The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-06-29
FACTS AND FANCIES

andelions or COwsips make The best
"grcens" to 90 with boiled dinner.
The safest way IL to 60 between them,
and take ice cream and strawberry short
cake.
MUSHROOMS are delicious, but toad
stools are poisonous, yet ii is very diff
cult to tell one from the other. An ef.
irctiyc plan however, has been proposed.
Eat the object, and If you die il IL q
toadstooI if you live it is mushroom.
The young bass with which James
river was seeded are pronounced per-
feet success. A Virginia paper says
"they grow faster and are better fish
than any ever caught in our waters, the
brook trout alone excepted"
As THE dew falls noisclcssly upon the
tender heritage, as the present passes ii.
lcntly into the past, as the perfume of Il
kindly act riScs hcavcnward unseen, so
the hired girl slips out the back way
nights with little tea and sugar for her
relatives.
The new cook (on receiving "short'
notice to leave, with hint that she has
given false character" An is it me
false character yere afthcr casting in me
teeth As il I'd be bringing me thruc
character wild me, to loose it in your
dirty service !"
Henry" she said, you don't know
what a soothing influence you have ON
me-" "My darling" he whispered
softly, while glad light came into his
eyes, "can it be 500 " Yes" she said,
"when you are around always feel like
going to Sleep
THEnew lawn game iscalIed "vcXilIo,"
As it is said t" resemble croquCt, it is
supposed that the way to play it il for
one player to make a misstrOke, and then
tell the other that she cheats, after which
they both pitch their mallets over the
fence and 60 into the house.
ANintelligent forcigner,pasSing through
the streets Of Phiadcl phia, took out his
note book at the end of y long walk and
made little memorandum to the effect
that "eighty-ninc per ccntum OF the
population of Philadelphia are members
OF tho powerful family Of RoomStolct."
A good many workers
I've known in my time
Some builders OF houses,
Some builders Of rhyme;
And they that were prosprrCd
Were prospCrcd, know,
By the intent and meaning Of
Hoe your own row."
Is replying to a toast to his health, ON
recent occasion, Lord Shaltcshury told
the story of IL man who said, when his
lordshp was presented with a donkey by
costermongcrsin London Somehow the
or other, shall never again see donkey
without thinking OF your lordship.'
TIE Catholic cardinal archbishop OF
Paris receives $4,000 per Hnnum the
| four cardinal arehhiShOpS of Bordeaux,
Roucn, Cambria, and Rcnncs, and the
archbishop of AIgicrS, $4,000 each; the
twelve other archbishops, $1,000 each,
and the sixty-nnc bishops in France and
A Igcria, $4,000.
1nE Mexican Daro declares that il
the United States "invadc Mexico on
any pretcXt, the government will defend
the soil with energy" The solcitude of
the Mexican for his native soil is so great
that he habitualIy carries \ large guam
tity of it around with him, in order that
he can have it right where he can defend
it in an emergency
liz must be a very bold man who can
20 up, without a shuddor, into one OF
these big buildings where one hundred
and fifty lawyers have spread their webs
to catch unwary clients each little
office dusty and dingy, and within the
legal spider waiting and watching. q 1t
is terrible ST. LUiS Rpwdi'cdn.
IF there be such thing rs the trans.
migration of souls, don't you believe that
loatcrs are the iorcrunncrs OF CcnIuscs?
Several of this species were sitting ON the
post-othce steps, in the suhdued mood
peculiar to them, when one of them,
whose hands clasped his knees, on which
, his face rested, lifted his head and fud
wearicdly as ii communing to himself
cam doing wrong to think so much
-RdnJWy Nc,rS.
ADoNls Cater his guests have de-
= parted)--"By Jovc, Maria, what hand'
y some woman Mrs. Jones is! She looks
i, better than ever." His wife" Ahcm
Well, it may be my bad taste, but own
: have hitherto failed to detect the
beauty of Mrs. Jones. Now, Mr.. Jones
is good looking! Comc-hang 1t, Maria,
Jones is a very good fellow but | must
say Pve never perceived his good looks,
etc.
LAWYERS are sometimes very par,
ticular. The other day one was waited
upon by young man, who began by
saving ," Nv father died and made Il