The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-06-27
FACTS AND FANCiES.

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A Coal Hop OF SMvER--Silver ia 10
plenty in Hartford, Connecticut, that at
q recent circus performance there almost
all the money taken Ia was OF that metal
The circus company treasurer had a bill
of 500 to pay railroad company for
transportation and sent the sum in a
coal hod.
A CELEBRATED actress, whose fresh
smile and silver voice favored the decep'
ton, always called herself "sweet six
teen She stated her age as six cen in
court as a witness. Her son was directly
afterward called up and asked how old
he was "Six months older than
mother" was the honest reply,
A TRIUMPH FOR lNsTINCr.--Says the
ST LNuis Journal: When n man casual.
" sits down on lowly humble bees
nest, reason urges him 10 sit there till
he has squashed the animation out of the
vndictiVe occupant, but iastinct warns
him to Keep an important engagement
elsewhere. This il one OF those engage
ments when instinct invariably gets the
better Of reason
GIVING EN- FITS by m error OF the
press, the LOudon Eclectic Review was
advertised the other day as the Epilep'
tic Review, aud on inquiry tor it at a
booksellers shop the bibliopole replied
that he knew of no pMiodical called the
Eri,ep,ic Review, though there might be
such a publication coming out by fits
and starts -- London Advertiser.
WHEN this happy.go lucky cd world
IL 1913 00U000 years old, absnt twice n
week the newspapers will chronicle the
sorrows of another father aud mother
who locked their children in the house,
and then went visiting, returning to find
the house in ashes. And, by the way,
the children also.- Hawkeye,
WILL BE OvERwoRKEp. Says the
Hawkeye: The rice crop in the Phil
ippine Islands this year Is total failure.
This is depressing news TO the boarder,
who, remembering how little rice 1t takes
TO make five gallons of soup when crOps
are abundant, will tre'nbie to think OF
the amount OF oyerwork that will be
forced upon one grain now.
THE LAND OF OPUIR.--Capt. Burton
believes that he has discovered the bib.
lical Ophir in INDIAN. He has brought
back from his recent expedition twenty
i've tons Of specimens, including all the
valuable metals, turquoise, aIabaster
and sulphur. Everywhere he found
traces Of old mining operations, abund.
ant indications Of gold, and silver quartz
which readily yielded fifteen per centum
OF silver.
AN editorial writer on the New York
Express says. "We are al TOO busy to
read in Il column what We might read In
A paragraph The man or men who
would make a successful newspaper to-
day are taught for their first lesson the
great secret OF conciseness and condensa-
! tiop. The man who can turn a bright
paragraph is more read than the essayiss
who writes learned articles, column
long, for the London Timer"
A FLATrERING TEsrMoNIAL.--An
obliging gentleman who thinks that per.
sonal fav0rs do not cost much, while they
make friends, was applied to by negro
for certificate OF character, by which
he might get a situation. The testlmo-
nial proving to be more complimentary
than Scipio himself expected, that wor'
thy, on recovering from his ast0Dshment,
exclaimed: Say, Mr. -, won't you
Glib me something to do yourself on dat
recommendation z"
AN ISLAND IN DANsEE-The Toronto
Telegram says: In the event Of war
Prince Edwasd Island would be in great
danger from Russian cruisers All they
would require TO do would be to tie a
hawser to the island and tow it out into
the ocean. This would seem TO show
the desirability of the government tax
ing Prince Edward Island In every night
until all danger disappears.
THE sad fate of Charley Ross has not
been in vain. Mr., Ross has examined
4g7 unknown and triendless waits IN his
search tor the lost boy. More than 500
OF these boys, who had been drifting
homeless over the face of the earth, are
| now provided with ComlOIlduie MONIES
throug % the publicity given their caseS
by being mistaken tor Charlie Ross.
TOWING BY SUB MARINE CABLE-A
Leipsjc journal states that the remarEa'
ble success attending the novel system
of river navigation. introduced for near.
ly the whole length OF the Ebe river, OF
towing boats by the aid of chain SUD
merged in the channel. has led 10 It's ID.
PRODUCTION upon all the tributaries OF
that river.
THE woman who found her board IN
the Stewart hotel, fluids her bard in the
Graphic Thus ne sings for her
am monarch Of all survey
NV rigDt the re Is none b. diepute
sreak NJ my migions obey
out long for III iseuline nrute'
so.called.
q "soltu les charm" that the pen
OF the poets have warbled about!
Betrer live IN 4 hove with men
than d dFell In paiscs without