Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-10-14
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Can any one of our readers interpret 1t !
At first we took it for Apothecaries Latin, !
Judge our surprise then, when the key was a
given to US, to find the above inscrutable !
items were simply these: {
"A horse half day and "a taking on
him home again
Can any of our readers beat that?
New WAY OF APPLYING LEECHEs.-
well, my good woman said the doctor,
'how is your husband to-day? Better, no
doubt
'Oh, yes, surely said the He
is as we'll as ever, and gone to the field
Il thought So continued the doctor
The leeches have cured him Wonderful
effect they have. You got the leeches, of
course
'Oh yes, they did him a graf deal of good,
though he could net take them all
Take them all +! Why my good woman,
how did you apply them2
ooh l managed nicely said the wife,
looking quite contented with herself. For
variety sake, l boiled one half, and made a
fry of the others. The first he got down
very well, but the second made him very
sick. But what he took was quite enough
continued she, seeing some horror in the
doctors countenance, for he was better the
next morning, and to-day he is 9nite we'll
'Umph,' said the doctor, with a sapient
shake Of the head, 'if they have cured him
that is sufficient, but they would have been
better applied externally
The woman replied that's she would do SC
the next time and | doubt not that if ever
fate throws a score of unfortunate leecheS
into her power again, she will make a poul
tice ofthem.
tReligious.' A writer on Providence
in one of our exchanges says: If
man drinks whiskey made by religion
distillers, from corn raised by religion
farmers, until delirium tremens interpo
SEES, please say that he died of RELIC
IoUs WHISKY, but don't say that Di
vine Providence interfered.'
Scandal. The Rev. DR.. Backus, c
Bethlehem, Conn.,, was a man of pow
er as we'll as of %eccentricity. H
!. had a habit of dropping the thread {
his discourse. and delivering himself {
any thought that suddenly struck hin
Thus, throwing up his spectacles, an
n leaning his elbows on the Bible, an
y his chin on his hands, he would brea
u out
II Scandal TIL tell you what scand,
i, is! Brother Smith has heard som
~ thing about brother Jones, but it W.
told to him under a pledge Of great s
10 crecy (; and he finds it so hard to kee
in it all alone, that he tries to find son
IS one to help him, and he imparts it
neighbor Jennings, and it proves t.
weighty for their united capacities
ne bear, and they soon manage to sha
it with brother Fraser ; and so
spreads from one to another, till at Ia
% Polly Downs hears of it, and the
whew away it goes, and every DO,
knows it. And that's scandal
'rk An Old, But Good One. A Frent
he man, who had deposited a sum of me-
ng ey for safe keeping with a friend, he,
ing the latter was about to fail, cal
sc upon him and said, 'Sare, 1 wants
monte Certainly, SIR said the o
lies er, drawing out his c~heck-book, fir
ms which he was about to fill up a che
for when the Frenchman said, Stop, sa
ties you got de money! why, of cSur,
hat said his friend, i will give you a Oh,
for for it Immediately No, no. said
our, Frenchman, if you got de monte, I
uct want him, but if you no got him de
Oh wants him.
Ow- Ireland Outdone. Taylor Cou
can Court must have been freshly impor
far Judging from the tenor and spirit Q
&C resolution recently adopted by t
august tribunal, which, says the
,Oa kersburg Gazette, smacks strongly
NV the 'ould country viz:-'That
June term of this Court shall be
in May, and the Nov'ber term in
cember.' If any son of the sod
,ept- yoke q pair of bulls to beat the ali
ad, let them drive them along-lists
', at open to the bovine species of all &C