Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-03-02
Editorial Chit Chat for March

Ton. 1he new PRESIDENT VIII learn throush
the mails that there are a great many fDo
fellows on Uncle Sammy's farm that woulS
accept Office if it was offered. The wind will
blow high, but twill be apt to yQuk into a dead
calm in Congress. The weather as well as
some people, wEllb be aptt to prove treacherOusN,
so ladies had better not wear thin Slipper,
unless they are in a hurry to have their fu-
nerals preached. Duringthe winds and sleet,
of this month, coughs and infuenzas will pre-.
vail, and many people will drink more LIQUOR
than will make 'em sober, and take mora
physic, patent or otherwise, than will keen
'em in good health.
DRKADFUL.-During one of the most in.
clement days of last month a most sweepino
catastrophe occurred in an adjoining town.
A poor hen pecked fellow was knocked over
with a broom by his wife, and he was seen
trotting through the streets with aug!
Non CoMPos.-Out West a fellow was re-
Gently brought before a Court for assaulting
and treating a woman. lie was declared
non eompos and dismissed on plea that he
thought it was his wife!
WE KNEW Tin our Chit-Chat for De-
cember we took occasion to advise all UNI .
married bachelors to send the Age" to their
chosen ones, giving it as our opinion that by
thus paying them a weekly visit in " Spirif'
it would aid them amazingly in the pro-
gress oftheir suit. Many anxious inuuirers'
took us at our word, and as strange RS it NAV
seem, yet it is nevertheless true that, in two
months our list of marriages began to sensi-
lily increase-so much SO in fact, that our
SENIOR begins to entertain serious thoughts
about issuing an Extra in which to print the
marriage list and crack notices of the excel
lent cake sent in by the overjoyed couples
Now, to all whom it may concern, if there
are any more left among the bachelors thin
ming ranks that want to be made happy, let
them hurry up the dimes with her address,
and we'll keep the secret till the cake is sent.
Senior says: "a word to the wise"
CHILDREN.-A young, unmarried lady, liV-
ing away out towards Boston, whose name
we choose to Withhold, thus sings of some
body's little folks:
Il love it love 1.-THE laugh of a child,
Now ripping and gentle, now merry and wild;
; Ringing out on the air with its innocent gus1,
Like the trIl OF a bird at the t~Wlilgnts soft hush
! Floating upon the breeze like the tones of n bell,
. Or the music that dwells in the heart of a she'll.
: Oh the laugh of a child, so wild and so free,
Is the merriest sound in the world for me"
Comment is not necessary she speaks for
herself-give ear, o! Bachelordom!
! HAPPINEss.-"M Mans happiness hangeth
upon a thread" said a sentimental chap, the
other day, quoting a fayorite author. A
cross grained fellow Immediately concluded
that it must be the thread that is never to DO
found with which shirt buttons are sewed on
: that are always off. "Not SO" said a young
fellow in the glory of a honey moon; "man's
happiness hangs upon some fair and loving
! ~lassie." Then, alas J" said old crusty, lift
ing his eyes up to the ceiling,
"On what q slender thread hangs e~Yerlast-
d ing things
: AN INFALLIBLE REcIPE.-Chapped lips will
be a sore trouble to many of our fair readers
during the cold, bleak winds of this month
and those among them wishing to avoid it,
and be able to smile, at all times, blandly,
of without making their "pouting cherries
bleed, would do well to keep away the-chGps!
ID B@~ Tie New York money market con.
tinues easy.-Erchangc.
Wonderful 1t must have had an expert
% enced Doctor. Should it happen to drop of
Gotham would put on mourning.
FASHION as have been q lit
70 tie puzzled to know what our upper ten fash
ionablcs mean by wearing 'hdLf mourning"
Do their friends only half die? Who will
ar answer, and pay the postage?
10 STRANGE" Jacob kissed Rachel, and LIZ
ted up his voice and wept."
!. What did Jacob cry for! Why if Rache
was a pretty girl, and didn't rub snuff, W
can't see that he had much to cry about!
INFEcTIoN.-A young poet in a fit Of tn
heart futters let off the following in a littl
poem to the Moon =
a "Against a rolling cloud she laid Lsr cheek,
Like beauty on . young mans breast"
to Jerusalem and Jemima's pancakes? Ho,
e, bad he had cotcht it
:? DUBIoUs.-Stepping into a BARRIERS shop
not long since, our attention was arrested b
a flaming handbill of a newly discovered pa
ent medicine, with the following heading, j
large capitals :-"TRY ONE BOTTLE AND 70
WILL NEVER TAKE ANY OTHER MEDICINE p
Ii We don't suppose Doctor Pillbox intended
~ but that intimation is ,ssrry dubious.
ne To JAKE A s~TEw.-Throw lighted fir,
ne works among a flock of chickens shut up
~ the hen house; tell a quarrelsome woman b,
l baby squints make an Editor pay postag
he or introduce a Temperance Memorial into
Legislature where a dozen or more bull
zen ing members gained their seats by treatir
l. with bald face whiskey. Either mode wi
prove perfectly successful.
su-
ON re" Self preservation is the first law
md nature" was adopted as a motto, the eth
Re- day, by a Frenchifed exquisite, all futteriI
80 with rufles and a large shillalah on
mr. shoulder TO keep off, as he said,-the ladit
veil Ea- DR.. G.. S. Jones, of Boston, states,
the Medical Journal, that having had ocC
s;cp soyna tima 400 fo bleed a confirm