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Evening Star, Issue 4141, 5 June 1876, Page 4

At the close of one of the battles in tho Peninsular war an officer, seeing a private of his'regiment bringing in three French prisoners, asked him how he had managed, unassisted, to make such a capture. “Bo jabers yer honor,” replied the man proudly, “I surrounded them ! ”

;, How She Taught I ; im.—A par er printed in Eufaula. Ala., prints the follow ng as a verita- le incident, which occurred the other ay in that city A lady hired an oldn- gro woman, named Charlotte, who had the most exalt, cl opintn of her own individuality at.cl origi- a--1 ty. Whenever a subject was unde disem I n 10 the family Oh rMte woul be sure to stale her own superior method of proceeding in such matters. On one occasion the lady was talking of sending some of th children to school, w hen ' h°ilot e put in her oar as usual: ‘Lot, in ssus,’she said, ‘what m k you pay money fur to send de chile to school ? It o one - matt iroy, Jonus, but I larns him myself.’ ‘Bn r , Aunt h-»rl tte, f replle i the lady, how can you te.ch your child when you do., fc know one lettbr riotnahottterP ‘How I teath him? I JL mek hjm tek de tods, an’ ret tsym on de* «**“ ■’W* l w IWM JW