Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-01
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% Mary I! my heart is breaking 'Is
it, indeed, Mr.. CIose6t? So much the
better for you 'Why?' Because, when
it is broken out, you may sell the pieces
for gun fints.'
A witty clergyman, aecosted by an old
acquaintance of the name of Cobb, replied:
Il don't know you SIR MY name is
Cobb rejOinsd the man, who was about
halt. seas over. ooh, sir replied the cler-
gynan, you have so much of the corn on
you that | could not see the cob
A testy lawyer lately, in one of our
courts found himself bothered with a knot
ty witness who wouldn't explain, as he de-
sired, the difference between the thick
and long kinds of whalebone.
why man. he said, You don't seem
to know the difference between thick and
long
'Ya'ss, l dew
Explain it, tEen.'
'Wa'al, you're plaguy thick-headsd, but
you amt long headed no heow! said Gree.
ney.
'IIave you Blasted Hopes? p asked +,
/, lady of a green librarian, whose face wa,
much swollen by tho toothache. No
3 ma'am but | have a blasted toothache.
'Ma'am,' said a little urchin to lady
your shaWps dragging in the mud.
: We'll, suppose it is, isn't it fashionablei
. A QUESTION AT LAVA Kentuck
q lawyer on circuit was asked to dine wit
the Judge. At the table, the Judge, 9
was his custom, asked a blessing, an
!. shortly after arose from his seat and too
from the sideboard a bottle of old Bourbon
of which he invited his guest to partak
= partaking freely himself, as is also his Gu
tom. After dinner the lawyer said:
! Judge, will you permit me to ask "
- a question z
>, 'Oh, certainly replied the Judge, 'wh
re is it
"A q Observed said tho lawyer, that aft
- you had asked a blessing you set on t
bottle. Now, l wish to know, wheth
you are ashamed to ask a blessing on t
= liquor, or whether you thought it was go
enough without
,or The Judge took the case under advi
ment.
co. Mrs. ~Partington, speaking of the ra'
manner in which such deeds are perpet
n ted, said that it only required two seeo,
to fight q duel.
for
is Mr.. Brown a mar of means P as
her a gentleman of old Mrs. Fizzleton. +,
ere ring to one of her aeighbors. we
nts reckon he oy6ght to be- drawled out
old Aslfdamc, for he's the meanest ma
Ter Flown
sS6,
UNREMITTING KINDNEss.-fCall
kindness z said an actor, speaking G
acquaintance, % man who is away fror
bore family, and never sends them a farth
Call that kindness?' 'Unremittinq
con ness chuckled q wag.
Which causes q girl the most pie:
IT, to hear herself praised, or another gir
- down?
! toe Il am thy fathers spirit as the
CTS oil said to the boy, when he found it
mons the woodpile, and wondered what i
worst
Why are potatoes and corn like {
lat "a sinners of old? Because, having eye
sePs." see not, and having cars they hear n
'erally
.rs or The faculty of Williams College I
employ an Irishman named Jenny t
them 6res, sweep, wait on the students, a
chores generally. One of the DO
social tended to be quite mad at him on
times and after blowing him up badly, v
rth en- to say, Jenny, this can't last AWAY
llly in and-by you will get your deserts. an,
. day, go to the bad place; what do you
II grow you'll do there?' oh said Jenny,
will be pose they'll set me to waiting on
dents just as they do here
y On A learned yOuug lady, the othe
h;,raIl. lag, astonished the company by asl
:. w;,I loan of a dininutive argenteOus,
$50 ted cone, convex on its summit, al
Iow perforated with symmetrical linden
..hs.r, She wanted a-thimble.