The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-08-13
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

| Dates.as the flag totlng fiend.
TT is observed that at the fashionable
seaside resorts no ladies under one
hundred and forty pounds avoirdupois
are in bathing this season.
1T costs less to take weekly pa
per-" argues the Cape Ann Advertiser,
ethan a diligent hen can earn in Il
year, at the market price of eggs"
BALD mountain has got through 'shak-
ing, and singularly enough the new
converts around there have commenced
playing cards and setting up again. ID
IT may be the right of an American
citizen to ride around in wagon and
howl like wild beast, but quiet people
wish that elections were further apart
A MASSACHUSETTS man has been in n
successful business forty nine years,
and never advertised. The business
consisted chiefly in lying about his
neighhors.
WITH stupidity and sound digestion
man may front much. But what ia
these dull, imaginative days are the
terrors of conscience to the disease of
the liver -Cariyle.
"OuT in Wisconsin horse kicked a
book agent whercupsn the citizens
made donation party for the horse,
and he now has oats enough to last him
full horse lifetime.
A YOUNG LADY asked a clerk in the
Wisconsin News company's store if he
had "Fcstus." "No," replied the
clerk, "but I'm afraid boil is COM
ing on the back of my neck"
A MIcHTGAN girl was killed by light
ming while picking feathers for her
nuptial pillow. This seems to be a fair
warning TO those young ladies who arc
too proud to sleep on corn husks.
THE PHILADELPHIA LEDGER doesn't
write obituary poetry for children out.
side of Philadelphia. This is the style
in which it mentions the death of
small boy of Lowell Lowell-Satur-
day. Two little boys and pistol. Now,
onl y one little boy aud a pistol"
| On, the skeetcr the beautiful skee.
ter, filling the air with melodious me-
tire. Urdar our hat, and tickling our
nose, taking n bite through hole in
our clothes in through the window,
Openlng the door, tilllng our chamber
and singing the Sweeter, ever ls found
the untiring muskeeter.
TuE EnOlisb ryports to this country
show Il great falling off in all the lead
ing manufactured staples for the past
six months. Copper and iron wares,
and nearly all descriptions OF textiles,
except silk, show marked decrease,
and the total reduction ior the slX
months is y per cent.
An incrnious fellow in Lewiston, Me-,
has beer, selling keg, supposed to CON
tain fen Gallons Of IiGuor, Bv an in
genious arrangement III the Kegs pint
OF rum was sealed up INSIDE the6e Kegs
and so placed that, taxing out small
cork, the purchaser could test the iiq-
nor, but while chero was " pinU ol llq,,
uor there were n'he gallons ahu several
pints OF water separated from IT,
In the time of the second Emperor of
the Ming dynasty, some learned China
men began to make Il digest of num-
Der of Chinese books. The digest was
completed fourteen hundred years ago,
and has never been printed, because it
would make TWENTY-FIVE thousand eight
hundred and seventy. seven volumes,
work much larger than the Chicago
tax-list
~, -. =
tbron nioces NJ ona cent a piece am
cunts to II rs 81 wear. or in sixty-seyen
Years In S1O4 81 That sum will pur-
chase complete set of Appleton's Cy-
cloned;o marriage license. a black
hnmboyino dress for your aunt n Ger
man silver cof,in.nlote and n cheroot
Cmt th;s ont vonno man. and paste II
on tbe hack Of vour GIRLS photograph.
AS though IL hauht enough oi l'S
hands already, the German government
has undertaken TO regulate ouellng III
the army. Boards OF honor are 10 DC
formed, and without the sanction OF
such board and the presence OF its
president no duel is hereafter to be
fought. Officers complying with these
conu'..ons az W s". "o oosmnit;os occurrine
in". pip'J e"II o of honor avnant in necuIior.
Hn ~. a a,,.ant ~ ANY, oasas Of nnnrovoked insult.
iIbn 4 n" HId ' nmnaror ia nn6ted in the Lon
,1on m9 Timoa Tin % rs saving: ~ will no more
tnIarat Jn 70 % in the army an officer who wan
tonlv attacks the honor of A comrade
than an officer who does not know how
70 % guord his own honor"
EUGENE ln, dAwRENoE wIl'es IN m nnrpel
weekly; me war parry III ihat ruhoe ,enla ean,
ploys IN private Isnsuage 'has % seellS
the eXtraVagaLce OF polhpasI. Ne"sp"-