The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-25
FACTS AND FANClES.

"DlpN'r she return your I"
" Yes, she did she said she did't want
il. That's what's KILN me"
THE modern cookstoye is approach
ing degree OF perfection which will re-
quire competent engineer at stated
salary TO run it.
WHEN man gets little money and
starts out to burst faro bank, II is
not hard to tell that he will breakfast
the next morning at free soup'house.
SCENE on n street car: Conductor to
passenger who is smoking: "lF you want
to smoke on this car you must put out
your cigar or get off right away
"WuAT did the puritans come to this
country tor?' asked Massachusetts,
teacher of his class. TO worship in
their own way and make other people do
the same"
BEFORE 1870 there Were no horse rail
roads in London. There are now twenty
four routes in running order, and the
traffic has increased from OO0,0 900 pas
naers III 1871 to 7000O coo in 1876
TALENrispowcr; tact i1>kill. Talent
makes a man respectable; tact makes
him respected. Talent convnce5; tact
converts. Talent commands; tact is
ob4yed. Talent is something; tact is
everything
"MY SON" said NJ. y, kindly, to his
Youthful heir, "accusto yourself TO be
polite to the porter, the servant girl the
coachman, to all the servants; thus you
will come in time to be courteous TO all
people, even to your parents"
He was a welI-meaning man, but they
had been married long while, and
when he playflly asked her what was
next to nothing, she sarcasticalIy an
swered that at this season Of the year she
thought his winter fannels were,-Nor.
uirh Bulletin.
THE Cherokees have over eighty com.
mon schools. The Chcka>aws have four
public and about ten district schools
The Chociaws have two public schools
ard over fifty district schools The Greeks
have three public SCHOOLS and about thir.
tv district schools
OF one thing there is very little seen
NOWADAYS, even in the houses of the
wealthy, and that is solid silver. To pos
scss il is to send an invitation to the bur
lars from far and near, we respond to ii
at once, and pick out the good from the
! initiated with care and accuracy which
might excite admiration, il the couse
ouences were not 80 disagreeable. .-Jenaic
J'Hr.
ONE of the most graceful things ever
said in the complimentary line was the
observation made by 4 New York paper
last week concerning the integrity of
Swan, the defaulter, N his dealings with
the Bleecker street savings bank, (Which
he was secretary. CHS position" says
the paper referred to, gave him no
opportunity to handle the funds OF that
institution, and his connection with it
was marked by strict integrity
TRAGEDIES like this occur in golden
California; John ri. Dawes left two
weeks ago with his flock of 1000 sheep
for the north. While crossing the alkali
lands near Tulare lake he camped for the
night. and in the morning when he awoke
he saw his sheey all lying down but one,
and on examination found that there was
but that one alive. They had all quiet
" died in the night-a loss Of more than
5000.
A VENERABLE divine. who had been
dining out the night before, went into Is
barber shop one morning to be shaved
He saw that the barber had been getting
more drink than was good for him, for il
made his hand shake very much, and,
ma urally little indignant, he began to
give him little moral advice by saying
"B4d thing, drink Yes" said the
barber, "Iv makes the skin remarkably
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