The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-02-05
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.


AT party, while young lacy was
playing with peculiar brilliancy of
touch, a by ISLANDER bachelor exclaimed,
"Td give the world for those fingers !"
Perhaps you might get the whole hand
by asking" said the young lady's obser-
want mamma.
%, Love can take what shape he
pleases, and, when once begun his fiery
inroad in the soul, how vain the after
knowledge which his presence gives
we weep or rave, but still he lives, and
lives master and lord, amidst pride and
tears and ain.-Bary COrnwaN
The intelligence of affection is car
ried on by the eye only; good breeding
has made the tongue falsify the heart,
and act part of continued restraint,
while nature has preserved the eyes to
herself, that she may not be disguised
or misrepresented.-iddiSOR.
Learn the value of mans words
and expressions, and you know him.
| Each man has a measure of his own for
everything; this he offers yon inadvert-
emily in his words. He who has
supcrlative for everything wants meas
ure for the great or small.-LaCater.
Grace is a quality different from
beauty, though near y allied to it, which
is never observed without affecting us
with emotions of peculiar delight, and
which it is, perhaps, the first object OF
the arts or sculpture and painting to
study and present,-AHjson.
The most appalling case of deaf
ness that we ever came across outside
of an asylum was that of an old lady
who lives Just across the street from the
navy-yard. The other day, they fired a
salute of twenty-one guns. The old lady
was observed to start and listen as the
last gun was fired, and then exclaimed,
"Come in."
The Indiana Farmer publishes the
experience of Daniel A. Mills, of
Bridgeport, whose hogs were "dying at
fearful rate" with cholera, until he
turned them into his apple orchard,
when all those which were not too sick
to eat fell to and devoured the wind
falls with gusto, and began to mend i'm
mediately, ga marked improvement be-
ing obvious in three or four days
There is no creature more fatal than
your pedant; safe as he esteems HIM
self the terriblest issues spring from
| him. Human crimes are many but
the crime of being deaf to all Gods
voice, or being blind to all but parch-
ments and antiquarian rubbish when
the divine handwriting IS abroad on
the sky-certainly there is no crime
which the supreme powers do more ter
ribly avenge.-Cartyte.
In the earliest days of the human
race, when population was more sparse
than it has ever been since, and intro
ductions were also scarce, with little or
none of form or ceremony attending
them" no cards our first parents,
after their first surprise, had to intro
duce themselves to one another, though
the following dialogue is not found on
record Adam" Madame, I'm Adam. 4"
Eve" Adam, Pm madam" They en-
brace.
A writer, expatiNting on the fertil-
izing properties of guano, gives vera
cious account of Kansas soil In the fol
lowing: "a few hours after planting
cucmber seeds the dirt began to fly and
the vines came mp like streak, aud,
!, although he started off at the top OF
his speed. the vines overlook and Gov
cred him and on taking ont his knife
to cut the darned thing he found large
cucumber gone to seed in his pocket.
-Alexandre Dumas used to tell the
following anecdote : Being at the san