The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-08-02

Thus is the latest form of wedding in
vitations "Comc around and see me
capture n mother in law at : o'clock
sharp"
"No," she said, and the wrinkles in
her face smOothed out pleasantly no,
do not remember the last seventeen year
locu.ts. | was an infant then.
A business man in Trenton, n. j.,
saws that the women Of that city own all
the real estate, and the husbands do all
the running in debt and beating their
bills. He announces that he will not
trust any husband without written
order from his wife.
LITTLE BoY--"Please want the doctor
to come and see mother, Servant
Doctors out Where do you come
from? Little boy" What Don't you
know me Why, we deal with YOU We
had baby from here last week .--Londo"
Finn.
ONLY three persons have lile-paSses on
the Hudson River raiload. One is
John b. Jcrvis, the first engineer of the
road another is his wife; and the third is
Gov. Kimball, of West Point. The
passes are made of solid silver on which
Is engraved the name of the holder, date
when given, and occupation.
WORLDLY WIsE-First mother of
daughters: "lIave you called on the
Chomondely Joneses yet ?" Second
ditto: Yes | heard they were going
to give a ball, and so called last Satur-
day" First ditto lin Il tone Ofs1periori-
tyj: "Ah! heard that the ball was
not coming of, and so didn't-fmch.
4 RECENT writer upon acoustics says:
sound from physical point OF view,
may be defined as vibration appreciable
to the ear. Its highest limit is variable,
owing to physiological differences be-
tween different ears; but $4,000 single or
SO 800 double vibrations per second
probably represent the highest note ever
heard"
In New Hampshire it is only murder
in the second degree for Il man to kill his
f wife by whipping her with a whipstock,
beating her with an OX-goad and pound-
ing her with a heavy walnut cane. such
at least was the verdict in the kimball
,, case, which has Just been tried. The
only cXtcnuating circumstances shown
were that it took the murderer three
hours to complete his task, and that be
was compelled to chase his victim all
over the house Had he killed her with
enc weapon 1T Il single blow he would
probably have been convicted Of murder
in the first degree.
WHEN that cultivated and intellectual
J middle-aged person, Miss Mary Ann
Maxon, of Cambridge, Mass, had the
collar of her offensive little poodle in
scribed "I'm Mary Ann Maxon's dog
who's, dog are your she thought it was
rather clever joke on the casual citizen
who might encounter the pup and in
yeStigate his reason of being She was
or that mind for several days. But one
morning the poodle bowling AS though
he was carrying all parts of Sirius in the
chorus of the morning stars, and sudden,
rs if fired out OF II gun shot lnto the
Maxon presence, with his tail tucked
very close, and business card tied on TO
his collar Divining that some one had
set this poodle up in the carrer,dove
business, MISS NaNOn selHtu lnc lllleSl'c
and read: "Turpentiue is what ails me
what ais YOU"
THE following is from Turkish major
general: "The battle was very fierce
and lasted for three hours, and glory to
God, five OF the enemy were killed Al
admiral, in announcing the loss of AT
iron-clad, says: "The steam launches
approached to within short distance, ant
may God preserve the remaining ships u
our fleet. At this time the imperia
iron clad called the Sword Of the Lore
: received blow from torpedo OF the fist
kind, which prec, ded from the steam
; launch, and it exercised such aninfluenc,
on her stern that she sank, and, thank,
to the Most High, all the officers and
crew escaped. This sal occurrence was
1 doubtless necessity to the great God,
, and, as is well known, He always gives
2 victory after such defeat" y night IN
r the Caucasus is thus reported " We had
= ten martyrs and twelve wounded, which
c we cannot but ascribe to the spiritual ard
e of the prophet and to the favor shown by
r the Almighty God to our glorlonn,s sui
Il tan, the refuge OF universe. - I0'o"'o
r T,J,lsr