The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-20
SAYINGS AND D0lNGS.

pAprEy and surrender signify the
same thing where virtue is concerned
A GENTLEMAN, on presenting a lace
collar to his adored one, said, carefully:
:" Do not let any one else rumple It,"
"No, dear" she replied, "l'll take 1t
Off"
AMONG tie modern improvements IN
Persia which the Shah has ordered ls a
puillotine, gallows and a corps OF bal
let-girls to be shipped to him from Eu-
rope.
A Missouri writer speaks OF one OF
his contemporaries as poor OLD SKIN
ny-bouv, whose knee and arm Joints
have been. held together for twenty
years with cotton twine.
ONE Of the most cheering signs to m
dicate that the panic is over is the fact
that stranger can display a tltty-cents,
shnplaster in Chicago and not be hauled
out of the river next morning.
THE Detroit Free Press mentions
Kansas farmer who declares that
grasshopper sat on the gate.post ard
threatenngly asked William Bryant,
where in thunder is the balance OF that
cold meat?'
FrIGRAM,
4 wugdsh wight a slrowd one too,)
Once told me that he really knew
A girl that put her humors OH,
And ceased to scOld, to laugh ld scon'
To weep and sorrow DER rOmances,
And went no more to plays ana ua'lccS'
doubted luug--at last he said,
"'lhr reason iH the woman 4 dead,
Duvlya the official life Of Police
, Chief Savage Of Boston, that CITY mas
! had mt one time free rum, at ano
license law, at another Il prohlbltory
law badly enforced, and yet again for Il
| time nrohtbitory law vigorously en-
forced and yet he says there is no varl-
! alton in his statistics furnishing the
least indication of when any one policy
! prevailed.
Ir Is asserted that, for fall goods,
=, browns will take the lead. 1t Is TINT
It which makes the complexion appear
Il finer. whittier and clearer than any other
" color and is selected by both blondes
Z, and brunettcs. Combinations OF purple
70 and grey are also predicted-the grey
II beirg rough in texture, and the purple
y of silk or poplin. Blues, too, from TN
= dem navy to the clear Marie Louise
u will be popular.
r Now TIE best way in the word t'
e seem to be anything, Is really 10 p'
what we would seem to be. Beside
that, it is many times as TROUBLESOME
to make good the pretense OF goo'
ouolity as to have it, and II a ma!
re have it not it is ten to one but ne !
at discovered to want in, and then all Ill
IT, pains and labor to seem to have IL u
ii8 last. - 7iNotSon.
40 TuE two hundred and fifty sulphr
~ mines in Sicily are fast being exhausted
-, ~ and il is estimated by the Italian go
w. ~ crnment officers that in from iitty
m ,mno sixty wears there will be no aV"lap
%o l'o sulphrr left on the island. the metl
=" =" ods Of working the ore are 50 deiectl'
Wv W. that although it contains from hiteen
W. W. Fnrty pvl onnt of pure sulphur, Oh
eS, 'nn fourteen per cent. is actually obtalne
~ ,"a Vho prediction that iron pyrlte VIII
th: No. t;matelv replace sulphur for many p'
! so poses is likely to be verified.
20 Ar tr.p tpFoDbrI DGHtiI, oh thN W.
nan of Maine, II quaint old custom IS 81
ads Observed with annual regularity.
ore belief prevails among certain classes
OBJ fine country folks in that vicinity u
ETY. the water of the ocean possesses sol
AN neciol virtue on the Goth day OF ia
can for the curing of chronic diseases. A
r rs 50 on that day there may always
seen a constant stream Of odd-look
reH country vehicles, filled with the "lal
heir the halt, and the blind, all gong
the ward to avail themselves of the ira
ant tional benefit OF bathing on that 7
ries Iicnlar day. This custom dates d
heir TO 1909; and the legend Is that
,ud, Mrs D1rmer then recommended
low. bathing ON the 2Gth of June Tor sc
heir children afflicted with il bad nun
Per- they went into the saltwater,
the we're cured. This established the
o it tom.