The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-06-06
FACTS AND FANCIES.

PEARL bead oraments and fringe VIII
trim many OF the spring bonnets'
SCIENCE hss got to explain how Jonah
rendered himself indigestible.
Our ancestors, the monkeys, couldn't
have been NO ignorant, alter all. Ihey
were all educated in the higher branches
THE Assyrian inscriptions reveal the
fact that under the Baby lonian king, IL
was common to cast men into burning
fiery furnace, and also iuto den OF
lions
A FRrEcHMAN studying English
declares that, inasmuch rs a number OF
cows are called cattle, why number OF
cats are not called cowtle ia thing he
cannot understand.
AN old edition of Morse's geography
saws. albany has four hundred dwell.
ing houses and twenty-tour hundreo
inhabitants, all standing with their
gable ends Ia the street"
IFatax OF one hundred dollars be
placed on every Chinaman landing in
California, the Imperial authorities at
Pekin threaten TO impose similar tax
on Americans landing in China.
THE New York dog>show was a sorry
humbug. After the show an Arabian
collie dog, value So 900, brought 800;
cocker spaniel, valued at $500, was
knocked down at $75, and bulI>terrier,
valued at $500, sold for 81
WATTS went to writing hymns because
he found such stuff az this in the hymn
book:
"Ys monsters Of the hrIny deep,
Your Makers praises spout
Up from the sandp, ye codlipgs, peep,
Ana Sng yout tails about
"MY dear!" she remarked through
the telephone that ran TO her husbands
office, "you ought to be spanked Tor not
changing YOUR shirt this morning" The
Young bookkeeper who received the mes
sage didn't feel like keeping up the
dialogue.
"THE test of chivalry in New York" ="
,, SAYS an exchange, "is giving up your seat
, in a str ct car TO p lady" The lady who
, sets out with the determination to travel
; there until she witnesses the test embarkH
.. in An enterprise that will absorb her
,, energies for the rest Of her life.
A CATFISH was recently caught In the
q Mississippi river at New Orleans, which,
when ouened, was found to contain the
a skeleton of baby and and box OF
snoe backing The box was open, but
? when the backing was tried it WAS ionnd
a to be as good ~ when first bought,
;, al SHOULD like to live to draw two
d breaths alter am acquitted, and then
? would die satisfied, !" said John Smart, OF
|, Burnet county, Texas, who had lain IN
e iail nearly year on charge OF murder
and VIVA brought into court on his couch
i" sick. At II o'clock the verdict no
in guilty" was brought in, ani at II o'c!oci
It, the man died.
y A IIru.E iour-year old bounding ou
W OF bed one summer morning ran 70 tn
front door, and seeing a ram with larg
ry spiral horns in neighbours yard acros
the street, bounded back to his mother
10 CRYING, Mamma! mamma. There's
~ great big ting over in Mss Ankln
ry ward that looks like a great big thlnt
and every time it sees me 1t LOOKS
ur me-" ..
AN English merchant was dining wit
ad Chinese mandarin, when it struck MI
er that perhaps the dish which he ha
he eaten of no heartily might have bee
les stewed cats. for he heard that they a
Of cats in China. The Chinaman didn
a know English, SO his guest, anxious
pointing to the dish, inquired. " Mio'
Miow?" No, no" said the mandarl
bow, wow" -,
ON the shores of the Red sea t
% | Wnnnd
'us the atmosphere when they desire
er- should heal quickly. NJ. DAooa.
ris- found that their treatment was JUSTIN
er- by result, the experience Of western 81
he geons of eminence to the contrary N
the withstanding. This Red sea practice
ne considered TO owe its success to the
his sence in the air of microbes which are
led mischievous elsewhere.
his INsEReoLL observes: ITO day
IRA newspapers are engaged in finding
Ina all the mean things that are done.
'igo less a thing is bad thing it is not kno'
uth II all the reporters of all the newspar
TINS would look through all the streets
ne through all the houses Of the coun.
ne, and find the name of some man VINO
It II prscticed seltsdenial ior the sake OF
was wife and children, find some man
ONE had given up all the property he hae
wise pay his honest debts; who had gone
Ds OF Of his house, given up his pictures
the all there was of luxury, and taken
and wife by her hand and gone dowl
any noyertv and pepury in hut; If t
the rronld ,aIi the names of all the men ,
,sble nod Nd done Generous deeds, | tell you ey
{ the nawsnanaI in the United States wo
been be crowded with the names OF the