The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-10-11

lN every village there VIII arise
miscreant to establish the most grinding
tyranny by calling himself the people,
Su Robert Peel.
THE reputation of a man il like his
shadow; gigantic when il precedes him,
and pigmy in its proportions when 1T
follows 7alleyrdnd.
No remedy against this consumption,
of the purse; borrowing only fingers and
fingers it out, but the disease is in.
durable, -"Shakspcdrc.
Men possessing minds which are mo-
rose, solemn and inheXible, enjoy, in
general, greater share of dignity than
Of happiness, Bdcon
4 FrENCW paper observes that phi
losophers pass their lives in not believing
what they see, and in trying to guess
what they don see.
No man can be brave who considers
pain to be the greatest evil of life; nor
temperate, who considers pleasure to be
the highest good cicero.
o, now many deeds of deathless virtue
and immortal crime the world had
wanted, had the actor said, Will do
this tomorrow ~ Lord JOhn Russell.
AN Indiana man without money, but
"solid" with his grocer, went aud bought
81 80 worth of sugar and sold it for a
dollar to get money to 90 to the circus
ONCE AGAIN the happy time has come
when the law allows the restaurateur to
set before you pint of milk with little
oyster taking bath in it, and he calls 1t
stew.
| TIE greatest luxury of riches Is that
they enable you to escape 80 much goou
advice. The rich are always advising
the poor; but the poor seldom venture
to return the compliment
THE brave man is not he who feels no
fear, for that were stupid and irrational,
but he whose noble soul its fear subdues
and bravely dares the danger which 1t
shrinks from. .--IOdnnd Badhc.
TRUE taste isforever growing, learning,
reading, worshiping, laying its hand upon
tsmouth because it is astonished, casting
its shoes from of its feet because it finds
all ground holy -.R~skin.
No man can force the harp of his own
individuality into the peoples heart ;
but every man may play upon the chords
of the peoples heart who draws his in
spration from the peoples instinct
koSSuh,
JULIA WARD HOWE has met in En-
gland "six noble sisters, all unmarried
and living together, the daughters of an
earl, now deceased, VIII refused to allow
any Of his younger daughters to marrv
before the eldest should find husband "
THERE is no end to injustice. ALE
gheny county, Pa, it is said, will have
to pay for what the rufhans of Pittsburgh
did on the night Of the great riot. Ii
must be comforting to the Pittsburgher
who stood and looked calmly on at the
big fire, to knew that the man who lives
out in the county must help him pay
for the show.
THE experiment which was tried last
year of employing carrier pigeons tc
bring early intelligence from the flsh)ng,
ground, off the Scotch coast, OF the re-
suits of the nights labor, is again being
resorted to this season. One of the
birds is taken out in every boat in the
afternoon, and after the nets have beer
hauled on the following morning the
pigeon is dispatched with small piece
of parchment tied around its neck, con
tanning information as to the extent o
the catch, the position of the boat, thu
direction of the wind, and the prospect
of the return journey. II there is no
wind enough to take the boat back, or i
it is blowing in an unfavorable direction
request il made for tug, and from
: the particulars given as to the bearing
OF the craft, she can be picked up easily
by the steamer Most of tine pigeons
! when let off from the boat, circle three
times round overhead and then SWEEP
away toward the land with great rapldity
generally flying at the rate OF about
mile per minute.