The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-03-01
FACTS AND FANCIES.


sit AMI watch it Just as the day is dead
You can not press again, my vanished pet,
ltspillow with your drowsy, golden head
You can not reach your arm IL get my kiss,
Or dart about with rosy, naked feet,
Babbllng soft syllables OF that and this,
tiny nlght-gOwn fairy, bllthe and sweet.
Empty the home where, irOlcsome and fair,
our precious presence made so bright part
Empty your little crib your clothes, your chair,;
But emptlest Of all your mother 8 heart,
Two women were having some words
together, when the daughter of one of
them popped her head out of the door
and cried out: "Hurry, mother, and
call her thief before she calls you one"
CHARITY balls are still in season. The
participators have the ball, and the
public show the charity for them, the
poor-well, they have no direct interest
in the matter.
GIVE work to the able bodied, give
food and shelter to the sick, give sympa-
thy to the distressed, and consolation to
the afflicted, but beware how you give
aims to the lazy.
THE Banner of Light, the Spiritualist
newspaper, goes to the expense of cable
dispatches about the Slade case, and the
New York Sun wants to know why some
obliging spirit doesn't bring over the
news free of cost.
The New York Telegram announces
that "wages of servant girls are to be cut
down at that point where the mistress of
the house will be able to overtake them
IN tho f,unation pf honnpt "
EMIGRANT physicians in the Quaker
city make affidavit that the ringing Of
church bells are unnerving to healthy
adults and destructive of the rest of in
fants, and ask, with property holders, for
an injunction to restrain the ringing OF
the bells of st. Marks.
THIS from the Oil City Derrick, is
probably too good to be true:
Twas young printers devil who asked for n kiss,
But she quickly replied, did this pert little miss,
" You look inky and black, tho your head may be
level,
But I'll never consent to be kissed by the devil"
Years passed, and the miss became an old maid
With fr1zes and curls, false teeth aud pomade.
Then sadly she sought to recall the old issue,
But the printer replied "The devil wont kiss
you
YES" remarked a tramp as he
stretched himself out to sleep on seat
in the senate gallery, "the glorious pal
ladium of our liberties must be preserved.
We can't watch these politicians too
closely in fact, l think | shall stay here
all night"
THERE had been discussion about the
cost of dress, and she was wrathy. "lts
all very well,' she pouted, "tor you to
expect woman to be an angel; but I'd
have you to know, sir, that | wouldn't be
even an angel, unless my wings could be
cut goring. There, now"
OWNER coming into stable and ad-
dressing hostler: 81 say, jim" "Yes
sir Take Romeo's harness off and
put it on Ophelia." eyes, sir" Give
Gen. Grant some oats" eyes, sir"
"Take Gen. Sherman out to water"
"Yes, sir" "And rub down the Grand
Duchess" GAY, ay, sir"
Two views of the situation by the Bur
Iington Hawkeye man: If we had as
lovely home as Judge Davis has at
Bloomington, we would not want TO be
president. We wouldn't want to do
anything but sit IN the front yard and
look at the house, and be glad we lived
there and had the taxes to pay, and one
thing and another. But that's the way
LADY (to shopman, after making him
turn over all his stock )--"There, that's
exactly the quality l want, but it's
green, and want plum color lnsin-
uating shopman-"You can't do better
than take this. Besides, marin, it is
plum color" Lady" What! Plum
color?' Shopman--"Certainly. Only
the plums are not ripe"
WHEN the n"xt edition of Webstcr's
Unabridged" appears, we may expect
to see this addition to the evcr-expand'
ing volume of the English language
thus:
"a The act Of bulldOzng the
BULL.DOZE, condition Of being buIl-dozed. as
il were; to he the victim OF
| BULL-DOZING, bull. .dezers so to speak, Colloq,
and vulgar.