The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-09-19
Personal TOPICS.


war mmincntW This looks bad
A RECENT issue of the DeirOH fir,
Press contained an advertisement ol
For SaIe--A piano by n lady viii,
modcrh legs"
SENATOR BRUCE, of Mississippi will
settle near Cleveland, Ohio, when his
Senatorial term expires, lie has pur-
chased u farm there.
PAUL DE CAsAAGNAC remarks that the
treaty Of Berlin was signed with the
qu.lls of four vultureS, two geese and
one pigeon France, he admits, played
the part of a goose.
Dom PEDRO has addressed TO Captain
Jetty' Eads an autograph letter con
graduating the engineer upon his cX-
ploitS at the mouth of the Mississippi,
and inviting him to visit Brazil,
DOM PEDRO is getting to I've more OF II
trump every day. Hayden Edwards,
late Secretary Of the Legation at Rio,
says that the Emperor puts the United
states twenty years ahead of Europe,
KING ALFONSO proposes to erect Il
monument to his wife, the State voting
$50, 600 per annm towards building it
until it is finished the King giving $40
UCO a year. 1t will cost 81 100000.
A YOUNGER brother Of the Earl Of
Beaconsfed has been discovered in the
person of Mr.. Ralph DisraeIi, who is
assistant clerk of Pariament--the sec
ond Office of the House of l.ordS--wth Il
salary of $1,000
EDISON is home again in Mcnlo Park
The Western fellows put up a job on
him, and got him to shoot at Jack.rab-
bit about two hours, when he went and
hit it on the head and found that it was
stuffed.
LIGHTNING struck the Russia leather
pocket-book of Mrs. Chenery Of Salem,
Mass, which she was carrying in her
hand, and 500 in green backs was burned
to crisp, silver coin blackencd on one
side, and railroad ticket scorchcd.
The house in which John Knox, the
Scotch Reformer lived and died is yet
standing in that part of Edinburgh
known as the old town. Extending
over the entire front is this inscription
in large Roman letters " Lufe God
abuGe all, and vi nychtbour as vi self
COLONEL lIoGG, n large land owner
in Omaha, just returned from Europe,
predicts Il small immigration coming
this year, owing to the Indian troubles
and our labor difficulties. The German
authorities are particularly active in
preventing emigration.
THE English Judge who put wax for
another Judge to sit ON during II recent
trial has been threatened with punish.
ment by the Home Secretary. The trial
led to an unsecmly alteration in the
robing room, and one learned Judge
went 50 far As to threaten to pull the
other learned Judges nose.
4 STREET fight with canes lately
took pIacein Paris between the Prince
dc Bassano and the Count Albert de
Combourg. The Count was walking
with the wife of the Prince, and the lat
ter, Notwithstanding that he was scpar-
atcd from her, jumped from his carriage
and made an assault, Both men were
arrested.
DR. CARVER, the glass-ball rifle shot,
spent Il thrilling and thoroughly dime
novel youth. His father, mother,
brothers and n sister were massacred by
the Sioux in Minnesota, and he was
taken captive TO he brought up in the
tribe. 4 life of nineteen years aSnomad
with the rifle, his most loved companion,
gave him the wonderful skill recently
exhibited.
EX-PREMrEE Gladstone i, six feet
high, sallow, bony, square-cut and we'll
defined. His eyes are somewhat merry
looking and brown; his forehead is re-
ccding, yet hard and square about the
temples. In his costume Mr.. Glad
stone is loose. His shoes are big and never
fit, his pantalOOns are baggier than were
Daniel Webster's. He wears but one
glove, and seldom puts the other on, like
Macaulay.
THE Hindoos have an idea that all
souls are small. In the German folk
lore they are known rs thumbIings.'
A quiet observation of human nature
under certain Cirglmstances-as, Tor in.
stance, when the contribution box IS be-
ing passed shows that the idea is not
entirely without foundation.-Nc~ Hork
HruH.
THE Marquis of Harrington, leader of
the British Liberal party, is forty-fvc
years OF age, perhaps five feet ten inchc.
high. He has auburn hair, brain OF
moderate size, features fairly harmon
ious, and is Just a tolerably good.looking
English gentleman. He is Cavendish,
the son and heir of the Duke of Devon
shire. and is valuable to the Liberal
cause by reason of his rank and con
ncCtiOn.
A JuDUIOUs instance Of punningupon
Il name once took place in a judicial
court of New York, which is thus told:
Counsel had been questioning certain
witness named Gum, and in closing he
said to him, Mr.. Gum, you can now
30 OIL" The Judge on the bench, seeing
the pun, gravely added, "Sir, you are
discharged" OF course an explosion in
court Immediately ensued.-New Haren
Register.
Jesse Waite, of Williamsburg, n. Y.
went to sleep in a sleeping car on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, about
forty miles east of New York, and while
the train, the fast express, was moving
at the rate of about forty miles an hour,
he arose, and, while asleep, walked of
the rear end Of the car. The train
stopped about half mile further on,
and the conductor went back to find the
man. whom he met walking al NJ the
railroad track, following after the train.
A few scratches were all the injuries he,
had sustained
The effect of balloon-descent was
tried on camp-meeting near Cincinnati
lately. The balloon came sailing down