Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-05-25
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

Or sweryes from It's impartial plan
10 give thy lot better share.
For full a thousand millions moro
/ The showers descend, the sunbeams smes
On each far continental shore,
Each lonely, sea-sequestered isle.
| Dost deem myself the important one
So thought each shadow gone before
Each let as when its day was done,
| The earth and skies need stand no more.
Then humbIy spend the fleeing years,
That bear thee TO The waiting gloom,
| Content to share, with all thy peers
The common hope beyond the tomb
STATE FAIRS. The following table shows the
place and time of holding State Fairs for the year
1858 in the following States
Vermont, Montpelier, Sept Is, IA, Is,
Kentucky, Lexington, Is, IA, Is, 16, IL.
New York, Saratoga !" 20. 81, %, %,
Ohio, Dayton, :" 20, 21, %, %.
Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, g 27, %, %, so.
Michigan, Detroit, %, 20, 80.
Wisconsin, WATERFOWL, Oct. 4, 5, 6, Z.
EFFEcTs OF GUANo. A yankee lad whose faith
er was farmer, went into barn to play short
time ago, and being detained prisoner by thun-
der storm, he fell asleep on bag of guano. The
old gentleman, when the storm was over, went in-
to the farm yard to look after his son. and met
giant coming out of the barn.
!" Halo! who you" he cried, "what are
you doing hereP
why, father, squeaked the Gollah, tits me !;
don't you know Tommy 2"
" Your the astonished parent exclaimed why,
why, Tom, how on the earth did you get stretched
out so long in SO short a time 2"
why, father" replied the boy, looking down
u, on the gaping old man, " slept upon them
bags of guano you put in the barn, and that and
the lightning together has done the business
CRETINIsM IN ENGLAND. A new work has APP
peared 6 Cretis and Idiots" in which it is sta
ted that idiocy and goitree prevail in England to
an uncredied extent, and that cretnsm of the most
undoubted kind exists there as truly as in the Alps
and the Andes. Various parts Of Yorkshire, Here
fordshire. Derbyshire, Somersetshirc, and many
towns are, afflicted in this manner Settle, (ill
Yorkshire) is of the localities where eretinism
prevails. In Siverdale there are eleven cretins in
one family. Oldham is another afflicted place. At
Chiselborough, DIR. Guggen buhl, the Swiss pbysi-
clan, who has made the discovery of these facts,
saw 32 cretins in village of 800 inhabitants,
proportion of more than 10 per cent.
TICKLING. In Troy, last week, young man
was fined three dollars for tickling married lady
The man pleaded common usage in Justification
but the lady argued, (and she had the best of it,
that If 1T Was common usage, it was not common
right and that every lady possessed the right of
choosing her own ticker. Republic.
RAILROAD DAMAGES. The New York Tribune,
OF the 11tn Inst, says;
1.-The late accident on the Camden and Amboy
railroad will cost that company some twenty or
thirty thousand dollars in damages and that now
engrossing the public mind will in like manner
put the New Haven company to an expense of one
to two hundred thousand dollars. It Is to be hoped
that all who are injured by railroad accidents will
In future prosecute the companies for damages,
and the way to directorss conscience being through
their pockets, reform may be eventually achieved"
A wit and philosopher were once at sea, and
bigh swell rising, the philosopher seemed under
great apprehension lest he should go to the bottom
Why, observed the wit, 'That will suit your
genius 20 little. As for my part, you know that
am only for skirnrning the surface of things"
WINE REe1oN. A correspondent of one of the
New York papers says that the region of the Me-
sllla Valley, which Gov Lane has taken possession
of by proclamati H. already celebrated for its un-
equaled grapes This very territory which Mexi-
co Is attempting to take from by force after she
has squandered the money paid her for it, will
produce rs much, and probably more wine and |
raisins than the Madeira Islands, and no whit inf-
ror, if gathered and made with the same care and
skill The grand wine State" Of the Union nest
les undeveloped i'll that quarter, and n.w that our
citizens have begun to plant themselves there to
cultivate Its resources, and help join the Pacific
States to their elder sisters through their settle
ments and roads, we must not abandon them.
A good woman called on Dr. B. one day, in |
great deal of trouble and complained that her son
had swallowed apenny. pray madam" said the |
doctor, was it counterfeit" !" No, sir, certainly
not was the reply. Then twill pass, of course,
rejoined the facetious physician.
INNovAT1oN. Mr. Gibson, an English sculptor
at Rome, has made innovation on the old rules,
of the art by tastefully colorng the hair and eyes
CT his Venus, giving flesh tint to the body, and |
a colored border to the drapery Most who see it |
are filed with admiration. Such, says an ex- !
change, was undoubtedly the practice of the scup-
tors of antiquity, and Mr.aGibson deserves credit
for his fearlessncss in reviving it.
A chap out West was invited to take hand at I
a game of poker fashionable game with gam
blers on the Mississippi he refused saying
MOL thankee. Iplayed poker all one summer.
and had to wear nankeen pants all the next win
ter. have had no taste for that amusement
SINCE"
When the Governor of Ceylon was addressing
a native prince, through an interpreter, in high
strain of courtly adultation, to each sentence the
prince answered "Cadab." This was repeated so
frequently as to induce the governor to inquire its
meaning "He means to saw" answered the in
ierpreter, " that your Excellency les"
SLATE. The slate rock used for roofing rarely
occurs in the United States. Great quantities are
imported into this country from Wales. Much of Il
he domestic supply has hitherto been obtained