The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-09-11

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No man is free who cannot command
himself. .-PythagOraS
MONEY is like manure, of very little
use unless it be spread. Bacon.
THE virtues are lost in self-interest,
| as rivers in the sea. ROchefouca"ld.
"THEY put him in show case, said
West Hartford female at a funeral.
The more man denies himself, the
more he shall obtain from God. --HOr-
| ace.
He that lives alone, lives in danger;
society avoids many dangers. M Au-
reliUS.
If you would have faithful servant
and one that You like, serve YOURSELF
Franklin.
EDUCATE men without religion and
you but make them clever ls.--Dmkc
Of wellington.
'RosE, my dear said mother to
her daughter, "if you are so stiff andre
served, you will never get husband. "
"NIa, replied the young lady, Gun
less the poets tell tibs, prim rosc is
not without attraction.
You have heard of the snake in the grass, my boy
OF the terrible snake in the grass;
But now you must know,
Mans deadlicst foe
IL a snake of u different class
Alas!
lis the vcncmous snake in the glass
MIsTREss-" days holiday, Jane
what for?' Jane, "Well, | thought
you'd think it rather soon but, please
mum, my young man AS | spoke of to
you, perhaps You remember, is agoing
to take me to Grinnige again, and I'm
agoing to pop the question this time"
The Herald and Journal of Salt Lake
City think that Ann Eliaa's suit against
Brigham is only black-mailed opera
tion, and also that it will succeed, as
the prophet will "bleed freely rather
than have his domestic affairs turned
wrong side out.
KATE FIELD says that for downright,
unconscious impudence the Brtisher
has not his equal on the face of the
globe. The nasal twang is not an
American idiosyncrasy. Many London
ers have it, while it prevails to an
extent in certain counties.
AND now the green-eycmonstred raw
ages placid Green Bay, where Mrs.
Blake tried to shoot Miss McRea for find
ing Blake drunk on the railroad and
waking him up and helping him out of
the way of the approaching locomotive.
Mrs. Blake doesn't thank young ladies
for taking such interest in her husband.
A DAsHlNG belle of Green Bay, a Miss
Ruth Taylor, few days since was pre-
sented with silk dress for her gallant
ry in taking hold of spanner and help
ing pull the engine to a fire. The fire
men have had to add two hundred feet
to the rope since then. All the girls
want silk dresses.
THERE are people with whom half-an-
hours talk is like an invigorating bath
of sunshine. In this there is an element
of success. There is another successful
manner, too, one which impresses every
one with sense of your power If you
have at once manner gracious and
you have everything You can
wish as an outward aid to success.
CoynhiU Maga=ine
FoR stern, close thought, the mind
must be schooled by habits of close ap-
and this is more rare than one
would imagine; for Notwithstanding
What is called application in our public
chools, the mind is 50 little employed
n it, that few men ever know how to
solate themselves from present objects
nough to think really, and the habit Is
asily lost.-O f. COrnwaiiis.
ONE could take down n book from a
helf ten times more wise and witty
nan almost any mans conversation.
aeon is wiser, Swift more humorous,
ian any person one is likely to meet
ith but they cannot chime in with
lie exact frame of thought in which we
appen to take them down from our
lelves. Therein lies the luxury of
onversation, and when living sreaker
oes not yield us that luxury, he be-
ONES only book on two legs. Camp
veil.
PRECAUTIONS against cholera are very
numerous at present. Taking all the
.dvice given, we learn that if man
Eats nothing, drinksno liquors, drinks no
ce-water, drinks no warm water, drinks
nothing else, wears tlannels, bathes three
lines day, keeps his backyard clean,
,ays his taxes, avoids water, drinks
,randy, eats ripe fruit. wears nothing,
oes not smoke, and follows such other
,ethods of prevention as his common
,nse may dictate. he need have no fears
cholera.