South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-08-01

die ofscanty food is undoubtedly true 80
but vastly more in this community
die from eating too much than from
eating too little vastly more from eA-
cess than starvation. So as to clothing,
MANY SILVER from want Of defences against
the cold but there is vastly more suffer
| inc among the rich from absurd q crlmi-
nal modes of dress which fashion has
sanctioned, than among the poor from de-
| ficiency of raiment. Our daughters are
oftener brought to the grave by their rich
attire. than our beggars by their naked
ness. So the poor are often overwork-
| ed. but they suffer less than many among
the rich who have no work to do, no in
teresting object to eli up life, to satisfy
the infnlto cravings Of man for action.
According to our present modes OF ed
ucation, how many Of our daughters are
victims of ENNuI, misery unknown to
| the poor, and more intolerable than the
WEAKNESS of excessive toll The idle
Young man, spending the day in exhibit
ing his person in the street, ought not to
| excite the envy of the over-tasked poor,
and this cumberer of the ground Is found
exclusively among the rich.
! EzMM
| A married couple in Maine sued mu-
tually. a short time since, for divorce.
One Of the grounds on which the husband
prayed for separation was that his wife
sMoKED--that she smoked day and night,
| and further that she smoked before mar.
| riare. but concealed the habit from him
until after their union. The wife on her
side, put in cross plea, that the husband
cHEwEp TOBACCO, and not only chewed
| tobacco, but ATE ONIONS. Causes OF
dissatisfaction SO strong, added to divers
others mutually alleged and proven, were
! deemed sufficient by the court, aud the
disgusted couple were allowed to sepa~
rate and enjoy apart their delectable pro-
pensities.
When young tradesman in Holland
or Germany goes a counting, the first
question tho young woman asks him is
s'Are you able to pay the charges ?"--
That is to say in english, are you able
TO keep wife when you have got her?
What world of misery it would prevent
if the young women in all countries
would stick to the wisdom of that ques-
ton p Marriage is not made of mush-
rooms, but of good round Cakes is one
of the pithy sayings by which our ances-
tors conveyed the same great rule of
prudence.
EXTRAORDINARY EscApE.--A letter
published in the Christian Mirror, from
one Augustus Hales, whaling seaman,
to his mother, details the most remark
able escape FROM death, since the days OF
Jonah. He thus describes the accident
with true sailor-like non chalance.
"Four weeks ago, was very serious
! ly hurt by whale. The whale stove all
three of our boats, and got me in his jaw
knocked about one half of the scalp off
nv head, but did not affect my skull.
He stuck two teeth in my breast, 81 one
in each thigh, one wound was six inches
long and two deep, and he went off with
four irons fastened to him. suppose,
dear mother this was one of the narrowest
escapes from death ever known, and SO
little hurt mot bone broken And
have so far recovered as to be about, q
Captain Husscy thinks shall be able to
attend to duty, and my boat again, in
two weeks"
! The following speech" says the
New Haven Herald. was lately delivers
ed in Church-street:-
81 wish there want bank in oblivion /;
d--n the things, they are the fgreatest
! curse that ever was curtalled upon the
human race"
Two travellers having been robbed in a
wood, and tied to trees at some distance
|. from each other, one of them in despair,
|. exclaimed, "Oh! Pm undone !" "Are
your" said the other, 'then wish you
would come and undo me-"