The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-04-16
NUMBER 5.
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Next to the sweetness of having a
friend whom you can trust is the con,
venienee of possessing friend who Will
occasionally trust you.
Even With an octagonal watch, uns,
less n man has mouse-colored horse
and top buggy, he can only skirmish
ON the outskirts of good society.
Siam is an ungallant country.
There the first wife may be divorced,
and after that every wife may be sold
for cash, or traded for a yellow dog
According to the report of Gen.
Myers, of the signal service, there was
greater quantity of rain fell at Nash
Vile, during last month, than at any
other point in the United States.
When Tennessee father walks in
to Il Newspaper Office with shotgun on
his arm and says "My dartcr has writ
some poetry which want you to pub
lish," how's feller going to plead
press of matter?
-Laborers in Japan have had their
wages raised to 7 cents day. with
such wages the laborer may take adrlnk
and cigar once or twice week, but he
must dispense with such supertluities as
bread and meat,
Kate Field says Of Isabella ii. OF
! Span, that scion of the old Bourbon
race, that "she is a great, stout, nnGaln'
| ly female, who needs but dozen chill
drcn and Il ashtuD,to be counterfeit
prcscntment OF the typical Biddy."
What can man think Cf his wife's
relations who is 40 savage about his own
as to write 81 don't like relations;
Won are Obliged to be- familiar with II
man Just because he happens to be son
of the same father as your father.
Senator Sumner has gone where
proof.readers are not known. His friends
congratulate themselves that ne did not
see the issue of the Gave Echo, which
punctuated his last words, Take care
Of my civil rights, Bill.
Tie Scientific American predicts
That the time will soon come when ice
will be manufactured In all our great
cities at Il dollar ton. Manufactured
zee at three dollars Il ton has for some
time been in the markets ot New Or-
| leans.
Bury me in the garden has been al
tered to read:
Oh. bury Bartholomew out IN the Woo"s'
In n beautiful hole III the ground,
Where the humble bees buzz and Wooupcch'Is
,,,a NE strnano Luqs tumble around;
! So that, in winter, when the enow and the
-Iurh ..,,
Have covered up hs last little bed,
His brother Artemu- can 90 ont with Jane
And yirit the place with hlS sled
A Massachusetts, man living at Sha-
ron. in that state, has Just chopped his
own head off by the aid Of gulllotine
inpeniously made and worked by his
own hands. The ingenuity OF the m
dustrious New Highlander Is constantly
placing his countrymen under laStih8
obligations to him.
A writer in Scribner for April
speaks of the mode of address adopted
by the African. "Boss" is n general
term, probably containing the oxide OF
ciyility "mas'r" conveys general
idea Of superiority. If the old man
knows vour face, and you are young, he
calls you "captain :" if middle~aged,
| "maJOr IL Olu, Stucl"l VI j''o0
A Nebraska journal invitingly says:
"Who says farmers cannot get rlch III
tins state? Fifteen years ago young
man came to the state without dollar
in the world. Last week he went out OF
the state. carving with him the sum OF
one hundred aud thirty-elght cents, tno
savings of fifteen years OF trugal ne:
Come west, young man; come west
A Corning Ia.) youth paid his at
tentions 10 two Young ladies and propos'
ed marriage to both. They found ont
about il. invited him to the house OF one
, of them and asked him to take seat DE
= tween them, which he did, sitting oowi
| in tub of water over which a covering
. had been nicely spread. Then they po
, litcly requested him not to he IN hllr
e ry to go, but he went.
! During the progress OF trial II
n Jrdoe May's court. in San Jose, one OF
r the female witnesses was asked GhiS
4 nncstion by one of the attorneys: " Did
the defendant call his wife my dear.
when he net her ?" This took the wit
ness by surprise, but she answered nm
in manner that showed she was hohes,
and sincere in her belief. Dld ne cal
her my dear?' OF course not. How
could ne when she is his wife 2
A Greenfield farmer dropped into a
drnp store Saturday, and after looking
around fer moment ordered a pint OF
linseed oil and two ounces OF pepper PR
mint essence put up together me
clerk filled the order, but being rather
curious to know what was wanted Oh
the mixture he made bold to inquire:
"Why. for ha'r lie, of course, replied
the farmer "the gals is invited to
party Tuesday night, and they want to
lie up and smell nice.
An old bachelor has been deferred
from committing matrimony IN the 1ot-
lowing yay: Thinking over the subject,
and particularly.the expenses OF MAIN
tanning a family, he set the table IN his
lonely abode with plates for himself and
nm imaginary wife and five children.
He then sat down TO dine, and as often as
he helped himself to food he put the
same quantity on each OF the Other
plates, and surveyed the prospect, a
the same time computing the cost. Ill
is still bachelor.
There is an old darkey in Maryland
who lately voted for local option, as h
understood it, bnt not as the publi
generally understood it, The story {
true one) runs thus At a recent elec
: ton friend asked the old man how b
; was going to vote. "Oh.' he replied
Y "the republican ticket. L always vot
r, that ticket" ''But how are you golnt
to vote on local option?' The daIkey,
), iooLino mn, asked. "What's dat 2
u ssVby local option is putting dowr