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Who first eat the o. ster ?

Almost everybody eats the oyster now,
but who eat the creature first, and thus in
troduced the fashion, is a problem to many.
We have heard it said again and again over
the steaming I" stew" that the first adventu-
rer in that way was a brave man. 1t really
looks SO. A man may bravely face danger
in battle and a thousand ways beside, but
others have faced danger before, and, to a
certain extent, he knows the nature of the
perils he is mourning; but not so with the
man who first eat the oyster. He was a
brave man. 1t was an untried and a critical
experiment. He knew not what the result
would be-whether death by poisoning or
what not. He was, we repeat, a brave man
We don't know what the name of the bold
adventurer after good things and novelties
was who first eat the delicious luxury, but
we have the legend: A man was one day
walking by the sea shore, and seeing this BIZ
valvic animal on the sand where it had been
cast by the waves, he picked it up while it
was in the act of gaping. Observing the ex.
treme smoothness fthe interior of the shells
he insinuated his finger between them, thai
he might feel their shining surface, wher
suddenly theyclQSed upon the exploring digi
w1thS sensation less pleasurable than h
anticipated. The prompt withdrawal of hi
finger was scarcely a more natural move
ment than its transfer to his mouth. 1t j
not very clear why people when they bur
their fingers put them to their mouths, but
is very certain they do and in this case tn
result was most fortunate.
The man with the pinched finger ha
realized in a moment of anguish the del
cious juice Of the oyster for the first time
as John Chinaman, having burnt his fnge
first tasted his ~favorite, cracklin! The JUL
of the oyster was better than anything
had ever tasted before so, he opened Oh
after another and Toasted thereon to his fl
He proclaimed his discovery and thus intr
duced oyster-eating into fashion, which fas
ion, unlike others, will never become G
and questionable.
We wish WE knew who was the first oyst
eater. We should move for a monument
his memory-a monument of pearl! \
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FOR THE SPIRIT OF TIL
To an Absent Brother.

Afar from thee-the morning breaks,
With sad and cherries ray S..
In vain are all things bright for me,
When thou art far away
Thy calm, bright smile and joyous face,
Naught from my memory can erase.
Afar from thee-wild evening comes,
With breezes soft and sweet;
But, wandering through our early haunts,
Thy form | do not meet -
The echoes of thy deep-toned voice,
No longer with me doth rejoice.
Afar from thee-sad night comes on,
/ feel its darkness DER my heart,
And turn to gaze on each dear face,
To think that loved ones soon must part;
Oh cruel Fate that bids thee roam
Afar from love, and me, and home.
Linger not long-home is not home with:
out thee,
There's naught to charm thine absence
drear
All things speak thy presence gone,
Then, come to thy home, my brother dear
Come, with thine own bright happy smile
Come, these lonely hours beguile.
M0LLIE.
Athelingay, Va,
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The WEEyIL DESTROYED BY yellow BIRDS.
Mr.. d. III. Roberts, residing on a farm in
Colesville, New York, communicates the fol-
lowing important discovery to the Bingham.
ton Republican:
"a n~eighboring farmer wished he would
get a gun and kill some yellow birds, which
farmers generally suppose destroy the wheat.
Mr.. K. declined, as be does not like to kill
birds of any kind. Out Of curiosity, howey-
err, he killed one of the birds and opened its
crop, when he found that the bird, instead Of
eating the wheat, eat the weeyil-the great
destroyer Of wheat. He found as many as
two hundred weevil in the birds crop and but
Jour grains of wheat, which had the weevil
IN them. This is a very important discove-
ry, and should be generally known. The
pro resembles the canary, and sings beau
tifully."
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BW We are in receipt of a letter signed
"Wm. 0. Smith, P. NJ" dated Clarks-
vile, July 25, 1885," and postmarked the
same, without the State being mentioned
we are therefore at a loss to know how to
address, the writer. The papers, about which
the letter makes inquiry, addressed to Mel
vim r. Smith and Thomas w. Parish, are
sent regularly from this Office to GAINESVILLE,
Va.
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9ahits' aspmtmsnt.
For the Spirit Of the Age.
THE FLOWER OF THE FALLS.

