The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-04-10
NIBBLES.

A PHILADELPHIA physician thinks he
will be able to put an L to his house
this spring, as green cucumbers are in
market
MAX SrRAKosH offers handsome re-
ward for any information concerning
Nilson's German lover. He thinks he
can utilize him again next fall.
CrNoINNATI is lionizing the door
keeper of minstrel show because he
has such an immense moustache that he
is compelled to carry it in a sling.
A CUBAN paper states that if O'Kelly,
The Hcrdid commissioner, were an
American, he would be executed at
once. Can't some one take out his
naturalization papers2
Now that the weather is mild enough
for base ball, atfectionate mothers are
raking over the ash-heaps in search of
bottles of arnica tossed aside during the
recent thaw.
WILLIAM PENN, ws are told by history,
determined that Philadelphia should be
"a faire greene country towne." The
widest dreams of his imagination have
been realized.
THE readers of The Boston Post re-
cline under pile-driver, to prevent the
rupture of their sides with laughter,
when they tackle the jokes of the klepto-
maniac of that establishment.
A TERRE HAUTE youth threw fork at
his only mother because she refused to
erect pistol pocket in his new pants.
The boy says he can't sit very comforta-
bly, until the poultice begins to dry.
The Dramatic critic of The Evening
Journal, who thinks "Richelieu" the
the best play Shakespeare ever wrote,
also believe that Oliver Doud Byron's
- Across the Continent" is as good as
his Don Juan.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Pittsburg
to drill hole through the atmosphere
and fit each end with magnifying glass,
thus making cheap, simple, and dura-
bic telescope for astronomical observa-
tions
Ir Is encouraging to find that the Bit
ter animosity which has 50 long marked
rival newspapers is being curbed to a
degree. For instance, The Sadalia
mo- Bazoo magnanimously congratu-
lates The New York Herald on the
purchase of a new press.
RUBBER bustles shouldn't be worn
slippery nights. The other evening an
inebriated patriot ON Wabash avenue
hearing IL number OF explosions from
ladies sitting down suddenly, thought
it was the Fourth of July and remarked
that cts the coldest weather for season
of year (hic) ever saw.
MEMPHIS gloats over the possession OF
man so free from the preiudices of the
noe that he married his mother-in-law.
It will strengthen other mothers-in-law
% know that she was true to herself and
ler sisterhood, for in less than two
months she has made it so hot for that
nan that he is now an applicant for
livorce.
ST.. LOUIS never does things by halves,
nd the new Lindell hetel will be finish
d in the highest style of art. We learn
hat purse is being raised, and in fact
. dollar and thirty cents has already
been subscribed, to send the gentleman
who has the contract for whitewashing
the back fence to Italy to perfect his
style under the inspiration of the old
masters.
"EKI PERKINS" the absence OF whose
limitations of Artemus Ward from the
columns of The New York Commercial
advertiser has proved so remunerative
to its proprietors, writes for the ne"
Graphic. Eli has but single COM
petitor in the field of harmless lunacy
the voung man who attempts Jokes ior
Tn, 81 louis GLOBE and sends marked
,opies to exchanges with the reques,
please copy"