The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-05-20
FACTS AND FANCIES.

BARY's SRIEs.--
Would you know the baby'a skies
Baby's skies are mammas oyes,
Mamma's eyes and smile together
Mako tho babys pleasant weather,
Mamma, keep your eyes from tears
Keep your heart from foolish fears,
Keep your lips from dull complaining
Le4t tho baby think It's raining.
Elephants live for two hundred,
three hundred, and even four hdndred
years.
! On why should fellow feel sad
When lCs easy enough to feel gay
| Oh, why should ho 20 for to die
When there's every nducemont to stay'
Mayor Wickham, of New York, has
had engraved upon his writing desk
Talleyrand's sad motto " For every
appointment I have made, | have gained
ninety nine enemies and one migrate.
If rumor be correct, the Princess
Clotbilde will be shortly separated from
her husband, Prince Napoleon, at her
own urgent request. 1t was a mar
ridgC dG cOpUenaRcc.
An English justice fined boy ten
shilliugs for whislling while clergy
man was passing the gate, and thatS
the sort of little man John Bull IL.
If the boy had been humming a tune
he'd have probably been executed.
1t must be rather binding on man
one hundred and ten years old to pick
up his favorite paper in the morning
and find quotation like this IN the
leading editorial
THE good die young
But those whose hearts are Dry az summer
dust
Burn to tho socket.
AT Pompeii they recently found
rurious record. 1t was scratched on the
stucco of kitchen wall, and has beer
thus translated "Lighted the fire,
cooked his meals, and swept his house
for him $4,000 times to this day, and he
refuses to take me to the circus. Be-
meath This. in different hand, is writ
ten "Women are never sa'lsheu'
-."There is Il dog" This trivial
ohrase was used by an instructor OF
,ctors in Paris as the vehicle OF an I'M
,ortont lesson. He taught them to
rive it in the sense of various impres-
ions as. fear of the dog, love of the
ing contempt for the dog, astonlsh.
nent regret, etc, and so exhibited
hat il mattered less what words an
ctor had to give than how he gave
hem.
Bald headed men are only living a
title in advance Of their time. Accord
ng to Darwin, We are indebted TO our
risky ancestors, the ape, for our halr,
md men with long boards and prolific
,cnlps h we no reason to feel that they
ire particularly superior to their less
nyoIv fellov.men. 1t may be extlnc'
ion to tbo barber business and blow
o human vanity, but the coming ma"
. to be bald-headed.
-" Arroh ne darlint," cried jamie
)'FlaDnigan to his loquaclouS sweet
,oarl VINO had not given him an OPP
,ortnnitv TO get in word edgewlse
ur;,,g = two hours ride behind the
ttle 6ay nags in his oyster wagon
are We afther KNOWN why your cheeks
.o I"i Iite nv ponies there?" "Shure
nj it's because they are red, is it?'
loth the blushing Bridget " Fa'th,
N better raison than that, maVour-
,er Because there is one othem
Oh side of waggin' tongue.
The MecklenburR declaration OF IN
.pendenca might never have lmmor-
li2ol North Carolina if it hadn't been
~ the unAinchinR love OF matrlmony
,own by the ladies of the tar-heeI
ote the royal governors allowed
ne county clerks to charge Slo Tor
,orriage lcen e; this extortion. OPP
rsta1 9s n damper on the ardor OF the
veins bnt ronsed in the female breast
%n yenoeance which blood alone can
nell Independence was the newt.
hIo result, -ChicaqO Tribune.
The trade in "blooded" dogs
an itnm OF no little amount. Inc
oine u Of these principally pointers,
ronpbt to this country from EnB5anu
urinp the last two years, Is stated 70
a sl0O. 600 The furore ahou' Law Law
5ck'g red Irish settlers, Gordon ) allu m
;ndred breeds, is now rs great as was
YER that in Japan about spotted i, raU GGo
its No dog that costs less than 81 'ooo
now considered worth owning. Ihese
Unable animals have their pedigrees
with rs much care as 'no
,bility of England.