The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-04


ses thus in the last number Of the Led
ger:
] Tell you ! hate to live in house any
body else has lived in not on accom-
Of the creeping things they may have
bequeatfed me, but get nervous COINS
through the different rooms, and imagin
ing the tales they uighh tell, if wall:
could speak. ] want to sleep in room
that nobody has died in, or been horn
in-which Is great deal worse. don't
want 10 breakfast in room where a
drunken husband has thrown q CHINA
cup at his wife's head, although his In
SEPARATION for chivaIrons act may have
been the best champagne. don't want
dinine.room where men have rejoiccd
over the exclusion Of the women Of the
family, in order that they might beast
ialise Themselves on the topics that wo-
men would blush TO hear. Idon't want
scarlet fever to have been rampant in
one chamber, and measles, and mumpa,
and smallpox, and dclirium tremena,
zap stairs and down. don't want my
food cooked in q kitchen that has fur
nished silver spoons ard little babies
tor the ash barrel. ] don't want my
refrigerator in a cellar where Biddy
has tapped wine and ale, and admins
tered other delicacies to her broth Of
boy"
hope you see from this what bless
ing it is to have lively imagination,
and how must enjoy stopping at
hotel. Heavens! how long | have
fingered beside a hotel bed before ]
could jump into it! Think Of the men,
women, and children who have slept
there before me. The dusty boards
that have been reflected it that looking
glass, and been washed in that bowl
The trouzers and dresses that have been
hung in that wardrobe! Oh, those
Mormon pegs how can ! ever join the
community? Perish the thoughts
My clothes shall be laid over the backs
Of the chairs not for their superiority
in any respect. or that Of their wcarers
but, Lord bless you, it is one Of my kinks.
Haven't / right to it: know man
who believes the road to n poor house
is through carriage. He will give
his wife and daughters money for every
thing but that. He will let them each
get new suits Of clothes drenclIed
through and quite spoiled rather than
spend quarter of what one of them
cost by hiring a carriage to take them
home in rain shower. That's lis
kink. Bnt that, again, is chapter by
itself. What / suffer at the promiscu-
BUSINESS of hotel feeding! That napkin,
clean, snow white, / grant; but Lord!
the mouths it has wiped. Laugh away
"a lunatic asylum has no terrors for
me. They expect people to screech
there when they can't hold in any
longer; and that's privilege sane peo-
pie don't enjoy. l rather like lunatic
asylum. They never let your " friends
in there. They bury you at night, and
put no tombstone over you with Jane,
beloved wife Of John, and all that,
after tucking You up comfortably.
found that out last summer, in my
travels, when investigating the subject.
A NOVEL METHOD OF DECIDING LAW
sUIT.-A few days since case was tried IN
one of our Justices courts in which wo-
man sued flour dealer to recover fourteen
dollars, the price of barrel of flour, which
she alleged was Of so poor quality as to be
understandable. Upon the trial of the case
she swore that the flour was mouldy. that
while it was being baked the odor arising
from it was insufferable, and that after the
bread was baked and partaken OF by herself,
her husband. and Others even in small guam
titles, it made them all sick. The deal
er introduced upon the stand -four inspec-
tor, who testified that the flour was a good
article of superior" brand, and he himself
testified that it was the same as he had been
accustomed to sell to his customers.
After hearing the testimony on both sides,
the Justice, in order to deal justly with the
aggrieved party, requested the woman to
take quantity of the flour to his residence,
in order that his wife might make trial of
its quality by making it into bread, and re-
serving his decision until such trial was
made. The flour was taken to his house,
and, without telling his wife of the circum-
stances of the case, he requested her to bake
two loaves of bread from it, and allow him
to see them at noon. Upon his return home
the bread had just been taken from the oven,
and the odor which arose from il had filed
the whole house, and was extremely nauseous
and sickening. This convinced him that
the story of the woman, which seemed i'm
probable, was true, and he rendered judg-
ment for the amount claimed in her favor
Detroit Tribune.
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