The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-04-05
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
The teacher should remember that {
some of his scholars he is the only teachc
they will ever have. Teach everything
good; manners, morals, religion; to b
courteous, honest, Industrious, chaste, Il
love their country. No teacher is worth,
the name who cannot hold and intcres
all his class.
"A man having fallen into slough, al
lrishman standing by called to another fol
assistance. The latter, who was busily
engaged in cutting log, leisurely inquired
"How deep is he in ?" "Up to his
ankles" "Then there is plenty of time.''
mo, there is not" replied the first, 81
forgot to tell you he's in head first"
"A squad of Indiana volunteers, out
scouting, came across female in log
cabin in the mountains. After the usual
salutations, one of them asked her
well, old lady, are you secesh ?''
NO." was the answer. "Are you
union ?' "No." What are you, then ?''
"A Baptist, an always have BEEN" The
Hoosie, let down.
Samuel Hartman, of st. Croix, Wis
consin, retired from military life with a
brevet brigadiership. 'Good-bye, gene
ral," were the parting words of his old
comrades in the army. ''How are you,
colonel 2" was the salutation on reaching
Wisconsin. AS he approached home this
began to come down to "How dye do.
captain ?" and finally, when be came
among the boys at home, he was greeted
with Halo, Sam, got back again ?'
"A man of confiding disposition, re-
siding in the upper portion of the State,
believed the assurance of a friend that gun:
powder fried in lard was a asovereign remedy
for corns. He had corns, awful ones, and
he thought he would ''try it on" The
nelghbors were naturally incensed at the
shower of bricks from his chimney, and
sent in an indignant remonstrance; but
when all the circumstances of the case
were made known, ,hey apologized for
their hasty conduct, and made the amende
honorable by an extra large attendance at
the funeral.
The empyrean dome has hung above
men through time with depth of symbolic
purity. Grandeur has struck the soul in
III ages as the vision of the mortal looked
Up through starry space. Beauty has
spoken from the flower of every sun.
Awfulness has been felt in the presence
IT the cataracts of earth and the thunders
If air. Inspiration of thought has been
where the accommodation of words was
wanting. The worlds of the visible and in
'isible have ever existed, man the inhabi-
ant of the one, and the inhabited Of the
'ther.
Every century is an overloaded ship
hat must sink at last with most of its car
%. The small portion of its crew that get
m board the new vessel which takes them
1T don't pretend to save a great many of
he bulky articles. But they must not
nd will not leave behind the hereditary
ewels of the race; and if you have found
nd cut diamond, were it only spark
With single polished facet, it will stand
'etter chance of being saved from the wreck
han anything, no matter what, that wants
auch room for stowage.
"A Texas paper of late date, in the
curse of an article on General Albert
ldney johnson, written by professed
ltlmate friend, says that his high sense
t honor was the cause of his death. Be-
ause of his defeat at the battle of Donel-
on, he was bitterly denounced by officers
salous of his fame, and severe and un-
ruthful articles published by portion of |
he New Orleans press. This so mortified |
nd exasperated him that, in the battle |
{ Shiloh, he threw aside his rank as a
and went foremost in the fight,
there he received his mortal wound.
There are in this world two kinds of
that have wings and those
nat have feet--the winged and the walking
pirits. The walking are all logicians the
hinged are the instructive and poetic. Ma
lres that must always walk find many
og, many thicket, many tangled brake,
'hich Gods happy little winged birds fit
yer by one noiseless flight. Nay, when a
ian has toiled till his feet weigh too heav-
y with the mud OF earth to enable him to
ak another step, these little birds will
ten cleave the air in q right line towards
10 bosom of God, and show the way
here he could never have found it.-Ms.
toUe.
One dark night, not long ago, bur-
ar entered private residence in a coun-
y town. On ascending one flight of stairs
: observed light in a chamber, and
hile deliberating what to do large wo-
an suddenly descended upon him, seized
m by the throat, pushed him down
rough the hall, and forced him into the
rect before he had time to think. SHE
nc Repulse of a Burglar by Woman,n
as the way in which the story appeared
the newspapers the next day. But when
lends called and congratulated her
1on her co,lrara gha aypln;mal stGoo3 |