The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-06-04
WIT AND WISDOM.
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WHAT il II TO be wise?

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WHAT Is II 10 be wise2
IT'S but to know how little can be known,
To see all others faults, and feel our own.
He that calls man ungrateful sums
up all the evil that q man can be guilty
DRApwooD mob recently lynched 0
man because he said the town was UNI
cultured.
PEOPLE seldom improve when they
have no other model but themselves to
copy after.
An Irish lover remarked: "Its very
great pleasure to be alone, especially
when your sweetheart is wild ye."
IT is now believed that Courtney is the
author of that beautiful elegiac poem be-
ginning: "Ailliction's oar long time he
bore"
SENSE shines with double luster
when it is set in humility. An able and
yet humble man is jewel worth .
kingdom.
A New YORK paper says shoes have
gone up five cents pair, wholesale. We
suppose this means about fifty cents
pair retail.
IYoUIsIrIvE people are the tunnels OF
conversation; they do not take in any
thing for their own use, but merely to
pass it to another.
A MAN has no more right to .ay an un-
civil thing than to act one; no more
right to say rude thing to another than
10 knock him down.
No, ALFRED, we don't know why they
call it the quarter deck, unless 1t is be-
cause the captain walks back and fro
and two and fourth on it.
Ira man has right to be proud Of
anything it is Of good action done %
1t ought to be, without any base interest
lurking ut the bottom OF 1t.
DocroRs say that people would be
healthier if they ate more onions. Un-
doubtedly they would. 1t would keep
them from going out nights.
STRANGE that the Cincinnati news.
papers did not take advantage OF the
flood and claim their city as the best
.eaport in these United States.
ASK newspaper proprietor which he
considers the handsomest types OF
American beauty, and he'll answer those
used in display advertisements.
A ooLoREp barber in Idaho has drawn
the color line; he refused to shave In.
dams. He evidently thinks himself bet
ter than the American Government.
IT is impossible to make people I'M
derstand their ignorance, for it requires
knowledge to perceive it; and, there
fore, he that can perceive it hath 1t NOT.
BABY said to his mother, who had
t false teeth Mamma, You are very
$ lucky" "Why, my dearp" Because,
II your teeth ache you can pull them out
: at once"
!. IT is said that every human being Ia
! accompanied through life by good and
bad angel, who strive for mastery over
!. him. How lazy some persons good
n angels seem to be.
, A QuAKER's advice to his son on his
| wedding day: "When thee went O.
: counting told thee to keep thy eyes
wide open. Now that thee art married
tell thee to keep them half shut"
A PHILADELPHIA man compels hi
laughter to eat onions every night fol
' supper, and thus assures himself that he
IAN shut the house at 10 o'clock with
D ont locking in Strange young man.
"CAN you steer the mainmast dow
!, the iorccastle stair ?" ask sea captain
It Of new hand. Eyes, sir, l can If yor
, will stand below and coil it up" Cap
=, tain didn't catcchisc that man any more
l. WASHINGTON men must be YER
@ ftingy. At the grand receptions Their
y very many Of the ladies wear dresse
n which show very plainly that the maker
3 lid not have material enough to fms
III them at the top.
:, lN the spring the good wiio's fancy turns
" thoughts OF cleaning house,
:. In tle,p,ng the dainty maiden diggeth green
. and cateth spuse;
= IN the sprung the young man thinketh-wou
had little wife!
= But he sccutcth not the troubles that must wal
= on married life.
THE worst pun Of the season: 80 yoV
ray your husband loves you, Mary 2
ooh, he dotcs wildly upon me" "In
deed; hut he'll soon get over that.
n "What makes you think SOP" "Becaus
mon genernlly soon cot over sowing thei