The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-03-11
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Red used on n railroad signifies
danger, and says stop. II il the same
thing displayed on n mans nose.
A tract on "The Wickedness of
Gluttonv" is said TO have been found
among the good things sent to the Kan
sas grasshopper sufferers.
A man at FL Paso, Mexico, has put
in claim against the United States
government for nine chickens destroyed
by covotes from the American side.
"A lamp chimney may be made al
most understandable by putting it over
the fire in vessel OF hot water and let
ting it remain until the water boils. It
will be found that boiling toughens in
this case.
Alexander Dumas, it is said, never
sketches n scheme for any Of his pieces.
He takes for four.act piece seventy
seven big pages of blue paper. He
devotes twenty pages each 10 the first,
second and third acts, and seventeen to
the last.
Sentiment is nothing but senti.
ment. An ex-army captain, in Col
orado, when dying, asked the boys to
wrap the old flag around him. They
had no flag, and so they wrapped him
in coffee sack, and he exclaimed
Ahl may you all die as proudly !"
Mr.. George Smith has discovered
among tho Assyriau tablets in the Brit
ish museum the legend of the building
of the Tower of Babel. The discovery
is quite as important as that Of the
tablet relating to. the deluge, made
known by the same gentleman.
A dry gosds clerk lately dropped
senseess behind the counter while
waiting on customers. The female Gus
toner for whom he had pulled down
every bolt of calico on the shelves
quietly requested the proprietor to re-
move the iucumbrance and send on an
other clerk.
Anybody who wants young Eng
lishman who parts his hair in the md
die can get one in Greece cheap. He is
held by Greek brieands' who only ask
twelve shillings for him. At last ac'
counts there we're no takers at these
figures. Persons who are waiting to
get little one for cent may slip in.
Eyes, SIR" yelled preacher in
Dakota church one Sunday morning.
there's more lying and swearing aud
stealing and general devil ry to the
square inch in this here town than all
the rest OF. the American country and
then the congregation got up and
dumped the preacher out OF the win
dow.
The Troy Times says: At party
on Fourth street the. other night n
young gentleman tried TO coax young
lady 70 play on the piano. She said
couldn't. why sald he, "you can
play the Blue Danube waltz, can't
YOU ?" "No," said she, "but | can
play penny ante just like little man."
She is beautiful and accomplished.
One of the boys just before return
ing to Cornell, the other day, sent a
,oung lady friend Of his cake of
Lubin's finest variety Of toilet soap,
with the request that she would draw
no inference on receiving such gift.
The next day the young man was some
what astonisLed when he received let
ter from the young lady containing the
present of a fine. tooth comb, with the
request that he would draw no INFER
eIces therefrom.
The best mode of getting rid of
bcd-bugs is to fumigate them with
brim.tone. Houses standing long and
empty which have swarmcd with them
have by this means been eilectually
freed from them. Place in the center
of the room dish containing about
four ounces of birthstone remove from
the room such metallic surfaces as
might be affected by the fumes
close every aperture, even to the key
hole, and light the birthstone. After
four or five hours enter the room and
open the window for thorough airing,
"A correspondent of the New York
Tribune gives an exceedingly simple
precautiop in the use of Kerosene OF
any other cheap oil. His plan is to
iii the lamp lightly with jewelers. cot
ton before pouriI 6 in the oil. The cot,
ton absorbs great deal of the oil, and
in case of accident the latter does not
flow about, and can thus be eXtin'
gnished. On one occasion his kerosene
lamp burst, and mass of flame jumped
out but, being in compact body, he
covered it instantly with bucket, and
with the hep of water.pitcher and a
few wet towels extineuisbed 1T before
the slightest damage was done. Had it
NOT been for the cotton the flaming oil
would have flowed in all directions.