The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-04-09
FACT AND FANCY.

A Kookuk butcher gives away
chrome with every ten pounds of meat.
-" He handled gun carelessly, and
put his angel plumage on" is an obitu-
airy which appears in western paper.
How happily things turn out. lis
now declared that Gladstone has long
been very anxious to withdraw from
public life.
There is always some incentive to
tho American youth to study and work.
He may not become president of the
United States, but he may be the Oldest
Mason.
There is a general opinion that the
ice crop for 1874 will prove n complete
failure, and much suffering has been
apprehended among the wealthy next
summer.
The st. Louis Journal "trusts there
is no truth in the rumor that the tenn
perance crusaders intend to carry on
the campaign until every cotton gin in
the south is closed"
"A malicious politician says the
Grangers in Illinois turn out to dig the
graves o. deceased brothers, thus pre-
venting extortion on the pavt of that
middleman," the sexton.
A California paper says of Gov.
Stafford, of Arizona, that che can go
it as long without plug hat and Il
billed shirt MS any man who ever looked
Il grizzly square in the face"
M. Olivier says "that no govern
L, c., 1,1
4 picJiscitc, and if we have one the en-
pire will receive far more votes than all
the other parties put together" "
Ohio men don't ask each other now
to go in and have something to drink,
bnt maintain personal friendship by
passing around handfuls of magnificent
iy-dcyeloped peanuts and gum-drops.
"A fat French lady says: 81 am so fat
that / pray for disappointment to
make me thin. No sooner does the dis
appointment come than the mere expec-
tation OF growing thinner gives me such
Joy that become fatter than ever"
Horace Grecley's estate will prove
much more valuable than has been sup
posed Instead of being worth but
$4,000 or $50, 600, as was thought a
short time after his death, it probably
represents value Of about $l25, 0O0-
quite enough to render his daughters
comfortable.
The latest precocious saying is by
IN infant on the Pacific coast. She had
torn one Of her nails to the quick, ana
going to hermother, while the pain filed
her eyes with tears, said, holding up
her wounded finger, "Mamma, I dess |
shnSl A~va +" &C, up to heaven and dit
anozzer put on.
A workingman of Dundee, Scot
land, writing of cooperation in that
town, says that about II year ago few
men clubbed together and boughta box
of soap and chest Of tea, and retailed
it among themselves. The results were
astonishing. There are now one hum
dred and eighty shareholders, and they
have shop Of their own.
"A good thing is told of the Bishop
of Montreal 1t seems that the good
bishop has prohibited dancing, and two
officers, Wishing to obtain permission
to dance the polka at u military ball,
danced it together to show the bishop
how it was done. After the exhibition
the bishop gave his permission in these
terms "You can dance the polka as
long as you pleaso-with each other"
Wren Charles Lamb was invited,
at public dinner, to say grace, and
responded with the remark, Is there
no minister present? Then let us thank
God !" lo was satirist, and know it.
When sheriff down in Vermont, in
opening the county court. cried, " All
persons having causes or matters pend
ing therein, draw near, and they shall
be heard, and God save the people" he
was Il satirist, and didn't know 1t.
There is nothing funnier in cockney
vernacular than Jeamcs' letter, wher
he is in doubt which to prefer of his two
lady-loves, Mary Ham and Hangelina
He writes: "There they stood together
them two young women. ! don't kno1
which is the 'andsomest. ] couldn
help comparing them; and | couldn
help comparing myself to,,a certain haI
nimlc I've read of, that found it Difficult
to make choice between two bundle
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