The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-12-13

Forty.twO New York husbands have
kicked their wives to death in the less
five years.
Ir Is now believed that the fixed stars
were placed so far away in order that tho
patent medicine man couldn't get there
to paint on the rocks.
THE lady whom Stanley was to marry
has welded another. What shall 1t
profit man if he finds l5,OOO,0oo
heathens and loses his best girl?
HEREAFTER the "young.man-wh"
didn't-know.t.w was loaded" should be in
carcerated in the penitentiary with the
kindly sentiment of " didn' t-thlnk.you'd-
mind>it "-CaDiLni.
WHEN man returns home mt night
and kisses his wife with more than ordi-
nary tenderness, she may be pretty Ger"
tain that he has been in mischief
joaquin Miller.
TIE dangers from the noiseless running
of bycicles have beenso great in England
that the watch committee OF Liverpool
recommend a law that anybody running
velocipede without bell attached to il
shall be fined five dollars.
PROF. describing ancient Greek the
atre)-"And it had no roof" Junior
(sure he has caught professor in mis-
take)- What did they do, sir, when it
rained?" Prof. (taking off his glasses
and pausins a moment,- T." They got
wet, sir."
IN a shop window in London, belong.
ing to a stuffer OF birds and animals, is
exposed a human skull, beautifully
cleaned and bleached, with holes bored
in ii to receive cigars, and matches To
light them, as an ornament for como ones
smoking-room.
"Wul are editors like chickens They
scratch for living. "-Erchange.
Yes, they will always scratch and no.
make n living so long as they advertise
every humbug that comes along in order
to fill up their columns; better leavs
them blank or give more reading matter
--Tomps (Fh.) GauraidH.
They say that at reception given to
Gen. Mcclellan in Boston a lady said to
him: "My husband was killed when
with you at Cold Harbor," and then.
grasping his hand, she exclaimed; God
bless you, general /" Such an expression
of gratitude must have been touching in
the extreme.
PRETTY soon we shall zee this style ot
advertisement Wanted \ book
keeper--must have all the small vice.
there are" Human cussedness will have
some outlet, and the very good man IA
often like Josh Billings mule, which he
had known to stay good for ak months
Just to get good chance to kick.-Ros'
ton Transcript.
BOB INGERsOLL At Paris dinner party
"a Frenchmans rights are 10 few IN
number and 80 insignificant in character
that they can be enforced with bodkin
or fol- that matter with took-pick. Rut
in n'America a citizens rights are so numer
Gus and important that he needs a whole
arsenal to defend them. Hence the
practice of carving weapons in America.
The truth is the majority Of ou
theater. gOers are men between the ages o
sixteen and forty, to whom an actress II
nothing if not young and pretty They
rave over Nelson, who was artificial and
without spark of great genius, and they
will not admit that Janauschek can act
because she is past hear teens, weighs oye'
, hundred, and could never havs been
beauty. according to popular Standard
, Jennie June.
WANTED a cistem and wanted q
provide for the tiamps, who came 'h''
i our village in large numbers ,eiecte'
a convenient place for the cis.ern. hs'
. enough Of earth thrown out to make 4
o inviting for workman, and instructed
:, every member OF the household to glv'
: to every tramp cordial invitation tt
q breakfast. dinner, or supper, as the cas
e might be, after an hours good work r
a excavation. I think three tramps hav
! applied for food at our deor since tn
!, cistern was really commenced, some tw
4 years ago or more. The cistern remain
q unfinished. Tramps still come TO town
a and such of my acquaintances rs make
n principle to give unearned food hay
\ teen visited by from three to fourteen
4 day.-Cor. Christian Union.
o Yor know how Col. Col. got out hi
VI ItNOtNefs nc ucNci iHFCAISh Suc SiH
t Of it. He vas looking over some cases !
+ the British museum, when he saw an oil
revolver. made soon after the irvehtio
Of gunpowder, very much on tee pa,ter
of ours to-day. He thought ho ss'
g where the trouble lay, and took thumb
IS nail drawing on the spot, fitted cap. +
3. the lock and made heap OF money. io'
e see the trouble was they hadn't got U
, making Illuminating powder in those days
:. They Rad the revolving principle. but
n the powd.r wa. loose in the pan. and
when the lint struck of perfect shower
~ OF sparks, il that powder hsPpeoeu .,s ~ a. a.
= spilled little, all s'x oarlsA gr.in
4 likely to 90 of together as Do,, D.r msds All
~ OF PeiSs,v~ PGsnns and they haven't improved
'e .ne mmch ur on the pattern Of the revolver
u III = Rn,ton 7rart7sy.
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