The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-10-10
ALL SORTS.

low fever districts,
FEW persons have sense enough to de-
spise the praise of fool.
IRIS mighty ignorant horse that
doesn't know its own fodder,
The Egyptian obelisk has been placed
upon its pedestal on Thames embank
ment.
CAN a cornet players breath be said
to be March wind3 OF course, If he
! plays marches,
WHAT'S the mCre powerful--the earth
or the sea? The sea, of course, it has
such lot of muscles.
How doth the merry harvester
Whistle the jolly tunes,
The while the gentle hunble-bee
Skips up his "pantalOOns."
Gone after the arnlca.
SARAH BERNHARpT, the French act,
ress has been commissioned to execute
some groups of sculpture for the Casino
at MOnico.
A MAN who can bend his shin against
rocking chair and smile at the darkness
which made il possible is on the high
way to glory.
THIS is not Il good time for tramp9 to
have the jaundicc. They are liable to
be incontinently hospitalizcd by some
quarantine official.
IT is reported that most Of the ice
cream sold contains poison We repuh
lish the statement for the beLc6t OF
impccunious lovers.
The editor of the Bonapartist jour.
nal, lie Pays, has been fined $500 and
imprisoned three months for insulting
President Mcmahon.
A GEORGIA railroad is to be sold in 4
few days, for cash. How lucky! We
were just casting about for wedding
present for a friend of ours.
AN ancient sage says; 1T is serious
thing to marry. 1t is life business, -
etc. That was written before Indiana
established divorce courts.
SIN is inherent in us all. A parrot
will soon learn to swear on his own &C
count, but no amount OF earnest effort
can learn him to line out hymn.
A VESSEL resembles a reptile when
its toad into port.-Keokuk ConStit~tiOn.
And an Objectionable lover resembles
reptile when he's toad out by the front
gate.
Two men fired at an eagle at the same
time, and hilled him. An lrishman oh
served: "Thcy might have saved their
powder and shot, for the fall would have
killed him."
A RESIDENT of Sacramento, Cal, haa
a breadfruit tree in full bearing. The
fruit averages length of four inches,
and is pear shaped, with flavor like that
of cantaloupe.
NOTHING disgusts the boy more who
dusts your coat and generally expects
more than the barber does for shave
than to see a man come in wearing a
linen suit.-Danb,ry NewS.
THERE are numbers of apparently
respectable and reliable men in this
world, who if they owed you hundre
dollars, will pay you, but who will not
black the heels of their shoes.
The obstreperous and boisterous
school-boy complains because there are
more tares than wheat gathered in his
daily life, and that the tares receive II
greater amount of thrashing.
The girls waists are to be encircled
this season with new-fashiOned belt
with very large buckle. 1t will not
be as satisfactory as coat.sleeve with q
good nervey arm in it, though.
THE newest earrings are web OF fine
gold with fly in green enamel caught
in the tolls. As the spider is not to be
seen, we conclude that the girl who
wears them is to represent that busy bug.
PRUDENT ministers will make pastoral
calls in the next few weeks, The cool
season is upon us, and minister u
liable at any time to come upon man
who is putting up stove, and surprise
him in the midst of unorthodnx remarks.
ORCHESTRA pits in theaters should
have sink in which to put the bass
viol player and his iron lunged instru
ment. A real healthy bass viol
fighter can obscure the entirestage from
the people in the first row.
A WETHERsFIELD man is affected by
sleep so that he is obliged to give up
whatever he is doing when the fit takes
him, and lie down and sleep the fit of.
He is supposed to be retired Presby.
tcrian deacon.-DanbuJy NeTs
Edison is experimentingon the waves
Of light, and hopes very soon TO perfect
a machine that will enable you to see
man hundred miles away. In case
the man in question has an account
against you this will give you plenty OF
time to get under the bed and out'of
harms way before he arrives.--Da"-
bury Ners.
THERE are times in the life of every
man when he feels that sn enlargement
of tbeca,slogue Of inyectise Is one o. lhr
prime necessities Of the age apd WIZ .n'i
man mt his haGds in front Of him shu
fasls for door, finds il with his nose,
mi realizes the fact that his arms have
,.se,iv .,rsddIed it, Is one VI The times
-Breatfasf Tobie.