The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1878-11-13
EDUCATIONAL.
w. |. HAWKINS, - EDITOR.

knife. Mr.. Godshaw has two stores in
full blast in our little village. and
seems to be doing a thriving business.
Ii is duty that patrons of schools
owe to themselves, their children, the
teacher. and their conscience, to visit
the school as often as possible.
Good teachers make good schools !;
while bad teachers make nothing good.
A gUod newspaper in a family of
children is worth the price of three
months school Of any mans money.
Moral-Subscribe for the Hartford
Herald.
He was poor man and could not
afford the price of good paper. You
see his wife frequently had the chills,
and he was sometimes troubled with
cramps and collie, so it took about all
he could make to keep medicine
whisky and horse radish.
Do you wish to control your boys
Well, | will give you a short, but never
failing recipe-control yourself.
Mothers who depend upon boarding
schools, or any other kind Of schools
for the education of their girls, are al
ways sure to be disappointed. More
than two-thirds of the most useful and
ornamental part of their education can
be acquired only at home.
The Register mans grammar is ike
an unruly horse; it frequently runs
away with him and sometimes throws
him. He does not seem to mind it,
though, for he will up and try it again
every time.
Hit agfn MeDuG,
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That prince of good fellows, Buck
Morton, is still alive and thriving.
There are fourteen gentlemen who
are willing to sacrifice themselves
pro bono publico, and to prove, their
willingness, are asking the people for
the little Office of Superintendent Of
Public Instruction. The State has
need of but one victim. What a pity.
PRAY for the Southern sufferers. ("
say the preachers. 81 hat prey upon
dem all de days of mine life. Gin.
replies.
1t is a good plan, says c. G. jerks,
for young learners to acquire the habit
of writing out at least one sentence of
ORIGINAL thought each day-keepins a
book for this purpose and always tax
ing pains to express your ideas in good
language and in a concise manner.
Thus you will be disciplining the mind
to independent thought, and you will
at the same time be acquiring the abil-
ity to clothe your ideas in easy and
graceful language.
When you have a thought that you
think particularly good or felicitOus,
write it out in good language, and lay
it awy for three or four days; then
take it up and examine it, and you
can form better idea of its worth.
Its no good reason, because you have
nothing else to give child, to let it
have its own way.
"Now what shall / say TO you, chill
dren?" Said dull fellow, who had a
penchant TO lecture in Sabbath schools.
"Say amenT' Cried a little fellow,
land take a seat"
John. will give you Just two min
utes in which to take that kiss off my
cheek He took it off, and some Of
the scholars were malicious enough to
say that he kissed the school mistress
twice.
She had graduated with eclat. Yes,
she was pronounced finished" and
ready to take upon herself the duties
of life. She was seated at the piano
in the parlor, sweetly wailing
"Eis, me swestly, mother DEAR"
when her little sister said, "She can't,
sister Serephina, she il in kitchen
blacking your shoes"
G. HI sent you the solution Of
your problem by mail. l have often
stated that / have not room in thi:
column to solve problems, and beside:
the printing office is not supplied with
the necessary types for that kind Of
printing.
If a man goes TO a closet to get out
fine melon that he had left there,
and finds it cut open can he be said t.
view it in-twO-a-tively?
"Have you Plutarch's lives Of
Greece ?" asked joker of a clerk, one
day. mo" answered the clerk, 'you
will find the grease shop next door"
That was a brave little boy who
said. would rather please mother,
than twenty boys"
Were mankind. as a rule, to live IN
to their own precepts, We should have
a real paradise on earth Most people
prefer to teach rather than to Join the
class. Its much easier to cover your
ignorance by asking questions than TO
attempt to answer them when asked
by some one else. B.