Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-04-13
Sentiment, Wit and HumOr.

Sentiment, Wit and HumOr.
IF the temperance reform subserved the
interests of parties aud politicians, the pres
ses which now are silent or guardedly sneer-
ing, would find it full of interest and beauty.
Thousands Of men would don its livery with
more than bigot zeal, and bawl themselves
hoarse IN advocacy ofits principles Chief.
WE are frequently asked by our fairreaders
what an old fogy' IS! We uniformly an.
swer, 1t is the man who goes to mill with a
peck OF corn in one end of bag and stone
IN the other, because his grandfather did it.
Sandusky Reg.
The WIFE.--As the evine, which has long
twIned its graceful foliage about the oak, aud
has been lifted by itinto sunshine, will when
the hardy plant is rfted by the thunderbot,
cling c around myth its tendrils, and bind up
1t shattered o5dghs so it is beautifully or
dered by Providence that woman, who is the
dependent ornament Of man in his happier
hours, should be his stay and solace when
smltten with sudden calamity, winding her
self into the rugged recesses Of his nature,
tenderly supporting his dropping head and
binding up the broken heart.
Washington Irving.
A Loss Why don't you send your boy
to school 2 asked neighbor of Mr.. n, oI
Oldtown. What's the use ont, eh Q re-
turned the miserly old chap. L give nv
first boy good eddication, and as soon as
ne got it he died; and so that ere was time
and money thrown away =
IN the general stampede, we rejoice to
think that large batch Of Post Masters will
have to walk Spanish. There are hundreds
-Sflns'sao- not know their heads from a hook.
block. Those who send papers back without
even the name ofthe office upon them, de-
serve the Chief.
'D It is observed, that the most censori-
Gus are generally least judicious who, 6av-
ing nothing to recommend themselves. will
be finding fault with others. No man envies
the merit Of another that has any of his own
y Why has shoemaker more reason
to De proud of his occupation than any other
mortal Because he has Bishop Berkley's
authority Of saying that 'IGnae's noJlest off:
spring is the last!
Modern " Ladies" to whom the kitchen
is as great curiosity as the Hellespont
are thus pinned down by the Newburyport
Herald:
We once knew fashionable lady in the
metropolis, who has led to the hymenia]
ALTER by a thrifty Bond street merchant
lie casually expressed wish one day that
some brown bread might be baked. The
girl IN the kitchen was ordered to bake
the bread She knew her duty, but at the
same time, knowing that her mistress did
not hers, simply inquired how much meal
she should bake. The lady hesitated a
moment, but the inquiry must be answer.
ed: About three pecks of each kind,''
she said, "would be sufficient" Abigail
went at it, and the next morning the gen.
tleman had a specimen of twenty-seven
loaves of brown bread, made by the direc.
ton Of his wife
Hardly as bad as the young married ala
dy' we once knew who made the oven toe
hot and threw in bucket of water to COO
it off!
WARNING TO YOUNG LADIES. moi
too soon pronounce your love duck, les
you should afterwards discover him to be /;
goose.
An editor out West upon receiving
communication from one of his subscribers
complaining that he did not find new,
enough in his paper, replied to the grum
bier, that when he wanted any thing new
he had better read his Bible; and an east
ern editor lately published an entire chap
ter from the Bible, adding that he suppos
ed it would be something new to most 0
his readers
There is gentleman connected with th
Iowa Legislature, who gets SO hot whe,
talking politics, that they had to call out
fire company the other day to prevent
spontaneous combustion. He had tw
great hobbies-the principles of ninety
eight and a statute for "the more earl,
development of ganders."
You ought to have a pension said
wag to an unfortunate who was in the hal
it of taking drop too much.
" How SO Z" enquired he.
"Why, you fell at the battle of Brand
Vine"
Coon Loerc.-A- Drudder Bones can 20
tell me de difference twene dieing and dit
tingP "Why, OBJ course can, Lemue
When you diet you lib on nofin, and whe
you die you hab no6in to lib on. We
, dat's different from what tort it was.
tort 1t was race atwene de doctorians stu
and starvation, to see which would ki
. lfust."