The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-08-10
FACTS AND FANCIES.

shavcn father your chin looks like the
wheel in the music box"
MoTHER-IN.LAw" is the nickname
Of the new London drink, "stout and
bitter"
Ir is given on the authority of New
Orleans paper that there il in that city
hog with its ears 50 far back that he can
not hear himself squeal.
" | SHALL follow her soon, said sad
eyed man at the grave of his wife.
Within month lie was following another
| woman.
A BREED of dogs in Australia arc OF
the kind that do not bark. Half the
| pleasure OF keeping dog is gone when
the bark is removed.
SolnoQuy by n tippIer; The public
always notices you when you have
been drinking, and never when you are
thirsty.
PRIDE In an cXtravagant opinion otour
own worthncSs; vanity is an inordi-
nate desire that others should share that
opinion.
WHAT isthc interior of Africa prinCi-
paly used lor?' asked a teacher of a pu-
pill, " For purposes of exploration" was
the reply.
LAUGHING may make n man grow fat,
but you've got to mix it nightly with
bread and meat and quiet conscience,
if you get it to stick.
AN inscctologcr has discovered that
the best time to examine the wonderful
architecture of the hornets nest is after
the hornets have moved out.
A VIRTUE forced upon men, or Unborn
and immoyabIe, would bring little no
bIcncss or happiness compared with a
virtue resulting from intellectual and
spiritual effort and power.
Ir il not in the words that Others say
to us. but in those other words which
these make us say to ourselves, that we
find our rraycst lessons and our sharpest
rcbukcs.
CUMBERLAND FALLS, the Niagara of
Kentucky, have n perpendicular descent
of sixty-sevcn feet and the roar OF the
water can I've heard distance of twelve
miles.
EVERY man takes care that his neigh
ho rshnll not cheat him, But n day
comes when he begins to care that he do
not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes
we'll. He has changed his market cart
into chariot of the sun.
The idea that women are akin to the
angels loses force after a man has seen Il
party of six of the scraphic beings en-,
gagged in enhlading a dish of baked
beans.
WRITES the poet Smith; 81 clasped
her fair hand in a rapture of bliss, and
thought, q how blessed our iatcs till ]
looked ON the glove that ccirclcd her
wrist, and found that, alas. they were
cights"
DoCroR," said a gentleman t. a
physician, "my daughter had fit this
morning, and aitcrward remained for
half an hour without showing knowledge
or understanding" "Oh," replied the
doctor, "never mind that; many people
continue so all their lives"
THE largest negative ever produced
by means of photography was recently
exhibited in San Francisco. twas about
three feet long and two feet wide, and
the perfected apparatus cost the inventor
over $4,000.
THE Custer massacre resulted in
rapid promotion. T., A. darlington, son
of one of the editors Of the Atlanta
Times, who had Just graduated and been
assigned to the Seventh cavalry, becam
a first Lieutenant before he could reac
his command.
CLARENCE, you We got real kind
heart" gratefully observed a young lady
on the cars to a sallow- faced youth as he
dropped prize package of popcorn in
her lap. "Ycs, Mary, my hearts all
right" he sadly replied, "what | want
is new liver"
81 NEVER could enjoy poetry when
Pm cookin'," said an old lady, "but
when I step out to feed the hogs and
hist myself onto the fence, and throw
my soul into few lines of 'Capn
links it does seem rs it this airth was
made to live on after ALL
n NHE1ENN WOhiau ot"'. "n,'N
drunk to drive to village SIX miles
distant, did not recognize the place
when she got there, and kept right on
until Journey of ninety miles killed
the horse, full supply of whisky having
kept her brain fuddled.
AN eminent physician says that sweet
oil is not only an antidote to the bite of
a rattlesnake, but will cure poison of
any kind, both on man and beast" The
patient must take spoonful OF it inter-
aally, and bathe the wound, for cure.
To cure horse it takes eight times as
much as for a man. A pint of whisky Is
also good for "snake bite"
TuE Cuban tobacco-raising districts
complain greatly of the clandestine impor-
tation ofioreign tobacco. The law allows
only the introduction OF tobacco grown
in Porto Rico, and the growers ask that
the importation of the article even from
Porto Rico be wholly prohibited. 1t Is
believed much of the spurious article
comes from San Domingo, Hondurasand
other quarters