The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-03-04

The ballots that the Massachusetts,
ladies voted were scolloped and cut bias,
and one lady frequently said to another,
" Her ballot is old fashioned and
doesn't look fit to be seen." This will
not do.
The Car of Russia receives $8, 250,-
900 per year, or $25,000 per day; the
Sultan of Turkey $6,000,0O0 per year,
or $4,000 per day; Emperor Frances
Joseph of Austria, $4,0O0,000, or $l0,-
600 per day; King William of Prussia,
$4,000 600 per year, and the King OF
Italy, 81, 100000 per year.
COUNTRY Practitioner (surprised at
the visit of notorious quack and
pill-yender) -" Well, what brings you
herew Quacl evidently suffering from
disturbed peristallic action -" Well, sir,
the fact is feel rather queer, and"
Country practitioner-"Then why don't
you take one of your pearls OF
health p" Quack-"That's just it, sir!
| think I've swallowed one-by mis-.
take"
The velocity of a falling body may be
l6 feet the first second, 4S the next, and
thence vary inyersely az the square of
the distance by twice tke product of the
first by the second and so on by pro-
erosion ad nfait,Gm but calculations
OF velocity momentum and projectile
force are utterly lost on man when he
hits the wrong end of stick of kindling
wood, and it Hops up and knocks the
skin off his nose in four places.
A TENNESSEE pie.enter has reformed,
and will henceforth eat pies no more.
lie was employed by bakery firm, and
they, missing various pies, baked some
with croton oil. The dishonest pie
eater got sick, and, thinking lie was
booked for the region whence no bone
of any traveller returns, confessed steal
ing the pies, and learned what had been
put in them. lie was so mad that he
got well and had his employers arrested
for attempting to poison him.
A YOUNG man from the country
passing McLeod's tobacco store in st.
John, saw FIVE cent piece on the side.
walk and Immediately put his foot on it
until he could pick it up undiscovered,
and you can bet that rustic youth ex.
hausted his vocabulary of cuss words
when he found it was only tin tobacco
stamp. And thus through life do we
chase phantom shadows and think them
real.
"MY dear" she said, as they sat at
breakfast, who is Hilo Pedro" When
he asked an explanation, and she told
him that he had talked in his sleep SO
much about him, he tried to swallow
some IMAGINARY object in his throat and
murmured something about reading
Brazilian history, and being deeply in
terested in the Emperor, whose name is
Hilo Pedro, and, bless her soul, she be-
lieved
THERE is a remarkable well in the
town of Thurman, situated along what
is known as the "River Road" The
well is about - feet in diameter at the
top, and its depth has never been ascer-
tained. 1t has been sounded 555 feet
without reaching the bottom. The
water is clear and cold and the well is
always full. 1t was first discovered
about ninety years ago, and its sides
were then walled up with stones, as
they appear at the present time
Glenns Falls Republican.
DR.. JOHNSON commends Frederick the
Great for being able to tell where a
particular bottle of wine was placed in
the cellar The same minute attention,
combined with vastness of design, was
observed in Henry Nv. "He was 10
extremely exact" says Sully, Gas to
make me give him an account once a
week of the money received and the
uses il had been put to. He does not
omit to remark that, in casting some
cannon, they wanted to rob him of a
piece" The only thing he neglected
was his own personal comfort and equip
ment. Once, calling suddenly on his
valet de chambre for an account of his
wardrobe, he was told that he had only
eight shirts three of which were the
worse for wear, and five pocket hand
kerchiefs. In letter already quoted
he describes himself as frequently not
knowing where to look for a dinner
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