The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1869-08-25
at a distance as will wolf who is forced to

at distance as will a wolf who is forced to
retreat against his will.
Our time being limited, we visited but one
of the wards in which are confined the fe-
male patients. These are more contented
than are the men. Many of them are at
work sewing, and one or two were turning
spinning wheels, while others are carding
out cotton. A laxative old lady asks US if
we,are any relation to the IS No. To the
-'s. No. And so on through the list
of pames of those she knew in
the outer world. She is suddenly seized
with an intense desire to know if We are
personally acquainted with Columbus. We
inform her that c. Columbus left the world
few days before we appeared. But she
does not mean that Columbus. She means
the elephant so-called We are not intimate
with the elephant. So she proceeds to give
us his family history, and in the middle of an
entertaining account of his breaking his left
fore-shoulder, and thereby being obliged to
use crutches, she is possessed with sudden
desire to know if we are acquainted with a
handsome lion. We are obliged to confess
that we are not, although we arc slightly
acquainted with the "tiger." She is in the
middle of thrilling account of the adven-
lures of the lion, when she suddenly stops
and asks ii we know Lawyer d. We reply
in the affirmative. She then says: swell,
he wanted to get a wife so bad that he
Didn't know what to do, and so he followed
girl home to the female seminary, and laid
down all night with his nose on the door
step, so that he could smell her." Astonish-
ed at this account of the youthful actions OF
Lawyer B., we are about to request her to
name place and time, when she continued
thusly: she was as pretty as picture and
as smooth as apeach. He was about twenty
two years old, with tail about three feet
long with beautiful bushy end" We
know that Lawyer BIS figure does not answer
to this description, and at once perceive
that she has required to her lion story, and
has got the two subjects little mixed.
We then take our departure, aproceedine
attended with no little difficulty, as our fail
| friend had commenced story about foolish
| young rhinoceros which got married to {
peacock We get outside all right, how
ever, and the last thing we hear is thu
old lady talking after us.
And now word about the condition o
the Asylum. We have seen many institu
lions of this kind in various parts of tn
Union, and are glad to be able to say tina
for cleanliness, good order, economy, ant
good care of the patients, this Asylum i
surpassed by none that we have ever seen
DR.. GR1ssoM well and ably performs his dut.
and deserves the thanks of the friends of tn
patients under his charge.
There is one thing which should be don
at the next session of the General Assembl
that is, authorize the building of tw
wings to the Asylum. The building is nov
full to its utmost capacity, yet there ar
scores of insane persons who should be re
ceiving the benefits of the Asylum. Owe
hundred applications are now on file, ye
there is not room for another patient. TIL
Legislature should at once remedy this evi
by building two wings to the building; on
for theuse of males and the other for female.
Each of these wings should be at least tw
hundred feet long by thirty feet wide, an
three stories high. This would accommodate
at least one hundred and fifty more patients
and would be much better and cheapt
than to build new Asylum, which wi
have to be done, if wings arc not added t
the present structure.