The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-12
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
NEW YEARS.

NEW YEARS.
Go, warm the cold; 60, clothe the bare;
Go, feed the starved ones at thy door,
And let the empty y-handed share
From out thy basket and thy store
Go, wipe from misery's eye the tear;
Take by the hand atfliction's son,
And happy shall be all the year
That is thus happily begun.
Go, give the sick and weary rest,
GLADDEN. the cells where prisoners lie;
Pour balm and oil in wounded breasts,
And soothe the soul about to die.
Do thus, and thou shall go to rest
With music round thy midnight bed,
And, blessing, shall be trebly blessed,
For each such soul thus comfOrted.
Thy sun shall make golden set
This Newly Years Day. and be by far
The happiest day that ever yet
Was lettered in thy calendar!
SNA1Ls AS FooD-The daily consump-
ton of foysters. in Paris, amounts to upward
of three quarters ola million, which reach
the capital in something like six Thousand
baskets, each of which contains a gross,) and
furnishes altogether, on an average, half an
oyster per head of the population. The
number of snails-now so favorite an edible
with the Partisan g0UrmaRds, as to have
thrown the frog, the national delicacy, pm
excellence, completely in the shade-brought
daily to the Paris market. is not so easily as
certaiued: all one knows is, that from Bur
gundy and Champagne, the great snail-pro-
Gucing districts. upward of one-hundred
thousand are despatched to Paris every
day.
BUcKwHEAT CAKEs.-Halrs Journal of
Health says buckwheat cakes, properly ha-
ked are very healthy and nutritious. They
should be put on the soapstone griddle. over
a good fire, and turned once only, and the
sooner they are eaten after baking the bet
ter and healthier they are When turned
over more than once, like wheat cakes, they
are spoiled, and instead of being the most
nutritious of food, become the most indiges-
tible Some housewives, not knowing this
fact-whch is really chemical one-spoil
this favorite food. Soapstone gridlles re-
quire no grease, and never burn the cakes.
THE HUMAN BITE PoIsoNoUs-A singu-
lar occurrence has just happened in Arth, in
France. A lieutenant Felehin was some
time back bitten in the thumb by man
named Muller, but he thought nothing ofthe
wound, and went next day journey on his
private affairs. On reaching Balse he found
his hand and arm begin to swell, and med
ical man declared that the case was one of the
poisoning from human bite. He at once re-
turned home in haste, but he refused to have
the arm amputated. The consequence was
that the inflammation increased frightfully,
and he died some days latter in horrible
suffering.
Horse FLESH" The taste for horse-fesh," :"
says LG France, sis decidedly on the in
crease in Paris. There are at present in the
capital seven butcheries for the sale of that
commodity, and which dispose of about for
ty thousand pounds weight per week. The
annual consumption may therefore be estima-
ted at one thousand tons, or more than ten
times the quantity of meat distributed to the
poor in the twenty burcaux de bienfaisance
So far horse-fesh has been exempt from the
octroi duty and sells at from five sous to one
franc the kilo of two pounds
HERoIsM-The Paris Journal des Dcbates
gives the following account of the convent
IN Creto. 1t says:
We have received from Athens narrative
OF the heroic explosion of Arcadauim.-
When the Greeks saw that they must die,
they determined to sell their lives as dearly
as possible. They fell on their knees before
aging them during the fight which lasted
two days and two nights. They demanded
the Supreme benedietion from him which
he gave them, promising that they would all
meet together in the Kingdom of God with
the ancient martyrs of the Church, and eve
rybody-solders, women and children
having solemnly said Amen the powder
was fired and the convent blown up. with its
defenders and ASSISTANTS.
A little boy, son Of minister, was using
his slate and pencil on Sunday, when his
father entered, and said: :" My son, 1 prefer
that you should not use your slate on the
Lords day" " lam drawing meeting houses
papa," was the prompt reply.
A teacher said to little girl at school:
"f naughty girl should hurt you, you
would, like good little girl, forgive her,
wouldn't you?" Yes, marm," she replied,
" If L cOuldnt catch her!''
The tongue is the instrument on which hu-
man thoughts are played.