For the Spirit Of the Age.
THE FLOWER OF THE FALLS.
DEDICATED TO THE "socIAL CIRCLE"
Twas soft, serene, refreshing eve;
The setting sun q shadowy veil
Had woven Ger Niagara's shores,
When one with heart of conscious peace
Came calmly from her silent home
70 wander Tong the verbant banks,
And, mid the Cataraet's wild roar,
Commune with solitude and tell
The joyful, peaceful, happy thoughts
Which thrilled her breast Of innocence.
She loved the beautiful and good,
And as her heart was calm and pure,
Each leaf, each bud, each smiling flower
Spaks mystic language to her soul.
How innocent and lovely is
The sentimental love Of Flowers !
And who can love them as they're loved
BY meek and tender woman's heart?
And who can pluck them from their stems
So we'll as woman's gentle hand?
She looked n thousand floral gems
Were glist'ning lovelily around.
Her hand soon held a rich boquet
To which when turned her melting eye,
A for more sacred peacefulness
Sank TRANQUILITY upon her heart,
And carth's sublimest JOY was hers.
Before her still full many bloomed
A single glance upon their hues
And she was captive to their charms.
Another &nd another sGlf
She from its parent stem removed.
tremendously with t~houghtless step
She neared the evercrumbling verge
Which bounds the deep and dread abyss.
Anon n mystic voice within
Disturb'd her thoughts aud babe her be
Distrustful Of the treach'rous brink.
But still her lIeayen.savoring heart,
Too pure to tremble with a fear,
Inclined her on to pluck yet more.
One passing bright and beautiful
Was blooming on the very verge.
Twas fair rs only flowers arc fair,
And Oh its every brilliant leaf
The crystal spray was sparkling bright,
Enriching with more lovely tints ,s
It's every eye-entrancing huc.
"This one I'll pluck" she calmly thought
And then III to my home return"
Swift to the spot she lightly ran
And, standing DER II, gozed awhile,
With raptured heart and eye entranced,
Upon its charming loneliness.
Oh what a lovely sight was this!
Twas Beauty's SELF, most beautiful.
"Come, little angel, you ale mine"
She said, and plucked it from its stem.
Alas alas the fatal turf,
As If unconscious Of the pure
And precious burden it sustained,
Gave way, and down, alas aud down
Niagara's rugged chasm fell
A child Of purity and love.
And rs she fell, her dying lips
Shricked forth a Wild and thrilling cry,
Which, rising Dove the sounding Falls,
Fell strange on many startled ears.
That cry Oh Heaven, what a cry !
1t sounded like the piercing knell
OF all life's hopes-of life itself.
These were the words-her last sad word
"The Fatal Flower The FATAL Flower!'
Dial's Creek, N. G. 1855. DAN
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n1 We would be glad to send the back
numbers of the Age which many subscribers
have requested, but we have none on hand.
Whenever back numbers are ordered. ifthey
be not sent, it may be taken for granted,
they are not in our Office to send.
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Spirit Age,
RALEl9n, q. G.
@@-F[
Wednesday, August |, 1855.
A Positive Arrangement.

SabscribersreceiOi their papers oith a red mark,
are thereby notified that in four peeks from the re-
ceipt Of the first number thus marked, their sub
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Written for the Spirit of ii
To Resale.

