The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-03-28
VARIETIES.

cluslvely Tor ladies Is to be built ut
Toronto.
The last time m Iowa man saw his
thumb it was going through corn
sheller.
A Wisconsin boy p layed "snap-he
whip 50 hard that he broke his collar
bone.
A eccentric ghost in Sioux City sits
calmly on bucket with his head un-
der his arm.
One of the largest of the lumbermen
Of Minneapolis gets out 100, 900 feet Of
lumber every day just now.
Bears are plenty in the woods near
Vanceburg, Kentucky, and many have
been killed recently.
The negroes of Faycttc, Kentucky,
have organized for emigration to
Kansas.
All persons weary of life had better
go to Maysyille, Ky, where nitro
glycerine works are to be established.
SCOT and red paint arc the most
fashionable cosmetics in Alaska, and
coal oil is the favorite perfume.
| During the past eighteen years fifty
four boass have blown up on the West
orn rivers, killing 3OS3 people.
There are almost as many black
men rs white in the Florida militia,
the numbers being l2,O6G and l3, ,29S
respectively.
A Des Moines damscl having offend
ed young man at loap-year ball, he
threatened to send his big sister to de-
mand IN apology.
There are nearly six hundred chill
dren in Atlanta, Georgia, who cannot
go to school because there isn't room
for them.
There is one game of cards in which
n baby can play at great advantage,
for, no matter who deals, tho little
thing always has its crib.
A Philadelphia lady went sloighing,
froze her forehead in consequence Of
wearing fashionable bonnet, and was
rendered insane.
Speaking Of the danger of catching
smallpox by handling greenbacks, II
country editor congratulates himself
that he's safe enough.
Faith never appears to be grace till
sin appears to be sin. The deeper our
sense of the evil of sin is, the deeper
our apprehension of the free grace Of
God III Christ will be. - Flavel.
If you want to talk heavy science,
say 'protoxyd of hydrogen" instead
Of "ice." 1t sounds bigger, and not
one man III q thousand Will know what
you mean.
If you want Japanese itziboo, you
must go over there and get it soon, fol
their sale to foreigners have beer
stopped. Wecannot describe it further
than to say that itzibooly.
Mexico has consumed 35 presidents
in 81 years, and yet, unhappy land
you are as far from peace rs ever
(The rerpetrator rises to remark that
Juarez is pronounced iuarez.)
ACCORDING to the latest census rc,
turns, there are five million six hun
dred and sixty thousand and seventy
four persons in the United States who
can neither read nor write.
They have lately had a long and co
pious rain in California, whereby mil
lions of ground squirrels have been
drowned, and tens OF thousands of
rabbits driven from their burrows.
An Ohio man has been married sew
cnty-five years, and has had his moth
er-ln-law MS II boarder during the whole
time. Although she is now 100 years
old, there seems to be no prospect iOr
his immediate relief.
A Louisville lady was dreadfully
alarmed at the appearance OF man ON
the street with white handkerchel
tied over his cars, because she 'belcy-
ed the fellow either had the smallpox
or WAS u live Ku-Klux."
An old Norwegian living at White
Bear lake, Minnesota, had II curious
fight with wolf recently. At first he
fought the animal with club, then
His. weight was found to be PSI
pounds.
A Louisville man tells the CoUricr
JOuy1,ui of full-blooded negro whom
! he net at Duval's Bluff, Arkansas, on
n recent tour, whose complexion has
changed within ten years from n jctty
black to fair white, in consequence OF
the bite of locust. The change OF
color begau in circle around the bite,
which was on the shoulder, and slowly
extended over the entire body, except
n small spot ON the neck and narrow
ring about the eyes.
Those cannibals don't belong to
Barnum. He has merely hired them
of the king OF the Feejee Islands,
giving bonds and security for their re-
turn ut that time. They are captives
taken in battle, and aro to be killed
and eaten rs soon as they get back.
Barnum says he intends to forfeit his
bond and keep them. The Louisville
Courier Journai says if he does he
ought to be prosecuted for obtaining
provisions under false pretences.
The lively young ladies of South
vile, Ky, have celebrated leap year
by public sale of the bachelors and
widowers Of the town. Lawyer bach
elors, evidently of an inferior grade,
brought IS head; farmers were knock
ed off at Sl.25 to $3.50; doctors were
something of drug in the market,
but went at So each; bachelors with no
particular profession or trade met
with very little competition, the bid
ding was dull and the prices ranged
from Is cents to S1.05; widowers were
run up to $1,000, and found eager bid
ders.
The German government has devised
scheme that promises to be great
event in the history Of architecture.
1t is intended to build new house OF
parliament ut Berlin, and the desire IS
to make it model structure. 10 that
end the architects Of all nations on the
globe are invited to compete by sub
m;ting plans before the 10th of April