Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-10-10
CRUMBS AND CRACKERS.

WHEN an extrayagant friend approaches
you and asks you to lend him your money,
consider we'll whichyou can best sparc-yonr
friend or your eagles.
A dishonest, corrupt man carries bis re-
commentator in his eyes. He cannot look
an honest man in the face, neither can the
skulking owl look at the sun at high noon.
lie may polish his head with grease fromthe
marrow bones Of the bold bear, he may wear
snoctacles of gold, and even shadc his face
with whiskers, but the pent UP scourndfel in
him will peep outNtovory pore. The Ethiop
cannot change his skin, nor the leopard his
spots.
EVERY vice and folly has its secret penal
ties. If we are lazy, we will be poor and
ought to be- if incorporate, We will be Dis
easod, and justly too; if luxurious, we may
date and early VIII, for we will die rroma-
turcly.
AMERICANS would ride in steamers Iaade Of
lucifer matches, if they could thereby gain
thirty minutes in crossing the Atlantic
What care they for danger? They daily
prove themselves n courageous people, ready
ut all times 10 stake fifteen minutes Of Time
against an Eternity.
CHILDREN are initiative as parrots. What,
ever they hear said they will try to repeat
and whatever is read or spoken Of in terms
of appreciation by their elders gives a strong
bias to their minds. How important then
the conversation Of the heartllside should b.
guarded, and that all books and papers tia
have a tendency to vitiate the heart should
be excluded.
IT is n curious fact in the science of liquor
ology that when old topers are deep in liquo
the young topers, who are just in their wake
will crack sly jokes and tell filthy anecdote
ut their expenses. We have heard say tina
droves Of wild brutes kill off those who be
come too old to keep their legs. How man
links in thu animatedcha are there betwee
drunken mon and wild brutes?
SOME genius has POLITICALLY described one
the peculiarities Of the Anglo American
the following graphic manner:
He'd kiss a queen, till he raised a blister,
With his arms around her neck, and his old Jeth
on;
He'd address a king by the title Of " mister"
And ask him the price Of the throne he sat on.
SMITHERs tried to clear his conscience WI
the white Of an egg, but failing, IN cons
quonce Of the egg not being well whipped
he is now endeavoring to raise his spur
with brewers yeast. He says, if he. tai
in this experiment, he will blow out
brains with a-hand 6eUOtcs, and sink IN
the arms of-his darling Sallie Ann.
. Look out upon the sky
Evening has taken on her crown, the gaudy quee
Sol she sits on her cerulean throne commando
With n bright star on her brow,
Hove 10 gaze upon the beautiful queen,
The bride OF day for then n food
or wonder, Of awe and love, fresh springing
From the INFINlTE, fills the soul,
And swolls each faculty within with song,
That swolls and swolls like nighttime notes
On murmuring brooks, and rills, and rivers
That widen towards the boundlcss sea-
THE ~conjugating Editor, during the recG
hot weather, let Off the following torrld q
JagatioH Hot, hotter, hottest-hottent
hottentoter, Observation-Disclosures, n
tentissmi, hottentOss-muS! Hot as a furni
hot as two furnaces-hot as seven Abed
90 furnaces seven times h0ted. POsiti
comparative, superlative-H0T!l The p
scribes' sanctum must have been on the
ter dinner side Of a brick wall withou
breeze even OF a mosquitoes wing.