The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-07-20
SAYINGS AND DOlNGS.

speech understands the value of silence.
THE difference between Il baby aud an
overcoat is; one you was, and the other
you wear
CRCsrY says that the list of marriages
in the newspapers ought to he put under
the head of" Ring Frauds"
YoUNG well-"I should like to have
my mustachc dyed" Polite barber
Certainly. Did you bring it with you?"
Why isit that dirty pair of cuffs
protrudc much farther than clean ones,
despite all cndeovors to hide them?
FoRW.sEvEN million pins are made
daily in the United States, and yet ira
man wants one he has TO turn the house
upside down TO get it,
WOMAN has many advantages over
man. one OF them is that his will has no
operation till he is dead, whereas hers
generally takes effect in her life time.
WE look at death through the cheap
glazed windows Of the flesh, and believe
him the monster which the nawed and
cracked glass represents him.
rnE Lord all creatures, fortunes rules;
None, weak OF strong, his might AcicS:
lie makes the Young and simple wise;
The wise and learned he turns to fools
HhdbhdrdtIu,
ROssEAU says: "1o write good
love letter you ought to begin without
knowing what you mean to say and to
finish without knowing what YOU have
written"
RICHARD GRANT WHITE says there is
no such thing as in our midst but we
would like to know where he locates the
pain that makes parcgoric popular
bcragc among the young.
THERE Is never mscr who does not
intend to make n handsome expenditure,
some day; death comes, and the intcn.
tion is carried out by his heir. This is
the history of more than one king Of my
acquaintance,
A LADY gave recently the following
opinion OF Il nice young man, according
to her own thinking; ooh, think he'd
make an excellent stranger one that
you'd never become acquainted with,
You know"
THEY were talking of a death when
one man asked "What were his last
wordsY "IIc didn't say anything" was
the reply "rhat'S Just like him, ~ said
the first man with an approving nod;
" there was no gas about him, He was
all business
Az Irishman went to the thcatcrlor the
first time. Just IA the curtain descended
ON the first act, an engine in the base
mcnt exploded and he was blown through
the roof, coming down in the next street.
After coming to his senses he asked
AN what piece do yca play mkt"
Miss ANToINETTE PoLN, n daughter
OF the late bishop OF Tennessee
Lconidas Polk and niece OF the late
President Polk, was belle, last winter
of society in Rome. She is "Thc One
Fair Woman .oi joaquin Nillcr's latest
romance.
KEEP your conscience tcndcr-tcndcr
rs the eye that closes its lids against an
atom Of dust, or as that sensitive plant
which you have seen shrink and shut its
leaves, not merely at the rude touch Of
finger, but ut the breath of moth,
IN his address, read at her grave,
Victor Hugo said George Sand will
he the pride of our age and our country.
Nothing was wanting in that glorious
woman. She had the heart Of Il BarhcS,
the wit of Balzac and the soul Of Il
Lamartinc.'
GEORGE G. WHITTIER, seventy years
Of age, rode into Biddcford Me-, the
other day, attircd in the regimcntas
which he used to wear to general train.
ing" fifty wears ago. Some rude boys
threw stones at his horse, the old man
was thrown off and received injuries from
which he shortly died.
A MEMBER of New York Jury, ina
case where 100000 were involved, re-
Gently asked the judge to obligc him by
explaining the meaning of two words
which had been used good deal during
the triaI-thc words "paintih" and
" defendant" A member of another
Jury admitted that he did not know
what was meant by II " conveyance"
MIR. KELLEY, the motor man, and the
of the Washington monument
nave made bets upon their respective
works rs to which will he finished first.
From the fact that Mr., Kelley is secretly
,etting on the monument, it is to be in
erred that we shall have to be satisfied
with steam power few centuries yet,
md from the parallel fact, privately as
,ertaincd, that the monument folks are
.aking covert odds in favor of the motor,
It is Judged that George will continue to
occupy his back seat for the present.
Chicdgo Times.