The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24
COMPOSITIONS.

DIOOhS IueN SeG tuSlS EOOd ny sly
ness they will lye down in the Sun
where the Grashoppers come they lye
their and appeare to be asleap and a
Grashopper comes Up and all at
once they feal themselves caught and
Swallowed the color Of the toad is
Brown with black strips all up and
down it's Back. its eyes are green
with green Eyelids. | cant write
eny more SO good Bye
Willie L Edwards"
"T-nat's very good, indeed" said
Walters mother; "but | see a good
many mistakes in spelling. Hadn't
you better correct them?"
80, no! The teacher'll mark 'em,"
he replied, carelessly.
Walters was not as long. It was
as follows:
"My dear teacher A Toad has four
legs and is a harmless creature, the
toad can spit fire see how he trys to
get out of your way the Toad is very
useful his neck is all the time going
in and out it hops along as pleasantly
as ever some bad boys like to plague
the poor thing and it has tow eyes
like we have if you Handle the toad
you will have watts and it has little
head so good by
"Walter James Simmons"
REV. Henry Highland Garrett, D..
d., formerly of Avery College, Allie
gheny City, but now pastor of Shiloh
church, New York city, has been in
yited to assume the office of President
Of Alcorn University at Rodney,
Miss, vice ex-senator Revels, at the
salary S25O0 and furnished house !;
but owing to the struggling condi-
ton of his church, DR.. Garnet has
felt it his duty to accept the flatter-
ing offer.
4 HACK-DGIvER was made happy
i'll Illinois the other day by receiving
an appointment to the Military Acad-
amy at West Point. The appoint
ment was made by competitive exam
ination, and the young hack-driver,
whose name is Murphy, whose age is
twenty-one years and who never at
tended school but two years and a
half, carried off the prize from fifteen
competitors. The jubilant Jehu is
said to have been an ornament to his
calling. He neither drinks, smokes,
nor chews, and he has employed his
leisure time in study. Such a man
can hardly be spared from the hack
driving fraternity, but if his success
shall have the effect to stimulate his
brethren in the profession to a sober
and studious behavior, his absence
from the box will be no small gain to
the travelling community.
A LARGE number of the ableSt ply
sicians i'll New \ ork and vicinity have
just signed a paper expressing their
opinion that alcoholic liquors is not
only the cause Of large proportion
OF our crime and pauperism, but that
alcohol should be regarded as Il dan
gerous and powerful drug and its
traffic confined by law to the pur-
poses Of medicine, science and the
arts. When Drs. Delafeld, A. Clark.
Willard Parker, c. r. Agnew, Ste
phen Smith. \. c. Post and many
other such men sign such a paper
we may be pardoned for believing
Maine Law men are not all ignorant
bigOts.
READ WhateIy's Rhetoric. y
Read ten pages day, then turn back
and read them carefully again before
you put the book by. You will find
it very pleasant book, and it will
give you great many hints for clear
and simple expression which you are
not 50 likely to find in any other way
/ know.
An ELOQUENT PARAGRAPH.-John
Stuart Mills great work on "Liber-
ty" was dedicated to his wife in this
most touching and eloquent para.
graph, embodying as great a compli.
ment as was ever paid a woman by
mortal man:
ITO the beloved and dcplored me.
mory of her who was the inspirer and
in part the author Of all that is best
in my writings-the friend and wife
whose exalted sense of truth and right
was my strongest incitement. and
whose appreciation was my chief re.
ward-I dedicate this volume. Like
all | have written for many years il
belongs as much to her as to me: but
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