The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-03-02
FACTS AND FANCIES.

\ NEW HAMPSHIRE man sends four
teen Of his children 10 one schooI, and
when they combine against the teacher
he knows that he can safely bet upon the
result
Az interesting Harrisburg journal
says; "Mrs. Sicbold, ofthis city, is eigh-
ty-iour years Of age, reads without
glasscs, and has had her back broken
three times,
ANp now Baymd Taylor also says that
black.cycd women can never love "a
iondly as those with blue eyes. He says
they may think they love, but it's only
a morbid affection
"IF Jones undertakes to pull my
ears said loud,mouthcd fellow on q
street corn r, she will just have his hands
full" The crowd looked at the mans
ears and thought 50, too.
DIp YOU every see the end Of Henry
Smiths right thumb? Because if you
didn' you never Will as Mr., Smith very
ioolishly attempted to interfere with u
buzz saw, the other day.
JAMES GoHpoN Bennett is fairly
warned that playing shiny ON horse
back will not enable him to cope with
the conjugal broomStick in the hands of
Il willowy and poetic creature.
TuAr preacher forgot himself, who,
while add rcSsing a ladies' charitable 50
cicty, said, My hearers now urge on
all of you todivc down into your hrecChca
pockets and haul out Sunthin' for the
poor.
AS eastern man calls himself on his
card "a temperance boot maker The
need of temperance boots is apparent,
for though they're not generally drunk,
it's notorious fact that they're often
very tight.
ANNA Dickinson complains that she
ha, bad sensations in her head, y She
has been trying to create sensations for u
long time, and if now she finds that they
have turned up in her head, She has mo-
body to blame but herself.
4 DEBATING society is preparing to
wrcstlc with the following question
&" Resolved, that Il man who plays on an
accordion and keeps a barking dog can't
he Christian -Four members to one
want to take the negative side.
SOME of the papers are recalling the
day whcn 100 years ago l1O women
went to tar and feather a man and wo-
man who had named child Thomas
Gage, after the English general, Such
was our torcfathcrs' idea of liberty.
lr i, said that since his release from
confinement brigham Young acts asa
changed man. 1t is only necessary for
one of his wives to hint that the fire *
low, and he will trot out to the wool
shed rs if he was thankful for the exercise
THERE j. watch in a Swiss museum
only thrcc-,iXtccnths Of aninch in diane
ter, inserted in the top of a pcnclcasc,
Is little dial indicates not only hours,
minutes and seconds, but also daysof the
month. II is relic Of old times, when
watches were inserted in saddles, snuff
boxes, slirt-Studs, brcaSt-pins, brooches
and iingcr-rlngS,
TuE New York World, speaking Of q
European scandal, remarks: He il
said to have nyishcd IO,OOOOOO rouhles
upon this lady during as many years"
This is not lavish. 1t is downright par
,imony. No lady can live in any style
IN a roublc a ycar--a roubIc is about
equal to lOO copccks, or two siCca rupees
N-Ijo a mohur or onc-iourth OF halhe
INplANN farmers recently got out
their plows, spat ON their hands, kicked
their oxen ON the ribs, and .icrkcd around
among the rocks as natural As though
il were the month of June. 4 day or
two later they took their little crowbars
and prcd up as much of the pIowsas
they could, and will recover the rest in
the spring. Such is the simple life of
the agricuIturlst.
WHHN II great Tennessee medium ma
tcriaIihcd an Indian, and Il bystander re-
marked that the spirit and the medium
appeared GOOD deal alike, the manager
OF the Scancc said: Well, | used to
think that way myself, but understand
better now. You see, the spirit absorb8
50 much of the mediums person in max
ing the naturalization that they do look
very much alike at times they can
barely be distinguished. "
4 SEAL about three feet and a half in
cnpth was shot in the Delaware river,
near Morrisvillc, Bucks county, Pennsyl-
,ania, couple of days ago. The seal
lad got considerably out Of bis latitude
md deserved death for his tcmerity in
ocating himself on Il river whose banks