The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-03-30
FACTS AND FANCIES.

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after getting ON clean shirt, no one in
the house is aware Of the fact lie takes
off the shirt and puts on another, quiet
" smiling all the while lie never
never speaks to soul. Oh, no
A couNTRYMAN went to see his lady
love, and wishing 50 beconvcrSatlonaI o"'
served, "Thc thcrmomokron is twenty
degrees above scion this evening,
"Yes" innocently replied .he maiden
such birds do fly higher some seasons ot
the year than Others"
WALL street brokers who advertise III
country papers and send out circulars
asserting that money in sums OF sou TO
81, 600 invested by them in their way
leads to fortune, cautiously omit to state
who gets the fortune. 1t IL not the man
who furnishes the money,
THE Prince of Wales is a mighty hunt
or. Nimrod is no where. Boxed up in
bomb-proof tower, he actually Killed
tiger driven towards him by bcaterS,
and all Albion rings with acclamallon'
Of praise and rejoicing. Unless ne Is
hclicd, however, he has hunted the
tiger when the beast got much the best
of him.
TuE membership of trades unions in
New York city has fallen from $4,000
in 1873 to $4,000, and of the 10000
artisans, mechanics and laborcrs in the
city about onc-third are out of employ
ment. Wages in all of the building
trades have come down to - day
and those of Iaborers and 'IongShoremen
to 81 a day.
NEGRO women in .IctlersonylIlc, lndi-
ana, sell babies for old rags rag ped
dlcr discovered one in a sack oi old rags
which he had purchased. 1t was ,whitTr'
and the negro woman SAID she was poaru-
ing it for a white woman. Ter story Is
that the child crawIcd into Me bag, ana
she did not know it was there when she
sold it. The little wait was nearly 'moth-
cred when found.
SOME Young ladies Of Whitmorc lake,
Michigan, undertook to get up dona-
tion for Rev. r. +. Pierce, by retailing
kisses and succeeded in disposng OF
ninety. for which the aggregate receipts
were four dollars and a half. bnt th'
investors complained that the glr'7
pinchcd up their lips, and SKINNED tn'
measure to such a degree that tthey h'ade
a profit Of one thousand per cent,
"a MAN." says the New York Times,
"may be- Il failure as United states
senator, he may even disgrace his coui'-
try in foreign official position; or he
may steal the peoples money, wear
prison stripes, and still manage to rH"
along VERY comfortably through ME
But to fail AS a car conductor is to he
social and moral wreck To have ones
bcll.punch and twenty-five dollars N'-
posit taken away is to be sent upon
cold and hcartlcss world a vagabond'
MODEL for wonderful ferry across
fine British channel and the Atlantic has
brrn tried in England, The structure
consists of three parallel tubes, Jar thouH"
apart to allow paddles to work between
them, the whole being linked together 10
form a ,pglc vessel, covered by Il deck,
ON which the inventor, Mr., tdgartoN,
proposes to carry railway trains ahm
Thousand head of cattle at time. he
channel passage is to he made wl'h 'htI'
ferries in an hour and half; and catlle
are to NE transported across the Atlahuc
mt the rate of two pounds head
The Scientific American SAYS o' tn'
,,Grr,t Britain" one of the first made
iron vessels, and one ot the earnest !"
ply between New York and lJNcrpooI'
HAT She has recently arrived at Liver
nnnl and completed her thirty-slNth
irin around the world. The Great
Eritain was built at Bristol, England,
and in July, 1915, made her maiach
vovogc from Liverpool to New York IN
fourteen days Since lSH'2 'haGnchu,
entity OF her employment III the 'r'mea
during 1881 and 1889, she has Sa'l'1
over one million nautical miles, ana
when recently surveyed She was pro,
nouuccd one of the strongest vessels III
the mercantile marine.
1--WE know the public is down upon
-. ~ remarked the old milkman, a7 ne
Ginpcd out the desired quart from one Oh
his bio cans, "but the pubIicis mistaken
In the m.t place we put in IcetIe "'-
ter--only bit to make up Tor SILinN MIN
urc. II goes to the big dealers ana 'try
ain bit kccriul when they glt TO pour
inc in water. They sells it to the gro
GERS and they put in chalk with one
hand and water with the other, ana they
arr thinking of politics and get in Too .,
much. The servant gal goes al'eF n'''N
for the family and drinks third o' H.
and she nuts in water to make NY tne
measure; and, you see, when the iam'IS
rits it, the taste amt there ana NY
Tocs for us poor old men, who hash ! +"
d;.hnnest hair in our heads lhat Tue
wny. mister-gec up, there, Homer
SOMEBODY relates this little story 'ot
the benefit of christian tradcsnleh
Gentleman wandering through the ha,
fors desired to buy an embroidered
handkerchief of a Turkish Shopkeener'
He asked the price. seventy
masters" No." said the gentleman
aware that it is usual among all traders
whatever their creed, to ask at mrs
more than the value; " that is TOO m"ch
I will give YOU seventy and a. th'
dealer seemed to assent he counted gu
the money. But great was his surpfl,S.
when the heavy-bcarded Osmanll
rraycly pushing back to him twenty M
e piasters, observed This is more allan .,,,
t the lust price. 1t is always the c.'s,i.. st ~.
+ here to bargain over a thing down l" ,,,y II,
Il fair value, and as fifty plaster, - yo,, :
p fair price, those twenty belong to YOU
g SOME curious relics were found .,,l,aS iG the
D. old elm of Boston Common. n'i'eus'
t % I"iret was discovered imbedded III th'
trnnk eighteen ring from the center
and beneath the tree was a medal WhlCl
. i described as follows; " 1t is ot larG
. lie of copper or bronze, and has a mt mt
= dallion head on one side, and on IN
: other figures of Justice with scales 9n'
|. sword. and of religion with eros an'
r a circular temple in the bacSgf0Inu q,
- with date which seems to he loei, =,
/. MpClIU. The diverse slde oi m ln'
1 medal bears the following lnScrlp,loH !,