The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-08-07

- Education does not commence with
the alphabet. 1t begins with a mothers
love-with fathers smile of appreciation,
or sign ofreproof-with sisters gentle
forbearance-witha a handful of flowers in
green and dainty meadow with birds
nests admired but not touched with creep
ing ants and almost imperceptible emmets
with pleasant walks in shady lanes, and
with thoughts directed in sweet and kind
ly tones and words to nature, to acts OF
benevolence, to deeds of virtue and to the
source of all good, to God himself
-"I have heard,'' once said Sir Walter
Scott, "higher sentiments from the lips OF
poor, uneducated women, when exercising
the spirit of severe yet gentle heroism un-
der difficulties and Affections, or when
speaking their thoughts as to the circum-
stances in the lot of friends and neighbors,
than have ever heard from cultivated
minds, or met with outside of the pages OF
the Bible"
"Grandma, do you know why | can see
up the sky 50 far9" asked Charley,
little four year old, of a venerable lady,
who sat on the garden seat knitting. :No,
my DEAR Why is it?" said grandma,
bending her ear, eager to catch and remem-
Der the wise saying other little pet. "Be-
cause there is nothing in the way" replied
the young philosopher, resuming his as
Economical search, and grandma her knit
ting.
= A scholar, bald man, and a barber
who were travelling together, agreed each
to watch fours at night, IN turn, for the
sake of security. The barber's lot came
first, who shaved the scholars head when
asleep, then walked him when his turn
came. The scholar scratching, his head,
and feeling it bald, exclaimed: "You
wretch of barber you have walked the
bald man instead of me-
The line ofconduct chosen by young
man during the five years from fifteen to
twenty, will in all probability determine
his character for life As he is then care
full or careless, prudent or imprudent, in
dustrious or indolcnt, truthful or dissimu-
lating, intelligent or ignorant, temperate
or dissolute, so will he be i'll after years,
and it needs no prophet to calculate his
chances of life.
-"See here" exclaimed returned Irish
soldier to u gaping crowd as he exhibited
with some pride his tall hat with bullet
hole through it, .Look at that hole, will
you? You see ifit had been a low crowned
hat, / should have been killed outright"
"A teacher in Springfield, Mass, while
conducting an examination, asked among
other questions the following: "Wby is
the pronoun she applied to ship? To
which one of the boys rendered the fol
lowing answer: because the rigging costs
more than the hull"
"A cultivator was espied by party
of Nashville negroes, when one said: GA
man jist sit on dat ting an ride while he's
blowing" "Golly," said another, 'de ras-
Gals was too sharp to think O. dat fore the
nigger was sot Free"
"A country editor describing the bon
nets now in fashion, says: They have a
downward slant that reminds one of
vicious ccw with board across her eyes.
There are two things in this world
which man does not often find away from
home: The first is good soup; the second
is disinterested love.
"A young lady who tainted at the
ssbare idea" was seen covering up her max
ed eye.