The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-07-06
FACTS AND FANCIES

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He who expects friend without a
fault will never find one,
THERE are many recipes for getting
rid Of the currant worm, but there is
nothing so sure in its results as to blind
fold him and back him under pile driver
SOME one remarked about recent de-
hutante that her mouth was like "rose
bud "Oh do hcr Justice" said Jones,
cher mouth is like whole bush full Of
rose buds"
A WATERrowN girl addresses Mrs. A..
| I, Stewart IA aunty and tells how sorry
She is about her poor dead uncle, About
$4,000 will do for her and she tells
which of the Watcrtown banks are the
safest.
Two ladies Contcndcd for precedence
at the court of Charles V. They appealed
to the monarch, who, like Solomon,
awarded " Let the elder so first" such
Il dispute was never known afterwards
THE London World announces that
Capt Burnahy, the central Asian lion of
the London sIionS, is about to start for
Africa in quest of MIR, Stanley, who has
not been heard of for over year.
CoNGREssMAN Thompson, OF the
Gloucester, Mass, district remarked,
when he heard that the Old South
church in Boston had been sold "that
it didn't do for the Aim m.mighty to
own c-c-c.Corner lot in B-B-B-BoStpn.
SOME people feel themselves obliged at
this season TO get ON the heated and
dusty railway and go off to some crowded
and generally uncomfortable watering
place, Happy the individual who can
afford to stay at home and keep cool,
The following is the population, accord
ing to the last census, of the six largest
cities of Europe; London, 3,25i 270
Paris, l,79i3SO Constantnopc, l,00O,-
OOO Berlin, S26, 6,34l Vienna, S25, 5,l65;
and st. Petersburg, 667,92G
THERE is no fooling with life when it
is once turned forty; the seeking of a
fortune then is but desperate after
game it is hundred to one If man
fling two skies and recover all especially
if his hand be no luckicr than mime
C0micy.
A CHEEKY party by the name of John
son proposes to condensc Dickens novels
by rewriting them and cutting ont
those parts which he-thc cheeky party
named Iohnson-thinks are not worth
reading We move to amend by con-
dcnsing the cheeky party named Johnson
A gold pen is a little thing,
But in thy poet hand
II can take lifc-it can take wing
Become magic wand,
More powerful, more wonderful
Than alchemy OF old
II can make minds all beautiful
Change all things into gold.
PAYsoN, Sn his dying bed said to his
daughter, "YOu will avoid much pain
and anxiety il you will learn to trust all
your concerns in Gods hands. Cast all
your care ON him, for he carcth for you
But if you merely 90 and say that you
cast your care upon him, you will come
away with the load on your shoulders
THEY are experimenting in London
with gun which weighs eighteen tons,
throws Il ball weighing one thousand one
hundred and fifty pounds, and consumes
three hundred pounds oi powder at each
discharge. That gun would he a dan
gcrous thing to leave lying around loose
for childrcd to fool with.
A LAFAYETTE, Ind, man, with a
mania for patents, invented decapitator
and committed suicide with it. On the
sides of the machine were found written
the words: "For sale or rent. IIari-
kari Patent applied for The singu
lar instrument is now on exhibition in
the cheerful warCroom8 of Lafayette
undertaken.
A CLERGYMAN who was invited to
preach before II medical association re.
turned answer that he would do SO from
the text: "In his disease Asa sought
not to the Lord but to the physicians;
and Asa slept with his fathers and died.
The time for the delivery of the sermon
has not yet been fixed.
4 MEDICAL authority says that n man
loses one per cent. of vitality every
time he is suddenly walked from sleep.
This is what makes druggist look 50
pleasant when he is rung up at two
o'clock in the morning by Il tcllOw-citi2en
who wants to know if he keeps postage
stamps and who would like to buy one.
THE Wesleyan Methodists have sul.
fered severely in the Fiji Islands from
the plague 1t appears fIOm the general
returns that the deaths this year among
church members amount to more than
eight thousand while there are ten thou.
sand less children in the Sunday-schooIs,
and nearly forty thousand less nttenuants