Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-07-05
K U M 0 z Q U S.

@lr The following pertinent question was
recently addressed to two lawyers Of our ac-
quAintance ut "A fair in q n~eighboring village
If distance lends enchantment TO tile view,
aud view refuses 10 return it, has distance
any legal redress r One lawyer thought it
had, AMI the other that it hadn't-the usual
satisfaction we get when we take counsel as
to What really is law.
81 A good story is told Of a Michigan
man who recently went down into Indiana
to buy a drove Of horses. He was longer
than he intended to be absent, and failed to
meet a business engagement. On being
rather reproached for not being at home, he
made due apology. Il tell you how it is,
Squire, ut every little darned town, they
waited me to stop and be President of a
Bank
Mr.. Frog, n tailor, who had left Charles
ton ut the commencement of the war, re-
turned after the capilulaiion and got a~cqudin-
tea with n certain J. w. Gibbs, who was re-
qussted by Frog to stand as godfather TO
one OF hi, children, which was agreed to by
Gibbs, provided lie should have the naming
OF the child. AS they were going to the
church the father asked Gibbs if he thought
OF a name.
Yes said Gibbs what do you think
Of ON Lieutenant Governor Bull
Very good, said the father; 'Iarproye
Of il very much
The child was accordingly named Bull
Frog did not Immediately think Of the drol-
lery of the name, but when be did he could
hayJ killed Gibbs for the imposition on hi.
reliance and friendship.
lie thought TO have recourse to the Board
OF Police 10 get permission to reLaptize the
child; but when he saw Lieutenant-Go,e
nor Bull presiding there he thought ii woul,
be an att ON to relate the story therefor,
he postponed the matter, and The child re
tains the appellation Of Bull Frog.
THE ELooUENcE OF MoTIoN.-Every on,
has read OF the ac ion, action, action, of DE
mosthenes, and Of what a variety Of emotion
and passion Roscius could express by mer
gestures let II not be supposed, however
that such perfection of art belonged to III
a%ncienls only. The following anecdote
WIN. G. Preston is illustrative of our r
marks:
Some years ago, among a thousand
others, we were lislering to one ofhis splend
%harangues from the stEmp. Beside us W
one as deaf as a post, in breathless altenti,
catching apparently, every word that f
from the oruor's lips. Now the tears won
roll down bis cheeks, and COW, in an u
governable ~ecstacy, he would shout out a
plause which might have been takon for IL
noise Of u small thunder storm.
At length Preston launched out one
those passages Of masSi,e defamation, viii,
tho>e who have heard, know him to be so c
pable Of uttering. In magnificent splend,
he was what Bryon has described the mouI
tain storm OF Jura. It's effect upon d
multitude was like a whirlwind. Our de
friend could contain himself no longer, b
bawhng into our ear, as If he would blow
open with Il tempest.
Who's that speaking cried he.
WIN @. Preston !! cried we, as loud
our lungs would let VA.
'WhoT inquired he, still louder tn
before.
VIM. G. Preston, Of South CaroIiu
replied we almost splitting our threats in
effort.
well Well returned he, / cant h
one word he or you are saying, but Or
Jericho, don't he do tie motiOas spLead,