Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1864-02-15

eratlons satt victory.
Scandal is what one-half the world
takes pleasure ~ inventing, and the
other half equal pleasure in believing.
L meant TO have told you of that
hole said an Irishman to his friend,
who was walking with him in his gar
den, and stumbled into q pit full DIVA
ter. No matter. said Pat, I've found
it.
A cheerful heart paints she worlds
as it finds it, like sunny landscape. :.
the morbid mind depicts it lise sterile
wilderness, pallea with thick vapors ,and
dark as the Shadow of Death lis
the mirror, in short, on which it IS
ght,wflich lends to the face of nature
the aspect Of its own turbulence or,
tranquility. "
With many, it's rars circumstance
to hear = thing as it is told, rarer still
to reme,aber it as heard, and rarest of
all to tell it as remembered.
Cato The elder, when many of the
Romans had statues erected in their
honor, was asked by some orc, 'why
he had none p He answered that, 'he
had much rather men should ask and
wonder WAY he had no statue. than
why he had statue
He is happy whose circumstances suit
his temper but he is happier who can
suit his temper to his circumstances.
Mirth should be the embroidery of
the conversation, not the, web and wit
the ornament of the mind, not the fns<.
The Rsv. Sydney Smith, whilst
preaching charity Sermon frequently
repeated toe assertion that, of al! IA
tions, ,EnglisAnen were most distinguish
ed for the love Of their species The
collection prorod inferior to his expec-
tation; and be said that he had evident~
ly made mistake, for he should have
! said that they were distinguished for
a love Of their specie.
What is more beautiful AID poetieal
! than the child's idea Of. ice-'W ater
gone to sleep.
There arc two things which will make
US happy in this life,~ if VIC attend
to them. The fret is never to vex our
selves about what we can't he p; and
the second, never TO yex ourselves
about What weean help.
A Western editor perpetratcs the fol-
lowing On Father Adam"
He laid him down and slept-and from
his side
A woman in her magic beauty rose
/. DaZ2lcd and charmed lie called the wo-
man bride.
And his first sleep became his last TT
s, pose.
: Why is an idle fott Ike a cinnamon
. tree?
Because the bark is worth moro thar
d the body.
Drinking may not affect man stand
ing III the community, but 1t often al
u fects his standing an the pavement.
: 1t is a singular fact that woman can
= not lock from precipice Of any magni
- tude with out becoming giddy. Bu
= what is still more singular, the giediHes
departs the very moment somebody pu
Il his arm around her waist 10 keep b,
from falling. Queer, isn't it
n O'er wayward children wonldst tho
> hold firm rule,
NJ And sun thee in tie Light of happy Il
N ces;
d Love, hopo and patie2ce-these must
at thy graces,
of And in thine own heart let them tir
ok keep school .
er Francis, Duke Of Luxembourg, was
ln celebrated French general. and mu
tie deforuled His Uniform success, VIII
ng cont7nding with William III, OF In
lat land, rendered him an ohlect of jealou
10 10 that prince, who once, in the bit
'ho ness 0f mis- heart, called him, 'humpbac
" What does lie know Of my back s
lie, the marshal he never saw IT,.
Eiil
of Gold IS universally worshipped, vii
or out single temple, and by al elias.
Is without single hypocrite.
ia Scandal. like the Nile, is fed by in