Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-09-17
SiiccZiilg.

In glory floats high
AS long us Hanpshre's granite hills
Look upward to the sky! /
smcczIng.
One of the old French histories. in aludng to the
tremendous Influenza of the beginning of the seventh
century, says that there has been referred to it the
familiar usage of offering good wishes to those who
sneeza. 1t is said, he says in the days of Gregory
FlI those who had the misfortune to sneeze imme
diatelv died. This gave occasion to the religious
Ponti' to oruol for the faithful certain prayers
companied by good wishes IL turn away these dan
gerous effects from the corruption Of the air This
is fable, adds the author; for assured that
the custom is older in all parts of the known world
1t is we'll known 10 NEUROLOGICAL students that the
first signs of life, which the made by Prometheus
gave, was sneeze. Prometheus had stolen part
of the rays of the sum- and filled with them vessel
made expressly for the purpose, which he sealed her.
MEDICALLY. He then returned at to his favorite
statue, and presented to it his bottle opened may
be imagined that the odor of bottle sunbeams proved
somewhat pungent; the rays had lost some OF their
activity; they insinuated themselves into the pores
of the statue and made it sneeze Promehus charm
ed with his success, made prayer and offered vows
for the preservation of this singular being. His pu
pill heard him he remembered him and took great
similar occasions to make the application of
these vows to his descendants who from father to
son. have preserved the memory Of them from gen
Grafton to generation. And at this day the custom
holds in all countries of the world.
The Rabbins, speaking of this usage. do not give
creation God made general law that every living
man should only sneeze once, and that in the same
inst mt he should surrender his soul to God, without
any previous sickness. Jacob who was dissatisfied
with this brusque way of going out of the world,
wished opportunity set his affairs in order be-
! fore he died. bowed himself before the Lord, wres-
tied with him again, and begged that he might be
excepted from This rule His prayer granted !;
he sneezed and he did not die. All the princes of
the world being informed of this fact ordered that
for the future, sneeZng should he accompanied with
prayer and VOWS for the preservation and prolonga
ton of life.
The tradition was very ancient in the time of Ar
stotle, who did not know the origin of it and sought
to explain it in his Problems. He pretends that the
first men conceived very elevated ideas about the
head. which is the princp pal scat of the mind and
that they carried their to respect for
the sneeze, which is one of the most manifest and
sensible operations of the head The formulas of
blessings d by the Romans and Greeks, on occa-
sions of sneezes, were: May Jupiter preserve you;
or simply = HEALTH Or May you be we'll"
ECONOMICAL FARMING.-We are informed that
there is IL man in this County who but one
plough and will make, this year, one hundred bar
rels of corn. His plough horse has not eaten grain
of oats blade of fodder since the first
Of June, but has subsised entirely sassy bush
es fed to him in the stable
If this isn't economical farming don't know
what is. We never supposed that sassafras bushes
were of any account but to make sassaig tea :
but if the above be true, land authority is first
rate.) the vast amount Of that growth on the poor
lands of county and those adjacent may be turn
a ed to good use Our informant says til horse Was
in better order at the end of the uging season
than horses general that have ploughed through
the season. We will admit that better horse tooc
may be raised than sassafras bushes, but where they
abound it would be well to turn them to account
if possible-W arrenton Ne~s
CRIME IN New YoRK.-The New York Herald
, states that there 80 persons in prison, awaiting
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: the city. Of these there Is for murder fol
attempt to KILL 10 for robbery, Is for burglary q
for grand larceny for forgery, for rape for in
cest ? for arson, for manslaughter for abandon
ing infant child. and the rest for minor offences
The Herald adds that if the number out on bail
given. very different picture of crime in New Yorl
would be exhibited.
, Among the old women Of BOTH who are nov
o sitting in convention at Syracuse on woman
+ rights the Rev. Mrs. Palmta appears to be tn
o wag of the ring. As specimen of her logical Wi
=, take the following good hit:
. g Mrs. Palmita had preached the risen Saviou
fifteen years. preacher had told her that woma
was the wickedest rib taken from man was form
ed into woman, and was accepted as bone of his bon
y and flesh of his flesh Ifone rib was wicked wha
r mass of wickedness the whole must be -
n [Conyulsions of laughter.
il UNwR1TTEN KIssEs-By Fanny Fern.-A sensi
BILE contemporary says: {" The women ought 10 max
pledge not TO kiss man who uses tobacco
s. SO they had-but the deuce OF it is, all the hand
some men use it in some shape! And kissing - is
il little luxury not to be dispensed with! AS TO fe
male kiss, laugh! there's no efervescence in lit
II as fiat as an unmixed soda powder! If I'm vicm.ze
that way, always take an early application of soa
- and wafer You viii women practice It some
times, just to I" keep their hands in" dips, mean
l. bu, it's miserable substituted sham artlcle-don
half the time 10 tantaliZe of the male audience
Ct hope 10 be pardoned for turning States evidence,
fr but don't care pin if amt D-Nnw kissing is
L natural gift not be acquired by any bungIer; whe
G. YOU meet with a gifted brother, "make note ont
y as Capt Cutie says. There's your universal ksse
he who can't distinguish between your kiss and yot
IN grandmothers-faugh! there's your philosophIc;
D transcenlental kisser. who goes through the me
BE tons in the air. Then there'soh. my senses !
s. they say there's such Thing unwrten music
and unwritten poetry" ] have my private susp
. cions that there are sunwFitten kisses!'
J. Grz- Mrs. Darlington invited an aged clergy
" man from the city TO take tea with her. On oPenn
the sugar-bowl she discovered a deceased mouse
the premises In the excitement and frenzy OF I'll
E. moment, she seized large lump OF sugar and nun
I'd behind the back log, while she carefully deposits
as the mouse in the sen,lemans cup He dIscoveredsf
mistake as soon as he began to stir the sugar.
A hog washed weekly with soap anda brush, vi
- he found to thrive and put up flesh in ratio OF
.east to 8, in comparison to pig not so treated
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