The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-11-21
FACTS AND FANClES.


DAVID was of short stature, Hence
his remark; II said in my haste tall
men are liars,'
"nEAyGN lies about us in our intan-
cy and We do our lying for ourselves
when we get older
A CUBIC foot of standard gold is worth
5000 500. 4 cubic foot OF standard Sill
yer is worth SlOS9l.
THERE is no disgrace in being poor
the thing is 70 keep it quiet, and not let
your ueghbor know anything about 1t.
CALIroRNrA is now shipping her honey
direct to Germany and taking Lin
| burger cheese in exchange. Sweets to
the strong,
If YOU were to offer ten thousand
dollars for a sewing machine that did mt
take the first premium at the Paris eX-
position, we don't suppose You could get
one.
The Nlti0n thinks that part of the
drill OF every girls school ought TO be
the reception by wife in an old gown
to a dinner Of Corned beet aud cabbage
OF an unlooked-ior guest, thoughtlessly
brought home by reckless husband.
EplToRs like brevity, but a man who
WAS recently hung in Indiana suited
them too we'll. lie made no remarks
about heaven, but nodded to the preach
er and said, "pll see you later" and
then the tap fell.
A DYING man in Burlington crawled
out OF his bed dragged himself to the
rocking chair, pulled the tidy down,
rolled it up and sat uron it, and died
with sweet smile of triumph lighting
up his face, Hawkeye.
THE Chinese Encyclopedia meets a
long felt want, and no family should be
without it. 1t is published at Pekin, in
five thousand and twenty volumes, and
at the pice Of seven thousand five hum
dred dollars is the same as given away.
a Get the best"
IT seems to me-" said a customer to
his barber, that in these hard times
you ought to lower your prices tor shaw
ing" "Can't do it," replied the bar
bsr Nowadays every body wears such
long face that we have great deal
of surface to shave over"
The melarsholy days have come,
The saIdyst Of the year
When taXes reach maturity
Ana myripd bills appear,
Nheu frost, from northern latltudes
Upon the bree1's float,
And ,ighs the editor to think
He has no Ovelcoat.
-loskers Ga'sHs
"LEr us no longer cling to the old
FORMS says the Nation. Shake, you
staii old monument of superior respect
ability, shake we're with you. Bring
Us some forms ranging from sixteen to
nineteen wears Old to cling to. But we
are surprised to hear the NatiOn propose
such thing.-Hwkeye.
"PM touch Cuss from Bitter Greek"
ia the expression employed by the Plains
desperate to inform everybody that he
is "on the fight" Further east the
corresponding member OF society says:
I'm a vol, and this is my time to
howl" In Kentucky he says, Pm q
yard wide, and all WOOL
A YogNG clergyman, whose maiden
sisters were awlully sOt against his
entering the marital state, kicked over
the traces and got married. He then
sent a friend to break the news gently
to the girls, with instructions to open
the neg liatious by saying that he was
dead and then gently work up to the
real tact,
A NEW HAVEN policeman has de-
vised a new kind of policeman's club.
Hae invention CDusi.ts OF brass cover
ing to an ordinary club, attached to 1t
by sprinss and Co'Oiel TO resemble rose.
wood II rough should seize it, he
would only get the brass cover, leaving
the policeman ample opportunity to
WELD the club itself.
A PERSIAN populace is not like a
European one. In Europe a monarch,
returning to his people after lengthy
VOYAGE, would be received by lsud ac-
CARNATIONS OF Joy and welcome, but
when the shah recently landed in his
own dominIons. on his return from his
European tuur the people of the towns
through which he passed merely bowed
down their heads in silence.
Or cotton clo;h the United States ex-
ported laHt year o. huuuItu anu twenty
six million yard wniio the amount in
1874 was but eighteen million. En-
ployers claim That the earnings of mill
operatives are higher now than in 1860,
in proportion 10 thr cost OF living, and
mills are supplying goods at less ccst
than in that year. Although supplies
cost more and cotton the same, greater
skill and economy, with improved ma.
chiHery, produce these results.
Two LITTLE boys we're put in the
HolyUke, Mass, jail for stripping leaves
from treein the park. Socn aiterwsrd
the taller heard lorir ICES. Pteping
into the cell ne saw both on their knees
Lord, please lei us cut OF this place.
and we'll never DO it sgsin, never,
never" ppysd one sobbiug cnlPiit,
while the other was repeating the Lord:
PRAYER Pay harder" said one Of
them. and speak your words PLAN, or
the Lord Fon't un nisrstsnd ytu.' ~!
try 70. Jihmy, bat I'm c'yina, so
can't" said the other, and then bJth re-
doubled their prayers, The j.iler let
hem out