The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-26
FACT AND FANCY.

49," All right, old boss, I'll be there"
said an Alabama boy when sentenced to
bo hanged.
am no herald to inquire Of mons
pedigrees; it suliceth me to know their
yirtues.-SH Il. HydHcy.
New York Commercial: "Curious-
Iy enough, it was at Wagga-W Wagga that
the Tichborne tale was first set in mo-
ton"
When the waiter passed Spiccr
some very old cheese at the hotel table,
the other day, he responded "Not II
mite.
In Naples barber will shave, cut
hair, comb, brush, black boots, and give
You Il cigar and call il square for ten
cents.
The Congregationalist explains
what it means by "1ightning-bug piety"
bright while it lasts, but cold and
soon out.
A man writes tc an editor for $i.
"because he is SO Internally short"
and he gets in reply the heartless re-
spOnse, " DO rs | do, stand up on
chair.
A Kentucky paper apologies for
having spoken of the red-headed,
malignant mule who dispenscs the
county money" by saying that it wrote:
Big.hearted, valiant soul"
A young lady spent four years in
the study of Greek, Latin, French and
Spanish, and then gave a still more
convincing proof of her inorainate love
for "roots" by marrying a vegetable
peddlcr.
1T is proposed to prevent the ''nui-
sance to railroad travellers arising from
the smoke and fine ashes from the loco
Motive, by attaching Il Pipe to the
smoke stack to carry the smoke to the
end of the train.
The Savannah News says negro
was buried alive in Il well at Butler re-
Gently. His friends ding down to him in
about four hours, aud found him alive
ana we'll. He said that he never wanted
to sneeHr so bad in his life, but was
afraid he would jar down some more
dirt.
The following atrocious paragraph
appears in an exchange Dorothy
W llllullS, VI W NbIlllllE, Nl'ltNN w N''iiA
three miles to church the other Sunday,
and they found her torn into about fifty
pieces, the result Of meeting bear
whose moral character was at low
state.
Said Lord John Russell to Hume, at
a social dinner "Whnt DO YOU consider
the object Of legislation ?' "The great
est good to the greatest nambor.
''What do You consider the greatest
number continued his lordshlp.
"Number one, my lord, )" was the COM
moner's prompt reply.
-Tenuyson has been engaged on an
ode of welcome to the duchess OF Edln-
burg. From the manuscript which he
sent MS to revise, we have taken tho
liberty of crasing the third StahAa,
which was as follows
"rhc birds and bees, and wnd-sWept trees,
TO praise thee, shall consplIe,
| With voices born from frozen Ecas
Marian o Marian
-"You see, gr ndmamma, we pertor-
ate An aperture IN the apex and cor
responding aperture IN the base, ahd
by applying the egg to the bps, and
f0rcibiv inhaling thc breath, the shell
isentircly discharged of its contents.
"Blcss my soul, cried the old lady,
"what wonderful improvements they
thcv do make Now, in my younger
DAYS, we Just made a role in each end
and sucked.
An exchange tells MS that school
bov's toothachc generally commences
at 8 Il. m., reaches its highest altitude
at a quarter to 9, when the pam is IN
tense to an extraordinary degree com
mences to subsidc at 9, and after that
disappears with celebrity that must be
very comfortable to The sufferer. 1t at
night that boy hasn't got four quarts o,
wdlnuts spread out to dly, up stars, u
is because there is no place up stars to
do it.
Little fve-year old Annie, who was
suffering from II bad cold, went to pay
visit to auntic. During the day sne
4, related her various successes at school,
| and ended by saying that she could read
: GREAT deal better than Sabina, who was
eight years old. ,"Well, questioned
auntie, "would it not sound better II
some one else said it ?" Yes, IN
, swered Annie, with q very sober coun-
tenance, 81 think it would. have sncn
bal cold that / can't say it very WE'LL
North Adams hos tailor long
known for his keen, pu gent wit, Not
long since n well-known clergyman call
ed at his shop with pair OF pantaIconss'
= and asked him if they could be repaircs'
!. The knight OF the shears unrolled them'
,, held them up in the most artistic man
, ner. carefully examined them, and re-
plied Yes, yes the kmceS are the
, best part of them" The reverened gen
i, tleman saw the joke, smiled blahdly'
and gracefully bowed himself out.
, 1t is related of the late Senator
. Wje'all that on the collapse OF the con.
, federacy, while CT ossing the Mississippi
= TO make his way into Mexico, in the as
, sumed character of an ultra union man,
( be was informed by federal solaier'
who was on board the ferry boat, OF the
q intense satisfaction he would experience
a if he could fall in with and hang to th'
a topmost limb of the tallest tree I'M
n Texas arch traitor. "Ies, too woul'
| be pulling at one eud of the rope, We
!. hemently remarked Migtall.
h One ton q 600 pounds avoirdupois
/. of gold or silver contains ~. 100 'ro
II ounces, and, therefore, the value OF
IS ton of pure gold is 1902, 799.2l, and
is ton OF silver, S37, ,7Oi 81. A cub
is foot of pure gold weighs ! ,2ls, % ponnc
W. avoirdupois a cubic foot OF pure silv'
i'll weighs G5G % pounds ayordupois. VI
vo million dollars gold coin weighs 3,63o
it pounds avoirdupois One million 90 90
of lars silver coin weighs 1925 . pound, san,
he ayoirdnpois. ave If there is one Per rec cent !
n - Ss n,oi1 ~. silver in one ton OF ore,