The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-05-13
FACTS AND FANOIES.

Willie had purple monkey, climbing on a
yellow stick,
And when he sucked the paint all Off, it made
him deadly sick;
And in his lptest hours, ho claBped that mon
key in his hand,
Aud bid good-by to earth and went into a bet
ter land.
Oh, no more ho'l shoot his sister with his little
wooden gun,
And no moro he'll twist tho pIssys tail, and
mako her yow for fun
The pussys tail now stands out straight, tho
gun IL laid aside,
The monkey doesn't jump around since littlo
Willie died.
Obituary -Phdddclplid LcdgT.
Three thousand artificial bird
nests, designed so cunningly that each
variety ef bird will recognize its own
home, were recently put up in the
Jardin des Plantes, Paris.
-Infdel scoundrels in n Missouri
congregation, hearing that the collec-
tions made by n deacon were invariably
short, examined his hat, and found it
covered with shoemakers' wax inside.
-"No Getting appuls in school ours"
reads sign on the blackboard OF a
school house in enlightened old Massa.
chusetts, where education is supposed
to sit on the top rail and make faces
at ignorance.
"A Milwaukee chap kissed his girl
about forty times right straight along,
and when he stopped the tears came
into her eyes, and she said in sad tone
of voice "Ah John, fear you have
ceased to love me-" " No | haven't" "
replied John, "but l must breathe"
"A LITTLE girl Mt school read thus
"The widow lived on n small limbacy
left her by n relative" "What did you
call that word?" asked the teacher,
I" the word is legacy, not limbacy."
But, said the little girl, "my sister
says ] must say limb, not leg."
Norway has voted 10000 in silver
toward representation ut the centennial,
and Belgium 100000 francs, and Portu-
gal has informed President Grant that
she i tends joining the centennial circle.
The foreign governments are coming
steadily into a recognition of the great
American fair. England, France and
Germany will all be there in splendor.
The alarming increase in the de-
struction of sheep i'll America may per-
haps be traced to the fact that $4,000
worth of blooded dogs have been
brought from England to this country
within the past two years. The Eng
lish, it is SAID, preserve the pedigrees OF
these costly nuisances as carefully as
they do the pcdigrees Of their nobility,
another costly nuisance.
1t is suggested that for purposes of
Identification (of criminals) Ii IS only
necessary to get distinct photograph
of the palm OF one hand, taken III a
strong oblique light, SO as to bring out
the markings strongly. This will be
found Il map, it is said, never alike IN
two persons no disguise short OF ac'
tual Disagreement will do away with
the difference.
Brigham Young has peculiar
notions. In the recent Mormon con
ference he said " [ am opposed to FREQ
schools. Children should be educated
under the care of their parents, and
parents should labor and pay for that
educution. All the education child
wants is TO fit him to get his own living.
In the prisons, gambling shops, and
other dens OF infamy, you see the re-
suits of the education of children III
the free schools and away from the care
Of their parents"
The Honolulu (Saudwich Islands)
Gazette says violent snow storm visit
ed Hawaii on the 81 of March, covering
the three stately SUBMITS of the three
mountains of that island. On the low
lands it rained very hard, and the
lightning played brilliantly over the
island, followed by incessant and ter.
rifle claps Of thunder. The next morning
Il grand and beautiful sight was pre-
sented-the most beautiful ever seen
in that region-three mountains cap
ped with snow in the tropics.
To understand the world is wiser
than to condemn it. To study the
world is better than to shun it. To use
the world is nobler than to abuse it.
To make the world b tier, lovelier and
happier is the noblest work OF man or
woman. There are many Intelligent
and talented persons who waste the
best part of their time in useless dream
ing. Their years are spent In the
world of fancy and unreality that their
Imagination creates about them, Men
tai phantoms render them insensible to
present opportunities and prosperous
chances slip by them unheeded and
unnoticed until their youth and energies
are all gone. Then, in adyersity and
old age they attribute their want Of
prosperity and worldly success to some
imaginary fate or destiny, even yet
blind to tho truth that their want OF
prosperity is simply the result OF OPP
portunities wasted. Frame Pctersittd.