The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-06-20

The poorest excuse that a man can
give for staying away from church is
that he is afraid that it will blow up.
| BELIEVE in the possibility of the
perpetual losi of the soul that perpetuaIly
turns from God in the next life as in
this Whittier,
"lr is one Of the beautiful compen.
sations OF thil lie, that no one can ain
cerely try to hel2 another, without
helping himself"
"LET dysgcptic ascertain that he can
eat porridge three times day and live,
and straightway he insists that every
body should eat porridge and nothing
else.o
THE cottage formerly occupied by a
beautiful widow of Newport will be
rented this season. Reason given in the
widows own words. "Too much balcony
and too little Romeo"
WAMPuM was once legll.tender in
Massachusetts,. The wAlta wampum
WAS made from the stems Of the peri-
wiukle shell Black wampum is made
from another kind Of shell.
THE heaviest snorer We have heard Of
IL the man up town whose wife woke him
up, during tempest saying she did
wish he wouid atop snoring, for she
wanted to hear the thunder.
THE picnic season is upon US, when
the young man, by decorating his hat
with wreath Of oaII,leaycs, will seek
to attract public attention from the
custard pie on the seat Of his panta-
looms.
SAYS he--"Keap out of chancery--it's
being ground to bits in slow mill; it's
being roasted at u slow FIRE; it's being
stunr to death by single bees; it's being
drowned by drops; it's going mad by
grains
AN Illinois clergyman meets heart
broken girl on the rain-tells her there
is better land--supports her fainting
form-helps her of at small station, and
finds his watch and 300 gone, Does it
pay to be good?
SCENE at theatre matinee. Gentle
man (to lady :" | fear there will be
rush, and We shant get i'm Lsdy:
"Not get in what do you mean? There
. n. {; ,,;,h ,,nrso,,ora,,o, o,,L th;s bin
shawl pin!'
, HAVING heard that Murphy was cur
ing people OF drunkenness, a venerable
lady from the old sod was recently heard
! W, " &, Stil,o,o",, .hat a h;to nt onwiJ
: ',muni,,, -, ,,o,, mood tLin,, tn ko,e ewav
,nn'pny ,ha i,ato wa" o', i s.
WAY '''''N
ONE OF the greatest blessings secured
, by the war is decoration day, thousands
of politicians all over the land awake
that morning with hearts swelling with
gratitude to the brave patriots who LAID
down their lives that they might ENJOY
thls precious oooh- On'c'so ii'les'
NINETY years ago two men were nupg
| in Massachusetts Tor burglary. ms
r year town treasurer, VINO Is defaulter
! to the amount OF S2O,oUO goes ABOUT MS
business and nobody talks OF Furnishing
him, until detective from another
I county steps Ia and arrests him. bos'
ton Herald
! THE Iowa P3uterers' association sends
us circular with the request that we
hand II to some enthusiastic "chlcKen
iancer." The most enthusiastic chicken
lancier" in Burlington has been IN Jail
! ever since the last dark OF the m9on' but
we'll hand IN the circular to the sheriff
for him. He'll get it, hawEeye.
Mrs. BRowN: "Dear me, Mrs. Jones,
> are those tail young ladies' really yours ?
| had no idea you had daughters grown
y up" Mrs. Jones twho il stil possessed
!, Ot considerable personal attractions)--
% "Oh. YES! wa' married at fifteen, you
Y know And is that Young gentleman
# really your SOM Mrs, brown VINO II
i also possessed oI ditto ditto dlttG)--
" "Ies--a-l was married at twelve
- A WESTERN member of congress
20 lounged into the bar.room OF fashion
'1 able up town hotel one morning recently,
u, -, to gea hi4 malu,iua iuvigoratr. When
IN n the necessary utensils were placed before
!; him, the hoOsier statesman deliberately
r Goodness gracious" exclaimed the
- astDnj,had bar keeper, THAT isn't {