The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-04-15
FACTS AND FANCIES.

BABy:-
They called him tiddy ckle sing,
And soothing syrups they did bring
To stem the rising squall
In vain they sought for secret pin,
Aud gave him peppermint and gin
Yet louder did he bawl
Beneath his potticoats HIS feet,
Like little mice who pussy meet,
| Did twist and twrl about;
And, oh he roared in such a way.
No costard seller btho and gay
Gives half 20 loud Il shout,
His tears an instant coaso to flow.
Anon he wildly squealH AZ though
Some flea had bit him badly
| Poor pa, he rises mp in ire,
Strong argument does him INSPIRE
Things end for baby sadly.
Fun,
Gen. Custar says it takes an Indian
four minutes to scalp victim.
Bismarck was sixty years old on
April |. He is no fool, either.
Go and buy n COW right away. A
Wisconsin COW came home the other
night with bag of gold on her horn.
Ohio has Il new religious sect called
the Eternalists, and they are eternally
fighting TO see who shall lead them.
"A postal card picked up on the
street ut Norwich, Conn, the other
day, bore this solemn appeal: Deer
mary for luv of God send me a pare of
pants.".
---'' Don't call on me for three days."
is what an Ashland girl posted on the
front gate, and she further added:
I'm going to eat some onions this
week if ! never have another beau"
"A wonderful exhibition has been
opened Mt Brussels. 1t is collection
of about 100 landscapes of great merit,
| painted 10y boy named Fritz Ker.
! choye, of Bruges, who died an idiot
at eleven years of age.
Dark colors and quiet, neutral tints
t are becoming the regulation style for
t street wear, all the year round. Black
!, grenodine for summer wear, ard black
l silk for winter use, are to he found i'll
+ the wardrobe of almost every lady.
, Hats are haring, with broad bEims
= turned up, or turned down, or raised,
so as to display branches OF trimming
under the brim on one side. They are
| aHti pictVtJ "hNt "'S ''''''I
becoming to young faces.
"A Missourian vino comes home after
an absence of a week and finds that his
wife has been knitting tidy instead OF
splitting wood has Il right to tell her
that her folks always did have the name
of being the latest people in the state.
Great preparations are atioat ut
Trieste for the unveiling the statue
erected to the memory of MaXimilian.
| Invitations have been sent to all the
companies who served under the en-
peror Ill Mexico.
That mysterious muttering which
often comes to us on a southern breeze
has been finally explained. 1t is the
awful blasphemy OF the Louisiana car
drivers when the native belle plants her
majestic No. II on his toes. - Cincinnati
Times.
Arizona hens are accustomed to lay
ing eggs worth iadozen; and the gentle
Susan b., inclning her head little to
one side, and argumentatively flour
ishing her right arm, exclaims &: "See
what even the hens can do when they
have their rights |"
"A gigantic swimming bath, COM
posed of iron and rooted i'll with plate
glass, has been moored in the Thames
at London. The water that is admitted
to it flows through thick bed OF char
coal, and is so effectually filtered that II
sparkles and glistens as if it were drawn
from an artesian we'll.
| Cardinal Manning, i'll accordance
with n usnal custom, will take his title
from some church in Rome, and has
selected the church of St. Gregory,
after whom he will be called. If by
any possibility he should be elevated to
the papacy, he would therefore become
Pope Gregory XVII.
The following harmless Gf hard hit
we find in one OF our English exchanges.
The doctor referred to, it will be
perceived, is a reverend doctor:
| al cannot praise the doctors eyes,
| never saw his glance divine;
He always shuts them when he prays,
And when he breaches he shuts mlne
A large, heavy-set man who resided
near Indianapolis died recently from
disorder which no Indian doctor could
make out. At the time of his death he
| WIS utllb ulDIC lh.'ll ~
flesh having wasted away. a post NOR
tenn examination showed that his liver
was full of assesses, so that mis- food
had not been properly absorbed, and
, that he had actually starved to death.
Johnny saved himself trouble but
' lost marks in his definition exercise the
/ other day. He got bravely through
"presbyter," which he found, by look-
: ing il out, to be one who had had the
, laying.on of hands by the presbytery.
The next word was "dissenter," aud In
, an evil moment Johnny. without turn
ing leaf in his dictionary, wrote,
zone who has had the dysentery."
The present programme OF the Brit
ish arctic expedition proposes that the
two vessels shall leave Portsmouth
about the latter end of May, and taxing
, the usual route to Bstfin's Bay en
/ deavor to pass up Smiths Soma: ,:.uda a
r 81 degrees or 50 degrees nor.n ia',.%I nh;is
they will probably separate, ana saast s1 of
one will explore the northern coas. a,;Ii ~
, Greenland. the other will pusn SUI"
> further northward.