Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1890-10-10
Wit AND WISDOM.


1T all flesh is grass, mummies must
be hay.-Puck.
AN undescrvcd reputation is ex
tremely hard to live up to. -Milwaukec
Journal.
The truly grateful heart may not be
able to tell of gratitude, but it can fee.
and love, and act
Tho greatest work has always gone
hand in hand with the most fervcnt
moral purpose. sidney Lanier.
The conceited man carries mental
microscope, which continually magnifies
his mental importance. Texas Siftings-
/ 81 thought you said your wife was
dressed an hour ago.? ''She was, but
think she must have stopped to put on
her hat."-N. Y. sun.
If any thing in this world can put
wings on the feet OF Incidence 1t is .
woman with dipper Of hot water and a
forward impulse when tramp Is ''sas-
sy.--Ran's Horn.
Every man should have an aim If
life, but he shouldn't spend too much
time aiming. The quick shot gets tho
,lay pigeon when the trap is sprung
Somerville Journal.
Mems rights arc great deal OF
trouble to them. They assert them and
get them. and then don't know what to
do with them. mans rights, hall OF
them, are meant ogive away. -lseecher.
Horse dealer-"Count you had GER
tainly better buy that horse. He Is per-
fectiy sound" II believe you. IL he
hadn't been sound lie never would have
lived to such an age. "-Fliegende Biat-
ter.
81 want to git arr at Yonkers-"
"This train don't stop there" Thin
I'll till y,z what we'll do; I'll git dis
ordherly just beyant Shpyten Duyvil,
and ycz can kick me arr at Yonkers- y
Ilarper's Bazaar.
-Aunty-' SO your papa has decided
10 send YOU to boarding school?' Little
Boy-"Yos m and I'm goin' to study
awful hard. so ] can 60 to college.
/ Aunty-"I am delighted to hear that
y on are anxious to 20 to college, are
you?" Little Hoy-"Ycs indeed l love
to row."-GcOd News.
! -Friond--lI How are you succeeding al
= your Joke writing, Sombcrlie? Sombor
lie Tho humorist. Very we'll, but
am afraid shan't continue long so
A why nut?" "Wcll, you SEQ 1t is jus
t this way. ] write my best jokes when
(. am feeling blucst, when my manuscript
IF are returned. for instance; but now tn
editors accept my jokes SO readily that
Is don't feel lluo enough to write more.-
k. Yankee blade.
n Every boy is two or three boys, @
k twenty or thirty different kinds in on,
" lie is all the time living many lives an
c. forming many characters, but 1T is
y good thing II he can keep one life NJ
lie one character when he gets to be n ma
is lie may turn out to be like an oni'
p when he is grown up, and be nothii
lie but hulls that yen keep pccling OIL o.
c. after another, till yon think you b.
III got down TO the heart at last, and TIN
o. YOU have got down TO nothing.--W,
es IIo ellis.
re Whom person, in criticising 4
Is character or disposition OF others,
ro plies with certain blind porsistcn
I'd ono or two common faults to them
rn now pcrclance hitting tho mark, a
to now living far vide OF 1t, wo may
h. sure that those very faults are possess
he by the critic ina marked degree thou
OF they arc often ia y measure conceal
rD. Nv tho complications OF his own char
lie tor. Ono who desires TO rid himself
ny faults will do wcls TO scrutinizc hims
nj in this respect and II he ilnds u
A dcncy 10 harp On some particular wei
,d ness Of human Lhturc, he may feel
~. sured that there he can apply the pr
ri. ing knife N. Y. Ledger.