The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-06-28
PITlI AND POINT.

A CROSS dog will make the top of
hemlock board fence soft as downy pill
lows.
A YoUNGeTER says if he can't have
fireworks on tie Fourth, perhaps when
he dies he can touch off the northern
lights.
THE New York beauties walk out
with their pet dogs attached to strings
and foreigners wonder ut the number of
blind ladies going about.
PEOPLE who may be malicious are
circulating stories to the effect that some
OF the springs at Saratoga are bogus, and
alIege that the owners so there every
morning and throw in salt, old iron,
tomato cans and tenpenny nails. OF
course this is very important--if true.
JOHN BULL, and the rest of the great
powers around the table, to the Car
" Your imperial majesty, what part of
the Turkey do you prefer ~ The Gar
" If you please, a couple of sides, pair
OF wings, a brace of legs, the neck, breast,
thighs and tail-piece will do, but no
sauce" Table in an uproar, especially
on the part of John Bull.
Ir is estimated that at least 100000
pilgrims will visit Rome during the
jubilee of the hftieth year of the episco-
pate of the pope. 1t is supposed that
each of those pilgrims will give to the
pope at least SO, making a total of g.
100000. Add to this the amount that
will be sent by the churches, and the
sum may reach 500, 100000.
BLUEgIass is on the wane. A Brooklyn
man, with weak eyes, tried blue glass
speCtacles rs a remedy. The result was
that his eyes, already too weak to be
used in ordinary circumstances, were
exposed to a terrible glare and heat,
eyesight of the sufferer. He is now
totally blind
The luphoniOus name of the first
native lady who, after successful matric-
uIatiOn examination, has entered an
Indian university, is Miss Chandramukhi
Bose, The Calcutta papers say that
there is Il great stir in the Bengal Xsn-
anas. Miss Bose is pretty, with an olive
dark hair and eyes, is young,
has ripe, full lips and peary teeth, and
her pet study is the biennial theOrem.
THE lambEke manner in which the
'hicago and Cincinnati papers refer to
heir city contemporaries is being emu
ated in the far east, The Toxic Times
has been called names by the Japan
Mail, and rctorts by publishing the fol-
lowing; WanteG-At the Office of the
Japan Mail, a copy of Roget's Thesaurus,
to enable that journal to diversity its
rpithets.'
THE opponents of the dummy engine
rs tractor on the street railway are
rejoicing over the fact that a girl has
been run over by a dummy in Worcester,
Massachusetts,, and seriously injured.
There have been several persons killed
by cars drawn 10y horses only; yet we
have not heard Of any widespread de.
mand that cars shall therefore be drawn
only by men.
A MINIsTER in Augusta, Me-, has a
3on-a hopeful child Of four years. His
father expects he will be minister, and
he lad has talked enCouragingly until
he first warm day of the season, when
he gave signs of having fallen from grace,
or the devoted child came to his father
md said, Papa. Pm not agoin' to be a
Minister "What do you think of
Ding" asked the father. "Goin to
rive az ice-cart."
LYDIA SHERMAN showed great cum
irg in planning and executing her
h,,t hnr ,f Il
o desert her when outside the jail walls.
he registered in a Providence hotel a.
Mrs. Brown, of Philadelphia" After
ards she told her landlady that her
anne was " Moore" and that she was
'idow with six children. She showed a
apkin ring on which was engraved
LYDIA and volunteered the informal
on that That doesn't say Lydia Sher
IAN" but the police thought it did.
He started out in the morning happy
~. When at dusk he returned with
oody clothing, a broken finger, Il
,rained ankle and big cut in his lower
p, his fond mother asked him in alarm
if he had been through threshing
achine or had been the unfortunate
Ictm of a railroad smash.up." Neith-
:, mother replied the youth, and then
iumphantly, Never mind me, ma
ave only been playing base ball. Our
de, the Lilies waxed the No Names
eautifully score, Is to s. and then he
INK into a confused heap on the parlor
,rpet, revived a little, lifted up his
cad, muttered, " Jim, put that to first
nd be thuuderiug quick about it," then