The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-04-05
FACTS AND FANCIES.

CARDINAL red parasols will be worn
next summer, and it will be difficult to
distinguish woman from meteor three
blocks away Ho@Eeyc.
MASSACHUSETTS pays $4,000 year
for the encouragement of hOrse.trOttng,
dividing the money among thirty So
called agricultural societies.
WHEN Vermont editor gets up and
refers to a Wisconsin man as a Wiscon-
sinner, the latter simply telegraphs back
that he wants nothing more to do with a
Nermontstroslty.
Ducks, geese and chickens are ship
ped from Tennessee to supply the Jack
sonville, Fla, market One thousand
and seven hundred head were shipped in
one day.
A YOUNG Madagascar brought into
France inquired il all Frenchmen are
doctors. Asked why he thought 30, he
replied that they all took his hand and
asked after his health.
CAT Florence, Arizona, there is res
taurant kept by a Chinaman, with a
Mexican wife, negro cook, and white
woman for waiter" Hash with any
hind of hair-drcssing promptly served,
The peach buds arc uninjurcd, the
wheat is all right, cotton is fine, tobacco
promises well, and if we knew who would
be elected in 1880, we'd feel like going
ahead and laying out capital.-Ncw
York Mail.
SAN FRANCISCO has over thirty mil
| lionaires. One OF them, Peter Don0hue,
or "Uncc Peter" as he is called, owns
railroad ninety miles in length, built
with his own money, and has not
penny OF stock or bond out.
WHILE we are erecting tombstones
over dead martyrs and placing laurel
wreaths on the brows of living heroes,
don't let's forget to drop tear on the
grave of the man who conceived the idea
of putting potato on the snout of
kerosene can.
IT was a refreshing variation from the
general run of speeches at temperance
meetings when man got up in Pitts
! burg the other day and remarked:
"Lades and gentlemen, to bring my
nose to this state of blooming perfection
has cost me at the least $4,000"
WHEN Mr.. Evarts writes a sentence,
he rolls it up like a bedchord, and winds
the end half dozen times around the
middle, and then tucks it underneath, so
that nobody can find it, and it won't un-
ravel. 1t is as simple and easy to under
stand as sliding down the ragged edge
of a cross-cut saw.
TIE Keyof the Gulf says: The sponge
fleet under the direction Of the admiral,
have returned into port with Il full cargo
of the best sponge seen for years. Some
six thousand dollars was paid out last
week, and perhaps double that amount
is nearly ready for SALE Admiral Skel-
ton is the only master who can detect
the sex among spengcs.
GALVESTON (Texas) News: A. Mil
lett, of Baylor county, with his brother,
own three or four ranches, ON which they
have about 10000 head of cattle. Cattle
are in fine condition, and prices range
from six dollars to twelve dollars, herds
selling in round lots at about ten dollars
a head. Land is worth from one dollar
to two dollars an acre, and the best has
already been taken up or located. The
country is beautiful, and abounds with
game.
CARDINAL MANNING has given notice
to his clergy that no music taken or
adapted from the theatre, the operaor
concerts, OF which has become familiar
through secular usage, shall be sung at
mass or benediction or used as vountarIeS
or nterludes, and that the music used
| shall be as congregational as possible.
He has also banished ladies from his
choirs so thoroughly that not a female
voice is heard in any of the churches
under his jurisdiction.
AFTER all the talk about frivolous
and immoral France, it appears lhat
there are mere illegitimate births IN
Germany. In France the ilIegitimate
births are but seventy in one Thousand,
while in Prussia, out of one Thousand
births one hundred and twenty are IL
legitimate; and in southern Germany
two hundred out of one thousand are
;IIepitimate. In lower Austria this pro.
nortion runs up to two hundred and FIVE,
and in Corinthia nearly every other