The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-05-06
FACTS AND FANCIES.

1t is said that Gusave Dore is to
receive $4,000 for series of designs
for a new edition of Shakespeare.
When the stoves ore taken down,
see that the pipe openings in the wall
are protected by good TIN covers. Don't
stuff rags in.
They have got so how that they
blow up whales with torpedoes, and it
won't be long before the women will
get hold of the invention and scatter an
intoxicated husband all over the ceiling.
Julian Hawthorne in his "Saxon
Studies" saws: "To be thorough
German cook requires only callous
conscience, a cold heart, II confused
head, coarse head, coarse hands, and
plenty of grease"
A portland chap, who during court
ship sent his girl some poetry begin.
ming, "Was it a CLEAN of golden hair ?
was mortified after marriage to see her
hang that "gleam" over the back OF
chair.
In responding to the toast, "The
Queen" Jolly Englishman Mt the Mas
sachusetts Centennial celebration SAID
81 wish to express my satisfaction in
being with you here to-day, and my equal
satisfaction in having been absent
hundred years ago.
In Providence, the other night.
lust as Lucy Stone had hurled at tho
crowd the conundrum, "shall women
leave their children athome and neglect
them while they go TO vote p n slum-
bering infant awoke and gave vent to a
prolonged yell.
TmE faults of our ncighbors with freedom We
And tax not ourselves, though we practice tho
Words are like leaves and whore they most
abound
Muce fruit of sense beneath il rarely found
Pope.
"A country youth, who desired to
know how to become ricl, sent quar-,
ter in answer to an advertisements, and
received the following valuable recipe
"Increase your receipts and decrease
your expenditures. Work eighteen
hours a day, and live ON hash and oa'-
meal Cruel.
A sentimental young man OF Chl-
capo went to see his girl the other day,
and found that his letters had been
pasted over the tops of preserve cans
Those beginning with My Daring
Susan" went over the peaches, and those
commencing with "My Own Darling
were put over the apples. This was too
hatteringly sweet to allow the engage
ment to remain substantial.
A correspondent of the New for
Tribune states that the tail and Il part
of the name and flank OF the leadeh
cnuestrian statue of George jill, torn
down by the colonists at New York at
the beginning of the revolutionary war,
are lying half buried IN the ground at
wilton. Connecticut, whittier the statue
was carried to be run into bullets Tor
the use of the continental soldiers
VIM. Cullen Bryant turns an epl-
gram os neatly still as if he were but
thirty. Htreis hiscxcuse totbe Echo, the
little journal of the homeopathic ialr
ot New York, for not furnishing the
poem it had claimed
payc INV word dear madam, II IL true'
AT your request to write verse OF tMo
rave it YOU IA frankly a. twas sought,
And now Won chide because Keep IL not
Talk not OF honor am honor S'aEe
Nomc Int a rogue would keep the thing he
gave.
For the first time in twenty years
Mrs Thompson, of New York, scrubbed
ont the city hall. Twenty years ago
she married n man who became a MIL
lionare. took the contrnct, before ,ne
war, to supply A. L. Stewart MAJ mafolo i
for his new residence, was ruined in
irving TO live up to it when sl'gnt
sacrifice by tbe merchantprlncew would
have saved him, and died an lhSane me
pauper, leaving his wife to resume the
scrubbing business where she ieit on'
A curious letter was received the
other day at the postoflice department;
II enclosed one dollar, was addressed
by a lady ut Jerseyville ILL.,, IN ne care
Of apy liar, ravana, porteS 90, onlo'
and contained inquiries relative TO
m;ss;ng @ husband. The letter was IN
tended for "any lawyer" but on account
of the peculiarity of the manner u
which the writer spelled lawyer no
one of that ilk could be found IN na'
VIENNA to claim it. The letter was c. COZ:
seauently sent to the dead ietter on'o'
Some one writing to the 81. JoIh
On. b. Telegraph says that whiie p ioon, n,
ing down in the waters oi tne pay ,t "
Fundy from the lantern OF ine hsn. "
house at Digby, N. s., height o
ninety feet. he saw flock OF wild ducks
known as sheldrake, which suddenly
diyed down to an apparent distance o
fifteen feet, spread out like fan, anl
began literally to fly through the wa.e. 'I
using their wings with quick, interHl' tna
tent motion, while tn ir legs ana lee
seemed only, employed for the purpos
Of steering. In this way they darte'
here and there after small fish, whlc
thew seemed to catch and swallow wit
great rapidity.
Professor Strumpell, of Leip Ii
, has written work on the "Natnre an
Origin of Dreams" in which he assert
that "no chain of logical atoms can .
linked together while we dream n n
conclusion can be drawn, ny
argument can be followed up, and otn no.m
ing new can be discovered. UniV rsr.
nately for this theory, the fact tnas 1,sms ami
sons have solved mathematical Poix o..
in their sleep has been concius,'vfio sfiorts.
! tablished. Men who, ai'eL sIvs aleebraic
problems have gone t. pea solution aa while
sss'i sss the G9s i1sS But sudsas iss,s
mbo nlS can prove that they have ressonso' so
Jrswn conclusions, and disco'efe" w
iutions while dreaming