The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-02-13
WORLD.

she vas sixty.
CLOSE study has made Mary Dean OF
Illinois, a raging maniac.
THO Grecian ladies counted their age
from their marriage, not from their
birth.
TALK about the modern falling off Of
home affections Our wives are becom-
ing dearer every day.
IL it's a finder sentiment.
ABOUT twO-thirds OF the suits decided
by the female juries of Wyoming are
appealed and the verdicts set aside.
AN Omaha bride was married bare
foot because her lovers kinfolks dressed
that way, and she did not wish to seem
proud.
A BEAUTIFUL young widow OF Mem
phis, Tenn, has joined the Oneida Com
munity, and recorded n vow to remain
forever true to the members thereof.
A GIRL with $4,000 a year advertises
for q husband in the London papers.
The trouble is she wants a lord, and
they are scarce Mt the price.
WESTERN women are grumbling terri:
bly, because the managers of the agri-
cultural fairs don't give at least a years
notice when they offer prizes for the
finest babies.
"Ir seems to me that Mrs. C.'s hair
was nearly gray a year ago" eyes,
nearly" "But now it's perfectly
black" "Ah, yes you know she's lost
her husband since then"
Mrs. SAM'L Colt makes 1900, 900 q
year by the sale Of ~revolvers. She sup
plies the New York markets literally,
as it is proved by the frequent murders
that are perpetrated with her pistols.
The propriety Of knowing whom ono
marries is verified in the case Of an aged
couple in Iowa, who as widow and Wild
owe married, and who, it was afterward
proved, were brother and sister, sepa-
rated in childhood.
CANADA paper tells about a woman
at Kingston who recently woke from a
nine years sleep. Her slumbers were
uninterrupted during that period, except
for a short time each day ut noon, when
she halted five minutes for refresh.
ments.
The chief clerk of the Portland (Me.)
pension agency is a woman, and is high
ly praised for her business talents. Wo-
men are working into public offices very
rapidly all over the country. There are
numerous postmistresses in the western
States, and q number in the eastern.
Ir is rather expensive to tell a town
clerk of Massachusetts n young lady is
older than she really is, besides being
peculiarly narrowing to the feelings OF
the lady herself. There was a young
who wanted to marry a miss Of four
teen. He told the clerk she was sixteen,
and for that little act Of his imagination
he was fined $500.
MISERABLE English charwoman, with
IN exhibition of audacity which is be-
coming quite common of late among the
British peasantry, called the Earl of
Winchelsea to court for debt, and his
lordship treated the matter with con-
tempt. An execution was issued against
his goods and chatels. The officer with
the writ was resisted by a legion of fun
keys, whom he first whipped and then
sued. The charwoman got her money.
THERE was once an old woman who,
in answer to n visiting almoner's inqui-
ries as to how she did, said: 20, sir,
the Lord is good to me; I've lost my
husband and my eldest son, and my
youngest daughter, and I'm half blind,
and I can't sleep or move about for the
rheumatism; but I've got two teeth left
my head, and, praise and bless His
holy name, they are opposite each
other !" It has been said that this old
was thankful for small mercies.
~ NORWICH gentleman of broad social
views wrote q note to the handmade who
wrestles with his crockery inviting her
to take q sleigh ride with him. Unfor-
tunately the slave was unable to read,
and brought the note to the wife of his
bosom to decipher. Wretched and
heartsick, the miserable woman waited
in agonizing suspense till her husbands
and tho family physician says he
didn't consider it possible for q delicate
to do 80 much damage.
As THERE has been good deal said Of
the danger to health of the sewing ma
chine, it is worth while to mention that
DIR. Parker recently read q paper on tho
subject before the State Medical Society
of Virginia, in which he maintained than
fatigue is not disease; that there is no
reason to conclude that the use of the
muscles employed in machine work for
a reasonable time is injurious and that
a machine may be used by a woman for
four or five hours daily, if she be in Or
health, without injury.
A PORTLAND s~ea-captain who has been
absent from home for eight years ar
last week. Calling upon a lady
friend soon after, he was panied to see
what he supposed to be the result Of
terrible injury to the spine. He
.delicately questioned her upon the sub
iect, but she wa apparently at a loss to
comprehend his meaning. Finally, after
canvassing at crOss-purposes, the