The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-09-12
Personal TOPICS.

to 0phthalmia.
CHINESE officials are dismissed for
eating opium,
BoLoGNA SAUSAGE killed Il Washing.
ton baby by indigestion.
LoRD BEACoNsFIELD clutches his
handkerchief when he speaks,
SWARsPEARE usos @ and thereby
hangs q tale" in four of his plays,
ONE Of the most daring Turkish Off
GERS in the late war was woman.
SHOOTING women thirty feet out of
u cannon is one of the amusements Of
Paris.
IN jersey any citizen has the right to
shoot any unregistered dog running Mt
large,
THE Sultan encourages tailor1 by
| buying three hundred and nnety-tive
| suits year.
EIGHT prizes offered by the Agricul
tural Society of Paris were won by
Americans.
4 GERMAN physician claims to have
traced the death of two infants to the
coach''
lHE Kew ;, r. Barber, curate OF
Lower Milton, Conn, has been dismissed
because the wear objects to the color OF
the trousers he wore while officiating on
several occasions
The Spanish government has Just Sc
cured the eXtradition from France of
mysterious lady Of high rank, said to
have engaged with several illustrious
accomplices in the theft of S4,OO0,OOo
THE ex Empress Eugene, who has
been of late in Vienna, proposes buying
a large estate in Austria, and making
that country her residence. The waters
of Ems lately cured her of cough.
A SEASIDE belle left her bathing.sboes
hanging ont of her hotel window 70 drv
and the next day the local paper an.
/ nounced "that such hotel had put up
new awnings, of an unique design"
WurrAv Cr,IrN RpyAvr wouldn't
norrit thn rso Of thn word "commence y
If an ~ rmnInyeo innuiroJ when tLn noner
wouId " commonra" >" to raise his InIary
ho rns nII;noI ~ ohon;n y way, dnyn
in the foldinp-room,
THE banks of Chill have suspcnded
specie payments. and the congress of the
country has rivcu them until one wear
from AUGUST in which to resume.
The amount of " billetes" rendered in
convertible is about Sl4, 900 GOO.
VICE CUANCErLoR MALINs has de-
cided in London that a mans promise,
modo heCnr, MARRIAGE ia edurata his
children in his wiic's religion, is not
binding, and can not be enforced by
law
A NEW rope-making material has been
found in the fbrous leaves of a New
Zealand aloe. The long, tough threads
are said to exceed iron wire of the same
thickness in tenacity, and they are not
affected by immersion in salt water.
ONE of the most daring feats ever
achieved by swimmer was performed
ut IoHbridge, England, by Prof. Henry
IIoarc, who succeeded in swimming a
distance of two miles with his hands
fastened together with handkerchiefs,
50 that nc effort could possibly extricate
them; his feet were chained together
and his eyes biindfolded.
THE best of our American colleges
bear no comparison in the strength Of
their faculties with the German univer-
sites. The University of Leipsic, for
instance, this year has a corps of one
hundred and twenty-three professors,
forty-six tutors and ffty-eight assist
ants. This university has two thousand
eight hundred students.
WHEN YOU pay note don't destroy
il. A Michigan man claimed that he
did that, and the creditor said he de-
stroycd it without paying it, The
matter was carried into the courts and
an appeal taken to the Supreme Court
Of the State, which had Just decided that
the burden of proof was on the debtor.
-Reokak Constitution.
The publisher of an esteemed con-
temporary on Mount Washington prints
the names of young men at IKE hotels
who work off ON hand press the great
est number of copies of his paper in a
given time. Muscular summer bOarders,
covetous of fame, flock to the office, and
thus the publisher saves the cost of a
steam engine or mule.
Ar a Paris matrimonial agency
owe have Just the thing you want-an
orphan of twenty next grass" "Pretty?'
"N.no, not exactly" WORTH
, "Half million francs, in governments
Then she ia constructive" "Consump
tive eh? Well. that's always some
exciting nv hopes to-" "Sir, tn,
house always guarantees its goods to b,
rs represented"
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