The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-09-02
NUMBER %.
FACTS AND FANCIES.I,

honey bee that has not Deen lurnlshed
with sting.
"A man said his son had n we'll
stored mind, but the neighbors never
could find where he stored it.
1t is believed that crocodiles live TO
be hundreds of years old. The Egyp-
ans embalmed them.
His "Uncle Consider was quite
hight in telling eli Perkins, elf you
get the best OF whisky, Eli, whisky will
get the best of you"
Fifteen thousand dollars is the con-
tract price for the new bronze statue
which the city of Providence is about
erecting to Roger Williams.
"A Boston paper calls for two scpa
rate Heavens-one for the good and the
other Cor the fair to medium. Oh, pshaw!
Less all go in together.
Prof. Tyndall now takes the ground
that Ham was an Indian instead OF a
negro. Anybody can take any ground
he wants to these days.
This isn't a good season for
/" catches" at the watering places, and
many nice girls are willing to take mp
with freckled faced, impoverished men.
Can there be any greater dotage in
the world than for one to guide and di-
rect his course by the sound of a bell,
and not by his own judgment and dis
cretion ?-RabelaiS.
The wish has been expressed that
the portrait Of Hon. II. Hamlin might
be pat upon one cent. postage stamp.
Then the righteously indignant people
might punch his head every time they
send off a newspaper by mail.
To render the colors of cotton fab
ric permanent, dissolve three gil!s OF
salt in four quarts Of water; put the
calico in while hot, and leave it till
cold it will not fade by subsequent
washing.
An Iowa man obtained a divorce
from his wife and then hired her for q
cook. r'he woman is delighted with
her change, because now she can have
a new dress occasionally and a little pin
money in her pocket-book.
--Messrs. Moody and Sankey have
received invitations to visit New Hea-
land, but it is more than likely they
will consider the whisky-tattooed aborg-
ines of Chicago have prior claims on
their efforts.
FIX. Empress Eugene is instituting
law suits in France to get back some OF
the property which Napoleon ILL.,
couldn't take with him out of the coun-
try when he left Sedan. If not all, it Is
likely she will manage to get some.
-Danbury has the champion patient
boy, He comes from chronicalIy
borrowing family. The other day he
went to n neighbor's for a cup OF sour
milk. 81 haven't got anything. but
sweet milk" said the woman, pettishly.
"I'il wait till it sours," said the obilg-
ing youth, sinking into chair.
Although imprisonment for debt
Inns been abolished in Great Britain,
twenty thousand persons nearly were
arrested for debt in 1873, one fourth or
whom went to prison rather than pay.
They were committed, however, not Tor
inability, but for unwillingness to meet
their obligations.
There is Maine man who has
preserved document emanating from
n Justice of the peace, to this effect :
&" Hancock, IS, Novr llth 1909. Then
personally appeared lbrook Eddy OF
Eddington, and acknowledged himself
guilty of having uttered two protaane
ooths on this day, and has paid iine
for the same as the Law directs to me"
1t is the London Telegraph which
puts forth this SANDER upon American
babies "The transatlantic infant has
n peeuiiar mode of crying in series OF
sharp. spasmodc yelps, very different
from the soStenutO howl of the British
bnutling, and with intonation as though
it were prematurely striving to recite
the declaration of independence with It's
mouth full of peanuts and popcorn
A Partisan thief at the Anteuh
steenle.cbases was caught by detec'
five with his hand in lady pocket
az AN no thief" the pickpocket lnulg-
nontly protested, 81 am in love with
this lady, and was only slipping note
into her pocket" and he produced as
proof love lelGtT Hlu''ch ~ ~
of his hand. As, however, the LADY WIS
old and ugly, and forty-one purses were
fonnd on the ingenious Frenchman, ne
was taken off to duranco vile.
There IS a megatherium in the De-
troit museum. Its stomach must nave
been about the size of n beer vat, ana
correspoudeut of the Graphic doesn't
understand how it could possibly have
satisfied it's appetite with ants. Unset
entiic minds are always crltlcizlnlg ev-
erything that they DO not comprehesa.
Undoubtedly the megatherlum uSeo 70
spell its ants with "u, anu lonlo IL
very easy to live on them.
"A man of kindly nature is apt to
provide for the. comfortable old age OIL
n horse that has long carried him, ana
would be grieved to sell such an AM,
NAL TO n poor master for mean work ana
miserable treatment. Poverty may io:Cc
consent; but certain gratitude Is ieit
for old and faithful service, suu more
where there is personal affection, as IN
A dog. But when there is no personal
relation it would seem that our rights
over animal life ore increased by GER
,tain domesticity. If by deiendipR Sueep
we cause their numbers to increa'a; on,
right TO take the lives which would not
have existed without our cares appears
greater than in the case OF Wild anlma'H
wholly independent OF us.
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