The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-15

Lots of Ice these mornings,

mornings
These are good nights to strike the
light catarrh.
They We moved into their flannel
undershirts and drawers.
Circuit Court next Monday week.
Hide out, you law, breakers,
Why is Mary Sharp College like n
ginger cake? Because is full Of '%lasscs.
"Jerusalem pancakes and MISSISSIPPI
pi catfish ~ how sweet that red dress
looked last Sunday.
Lots OF bills circulating in our town
lately, but they arc IN tic hands of Il
collecting officer.
Misery loves company" Maybe
that's what's the matter with some OF
our young ladies.
1t is rumorcd that there are many
"%patriolic citizens waiting Tor "many
voters" to call them out.
Last Saturday was indeed q gloomy
day. Vinous ingurgilation was in.
dulgcd in to a considerable extent.
A looker-on can't help from telling
when he sees \ fellow about to leave n
gap open on a checker board.
Don't carry your hymn-book in
your hand when you 20 to church, and
your ledger in your head, The Lord
can see through skull.
Come, stop that dyeing you. whiskers
and mustache. II nature failed to
make you pretty, it is useless for you
to try to improve on her work.
Gen. Grant is being b~anQueted in
Paris, and George Lefcber is still
blacksmithing across the way, and is
the better man Of the two.
The shrewi, fair-dealing man, al
ways spends his money with those who
make their business known through
the county paper.
Lookout! well have another bene.
diction to print soon, Billy Francis
has purchased a dwelling house in the
west end Of town.
We are out Of wood, and we don't
care Il demnition centennial how soou
some Of our wood subscribers-well,
they all recollect what they promised.
If you want to hear the biggest lie
of the season, just poke your head in
one OF out busincss.house doors and
ask for change for a iive-dollar bill.
Our School Directors should stir
around and see that the school~houses
in their respective districts arc put in
comfortable condition for the winter.
Come, thoughtless sinner, you want
to read your paper very carefully now,
and cut out all the recipes for cold IN
the head, sore-throat, etc, for you
know you are not prepared to "shuilie
off this mortal coil"
Folks have commenced talking about
Christmas, which reminds us that we
have got the hest place yon ever saw
to fatten a turkey in, and the best
place in the world to pat him in after
he is fat. But, who will send US the
turkey?
A young man handed US an item for
our chit-chat column last Sunday, and
said if we liked it he would write more
at his leisure. or course we like 1t.
1t is a good thing and We never will
forget how VIC laughed when we read it
in an old almanac Il year or two since.
1t ~ certainly a mean trick to
"hntcl"r up our heavy editors hogs.
And to the persons who done it We will
say that perdition is 50 full Of honester
and better people tha. their feet stick
out of the garnet windows. Don't
take offense at this, now, for VIC mean
it, and we use it strictly i IN a christian
spirit.
We noticed. last Sunday evening,
several youngsters playing circus, by
trying to stand on their heads, turning
somersaults, etc. This is a bad way of
keeping holy the Sabbath day. The
parents OF .hesc boys should hold such
Il muscular argument with them that
they would regard it q great luxury to
take their meals standing for q week or
two.
Our columns are open fel calls on
persons 10 become candidates for the
various offices to be filled next year, at
the regular advertising rates, and upon
no other conditions. Announcements
must be paid in advance. Come to the
front. 1t will cost you as much to an
nounce your lame one month before
the election as it will now. Let the
people know what you are after, and
give them a chance to sit on your
case"
We rise to ask if anybody in our
good town knows the name Of a Ger
tam V. IT.. who called on his adored a
few evenings since, and getting short
of something to say, quietly remarked
. The frost has come, and killed every
thing green" Thereupon. his adored
extended her hand and said, in sym
pathetic tones, Well. then, old fellow,
I'm sorry for you-good.b bye" Well
bet there wac a lingering" about that
farewell.