Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-12-08
Sips from Our Punch Bowl.

d common GIT, or ne would not nave strained
himself 50 at that sere' tree
I took a reed and wrote upon the sand,
"Agnes, I love thee,'
But the wicked waves come rolling
Over the sweet confession,
And Alsted it out
Fragile reed! ~changeabIe sand!
Rolling waves. | trust you no more;
But with mighty hand, from Norway'sforests,
tear the Hottest pine,
And dip it in the boiling crater of Mount Etna,
{ And, with this flame dipping giant pen,
| write upon the azure vault Of Heaven,
"Agnes [ love theeP
THE fact is-there are too many people in
the world. And so various means are adopted
for killing off the surplus. Rum sweeps off a
crowd, but the use of it is principally confined
to the male sex. The women take TO thin shoes
and die by the 'aflicting dispensatiou of Provi-
dence.'
Look at tais No. Of the Age, read ii, pass it
round. There is the dollars worth in the sin
gle copy. The ~ffty-one copies are all gratis.
Ask he friend who is reading your paper
all the time, to send on and be booked for one
of his own.
GLoEloUs right of sufrage-one poor drunk
en- voter challenging another. Don't carry
temperance into politics for such men are
not prepared for the Law!
SOME young gentlemen undertook to get
into the barber business on Sunday night, but
were SO badly shared themselves, that they
could not tell a printing Office from all out
doors.
STRANGE that a man will send to have his
paper sent to some other address, and not
state whore he now receives it. 1t is pleasant
to hunt over a list Of over 1000.
Politeness does much in business. An i'm
pudent clerkcan do more injury in a store
than the neglect Of the proprietorto advertise
his goods.
A whole volume Of truth I! An ill-bred, i'm
pudent clerk, is the worst article a merchant
can have behind his counter. There are many
clerks who are as far from being gentlemen as
Monsieur Boots is from a ballet dancer.
A SURE DAGUERREoTYPE.-A woman
heart is the only true plate for a likeness. An
instant gives an impression that an age Of sor-
row or change cannot efface.
LAfrie9llenies the efact.' He says that
for more than two years, in all weathers, he
has been trying to make his 'pietur' stick in a
gals heart but can't bring anything to a focus,
Lies are like hiltless svoras,which cut the
hand thai wield them-Ecchqnge.
Doa'tbelieye a word Of it. Or else some
men we Know would have been mince meat
long sine.
The sums.lIer has a license to destroy a
man in he most cruel and fatal manner. Let
the samss rumseller steal the corpse of the vic
tim he destroys, and society sends him to
State Prison!
THE Chinese have a saying, that an unlucky
word dopped from the tongue cannot be
brought lack again by a coach and six horses
Who ha51Ain a moment Of anger or excite.
ment dropped such words
SOME onehas said that umbrellas are sha.
ped like a Mushroom because they come ur
in a shower. They are shaped just right tc
come ~up-mSing, in these parts.
THE managers of the Rail Road will not al
low liquor sod at any of their grounds. Why
not as necessary there as elsewhere2
A FEW evenings since a nice young mar
undertook to commit suicide by shooting him
self in the-neck.
: Nor long since, an ambitious young mar
] en- 4nox, A. loSol4 w, I-,zi
t he would when we saw him getting up there
I AN anti memorial man saws that many mer
| Of many good 'piats' visit our rumshops. H
might have said quarts!
5 A FArry~ tsfhu sometimes imbibes, think
| that the late rains have raised the whiske,
around these diggins. To what base use
water is sometimes put.
The PooR.-There are two classes of poo
!. the rich Poor, and the poor Poor. The ricl
Poor are those, who, like myself, are poor, an,
care nothing about it. The poor Poor, ar
f those, who not only are poor, but are ashame,
5 Of being poor. Such men are the very poo
rest Of all poor people, and by the side Of on
: ofthem, | jinelethe keysin my pocket and im
: a9ine they are sovereigns.
:, - Got a paper to spare?'
Yes sir, here's one four last.-WouId yo-
Q ike to subscribe and take it regularly 2
| would, but am too poor
That man had just come from the circus
fifty cents lost time from his farm, fifty cents
liquor, from the smell, at least fifty cents-mat
q ing, a dollar and a half thrown away, and the
: begging for a newspaper, alleging that he wa
: 100 poor to pay for it.
HIGH AUTHoRITY.-The Hon. Geore
Robertson, an eminent constitutional lawye
and for many years Chief Justice of Kentuek,
addressed -thecllxens of Lexington on Frida
I evening October 23d. In the course of his abb
and eloquent discourse, he stated explicit,
$. that the Legislature had full and ample powt
constitdtionally to pass and enforce a law, pr
n hibding the manufacture and sale Of Spiritol
1t liquors, except for mechanical and medicin;
purposes.
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