The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-10-01
SAYINGS n DOINGS.

'N'S
tune Of 100000 per annum.
DIGESTION of a watering-place that
will be appreciated by many summer
loungers 1t is as dull as n cemetery
and pretty lively with mosquitoes
HEAVEN
There, no more at eve declining,
Suns without II cloud arc shining
Ger Il land Of life and loyei
Heavens own harycsts WOO the reaper,
Heavens own dreams entrance tho sleeper;
Not a tear IL loft tho weeper
To profnno the flower above;
There no Sigh of memory swelIGth,
There no tear Of misery dwcllclll,
Hearts will bleed or break no moro;
Past IL all tho cold worlds scornlng,
Gone the night md broke the morning,
with r]craphic day adjoining.
Iifo's glad waves and golden shore.
SOMEBODY took out n patent in Wash
ington the other day for improvement
in cigars medicimally prepared for the
cure Of catarrh, throat disease, coughs,
etc.
WHEN Don Piatt was asked to address
n Sunday-school picnic, all he could say
WIS "Children, never play with
matches around tho barn, and beware OF
green plums."
WHEN n dashing young widow re,
moves all traces Of bereavement, 1ecls
tie shafts of love, and commences to
talk of the bride halter, it is safe to
presume she's on the lookout for u sir
single.
The Astors paid $3.50 O57, SO taxes This
wear. AT the rate Of $3.50 tins would
represent nearly &l2, 000, 600. The value
of the real estate owned by the Astors,
in round figures, is said to be at least
S2l, 900, 0OO.
THE last fraud in the way of adnlter-
alton is the putting of salt INTO ale III
order to create Il thirst for more. A
fine Of E32 A. was recent imposed upon
n beer seller in London for putting go
grains of salt into every gallon OF beer
THE newest thing in fans is Of ostrich
feathers, so arranged as to form a square
In the center is n small mirror, sur
rounded by imitation pearls. The
feathers are of every color, but the en-
tirely black fans appear to be the most
@ fashionable.
THE Alaska Heral1's enthusiastic as
gertion, that, in two hundred and nifty
wears from this, Sitka will be one OF the
leading. ship building cities in the west,
has failed to create any perceptible rip
pie of enthusiasm among the present
generation of Sitkans.
TIE YEAR OF THE ltOSE.-
The year OF the rose Is brief;
From the frat blade blown 20 tho rIloaf,
Fron the thin green leaf TO the gold,
t. has time to be sweet and grow Ola,
To triumph and leave not a leaf
For witness in winters right
How lovers once in the hight
Would mix their breath with its breath,
And itn spirit was quonchod not Of night,
As love il subduod not Of death.
IN tho rod rose land not II HmIIo
or the mcldows from HtIIc to h'lle,
or the valleys from stream to stream,
But the air was II long, sweet dream
Aud the earth war II sweet wide smile,
Rod-mouthoa Of u goddess, returned
From the pca which had borno her and
burned,
Tint with one swift smile Of hor mouth
Looked full ON the north IA 1t ycarnGd
Aud tho north was moro than the south.-
h"inbnTJ".
Few of the fair sex, who, in obedience
to the DEGREES Of fashion, have loaded
their dresBos, cloaks and bonncts down
with white and black jet ornaments, are
aware that by 80 doing they are restor,
ing prosperity to the working classes OF
Venice, who, prior to the revival o.
trade for JET trimmings, were in a state
Of great distress.
ELDER EVANS declares that the heb-
anon Shakers believe that God is dual
father and mother that Christ il du,
~ IltLn L,ny AID pnrnn ~ that nj
angels md spirits ,ra male and TO
males that mankind are OF two sexes
and that the Shaker and Shakeress Il
the first dual newspaper ever publish
cd. Good climax.
ELISHA GRAY, of Chicago, has invent
cd n Geographic instrument and coil by
which tho musical scale may be tele
graphcd like II verbal message. A writ
or who has seen the apparatus III opera
ton says TINT he heard the music o
various we'll Unknown airs played on
small mclodeon or piano keyboard
transmitted through an unbroken cir
cult of 200 miles, and reproduced OF
II violin attached to the receiving end q
the wire.
TIE genuine Icelandic costume fo
women il very pretty and becoming, a
well as expensive n dark skirt, Gu
quite short, and closely fitting jacke
embroidered in geld or silver, wit
broad b, 1t of silver f~ligree.work. I'll
hcad-dress consists Of n sort OF heinz
OF white silk, curving over in front, I'll
base richly embroidered, and fasten'
to it a long thin white veil, which
thrown back, and floats gracefully ov
the shoulders.
A DECIDED NEGATIVE
IA II echooibOy was ever partial to Brown.
We divided our coffee and shared III our to
To tins moment ono schoolboy'b tradltl
comes DOWN
We aro quoted IA friendly and brotho
boys.
But, Hlpposing that Brown was to ask mo
day
For II share of my heart or n share of
purse
would sink tho old friendship and quietly n
Not ut all on tho contrary quito I
reverse
! have known what it is to be head over hot
In u passion that knows neither limit Il
span
! have known what II loving young gontlcm
feels
When he feels all II loving young gontlem
can.
But if Laura Matilda should come To me no
And recall what | promised whom ~loyesick
wore,
Do you think | should ever remember
vow
Not at all on the contrary quite the rever'
PIrIFuL is that person who has
higher aim than the mere adornment
the body. We are to educate Ourselv
in this az in other things, not AS me
fashion may dictate, or this and that OF