The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-02-20
GRAVE AND GAY.

AN unsatisfactory meal-A domestic
broil.
How to prevent fits-Buy ready-mado
boots.
A GAME of pitch and toss-A life on
the ocean wave.
CoRN-FThDs that require neither
blowing nor sowing-The feet.
NOTHING is more injurious to a new
truth than an old crror.-Goethc.
COP appoints our graces to be nurses
to other mems weaknesses -Rccchcr.
A MAN that don't know any thing
will tell 1.-THE first time he gets a
chance.
Why is the road of the transgre3sor
30 hard? Because it is SO much Travelled.
lT don't take as much sense TO pick a
lock.or forge II check as it do ~ to not
do it.
TnE first and last thing that is re-
qulrod Of genius is the love Of TRUTH
GOcthc.
DoN'T take too much interest in the
affairs Of your neighbors. Six per
cent. will do.
VIZ desire immortality, not rs the re-
ward of virtue, but as its continuance.
-Richtcr.
MAN must cling to the faith that the
uncomfortable is conceivable; else no
will not seek.
PoErEY is the true expression of an
excited, exalted soul, without aim or
purpose. -GoGthc.
TIE chief difference between man
and man is II difference Of impression
abiIity.-Hnier8On.
No man is so insignificant az that he
can be sure his example can do no hurt.
-CImendon.
WHEN it rains pudden you hold up
your dish but don't spend yorr time
watcher for II shower.
How to get all the music ont Of Il
grand piano-Lot Il steam f]rc-cnpinc
play on it a few minutes.
A MAN, in this world, is a boy spell
ling III short syllablcs but he will
combine them in the next. -Bccchcr.
THIS world is full of compcnsations.
Inc more prices go up, the more we
have to come down" for everything
lF wise men never made mistakes.
tins would he n hard world for fools
OF whom n great many aro which.
WHEN Jonah's fellow-passenCers
pitched HIM overheard, they evidently
regarded him as neither prophet nor
loss.
WE must be afraid Of neither poverty,
nor exile, nor imprisonment of fear it.
self only should we be afraid.-Epic-
tetus.
THE supcrhuous blossoms on Il fruit
tree are meant to symbolic the large
way in which God loves to do pleasant
things.
In n man speaks or acts with an evil
thought, pain follows him as the wheel
follows the foot of him that draws tn,
carriage.
A lady of l6, who had worr
short dresses, positively told her mamma
she would wear them ono longer"
A GENTLEMAN coming into the room
Of DIR. Barton, told him that Mr.. VoweI
was dead. What, said he. WoweI
dead? Let us be thankful that it was
neither IL nor i.
THE world, nowadays, presses n gen
eral education upon MS; we need mo-
therefore trouble ourselves further
about that, but should rather devot,
ourselves to specialties.
ALAS if the principles of scntimcn
are not within us, the height of station
and worldly grandeur will MS soon ado
cubit to a-man's stature as to his han
piness. -Sterne.
SOME ingenious observer has discov.
cred that there is n remarkable resem.
blance between a baby and wheat, since
1t IL Graded, then thrashed, and finally
becomes the flower of the family.
PLAIN things may be rs cheap and
humble as one chooses, or ones purse
compels, but anything like luxury must
Always be good. Cheap necessaries are
respectable, Cheap hnery is low.
IHE mothers yearning, that com.
pletest type of the life in another If,
which is the essence of real humo,
love, feels the presence of the cherishe,
child even in the base, degraded man.
George Eliot.
a WITTY boy, suffering from the n,
piication OF the birch, said, Forty rod
are said to be a %furlong. l know bette
Let anybody get such a plaguy lickin
as Iye had, and he'll End ont that O,
rod makes an acherl
GRACE is in garments, in movement
in manners beauty in the ndde and
forms. This is true of bodies; b,