Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-10-04
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A MYSTERY SoLvED.-Scme writer's, and
Hensler, have proved, with the
probability, that the year, till the
time of Abraham, consisted only of three
that it was not till the time Of JOS
eph that it was made to consist of twelve.
These assertions are, in a certain degree,
confirmed by some of the Eastern nations,
who will reckon only three months to the
year, and besides it would be altogether in
explicable why the life of a man should have
been shortened one half Immediately after
the flood.
1t would be equally inexplicable why the
patriarchs did not marry till their sixtieth,
SEVENTEEN, and even hundredth year but
this difficulty vanishes when we reckon those
ages according to the before mentioned STAN
dard which will give the twentieth or Thrift
eth year and consequently the same period
at which people marry at present.
Exchange.
A RARE PATRIMoNY.-A young mar who
had no fortune, requested a lawyer, a friend
of his, to recommend him to a family, where
he was a daily visitor, and where was a hand
some daughter, who was to have a large for
tune. The lawyer agreed but the father OF
the young lady, who loved money, immedi-
ately asked what property the young man
/ had. THE lawyer said he did not exactly
know, but he would inquire. The next timo
he saw his young friend, he asked him if he
had any property at all. No, replied he
Well, said the lawyer. would you suffer any
one to cut off your nose, if he would give you
10000 dollars for it? What an idea ?)-I
Not for all the world! IT'S we'll, replied the
lawyer I had a reason for asking. The
next time he saw the girls father, he said, |
have inquired about this young mans circum-
aGooooc L. Ioc3 oIooJ - ~ooIr 1900 49,
he has a jewel, for which, to my knowledge,
he has been offered, and he refused 10000
dollars. This induced the old father to CON
sent to the marriage, which accordingly took
place; though, it is said, that in the sequel
he often shook his head when he thought of
the jewel.
REMARKABLE ANECDoTE.-A correspondent
of the Petersburg Express, at Charlestown,
Va, communicates to that paper the follow
ing series of incidents, which, if true, are
certainly very singular.
"Washington was accustomed to wear to
his watch two seals, one gold and the other
silver. Upon one of them the letters G.. W.
were engraved, or rather cut. These seals,
he wore as early as 1854, and they were
about his person on the terrible day of Brad
, docks defeat: On that day he lost the sill
yer seal. The gold one remained with the
[ general until the day of his death, and was
then given by him to his nephew, a gentle
man of Virginia, who carefully preserved it
until about seventeen years ago, when riding
! over his farm, he dropped it. The other
y day the gold seal, lost seventeen years ago,
r was ploughed up, recognized from the letters
G.. w. on it, and restored to the son of the
e gentleman to whom Washington had presen.
ted it. AT almost the same time the silver
n seal lost in 1854 just one hundred years ago
was ploughed up on the site in which Brad
= dock was defeated and in like manner recog
u nized from the letters G. W. So that in {
= very short time the companions will be agar
ID united. | have this whole statement from
re the most reliable source possible, namely
from the gentleman himself, who has thu
restored to him these precious mementoes o
his great ancestor. The affair is but on,
= more proofof an oft-stated maxim, that trutI
10 beggars fiction in s~trangeness. Irepeat, Their
N -nr nisaEata
ment in the matter, and no room for mistake
le In legal phraseology, the truth excludes eve
of ry other hypothesis"
es A Mothers Love.
ed The following passages from an article i
the Indianapolis State Journal are truthful
and eloquent:
I'll IF angels ever covet any sphere on cart
ed we believe that desire is for a mothers hol
lg Office. Her laws are the first obeyed and tn
he last that are spurned in a downward cours
of evil and we wonder not, because he
laws are "holy, just and good" that the u
terer of Divine proverbs charged his son ne
to "forsake the law of his mother" for
was an ornament of grace about his neck.
OF Memory clings to nothing with sue
strength as the recollections of a mother
tenderness nor does the heart wear any in
pressions so indellibly. as those received frol
: her affectionate admonitions. No wonde
=. then, that the mother is the arbiter of tt
7F child's destiny. She lives in his heart, r
wives in his memory, and acts through hi
oy after she has long been slumbering
" Where heaves the turf in many a moulderir
d. heap"
if She is always young, always beautiful
If and, oh, no speech so eloquent as that lade
.on ed with blessings on a mothers name; /
songs so sweet as those which breathe
mothers undying affection and touch I'll
Ell chords of soul felt harmony which thrill Il
GU bosom at the remembrance of the cherish,
being who bore, nourished and instructed OF
of hayward infancy and childhood and inspir
our manhood with the noblest principles
tor virtue and religion!
oil OnJ sue was my guardian ana SulQe all the Ga
And the angel who watched round my bed
Her voice in a murmur of prayer died away
For blessings to rest on my head.
l;S+ How often my bosom with rapture doth glow
- As [ think Of my home and my sire,
-er- And the dearest of mothers who rocked long ago
ion In the old easy chair by the fret"
ug- A Coon IRISH ANEcDoTE.-Some years a
ing when the beautiful painting of Adam a
IS Eve was exhibited in Ireland, it became t
iii chief topic of conversation. Finally, a POI
illiterate peasant went to see it. The lig
= was so arranged as to reflect on the pictul
LOT and to leave the spectator in darkness.
lie The peasant, as he entered the room
me see his first parents, was struck withso mu
and establishment, that he remained specific
He for some moments. He stood like a statr
. and as though his feet werei incorporated wi
the oaken floor of the room. At last w
u.n an effort he turned round to his acqua
ne lance and said
IN. Barney, I'll niver say another word
by gainst Adam in all my life, for if / had be
,me in the garden | would have ate every apple
the it for tho sakeof such a lovely crater as Ey
tie,
= EXCELLENT REPARTEE.-The Rev DR.. N
al c. minister of Douglas in Clydesda
a.. a. was one day dining in a large party VIII
'ne the Hon. Henry Erskine and some other la