The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-27
NUMBER "a.
SAYINGS AND D0INGS.

between smile and tear-with q
strong leaning for smiles"
Col. EdERToN, in the house of Com.
mons, said philanthropy is so energetic
that sit requires good deal of inhu-
ence nowadays to get hanged"
is THEM the common dog sassage ?"
inquired venerable looking lady, as
she surveyed a bunch of bananas over
her spectacles the other day.
INDIANAPOLIS women are relating it,
tie "reminiscences of how they used to
romp with Henry Ward Beecher. "But,
sir, they add, II was very young"
GREAT efforts are being made to in.
duce Liszt to visit this country. One
manager offered him l,00000Cf. for one
season, but the Abbate politely declined.
A GERMAN at Terra Haute, Ind, sold
last year, lG,00Opounds of fgrapes raised
ON land, which, the same season, would
not have proiuced 60 bushels of corn.
/ SHALL awaken in heaven" wrote
Boston girl before taking arsenic. But
she took too much for death dose, and
awoko with stomach.pump down her
throat"
81 AM going-I know 7 am," said Il
dying Mississippian, land believe I'd
go easier if Jim would get down the
fdlIe and play Sore heel Salcy' once
more Jim did.
\ WESTERN postmaster writes to the
postmaster general "that hell will bo
full of country postmasters b fore long
if they do not getmoro pay than is nj
lowed this office"
An ACCOUNT OF fire in England fur
nishcs Il valuable hint to volunteer fire
departments. "rhe London Scottish
was the first regiment on the alert, hav-
ing no trousers to put ON, and the fire
was soon eXtnguished.
BAruING cloaks, which are to be put
on dry when leaving the water, and
worn across the beach to conceal tho
moist figure, are made of Turkish towel
ing, trimmed with oriental braiding,
and cut loose and very long.
- California is trying the experiment
Of compulsory education. Between the
ages of eight and fourteen children
must attend somo school mt least two
thirds of the school year. A few ex-
ceptions are made IN special clrcum-
stances.
THE WHOLE police force of Jefferson,
Texas, wero recently arranged before
the Mayor of that thriving city on the
charge Of vagrancy. The charges wero
preferred by the families OF the police
men on the ground that the officers had
no visible means of support, as they
had received but &l2 from the city III
the last five months.
OUR TREAsUREs.-
Nothing il our own; We hold our pleasures
n....n ~. .,.., rsa ~, -. a ia Irelsurts
Nothing is our own except our dead.
They arc ours, and hold in foithful keeping,
Safe forever, all they took away.
Cruel life can never stir that sleeping,
! Grlel time can never seize that prey
The hose at Kissingen, occupied by
tho "Iron' Prince, as the German
papers style him now, is distinguished
by seven bombs which it received from
the Prussians in 1866, and which were
left immured in it. A peasant OF the
environs, to whom the Prince, incog-
nito, showed the proper way of moving
meadows, has, since the thing got
abroad, refused large sums offered for
the sythe which the Chancellor exem-
pliiied his practical knowledge of farm
ing.
THE NIGHT clerk of n Burlington ho-
tel was startled about IL o'clock the
other night by the following conversa-
ton, ut a time when he supposed he was
alone in the Office: "Come along, you
hoodlum, let's go up stairs. " Go
nothin," was the Rrutf re, ly, LETS
wait till the midnight train comes IN
there's nothing you can get blood out o
, IN the house now" And the amazeC
and Mortified clerk could see nobody II
} the room except two old gray mosquI
G toes, doing on n Saratoga trunk.
The BEST THINGs.-
6 Tho sweetest songs are those
That few men ever hear
And no men ever sing.
The clearest skies are those
That farthest of appear
To birds OF strongest wing
The dearest loves arc those
That no man can come near
With his best following.
HERE. now, is bit of frescoing that
is quite fresh. A negro woman living
near Carlisle. Kentucky, for the last
forty years-Jane Young, black rs the
ace of spades-began about four years
ago TO change color, and gradually
grew white, until she bleached out to
a tolerably fair complexion. Within II
few weeks past her original black color
commenced return. showing itself IN Jet
black spots ut different places on her
face. Men who understand about cut
icle are looking over the old ladys tea-
lures to see what they can make out OF IT..
THE CoLuMBUs Enqnirer, having com.
pleted its inquiry into the state Of local
social science, presents the GLOWING
report. which is as wildly drawn as
one of Dore's pictures: "a sorry sight
il is to see spike team, consisting OF a
skeleton steer and skinny, blind mule,
with rope harness, and a squint,eyed
driver, hauling barrel OF new whiskey
over poor roads, on hermaphroditt
wagon, irto farming district where th'
people are in debt, and the childrei
forced to practice scant attire by da,
and hungry sleeping by night"
IrMAY seem strange, but it is never
theless true, that alcohol, regularly al
piled to thrifty farmers stomach, wi
, remove the boards from his fence, lie
cattle into his crops, kill his fruit trees
1 mortgage his farm, and SOW ms ne,, ..t.
with wild oats and thistles. lls VIII tnns .hs
!. the paint off his buildings. p5f1 an them
glass out of the windows, soa aInss n from
with rags. 1t will tats : tr,m sns his manners,
q subdue his reason, ar1us ua npon his