Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-06-04
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{ Which boasts two different powers in one,
r. To cut as well as shine.
Genius like that, il polished right,
With the same gifts ahounes.
4 Appears at once both keen and bright,
And sparkles while il wounds.
i What 10 the world iselfl thy world grave
Where is the dust that has not been alive?
The spade, the piow, disturb our ancestors,
From human mould we reap our daily bread
The globe around ear;h's hollow surface shs kes,
And is the ceiling of her sleeping sons;
Ger devastation we blind revels keep;
i Whole buried towns support the dancers heel.
An amusing coloquy came of recently at the sup
per table on board OF Of our Eastern steamboats,
between Boston exquisite, reeking with Ialr-oil
and Cologne, who I" deInming'' The walters. and
otherwise assuming very consequential airs, and a
raw Jonathan, who sat by his side in homesPun:
Turning his vulgah'' friend, the former PORTED
his ieweIed finger, and said:
| - Butter, sab ~
81 see it isl cooy replied Jonathan.
" Butler, sab, say = fercely replied the dandy.
! {" know livery gCod-a first rate article pro-
vokngly reiterated nomespun.
IS Buttef, tell you :" Numbered the exquisite, in
still louder tones, pointing with slow unmoving
fnger'' like scorn's and scow ling upon his neigh
Dor as if he would annihIlaie him.
| We'll, gosh-all Jerusalem, Thut gf H?" now
yelled the downeas,er, getting his dandriff up in
| turn" Yer did mt think / took il for LGrd!'.
Transcript.
| seven
ing characters of voice in men and women. In men
they termed bass hari-tone, robusto full
tenor, and tenor-leggadro or counteT-tenor. Those
of women are termed contralto, mezzo-soPrano, and
soprano. The compass will be found TO vary accor-
ding TO the length OF the vocal chords and wndpipe
the longest possessing the power of producing the
greatest number Of notes. Thus one voice may COM
prise range of twelve notes, and another of six
teen, yet both may be of the same character. The
change which in the voice In The decline OF
fe in the result of the ossfcaon of the carriages
of the larynx, and the hardening of IFS ligaments,
which produce hard and cracked sound.
WEEDS AND VEGETABLES. The Newly ork '''Truth-
Teller says, that ThurIow Weed, of the Albany
| Journal, is the of his departure for Rome,
with view of becoming Catholic.
The Supreme Pontif seems not only to be gath
ering in weeds but vegetables also, Bishops well
as Editors, (end-ives.)
A poor widow was asked how she became much
attached to certain neg hbor. and replied, that she
was bound to him by several cords of wood which
he had sent her during hard winter.
Hail STORMS In Texas. Texas papers of the
18th ult record series of violent hail II
is said that in Washington county the stones were
large as goose eggs and covered the ground to the
depth Of over foot. The hurricane about three
miles wide, bnt how far it extended in its course
from North South, is known The timber
was uProoled and stripped of its foliage and bark.
The appearance of the country the morning after the
| stoIm, was frightful in the extreme.
The following questions, under debate
before the Filletudium Lyceum: s. Which will soon.
est make man rich. minding his own business or
letting other peoples alone ~
Which causes girl the most pleasure-to hear
herself praised or another gal run down!
Ferguson takes the opposite and so do We.
How CHOOSE A WIFE. Lay broomsiick in
her way-if she steps it, don't take her, if she
picks it up and puts it carefully away, sets TO
work with it take her if you get her. For
cannot possess anything that is better than good
woman, or anything that is worse than bad
II is stated by some wiseacre that the heart of a
man weighs nine ounces, that of woman eight.
AS age increases, mans heart grows heavier, and
womans lighter, after thirty. Sumo girls lose theirs
at sixteen.
A little girl walking day in graveyard read
ing the tombstones the praises of those who slept
beneath, said:
81 wonder where they bury the Sinners"
The culture of silk is rapidly passing away from
our country. In 1881 less than 39679O lbs of
cococns produced in 1910, only 6I ,252 lbs
and in 1850 bat l4,763 lbs. There is part of the
world where silk worms would be easier raised than
in North Carolina Many Of Eastern Counties
are fit for nothing ese after the supply of turPentine
suall become exhausted.
The LADIES ROME. "a Roman lady who
takes liking to foreigner, does her eyes
down when he looks at her, but fixes item upou him
long and with evident pleasure. If the Of her
choice feels the like sentiment and asks, Are you
fond of Z! she replies with the utmost frankness
= Yes. my DEAR"
Miss Fern says "Bes" my soul! you
havn't got so far as A. B C.-you are in awful be-
nighled state for female. l abored under the i'm
preston that the Foreign missionary S0cieiy had
tended .to the evangeiiZation OF Rome, I'll have
some coIpoteurs over without loss Ct time You
little veIdant Abigail! Saying Eyes, my DEAR"
the minute you looked at! If had nj so many
irons in the fire I'D attend TO your education my
self, your poor, ignorant little heather.
Have a Bourbon amongst us?" Yes there
is Bourbon Smith. and finer fellow don't live any.
where!
The Mormons of Utah about cultivate oys
eers, crabs, and Holsters in the Salt Lake. If the
water should prove salt, they design construct
sluices to let off the salt water and let in the fresh.
What is the difference between a bare head and a
hair he'd p?
The one fees for shelter, the other is shelter for
feas.
MADAME SoNTAe. II is announced that Madame
Sontag will retire private life after the completion
of her American tour having realized about $50 900
since her arrival in the United States, and during
the same time distributed Sc, 900 in private charities
If you are precise man, and wish to be certain
of what you get, never marry girl named Ann, for
We have the authority Of Lindley Murray and many
others, that Ann {" is indefinite artlce.'' ,.-,
Jamie, says honest Irshman to another the
first time he ever saw a locomotive .-sgss
What is that snoriin. haste g Sure replied ia
ME, don't knowta ALL unless il be steamboat
sPlurging along to get to wather."
THE NEW York AND ERIE RAILROAD AGAINST
THE WORLD" Such is the caption of an article in
the Oswego Gazette. Judging from recent accidents
contemporary observes, the same could be said of
most of the roads,