The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-05-08

Bric-a-Brac Reaches the Bottom.

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Bric-a-Brac Reaches the Bottom
To the Editor of the AEorristo,vn Gazette: s-s5as
l lay awake all last night thinking
of j. S. WIS "Thotnas cat and the
chicken I have naturally kind
heart. I thought how few fathers
would allow their little ones to stick
their fingers in the paternal eye. j
did nothing but thought" Toward
morning rose and went on the front
porch to look at the starry host, and
notice whether they we're holding ho-
| ly reyelry on high; but nary revel-
ry. The dark mist from old Cum
berland fioated over and around, and
with the simple remark, Lord, aint
it chokey," l returned to my virtu-
Gus couch.
Mankind needs education. Start
ing from the more intelligent mon
keys, our race has gone on improy-
ing: but have yet much ground to
get over. Some have challenged the
Darwinian theory; but every one has
heard of the tails OF my grandfather.
and nothing pleases children more
than tail. Everything must have
an end. There are many curious
things in natural history.
Take a guinea pig by the tail, and
he will leave it in your hand. Drop
some sweet oil on a cows upper
teeth and it will produce convul-
sions. When dog is sweating all
over pass your fingers through his
hair and your nails will turn green
ish yellow, and SO on. Let spider
drop down your throat. lizard de-
scend your dorsal vertebra. take
quiet seat on yellow jackets nest,
and you will be surprised at the re-
suit. The nearer we get to nature
the more interesting. Take boy
hulling chesRuts for instance the
burrs, as they pierce his digits, en-
courage flow of language; bed bug
in your buttermilk incuIcates resig-
nation. while your neighbor's hogs
in your potato patch induces that
noblest trait in the human race,
charity. Charity vaunteth not it,
self. How can it vaunt? Don't
You see?
Let man walk abroad and over
haul the tent caterpillars; let him
trace the meandering of the festive
mole in his truck patch; let him,
to please the farmer. hunt up the
missing turkey-hen and find her
feathers and wing bones. aud he will
say mature preserves an equilibri-
um." There is much we should be
grateful for; the tooth ache espe-
cially; for by fire is not the gold re-
fined? OF course it is, and then you
know that this thing has gone on,
you know. ever since the morning
stars sang for joy, you know; and |
says l, the morning stars did sing
for joy, says |, but tbs very strange !
thing, says I, they have never sung
since, says i'm. sfl .4Z- Es@sea iasa
This problem of education has en-
gagged the attention of the greatest
minds. mine among the number.
We will, at random. select from our
youth one to be educated. We will |
not teach him human nature, and the
worlds ways; we will not instruct
him in his mother tongue or in
paths through which his future life
may lead him. Oh, no. no, NO.
(crescendo con motto eep9essione-on
the last no.) nH hssa
By the Lord Harry. we will tell
him of the days of Troy and brass
armor; all about Achilles and his
heel of the Wolf.suckedI brothers,
how Romulus knocked Remus on the
head of the standard bearer of the
Tenth Legion; of Oragetorix and
Arioyistus; of Sir Walter Raleigh
and the cloak; of the cherry-tree man
md his little hatchet; of New Or
cans and the cotton bales and all
hose nice little stories that are so
lseful to young man dependent
lpOu his own efforts for a support.
We will cram him with the binomial
,heorem, the pons asinonum, and
ouch him on the fish problem, head,
BODY, and tail given-how long is
he fish, tout of water)? ,s.fs
No matter if he can't write or
pell well, he has an education, and
+ he don't know German, French. or
spanish, he does Latin and Greek.
nd they are good things TO talk
bont.) .sass aaaso3ssfs = af le4aialssFe :
Then 1 would change his teacher
very six months, aud, with the T
eacher, his text books. The latter G
trade. and what father. t
Ieuldn't spend money to properly
dacate his children. aa tEis5Eas ~ u I
Ie has been Bric-a-Brac's privf- 8
sge to enjoy three different meth Q
ds of instruction. The, first was I.
nder an old Scoth-I Irish Domino I
Tho walloped-unmercifully who be- |
eyed boys rounded terminal was &