house for the same
reason.
Three hundred murders are another
of the fruits of intemperance.
Four hundred thousand orphans are
bequeathed each year to public and
private charity.
One thousand Apaches, lately on
reservation, are now on the war path
in Arizona.
The Nail Manufacturers Association
have decided TO advance Wholesale
prices twenty-five cents per keg.
The Odd Fellows lodges in New
York State have contributed over thir-
teen thousand dollars for the relief
of Western sufferers.
The printing firms of London are
trying to break up the typographical
unions, and printers strike is i'm
minent.
Paroquet Springs, Kentucky, were
sold last week to j. w. Burton, of
Louisville, for twenty-five thousand
dollars.
Medical authority pronounces Lady
Morlaunt insane, and the divorce pc
tition of her husband has been dis
missed.
Theirs consents to reduce the French
army contingent from l60, 900 to No.
600 men, thereby saving ten millions
of francs.
Harness should be washed and oiled
once IN six months after it is com
menced being used. If it is neglecto
for years, and becomes hard, it is ne
to impossible to make it soft and as
pliablc as harness should be to wear
well and be easy for the horse.
In Siberia, during the winter, milk
is bought and sold in a frozen state,
and can be carried for long period i'll
IL simple bag. When required for use
the requisite quantity is chopped off
with a hatchet or sheath-knife, and
thawed as needed.
1t is related of an English farmer
that he condensed his practical expe-
rcnce into this rule: Feed your land
before it is hungry, rest it before it is
weary, and weed it before it is foul.
Ohio has 1888, l2l dogs, which h. 70
manned and killed, within year, -, =
$50 sheep, damaging sheep to the
amount (estimated) of Sl43, 900 -
Including the cost of keeping them, it
is estimated that dogs cost Ohio an
nually s., 900, 900.
The Xcruid's North Carolina COT
respondent has been captured by tho
Lowry gang, who say they will not
hurt him, but keep him week, Boss
Strong, Of the gang, is not dead.
The North Carolina papers report the
following speech by colored member
of the Legislature on the State debt:
Gen men how is we goin' to pay dis
thing? Don't the members say we are
bankrupt? How ken a bankrupt pay
a debt? Say! | say this. say that
every man i'll this chamJcr, and out
side of it, is a counterfeit
If we save the moments of time, We
will have enough for every needful
work. Moments are the material of
which days and years are made. If
these be well improved, we will have
years devoted to profitable employ
ment.
TO use books rightly, is to go to
them for help; to appeal to them when
our own knowledge and power fail; to
be led by them into wider sight, pura
conception than our own, and receive
from them the united sentence of the
Judges and councils of all time, against
our solitary and unstable opinions
Rnskin.
We should look upon contentmens
as the great good Not that it is re-
quisite we should have only a little to
live upon, but when we have only lit
tie we should be satisfied; for this rea-
son, that those best enjoy abundance
who are contented with the least, so
that the pains of poverty are removed.
Simple fare can give relish equal to
the most expensive luxuries.
Professor Huxley, in distributingthe
prizes at the Charing Cross Medical
College, qualified his approval of the
prize system in these words: "The suce
cessful men in this world were not
those who went off at hard gallop;
but those who would stay 1t often
happens that those whose early career
was slower and quieter than that of
others, exhibited a greater amount Of
| wind and tougher staying powers, and
came in at the winning-post at last.
TRUE LIFE.-The mere lapse ofyears
is not life. To eat and drink and
sleep, to be exposed to darkness and
the light, to pace round in the mill of
habit, and turn the thought into an