The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-11-05
SAYINGS AND D0INGS.
OUT ON THE Fly

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Much snnburnt was hia face
lie never shOne with more effect
lhan on the second base.
Though not a matrimonial man,
lie dearly loved q match;
AUD, like his %ristcr, had but few
Supporters "OD the catch
KISSING FAIRS arc held in Iowa t.
Gear off church debts. IT'S ten cent,
per kiss.
EXTRAVAGANZA is merely comparative
n man may be a spendthrifG in copper
n well as gold.
APPLAUSE waits on success the tickle
multitude, like the straw that fonts
along the stream, glide with the current
sill, and follow fortune.
OUT of one hundred men Won run
against, you will find ninety-flve worry
ing themselves into low spirits and in.
digestion about trouble that will never
come.
IN Savoy the rivers Arne, Dranse aud
FIer have been poisoned TO kill fish,
which the queer fishermen, who operate
IN this style, gather up dead on the
surface.
EVERY year of our lives we grow more
convinced that it is the wisest and best
to fix II attention on the beautiful
and the good, and dwell as little as DOS
sible on the evil and the falae.
AN Indiana man, with n turn for sta
%tistlcs, calculates that his faithful dog,
ten years Of age, has cost him $231.25
for hash, and $25 for license. The dog
10 now for sale. Price, ten cents.
ADIRONDACK MURRAY hasn't put much
spirit into his sermon lately. The fact
IL, when n man has to take care of eight
fast horses all the week he cant put in
many heavy licks for the Lord on Sun.
day.
AT n recent meeting Of n society com
posed OF men from the Emerald isle, a
member made the following motion ::
MIR. President, / movc yees whitewash
the ceiling green, in honor Of the ovid
flag"
WINE growing 10 on important indus
try in tho colony of Victoria, Australia,
and the government has forbidden the
importation Of European vines for fear
OF introducing some Of the prevailing
diseases.
THE editor of the Guardian of Health
writes, so for the fire of our grand
fathers y Most men are satisfied with
the unsettled coal bills Of the present
without signing for II grandfather's fuel
to owe for.
F%RUGALITr may be termed tho daugh-
ter Of prudence, tho sister of temper
ance, and the parent Of liberty. lie
that Is cXtrayagant will quickly be.
como poor, and poverty will enforce de.
pendence and invite corruption.
An extraordinarily large turnip was
dug in n garden ut Salt Lake the other
day, which, on being cut open, disclosed
n large-siaed frog, well and hearty,
which tumblcd out and hoped off, just
M il he was not the creature of a won
dorfnl phenomenon.
IF the old man will insist on taking n
smoke after going to bed at night, the
sooner the house il insured for twice its
value the more complacent will no the
feelings OF the relatives who stand by
when the iiremen hunt among tho ruins
Tor his bones.
NINETEEN years ago a Tennessee faith
er refused to let his young dnrghter go
to n candy-pull, and she disappeared.
The other day she returned, lifted elcv-
On children out Of the wagon, and en-
tered the house and took Off her things
no nnnllp % ~ ala, Inl moi l,,v, ,y.,.,
over II day.
SEWING MACHINES are opposed in
China on the score that they cheaper
labor. Several tailors il Hong Kong
who tried to Introduce them were
mobbcd. In America Chinese cheap
labor is derided, and in China Amer.
can cheap labor by machinery is forci.
bly, repudiated.
M. DEcRoM, chief veterinary surgeon
of the French army, gives the equine
population OF Europe IA follows: Rus
sia, 900, 600; Austria, 3,1OO, 600; Eng.
land, 2,G6G, 200; Germany, 1900, 600
Turkey, 1000, 600; Spain, $50, 600; Hol-
land, 300, 900; Belgium, 2G0, 600; Swift
zerland, 10000; and Fance, 1888, 600.
MANY years ago Gardiner Brewer, the
recently deceased Boston millionaire,
offered his daughter an annual income
OF 100000 upon condition that she
would remain single. Miss Brewer had
sufficient Boston brains about her per-
o to accept the offer, though she's
been head Over ears in love 30 often
that tho bare recollection of it makes
her dizzy.
THE British, French, Belgian, Ger
man, Swedish, DatCh, Norwegian,
Turkish, Grecian, and Syrian branches
of the Evangelical Alliance have issued
an invitation for the universal observ-
ance of the first week in January, 1875,
from the 3D. to the 10Th, for prayer in
behalf of the whole world. Subjects
are Designated for each day. A similar
programme will be prepared for the
United States.
AMONG some notes on duels the New
York Post gives the following "Rich
ard SDmers, n lieutenant in the navy of
the United States, u gentleman OF mild
manners and of n kindly nature, in-
dulged in three duels in one day, and
lost 30 much blood from wounds re-
ceived during the first two that he vas
obliged to remain seated throughout
the third engagement. Ho is said
to have persisted in the Intrepid fire
sketch, before Tripoli, in 1904"
Chicago statistics show that 80, OOO,-
600 bushels of corr have been shipped
eastward through Chicago alone since
the beginning of the year. The vast
amount, as well as that which has gone
by other routes and to other markets,
has Melted the farmers OF Iowa and Hi
probably thirty cents por bushel,
and on the something over 200, COO. 600
bushels OF corn raised in the two states,
has probably given them from So, 600. ,