The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-03-09
FACTS AND FANClES.

engagement or selge, the proposal Il Vc
assault and matrimony the victory.
TuE Princess Beatrice looks sCornflIlly
at poverty-striken suitors of noble birth,
She does not wish to be understood as
standing in the way of American girls,
An PARTING.
As one, in thinking Of the dead
Recalls the face but not the name,
AS knowing when the soul has fled
A title gocth as it came;
Re mine the face that you recall,
And mine the name that you forget
The sweetest story Of them all
is thought, but never uttered yet,
4 UTICA paper calls Seth Green "thc
father of fishes If he is he has an
excessive large family to whale, and the
blubbcring must he something tremen-
dous.,
4 MEDICAL lecturer says that thin Solcs
are the worst propagators Of disease
among women. Why don't he 90 further,
and say what arc proper CATERS for them
to wear.
The newest thing in twirs is the pro-
duct of Glasgow, Ky. They only weigh
two pounds and half each, ana wouldn't
make moderate lunch for hungry Fiji
| Islander
THREE years ago Sheffield sent cutlery
and steel rails to the United States valued
at C2,7OOOOO. Last gear the total value
of goods exported to this country was
only c690OO0
Nrrp,tnN1, man roturno1 homo tbe
other day, after IN absence of eleven
years, and found that neither Of the three
husbands his had married and buried
had fixed the gate
T.. DopSoN, Il North Carolina baptist
brother, went to bed and stayed there
while his clothes were being dyed, that
he might give what a new suit would
cost to the missionaries.
4 WOMAN who was gathering weeds
on the sea shore in Japan, Tor burning,
laid her Young child down on the beach,
4 frightful cry told the mother that all
was not right, and on examination she
found that Il cutie fish had put one
iccIcr round the baby. She cut the
icclcr loose with her sickle, and the
youngstcr was unharmed.
TnE master Of the Edinburg retorma-
tory lately said: "Wc have eighty
hoys here. Scarcely one who has not
been smoker or Il chcwCr, and most of
them BOTH II believe that no one
who smokes tobacco before the bodily
powers are developed ever makes a
strong, vigorous man. - d. Ferguson.
~hun smoking as you would self de,
structou. - Lancet, Dear youth, do
not spurn these cautions against an evil
habit. Parents, insist on your boys not
smoking,
| TUE IEvEIER.-
! The king hc rcigns ON throne at gold,
| Fcncd round by his right divine
| The baron he sits in his castle Old
Drinking his ripe, red wine;
But below, below in his ragged coat,
The bcggar he tuncth hungry note
and the debtor is down with an aching head.
So the world goes!
So the steam flows,
Vet there is fellow whom nobody knows,
Who makcth all free
On land and sea,
And lorccth the rich like the poor to flee.
The lady lies down in her warm white lawn,
And dreams of the pcared bride;
The mlkmaid sings to the mild-cyed dawn,
sad songs on the cold hillside,
And the bishop smiles, as on high he sits,
O'cr the scholar who writes and starts by fits
And the girl who her nightly needle plies
Looks out for the Summer Of lfc-and dies!
80 the world goes
So the stream flows!
Nct there is fellow whom nobody knows
Who makcth all free
ON land and sea,
And lorccth the rich like the poor to llcc.
TurY tell of an ancient lady III Cali
'oruia who was disappointed in love
several years ago, and then pledged her
self to never cut her toe-nails again.
Her toc-nails are now 50 long that she
can not wear shoes, and she is sorry she
vowed. We suspect it has never oc-
CURED to her to bite them off; or she
might place them on a railroad track,
and have them crushed of, without
breaking her VOW She can't expect to
get husband rs long rs she wears such
toe-nais.
THE following suggestion, given in
Scribncr's Magazine, is worthy the con-
sidrratiun of parents: Nervousness with
q child is almost alway- Il matter of the
stomach. A cru,t of bread will usually
put an end to thcmost obstinate perveroe-
ness Children, for this reason, should
never bc allowed to 90 to bed, after fit
OF crying, with an empty stomach. \
hit Of tread and Jelly or cup ot custard
will bring back smiles and happincss
when all the moral law fails, and for the
suuuIr.t nf rpnsnus