The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-02-25
FACTS AND FANCIES.

i There's nothing in women, after
Q all. G,il Hamilton and Goorge Sand
have both said they would willingly
= relinqui7h their talents if the sacrifice
y would make them pretty.
J "A Roman recently died in Alabama
leaving to somebody, it is said, an inher-
iiance OF no less than 287 hoopskirts.
That woman was as well hooped as an
imported barrel OF French brandy.
-"I'd like to give something to the
poor," remarked Toledo lady. It's
hard times and they must be suffering,
but I've got to use this $40 to buy an.
other switch"
"A gentleman by the name of Har
riott has been haunting the approaches
70 certain newspaper office in San
Francisco, looking for the editor who
called his Clara nee Morris) "Blonde
Bonanza"
The prominence and acuteness
of the noses of San Francisco young
women have attracted the attention of
California writer, and he fears that
female suffrage will begin to raise its
hydra head there presently.
1t is said that there are many more
women than men in Massachusetts,.
Give the women in that state the right
of suffrage and the chances are that
they will vote all the men out OF office,
if nos out of their pantaloons, IN less
than six months.
According to Kepesy, the surgeon
to the Austrian Polar expedition, choca-
late, as a beverage, proved most Valu..
able of all the preserved meat and
vegetables in tins being also OF the
greatest service in sustaining the
strength and spirits.
Honor to him who " first through
the impassable paves road J. Such,
indeed, is the task of every great man
nav, of every good man in one or the
other sphere, since goodness is great
ness, and the good man, high or mum,
BILE, is ever a martyr, ard "spiritual
hero that ventures forward into the
gulf for our deliverance. ."-Cdrlyle.
Human intellect, though varying in
capacity in different individuals, has its
limits in all plans of enlargement loy
acquisition and these limits cannot be
transcribed without aggregate deterior-
alton in dstracting the attention, over
loading the memory or overworking the
brain and sapping the foundations OF
health. .-Jacob BigeloW, ~ ID.
A rich old widower of Oswego told
a Young girl there to drop her other
beaux. She obeyed. He often took
fier out riding, and assured her that
"when we get ready we can go OIL SUD
den like, and surprise the gosslps.'
The Young lady did not demur. Then
the rich old widower popped on very
sudden like, and married rich old
widow about his own age. The Jury Ii
asked for S15, 900 damages.
Its deep mystery-the way the
heart of man turns to one woman out
of NIL the rest he's seen in the world,
and makes it easier for him to work
seven wears for her, like Jacob did for
Rachel sooner than have any other
woman for the asking. L often think OF
these words "And Jacob served seven
wears for Rachel, and they seemed but
a few days, for the love he had for her.
Etiot
"-In a kindly and well-bred COM
pany. if anybody tries to please them,
they try to be pleased; If anybody tries
to astonish them they have the courtesy
to be astonished if people become TIRE
some, they ask somebody else TO play,
or sing, or what not, but they aont
criticise." And John Ruskin holds that
this is the way it should se IN the woria
as we'll as in the drawing-room. de does
not like critics and yet what else Is ne
himself2
A New York correspondent says that
hundreds of consumptives, acting on
the advice of eminent ply sicians, visit
the slaughter. houses there daily for the
purpose of drinking the warm blood OF
an OK. They hold their glasses SO as 10
catch the stream as it flows hotfrom the
dying animal, aud drink 1t steaming as
it is. The habitual drinkers are said
to be greatly benefited by it, and they
saw that it is no more disagreeable than
new milk.
Not only is it important for the
well-beipg of society, but also 1t IL
necessary for the purity OF every mans
moral condition that his impulse TO-
ward the good should never subslde
into repose. He can never be safely
left one moment to be good on system,
but must be kept aroused into energetic
opposition to his foe, while out OF TINS
ceaseless antagonism of truth and false
hood going on around him and IN him,
will be produced perfection OF moral
energy; as from the bosom oi Ino
tempest are born the germs or tefres-
trial beauty and fruitfulness.
DIR. Wilkes, in his recent work on
physiology, remarks that "it Is esu,
mated that the bones OF every adult
person requires to be fed with lime
enough to make marble mantle every
eight months" 1t will be perceived,
therefore, that in the course OF about
ten wears each of us eats three or four
mantlepieces and a few sets OF front
door steps. 1t is awful to think OF .ne
consequences if man would % snus
off from his supply Of lime for Wh,ie
and then get loose in a cemetery; az
ordinary tombstone would hardly oo
enough for a lunch for him.
In few remarks upon the action
of LIGHTNING conductors, Secchl, inc
u.,l' Known astronomer, describes the
storm % Of November, 1872, in which the
cathedral and palace of Alatri were
struck by lightning, these structures lures
having been free from such Visitalions
for many years. The damag done on
tb;s occasion was, as he shows, due IN
GREAT measure to the fact that the lignt-
ninr.rods, ms cad OF being directly
conn ected with the metallic cutters ana
other portions Of the rooi we're ,nss,nrs iso,asea
from them. The fluid, therefore,
sought to make its own way 70 a.n suSn
other good conductors as were near
After quoting other instances, iie;an. ne sn
pressed the opinion that the conditions :
most favorable to safety consist In nj IVIm ,bs
inc the iightning-rod directly 70 an aii .ne a
ino ~ o,;a.s of the roof, and e5-