The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-01-15
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

an example OF q doubtful Affirmative.
Miss A, Gnnocently, Ask papa.
-"This is the rock of ages" said
tired father who had kept the cradle
going two hours, and the baby still
awake.
"Kissing (by requesD," is the head
ing of an article in country exchange.
Some people to not require an invita-
ton.
"A Pennsylvania auctioneer sold a
muff worth about so for 800, and drop
ped dead while taking the money. The
doctors try to make out that he had the
heart disease.
New Jersey backwoodsman report
that the mosquitoes have not destroyed
the bears in that state, as was supposed,
large number of the latter animals
being met with this year.
"A Dubuque young lady gave no
the man she loved and took the one her
parents favored, in the consideration of
the sum of three thousand dollars and
sky-blue merinO dress.
Detroit Free Press "What a
blessing this genial weather is to Susan
b. Anthony, and Anna Dickinson, as it
saves the trouble Of taking hot brick
to bed with them.
"A Kentucky jury has Justly deci-
ded that 50, 600 would scarcely compen-
safe Miss Tubb for the breach of prom
ise which deprived her of an opportu-
nifty 10 change her name.
-" What's the matter there, Alice? ?
Doh your SHOES NIX NO, papa,
.Iiey uon Ill me ne, W an repIied the III
tl' one Nhh 'hey uon even
-Orangc culture in FlOri1p must be
pretty profitable, if Mr. Dummitt's
grove on Indian river is rtprosenta-
tive one. The care o! it, last year, cost
INN VI ,OOO, and 1t yielded HIM - 900.
'Good-by, you Old scoldnq red
headed heathcn,' wrote q Dubuque
man to his wife tho Inst thing before
suiciding. She says she'd like to have
got hold of him for about, one York
minute
"A missouri paper th'nks - Nhat 6Ea
women OF this country most need IL not
suffrage, but sympathy; not rights,
but nationality; not place IN our leg
islative halls, but place to fasten their
stockings. "
When the negro down in Louisiana
was hauled up for stealing bacon, he
put i'll as defense that he was told by
his political teachers, that now, when
he had the right to vote, he must take
sides somewhere.
If a glass stopper won't move, hold
the neck of the bot le to flame, or
warm it by taking two turns of Il string
and see-saw it; the heat engendcred
expands the neck of the bottle before a
corresponding expansion reaches the
stopper.
A Green Bay woman, whose hus-
band kicks her down stairs every sec
Ond night, says she likes 10 lock over
his old letters commencing with My
dearest, darling little angel Minnie,
heaven alone knows the depth of my
love for you.
An old Scotch lady had an evening
rorty whore a vonnG man was nresnnf
Who wos about to Leave for nm onnoint-
ment in China. As he was exceedingly
extravagent in his conversation about
himself, the old lady said when he was
leaving: "Take' guide care o'yoursel'
when We are ava; for, mind ye, they
eat puppies in Chena p
4 walton in . 81 T,ouis restaurant
,roa os,,oJ for a toothricE bv ona of tbo
,'at,"nn ""s ' ha bad ;nst f;n;obsd a howl nF
pa.ton9um "s "Whot % il,1 do unr ~ont with
oSsvoI po,H ~ o,J ;O ~ ~ Tro;ta. ~ "iSil
SooUILioh quoiIu qiIuSiIo Si,T ""tv; sa;i; VIZ
;t llau ''iTi,%v'U "m tho orstnnors Uo ct want ~
W w -, -. f,o,,, NV, tooth >, WOI,
no Won don'tr There was only one oys-
tor ho in that soun-and ate that on NV
wov from the kitchen ."
Is ,orfoot sooo 10 tho orIr hoit
that can temnt an angel from the skies
,,,h,t 10 70 he the recomnense of tha nm,
"haO 10 W " 20, WV II Va wy w
fortunate WIN Wlue houIn anu II turn-
up nose? The conduct OF men, since
the deluge, has proved, however, that
Io,,o Cthe true -thinC) 10 not mare
n"NT NI"o r. % ,-'s
leul'J w IIOo' - ',i JI5IJ 1Vt,i'n ttiI VI
wit and worth cannot be lowed till she
nlaose when she is found ont.
The railway of Great Britain, ac-
cording to an English engineering jour
nal, are Is, 5i4 miles in total length. OF
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