The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-26
FRESHEST GLEANlNGS.

is iavorably regarded by the officials.
The national brewers association pro.
poses to ask congress to prevent tho
states from passing prohibitory liquor
laws
A recent investigator says that there
are 1900 Jews in Jerusalem, of whom
over G,0o0 are wholly dependent on
charity.
An American according to the London
World, speaking of the state Of France,
said, " Hell Itself, sir, could not be sue
cessIully conducted on such principles. "
The Daily Dub is the name of new
paper at EIgin. It's the only name that
would rhyme with "mud," and was sc.
lected instead Of "thud' or "bud."
The authorities OF Portland Maine,
have prohibited the sale of "ginger
pop" and the grocers anticipate an or
der restraining the sale Of yeast cakes.
Young Joscph, the leader in the new
Indian war, says the government has lied
to him six times, and that he shall take
twenty scalTS toreycry lie. Hold on to
your hair.
If ten Turks could find Montenegrin
soldier fast in Il bear trap, they might
possibly whip him, but still the chances
in his favor would be good enough
for an even bet
AMmerat Mount Sterling, Kentucky
has obtained fine sample of sugar from
the bloom of the common popular tree.
II il granulated in appearance and snowy
in color.
New York has also been building cat.
amarans, and the other day one of them
ended over and showed the crew head
first into the mud They can capsi2e on
dry land as well as anywhere else.
a woman puching a baby cab with
one hand, holding up her skirt with the
other, and carrying her parosol in her
teeth i5a sight which can only he seen
since the new fashion broke out.
A COUNSEL being questioned bya Judge
to know "for whom he was concerned"
replied: I" | am concerned, my lord, for
the plaintiff but am employed by the
defendant"
It is calculated that if chickens could
be Matched in three days the hens of
America could put in one hundred and
ffty-siX more days on every year Their
early attention is respectfully solicited.
Admiral Dot came near being shot in
a painful spot by bullet red hot from a
gun in the hands of Il man who was not
hatching plot to kill little Dot All of
which happened at the circus the other
day.
Two Italians shot at each other nine
times in Il suburb Of san Francisco. One
was killed. and the survivor refuses to
make any explanation but all the facts
indicate that the encounter WAS deliber-
ately arranged duel.
Any time when fifty men will band to-.
gether and refuse to fee brush boys,
walters, porters, etc, movement will
commence which will eventually rid the
public of Il custom more honored in the
breach than in the observance.
A business man in Trenton, New Jer-
sey, says that the women of that city own
all the real estate, and their husbands do
all the running in debt and beating their
bills. He announces that he will not
trust any husband without a written
order from the wife.
In London invitations to parties, balls
and receptions contain request that the
invited will keep the affair a secret. The
regulation has probably been adopted to
save party givcrs from bores who 90
around begging invitations,
The kicking tendency of mules has
made the points for a great many funny
stories, but there is serious side to the
subject. No kind OF items are more
common in southern newspapers than
those telling Of serious injury or death
caused by mules kicks.
The Chicago public library contains
81 .40S volumes, and is valued at $50, 900.
The expenses for the year just closed
were S25 9GO. There are 4O,O59 names
Oh the list of borrowers, and the number
of visitors to the library and reading
room during the year was 100000.
The iocose tracing OF the first tami-
lies" OF Virginia back to POcahOntas
seems to have solid foundation. One
of that lady's descendants has Just COM
piled genealogy of the family, and his
Investigations reveal the singular fact
that nearly every family in the state, OF
any duration of residences, may be inter-
linked lineally or collaterally.
A cloudburst may be a serious thing
| in the Cheyenne region, where the
| streams run down from the mountains.
| Recently there was sudden and un-
commonly heavy fall of rain there. AL
most without any warning, wave seven
feet high rolled down the Chugwater.
4 detachment of the Third cavalry en-.
camped near the bank was overwhelmed
bv the food. The dry bed OF the creek,
on which no water had flowed for six
wears. suddenly became a river fifteen
feet deep.
Prof AIonier Williams, of Oxford, is
exploring in India. He has found
shrine raised to European who was
drunkard. The natives annually saeri.
flee at his tomb brandy and cigars, to
propitiate the intensified evil power they
believe he became at death. At another
place he found the shrine of white man
who had been during life great sports
man. His personal habits, however, are
indicated by the fact that the offerings
made at his shrine are also brandy and
cigars.
A sketch of Murphy, the temperance
agitator, by the Cincinnati Enquirer, in
response to a request by a correspond
ent "lEe is son OF Mrs. Murphy, and
in early life was a small Murphy and
few i'm hill Afterward he took to hard
drinking, and this was the making Of
him, for il he had never drank, he would
never have reformed. However 1t was
not wholly his drinking that made him,
but his present emiuence is also partly