The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-04-04
FIFTH AND POINT.

"A bad temper always manages TO
act on the theory that two wrongs VIII
somehow make it all right.
The man who never changes his
opinion amt a-going to know much, ana
lie one who changes it too often IS
l.going to know lcss.-JOSh Billings.
How sharper than serpent's tooth
it is to have daughter marry poor
aut industrious yonng man instead Oh
the rich noodle you picked out for her.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton wishes our
hired girls had more manners. Dont
agree with YOU, Elizabeth. The hired
rirl has msnncrs enough already. What
.he ought to have is, fewer manners ana
better ones. Detroit Free Press.
While William Gable, deaf man,
was walking on the Reading Railroad
tracks. near LeeIport, Monday morning
but why pursue the painful subject
further. lie was deaf and, like all deaf
mon, loved 10 take his morning prone
made on railroad track. Peace 10 Ills
pieccs.-N. Y. 6raphtc.
The honest reflections of gentle
man after marriage are very interesting
but it is not often that We lind them IN
tender verse:
wo arc scratched, or We are bitten,
Bv the pets 30 whom we cling; !,
Oh ms love she Is kitten,
And my hearts II ball OF string
"Indecd, shall not buy my wife
n scalskin sacque," remarked Philadei-
phin man. "rhey are so hard to get
S(f that tho fair owners keep them on
when making calls and are sure to take
cold when they go out again into the
opon air. love my wife too much to
expose her to such dangers"
She was one of those nervous,
/ Gdoe,y sort of women who get up on q
/ chair TO thread n needle, and when she
, swallowed u lively fly with her raspbe,r-
I ries the neighbors thought that the
y Fourth of July had arrived twenty-four
: hours too soon. Freedom, during the
o nrimest DAYS of Kosciusko, never
8 .hriekcd with greater velocity than she
= did. mi.
1t was down at Lancaster, Pa. The
Major sat looking earnestly and afec-
| lionately at his friend. "Bob," he said,
/ nre entity, 81 dreamed about you last
a night" "Did you, ADJ" his friend 70,
5 Piled, his eyes filing with tears. "Yes,,
t said the Major, in hcartless tones' VI
= had the nightmare" And then the
/, sounds of two strong men "rastling''
i under the table were heard in tho dis
q lance. NOrriStocCn Herald.
II "A friend informs us of the following
10 A man who bought badly-fitting sun
q that was much too large tor him, wa
:. constantly taken to task by his goo.'
os wife for the folly. One evening as thel
H. little daughter was retiring, they wer
1t. much surprised to overhear the follow
inr conclusion of her evening prayer
~ "Plcase, God, make pa over again,
sh ~ his clothes I'll fit him, and then m
nd won't nag at him no more!"-Detro
TO Post.
da Little Johnny Fizzletop attended
zap child S party at fashionable residen'
,in on Austin avenue. While the supp
ell was progressing, it was noticed TN
,se Johnny was weeping. "What's Il
of matter, johnny" asked the lady OF Il
Ii house. w--can't feed any more, " SO
for Johnny, sobbing as if his little hea
as would break. swell, then, put son
all apples and cake in your pockets
nat "I'hey are full already" replied job
ler ny, with q fresh paroxysm OF gre
Tx. "fhen I'll get you big basket to !
oh ND TO take home with YOU" Then y
nil incipient little oilicc'holder smil
will through his tears, harmony was restor
Jew within the party lines, and the form
to ton OF u new party was happily aVerI'
il ia .-IelaS SittingS,