The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-09-26
This, That and the Other.

With men, as with monuments, posi-.
ton is everything.
The busy tongue, sooner than not talk,
scandaizes.
There are in the English language, &C.
cordng to Webster's dictionary, loo, 600
words.
An English wife and d French cook
Well, if mans home is not happy with
such blessings, it is his own faux.
If you do good, forfeit it; if evil, re.
member and repent.
1t is almost a pleasure to fall, if you
know how TO get up again.
The hunchback does not see the hump
on his shoulders.
Large apartments and large heads are
not always the best furnished.
A Goldfish for breakfast and an India.
rubber coat will keep a man dry.
A strong minded woman is now defined
to be she who spois very respectable
woman in vain endeavors to become q
very ordinary man.
A young lady asked a sailor why ship
was always called she? BECAUSE said
he, 'the rigging costs a laundering sight
more than the hull.'
Strong, minded women in Albany and
ad AGENT places have commenced cutting
their hair short like men. Pity they can't
raise moustache.
When sorrow has left its traces what
has become Of the remainder Of the 'har.
ness?
Punch says experience is like flannel
walstcoat; we do not think of putting it
on until we have caught cold
The eyes Of your beloved, after she has
been crying, Punch calls ornamental
fret work"
Bache ors and men with moustaches
are to be taxed five dollars each.
In Europe, thistle heads are getting to
be used, in the place Of rags, in the man
ufacturc of paper.
Love is the SO lie passion which can be ,
paid on y in its own coinage.
He who thinks his place below him
will certainly be below his place.
Why are washerwomen Justly charged
with Inconsistency? Because they put
tubs to catch soft water when it rains
hard.
Douglas Jerrold calls womans arms
the serpents that wind about a mans
neck, killing his best intentions. Hence
he poet says:
IF women were little a. they are good.
A pea.pod would make them a gown and
hood"
Sometimes, in musing upon genius in
is simple manifestations, it seems is if
he great art Of human culture consisted
chiefly in preserving the glow and fresh.
less Of the heart.
Each generation gathers together tie
children of the past, and increases them
" new sons Of light, alike radiant with
The notions Of the world, touching the
word humble bear the same relation as
aims giving does to charity, neither oil
which are tenable. Genuine humility
consists in man, however high his at.
not being too proud to learn
or take advice, from the poor.
st hedger or ditcher.
Nothing he ps a soul, when beating
IN the shoals of msanthropy, as much
IS the sunshine Of our warm, loving ma.
ure.
Have come into no company where |
ave not dropped something for good,
nd left some good SAVIOR behind? is
question for all gossippers to ask them.
elves.
John Newton used to say, elf man
'ill make his nest here below, God will
ut thorn in it; and if that will not DO,
e Will set 1t OIL flre.'
What is JOY? The honey Of existence,
eally beneficial and agreeable when par.
AIKEN Of in moderation, but highly iniu.
ous when used to excess.
A negro slave called Aunt Till died in
t. Louis, a few days since, at the aye Of
"a years.
Why is beautiful lady's foot like
,mantic tale Of old times? Because its
n interesting legend.
Why does the cook make more noise
ian the bell? One makes a din, but the
Their dinner.
A woman beats the old German, for t
er philosophy is, mostly, not Kant, but d
Won't. =
Men who are great on important occa' v