The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-08

THERE are three thousand flour mills
in Pennsylvania,
SARATOGA has twenty-five different
kinds of springs.
TRUNKS that are both air and water
tight are novelty.
SO CALLED "camels hair brushes are
made from the hair of the tails of squir-
rels.
TEXAS has more miles of railroad being
constructed than any other state in the
union.
The miners of Deadwood are going
north to the new gold fields in the Bear
Paw mountains.
WHEN man is deeply, madly, ire.
vocably in love, even the air seems filled
with Jumps of sugar
How wesy it is to be an editor" said
an amateur. Later in life he went west
and took up some land.
"A ROLLING stone gathers no moss,"
but it often collides with mans shins,
which is much sadder reflection.
FOLLOWING many vocations has
ruined the lite of many aman. Follow
ing none has ruined great many more.
A PRETTY idea is to entwine the upper
part OF the back-cOmb with small flowers,
such as white violets, mignonette, myo-
sOtis etc.
The exact cost OF construction of the
Paris exhibition buildings and grounds
il now estimated at 45, 800 600 francs, or
80 9,0O0,000,
DOUBLE MEsHED torchon is q novelty
in laces, and is used principally tor
trimming lingerie aud dresses which can
be washed,
THE Quebec rioters, who stole -four
under the pretense that they were
starving, sold it at $3.50 per barrel and
purchased whisky.
It's easy enough to get woman to
trust in Providence this kind of weather,
but you are asking entirely tso much if
you expect her to keep her powder dry.
i [Glas. Times.
IT makes no difference to the Indian
whether the army numbers 10000 or five
times that He has his fun, his scalp,
and forgiveness in the fall Free
Press.
THIS is Just the kind of weather that
puzzles a man as to the propriety of tax
ing his umbrella. The propriety of TAX
ing sombody else's umbrella seems to be
less puzzling.
AN orator who was much in demand
in political campaigns, being asked by an
admirer the secret of his success, replied,
"When have facts, | give 'em facts /;
but when haven't, | yell and saw the
air."
A WOMAN witnessed an earthquake in
Venezuela last month, and when the up
heaval had ceased and the reverberation
stopped, she exclaimed: ooh, how
sweet It's too lovely for anything
Puck.
DEACON PILKINs said to himself:
Falstaff asks what's honor| As
though it was hard to tell. But let my
wife sit behind another woman in church,
and she'll tell what's on her in less than
two minutes"
A LADY was recommending to gen.
tleman medicine for liver complaint.
al know many who praise it to the
Skies" said she, enthusiastically. "No
doubt, madam" he replied, for it has
sent many to the skies to praise it,"
The police were instructed to see that
no Intoxicating drink was sold in Rich>
nond last Sunday. The State says OF
the experiment. Yesterday will per-
haps be known through all history as
"The great moral Sunday in Richmond"
and yet We have not seen 10 many men
intoxicated on Sunday for ten years as
there were on the streets last night.
JUST as quick as farmer Jones painted
his barbed wire fence blue, farmer
Smiths wife swore she wasn't going to
be Outdone, and the fence around the
Smith farm soon blossOmed out red,
picked with white Mrs. Jones wasn't
going to have any of the Smith family
putting on airs over her, and their blue
fence was soon trimmed with gold leaf
stripes. Smith trumped over by putting
gilt ball on every barb, and Jones,
when last beard from, was planting
weather vanes, gilt horses, peacocks and
lightning-rod tips all over his fence, and
swearing he'd beat the Smith family it
he had 10 put cupola and a bay window
at every post and hang chrome every
two feet along the line. We should all
pay more attention to the decoration OF
our homes.