The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-09-07
FACTS AND FANCIES.


traveller the other day, " | find men wear.
ing out their old clothes and hats; but
the ladies', almost without exception,
have brand new and expensive dresses,
AUWuoRs are the vanguard in the
march of mind the intellectual back
woodsmcn, rcclaiming from the idle vii
dcncss new territories for the thought
and activity of their happier brcthrcn.-
carlyle,
MAN, mcud man, dressed in n little
brieI authority, most ignorant of what
he is most assured, his CLASSY essence, like
an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks
before high heavens as make the angels
weep. Shakespeare,
4 souTmERNER, writing from Cape
May to his home paper wonders why a
prudsh girl who will dance with no one
but her brother will run along the beach
naked rs to the knee" and kicking
sand at her beau.
THERE are brains so large that they
unconSciouSIy swamp all indiyiduaIitics
which come in contact or too near; and
brains 50 small that they cannot take in
the conception of any other individuality
os Il whole, only in part or parts,--frs.
JImcSOl.
WE Americans, who are all plain cs.
Quircs, with here and there general, or
Il colonel or say u maiah, can afford to
smile at our English cousins, who speak
Of Victoria as the queens most excel.
lent majesty" and Of the little whippcr-
snapper from France rs "his imperial
highncss, the prince mpcrial,' y
\ YorNG lady received the following
note accompanied by bouquet Of flow
crs; "DEAR ---; send you hi the
boy n bucket OF fours. They is like
my love for you. The mite shade
mcncs kcpc dark, The dog fencl
mcncs am you slave. Posts red and
posi, pail, my love for you shall never
iaIe."
4 GENERIC difference. School girls
out for Il walk:
First school girl (swcct sixtcen)--l am
50 tired Of walking along by twos and
NNbN III llllN way ~ Nv l'l'l NS INV
animals going into the ark
Second ditto ditto ditto)-Worsc =
Half OF them were masculine
THERE seem to he some persons the
layoritcs of fortune and darlngs Of ma
turr, who are born cheerful. A star
danccd' at their birth. 1t is no super
licinl visibility, but n hountitul and ben
iccnt soul that sparkles in their eyes
and smiles on their lips, Their inborn
gcniality amounts to gcnius-thcir rarO
and difficult genius which creates sweet
and wholesome character, and radiates
cheer IIzWlc
IEr us play the fool; with mirth
and laughter let old wrinkles come, and
let my liver rather heat with wine than
my heart cool with mortirying groans.
Why should man whose blood is warm
within sit like his grandsirc cut in ala
baStcr, sleep when he wakes, and creep
into the iaundico Of being peevish.-
NorHlNG will supply the want of sun
shine TO peaches, and to make the
knowledge valuable, you must have the
Of wisdom. Whenever you
are sincerely pleased you are nourshcd.
The joy of the spirit indicates its
strength. All healthy things are sweet
Genius works in sport, and
goodness smiles to the last.-E'meysOR.
WHEN Goethe says that in every hui
man condition foes lie in wait for us,
''inyincibr only by chccrfuncss and
he does not mean that we
ran mt all times be- really cheerful, or at
A moments notice, but that the endeav
Dr to look at the better side of things will
produce the habit, and that this habit is
the surcst safeguard against the danger
of sudden cvils-Lcigh Hunt.
WRIrING of foolish little countess
and other women, a Paris correspondent
SAYS: Here was tina petite brunette
dressed plainly, yet rs she stood she was
worth in dry goods and Jewels (omitting
her bracclcts) over $1,000 in her prom
cnadc costume, not to mention her other
toilets. Worth has some lady clients
who spend $4,000 II year for drc's
llOnc."