The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-03-23
ENTERTAINING PARAGRAPHS.

TWENTY years ago an iron theatre was
shipped to Australia, from England, in
convenient sections, so as to be put up
easily on arrival there.
A WOMAN at West Cornwall, Conn,
failing to induce her husband to move
out of house which she did not like,
deliberately destroyed it by fire.
LET us not despise homely persons.
They serve to remind lis that but
slight variation in our facial lines would
have irremediably marred our beauty.
A WRITER on dogs says that every ono
given to sedentary pursuits ought to
keep dog, as the necessity of giving
exercise to the dog will exercise the man.
The following is an epitaph from n
tomb near Versailles: Except in 1859,
during which for several days she took
lessons on the piano. her life was without
STAIN
II WISH" says DR. Schliemnnn, chat
] could have proved Homer to have been
an eyewitness of the Trojan war! Alas,
| can not do it." Still the doctor has not
! lived III vain.
DURING the reign of Napoleon /.
book OF birds for children was suppressed
because it contained the phrase; "The
cock is rather the tyrant than chieftain
Of the farm-yard.
EVERY shell fired by an army during
siege operations costs, with the powder
with which the mortar is charged, the
sum of eight dollars-enough to support
Il poor family for fortnight.
One of the modes of punishment in
China is to compel q criminal to die of
sleeplessness, by keeping him awake a
week, night and day. Ten days is sure
TO prove fatal and is terrible agony for
the victim.
An official return puts the feminine
"modcls" in Paris at G75. The pay for
a sitting is from 80 cents to $40 Most
of the models are Italian; thirty are
American; li5 have been i'll the hands Of
the police
THERE is man in Newark, N. j., so
close that when he attends church he
occupies the pew farthest from the pulpit
to save the interest on his money while
the collectors are passing the plate for
contributions.
The stages and theatres of the Greeks
| and Romans We're so immense that the
actors, to be heard, were obliged to have
recourse to metallic masks, contrivcd
with great mouths, to augment the
natural sound of the voice.
A GENTLEMAN in Buckingham County,
Va. has among his domestic animals a
large rat, which was caught twelve
months ago by cat; but, instead Of
devouring it, the cat nursed and fed it,
and they now play and sleep together.
like cat and kitten.
A SAD story is related by the Pittsyl-
yania (Ya.) Tibme. A young man in
that county bought house, fitted it up
from garnet to cellar and purchased his
wedding outfit. But the wedding didn't
take place. On the day fixed the bride
married another fellow.
The Milwaukee Sun speaks Of per-
son who "turned as pale MS the ace of
spades" We always supposed the ace OF
spades was red, and was hard to distin-
tingush from the jack diamonds, as
we believe that card is called where the
| figure wears rown.--NOriStOtCn Her.
| Uid.
ANOTHER of the Blue Laws in ye
olden time was: "No one shall run op
the Sabbath day, or walk in his garden.
or elsewhere, except reverentially to and
from meeting. No one shall travel, cook
victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut
hair or shave on the Sabbath day. No
woman shall kiss her child on the Sab
bath or fasting day"
IT is a melancholy fact that crysta
palaces do not pay. That at Sydenham
has been financial failure, and now the
Alexandria Palace, on tho northern
heights of London, with its beautiful
park of four hundred and seventy acres,
is announced for sale. The expense of
keeping up these places is so large as to
absorb all the profits.