Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1853-06-08
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
WIT fs

| TrnP wit 10 like the brilliant stone,
I Dug from the Indian mine,
! Which boasts two different powers in one,
i To cut as well as shine.
Genius like that, If polished right,
With the same gifts abounss. ..
J Appears at once both keen and bright,
/ And sparkles while it wounds. .. So. ..
! What is The world i,selft thy worlda gravel
/ Where is the dust that has not been alivel
The spade, the plow, disturb our ancestors,
From human mould we reap our daily bread
i The globe around ear;h's hollow surface shs kes,
And is the ceiling Of her sleeping sons;
I Der devastation We blind revels keep;
| Whole buried towns support the dancers heel.
| An amusing coloquy came off recently at the sup.
per table board OF Of Eastern steamboats,,
between Boston exquisite, reeking with hair.oil
and Cologne, who was demming" the walters, and
otherwise assuming very consequential airs, and
raw Jonathan, who sat by his side in homespun
Turning to his "vulgah" friend, the former PORTED
! his jeweled finger. and said:
/ " Butter, sab ~ ..
~ see it is." coolly replied Jonathan.
/" Butler. sab. . say" 6ercely replied the dandy.
" know livery gGod-a first rate article" pro-
vokingly reiterated homespun. '
Butter, tell you" thundered the exquisite, in
still louder tones, pointing with slow un,noving
finger" like scorn's and scowling upon his neigh.
Dor If he would annihIlate him.
Veil, gosh.al Jerusalem, uhut of ~" now
yelled the downeaster, getting his dandrit up in
iurn-" Yer didn't think took j, for iard!'
Transcript.
WEEDS AND VEGETABLES. The New.York "Truth.
Teller" says, that Thurlow Weed, Of the Albany
Journal. is on the eve Of his departure for Rome.
with view of becoming Catholic.
The Supreme POniiff seems not only TO be gath
ering in weeds but vegetables also, Bishops as well
as Editors, (end.ives.)
A poor widow asked how she became so much
attached TO certain neig hbor and replied, that she
hnnn fn i'm hu lo 4f kiot,
he had sent her during hard winter.
HAIL STORMS In Texas. Texas papers of the
17h ult., record series Of violent hail storms. II
is said that in Washington county the stones
large as goose eggs, and covered the ground 10 the
depth Of over foot. The hurricane was about three
miles wide, bni how far it extended in it's course
from North to South, is not known. The timber
was uProoted and stripped of its foliage and bark.
The appearance Of the country the morning after the
s,o,m, was frightfu in the extreme.
The following questions, under debate
before the rietudium Lyceum: " Which will soon.
est make a man rich, minding his own business
letting other peoples alone o.
Which causes girl the most pleasure-to hear
herself praised or another gal run down!
Ferguson takes the opposite and 50 do We.
How TO Choose A WIFE. Lay brooms,ck in
her way-if she steps it, don't :ake her, il she
picks il up and puts it carefully away, or sets 10
work with it take her If you get her. For man
cannot possess anything that is better than good
woman. or anything that is worse than bad one.
1t is stated by some wiseacrs that the heart of
man weighs nine ounces, that OF a woman eight.
As age increases, mans heart grows heavier, and
womans lighter, after thirty. SUme girls lose theirs
al sixteen.
The culture Of silk is rapidly passing away from
our country. In 1881 no less than 396.79O lbs Of
cocoons were produced in 1910, only 6l,252 lbs;
and in 1850 bat ,763 lbs. There is part of the
world where silk worms would be easier raised than
in North Carolina; Many OF our Eastern Counties
fit for nothing else, after the supply of urPenlne
suall become exhausted.
THI LADIES OF ROME. "a Roman lady who
takes liking TO foreigner, does cast her eyes
down when he looks at her, but fixes them upou him
long and with evideLt pleasure. II the man Of her
choice feels the like sentiment and asks, Are you
fond of me = she replies with the utmost frankness,
! Yes. my DEAR"
Miss Fern says Bless my soul! you
havn't got SO far as A. C.-you are in aw ful be.
nigh,ed state Tor female. labored under the im.
preston that the Foreign Missionary S'eety had al
tended to the evangelzation OF Rome, I'll have
some copoieurs sent without loss If time. You
little verdaut Abigail! Saying Eyes, my DEAR
the minute you looked at! Ii had'n, SO many
irons in the FIRE I'D attend 10 your education my
self. your poor, ignorant little heaihen.
"Have we a Bourbon amongst % Yes there
is Bourbon Smith. and finer fellow don't live any.
where! .. ...
lhe MoTinons OF u tan are aOout 10 cultivate OyS-
teers, crabs, and Holsters in the Salt Lake. 1t the
shouIi prove salt, they design to construct
suces to let off the salt water and let in the fresh.
! MADAME SoNrAa. 1t is announced that Madame
Sontag ill retire to private life after the completion
of her American tour, having realized about
since her arrival in the United States, and during
The same time distributed 1000 in private charities.
If you are precise man, and wish 10 be certain
of what you get, never marry girl named Ann, for
we have the authority of Lndley Murray and many
others, that Ann is an indefinite article"
Jamie, says one honest lrshman to another'' the
FIRST time he ever saw locomotive .....
| "What ID that snortin. baste "Sure replied ia
ME, y" don't knowht all, unless il be q steamboa,
splurging along to get to wather. .ys....
I The New York AND ERIE RAILROAD "AGAINsT
THE WORLD" Such is the caption of an article in
the Oswcgo Gazette. Judging from recent accidents
a contemporary observes, the same could be said oi
most Of the roads.
i Fanny Fern delica,ey styles a certain complaint
from which children suffer in cherry time, "a pair
under the apron" ..-..... p. -...,.-.
NAIL GROWING IN The FLESH. late VT ter ir
the Ohio Cuiuvaior gives the following remedy Gu
notch in the middle of the nail every time the mai
is pared. The disposition to close the notch draw
the nail up from the sides. il cured mine after
had suffered weeks with its fostering. '.s-. -
CoNUNDauM. Which three letters Of the alphabe
together possess the highest attributes in the charac
ter Of Washington "a ~' t"a .e.--:
The IIppler'. Cronoiegy on taking his Mornin
: Dram-"l have not tasted drop before to-day
since yesterday and tomorrow will be going o
three days -
!, !, The second nupiias of the widow Can,er to Nj
a Frederick Rush were thus fecitously chronicIed:
/, n When Cupid did this maiden banter, ge1
!. ta On Hymen's course to take brush, g7aE.