The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-26
WIT AND WISDOM.

GoD 6shes souls with line; the devil
With net.
To GIVE birth TO desire, to noutish
it, to develop 1t, to increase 1t, to lmi-
tate it, to satisfy it--this Is whole
poem.
AMENITIES Of the tennis lawn: She
-"Yours or mine, Sir Charles" He
"Yours - aw'hy yours p London
Punch.
IF there is any good in q man it Is
bound to come ont; but 1t should not
come out at once and leave the man
empty.
"YRs, my wife is good poker.player,'
says Long Island farmer; and then he
adds: "She is also just as handy with
the tongs."
A WOMAN is never displeased If we
please several other women, provided
she is preferred; it is many more tfi-
umphs for her.
SOCIETY is composed OF two great
classes-those who have more appetite
than dinner, and those who have more
dinner than appetite.
"ABABy, says the New York Journal,
is the oasis Of married life.' This
does away with the popular notion that
an oasis is n quiet place.
THE life of woman can be divided
into three epochs; in the first she dreams
of love, in the second she experiences it,
| I'm the third she regrets it,
"DAR is many rule says Uncle
Sam, "wat won't work bofe ways
Whisky will produce headache. but
headache won't produce whisky"
THE daughter of a Texan cattle king
has Just returned from Paris, where she
says she walked through the Tooralooral
and visited n shottoe where she saw the
statues of Physic and Catherine de
Medicine.
No." SAID Mr.. Byrnesmonkey, 81
shall not vote. I'm bound to be on the
off side. and for the life of me / cant
tell this year which side that is.
IT is only coward who reproaches ms
dishonor the love woman has cher
ished for him, since she cannot retaliatt
by making dishonor of his love for her
"Yrs," sasl Miss Penn, 81 rejected
Mr. Hogg. Nice fellow, but l couldnt
have the announcement of my marriage
appear in the papers under the headline
Hogg Penn"
s orENTIsr says that, properly speak
ing, color is not q property OF matter
but of Int. We remember when colo
was property of matter, and that wa
about twenty years ago down south.-
, Boston Courier.
$ "Do BIRDS think" asks writer !,
a opening current article. II they do
n we would ike to know what canar
!, bird thinks Of the fat woman who stand
up in n chair and "talks baby" throug
/ the brass wires of its cage.
f OWED man onct an when | spoN
!, ter him about it he said: Don't thin
i oh dat, fur it's all right" but | notice
t dat airter l quit thinkin' about 1t, /
a tuck it up an thought about it till
= worried me powerful. -hrkansaU Ira
d cIor.
o MAN ately committed suicide in
g Partisan restaurant after making hear
n luncheon. On slip of paper found {
d the table before him he had written
J. pencil: "Oysters are excellent for I'll
stomach, and old wine promotes longe
ity; but politics disgust man vii
life, and that is the reason why | a
o. about to kill myself"
10 Four pounds Of gold are worth 5000
Up Now. then, we have little scheme
al oropose II some man will just col
t. in with one pound of gold, and we c
n slip it into the butter jar and let O
Mt Grocer sell it to us for pound of butt,
le we will hnve S2, $50 TO divide up. Sc
Ig Wh,'lllu the pound of gold ?-B,
is lngion Hawkeye.
re The story is told in Paris of nm Ame
DO can lady who at an inn in Norman
r was deputed, ms being the best Fren
k' scholar in her party, to make the aranG
8: mcnts for their accommodation. s
d, did her best-which was a long W
n, short of perfection-but the clerk d
III moi catch her meaning, and his remar
ct were jargon to her. Finally, in dcsp,
I'd alton. she said slowly, and with awi
ID distinctuess: "Do-you-speak-En
If. Iish ?" wall, meow, you're j,
is tnlkin'," shouted the clerk. "Guess
t. orter speak English, l was raised
to uiles from Ban-gor."
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