Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-04-19
USEFUL AND d Il USING : AR1ETIEs

There is lesson and good one, in the following
lines We could wish that our readers might hear
them IN the admirable voice and manner of the
friend from HON we derive them
C Let us speak of a man as we find him, S.
And scensuTe alone what
Ana M should man blame let $ remind him
IF the vein from the heart could be torn ~
And the mind could be read on the brow,
There are many we d pass 5E WI tn scorn =
- w HON were ioadin vi I'll high honors now.
Let us speak of q man as find him, 4 = -
And heed not what others may say
Where eold nea would aH turn him Dn.
-zsk Fer the heart must be barren, indeed srsa
Where no bud of repeal ance can bloom:
Then pause ere you censure with speed ~
ss.ssg On a-frown smile hangs his DOOM
Spirit Of Tie Tones. :
THE LENGTH OF DAYS. At Berlin and London.
the longest day has sixteen and half hours At
Stockholm and Upsal the longest day has eighteen
and a half hours AT Hamburg, Dantzi and Stettin,
thelongest day has seventeen hours and tbs short
est seven. At ST. Petersburg and Tobolks the 1on-
gest has nineteen and the shortest five hours. At
Tornea, in Finland, the longest day has twenty one
hours and a half and the shortest two and half
AT Wanderbus in Norway, the day lasts from the
21st of May, to the 22d July without interruption
and at Spitzburgen the longest three and half
months
The French say, " He who has good son-n-law.
has gained son; he who has a bad one, has lost
daughter. !"
newly married man in Lynn declares that if he
His wife and sisters obliged to roll him on the
floor and spat him with shingle every day, to pre-
vent him from being too happJ.
He that hath a trade, hath an estate, and he that
hath calling, hath place of profit and honor "A
ploughman on his legs is higher than gentleman
on his knees.
The title Gear" is a corruption of the word
Caesar which was originally assumed as title
of honor by the grand dukes, and recently assumed
by the Emperors of Russia.
&c itc h1lly
of water; hence two feet deep produces three
inches of water when thawed.
More than sixty criminals have been executed in
the United States during the year 1853, and quite
number now in prison unuer sentence OF death
An exchange paper remarks-and quote the
saying as applicable to all localitiesthat every well
regulated family ought to have at least baby In
it, just for the fun Of the thing.
The narrowest part of the Atlantic is than
two miles deep. In other parts, about one and
half miles.
Mr.. BUcHANANs RESIDENCE IN LONDON. Some of
our guid names often curious to know what our
representatives at foreign courts do with all the mon
ey they get from the Government. An item has
Just came to knowledge in regard to portion OF
the expenses of the American Minister in London,
which will show how the money goes. He lives IN
a respectable and decently furnished house, No. 56
Harley street, for which, including stable, he pays
annual rent of $4,561 60! How much it will
cost him to live, glance at the proporonate prices
Il
The rent alone is than third of the salary at
tached to his Office.
An Irishman about to enter the army, was asked
by one of the rccr ting officers ''We), sir when
you get into battle will you fight or rum? by
faith !" replied the Hibernian, with acomicaf twist
of the countenance I'll be afther doin, yer honor
the majority ofye does"
y BRISK PLACE. There is good anecdote told of
the little town of Portland, Indiana:
While q certain steamboat about putting
OUT from there, not long since for NewOrlcans the
mate, old boatman, turned to some passengers and
reIqarkcd
'kThis little town, gentlemen looks dull, but as
sure you it is perhaps mighty brisk place. About
fifteen years ago, as / going down with a fiat
boat to New Orleans we stopped here to procure
some provisions l went up into the town, and see
ing coat hanging out of shop door, just took it.
The owner came after me-caught me-took me be-
fore a magstratc-I was tried-convicted, took thr-
ty-nine ashcS and acas back to the boat in fifteen
minutes l tell you, gentlemen mighty brisk
place is that same little Portland
Pork PLENTY. Nine of the Western States have
packed, during the season, two millions and half
of hogs-an increase the crop of last year of
333, GEO head in number. The increase in weight,
ps near as we have been able to ascertain averaged
ten pounds to the hog, east of the Wabash viz In
Ohio, Indiana and kentucky while in Tennessee,
Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin, the increase
was fully twenty pounds per head.
"Well, neighbour what is the most christian news
this morning." said gentleman of Providence to
to his friend.
a have bought barrel of -four for poor wo-
man.
"Ah! just like You. Who is that you have made
happy by this charty?"
"My wife,"
Cost OF PERFUNERY II ENGLAND. The duty upon
essential oils and En- de Cologne imported into Eng
land amount to $4,000 annually to which must
be added 800 900 for duty upon spirits used in the
manufacture of perfumery, making S210, 600 raised
in taxation, from this small item of luxury. Taking
the retail price into calculation, the inhabitants of
Great Britain spend upwards of ten millions of dol
lars annually in perfumery alone.
ces lately shipped for the Of the English army
in Turkey are 1000 lbs lint, 1000 lbs tow 200 old
sheets 1000 wards of adhesive plaster, and
hundred acootten legs.
PASSING AWAY. Of the 531, 791 soldiers engaged
in tho war of the Revolution less than fourteen hun
dred arc now living whose age must average nearly
ninety years; seventy-three died the past year.
The greatest man is he who chooses the right with
invncible resolution.
A Young man who has recently taken wife says
he did not find it half hard to get married as he
did to get furniture.
The Tax Books for France for the year 1854, show
that u 900, 900 of the inhabitants, or out of 8,
own land, with or without buildings upon it.
A WoFp TO You've MEcHANIcs.--Young mechan-
les who would prosper in business have only two
rules to live up to- to insure success FIRST DO y0mr
qoork as ao1 customer qcishcs to haze 1t done The
other rule is to do 1T By the time you promise to
hare 1T DONE The two rules complied with, and
there is not much danger, if any, of failure.
RIEEpISe;s AT THE NosE.--Dr. Negler, a French
surgeon SAYS that the simple elevation of persons
arm will stop bleeding at the nose. He explains
the facts physically, and declares it positive rene