The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-08-05
FACTS AND FANCIES.

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"A Pennsylvania man captured raj
tie snake and set about teaching it som
tricks. He was on the high road to suc
cess when they had to bury him.
The sultan has 800 wives, and de
votes TO his own and their use co, 600,
600 out of the .e7000,00O that consti
tutes tho whole income Of the Turkisl
empire.
-Naturalists have decided that no
hen can lay over six hundred eggs.
Therefore, when You have checked OIL
to that figure you can sell her for Il
spring chicken.
-Geologists have discovered that the
ground of Southern Indiana, Kentucky
and Tennessee is slowly rising at the
rate of about n foot every twenty.four
years.
Since tight dresses are worn the
street car conductor can tell just how
many he can get on seat, and how
many he can't. He don't say "shove
up" any more,
The Maryland democrats held their
state convention in Baltimore on We'd
nesday. Ex-senator Hamilton is said to
be the favorite candidate for the nomi-
nation for governor, though Governor
Groome has many adherents.
AT Vincennes, France, recently, during
the marriage ceremony the brides teeth
ell out, which so frightened the BRIDE
groom, a worthy tailor, that he made
the sign of the cross, rushed off like an
arrow, and has not since been heard of.
New Orleans has q haunted cell.
Three suicides having occurred in it.
and several other prisoners have been
prevented in the very act and when
questioned about it, the answer inyari-
ably is: "a woman in white babe me
do it,"
--Idleness is a disease that must be
combatted but | will n Vt advise a rigid
adherence TO particular plan of study.
I, myself, have never persisted in any
plan for two days together. A man
ought to read Just as inclination leads
him, for what he reads rs task will do
lllm HtUle bOOu.-"OftSON'
1t is the divine attribute of the i'm
lgination that it is irrepressiblo, uncon-
Unable that when the real world is shut
out, it can create world for itself, and,
with Il necromatic power, can conjure
up glorious shapes and forms, and
brilliant visions to make solitude popu-
lous, and irradiate the gloom of dun
geon. - Washington lroing.
-Increduity is not wisdom, but the
worst kind of folly. tis folly, because
it causes ignorance and mistake, with
all the consGquents Of these; and it is
very bad, as being accompanied with
obstinacy, rudepess, I'M
and the like bad dsposi-
lions, from which credulity itself, the
other extreme sort of folly, is cxempt.-
BdIrOD.
Hair is the most delicate and last
ng of our materials, and survives us
Ike love. IL is so light, 80 gentle, 80
scaping from the idea Of death, that
,ck of hair belonging to n child or
lend, we may almost look up to
eayen and compare notes with the an
elic nature, and may almost say, 81
ave piece of thee here, not unworthy
( thy being now. ."-Leigh H,'at.
Few footprints OF the great remain
l the sand before the overHowing tide.
long ago it washed ont Homers. Gu
osity follows him in vain; Greece and
sia perplex us with a rival Stratford-
pon. Avon. The rank of Aristophanes
, only conjectured from his gift to two
oor players in Athens. The age r,ade
% sign when Shakespeare, its noblest
on, passed away WiiLmoH.
AT Atlanta, last autumn, negro
,uilt II coop, six feet by seven, into
which he put dozen partridges, the
round being first covered with grass.
During the winter they thrivcd, in the
pring they mated, laid eggs, hatched
nut several broods of young, and the
egro now has about sixty young par
ridges, all doing well. They are large,
ealthy, and seem to be contented.
- President MacMahon has just par
oned Baron dIvry, condemned two
cars ago to three years Imprisonment.
was a case that would never have
,me to trial in this country. He would
I'VE been politely bowed out by the
,roncr. He was shooting ducks in
lpan and killed native accidentally.
q has thus been in prison two years to
arm not to play ducks and brakes with
10 Japanese.
As the stream gradually wears tho
lannel deeper in which it runs. and
MS becomes more surely bound to lts
course, 80 the currents OF
10 heart and mind grow more restricted
the course in which habit has taught
em to flow. These intellectual and
oral habits form many peculisrities OF
laracter, and chiefly distinguish one
dividual from another. They are,
erefore, of the utmost Importance
q. Goodrich.
There is in the French political
Dr,d man OF considerable Importance,
1t who is not remarkable for quickness
thought or perception. His young
IN has Just recovered from the typhoid
,yer. The family physician did not
,nceal the serious nature OF the boys
lness. "Oh, yes," said the father. ~
that. When ! was CHIC,
had the typhoid fever and the % doctor
aid to my parents, it is very serious
they either die of it, or become ldiots.
Vel, YOU see, 1 am not dead
Old sginford churchyard, Worces-
ersbire, in England. was the scene OF
n extraordinary affair few days since.
lore than thousand people assembled,
, anticipation of a funeral, which, it
as rumored, would not pass off quietly,
ppositiou being offered to the inter.
ont of an inn. keepers wifo in family
.ult. This had been opened, but it
as found bricked up again, and at tho
st moment an ordinary grave was dug.
hen the funeral arrived, loud cries of
open the vault !" arose, and men set
work to remove the masonry, the
burners waiting the issue. The op-
Dnents Of the proceeding were SO
realty outnumbered that they did not