The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-18
FACTS AND FANCIES.

MULTIPLY 9S76j432l by As, and see
what curious result of figures it gives.
LOVE is often as much OF an accident
as potato plant growing between the
bricks of back garden walk.
SIDNEY SMITH once said to his pros
porous brother, = You have risen by your
gravity and have sunk by.my IeVity."
THE ponies taken from the Indians
sell for only six or seven dollars each,
but six dollar horse with an Indian on
him is quite different thing.
SOME physicians now claim that the
general prevalence of diptheria is due in
great degree to the gas which is thrown
off from coal stoves in lily ventilated
rooms
THERE is nothing dispels the dreams
of youth and skaters the ambitious
hopes of the noble boy like having
young lady remark in his hearing that
he would make with study, a good hat
rack.
They were married about six weeks
afterward, and now she hasn't been
kissed for so long that she couldn't tell
a kiss from bite, and she carries her
head high all the time 80 as to watch
him aud the hired girl,-Ha~keye
"WHY in the world don't YOU go to
work ?" inquired citizen of lazy iel-
low who was trying to borrow some
money. -" Go to work 7" echoed the
man, chow can | do anything till !
know for certain who is going to be the
next presidentf"
AN anxious youth, driving an exceed.
ingly dilapidated horse through our
streets the other day, using the whip re-
gardless Of expense, was asked, " why
do you fog the poor beast so ~ Got
ia" he said, with the utmost sObernessj
he's dying"
"WHY quarrel over such small thing
as politics Z" was the way two men OfoP-
rositc beliefs opened conversation in Chi
cago one day recently. And yet IN less
than twenty minutes two policemen
were holding these men apart and lead
ing them off to the station,house.
THE Utica Herald says that a young
woman in that city, who had inOrdinately
big ears, but otherwise very pretty, came
to New York and had them cut down by
Il skilliul surgeon. The operation was
successful, and now her ears are small,
symmetrical, and not badly Scared
Mr.. SorHERN, in New Orleans, has
been reused at six o'clock in the morn
ing, carried four miles in freezing wind,
and his feelings exercised to a degree
somewhat astonishing for DuRdreary,"
all to see two men shoot blank cartridges
at ore another, the same being a mock
duel arranged expressly to hoax the
actor, and entirely succeeding in its pur-
pose.
Two female apostles of temperance
recently preached in the pulpit of the
Second Presbyterian church OF Newark,
and now the pastor, Rev. Mr.. See, is on
trial for permitting women to break
silence in the house of the Lord. Rev.
DR.. Craven, one of the speakers, :" con
tends that the law of God and of nature
is that women is subordinate to man,
and that it is not right or lawful for her
to preach.
"THE most sensible lady's hat ever
invented for the theater is known as the
buggy crown Jewell The high top
which holds the flowers, feathers, buds
and birds used for trimming, is con-
trived like buggy top frame, which can
be turned over and lowered on the top
of the head when the wearer is seated in
the theater. The arrangement is very
satisfactory. When the curtain rises
all bonnet.tops are expected to be turned
down, leaving an unobstucted view OF the
stage to persons sitting in the rear OF the
, front rev.
MADAME SUsANNE LEGlER, good ac'
tress, but extremely stout, was one even
= ing enacting a part in melodrama with
e Taillsde, tine original Pierre of The
Two Orphans" who had at one portion
to carry her fainting off the stage. he
D tried with all his might to lift the fa'
? heroine, but although she helped her lit
: tie comrade by standing on tiptoe, in the
. usual manner, he was unable to move hei
| an inch. At this iuncture boy in the
I gallery called out, Take what you car
Is and come back for the rest"