The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-03
FACTS AND TANCIES.


passenger saw a woman pinning her
husband to the fence with a pitchfork.
In Germany there are nearly one
million more women than men, and
wives do not lift the hair OF husbands
so readily as in countries where the
supply of the sex is more limited.
Rich uncle: "My nephew, have
an income of eighty thousand francs, a
touch of liver complaint, and no chill
dren. For these reasons do not doubt
that you will read this, my advice, with
profound attention"
Lewis remarks that most any wo-
man can sit down gracefully in street
car, but not one in a hundred can de-
scepd from the back end of a buggy
when the horse is running away, with
out feeling that she's going to overdo
the thing.
If properly gathered and preserved,
beans will retain vitality 2 years cab
bage, A; carrot 8; sweet corn, 2; Gu
cumbers, 10; lettuce, 3; melon, 10;
onion, pursnip, l peas, 2; radish,
3 squash, TO- tomato, 7; turnips, 4.
When a woman is care.lpden and
heayy-hearted, nothing shakes the me.
grims out of her quicker than for
couple of ladies to stop in front of the
houee log enough for her to examine
the trimmings on their bonnets.
Weston is still walking. The an
nouncement calls up once more feel
ing of grateful appreciation OF the
Swinburnian assurance, "That no life
lives forever that dead men rise up
never ; that even the weariest river
winds somewhere safe to sea-"
The newest seaside umbrellas are
intended to shelter an entire family, if
we are to Judge from the size. They
are about the dimensions OF "side.
show tent" belonging to circus, and
have pole ten feet high to stick in the
sand, and they form canvas house.
An Arkansas youth came to his
father and said "Dad, they amt
knives enuff to sot the table" Dad
"Whar's big butch, little butch, the
case. cob handle, granny's knife. and
the one | handled yesterday? That's
enuff to sot any gentleman's table,
without you've lost en-"
The English travelling public are
with the Pullman sleeping
,ars. The Railway World correspondent
saws that the next Improvement in for
eian railway travel will be the intro
iuction of our sixuy-seat passenger cars
in place OF the sixty.seat boxes now in
use, and that when adopted they will be
as highly commended as are the sleep
ers, which have been liberally patron
ized in America for over fifteen years.
1t is now possibly by the aid OF
h, draulic machinery to bend iron shaits
OF twelve inches diameter to any re-
ouired shape. Incredible as this state
ment NAV seem to an ine1peIt, crank
shafts are now 30 made, instead OF by
the slow, laborious, and expensive
method of forging. The bent shafts
lre all much better than forged ones,
rom the fact that the fibre of the metSl
.uns in one direction continually
Whereas in forged ones it is often acro's
he line OF strain.
After reading Sherman's book and
he violent CONNIE nts upon 1t, one
night suppose that all military achieve
nents are mere matters of accident,
nd that no particular person IS enu-
led to any great amount OF crealt l0r
Winning battle. Won Moltke himself
q said TO have been little surprised at
he victories won by the Germaps'
VINO knows but the good time IS close
# hand when the military hero is to be
,olitely conducted to the back seat
reserved for him by an improved ciVih'
zatiop?
The people on the coast OF Corn
wall. off which the Schiller was wreck
ed, have long had bad reputation as
wrockers. When ship was seen on
thc rocks, on Sunday, the minister
would give them holiday. One oil
their principal men, several years ago,
was charged with having tied up the
leo of an ass, hung n lantern round itS
neck. and driven it by night along th9
cliffs so that it's halting motion wonlu
initiate the plunging of vessel under
sail. and thus tempt ships 10 run ia
where they would suppose was sen
room. and drive them to destruG1iol.
The inhabitants are as inhospitaDie "'
their rocks.
Yesterday afternoon man VINO nau
been beaten in lawsuit stood AZ the
corner of G,iswold street and Justice
alley, and cursed high and low: he
xas spouting away in vehement Iones'
when a lawyer asked: " Are you swear,
inc Mt ANYBODY in Particular mo;
blast YOU, nor ripped the man:
{" Well, it is too bad to have all thas
wasted wish you would use lew Oh
the biggest and best oaths on hannlpal
Honlin7 the man who raised the rates
on postage" The man gave 1t to ham
lin right and left for eleven minutes,
and then the police NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Free Press. ,.
The cure for this sleepless condi,
tiou is simple, although the treatment
must he radical. The frst essential II
to abandon the particular class OF orsii
exercise which has induced or ATTENDED
mon the difficulty. The next thing Is
give up coffee, tea, tobacco, ana a.
stimulauts. To use any form oil alcono ,.'
in such case may do suicide, finally Wy,
| live out of doors, exercise daily tlii yo'
are tired out, and tnen go to pea a. IL
ouiet. well-aired, cool room. III
month you will be well, and may 80 So,;v U'
. in the old braln-wearips, utss'ns., .ho ,a.so
! way, if you have not iearhed unyr, .J '1SoV I,n
q of prudence by suffering ma" oo"'
q nal of Heath.
!, Steps are being taken by several {
the states and kingdoms OF Europe
, effect On extensive substitution OF go
; for silver in current use as circulat'n
I medium. There has been recently
sued in Germany, 1,114,OOO marks
gold coin, and still greater amount
to be put in circulation. A marx x,,
, equivalent TO about twenty y-fonr cstI' es A.
/ Belgium is putting out gold coip c11v ~ u /,
/ q Ann