The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
FACTS AND FANCIES.

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-Itis nothing for Georgia woman
to kill fifty snakes per week.
1T is considered pretty well.settled
fact that death has no terrors for the
man who marries woman after thir-
ty years courtship.
"A Toledo woman mu2zlel her hus-
band to keep him from kissing the
chambermaid. Is it really necessary
this time of the year?
Nine. Lind, Goldschmidt and Mr..
Sims Reeves are each said to have
child whose promise Of future renown
as singer is very great
Forty Iowa schoolma'ams couldn't
tell what an abstract question was, but
every one of them understood the
meaning of pop the question.
Not one lady in ten bathes at New
port because it isn't genteel, and, fur
thermore, because they look like " hor-
rid frighta" in bathing costume.
-"Only children and fools sit on the
beach under an umbrella says !he eX-
asperated Miss Olemade from her eIeva-
ted seat overlooking Swampscott beach.
Dom Piatt says the proper thing to
do when your horse is running away is
"to hold fast to your seat and say your
prayers anyhow, hold fast to your
scat
A man in Stark county, Ind, pays
his boy ten cents quart for potato
bugs, and the boy says that if next year
is rs good as this he can buy tho old
man out.
More than n hundred people are
drinking warm blood at the Boston alb
attoir for variou diseases, and there is
talk of building hotel to accommodate
the patients.
Catgut Is prepared from the intes-
tines of the sheep or goat, and the
manufacture is chiefly confined to Italy.
No manufacture of caigut is known IN
this country.
A year ago young man would be
real good to his mother on the promise
of shirt which bnttoned behind, but
now such promise wouldn't swerve
him an inch.
Another old pioneer gone. ne
lived Mt Troy, and he "Eoned ~ with
S6 600 which did not belong to him,
and took along the hired girl to com
fort his old age.
A little boy was asked about the
story Of Joseph, and il he knew what
wrong his brethren done IN dIspo&lngot
him, when he replied, " | suppose they
sold him too cheap.
-"Yes, George Washington was
purity great and high, said Missouri
steamboat captain, " but then, stranger,
he never owned steamboat winch
could hitch past the White Queen"
An old veteran was relating his eX-
uloits to a crowd Of boys, and men
| tioncd l.aring haan IN five engagements.
"That's nothing" broke IN a little ieir
low, "my sister Agn has been engaged
eleven times
The Vienna city architect has OBJ
tained permission to construct Il stove
in the principal cemetery for cremation
purposes, and an old lady has given 80.
600 dorins for the construction OF
Others.
A preenhorn sat long time very at
tentive. musing upon n cane-bottom
chair. At length he said 81 wonder
what fellow took the trouble to find all
them ar holes and put strows around
EN- ~
"A poddler calling ON an old lady, to
dispose Of some goods inquired OF h'r
if she could tell him OF any road on i,
which no peddler had travelled :, Yes.
replied she, 81 know of one, and that $
the road to heaven. "
Detroit Free Press "Turn for u
moment from the Beecher scandal and
ponder over the fact that the footprints
OF Chicago lady on the prairie near
Michigan City got crowd OF men out
to hunt for stray elephant.
At a recent reunion OF the alumni
of West Point it was voted unanimously
that all living graduates OF the aead
envy, both from tho south and north
be invited to Join the anniversary DIN
3 ner next year, on the 18th oiJune.
I A Connecticut girl twelve years ole
l tried to storvo herself to de til becans
> her beau deserted her, but the end o
the second day was induced to give
! ! up by the promise of slice Of brea(
l and butter with sugar on.
! One of the oddities Of hot weather
: advertising is that of II gentleman who
/ announces through the evening paper
, "his readiness to supply pulpits io'
any denomination or do any other min,
isterial work, during the heated term.
We find the following item in m
Illinois paper: Mr., who has
been in retirement for few weeks after
marrying and burying three sisters,
came up smilingly to the altar AGAIN
, Yesterday, having begun ON now fam
, lily
Miss thackeray, daught of the
late novelist, writes that great num-
, Der of letters and signatures purport-
, ing TO have been written by her father
{ are in circulation. The greater part
of these are forgeries, and OF remarka'
bly, good execution.