The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-08-21
HAPPY THOUGHTS.
ToIss of N Grandfather.

| or difference, mark YOU my dears,
And the brief way to reckon my age up, hnd,
IL in tens or IN dozens of years
| must be about eighty or so, by the clock,
| But my mind IL little unstrung,
| And my talent for counting has come to q block
| Twas brilliant at figures when young.
In the dash-along hard-living regency days
| was prince of the fashion and style,
When drove IN the park with my carriage and bays,
| Even Brumme bent low at my smile.
What was gold? mere nothing. In pleasure and
play 4,
Far and vide it got scattered and flung;
| For though now on the parish, proudly can say
| was rolling in riches when young.
| 0 the hiring and frolic and fun thar we had
was called an AGonis in curls
| There was many feminine heart very sad
When married your grandmother, girls.
/ had rivals but what was q rival to me
with my figure, my face, and my tongue?
ALI, believe mo, the squallid old pauper you see
Was lashing Don Juan when young.
London Ftm.
A TAKING paper-The sheriff's war
| rant.
SrrRIrUALIsTs paper-(W)rapping pa
per.
"LoNa and successful reign The
deIugc.
NONSENSE has been described as sense
taht differs from ones own.
Why didn't dog want place in the
ark Because he had Il bark of his
own.
WHAT kind of essence does young
man like when he pops the question =?
Acquiescence.
Dmsr thou say thou wilt live to-
morrow? He is the wise man who lived
yesterday. Martial.
Why are your eyes like friends sepa-
rated by distant climes? They cores
pond but never meet.
WHOEVER makes the truth appear un-
pleasant, commits high treason against
virtue. Miss EHgcUorM.
SUSAN b. ANTHONY wants the name of
the Pullman cars altered either to Pull
man-and-woman or pull-irrespective-of-
sex cars.
"C.c-c-can that p-p-p-parrot talk p
asked suffering man of German.
"Vcu he don't talk so gooter as you,
schop, by tam, his head off.
A GAS leak in Mt Pleasant parlor
broke mp love match. Before they
discovered what it was, the couple
,ouarreled about which one had the bad
hrcpth A., ,,.,, ,ot - tha aeo not II
we enter into the clefts Of the noun
tains, is sthere known aspot in the whole
world where man might be freed from
an evil deed. HindoO prOver6.
UNpERdoINd his examination, med
ical student was asked what was tho
mode of action of disinfectants. He re-
piled, they smell so badly that the peo-
plc open the windows and the fresh air
gets in.
Uubrokcn sunshine and perpetual heat
Make deserts only. Clouds that bring no rain
Shelter no gardens and thine eyes, my sweet,
Must know what tears are, fond eyes to remain
T. W. Parsons.
Why do they call the peeplet hat live
in some of the South sea islands cannl-
balls asked an old man of sailor. Be
cause they live on other people, answered
the sailor. Then, said the old man,
pensively my sons-in-law must be cannl-
balls, for they live on me.
A scHooLBoY being asked by teach
er of what the German Diet was consti-
tuted, replied, sourkrout, schnapps, Ia
ger beer and nix cum rous. That lad
must be n cousin-German to the boy
who, when showed picture OF Luther
at the Diet of Worms, said, papa, 1 see
Luther, but where are the worms?
IT is not merely the multiplicity OF
tints, the gladness of tone, or the balm
mess of the air which delight in the
spring it is the still consecrated spirit
of hope, the prospect of happy days yet
to come the endless variety OF nature,
with presentiments of eternal flowers
which never shall fade, sympathy with
tbe blessedness of the ever-d developing
world.-NOualiS.
WHEN the first time of love is over,
there comes a something better still.
There comes that other love; that faith
full friendship which never changes, and
which will accompany you with its calm
light through the whole of life 1t Is
only needful to place yourself SO that 1t
may come, and then it comes OF itself.
And then everything turns and changes
itself for the best.-Dhss Bremer.
The greatest part OF the utility Oh
wealth, says John Stuart Mill, beyond
very considerable quantity, is not the
indulgence it procures, but the reserved
mower which the possessor holds ip his
hand of attaining purposes generally;
and this power no other kind OF wealth
confers on men so Immediately and so
certainly as money. But money
as money satisfies no want. 10
mistake money for wealth is like mis-
taking the highway which is the easiest
way of getting to your houses and land
for the houses and lands themselves.
| EVERY man takes care that his neigh
, Dor shall not cheat him. But day
, comes when he begins to care that hi
v does not cheat his neighbor. Then al
h goes we'll. He has changed his marke
v cart into chariot Of the sun. What
v day dawns when we have taken to hear
o the doctrine of faith to prefer as bet
q ter investment, being to doing; being
!, ou,;,o. logic TO rhythm and to dis