The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-01-17
STANLEY 5 recent expedition into the
heart of Africa cost Sllj, 600.

STANLEY recent expedition lhto inc
heart of Africa cost Sll5,OOO.
THEY were sitting on bank of blue vIolets.
with the wind blowing soft from the south,
When he sighed My dear love, ! shall dio' oh
lct'B'-
And she gave him smack in the mouth
A VERMONT lover got down on his
knees before his sweetheart and read n
declaration of love he had carefully
written.
For the first seven days of the year
Gustavus Adolphus will kiss his young
wife upon returning home two hours late
for dinner without turning his head lest
she scent the fumes OF that last W. C.
Ir was the morning before Christmas,
She. John, you have no idea how hurt
my thumb Gtoning raisiDs for the fruit
cake" lie. "And you have no idea
how hurt my fingers stoniDg that IN
fernal cow out of the back yard"
A FUcKLE lover of twenty four,
named Nlulkins, is being sued by a con.
slant maiden, aged thirty.two, and
named Howe, in Lansin, Mich, for
promising to marry and not keeping his
WOIu. IIt 10 SiAhnNh w 'N'
core over the contest.
TALKING about our civil service, some
one tells of an Ohio tavern keeper ap-
pointed collector of internal revenue.
who got one day in an envelope addressed
to him officially, a $500 greenback, witha
slip of paper on which was written, "con'
science money" BE put the bill in his
pocketbook without debate, simply re-
marking. | always did suspect that
barkeeper. ~ Hartford Times.
Miss BRADpoN MAXWELL, the novelist,
has an indignant letter in the London
| Times. She was riding with several
children in londen, not long ago, when
n steam.roler was the means Of killing
her horse, nearly killiGs her coachman,
spelling her carriage, and frightening
the little people. An action was
brought against the steam-roller, and the
steam.roller won. Hence the letter.
SHE lives in Connecticut, and, to de.
c,iye her husband, she caused her death
to be announced. The effect upon the
poor wretch is thus described by the
sweet singer herself
: Talk about your picncs and say What lots Of
fun,
While talk Of my Eddy aud how after him run;
tell you he's worth having, is such man as "a
Who danced 4 sailor hOTnpipo when he heard MS
wifi" was dead
4 FEW DAYS ago an elegantly dressed
lady got into IL Madison avenue, New
Yoik, ear, and although the day was
cool, she could not wear her gloves on
account OF ier many diamond rings.
4 baiky horse having twice stopped the
car, the lady went to The door, and,
looking at the team for few moments,
said to the driver: "That ere OIL horse
aiu't use to be dTuy on than ere side"
WOMEN need much consolation in this
world. Sometimes they are in love
, Indeed, this is so common complaint
, with tFem that they should have sub
/ imated Ponds extract, metaphorlcaI
+ camuhor, or spiritual arnira, to apply tC
t that hidden wound. The needle is 9
, good little lightning-rod--a conductor
D off tor concealed disturbances. Many
hrart-ache has been embroidered away
1 -Apptctons.
4 GENTLEMAN who is a sculptor, in
> feeble way, was calling on lady The
, other evening. How do you manage
i to ret the right facial expression" sh'
asked, referring to bis sIatuettes. " Yer.
simple" he said " | read poem ex
Il pressing the passion desire to portray
then, as my face expresses rage or love
= | plunge head foremost into mass O
putty / have at hanl, This retains tn
impression, and there you are
$, A STORY comes from Coventry, Conn
giving an account Cf woman who con
c. menced marrying at fourteen, and ha
,t kept it up until she has scored seye
husbands. She married not wisely br
o. too frequently, for her supposed dea
husbands turned up in such way rs I
/ make quite an array OF Enoch Arden
III and now the town OF Coventry sues tll
town OF Manchester for her support ;
H. it seems the more husbands tue IT,
providence.
m Tur late MIS-. Gen. Hooker, then Mi
lie G,oesbeck, of Cincinnati, was once
an evening party in that city, when
Ae young dandy was asked it he would III
~ 10 h, presented to her. "Oh, yes. sal
le, ,, he, languilly, trot her OUT The lad
II, overheard the remark, and when he WI
III presented she adjusted her eye glass.
IL deliberately ard slowly scanned his cIot
ing from boot to collar. The surv'
Nv finished. she waved her hand careless
~, and said: "Trot him back ha
a'i seen all there is of him.
ot- THF signal service was one OF the ne
ideas of the great American couhict, al
his il was improved and utilized during Il
.iece OF Plevna. After the completion
Iw. the circle OF investment the weakest pa
lge ~ the line was that held by the Ro
an manian troops. The Turks seem to ha'
been well aware OF the fact, but the k''
SLAMS, by the disposition of their rest ~
forces and by system of telegraph,Ic y
ch, nal. which they organized, were able
at hurry mn reiniorcements in time 10 al
lex threatened point. The outpost duty :
70 tfs blockading army was reguian,,euu
thos,e,test attention after Gen. lodiep'
~ .n command. The night service wa
a, ao;sIlv 'ooa yipilant, and a telegraphic "
re. tenn of electric lights WAS ,ormea " sus 20
;u. io ar';nst surprises. The defender ol sc sc,
'n in hs.tanol Is destined to be one oi the mos
popular men in Russia