Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-07-12


DoN't GIVE IT uP.-Tbe editor of the
Albany Evening Journal tells the following
story, and draws a moral from it which young
men should remember:
A little fellow who put on a pair Of skates
for the first lime, paid the usual penalty
Having hurt Himself somewhat by the fall
lie received, his brother advised him to give
it up mo, | shant give..it up was the re-
ply; Gun learn to skate, and | will learn
And at it he went, with an energy and de-
termination which babe defiance to apparent
Representatives,.
In twenty years from this time, that little
fellow, if he lives, will make his mark some
where. A hoy who will not give up a
a difficult job, but who will do it because he
feels conscious that he can do it, has the
ring of the true metal Of manhood in his
boy, who was tossing marbles on the side
walk, to come into the house. Don't you
know You should not be out there, my sou ?
TO into the backyard, if you want to play
marbles. 1t is Sunday Well, yes, but
aint it Sunday in the backyard, mother?'
n homc-thrust- innocence versus hypocrisy.
WoRD PAINTING.-The New York Times
gives the following portraiture of fashlona-
bic life and society in New York
Our fashionable society In this city is a
sham from beginning to end. 1t is utterly
unsound, depraved, and unnational-a de-
ceptive piece Of wood, made 10 look shiny
with French polish, and glittering with the
phosphorescent light ofcorruption-acopper
cent, trying its very best to look like a i've
franc piece, and, what i%Sworse, in nine cases
out Of ten, succeeding.
BONNET lTEM.-A writer on bonnets
says-'Ihe rule now is to place a little
wlsp Of pasteboard and ribbon so far back
upon the head that the wearer cannot see
any part Of il. The bonnet patch is secu-
red to the philoprogenitiveness by a wafer,
and the stars look down on the place where
the bonnet ought to be! Vel, ,ot ov it
Better be out of the world than out Of the
fashion-that't the creed of the day, and
vox popali, vox something.
A BRISK ILAcE.-Therei a good anec.
dotc told Of the little town of Portland.
While a certain steamboat was about
putting out there, not long since, fo- N. Or.
leans, the mate, an old hoatman, turned to
some passengers and remarked
This little town, gentlemen, looks dull
but assure you it is, perhaps, a mighty
brisk place. About Is ears ago, as l was
down with a iatboat to New Orleans, We
stopped here here to procure some provisions.
| went up into the town, and seeing a Goa
hanging out Of a shop door, just took it
The owner came after me-caught me-iool
me before a magistrate-I was tried-con
victed-took 80 lashcs-and was back t
the boat in 10 minutes! l tell you, gentle
men, a mighty brisk little place is that sam
Portland
a fellow attending a party ACCIDENTAL
got drunk, and retiring, mistook a lady
shawl for his cloak; in which habiliment h
was seen upon the streets. This was immc
diately taken by some as an introduction
anew fashion, and followed to some extent.
CD 1t is said that when DR.. Francis /
Hawks, formerly of North Carolina no
Of New York, was offered the Bisbopric
Rhode lsla d, he refused it on the groun
that the salary was too meagre for one
his circumstances His Rhode Island irienl
having reminded him of the promise mac
IN scripture that God would feed the youu
ravens the Doctor replied that this WI
true, but that he had nowhere seen a promi:
ito feed young Hawks
As a dandi6ed fellow was vending h
way through u narrow passage, he met
pretty girl, and said to her, +" Pray, nv dea
what do YOU call tais passage T. Balkan
passage" replied the girl. "Ah, then" CO
iinued the fellow, 4" l arn like Balaam-sto
ped by an Angel" And L" rejoined Il
girl, rs she pushed past him, am like i
aUgel-Stopped BY an ass"