The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-02-13
GRAVE AND GAY.

LOOSE habits-dressing gowns.
SIC transit--that across the ocean.
DIVERS amusement-pearl- fishing.
A CHIN that's never shaved--an ur
chin.
A SEALED propsal-the engagement
kiss.
No ONE can be said to be happy til
no is dead.
The world is all title-page withou'
contents. Young.
A ZOE TO God was never a tru,
friend to man. Young.
THOSE who would make us fee
must feel themselves. - Churchill.
A PIG for your bill of fare-show mt
your bill Of company. -[Swift.
WHY is the figure 0 like q peacock
Because il ia nothing without its tail.
DEATH is nj longer a'mystery-noth
ing dies all exists, and is only trans
formed.
WHAT is il that q man may have
never possessed, and yet leave behind
him? A will.
THERE is but a step between Q
proud mans glory md his disgrace.
The popular notion of genius is-oi
n who can do almost everything-ex,
cept make a living.
VIZ prefer to confess our moral
errors, faults and crimes, rather thar
our intellectual ones. -IGoethe.
Ir IS one of the curiosities of natural
history that n horse eats best when he
has not a bit in his mouth.
The latest definition of a gentle.
man is n man who can put on n clean
collar without being conspicuous.
BE NOT ashamed of the virtues
honor liz a good broochto wear in n mans
hat at all times. 81 Ben johnson.
As URrEIT is the father Of much
fast, 30 very scope, by tho immoderatt
use, turns to restraint. Shakespeare.
True love cannot exist without
purity Of heart. Barrenness of heart il
the greatest Of evils. ~ Guldenstubbe.
Why is n ballet-dnncer a most in.
human creature? Because her greatest
delight is to execute her grand pas.
The only praiseworthy indifference
is IN acquired one we must fec!, at
well ms control, our passions. Richter.
POETRY has no echo more sonorous,
and o prolonged, than the heart of
youth in which love is first BORN
[Lamartine.
WHAT is the difference between A
plan of a battlefield and q roasted
pippinp Ono is n war-map, tho other n
warm apple.
1P YOUR neighbours hens are trouble
some and steal across tho way, don't let
your angry passions rise, but fix II place
for them to lay.
THE dwelling house is n modern
institution. II is a curious fact that it
has only improved with the social eleva-
ton Of women. &c. D.. Warner.
No HEnEsY was over yet killed by
suppression the deeper it is thrust into
tho ground, the stronger will be it,
root, and the surer its bloom.
WHICH is the oldest, Miss Antiquity
old Aunty Deluvinn, Miss Ann Terror,
Miss Ann Cestor, Miss Ann L. Mundane,
or Miss Ann T. Cedentp
The most accomplished way OF
using books at present is to serve then
ms some do lords. learn their titles and
then boast Of their acquaintance
[StDiH.
THE power Of imagination is regu
lated through art. especially through
poetry. Nothing is more frightful thar
imagination without TASTE Goether.
NEVER was q sincere word utterl,
lost. Never a magnanimity fell to the
ground, but there is some heart to greet
and accept il unexpectedly Il Emerson.
EVERY sweet thought is a line OF
beauty to the fluctuant form every
noble impulse shapes the dilated figure
TO q prouder expression OF it's STRENGTH
beauty and grace.
srx feet in his boots /! exclaimed
MRS beeswa1. What will the impu.
dence Of this world como 10. I wonder ,
Why they might as we'll tell me- that
the man had six heads in hi. hat
TIE word love in one Of The Nov..
American Indian dialects IA "ch.r,,.~
damourtchevager." Persons sm;ct.d
with ssammering find it difaculs 70 riv,
expression to the sacred feeling.
A %LoouAcIous blockhead, ate
babbling some time 10 Lord Erskins
observed he was afraid he was intrudip
on his lordship's ear. Oh, not ss al
said Erskine ; / have not been listenin,
that is tho great advantage i,
dialogue on horseback IL can Be mer,
ed any minute into a trot or q csute
and n might have escaped from 8,
crates himself in the saddle. -Ada,
Redo.
The beginning Of hardship Is like Ii
hrst taste OF bitter food--it seems for