Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-06-14
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MANY persons complain Of being poster
cd by bed bugs. 1t is easy to avoid the
inconvenience. On going to bed, strip off
your shirt, and cover yourself from head to
foot with boiled molasses. Let every part
Of the body be covered with it. On COM
ing to bite you, the bugs will stick fast in
the molas3es, and you can kill them in the
morning.
MONEY, like beauty, is greatly dispar-
aged and eagerly sought, while poverty is
highly praised but carefully avoided. 1t
is like case which often happens in socie-
ty-that Of eulogizing people whom We
wouldn't care to cut
HANNIBAL, the eccentric colored preach
or Of the New York Picayune, touches up
a certain class of beings in the following
unique style:
De rooster nm dc hen and aldo he lay
no eggs nor matches no chickens, emmy
body would tink, by SEEM him strut round
de barn yard, dat he laid all de eggs and
brought up all dc chickens. He does de
best to make you tink he does it all, for nc
sooner does a hen drop an egg, dan he sets
up as loud a cacklin' as de hen herself, in
order to pull de wool ober de eyes OBJ uss
silly fellers and make us believe he done it,
when he nm no more capable OBJ doin de
same dan | am. How much like some la.
zy husbands in dis kongregation | could
menshun, who let der wives do all de work
and take all dc car Oh de family, while dey
do all dc cacklin'I
On a bitter cold day, a gentleman stand
ing at a picture store suddenly felt some
Que at his pocket. AS there was but one
person near him, he instantly turned ant
looking him full in the face, said Sir
your hand was in my pocket 'Was it
sir 2 coolly replied the other, { / really be-
your pardon if it was but the weather i
/. 50 very cold, that one is glad to get hi
hand anywhere
SOMEBODY writes to the editor of th
Weekly Minnesotian to know if lie Seue
would bea good place fora Bank, to whic'
he replies No, sir, there are several i
that vicinity already-banks of rich fruct
flying loan, extending to the depth of 81
feet, and spreading over the surroundin
country for miles aud miles. They di;
count literally, with proper attention
the business when you deal with them
four hundred bushels of potatoes to ii
acre, for instance.
An interesting foreigner transmitted
charming bouquet to a young damsel
this city recently, with the following
'Deer-I send u bi the boy a bucket
iours. They is like my luz for u. T.
mite shaid menes kepe dark. The dog fe
il menes ! am ure slave.
Bosis red aud posts pail
My luv for u shall never fail"
TIE FIRsr QUAKER PrN.-Not 10
since a Friend who rejoiced in the ma
Of Comfort, pail bis d-voirs to a young a
attractive Quaker widow named Rae
H. Either her griefs were too n
or her lover too old, or from some OF
cause, his offer was declined. Wherein
a Quaker friend remarked that was the
modern instance he had known where :
chel refused TO be cOmforted.' The anccC
is remarkable as being the first Quaker
on record.
Annette, my dear, what country is
posite to us on the globeY Don't XII
sir Well, now continued the perple
teacher. 'if I were to bore a hole thro
the earth, and you were to go in at this
where would you come out Out Of
hole, sir, replied the pupil, with an all
triumph at having solved the great quest
Jusr BEFORE going to bed, eat two
feet and a cold apple pie. In less thai
hour you will sec asnake larger thana hav
devouring eight blue.haired children, W
have just escaped from a monster with
rel eyes aud a red hot overcoat.
JONI RANDoLPH met a personal en-
in the street one day, who refused to
him half the sidewalk, saying that he n
turned out fo- a rascal. L do said
dolph, stepping aside, aud politely rat
his hat pass on, sir-pass on"
An old bachelor having been laugh,
by a party Of pretty girls, said 10
rather pettishly
You are small potatoes
We may be small potatoes said o
them, but we are street. ones.