The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-01-27
FACTS AND FANCIES.

fading from the face of the earth.
Mary had little lamp,
Twas filed with kerosenc;
Mary down the chimney blew,
And vanished from the scene.
Did the lawyers of this country
ever stop to think that when Brigham
Young dies there will be the biggest con
tested will case on record? .-..
In their intercourse with the world
people should not take words as so much
geniue coin or standard metal, but merely
as counters that people play with
Douglas Jcr0M. ....
|. In Newark, the other day, a fashion
able mother said 10 the family physician,
in the presence of her three giggling,
frivolous daughters doctor, how can
we improve our girls~ "By improving
the mothers" was the gruif reply.
o, hearts of love o, souls that turn
Like suntowcrs, to the pure and best
To you the truth is manifest!
For they the mind Of Christ discern
Who lean, like John, upon his breast.
JOHN G. WHITTIER.
An old veteran was relating his ex-
ploils to crowd of boys, and mentioned
being in five engagements, "That' :
nothing" broke in sharp little fellow.
"My sister Agnes has been engaged
more'n eleven times.
-"Closing places where games of
chance are played" is hardly the effective
way to put it. The majority might
escape under the plea that there's no
chance at all, for the outsider, There's
nice technicality for a rising young
COW lawyer.
-"My dear" said Cincinnati packer
to his daughter, "a regular Murillo
painting has been discovered in our
city" as it water color, pa" "No,
my dear, it's a real hogs oil painting" "
And the young lady screamed, "Oh,
Lard!'
Gas to being conhictcd with the
gout," said Mrs. Partington, "high liv-
ing don't bring it on, 1t is iinc0herent
in some families, and is handed down
from father to son. Mr.. Hammer, poor
soul, disinherits it from his wic's grand
HlblIltl.
THERE is no better nor safer way, no
easier way, no surcr way of saving chill
drcn from the debasing influences OF the
streets, from corrupting association, and
from the acquisition of vicious and hurt
full practices, than to make home attrac-
tive.-W w Hall.
-(iood manners are Il part Of good
morals, ,---WHATELY.
Truth has her plcasurc.grounds, her haunts
OF ease
And easy contemplation partcrrcs
And abyrinthine walks, her sunny glade,
And shady groves for recreation framed.
WORDSWORTH
The Washington elm at Cambridge,
under which Washington drew his sword
and took command of the Continental
armies, is visibly decaying, because it,
ancient roots have been deliberately un-
dermincd and cut through by the Canto
brigham municipal government in order to
make way for public sewer.
A BRIGHTON lady, riding ON the car,
the other day, was amused by the qucs-
tion of a little girl, who, hearing the
conductor cry the stations, looked up
into her mothers face and innocentIy
asked; "Say, mamma, do we get ont at
the next hollerY' Lonis Rep"bhcd".
The following sonnet (says the Scots-
mani has been written by the Poet Lau-
reatc for new work published by Il
Boston firm, entitled Laurel Leaves
BLACK EYES
There are three things that fill my yhcart with
sighs,
And steep my soul in laughter lwhcn view
Fair maiden forms moving like mclodlcSl-
Dmplcs, rose lips and eyes OF any hue,
There are three things shcncath the blessed
skies
For which live--black eyes, and brown,
and blue;
| hold them all most dear-but oh! black eyes!
live and die, and only die ior you.
OF late such eyes looked at melville mu'ed
At sunset underneath a shadCwy plane
In old Bayonne, nigh the Southern Sea-
From Il half.open lattice looked at me.
saw no more, only those eyes confused
And dazzled to the heart with glorious pam.
A Young man in Olathc, Kansas, who
is particular about his washing, the other
day wrote Il note to his washcrwoman
and one to his girl, and, by II strange
fatality, put the wrong address on each
envelope and sent them off. The washer
woman was we'll pleased at an invitation
to take ride the next day, but when
the Young lady read: "lf you MUS up
nv shirt bosoms, and rub the buttons oil
my collar any more, as you dld the laSI
time, | will 90 somewhere else, she cried
all the evening, and declares that she Will
never speak to him again
BABY ARITHMETIC
Rosebud, dainty and fair to see,
Flower of all the world to me,
Come this way on your dancing feet
Say, how much do you love me, sweet
Red little mouth drawn gravely down,
White brow wearing puzzled irown,
Wise little baby Rose is she,
Irving to measure her love for me.
al love You all, the day aud the night
All the dark and the sunshine bright,
All the candy in every store,
All the dollars, and more and more,
Over the tops OF the mountains high
All the world, way up to the sky"
The doctrine of atavism-whicn
means, in the scientific slang OF the uay'
n reycrsion of the traits OF ance9t9rs-
has A moral bearing which has not been
sufficiently considered. There rs sweet
comfort in il for the sinner. When a
man has an attack of atayism, he is, OF
course. not responsible for his misdeedS.
Ills great great-grandfather is acting
through him. When the force of scien-
tific truth is fully appreciated, the aver.
age thief will plead that his remote an
ccstor was baboon and stole cocOanuts
and that he IL, therefore, not responsible
fnr what atayism has lead him into. And