The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-04-17
NUMBER 7.
GRAVE AND GAY.

THE best color for faces--Water-c
SUITABLE garments for winter-The
CLOSE of the year.
MORNING for labor, evening for re-
pose French proverb
The next worst thing to raining pitch
forks-Hailing omnibusos.
GENERAL contributing on half
dozen girls at the same time.
How TO turn peoples heads-Como
into a concert late in thick boots.
You can't do that again. said the pig
to the boy who cut his tail off.
YOUNG ladies use powder, perhaps be-
cause they think it will make them go
off.
CoLERlDGE said that toleration was
impossible till indifference made it
worthless.
WITHOUT earnest convictions, no great
or sound literature is conceivable
LOWcU
TALENT is that which is in a mans
power; genius is that in whose power
man is.
SOLITUDE is as necdful for the imagi-
nation, as society is wholesome for the
character.
A POOR man is to be avoided he lacks
principle and never has any interest in
anything.
He THAT lives in fear of death, every
moment feels its tortures. / will die
but once. .--,JuiiWS CucSar.
He WHO is only in good health, and is
willing to work, has nothing to fear i'll
this world.--LcSSiag.
VoLrIRE declared that the fate of u
nation had often depended on the good
or bad digestion of prime-minister.
You will find this good gauge or
criterion OF genius, whether it progress
ses and rcvoves, or only spins upon it.
self. -COlcrid9c.
HOLMES disposes Of the bigot at once,
when he compares his mind to the pupil
of the eye" the moro light you let in,
the more it contracts
He WHO longs after beautiful Nature
can best describe her, said Bettine he
who is in the midst of her lovelncss can
only lie down and enjoy.
CHICAGO real estate operator to his
wife : DO you love me, dear? Lots.
kiss Do you love me? He: Corner
lots. Several kisses.)
INFLUENCE, good or bad, comes not
from the opinions man processes, but
from tho character he has formed, and
the life he leads - IThippic.
INTELLECT in weak body is like gold
in spent swimmers pocket, tho rich.
er he would be, under other circum-
stances, by so much the greater his
danger now IIaS$On
THRICE unhappy e who, born to see
things as they might be, is schoolcd by
circumstances to see them MS people say
they are, to read God in a prose trans
lation. -EOWcN.
A pRUNKARD once reeIcd up to White
field, with the remark, Mr.. Whitchcld,s d
am one of your converts, | think it
very likely, was the reply, for lam sure
you are none of Gods.
| HAVE heard, indeed, of some virtu-
ous persons no have ended unfortu-
natcly, but never of any virtuous nv
tion. Providence is engaged too deep
ly when the cause becomes SO general.
-DrHIcH.
DOES ONE write, asks Lessing, for the
sake of being always in the right? |
think | have been as seryceablc to
truth when miss her. and my failure is
the occasion of another's discovering
her, as if | discovered her myself.
LAM NOT used to begging, said Il little
girl to lady of whom she had asked
aims, because only two weeks ago my
father was merchant Why, child,
how could he be reduced to poverty so
soon? My father took a bad two dollar
bill at his peanut stand, and it ruined
him, sobbed the child.
VoLTArRE once praised another writer
very heartily to n third person. 1t is
very strange, was the reply, that you
speak so well of him, for he says you
are n charlatan. Oh, replied Voltaire,
l think it very like that both of us are
mistaken.
CRUEL HUsBASD-Deceiye you-- In
dignant wife-Don't tell me any more
lies Didn't you say last night that
you were only going to quiet little
party-lominoes, and that sort OF
thing? Cruel husband-Just so that's
what said, exactly. Dominoes, domi-
noes, you know! Always have domi-
noes at masked ball
Coop SENSE and good-nature are new
er separated, though the ignorant world
has thought otherwise. Good-nature,
by which | mean beneticence and can
dor, is the product cf right reason,
which of necessity will give allowance
to the failings OF others, by considering
that there is nothing perfect in man
kind. .-Dryden.
THIS anecdote is told of Proudhon,
the great French socialist, and illus
trates most forcibly the intensity and
exaggeration of his radicalism. In CON
versation one day with Prince Napole-
I l.af