The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-06-04
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

| that can De CluBnL on ny.
A Wisconsin minister has been dis
missed from an othodox pulpit because
he built fire under baulky horse.
A Young man of twenty.one hanging
to a lamp.post and singing Father
don't drink any now, Mt midnight, ls
one of the curious phases of city life.
1t is estimated that in Paris there
has been IN average of three suicides
day for the past year. During the win,
ter the suicides occurred Mt the rate OF
four day.
A good little Bangor boy refused to
spell cider, because he had signed tho
pledge. That excuse hadn't the requl-
site thickness, and the boy was sent to
his seat to learn his lesson.
An eastern poet gives this parting
advice to the bridegroom
' I}c alters kind, aud never say shall,
Anddo what you can tow please hor
For she's Il hundred MOrican gal
And the che-i-ldof our hundred Caesar
To see how eagerly a human being
will catch at straw, it is not necessary
to witness Il drowning, The phenome-
non is now manifest chiefly within sa-
looms, where one end of the straw Is
immersed in tumbler.
A modern satirist says that an in
dolcnt man, who has oycrspent his m
come and lives on the principal, is ike
Heine's monkey, who was found one day
hiIariously seated by the fire and cook
inc bis own tail in a copper kettle fer
dinner.
-"X's" don't amount to anything on
OYSTER cans or barrels of flour. They
have got SO thoy put fifty pound rocks
in a barrel of flour and then paint five
KS on the head, though the X-tra busi-
ness could all be done in minute by
the man who finds the stone.
A Dctroilcr who removed to Lone
Tree. Ncb., year or two ago, writes TO
a tobacco house in that city to send MN
five pounds of "fne-cut' by express,
adding: ~ am candidate for sheriff
of tbis county, and think by aJudlclous
use of five pounds oG good tobacco can
secure two hundred minority
Kate Field, in her letters about
Spaju. gives us the following moral re.
| AGction AS the result of her study OF
! Spanish human nature: " 1t IS great
mistake to think that good people are
the most ight-hearted and contented;;
Tboy are bothered by conscience ana
worried about everlasting salvation.
Fashion has dccreed that the day
of thebloudcs has come to an end, ana
that brunettes are now i'll style. inns
is fine kind of weather to color mp with
Stay out of doors for half an hour or
so every day, and you wilt be liked loT
all summer. This ia cheaper ana
/ simpler prescription than the olive pow
| der coming into vogue.
The following verse lssald to De tue
flight which prompted Tennyson TO call
Joaanin Americas greatest poet
Alone and sad sat me down
TO read on Rousreaur narrow lsl''
Below Geneva. Mile ON milo,
And sct with many II shining town,
Tow'red Dent du MIDI danced the wave
Hcncoth the moon. Winds went and came,
And famed the B,ar- into ilihe.
On Ro-ecan'- i4lc, in Rou--eau shade,
T,yo ppI, and spicy drinks were made
I'm classic shade, ON classic ground
We stirred two cocktails round aud round
A very pleasant perfume, and also
a nreventiyc against moths, may be
made of the following inSreoientS
Take cloves, carrawag seeds, nutmeg
mace. cinnamon, aud tonquIn beans
of each one ounce then add as much
Florentinc orris root rs will equal the
o her Ingredients put together. Grina
tbe whole TO fine powder, put 1t IN
silk cotton filled bags, and place among
clothes, etc.
A Philadelphia broker, worth at
one time quarter OF million Oh ool-
lars, is now pcddlipg books Tor n llVeh-
hood. lie derives his largest Income
from a thrilling brochure entitled A
, Programme of the Philadelphia Centen-
! nial." Persons whom he importune' IL
buy copy promptly knock him down,
and lie RECEIVERS from five to ten dollars
| from each of them in an action 1or as
saull aud battery.
5 The president of Guatemala has
. forbidden the clergy of that republic to
wear the clerical dress except when
r they are engaged in the performance OF
; their ecclesiastical functions, and mas
, closed nil the converts but one, that OF
s. Catbarine, the nuns of the aDollsheu
convents one hundred aud forty IN
number. having the option OF either en-
tnring the convent Of st. Catharlhe OF
returning to civil life.
Directions were given by tho Uni
ted States senate the other day 10 nave
a snot DESIGNATED in the capitol grounds
for the Couestrian statue of Gen. Greene:
!" in conformity with the resolution OF
the continental congress, passed Ill
1885, There was no occasion TO hurry
ahont it. 1t is not hundred years YET
, aince the resolution was passed, anu
who cares a continental what the CONT
, mental congress resolved, anyhow?
The Nevada journal, relates TINS
Incident "NLiss Bradford has boy
in her school who combines keen per-
: cention with ready speech. The other
! day while endeavoring to explain the
! difference in waterfalls-not the KIND
! that makes the ladies' round-shouldered,
but TIE waterfalls of natu e-she gave
the class to understand that large
waterfall was cataract. Now, SAID
she "What is little waterfall ?.
"Kittyract,' blurted out tow-headef
youncster, who sat chewing the corne
Of his primer on the front seat.
A smart city billiardist picked up
countryman, and induced him to play
}. game of billiards-one hundred points
V The city boy took the cue and ran tn' i
e game out without a stop. The country anJ
It man quietly laid down ms ms billiard. iii
II started for the door. Said tne Co., tbis
- o''i AZ RI, ,,r,a hack aud pay ior .hi'