The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-19
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FACTS AND FANCIES.

iluence Of one steamer in the center OF
Africa is equal to that of u hundred
missionaries.
There are two reasons why some
people don't mind their own business.
One is they don't have any business, and
the other is they haven't any mind.
The question is frequently asked,
How much is n horse power ?" We
saw man who was kicked by horse
the other day, but he is too sick to tell.
The largest legation in Washington
is the Spanish, which consists of eight
members ; the next is the British, and
the French legation ranks third in point
of numbers.
The local census Of Richmond, Va,
shows its population to be 60, 705, or
about 5000 more than in 1870 33, ,492
colored. They expect to count up 9O,-
900 in 1880.
Some European humanitarians have
devised an iron mask for cattle doomed
to slaughter, with a socket over the cen
ter Of their forehead, into which fits Il
deathdcaling nail,
-" Jack" said man to q lad lust
entering his teens, "your father is
drowned" "Hang it," replied the
young hopeful, "and he's got my jack
knife in his pocket"
Charles sees his wifc's mother and
goes one better:
The train that brought his wife came down,
And then went sweeping ON,
But, woe to him, his wife had brought
His mothcr-iu-aw along
He lived, for life may well bc bomo
Ere sorrow breaks its chain,
But this last streak Just settled him
IIo never smiled again,
The question "Docs Water tntOxi-
cate?" says the Chicago Times, now
worries Brownstown, Ind, the argument
being based on the fact Of less lrunlton
ness among the residents when four
saloons were in full blast than now with
none.
Gail Hamilton says a child is a mo-
sale of his ancestors, getting, for in
stance, "brightness from his mother
deception from his father, a furious TENT
per from his uncle, and self restrain
from his aunt" That last clause is of,
ten particularly true.
"A family passing through Detroit
lost their tom.cat. "Come, children" "
said the father, huskily, as he turned to
the wagon, Johnny died of scarlet
fever, little Mary went with the whoop-
ing-cough, and now we've lost Sardi-
mus | shouldn't wonder if mother or
I'd be the next to 60"
A boarder at a Nashville hotel
called for boiled eggs one morning.
The waiter returned from the kitchen
after few moments absence with the
informution thot the eggs were not good
enough to boil, but that Vhey were first
rate scrambled. The boarder suddenly
lost his interest in eggs.
The following sweet dispatch passed
over the wires to n Maine girl, the other
day "TO -- Your life is rich
bouquet of happiness, yourself the
sweetest flower. If northern winds
whisper southern wishes, how happy
you must be. Good night. Happy
dreams, sweet love. Frank"
Some boiler makers at Dubuque
put boy in boiler to hold a hammer
head to the rivets as they were driven
in, and when all were completed he was
found too big to come ont of the hole.
He stripped to buff and CREASED his
skin, but ii was no use, and it took six
men three hours to cut solid boiler iron
before he could be got ont.
Forrest played once in Providence.
II. T., and found his audience cold and
apathetic. Finally, after vain attempts
to rouse them into enthusiasm, he
walked down to the footlights, and,
casting on the astonished Yankees the
glare of an infuriated Jove, remarked :
If You doa't pray more than you ap-
plaud, you'll all go to Ill sure"
-" you don't see what you want ask
for it, is posted up in a conspicuous
place in a Logansport grocery. A ma
tive stepped into the establishment last
week. He saw the card and remarked
4" | want ten dollar bill and don't
see it," "Neither do l." was the la
comic reply. The native "looked fur
ther," but he advised the grocer to
"take down that sign"
The complacency with which Queen
Emma, of the Sandwich islands, dis
plays her three hcndred pounds avoir-
dupois, and the unique style of her
beauty, consisting of the smallest eyes,
the widest of mouths, the hattest of
noses, and quito overpowering gran
deur of manner, is quite sufficient, it
is claimed, to decide the coming contest
for the throne in her favor.
The New York Times thinks that
"there is no question that, with the
death of Baron James, the genius
OF the house of Rothschild has de
parted. Constant intermarriage with
COUSINS, and the absence of that intel
lectual vigor which the infusion of fresh,
new blood imparts, has its effect on
men, as ON animals, and the younger
branches of the family are far inferior
to the elder"
Prof. Tyndall has writton letter
in rcply to Prof. Goodwin Smiths re-
cent assertion that Americans hate the
English. He says that his experience
among the people of the United States
teaches him that "Either they do
not hate us, as alleged or, if they do,
the manner in which they suppressed
this feeling out of consideration for 4
guest, proves them to be the most cour-
teous Of nations" D."