The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-10-27
A TERRIBLE LIAR.


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his friends funeral. "Why, he told me
once that he lived on small island out
in the Pacific Ocean, on which there was
volcano. And he said there was an
active demand out i'll that region for
watelmelons, and he went into the bust
ness Of raising them. And he said one
wear his whole crop failed except one
melon, and that kept on growing at such
q fearful rate that 1t crowded him of the
lowand and up on the side of the vol
cano which generated steam and caused
an explosion which blew up the whole
concern to atoms, and shot HIM four
hundred miles out to sea, where he was
picked up by whaler. He used to tell
me that the one great mistake of his life
was that he didn't drive plug in the
crater of the volcano so as to mako it
water-tight, and then slice open the
watermelon and come sailing home on
the half-shell.
"He would lie He said that once he
was cast away on an iceberg, with no
baggage but pair of skates and fish.
ing pole. But he skated around until ho
came across dead whale, frozen into the
ice. SO he took off his shirt-it was
night for six months that year up there
tore it into strips for u wick, ran the
strips through the bamboo fshing-rod,
stuck the rod into the fat of the whale,
and lit the other end. He said it burned
splendidly, and the iceberg reflected the
light 50 strongly that it was as bright as
day for forty miles around and one yes
sci ran into the berg, thinking it was a
lighthouse. He said he sold the ice
berg to the captain for fifteen thousand
dollars, and the captain split it up and
took it home, and made two hundred
per cent profit disposing of it to ice
companies.
"Lie? Well, sir, he beat any man |
ever came across. Told me that once out
in Nevada u mountain lion attacked him,
with his mouth wide open. He had
presence of mind enough to grab it by
the tongue and pull. The Zion roared
with pain, but he did his Eevel best ut
pulling, and pretty soon the tongue
began to give and the tail to shorten,
and directly out they came the tongue
and the tail, in one long continuous
string. He said he hid EN- at home and
he showed EN- to me, but my belief is
that they were only three or four cow
hides and bulls tail dovetailed to-
gether
"He was astonishing rs truth crush
er. Said he served on gunboat during
the war which was very small and light,
while the mortar on the deck was very
large and heavy, and he said the first
time the tried to fire a fifteen-inch shell,
the shell remained stationary, while the
recoil was so great that it fired the gun
boat four miles up the stream and landed
it in tree. He was liar, but now he's
dead reckon he'll ketch it.
There was no doubt about it; Mr..
OLeary was very successful rs n con.
structor of energetic work Of fiction.
Married WOman's Rights in Mississippi.
The new code in Mississippi going into
effect November | 1880, has cut up by
the roots all the ancient disabilities Of
married women, and they are now free
and equal III every respect to their llus-
bands. 1t is the most radical legislation
yet had upon the subject:
''SECTIoN l,l67. The common law. as to the
disabilities of married women, its effect ON the
rights of property of the wife, is totally ahrO
gated, and marriage shall not be held 10 impose
any disability or incapacty on woman as to
the ownership acquisition or disposition Of
property Of any sort, or rs to her capacity to
make contracts, and do all acts III reference to
property which she could lawfully do if she was
l,,t pt,.l
hereafter to be married shall have the same ca
pacity to acquire hold, manage, control use,
enjoy, and dispose of all property, real and
personal, in possession or eXpectancc and to
make any contract in reference to it, and bind
herself, personally, and to Sue and be sucd,
with all the rights and liabilities incident there
TO-, as if she was not married.
''SEC. 1,168. Husband and wife may sue
each other.
"SEc. 100. Amarried woman may dispose
of her estate, real and personal, by last will and
testament, i'll the same manner as II she was
not married.
''SEC. Ito. Dover and courtesy, as hero
tofore known, are abolished
Other sections conform the general
laws to these radical changes. Husband
and wife inherit from each other all their
respective property, if there he no chill
dren, and each a child's part if there be
children, or the descendants of children.
They may dissent from each otherswills,
and take of each others estate according
to law, except that if there he no chill
dren, in case of such a dissent, the dis
sentient gets only half of the estate, ii
he or she has no estate of his or her own.
If the dissentient has property of his or
her own equal to one-tifth of what he OF
she would be entitled to i'll the others
estate, then the deficiency Is to he made
up out of the others estate.
This legislation will attract attention
Ill other States. -MemDhiS Ar0idnchc.
Ought to Seen Them Wasps SINCE.
Boys and wasps are natural enemies.
Boys hate wasps and wasps hate boys.
GENERALLY the wasps ara victorious and a
boy who has an interview with n WASP
gets over the ground much faster than
the boy sent on an errand. The boy
does the electioneering shouting, but the
wasp does the real work of the campaign.
1t Is SO rare that boy gets even with
the wasps that when he does so, theevent
is worthy of more than passing notice.
Down near Kingston, Ont, boy had 9
heated discussion with some wasps and
the latter got the better of the argument
at least they made more pointed appli
cations. As the stings burned, the boy
thought about fighting his Satanic
Majesty with fire. It was brilliant
success. The next neighbours barn anC
gram were the first to go, and the peo
pie barely escaped from the dwelling
house. The woods and fields of whea
next went with stacks and other com
oustible matter, while every now an'
then the burning of house and barr
added variety to the scene. The de
structlon was very great, but as the de
h8hted boy afterwards remarked, "Yol
ought to see them wasps singe!"
The Washington paper says that JUS
tice Harlan, of the United States Su
preme Court, is passionately fond O