The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-10-18
FACTS AND FANCIES.

NEOlWlA DNyS YlN,OuO,UVV WOItH VI
meat from other states annually.
THE triumph of woman is to be loved
deliberately by an impulsive man.
WADE HAMPTON can call over 5000
citizens of South Carolina by name,
The question as to who is the Sickest
Man of the east is now in much doubt.
| IT is 4 truism not to be gainsaid that
truth is more OF n stranger than fiction.
LITTLE expenses, like mice in barn,
when they are many, make a great waste.
SINCE woman must die it is perhaps
well enough to wind up obituary notices
in Oregon style, viz "She was forty,
very good looking and always did her
own work.
4" How il it that you have never kin.
died fame in any mans heart? ?" asked
q rich lady Of her portionless niece 81
suppose, aunt, it is because I'm not
good match" m"ekly replied the poor
| niece.
"THE funeral was all that could be
expected" says an aged lady who looks
upon these events with an artistic eye.
"'rhe display of flowers was grand, and
the widow wept like a born angel. -
RocheSier Democrat.
THE other day n little girl of three and
a half while playing with her Aunt
Alice's ring, lost it. Both looked for it
some time without finding it, when, in
despair, the little one said Come,
Aunt Ii, let's cry!
"MusING on the infinite, eh ?" said
facetious chap to n melancholy-looking
individual who was walking along the
road side with bowed head and serious
countenance "Well, yes; same thing
thinking OF my debts"
TIE humorst of the New York Times
sagely remarks: "No wise man argues
with a scientific person, The latter can
always overwhclm him with unsavory
scientific terms, to the use OF which no
selt.rcspectng man can descend"
"WuAr do you cal. a large amount,
Mr.. Tweed ?" asked one of the examin-
ing New York aldermen. At the
time, " replied Mr.. Tweed, could call
5000 large amount now ! call any
thing from IS up a large amount. "
A GuILELEss boy was deluded the
other day into picking up the handle ota
galvanic battc,y. lie yelled Justify until
they "shut her off," and in describing
his sensations he said he could taste green
persmmons all over himself burlington
Havkeye.
EVEN the most refined and polished of
men seldom conceal any OF the sacrifices
they make, or what it costs to make
them. Th1 il reserved for women, and
is one of the many proofs they give OF
their superiority in all matters OF atiec-
tion and delcacy.-- |V7imoH,
LET your sleep be necessary and
healthful, not idle and expensive of time
beyond the needs and convenicnces OF
nature and sometimes be curious to see
the preparation which the sun makes
when he is coming forth from his cham
bers of the east-Jeremy 7aylor.
POVERTY, except where there is an
actual want of food and raiment is Il
thing much more imaginary than real.
The shame of poverty--the shame OF be-
ing thought poor---is great and fatal
weakness, though arising in this country
from the fashion of the times themselves.
---C0JbeH
GALL babies born in the Oneida CONF
munity are at once taken from their
mothers and given to some other woman
to nurse, and the babies are changed
around so that no neither ever rears, or
even knows her own child" Remarks
by various mothers outside of the COM
munlty: "!,.!,??????..!.!!"
A SpIRlTuALIsT doctor of Philad elphia
reports "a death-bed where those assem-
bled, while singing hymn, had their
spiritual eyes opened and saw the dead
brother issuing out of his mertal tene--
ment, joining his wife and child and
floating away" If the dead brother lad
been man of two or three dead wives,
the scene would doubtless have been
much more interesting, The problem as
to whether female spirits ever pull hair
might then have been settled forever.
TALKING through mans body is the
latest achievement of the telephone. The
wires were cut and the man held the
| ENDS IN his ndHuS. lllc CuliohV ""' Pi'
duced by the magnets of the telephone
and conversation was carried on. The
experiment was continued until five men
were put il the gap to complete the CIR
Gle. the resistance then being equal to
twenty-five times the length of the At
lantc cable.
ON the 20th of August curious case
of poisoning by nicotine occurred III
Turin. Giovanni Deloges, aged seven
teen, visited that city in compliance with
an invitation from his uncle. Aite'
dining he Joined his uncle and severa
friends in the room allotted him durlng
his stay in Turin. There they dranS
light wine and smoked continually unit
the early hours, When the company,
separated he did not cease smoking until
nearly overcome by sleep. lis room waI
completely imprcgnated with smoke, ana
the Young man, sutlocated by the i ex,
cessiye quantity of nicotine ne naa a
;nh,led never woke again, although
every effort was made to revive nm.
Dr. Tester, of Turin, was OF the OPINION
that death was the result OF poisoning
= by nicotine.