North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-07-30


CURTIUS.
A MODEL PREACHER. His sermons were not so
plain but that the piousy learned did admire them,
learned but that the plain did understand Them
What was said Of Socrates, that he first humbed the
towering specnlaons of philosophers into practice
and morality Perkins brought the schools in
to the pulpit and unsheing their controversies out
Of their hard school terms, made thereof plain and
wholesome meat for his people. For he had a capa-
cious head with angles winding and roomy enohgh
to lodge all controversial intricacies and, had not
preaching diverted him from that way he had doubt
attained to eminency therein. An excellent chirur-
geon he was at jontng broken soul, and at stating
OF doubtful countenance. And sure, in case divi-
nifty protesants defective. For, save that smith
of late have built them FORCES, and DIP shop
we 90 down enemies sharpen all our instru-
mens, and beholden to them for offensive and de-
fensive weapons in cases Of conscience.
He would pronounce the word damn with such an
emphasis as left doefnl echo in his auditors ears
good while after. And when catechist of Christ
College in expoundng the commandments. applied
them so home, able almost to make his hearers hearts
fall down. and hairs 10 stand upright. But in his OIL
der age he altered his voice, and RENTED much of
his former rgdness. often protesting that preach
mercy the proper office of the ministers of the
gospel. Thomas Fuller.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ARTERIES VEINS. The
knowledge of the distinction between arteries and
veins is of the utmost importance particularly peo
pie residing in districts remote from surgical aid,
where those who receive serious wounds may actually
bleed TO DEATH for want Of such easily acquired infor-
NATION. Inc arteries composed OF no less than
four very firm, strong, elastic membranes, or coats,
and this, well as their being generally deep seated
in the flesh. to guard them from injury, renders them
less liable to be hurt by accident but when cut or
wounded, the frmness of these coats prevent their
closing, and hence arises the fatal tendency of wounds
of large blood vessels, which remain open till they
tied up, till death ensues. Another distinctive
character is that the pulse of the heart is felt in the
arteries only.
The veins lie near the surface and bleeding from
them may readily be stopped, in common cases, by
closing the ori6ce, and bandaging in the manner
ally adopted by operators after having opened vein
in the foot.
When person. or animal is seriously wounded,
and surgeon cannot be Immediately procured, Igno-
rant 6y-standers will often themselves with
laying on little lint, cob-web, some other tri
fling application wholly inadequate to the case they
ought to know that when such remedies fail, and
more especially when the blood flows on the wound
by pulsatory leaps it should be arrested by mechani
cal compression, until professional aid be obtained.
This be easily done by the most ignorant persons
present, by winding string or bandage tightly above
the wound. Those more skilfull better informed,
may take the severed artery, and twist, tie it up.
The LANGUAGE You've LADIES. The Rev. A.
Peabody, in an address before the Newburyport Fe-
male School which has been published, enIarges up
on the usS OF exaggerated, extravagant forms of
speech--sayfng splendid for pretty, magnificent for
hGndsome, korrio horrible for unpleasant immense
for large thousands yriods for any than t,uo.
I' Were I,' he says s. 10 write down. for one day,
the conversation Of some young ladies of my acquain-
ply that, within the compass of twelve or fourteen
hours, they had met with more marvellous adven-.
lures and hair-breadth escapes had passed through
more distressing experiences, had seen more impo-
sing spectacee, had endured more fright, had en-
Joyed more rapture, than would snfice for dozen