The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1878-05-22

amt he getting it?"
/ Annie asks if it is right to use the
expression agreeable disappointed. ="
1t is very common expression, but
agreeably surprised is, / think, a far
more accurate one.
A youth who had not long emerged
from the trammels Of school, having
been smitten with a pretty face, asked
his old teacher it he had better con
jugate. No, replied the Pedagogue
you had better decline.
Dear Mister Hawkins Il always
read your column with so much pleas
ure! 1t is always the first thing /
turn to when | get the paper. Wont
you please insert in your column that
l--------. Certainly
| will, with the utmost pleasure.
After such Aattering praise, who could
resist.
The man who selects the calling Of a
teacher to avoid dru1gery, sadly misses
it. He discovers his mistake after he
has deprived a district Of school, and
defeated a good teacher Of the means
of living. If he accomplishes his
sole object, hOwever-getting the pay,
he is content, never regretting the
mischief he has done.
Students stealing chickens for fun,
may be called fowl play.
X.-Your quotation, "a wise son
maketh glad the heart of his father,
and a virtuOus daughter is the orna-
ment of her mother" is not scripture;
but you may well console yourself
with the reflection or belief that Solo
mon might have written it, if he had
only thought of it.
Mr.. James Ford, druggist, Of Hart
ford will please accept nv thanks for
a copying slate and pencils. | have
shown them to my pupils and TO sew
eral of my patrons. All seem well
pleased with the slate. | would like
to see one in the hands of every child
attending school. While on the sub
ject of favors will say that several
Others of my friends, especially E. I.
William, grocer, and his handsome
brother, Jerry, placed me under many
obligations on my last visit to Hart
ford.
TOmmie.-"This course of lectures
were Delivered should be, was deliv-
cred. No trouble to answer your
questions, Tommie, send them on.
In debating club, one Of the speak
ers referring to an honorable oppo-
nent,' remarked, she is mighty nigh
fool" "Ohl Ill move farther off if
it is unpleasant to YOU" said the other.
suiting the action 10 tire words.
Don't ask which is the most learned
but which j, the best learned. What
does much learning avail, if it is ofno
practical account?
Nine out Of ten Of all the great
men of the nation, if they are good,
have had good and wise mothers.
Within the limits assigned to me,
it is impossible to impart direc-
TORS for every step in education
and shall consider my task accom-
plished, when | shall have impressed
certain leading principles on the minds
of those hitherto ignorant of them.
This has been my object all along.
since ticking charge of this column.
Ii | have, 50 far, succeeded in impress
ing upon the mind of teachers the i'm
pOrtance and dignity of their Profes-
sion, if have lightened the burdens
of any; if | have been instrumental
in leading any Of the youths of the
country to try to live better life, or
to prepare themselves for a more use
full one. my labors have not been mis-
spent-are not in vain.
"Is thst," said teacher to one Of
his little pupils. and pointing to a
stool, sis that the Ounce block y 81
suppose so, sir" was the ready re-
Spouse, las the teachers generally sit
upon 1t.
/ When to punish and how to punish
are questions of the greatest impOr-
lance to the teacher. Teachers of in
telligence recognize this fact and are,
in consequence, very careful on the
subject. 1t is only your british school
masters who are never in doubt.
Unusual punishments are nearly al
ways injurious and should be avoided.
G.. HIT is not proper to say San
annual rental of fifty dollars per an
num-" As it stinds the sentence is
Pathological. Leave out ''annum" or