The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-12-05
FACTS AND FANCIES.

THE compositor who made it read,
"In the midst OF life we are in debt"
wasn't much out Of the way.
THE frst fifteen minutes following a
marriage engagement may be turned
from ecstatic bliss to bitter gall by the
girl remarking that she can tell Brazil
ian pebble from diamond in a ring with
her eyes shut Detroit Free Press.
A WIDOW in the West, intending to
succeed her husband in the management
Of a hotel, advertised that the hotel
would be kept by the widow of the for
mer landlord, Mr.. Brown, who died last
summer on new and improved plan.
OVER a bridge at Athens, Ga, is the
following: ANY person driving over
this bridge ct faster pace than walk,
shall, II white person be fined IS, and
if negro, receive twenty five lashes-
half the penalty to be given to the
informer.
PEOPLE seldom remain the same. On
the contrary, most people are constantly
changing growing, let us hope, but still
changing-ln character, feelings, Opin-
ions. If we took this into account, we
shou often be less harsh to Judge; less
piteou-ly mi.judge Ourselves.
elm my airly days" remarked the old
man, as he shoveled coal into the school
house bin, "they didn't use coal to keep
us .chool Young 'uns warm, kin tell
you" "What did they use ?" asked a
boy near by. A sad, far-sway look
seemed to pass over the old mans face as
he quietly responded: Birch my boy,
birch.
AN editor wrote leading article on
the tair sex, in the course of which he
said: "Girls Of seventeen or eighteen
are very fond of beaux." When the
paper was issued, he WAS rather shocked
to discover that an unfortunate typo
graphical error had made him say ::
"Girls Of seventeen or eighteen are very
fond of beans"
THAT boy war true philosopher who,
when he lost his kite, thought he would
cry about it, but Immediately after CON
cIuded not to, and wont home whistling.
When asked il he wasn't sorry to lose his
treasure, he replied Yes, but ! can't
fool away much time in teing sorry m
Just gong to make = new one, and |
guess better one"
| POMPtY AJAX JoNEs, being asked to
reptst hi. inquiry, said. Wait AK am
dis: Fl n man may 90 10 my nous, wen
| ain't da,, an low mes gwine to take
de law on me 10 de watermelum dat Ise
donc pay to, an lcar' my ole woman 80
dat she pay him once mo kin dat be
'sidert d a case..of geetin' money by black
male ? OATS what AK
A HITCHING p, ST is cheap thing, and
any man, after teeoing his horses, can set
up one before breakfast. But a neglect
to do this is only an idea of the charac-
ter vi man. 1t is not the only deficiency
about the premises. BY close inspection
it will be found that nearly all the little
improvements and conveniences which
should be about all farms, are missing
The owner is halt, lame and blind to his
duty Iowa State Register.
AMONG the other curiosities on exhi
bition at the American department of the
Paris exJ ostion was spring chicken
from al American boarding house. The
chicken WAS taken to the guillotine one
morning. but, when the heavy knife fell
on it's neck, the fowl gave frightened
sQuawk, and, alter one or two heavy
pulls, jerked its head away from under
the knife and made its WAY back to its
coop in the exposition. The knife was
sent to the foundry for repairs.
THAT love is stronger than hate,
kin lness than selhshness, forgiveness
than vindictiveness, need not BE- ques'
toned. But the love must be genuine,
not counterfeit the kindness must be
unfeigned the forgiveness must be
from the heart; and with the regene.
rate only this can be. To acquire more
and more OF this power should be the Sc
rious aim OF all good people; and to help
in the cquisitiOn oi 1t. we read and
ponder the Sermon on the Mount. 1t
tells men what they must aim At, and
what thew must try to become. BY the
stu ly Of ideal principle, motives ale
purified hopes are sustained, and bright
vstas irto better state of the world
are kept open.-O. B. rockingham.
To get angry over trihes is childish !;
to rave furiOusly Is brute-like; to cherish
wrath is akin to the ways OF the devils.
But to suppress an angry impulse is
manly--it is wise and altogether lovely.
Many Of us entertain sort of notion
that we approach more or LEES nearly to
the character of angels; while angels,
pos IDLY, lcok at us as approaching more
or l:s, nearly TO the character OF devils
aud bru es. When man kicks a good
horse in the belly with his heavy boots,
what shall we call him? When man
cures the lazuess of his "hsnIs"
because they favor themselves during
the heat OF our hottest days, though the
hay or the grain suffer, is he devil, or
brute? When man vents upon his good
wife and children the anger which has
been aroused by combination OF aggra-
waiting circumstances in the field. ne Is
both. There are two grand errors which
we revel in, rs il they were spring water
in midsummer: One is our unwillingness
to extend to others the consideration we
demand from them; the Other, that we
are m ,re interested in the faults OF Others
than In our own.