Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-01-29
CHARLOTTESVILLE. VIRGINIA, FRIDAY JANUARY &c. 1880
"DRINK A LITTLE"

EJ, 1850.
RI "DRINK A LITTLE"
Il " Drink no longer toater, but use lit,
tic wine for thy stomach's so,e,, .rnd thin,
often infrmitics''
The following anecdote is good illus.
tration of PauPs advice to Timothy:-Pro.
lessor s., while giving an exegelical les.
iure upon the epistles Of Timothy, came
to the verse here quoted. The students i'm.
agined that considerable, ingenuity would
be requisite 10 explain tho text, so az to a,
void collision with the temperance meas
ures. The professnrI after the verse was
read, observed in substance as follows =
What remarkably temperate young
man Timothy was, that it should require
the authority Of All inspired apostle to
use q little wine, even when his health
required il Very few at the present day
are so scruPulous as it regards drinking
wine
strong drink TO quote this advice of Paul
to Timothy, while propping up their sink.
ing cause.-Black River Gazette.
] A correspondent says he was an ear wit
ness tn the following whimsical dialogue
| between short gentleman and tail lady
with greGadier nat, in he pit of the
Drury Lane theatre, one evening" this
week
Gent. Be so kind madam, as to pull off
your bat.
Lady. What ridiculous request, did
you ever know sir, the ladies to lake Of their
hats in playhouse?
Gent | am so short, madam, that
can see nothing unless you will be SO o.
bliging.
Lady. Then, sir, you should not have
come here until you were taller.
Gent. Very gravely,) Madam, did not
make myself.
Lady. Qmi,atiug him) Nor did NIKE
my hat, sir.
Gent (AugriIy.) pity the man, madam
that has made you his wife.
Lady. (Laughing) hear sir, the lady
who may make you her husband, will make
you something else.
This accustomed loud laugh from the
|
was so abashed that he made NO further
rcply.-London paper
To THE LEARNED. Conversng lately
with distiller Of whiskey, he argued in
favor of his business, that grain from which
the spirit is extracted will afford as much
nourishment to swine, as if given TO them
in lis natural state so that the spirit must
be considered as clear gain to the world.
The question naturally rose, if this spirit,
before it was extracted, could not nourish
swine, how can it give nourishment to
men In its separate state, or as taken from
the bottle The whiskey maker said he
did not know neither did know there
fore propose the query TO those who have
leisure and skill to investigate such mat
tiers.
fit should be thought that the spirit, in
lts separate state, possesses nourishing
qualities which it has not while in the grain
or meal, i: may be worth while for distlI-
ers TO try the experiment of pouring it back
into their sWiH, for the hogs. Perhaps one
bushel of graiu, which has been thus med
ieated in one Of the devils tea kettles"
may have as much virtue in it, as two or
three, used in the ordinary way. Take
| care, however, that there be no steep place,
over which they may run down into the
sea.-Vermont Chronicle.
SLEEPING AT cHURCH-THE rIoyY.--ln The
de 'ightful days Of spring, blooming country
girl, as is common enough, had carried a piony
10 church, as red the rose on her cheeks.
After smelling TO the sweet flower awhile, this
flower Of fair damsels closed the petals of her
cyes,-in common parlance, fell fast asleep. A
pretty girl looks pretty asleep, but to sleep in
church." nv, there's the rub" Her father,
being deacon, jogging her elbow. She walked
for instant, aud applied the piony to her
| sweet nose; but it only increased her drowsi-
ness-aDd, deacon's daughter as she was, she
| was soon again in the strong arms af Somnus-
ay, in the arms of Sofnnus before tho whole
| congregation. Sbe sDored, too. How unseemly
| But she was unconscious Of it, A willy wag Of
| a snuff. taker, who sat by, opened his box, and
wickcdly scattered several pincbes Of the &" IT,
tillating dust among the petals of the PONY
| How could he he so ungallant' He did not stou
here. lie walked the sleeping beauty, whose
first impulse was 10 apply the piony TO her nose
which she did
Ere well awake; -
And oh what nasal percussion She sncc=eG
and sneczed, and -, and snetted, again,
And the high dome re.echosd TO her nose"
The wag Of the snuii:box was Disconnected q
the mischief be had made her father, the dea
con, was appalled, and her lover forSook her Is
whole month.
Girls, never carry piony to church.
n. Y. Constellation.
RI ThrATxExT OF BoEsEs.--Th9 learned an
benevolent Burbcquius, who was Ambassador a
Cons,antinoplo in Inc l7th century, gives tn
: following account Of tlrs Turkish horses Gu
r,ooros and their mast<Ts too, NAV Learn L.,