The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-04-08
FACTS AND FANCIES.


In California they are having squir-
rel hunts instead of spelling schools.
In some counties squirrels have become
apest.
Mrs. Swisshelm lays down this
broad principle regarding the male
portion Of the human race: "Only in
hin coffin is it safe for a woman to kiss
any one man in n thousand"
-"Oh, I've loved BEFORE" said
Detroit woman to her fourth husband,
rs she took a handful OF hair from his
head because he objected to hang ont
the weeks washing.
"A Chicago man thinks that the
worst speller ought to get the diction-
ary, and the winner should have II
wreath of sorrel or some other garden
sass, like them Greeks"
The production of raisins from
California grapes is a growing business
and is strongly urged as likely to be of
great profit. The white muscat of
Alexandria is named as the best raisin
grape.
A prominent Detroit univcrsallst.
some months ago, married a red headed
widow with four children, and last
week remarked to friend, " ] was
blind when | believed there is no he'll.
| see now"
While Mr.. Jones, of Natchez, was
drinking his whisky he heard a voice
call ont Clones, prepare to die y and
he sank back on Il chair and died.
Heart disease? Not by Jug full. Old
Il ,nf9w shot him.
--Messrs. Moody and Sankey do not
meet with entire approval in their re-
vival labOrs. The London Athenmum
says there is more curiosity than reli-
gion in the crowds they attract, and
compares Mr.. Sankey's singing to
costermonger's cries,
AS an illustration of the limitless
number of combinations which the
three primary colors are capable OF, 1t
may bc interesting to know that III the
Gobclin tapestry manufacture $4,000
distinct shadings of yarn are employed,
each one distinguished by the practiced
eye.
And he gave it for his opinion that
whoever could make two ears of corn
or two blades of grass to grow upon Il
spot of ground where only one grew
before, would deserve better OF man
| kind, and do more essential service 10
his country than the whole race Of poll
ticiAns put together. --StrW.
"A French soldier is TO be punished
with death for insulting an upstart Off
cer This gives Victor Hugo an oppor
tunity to thus compare the case witt
that of Bszaine Having sold his flag
having surrendered his army, having
betrayed his country--life having
struck his corporal-death !"
-Pereire got little tired of return
ing the bows of an uncomfortable polite
man in his adjustment, and finally
gave the polite man this conundrum,
at point blank range: "Sir, what
would become of the hours if the min
ute hand stopped to bow to the second
haud every time they met"
49," Well, Uncle Billy, don't you want
any more civil rights - " Not anything
mo-, ! tank you, replied Billy. "Near-
" done ruind now. Hev to pay my
own doctors bill, lost all my money in
the Freedman's bank, nlbber got no
forty acres an de mule dey promised
me, an can't help myself TO II little
chicken, iryin' size, widout gwine to de
penitentiary. Use got 'nuT cibbh
rights "
Scientists now tell us that the in
roads of grasshoppers into the north
west, OF late years, is due mainly to the
! havoc made among tho prairie hens,
which are slaughtered by tens OF thou
sands every gear to crafty the cplcure'
of this country and Europe. The
prairie chickens used to "absorb" the
grasshoppers before the latter reached
the settlements, but they are no longe
equal to the emergency.
-.Rudolfo Lanciani, commissioner o
archaeology at Rome, has written
long letter to the New York Herald, IL
which he gives very flattering promises
as to the finding of ancient treasures IL
the bed of the TIber when that stream
| is drained. He cites instances OF very
| valuable discoveries of bronzes, mar
bles and rich tit.bits of the household
paraphernalia of the old Romans which
divers have made, and WHICH have been
picked up in the ancient sewers near
tho river. He thinks that the seven
branched candlestick which was borne
from Jerusalem after the sacking OF the
temple will surely be discovered IN the
soft mud of that historic stream.
JEAN VALIEAN-
A merry wight, fond OF his ease,
While he sings his songs and strokes hls knees
And light AZ the air which sways the leaves,
Is Jean Vatican, the cobbler.
Through the summers day he sits and sings
OF the olden days and of ancient things
OF the DANES OF yoro and of bygone kings
Sings Jean Vatican, the cobbler
| The birds are singing in every tree
Till the air is filed with the melody
| or song as light and gay and free
As Jean yaljean's, the cobbler.
With the waning shadows the bird in its nest
And Jesn in his cot each seek the rest
Which sweet sleep brings, with no cares on
pressed,
All happy Jean, the cobbler'
General Spinner, in the course o
, a resent interview, said in answer to
| question as to whether there has no
been stealing in the treasury: Yes
: Recently there has been money stolel
: in the national bank redemption
| agency. When Graves (who is j
= c6arge) found out he had a theft wit
5 him, he carefully Investigated, and lai
4 traps to catch him. He came to m
4 one day and said he had clue.
y said, well, what is it? He said tha
a he had suspected one or two women
= l shook my head and said, You ar
| wrong. A woman won't steal. NOW
G l know they won't. They have not go
3 the nerve. The reason why l preiel
o women as counters is because .ho, .hoy
@ won't steal. If they do steal, 'hey
4 | - .. I.t.o -uo. ona mr. two dOlIafS, pc-