Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-06-17
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A QUAKER WoMAN's LoGIC.-The fol-
lowing is an extract from u Quaker woman's
sermon
"There are three things | very much
wonderat. The first is that children should
be so foolish as to throw up stones, clubs
and brick bats into fruit trees to knock
down fruit if they would let it alone it
would fall itself. Second is, that men
should be so foolish, and even so wicked
as to go to war, aud kill each other; if
let alone they would die themselves. And
the third and last thing which | wonder at
is, that men should be so unwise as to go
after the young women if they would stay
at home, the young women would come at
ter them"
D1~ A funny correspondent of the Port
land Transcript say
l have recently gin up all idea of woman
folks, and came back to parlitikal life. |
am more at home in this line than in nun
tin the fair sccts. Aingills in pettikoats
an " kiss me quicks," is purity to look at,
6 an gin in, but darn 'em they are as slip
perry as cells when you fish for EN- and get
a bite, you somehow or other find yourself
, at the roDg end Of the line; they've cotch
you! An when you've stuffed 'em with
peanuts, candy and doggertipes, they'll
throw you away as they would a cold later.
Leastwise, that's been my experience. The
Queen OF Shebrr, the %sleepin' beauty, Kleo
! patry's needle, Pompey's pillar, and Lott
! wife, with a steam engine to help 'em
couldn't temp me. The very sight of
bonnet rifles me all over.
THE MosT POWERFUL OF MAGNETS
t A celebrated lecturer on natural philosoph,
was one evening dilating upon the power
OF the magnet-d etying any one to nam
or show anything surprising its powers
An old gentleman accepted the challenge
e much to the lecturers surprise; but /
n nevertheless invited him on 10 the platform
when he told the lecturer that woman W;
the magnet of magnets-for if the loa'
stone on the table could attract the piece
iron for a foot or two, there was a your
Il. woman who, when he was a young ma
le used to attact hin thirteen miles every Su
IS, day to hare a chat Nth her!
e, GALLANT TO THE LAsT.-A correspo
err dent Of the Evening Post, writing on t
he woman Question:" says: 81 comics
ose IN all sincerity, that | have never yet Sc
op. an ugly woman. This may appear pa
nd doxical, and still it is the pure truth.
ore never find any woman entirely ugly. Il
larged upon this idea once before an au
orn ence OF women. One who was extrem,
md fat-nosed said to me - Sir, | defy y
18th not to find me ugly you, madame,
Tor replied, ARE an angel fallen from heav,
va only you have fallen on your nose 2
was badly she did not believe me, and has ma
nth tanned against the whole world that shI
the ugly"
me- CONSOLATION IN GRIEF-A very c
iar- etous man, lost his only son James.
ks, minister came to comfort him, and rem
pine ked that such chastisements of Provide
the were mercies in disguise; that altho1
in the death of his son he had suffere
severe and irreparable misfortune, yet
arti. doubtedly his own reflections had sug
ted some sources of consolation. "Y,
exclaimed the weeping but still proviC
,. OF father, {" Jim was a INDUSTRIOUS eater!'
The Lafayette (Ia.) Journal publ
BAG the following frigid extract from a r
!. N. by a Boone country subscriber to a
time ming letter.
of q "Sorry to say, old boss, that l can't
,tien l am very tight up, which is to say | b;
e fol- nary red. Eff lard oil was ten cents a
re to rel, l couldn't buy enough to grease
Dbac- har. Don't worry about it, | freely for
Or Its you the debt.
8 off, A BEDBUG's PETITIoN.-A man ma
shells Aaron Bedbug, of Montgomery cou
first KY, intends petltioning the Legislatu
TO change his name. He says that his 81
nder; heart, whose name is Olivia, is unwi
nd at that he should be called A. Bedbug, ST
with Bedbug, and the little ones little BedI