The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-10
FACTS AND FANOIEs.

/ be dreaded than n communicative man
: with nothing to communicable. ". de
BOnald,
philadelphia gives employment to
no less than sixty thousand women
chiefly in exhibiting their spring bon
nets on Chestnut street.
He leaned on the fence pouring out
warm VOWS of love and admiration to
the lovely being on the other side 1t
was dark. We could not see her face
but she said: "Pray desist. You are
too vacillating. Only week ago you
told that same stoiy three doors below
here" They parted.
-Colored waiter in lager beer
saloon up town bawls out his orders in
stentorian voice as follows zone
pair" q glasses); "two pair" q glasses;
'Iull hand" (5 glasses). Then for a
change he calls: Zone team q
glasses); "tandem" @ glasses); 'four
finland" a plasses); "four' in hand,
with footman" @ glasses.
The Princess de Cont, daughter
Of Louis XIV, expressing before the
Moorish ambassador, her dislike Of
polygamy, the latter replied /" Mad
ame, plurality of wives is allowed
among us because, in our country, we
must seek in several women the charm
ing qualities which are here to be found
in one" This excels Spanish polite
nesa.
--Apropos of the growing rage for
tight-lacing in Paris, Emily FathtulIs
paper says the whole tendency of mod
era female fashion is to render the form
of woman as nearly approaching to
that of tightly. strapped umbrella as
possible. A well dressed young woman
in the present day is figure laughable
enough far Christmas pantomlme OF
Strand extravaganza.
The latest invention in the life-boat
line is boat with broad line of cork
MT the load-l line, so constructed that 1t
sails equally well either side mp. 1t
will not upset easily; but it it does
upset, the bottom and keel fall right
down through the centre, and there it
| is. lust as it was before, a perfect boat
only what was the bottom has become
the top.
As soonos the baby steething begins,
| the romance Of married life ceases. NO
woman can feel any sentiment fora man
who travels around in his night shirt of
n hot summers eve, with squalling
infant dsngling over his shoulder. 1t
is then that she stops calling HIM
DARLING" and descends to such com
monplace observations as John Gam.
fire be careful how you hold that baby.
"A little girl was onco asking her
elder sister about heaven. 10 they
play in heaven p she inquired: NO;
they do not play there. 'Wh@t 40
thew doP" "They sing md are good
"Are there no toys there?" mo not
apv." "No dolls, nor balls, nor Noa1s
orEs ?" "Oh no !" Then" said the
little one, II shall take my doll and 90
to hell. ="
The manufacture OF percussion
powler is one of the most dangerous
occupations in the world. 1t is usually
made in some Isolated building, re-
moved good distance from ali other
buildings. Recently, John Donahne,
EMPLOYED to make this powder for the
Winchester arms company III Now ha-
ven. was blown into shreds. In week
or two there were ten applicants for his
place.
--"You see" said Thers, '' aphael
came from Paradise, and Michael An
gelo came from tho Inferno, to provo
that the genius OF man partakes OF every
character. Note the contrast salu
NJ. Thiers, " Raphael, coming from
Paradise, lived like a pagan, while
Michael Angelo, coming from the IN
ferno. lived like saint bearing IN MS
hemt II divine love lor the marcAionesS
of Pescara."
In Paris they make two eggs out OF
one by cutt ny the shell with glszlerS
diamond and then slicing tie egg
quickly with an oiled knife. Inc two
halves are deftly dropped into boiling
butter on the plate, which hxes
them, making them look like two, ana
| for which the customer-who has not
seen the performance-pays without
suspicion. WAC couldn't pay the Ger
ma1s their indemnity and get back TO
specie payments in three years WIN
such gains
The Chinefe government mas ior
some time past been making arrange
ments in Europe with view TO the de-
fense of the coast and principal rivers
| of the empire. Engineering WorHS ou
an extensive scale, and supplied WIN
formidable artillery, are about 10 Do
constructed at various strategic points,
and the general system Of defense has
been confided to Maj. Gen, Ripley,
formerly of the United States army ous
who went over to the confederates at
the outbreak of the civil war. den'
Ripley was in command at Charleston
when hostilities commenced. he IL
now in England, but will sail for CHINA
in a few days, preceded by other
| artillery officers whose services the
government OF China has secured.
| A school teacher in Mississippi
used his tacility in short hand to make
verbatim report of Il negro clergy
mans PRAYER, and he sends 1t to the
3 Educational Monthly as follows: ~
8 Lord God of dis glorious universe,
: wilt don look down in de omnipresence
Q Of DIV eve upon desc dy collard children
h bowed npon de kuucklc bone di night.
y Take solemn peep upon us and let a
s beap o. light iu Don knowest what
|, desc DIV poor darkies need On every
o side dou knowst, o Lord, is de evidence
o of de dislocation and obstruction OF dt
d human family, Dere he fighting amont
:. one another and natural disease. Bu
we die TO live again rs saints or evi
spirits. Dere he discussion and doc
Q trines, elecshion, before ordination,
4 perfection and sich like, confuse .ne
!, intellects Of both black men and "1i.e. DIE
But good Lord, dou knosst az; d,i;v;Jin' dim
d are vain illusions, splitsin and 'r ,nsrny
n DIV creatures into sexes wiInyWu Wsnv ders