The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-08-28
HAPPY THOUGHTS.

alive.
WHAT burns to keep secret? Seal
ing-wax.
TAYLOR says there is no goodness in
nature but virtue.
A WISE questioning is the hail OF
knowledge. -S0crates.
AT WHAT season did Eve eat the
apple? Early in the fall.
WHEN you tell man joke, poke
him in the shirt and he'll laugh.
The only food that is always cheap
and abundant, is food for laughter.
STRANGE yet true-the mouths of
rivers are always larger than their
heads.
A LAZY Essex street man being re-
quested to stone some raisins, told his
wife to try coaxing first
FATE is nothing, say the Hindoos, but
the deeds committed in prior state of
existence.
SOME very unscrupulous person has
defined Chinese policeman as an Asia
tic collarer.
MGGHT but the sense of moral beauty
be as strong in me as in my delight in
external beauty DR.. arnold.
WILL you venture en- an orange?
asked hostess of Leigh Hunt at des-
sert. Not without imminent danger of
falling off, madam, was his reply.
EVERY man has three relations to
acquit himself in: his body helps to
make one, the Deity another, and his
a third. Marcus Aurelius.
WHERE are the men of '76? shouted
a patriotic orator. Dead, responded a
sad looking man in the middle aisle.
The orator seemed to be disturbed by
the information.
Why is a thief your only true philo-
sopher? Because he regards every
thing from an abstract point of view, is
opposed to all notions of protection,
md is open to conviction.
AlCE-Do you know, uncle, that that
lorrid Mr. Blinks declares you have
aiken to hard drinking? Uncle George
Not true my dear. No! Never
frank easier in my life
So far, 80 far gone out Of sight,
NV strained eyes follow thee no more;
Thou to the left, to the right,
Never to meet AS heretofore.
Yet though the distance grows 80 wide,
We tread Loves circle year by year;
Wore nearer on the other side
The further we are sundered here
C.. +. Bates.
A CINCINNATI editor who has indulged
II heavy life insurance, is said to be
ollowed whenever he goes a-ishing by
everal insurance companies, affection
,tely bearing life-preservers and sun
umbrellas.
THERE remains in the faces of women
Who are naturally serene and peaceful,
md of those rendered so by religion,
IN after spring, and later, m after-sum-
ner, the reflex of their most beautiful
,loom. .-Rtchter.
Lnr 60 that jib, let go that jib, quick!
bouted the captain of a down east
loop to raw hand in squall. amt
ouching yer old jib! replied Jonathan
as he jammed his lists
eeper into his trouserloons.
TRUE friendship cannot be among
nauy. For since our faculties are OF
mite energy, It's impossible our love
AN be very intense when divided among
many. No, the rays must be contracted
o make them burn.--JOhn Norris.
No MAN or woman was ever cured OF
owe by discovering the falseness OF his
IL her lover. The living together for
jhree long, rainy days in the country
mas done more to dispel love than all
the perfdies in love that have ever been
committed. Helps.
| WOULD rather be the author of one
original thought than conqueror OF
hundred battles. Yet moral excellence
is so much superior to intellectual, that
+ oupbt to esteem one virtue more yalu-
,ble than hundred original thoughts.
W. b. CluloV.
WEAR your learning, like your watch,
n private pocket; and do not pull it
,ut and strike it, merely to show that
,ou have one. If you are asked what
o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim
t hourly and unasked, like the watch
nau.-Ghesterfeld.
The characteristic Spanish wit is ex-
essiye stateliness. Of their proverbs,
: He who has nothing to do, let him
,uy ship or marry wife" " From
many children and little bread, good
,ord deliver u.s." "a fool is never a
reat one unless he knows Latin"
"MAMMA, don't forget to ask papa
bout going to Brighton for fort
ightw "Hush, dear! I'm afraid it
ont do! You know how dreadfully the
ea-side upsets papa for the first week
lways" :Yes; but papa needn't
ONE down till the second week, you
now !"-Punch.
EKoNoMY IL a savings bank, into which
men drop pennies, and git dollars in re-
turn.
AvARIcE IL lik a graveyard it takes
all that it kan git and gives nuthing
back.
ERROR will slip thru crack, while
trutb will oit stuck in n DOORWAY,