Descend Apollo with celestial fire
And touch the chords that culver on my Tyre i
Teach me to sing in most exalted strains
How in the human heart blest friendship
reigns.
Oh that my song might rival spirits bri ght,
When in the distant, distant halls of light
They wake their golden harps to sweetest
praise,
An1with exuberant voice loud anthems raise.
Friendship is like the gliding shades of eve,
That with the setting sun new length receive,
But lous, the shadow Of the morning, fees
Whene'er the sunbeam chances Ger the trees.
IT'S now of mortal love with ruf1ed wing,
And soiled plumage that | strive to sing,
For oh that heavenly love that once on earth
Was seen lluminating every hearth. [
Has 'noHh y ms CELESTIAL home again,
And friendship too, of many glories reft,
Hath little of its former brightness left
Save in a heart, nay Rosalie, like thine,
Where still undimmed its rainbow beauties
shine.
Yet.in thy dreaming time, thou hast not seen
The Autumn leaf forget its summer green,
Nor mingled with the %callods, heartless
throng,
: That on life's pathway ever Streams along
, Nor seenthe old familiar smile grow strange
Nor learned that those you dearly love may
change.
j Oh! that my arms might shelter thee, min'
own,
I, And shield thee from a single pang alone,
, Oh that mysingle strength might backward
j . roll
The floods of SORROW that o'erwhelm the soul
Then vainly would the storms of life bur
e round
It Vainly the winds with deep and dreadfu
Would howl around thy lone and darksom
: way,
a And shadows close above hopes faintest ray
If This may not be, your heart alone-m nay kno'
lr It's bitterness, and feel the ebb and flow
IF Of it's deep tide, when mid the scenes of III
10 You learn to know its endless, weary strif'
MEMO.
I" Mount Pleasant, Ala.
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HEAVY THUNDER. Considering the mum.
Der Of Inhabitants, there is a little town in
the Western part Of this State where they
have remarkably heavy thunder. :
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~~ Tn Editor returned to his post before this
paper was put to press. He will attend to CORES
~pondents and other deferred business, with all DOS
sible despatch.
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ToNsoRIAL.-Some fellow, with more wit
than prudence, has started the saying that
a pair of eyes is the best glass to shave by.
Our See-Saw says, precisely many a ten
der hearted young male has been shaved by
.hem-pared to the red 2 See-Saw makes a
riddle of it. =
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For the Spirit of the Aqe.
Blind Willie.--BY NJ. H. BUTT.

FOF Inc OptFW " TIE age.
Blind Willie.-BY- M. H. BUTT.
Tell mt mother how the sunshine looks, I
feel the genial warmth upon my cheek, yet
see it not. And tell me too Of the lovely
flowers ! enhale their sweet fragrance, and
feel their soft cheek against my own, and
yet cannot see their lovely eolors. [ hear
the little song bird asst carols its sweetest
notes but cannot behold it. The moon is
bright-and the stars, my brothers tell me,
look like diamonds in the sky at night
Why mother, was all made SO beautiful, and
| not permitted to see? Why was the glo-
rious sunlight shut from me? Oh, mother,
is it not sad to be in darkness always-will
| never see :?
The mothers eyes filled with tears as
listened to blind Willie swat chill
never. beAeld MGlightso of day, and as he is
tened to the description given by his COM
panion, in his heart he wished to be blessed
with sight too. He had been told that the
earth was very beautiful, yet all to him was
midnight darkness. As his ear caught the
sweet music of the guitar his little velvet
fingers would pass over the strings, as if by
: touch to learn something of the form Of thai
: which gave him SO much pleasure. AS he
heard the gay voices of his companions ht
would wonder to himself how q smile look
ed. Ali those around him little knew
a what blessings they enjoyed, and as the,
q listened to the many questions put to then
:, by blind Willie, little did they imagine how
much he would love to see those beautie
/ upon which they gazed with such careles
!, eyes.
d But Willie, will not always be blind. No
d No!t he shall yet view the beauties of
d brighter cline, though all is dark befor
him now. Norfolk, Va.
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We are again indebted to the talented
Virginia lady, and brilliant authoress for tn e
following beautiful waif: +
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The following chaste piece of composition,
from a southern correspondent, we present
to our readers as, in our opinion, something
more than ordinary. We would be pleased
to hear from the author often ON any lIerdr q
theme.
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GurresHauAing e1itur's 1fHnrtmrat.
R.. q. STAPLES, t PORTSMOUTH, va.

RsT a. N. German, Esq, Ed. and Prop. of
this paper, arrived in our little city of Ports
mouth, on Friday evening, July 10th, and
took rooms. at the Crawford House. He left
again on Saturday, via the Bay line, enroute
to Philadelphia. He was accompanied by
his wife, sister and servant.
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THE DsHIP

Mount Pleasant, Ala.
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Report Of the Grand Jury
al February Term, 1855.

at february Term, 1889.
ITO The honorable the judges Of the court
4 of quarter sessions of The peace in and
for the county OF Columbia.
The undersigned Grand Inquest OF the
Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania inqniring
for the body Of the county of Columbia, Re-
speetuAy Report. ,
That they have pursuant 10 their required
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oil bills OF indictment presented for their con-
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on them accordingly. They have also made
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II is within the Knowledge Of the Inquest
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