The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-02-11
NUMBER 4s.
FACTS AND FANCIES.

The late emperor OF China left a
widow only sixteen years old.
| Atlanta, Ga, has two widows, sis.
ters, aged respectively thirteen and
fifteen years.
CT guess I'll take this book" re.
marked Chicago lady to the clerk of
bookstore "it's got twice as much
eold,.eaf ON the cover as any OF the
rest"
"A Mem ohis doctor treated a man
for asthma when the disease was kid
ney complaint, and Jury made him
fork over $1,000, which soothes the
kidneys wonderfully.
The citizens Of Gettysburg are in
starving condition. Most of them in
vested their money in material for
making battle relics, the relics won't
sell, and business is dead broke.
Sheridan didn't always get the best
of dialogue. Some one characterized
him as "good ct fight, but better at
play, godlike in giving, but the devil to
pay" Just after he had taken new
house he met Lord Gnilford, to whom
he said: "Well, all will go on now
like clockwork. eyes," said his lord.
ship, stick, tick"
.Baudy, the decorator OF the new
opera-house in Paris, was sadly bother
ed for an idea by which to represent
the emusic of England" emblematic-
ally in his frescoes. He painted finally
three little eenii. One carried the
Irish harp, the other the Scotch bag.
pipes, and the third paid the two first
Tor playing, and tried to look as if he
understood the music; 30 says n
French wag.
"A recently patented automatic lock
is 60 constructed that it can be unlock
ed by no persons except during bank
inR hours. The lock was pnrposely in
vented TO obviate bank officials from
being taken from their beds at night
and compelled to open their vaults by
burglars, as has been frequently done
in many parts of the country. The
lock is said to be no longer an exper-
iment.
Stockholm steps tc the front with
a new explosive twice as powerful as
dynamite. A chemist of that city is
the inventor, and claims that charge
of eight ounces in five cartridges de-
posted in drill hole five feet deep re-
moved, on it's explosion, mass of rock
over 100 cubio feet in volume. 1t is
called "vigorte "a very appropriate
name, if III merits are what ia claimed
for it. A few tons of it properly placed
might be made most beneficial in a
general distribution Of the hidden
wealth CT the Nevada bonanza.
In old times tho class Of writer's
who in our day fabricate sagacious dog
stories used to entertain people with
stories like this: ga strange clock
belonged to Hindoo prince. In front
of the clocks disk was a gong swung
upon poles, and near it was pile OF
artificial human limbs. The pile was
made up of the same number of parts
necessary to constitute twelve perfect
bodies, but all lay heaped together in
apparent confusion. When the hands
of the clock Indicate the hour OF one,
out from the pile crawled just the
number of parts needed to form the
frame of one man, part coming to part
with quick click, and, when completed,
the figure sprang mp, seized mallet,
md, walking mp to the gong, struck
me blow. This done, he returned TO
he pile and fell to pieces again. When
wo o'clock came, two men arose and
lid likewise and at the hour OF noon
md midnight the entire heap sprang
lp, and, marching to the gong, struck,
one after tho other, his blow, making
twelve in all then returning, fell to
pieces as before"