The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-09-23


nc luaintance sees him coming out OF
saloon, is not entirely lost--he may. pe
found most any time afterwards gong
into the back door.
The Wisconsin man who had to
pay twenty dollars to prove his right 10
fourteen OF his own chickens desires the
address OF the person Who says this Is
the beat Government the world ever
saw
Victor Hugo says that "man was
the couundrum of the eighteen century;
women is the conundrum OF tho nine'
teenth century" We can't guess her,
but we'll never give her up-no never
Would you think that Gideon Wei
Iea, when YOU stand and look at him,
ever carried candy notices in his pocket
or ever sat on the stile with his girl at
twilight and chewed gum
-Olfenbach thought so much OF h's
daughter that he would not allow her
to witness a performance of any OF hls
operas. Isn't it pity he had not the
same kind OF regard for the rest OF hui
manityp
A boy was going down Ninth ave
nue. Yesterday woman opened tho
front door of a house and called "John
John John" AS the boy paid no at'
ton 10 the calls a pedestrian said 20
him, "Here, bub, your mother is CALI
ing you." No she amt" replied the lad,
40 he turned the corner /" she's only
fathers second wife, and | want her TO
understand that she can't run me-
Mount Holyoke Seminary has sup
piled one hundred and fifteen wives Tor
foreign missionaries, the last two grad
uating classes furnishing eighteen.
They uaually go abroad first as teach"
ers, and ore speedily married by the
missionaries.
Never be cast down by trifles. II a
spider breaks his Nb twenty tlmes,
twenty times will he mend 1t agalE::
Make up your minds to do n thing and
you will do it. Fear not, ii trouble
comes upon you keep up your spiritS'
though the day be dark one.
A Cincinnati reviler of Louisville
saws, Louisville car drivers are an
emaciated set, from excessive bias
phemy. IT is rarely that a Louisville
girl drops her foot on the il.6oard OF
a bobtail car without lifting the front
wheels off the track and this wears on
the driver u
1t has been ascortained that the
grcat decrease in codishery on our
Eastern coast is due 10 the obstructlops
pIaced in our streams aud rivers, such
"a mill dams, pollution OF water, etc,
thus preventing ascent of HlowiVes ana
other small fish to spawn, these small
lish being the natural food Tor the cod.
When somo adventurous mariners
wers cruising about III the Caribbean
sea md discovered n now peninsula,
tbey undertook to hold a conversation
with the natives, but the natives only
yelled back at them, lncntan
Yucatan 2" ("What do you say?')
And that peninsula hss ever since been
known as Yucatan.
The New England factory people.
have an interesting time OF it. Some OF
them get five dollars week for work
ing fifteen hours day, and when the
election comes they have to vote with
their employers or lOae their places.
II they take newspaper they must
take one which is in harmony With tl'e
yiewg OF the men they work for ; but
fortunately many OF them can't read.
-" Window gardens" are what the
poetical people call the rows OF hover
p1ts that the poor girl keeps in the
window of her hall room but the per-
! son VII has no poetical fancles on the
enbicct is the man who had his skull
cracked the other day when one oi the
heaviest of these pots came down.
The people at Cape May have time
to spend ia childish amusements. Az
the residence of reverend decor
there. the other day, o Japanese teA
set was spread upon the floor, ana lhe
guests, attired in Japanese costnine,
s1uattsi on the floor and took te' as
they supposed the Japanese take ~
This iliotic performance is called,, by Il
Washington paper, ga very novel GU
tertanment.
She'd been so pstulent and GRO s
for several days that he finally thought
of device to soothe her, and accord
ingly remarked, in soft, velvety
voice: my love, don't you thinK
von'd like to 90 down to the seaside
and take the fresh air ?" Don't be a
fool" was the sharp reply, "the ar ~
tho seaside isn't fresh it's salt. -
BroOk'yn Argus.
"A young man in Lancaster sent :
TO A firm in New York who ADVERTISED
recsipt to prevent bad dreams. IL
received a small slip Of paper, on Whic'
was printed "Don't go to sleep"
"A citizen of Brattleboro, w., de
posited with the cashier OF the nationa
bank of that city some two thousan
four hundred dollars in tive't"entle'
These we're stolen from the bank, an
suit was brought to recover. The lowe
, court decided for the plaintiff, but tn
, Supreme Court Of the State has r
. versed tho decision upOn the groun
,, that the cashier had no power to Din
the bark, except as TO regular deposl
which entered into the current accoul
O Of tho depositor.
a An American harvester won Il
o prize at the recent contest in German!
d and there isut q reaping machine
d fine United States but what claims 81
}, prizs, or had the medal to show for 1t
month ago.
In London birds are the fashi'
o for dec ration, both for table cent?
!, piece and for the wall among picturt
!. Stuffed birds, and monkeys, are ben
= used as stems for lamps, q bear ey'
il serving as q dum.waiter, perched
i. his hind legs and nov and then
n swan its wings set. and its gracef
:. neck onryed naturally, will form u