The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1859-02-19
NO. 1881.
They Say.

They Say.
! more sneaking, cowardly, fendish liar
than Z" They say" does not exist That per-
gossip, envy, and malice without form of flesh
and blood, when invoked, and yet stalking
boldly in every community. The character is
myth, and yet real intangible, and yet
clutchlng its victims with remorseless power.
1t is unseen, and yet from exhaustless culver
wings its poisoned arrows from day to day.
And no mail is proof no character, position
or sex escapes no sanctuary is too sacred
no home is bulwarked against it's assaults
When one base heart wishes to assail some
persons character or motives, "They say" is
always invoked That is the assassin who
strikes in the cloud-the Thug who haunts the
footsteps of the offender, and torfures from
careless word or deed, and excuse for the still
etto. Men dare not always reveal their own
feelings. With smiles and pretended friend
ship, they present the envenomed shaft as COM
ing from "They say' Be sure, reader, that
when some viainous tale is told of you, and
the relator cannot give an author more taDgi-
BILE than They say" for it, the SANDER is the
creation of the heart by your side, and reeking
with the poison of envy and hatred, and earn
est with a wish to have the falsehood of They
say" bud into reality. and become current coin
in the community.
They say" we repeat, is as cowardly as it
is false and fiendish phantom creation which
smiles, while letting loose brood of vipers to
crawl in your path, and blast by their venom.
10 retail the stories of "They say" is to sneak
behind an intangible parsonage and put in
circulation the Infamous inuendoes and calum-
nies, which. from raw material are forged
nearer home.
CURIosIr1Es OF THE EARTH-At the city of
Modena, in Italy, and about four miles around
It, wherever the earth is dug, when the work
men arrive at a distance of 63 feet they
to bed of chalk, which they bore with
ger 5 feet deep. They then withdraw from the
pit before the augur is removed, and upon it's
extraction, the water bursts up through the
aperture with! great violence, and quickly fills
this newly made well, w,,:;ch continues full: and
is not affected either by rains or droughts-
But what is most remarkable in this operation
is, the layers of the earth as we descend. At
the depth of fourteen feet are found the ruins
of an ancient city, paved streets, houses, floors,
and different pieces of mosaic work. Uuder
this is found soft, oozy earth, made up of veg
etables, and at twenty-sX feet large trees entire
such as walnut trees with the walnuts still stick
ing to the stem and the leaves aud branches in
perfect state of preservation. At twenty
eight feet deep soft chalk is found, mixed
with vast quantity Of shells, and this bed is
eleven feet thick. Under this vegetables are
found aRain.
How LOAD 4 GuN.-According to Mr.
Sutherland, the Richmond (Va.) gunnaker,
consisting of equal buIks of powder and shot
till you come to quantity when the gun will
no: recoil, or but slightly. This will give You
the proper quantity of shot. With this load,
however, the gun will scatter in all directions.
To correct this, reduce the quantity cf powder
until you find that the shot is carried close
as you desire. gun loaded thus will never
burst. To make it carry further. shot Of q
larger size. No gan should be fired more than
twenty times without being wiped out. When
in the field, it will be much safer to carry the
piece at always half cock.
A MISTAKEN IDEA.-Superfcial observers
think that early rising conduces to health and
longevity. Such is not the Early retir-
ing and renovatng sleep will necessitate early
rising, and then it is beneficial but for men
vino burn the midnight oil, in the habit
of ascending the stoop of their residence sim
ultaneousy with the arrival Of the infant day,
to rise early, and thus shorten their natural
rest, is deliberate suicide. To shorten rest
unduly, is to shorten life.
A RARE AND FATAL DIsEAsE-The Provi-
dence Journal record the appearance of a rare
disease in that city, infectious and suddenly
fatal in its operation. The first symptom is
the appearance of small pmple on the lip,
face or hands, which soon assumes the charac-
ter of an indurate pustue, In a few hours
modification ensues and the patient dies 1t
seems almost like plague. Several persons
have died of the distemper
PorAros.-In 1897, "virgnia potatos," as
they were then called, were just beginning to
be known, and the sweet potato was cooked
and eaten in manner quite different from that
pursued at the present day. An old writer
says of them "They used to be eaten
roasted in the ashes some when they be SO
roasted infuse them, and sup them in wine and
others, to give them the greater grace in eat
ing, do boil them with prunes, and SO eat them.
And likewise others dress them (being first
roasted) with ollie, vinegar and salt, every man
according to his taste and liking not
withstanding however they be dressed, they
comfort, nourish and strengthen the bodies"
Chinese widow being found tanning the
tomb of her deceased husband and being asked
the cause of so singular mode of showing her
grief, accounted for it. by saying that he had
made her promise not to marry again while the
mortar of his tomb remained damp j; and as it
dried but slowly, she saw no harm in aiding
the operation.
CAUr1oS-Be careful to keep guard con-
stantly before the fire of room in which there
are ladies. The present extensive dresses were
made to catch sparks and liable to be
caught by red hot ciuders that are apt to leap
out of the fire.
CURRICULUM FOR THE LADIES' coIAEGE.-Evcry
girl who intends to qualify for marriage should
90 through a course of cookery. Unfortnna-
tely, few wives are able to dress anything but