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

The fox knows much, but more ne
that catches him,
You never see a dark complexioned
dumb man, because dumb man can t
tan, sir.-KcokUE Constitution,
WORK on the Washington Monument
is going on brskly Some one has made
a report of what ought to be dome
Nom orleans PjcayUnc,
THE Christian Mteiiigenc~asks, "What
is SO rare as an honest man, That is a
singular question for Il religious paper
to ask BREAKFAST Table.
WHEN Tennyson wrote "Break, break,
break ON tie cold gray stones" he must
have been thinking of the chain-gang,--
| ST. LouiS Post Scissors,
A MAN named Ramsey was chokcd to
death at Wardsville, Ont, by grain of
wheat. Here is another argument IN
faver of taking your grain in liquid
/ state iatcmpc,dtc E,chdnge.
The GraDhjr remarks that too many
| American Judges imagine themselves on
thrones and put ON kingly airs This is
real mean or rather it would he if it
were not true. - BGBal0 EyprcSs.
The announcement appears in a
window on Washington-street; "Wanted:
girls to crochet" We should think that
most girls who submitted to the process
indicated would be worsted.- Boston
j0uUu.
THOSE persons who are continually
pcr,ecutcd by boys will be Soothed to
learn that con an average, six boys
week have been drowned this summer
while bathing in the Thames. - Courier
jowud.
4 PROMINENT young lawer went fish
ing at jamaica Pond the other day. He
wore white gloves and took darkey
along to put bait on his hooks, take off
the fish, and hold an umbrella over
him. - Boston GIobe
An infant who will insist on bowling
and kicking after being rendered the
last toothbrush and only egg-beater in
the house, sadly needs that regular
motion of the elbow which Solomon
invented and patented Detroit Free
Press.
WE do not wish ncedessly to create
bad feeling or serious trouble between
this country and England, but is it, can
| it be true that Disracli actually paid
out of his own pocket for the brass bands
that spontaneously y welcomed him home?
--BwiiHgton HdwEeW.
Pro BoNo PuBMCo. Brown (passen-
ger by the Glasgow steamer, $50 a. m. y
81 beg pardon, sir, but think you have
made Il mistake. That is my tooth
brush.' McGrubbie (ditto)-"Ah beag
years, nun, ah'm sure. All thought t
belonged to the heip."-Punch.
PLUCK, not luck, puts Il man ahead in
this world, and leaves lot of enviouS
persons at the foot of the ladder quarrel
ing over their pedigrees, trying to sponge
Il pass out of some sympathetic friend,
or steal up under the shadow of some
self-made an.--EimTa Gazette.
WHEN Il visiting friend whom you
would not offend for all the world, and
whose entertainment is your every care,
repeatedly sings, Home, sweet home,
there 5 no place like home" and still
persists in staying with you, what are
you going to do about it?-ROmc Sen
HRcL
The Gruphic has discovered that call
the historical angels of revelation, poetry
and art were masculine, without single
exception" 1t may have been that
way, but we defy all history to show
when and where one of them ever made
catnip tea that could be depended or
in trying moments.-Br BREAKFAST Table.
+. QuEsrRIAN, giving rein to his
humorous fancy, said to his wife, " II
you don't stirrup your coffee you Will
lose all traces of the sugar, and saddle
be the consequence" Mrs. E. Q. did MT
like the remark bit, but she bridled
| her temper so well that ns one could tell
by her carriage that she was little
sulkv.-Neic York COm'cai A9rertiscr.
THE katydid may sing her song,
The beetle he may whistle;
/ The grassho per chew the ripening corn
The taterbug eat the thistle;
The bullirog croak the whole uight long,
| And with the freely tussle;
| While nightingales sing dreamy songs,
/ And bees get on their muscle
! Their noise combined will not awake
The sleeper half so quick
As the gay " isluito when he alights
And n h. pill doth stick.
-Ner York Express.
SOMEHOW. other, when man goes
To Texas, he seems to think that his
friends up north would appreciate moth
ing so highly rs the present of live
horned frog. 4 live horned frog is not
particularly beautiful to look upon, but
it makes the most thrilling and attract
i've addition TO the james iambs menag-
erie you ever hollrrcd at.-E,peri-
,ncd Hrrksye Editor.
Or course the chances are million
to one against it, but lightning will
sometimes strike in unexpected places,
and there is the remotest possibility that
the forthcoming portrait gallery OF the
paragraphers may bring out the crushing
I discovery that one of their NUMBER
parts his hair in the middle Sn9uld
such be the case, the association wilI, OF
course. resolve with fearful eyes 10 weai
the usnal badge of mourning lniLH
davs and cherish only the virtues o' 'ne
h"y l"wyspted brother.-BSookfaf I"o'e'