The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-08-15
GENERAL ITEMS.

oP'hioh OF moustachcs, replied: 81
always set my face against them"
The light of a match will fright
en- a wolf away, it is said. But love
matches don't always keep the wolf
from the door.
A CHICAGO woman has married
a man in Jail. She brags she is
the only girl in town who knows
where her Teller stays of night"
A New London husband advcr-
Uses one cent reward for the return
OF his elop~d wife, but doesn't think
1t worth while to have any one sent
after her.
THO her up tcnderly,
ltit her with care,
No OF" knows how dearly shoe paid for her
huiT.'
The VALUE Of real and personal
property in Allegheny county, Pa,
is 355,lSl,O70. The combined value
OF property in Delaware, Florida,
Nevada, Oregon, and Nebraska,
amounts to$293,3ll,9l5 or $Gl, &c.,
l55 less than that OF II single county
i'll this State.
A CONSTABLE in Ohio lately tcs'i-
fled in court as follows 4: az know
nothing of her but what the neigh
bors say; and, in my opinion, what
II woman says Of another is not
worthy Of h.lief."
TIE TOTAL value Of all property in
the United States, according to the
last census, was something oycr thir-
ty billion dollars.
AN Arkansas wife recently sue
cecdcd in Earring and icathcring her
unfaithful husband after what may
literally be called a pitched battle.
CHARLES Clinton, 60 years of age,
and a relative of Dewitt Clinton, was
struck by a train on the Midland
railroad, Friday, and fatally injured.
lie was the inventor Of the patent
safety-valye, car coupling, locomo-
tive spark-catcher, flange for car
wheels, car-springs, the combustiblo
boilers, self registering scales, CO.
mont, and many other patents. He
built Harpers second building in
Franklin Square.
THE FASHION Of utilizing one part
OF tho human body to repair another
is extending, A young man in
Wayerly, n. Y, had his foot mpshed
by n car, and n space Of several in
ches sloughed off. Several pieces Of
flesh were taken off the mans arm
and planted ON the wound, some two
weeks ago, and have all "taken root"
and the foot is fast recovering.
STATISTICS have been compiled,
from which it appears that during
the first four months Of 1872 the
amount Of money sought to be raised
for @ loans, banks, and industrial
undertakings brought out in Eng
land, America, and on the Continent
was about 100000, 600.
THE MINING fever las broken out
afresh in Australia. Gold is being
turned up everywhere, and il not
gold, tin and copper. The advertise
ors of prosrectuses of mining COM
either "crowd ont tho gener
al intelligence from the daily Jour
or obligo the proprictors to is
sue extra sheets. New companies
appear every morning as regular as
breakfast, and the men who are
waiting for an opening in Gfo are
everywhere bursting into full-blown
Shareholders.
A TRAVELLER in Florida writes
6 This is the land where towns con-
list Of n house; where steamboats,
make eight miles an hour; where
'ailroads carry you four miles an
rour CON my honor, they are four
hours going sixteen miles from To-
OF to st. AuSustiuo); where the {
happy maxim rules, never do to-day (
what you can put off till tomorrow; {
where the mail comes semi-occasion- s
lily; where the newspaper is almost !
Us rarc us II snowstorm; and where {
.clegrams arc unknown"
Tr primary reader who carelcssly f
Examines his dailypapcr in the norm {
ny, hardly stops to think while read E
NJ the doings of almost the entire a
world the day before, what m i'm
uense outlay of money was oXpond,
d, aud what an army of nowsSath- i
rcrs we're employed TO c~ollate the il
be is reading.
A GEORGIA man lately died from n
he effects of Il scratch from II dog, a
tho was leaping about him in joy ut n
lceting him. Eager philosophers "
re discussing the connection of the c
aso with hydrophobia, but they l
'oulI show more sense by investi- IA
ating its connection with the stuff a
nat the dog had been paving into it
.nco last he washed his feet and t'
leaned his nails. II
TIE consumption OF animal ivory -"
something enormous. Sheffield =.
one would demand the killing of II !,
200 elephants annually, were there u
, other sources OF supply. One
eat source of late years is found in .,
C tusks of mammoths, an extinct u.
,ecies of elephant, which lived i'll ~
Drthern Siberia some two hundred "
lousand or more years ago, when -,
lat country enjoyed Il temperature -,
Ike that OF the topics of the present ~
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