The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-19
FACTS AND FANCIES.

| litiOns of evil, but they are worse than
their Outbursts of noble enthusiasm,
THERE is nothing more truly insinu-
ating and deicrentia than the waggle Of
a little dogs tail in the presence OF a big
| dog with bone,
"rlMr waits for no man. That
another, Doesn't time always wait for
a man to get firmly seated on the top
rail before il breaks?
KATE FIELD is also mad NJ Joaquin
Miller. She says she can't respect man
who sleeps with his head at the foot of
the bed.
GENERAL DIX has got so old an
feeble that he can no longer see worm.
hole in an apple, and every insect must
look out for himself
owe expect the Great Father to feed
and cothc us aslong as wclivc, tenderIy
remarked one Of the Indians who had
thirteen scalps hanging in his lodge.
TANInERMIsTs are new busy stuning
white doves, which are in large demand
iorra decorations, there being SUI
pcrstition among some classes that they
bring peace tothc apartments where they
are hung,
MANS inhumanity to man is too
familiar to require any explanation, but
man 'sinhumanity to woman is perhaps
best illustrated by the care he exercises
in forming a circle arounda dog fight, 50
that passing female must climb lamp
post to get a view Of the proceedings.
The day has come when manulactur-
crs can take calves feet and work them
up into delicious strawberry jelly, and
raspberry Jam, hut that's az far as they
can 60 when they can tackle calf S
head with success, some folks will be
missed from society
DoCroE; II am pleased to say, Mrs.
Fitzbrown, that ! shall he able to vac
cinatc your baby from u very healthy
child Of yourneighbor, Mrs Jones, Mrs.
l'itzbrown: "Oh dear doctor could
not permit that, We do not care to be
mixed up with the Joncses in any way
TIM first step toward making a man of
your son is to train HIM to earn what he
spends; then the best way to teach him
to be frugal is to take away his money A.
fast rs he earns it, and spend it wisely
for Yourself There is nothing like
teaching the young by eXample.-Bw-
HngtoH Hu~Icye.
A WAITER advertising for Il situation
SAYS he can fold napkins in three hun
drri different ways" but what the
boarding community wants most just
now is waiter who carry dish OF soup
without soaking the first oint OF his
thumb in it.
"TAlN'r no use in your rryin', said
a hcartlcss maiden to hcrprostratc lover;
" woudn marry you il You were the
last man on earth. - Well, Mary h"
replied breathing through his nose with
great difficulty, "you'll lend me your
pocket handkerchief, won't YOU ?'
YEARS ago, when painter wanted to
dcpict wholesale anguish he went for
inspiration to the place where criminals
were tortured to death; but now he finds
4 better and more convenient subject III
the Young man in the front seat at the
theatcr whose tall collar has become I'm.
buttoncl bchind,--M LoUjs R,p0J,icao.
rlyINo,
Wrrau unly live once and death, turus
with Iiio', bower and rose, cnt"nr
And our lives would hc dmkencd lay errors
hid we r,rn like eats p ssr.S nine
They would he perhaps all ct them wnNlcI
And hr rccktSsly sQuhndctcd away,
Aud not halt Of the joys would be tasted
That one life can embrace ~ 4 day.
Let the lives that we live he worth liyiu-'
Let the DAYS that ives spend he well spent
Let us save lor the pleasure 0l giving.
And not borrow at fifty per cent
Let II, never rcasc loving aud learning,
And use lie for its nohlcSt Of ruds,
Then when drst to its dust IS returning
We shall live in the hearts Of Utr menu"
\ WELL known author was about to
read new piece in the grcen-room ot
West End thcatcr, when, before COM
mcncing. Young and charming actress,
who /. always remarkable for the elegance
of her toilets, smirkingly said MY
dear Mr., is the part you have written
for me well within my power : f'r-
ieclly," replied the author You nave
to change your dress seven times!
TOMMY is fond of sugar, and asks his
mother for some to eat with MS straw
berries. She refuses. He appears re-
signed, but adds gravely: " You know,
mamma what happened round the cor
ner? There was n little boy, ami MS
mother would not give him any sugar on
his strawberries, and -" And
And next day he fell into we'll.
ABOUT nine o'clock the other morning
one of our most active business men wa.
heard to say: :" am going to he worked
to death again to-day, Eve got to get
that letter in ,hc po~toiflcc before n'ght
and it isn't directed yet, and there - no
stamp ON it either. That will take an
hour, and then it will he too late to 50
to the poStoilicc, except IN hack, ana
there is nobody about to help me int"
it.-S, Louis GI0Jc Democrat,
Ar the distance of twenty miles from
Carter station, on the Union Pacific rail-
way, is situated a remarkable coal-mihe'
It is about four miles in length, and con'
sists of sixteen veins, lying one above
another, with thin layer Oi sandstone
intervening. The bottom vein Is the
thinnc,t five iect), while the one next
above is over sevcnIy.fve leet IN thlcK-
ness. 4 few feet above this Il VEN ol
sixty feet. another OF forty succeeding
and u on, making in all about four hun
dred feet of coal The veins soIpe at an
angle of about twenty-five degrees, and
are very easy OF access.
| FABLE,
| A ce-toin bird ia 4 certain wood,
| Tpelins the Spring-tims warm and good
| SAN. 10 H. In meo1iouS mood.
ON other neighhorns bTatches stool
other birds who heard his Song;
| Ioudly he sang, and clear and strong
| sweetly be sang, anh u stirred their gan
| There should b, q Nu.re -n musical. -.t..I
They .tid tu thCmsclyCs, We must SOP ihA' u''"'