Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-06-25
Pierce Puugent's Topics.
THE FAST ACE.

Every aye, like every period of in
dividuM man, has It's characteristics.
Thes were named by the aucIenl pp.
e;s as tn Go d, Silver and Iron ages.
NJ chan callv, Gus Is the iron age It'll,
.lncr 1t is now in thr Ascendant Tor
houses, steamers, gnir- aut Hal}-
roads Iron ically ,pcaklnL, our hearts
arr Of that M tai, too
Every NJ" has a mental as well as
metai pccullnrity kusIiclty in the
patrorchal, sporting IN that of Mn
rod, d ums and nte> ruled IN the Gre.
cIau and Roman, chopping logic aud
chnppjng head off N the middle ayes,
50 much SO that our tacetious friend,
Wild, in one ot his oratiors cpltomI>ed
IN religious proceeding of Bonner and
Cranm T. whc t rccds n we're either
byhtadcd or burnt at the sake, by
sayi, . III the layorltc juoiciI pro-
ceedlnLs were either cold CHIP Vr Rot
steak, we take thus opportunity Of cen
>uring the witty couc /" an tol the con-
toun ing gast onouy with death penal
ties, although we ar" convinced that.
-iutt"uy ki Is more than sta walton
The charactcrI. Of UT age is in
patience. 'Brevity is the soul OF w.t.
Coud nsatlon reigns Flvr act plays
are cond need into three stage drlv-
crs cram wcnly INTO an omnibus ma ie
Tor only t~ Give; cpics re uns | a lie,
he otc poems at Il discount in a word,
odes are out, eplgrams are IN Mods
and wInks,' .hi We're formerly both
considered equally good IS legal ten
i rs upon blind horses, whether spav-
med or not, tax the place OF seven
nor orAtons. Par- rs will soon be
reduced to their am"ns, aud gre t ma
tlpu>, instead OF wa9 NJ as France
and England d d at the com nencc-
'"eut of tins century, tw Mt! one
years war, which i, took t in- them
t. y ar OF dlscretlOn, will toss up
heads or tails for the victory. + ucy
Gen. Cass and Lord p lnerston pitch
ing up cent on the Central Anne ic n
question Even ladies' petticoa ) are
becoming shorter, and We really care
not to what | myth snort Skin are
c rri d, nee it will afford rs the idea
Of a pretty ankle The idea i, all we
want
We consider this the Fast Age;
horses, women, young men, clocks III
lent are all asst. Nh,nw got st,
we even max our doors fast. That's
the DO .ri they oinge on
Let US cotrast an antediluvlan wi
an Amuican the t"Imer represents
the otow man, the other the tat man.
| took Metnusateh II ne hundred years
to . thrvu-h the business Of ms life
we do it III fifty We doubt IT Me-
thu allen cut his teeth TIL he vas nIne-
y. H. very likely >pun his top and
few his kite in hi, hundr tn year
+ ncy Methu,alah's father telling
his son il hi, lwu hundred aud twenti-
eth year that sucn boys h al NJ right
to vote; or his IN mma or old m,lhen
aunt Of eight uIures spanklng him
and put ing Din ab"d il h ) tIrd ccn-
tn y tor '"ak.ng IL April 70 u OF his
gsandm tner. or hiiln. his grhudla-
lhc''- wg in goosebrr'y bush
VIII would Il fashionable spins rr
OF those Tim con css to be an old
mali Did the or atures live hope
all their seven hundred and v. nt,eth
YER; Even that wound leave tnrm
two hund ed yea Of welded bis. AS
our >oung tiend SAVAGE would say,
ami ersarIes came round on once in
twenty years. " h lie ve are at this
tenIer p. riod f antcdiluvian life. we
mas wonder what was the average
length of decent courtship. How
long must one Of that elongated nge
know his lalr ensIav, before he pops
ped the question Would sixty ye rs
be conSiueitd indelicate haste alter the
first intrducton, to breathe 'soft-saw-
der in 'downenSter' ChAldeAn beau
ty's ear Would an ant dlluvian
Kate Palmyra think Frank presump-
tuous, if, having only been DO riding in
the same house for century, he asked
her to 90 with hIm to see the Matilda