Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-01-19
Observation-Disclosures
1sPoRTAyT QUERY.

IMPORTANT QUERY.
oh' IS there not some happy land-a land
beyond the seas
" here pot-pie smokes in boundless lakes,
and dumplins grow on trees
Can gingerbread be found In stacks, and
smear-kase by the ton?
.AndEhen you do a job of work, you get the
ready John 2"
Where Natures lesson may be read in every
b~abbling brook ?
Where humble-bees don't sting a chap, and
muley bulls don't hook
In a bafber's shop in North Shields there
is a bill recommending a certain patent med
icine, with the very dubious heading, Try
one box-io other medicine will ever be ia
ken"
SHARP WIT-An Indiana paper says, that
during a trial in Lawrenceport, a young lad
who was called as a witness, was asked if he
knew whatwas the obligation of an oath, and
where he would 90 if he told a lie. He said
ne supposed :" ne would 60 where all the law
yers WENT
m Amt it wicked to rob a hen roost,
Jim ?" That's q great moral question,
Sam; we have not time to argue it-hand
down another pullet."
81 am glad this coffee don't owe me any
thing" said an accountant at his breakfast.
Why SOP" inquired his wife. cause |
don't believe it would ever SETTLE" be re-
piled.
A nstle girl being asked by her mother af-
ter she had said the Lords prayer what she
supposed was the meaning of Amen" said
a guess it means Goodbye, Lord"
That the deuce did our forefathers do to
kill time and enjoy themselves? Without
coffee, how did they manage breakfast =
Without tobacco, what did they snoke
Without stoves, how did they keep warm .
Without good roads, how didthey keep up so
ciallty? Without potatoes, how did they ger
a stew? And without soda water, how die
they c%ontrive to work off last nights drunk?
What did they Go on rainy days for newspa
pcrs? and during the long winter month,
for penny magazines? Who'll answer, anc
and pay the postage? If any. body, let hin
forward by return mail.-N. y. Dutchmaa.
We find the following hit at that most con
tcmptible item Of the female wardrobe Low
necked dress-in the Oswego Journal.
w 9 occasionally notice a bloomer dress
wrong end up. Some ladies are so anxiou
to hide theirfeet that they become careless Q
their bust"
eaEyery man thinks that Caesars wifi
0tqghF be above suspicion, but he is far les
t particular as to what Caesar himself ought t
be.
DRINKING BY THE ACRE.-An Irish ger
tleman, resident in Canada, was DESTROYS G
, pe~rsuading his sons to work as backwoods
men, instead Of fritteries and pleasures; an
t as champagne costs in America somethin
more than q dollar, whenever the old gentle
man saw his sons raise the sparkling wine t
) their lips, he used humorously to exclaim t
them, "Ah! my boys, there goes an acre {
land-trees and all"
!, A German chemist has discovered tina
! there is sugar in tears. What a lump {
; sweetness, then, Niobe must have been, wh
: was all %tears!' Pity some married me
could not %contrive to diStiI this sweetness
5 their wives would supply them with I'll
very best moist all the year round.
f A man p%rai~ing porter, said it was 50 e
cellent a beverage. that. taken in gre
c quantities, it always made fat. Il ha,
seen he time" said another, when it mac
= YOU ieal. w hen, SHOULD ike 70 KNOW:
: said the culogist. why, no longer az
: than last night-against a wall"
THAT NAN is . cruel, cold-blooded scou
d drel who will insult misfortune. He deservo
a hiss and a kick at every corner. The ms
? ter is still more aggravating when an ofic
IS having in charge the interests Of the Poe
snarlingly tells applicants for food or fuel,
d {" go TO the County House" Such m
l. would rob a blind paupcr.
The mixture of one error with much tru
adulterates the whole-as the chalicc Of pu
q liquid is rendered dangerous by the infusio
of a drop of poison. We should, therefor
beware of al error, however slight and j
considerable it may appear. One error M
= soon lead to a hundred, aye, to a thousand.
Love is a compound feeling, and is fed wi
or the grossest food but friendship is a passit
which must exist on a moral or intellectu
diet. Though love is more fiery and ardeI
q it isalseluore tickle and uncertain.
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