The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-11-14


operating on the exposed portion Of the
urchin's person, With great vehemence,
when the young one dug into the pa
rental legs with his venemous little
teeth. s,is a. .,ss 80
"Blazes what are you biting me
for?t'
swell, dad, you beginned this here
war ?"
The Chicargo Lake Tunnel only
lacks, it is said, about five hundred feet
of completion. The workmen on either
end report that they can distinctly hear
every blow struck by each other.
Why is a lover clipping with his lady
love like vessel sailing to certain
port in France 2 IL Because he is
bound to have her (Hayre).
ONE HUNDRED AND TwENTY-oNE
YEARS OLD-One of the oldest women
in America is Mrs. Porch, who lives
in the mountains of East Tennessee,
and is aged one hunered and twenty-one
years. She is blind, but being quite
hearty, walks without assistance. Her
memory is unimpaired, and she can re-
count many of the events of the Revo-
luton with great accuracy.
1t is said Doctors mitigate the pains
Of sickness; good many, of them miti-
gate the trouble of dying by making
it the simplest thing in the world.
1t makes peoples mouths water to
think of the revenue ofsome of the Eng
lish ecclesiastical functionaries. The net
revenues ofthe Bishopric of London for
the year 1855 were 500, 1856 OF the
Dean and Chapter of st. Paul's Cathe-
dral, London, $54, $50 in gold, and of
the Dean and Chapter of Westminster
Abbey ,$l4s,695 in gold.
A Milwaukee young lady has set her
cap for rather large feller," but tailel
to win him, when confident tried to
comfort her with the words, +" Never
mind Mollie, there is as good fish in the
sea as ever was caught" Mollie,
knows that" replied her little brother,
I" but she wants whale"
A spruce young gent OF Montpelier,
VT, fresh from his Latin studies, re-
Gently called upon some young ladies,
and being asked by the servant for his
name as he sat quietly in the parlor, re-
piled Amidcus" "a friend). Biddy was
little puzzled, but regaining her COM
posure in the blandest manner nossib]e
phsorvsd 0Whot lind of cuss d;d
Won saw sir ~ That cnred him If Latin
i;nao - ~
" Which is the strongest day."
Sunday
"Why SOP
Because all the rest are week daysw
Very good, but if Sunday is the
strongest, how comes it to be the only
one that can be broken?
A gentleman was one day arranging
music tor lady to whom he was pay
ing his attention.
"Miss NJ" what. time DO you pre-
fer ?"
"Oh," she replied, carelessly, ANY
time will debut the quicker the bet
ter"
aTh. nnnmov pitch ;s ot4arod 70
.o oon,,IoS H. 80 T,a,,oa ioua
naIPk SoaP,.s S sn.9 20, Lnshend wv
san luna s,,a " a. a iSLn nJson NIL,
aI aa"ld NJ ~ hanar nnnnata for \
W" ~ nv 80 o .;shod r,,n,aoi,.os
nou ~; Id n0''' "0 'e'
e AnJ ron could not GOV, bot Cherries 81,
"a nI ~ ~" o bar ,nr~ s T,,'a Cos nranor
;.'n CO. s,,,;ro ~ -
4 Go ~, Ibovo of,on w;sbod
it."
ooh, Charles %
eyes. Because then I could have
marr;ad Won aoa;n -
T1Ho ..os, sco,,IJ mn, ;,,o,.eo, n coz1.
, - oI,:s1 RI p..aL
"eo'ee" P"o''c' Lo''uo'i l "'i'n'
Tho 1ows of China orc seyare AGAINST
a., o.nort,t;.n - aao,;os snoS ond
.uo eAP n o".'on " $3.50 >
tnere Is ouI sihSie As,a.i1 Po,' az
which vessels can openly load win hu-
man cattle tor foreign markets. That
Po,' - TLnao,;". oL..;ns5 ~ Cb.no
Sa.' To- :, 49,
na anu O"l'o, "'uo.y oepa. aIo Po.Aso
nall OF each sfiphene, DIS nearly as pos
slble, being taken from each port, Ior
Caol;os ..onnot be ;nducad os tbav coujd
oocne' o.'1 - '.a1,,.,,".,;I.. ~
IN FORMER years, " 'oluIo"ny en.a.N
Tor foreign countries uuder coii1race ZOE
labor for term. OF years, but must be