The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-09-06
KsrEARE'H chMr,oId at auction in
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SnAKsrEARr's chMrtold at auction in
England, recently, for %22j.
THE communist wants 10 earn hs
bread by the sweat Of some other fellows
brow
The New York Times says that the
idea OF teaching every girl to thump
piano and every boy to be book keeper
will make potatoes worth ~ per hu'hel
in twenty years from now,
Two ostrChcs, harnc4sed to a wagon,
can pull load of a thousand pounds,
and all the care they need is y pail oi
water, two or three old bones and a hod
of brick. Send in your orders early.
lr has been decided by eastern doctors
that it isn't the surf bathing nor the
mineral water which does Il fashionable
Young lady good, but it's getting a good
square meal three or four times per day,
SOME men can never take a Joke.
There was an old doctor who, when
asked what was good for mosquitoes,
wrote back " How do you suppose ]
can tell unless I know what ails the mos
quito?"
If the car wishes to perfectly ami
hlate the Turks, he should arm his sol
ders with firearms supposed to be
empty They do more damage nova
days than any other wcapon,- FhIode''
phio Bu'letin
ONE cent on the dollar is the settle
ment which John f. Chamberlain, the
fashionable gambling house keeper, OF
Washington and Long Eranch, has made
with hs eighty.one creditors, The
debts included those Of gambling, his
personal, household, and every manner
of bills Other claims are pending
against him by August Belmont and the
Lorilards for purses on races.
An actual Philadelphia advertisement
"a refined gentleman, who does not Use
tobacco in any form, but does have family
PRAYERS and vocal blessings at table, with
A gentcel wife (none others in their
taniIy), can have five or six rooms,
partly furnished; every convenience,
Undertakings, water on each floor, aud
give table board to two ladies for rent
our superior house girl can be retained,
if wanted"
PERHAPS one of the most cruel things
ever said WAS contained in Foot n lyice
to the duke of Norfolk of that day. On
masquerade night his grace consulted
the famous actor as to what character he
should appear in. " Don't 90 disguised,
said Foot "but assume new character
go sober" 1t was the successor ol the
duke of Norfolk in question who con,
-, suited Abernethy tor some aiIment, and
:. was asked whether he ever tried the rem
. cdv OF clean shirt C0rnhW Nogdtnc,
t THE tra.sAtantic sparrow gets the
following notice from the Boston Adyer-
tiscr: " An our little American young
sters are harassed by the savage EngIi h
pest, which makes up in pugnacity and
n numbers what it lacks in size. 1t Is
q driving them away, and giving IN lts
r. stead its own untuneful cries and the
. chatter of its constant pickering under
g our windows. 1t is prolific to marvel,
h and if delcately favored, "a in the past
's will soon suggest the frogs OF Egypt
o ARA New Orleans hotel bar an eager
d controversy was pending twixt various
generals, majors, etc, when quiet ,e'
l. low observed, Il happened to be there
y gentlemen, and possibly may be able tC
c re resh your memories ~ Ihercupon ht
proceeded to give "lcclnct accoun
n of small action. What might have
e been your rank, sir? y asked the hote
= keeper Il was a private" About I.
start the next day, he demanded hi1 hlll
Not cent, sir; not a cent You II
5 the Ilrst private ever met.
4, The indianapolis Sentinel saws quite
J. a dramatic scene occurred at a R0Ckvll'
temperance meeting la't week.
tramp who had been notified to lCav
. town stepped upon the platform and be
G gan to speak to the utter an'azement
|, the audience. His outward appearance
n was so hopeless that when he betrayed b,
his perfect rethoric and eloqucnCe th,
q evidence of fine education, hi5 hearer
/ were astonished The people were NJ
r delighted with the speech OF the poo
h, fellow that he WAS invited to speak the
,rxt night, and a subscription was takoT
F.. un for his Lenciit. In early days he
. .tuiied IN the uili ~ of \ 'I'erre Haute law
# yer auh lac was IN his way to that place
, in search OF employment.
II 4 MAN olt on West Hill was grievously
e ,orm,nted with Thomas cat. And ne
P Determined To slav the same. - ne
y c,urht the cat, put it in his basket, COY
'e cred i, with board, intending to at
:, down on it, intending To fill the bucket
1t with water, and thus drown the L. 4.
Is Rut as he sat down, the active prisoner
le pushed away the board, and when the
man arose and sauniered into the house
IN look for the "extract of witch hazel
he could not tell whether he had set
e down on stove lid, or merely slid down
u a shelbark hickory tree and lit in goose
e berry bush. And that night, a worn
i suffering man, lying on his face trying to
e sleep, sighed MS he listened to the mock
7 ing smiles of twelve pound cat, pelting
: the lambent moonlight on the woodshet
root. Hawkeye.
The Socratic method is thus irrever
emily explained by the New York Times
S.-"They tell me, o Alcibiades tha,
,, you have cut off your dogs tail" A
, 1T is true, O Socrates did it with nv
+ little battle.ax." $" What is dog
: Is it not an animal with four legs and a
tail?' A" You say truly s.
"Then your dog is not dog, for it i'sn
animal with four legs, yet without n tail. ~
y A." see that | must admit it )
but YOU will also admit that neither
among Greeks, nor yet among baihsrians.
il there any animal which, having i'ut
legs. has no tail" A.-"Agnn th""
4 sayest what nobody denies OF >
!. How then can you claim that you nave
, the very animal which does not eN.>'
A. -" BY Zeus, ! make no sueh Gam.
s." Then you see you have nodog