The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-02-19
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.
Waits for the ladies-Fouadling

GLEANINGS AND GOSSlP.
Waits for the ladies-Fouadlings.
When man calls for two fresh
40 os in Nevada, it means dollar and
half.
A hand-organ is the latest excava.
ton at Pompeii. The ancients had
their torments as woll as the moderns.
There is wall from the "matri-
monial agencies" that the supply of
dumb women is not equal to the de-
mand.
"A priest in Serene, Chill, endeay-
ored to drive caterpillars from garden
by formally cursing them. They still
flourish.
1t is stated that the German steamer
koenig Wilhelm l., which was stranded
at Nieuwe dep, has been sold for s75,-
900, gold.
The christianizing of the Apaohes
continues. Lieut.. w. S. Schuyler
killed twenty.seven in twenty-five
days scout.
Train is growing considerate. He
writes My speech-making days are
over. Those who have never heard me
never will"
The Californians are making prepa.
rations for having another aquarium
car sent across the continent from the
eastern coast, next spring.
California lions are conveniently
plenty in the Berryessa valleys and
hills. They make light Of such tritlcs
as young colts, calves and lambs.
AT recent dinner of shoemakers
the following toast was given: May
we have all the women i'll the country
to shoe and all the men to boot"
At Susan B. Anthony meeting in
Rochester the other day, they took up
a collection and netted three breeches'
buttons and an old pair of spectacles
According to DR. Holland, "the
average American, i'll the average Amer
lean restaurant, eats his dinner in the
average time Of six minutes and forty
| five seconds.
"A young lady thEs describes her
feelings, and courts sympathy:
! NY heart is sick, my heart il sad
But oh, the cause dare not tell
| am not grieved | am no. glad,
am not ill., | am not we'll
I'm not myself-I'm not the same
am indeed, know not what;
I'm changed in all except i'll name
Oh when shall | be changed in that
The ST. Louis Globe calls the New
York and Omaha double-track air line
! the mildest- hammered subsidy that ever
cut the pocket or scuttled the finances
of II nation.
"A Virginia lady has recovered a
thousand dollars from n railroad COM
pany for carrying her two miles beyond
where she wanted to get ont. This -
not exactly Iare.
The Parisians' love for black tOi-
lettes is on the increase. For street
wear there is scarcely anything else to
be seen, and for dinner and evening
parties they are universally adopted
There were manufactured in Cali
fornia last yaar 50, l5i,359 cigars, CT
which -, $50, 800 were shipped to the
eastern states, and there were imported
| into San Francisco during the same Pc
J riod, 4, ,45O,5l2.
-"Anna, dear, if / should attempt
to spell cupid, why could 1 not get be-
vond the first syllable ?" Anna gave it
up, whereupon William said: "Because
when come to IL, of course CT mot
go any further. ."
One of the Inconvenience OF mon
archy is aptly illustrated in a recent de-
cree of the Russian government COM
manding general mourning through
ont the country, for a term of six weeks,
in consequence of the queen dowager's
death.
The intelligent compositor, abetted
by the vigilant proof-rcader, has sue
ceeded in announcing, through the
Kansas City Journal, that Mt Miss
,, Phmbe Cozaens' lecture local choil
would "punish some SO up" though
the advertiser declares that he wrot
"furnish some songs
6 -Ex.Gov. Seymour writes, in pri
vate letter which has found its way t
), the press "When you go to Alban
} visit the museum OF natural histor.
"a geology, etc, in the state agriculture
i hall; ask the keeper ..to show you
+. piece of coral stone, which has to m
+ knowledge been dripping oil for twent
te years in that building. 1t may thro
n some light on the 'oil question.
The members of the Japanese legi
ton in Washington excite by far tn
most comment. They go out goo
- deal in society, but not even there
10 where outlandish people, with outl9pd
isb titles, are all the rage, are the,
i. yery popular. They stand about a
. wall-fowers, with a timid look in thel
e ewes, and q sad, deprecatory smile, as
Il Il they were lost in strange world.
The wedding anniversary celebration
=, occur rs follows: Three days, sugar
10 sixty days, vinegar first anniversary
IS iron; fifth anniversary, wooden; tent
d anniversary, crystal twentieth annivef
" sary, china twenty-fifth anniversary
n, silver; thirtieth anniversary, cotton
p thirty-fifth anniversary, wooden; forty
n fifth anniversary, silk (; tifieth annivel
"a "a sary, golden seventy-tifth anniversary
,e diamond.
n A traveller describes the weathe
IN station on Pixies Peak as q building
e. stone, walls two feet thick, thirty fee
{ by fifteen and nine in height. Thrt
a. men are spending the winter ther
taking observations. They are used
n the lightness of the air, and don't e
W perience serious inconvenience. Wat
a boils at so low a temperature that
g takes about three times as long to co
t. food as at the ordinary level. The
tn is so clear that the eye can sweep d
nv tance of two hundred miles in eve
rs. direction.
n TN, -. -. l.,,I, oe CANT