The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-01-11
WIT AND HUMOR.
a popular loan-Colognc.
A leading ar~ticle--a locomotive.

a popular loan-Colognc.
A leading article-a locomotive.
Vegetable philosophy-Sage advice.
"Natural selection"-Choosing II wife.
How to get along well--dig 1t deep.
The richest mantle who Is content
with what he has.
Evcrgreens-- Merchants who expect to
make money without advertising.
Thnrc IL Il man in town so bashful
that he seldom gets acquainted with the
facts.
If twenty four grains make n penny
weight, how many will make Il penny
run?
Fortunes hand, says a poyerty-strick-
en- writing master, Is remarkable for It's
heavy down strokes.
Strange TO say, we must wait for
Garibaldi's death before we see his
"Liie,"
1t is early In this season for cold feet !;
nut down In Maine they have q loot OF
snow.
A city item Announces the organization
of a new rifle association" Another
RingH
Five thousand ChicagOnians live In
barracks hastily knocked together with
a bare axe.
"Sir, you have the advantage Of me-
"Ouitc right you arc right, sir. Almost
everybody of common sense has"
The Darwinian theory has greatly in
creased the number of people who are
thoroughly ashamed of their ancestors
Several exchanges say that a Hartford
man has shipped to Russia forty slei2h$
"adapted to reindecrs," Oh, no; adapted
to snow, dears.
A story Is told ola person asking
another whether he would advise hin
TO lend a certain friend money. What
lend him money? You might give hin
an emctic, and he wouldn't return it.
A Missouri newspaper claims that thu
hogs of that State, are so fat that in or
der to find out where their heads are !
ia necessary to make them squeal ant
then Judge by the sound.
An affecting sight tobehold at
Wedding, the sOrrow-strlcken parent IL
he gives the bride away" when yol
know that for the last ten years he la
been trying to get her OIL his hands.
The rite of baptism being about to b,
I,,t,iot.rn fn anuprnl Infants "A nj
fused clergyman requested, with Srea
solemnity, that sail children havln!
parents who wish to be baptized vii
please to present them before the altar,
IfTurkey were given to Hungary, al
Europe would have cause for thanks
giving WdShinqton Copitd.
1t II giving turkey to the hungy tina
makes thanksgivingCay in this country
A horse-thicf onhis way to the votin,
place In Il Missouri town, was seized b.
the c%xpoundcrs of lynch law and hun.
to u telegraph pole. That manner q
polling a vote is calculated to dcadcI
ones interest in town politics.
A Dutch justice not Il thousand mile
T, from here, gives the following oath t
witnesses: "lOu do awfully swar
Won will tell the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, the hes
what you can't."--jS. LouiS Djsp"tch.
An unreasonable and somewhat mis-
anthropic acquaintance remarked u
has often heard the prOvcrb, "a irlen'
in need is a friend indeed but says u
can't see where the laugh comes in. III
has II friend in need who is always Dor
rowing money of him.
From Boston we (Ihe HicpcDdent
hear what seems incredible, that, Will
the Jews In this city were worslippin.
one Saturday, with splendid pomp, i
their Synagogue on Fifth Avenue,
gang of laborers were at work upon TN
tower. 1t was the Jewish Sabbath OF
the inside of the Synagogue, and Il Pa
gan Saturday on the outside.