The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-17
FACTS AND FANCIES.

"A broker says "Giye me the bonds
of government, and l care not who
breaks its laws.
The average American boy will
make great fuss and complain bitterly
that it will spoil his clothes, if asked to
bring in an armful of wood for hlH
mother but give him gun, and he
will crawl half mile on his stomach,
through ditch with four inches OF
water in it, to get shot at some ducks
A writer discussing the compare
tive economy of horses and mules, after
saving "the only superiority ! see in
the mule is tnat he will stand rough
treatment BETTER" adds what is very
true when he says, "but there is neither
religion nor greenbacks in harsh treat
ment of stock"
-"My very dear children" said
travelling Sunday. school gimlet, 81
love YOU so much / could talk all day to
YOU, but time forbds. Bat | hope to
meet YOU in heaven, and then "
hope he WON'T said restless, red
headed boy, "hell talk is to death ;
! won ne, jim
An OK will consume two per cent. of
his weight of hay per day to maintain
his condition. II put to moderate labor,
an increase of this quantity to three
per cent. will enable him to perform his
work and still maintain flesh. Ii he IS
to be fatted, he requires about four and
half per cent. OF his weight daily IN
nutritious food.
old Zachariah Jackson, of Rocky
Gulch, Nevada, is n forty miner VINO
had been through the mill. :" The other
day he hobbled up to party OF new
comers and observed: "Tend to yer
bizness, boys, and ye'll be all right
I've been here nigh on to thirty years,
and have been lynched, shot ana
stabbed, knocked down, thrown on
mountain and mopped around generally,
but I'm here to day, biggernn a poX
car"
The laws of Paris are a strong per-
suasive to honesty on the part OF trades
men. Jewellers are obliged to distih'
puish plated from genuine ware by the
word Limitation placed where the Gus
TONERS cannot fail of seeing 1t II
GROCER is detected selling adulterated
articles he is heavily fined; his name
and place is published at his own ex-
nense IN the official journal, and he Is
compelled to expose in his store Tor
specified time a placard statue that ne
had been fined Tor selling aduIteraIoo
goods.
Every duty brings its peculiar de-
light every denial its appropriate com
nensation. every thought its recon-
pense, every love its elysium, every
cross its crown pay goes with perform
ance AZ effect with cause MeauueSS
overreaches itself vice vltlates whoever
iudulees in it ; the wicked wrong the'r
own souls; generosity greatens ; virtue
exalts; charity transiigures, aud non,
ness il the essence of nDgelhood. bou
does not require us to live on credit ne
pays us what we earn as we earn IL, goo"
or evil. heaven or hell, according to our
choice.
The sale of soda water is falling OIL
MI over the country, and costly fonn'
toins manufactured in the eastern cities
for from $500 to 80 500, would be dead
stock in the drug stores but for the sale
Of mineral waters. If lager beer were
70 be- had in the private cares ana
houcbt for ladies', it would finish the
sodt altogether. Thousands OF men,
now ore in the habit of sending bottled
lager home to their wives, particularly
nursing wives, whereas, glass Oh peer
from the keg is equal in freshness 10
gross of bottles. Tartar;c acid Is the
principal and generally the only aoul-
teration of beer.