The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-03

A very commodious sanitarium for
poor Parsees has just been inaugural
ed at Bombay. The cost and endow-
ment, amounting to six lacs ofrupees,
146O, 600, have been betrayed by
Merwanjee Framjee Panday, Esq, a
wealthy member of the Parsee com
munity.
OUTRAGEOUS CoNUNDRuM.-Wh is
. man on his way to q certain town
ia Mexico, lately made famous, like
AN audacious yonth preparing to
throw sack over the head of his pa
ternal parent? Because he is going
to Bdg-dad. Orleans Crescent.
M. Gnizot is said to have sketched
the proper policy of France to friend
in the Ministry in these words: .sStop
at Rome, get away from Mexico as
quickly as you can, and don't go near
Belgium"
There are $40 houses to be taken
down in the old part of Paris before
the 18th of April, which will canse
10000 families, comprising 10000
souls, to be displaced, and compel
them to seek other lodgings
The proprietors of the London
Tine .onnd their profits so large Mt
the end of 1865, that they made every
man in the Office present of two
weeks additional salary.
We understand (says the Marion
Crescent that the railroad bridge over
the Great Pee Dee is nearly COM
pleted, and that trains will probably
pass over it the last of this week.
The papers announce the death of
the King. of Mosquito, Central Ame-
rica. We hope that all his followers,
the mosquitoes, may soon follow him,
and never come back.
Death having made several vacan-
cies of late in the Sacred College, the
Pope has, at the present moment, no
fewer thaa fifteen scarlet hats to dis
pose of.
A Paris architect is said to have in
vented a brick which hardens with
time, completely resists humidity,
and is said to realize an economy of
forty per cent in building.
A magnificent Hungarian mantle,
trimmed and lined with ermine, is
being made at Pesth, for the entry of
the Empress of Austria in Hungary
1t is to cost 10000 francs.
It is announced that the rewards
for the capture of Booth, Harold and
Atzerodt will be pGid out next
Wednesday, the final examinations
having closed, and the awards made.
Il has been decided that woman
who is regularly ordained and settled
as q minister in Massachusetts, can
legally unite acouple in marriage
Governor Cummings, of Colorado,
has sent message to the Legislature
in favor of negro suffrage in that Ter
ritory.
An exchange says: II would be
perfectly willing to share the fortunes
of war with the noble army of con-
tractors
Douglass Jerrold calls women's
arms ''the serpents thut wind about
a mans neck, killing his best resolu-
tions."
The internal revenue from pianos is
enormous. Steinway alone, during
the month of November, paid in
$6,611.62 taxes.
The key to a mothers heart is a
baby. Keep that we'll oiled with
praise, and you can unlock every
pantry in the house.
An elephant and bull fight recently
took place in Ubida, in Spain. The
elephant stamped one bull to death
and crushed another with his trunk.
Fanny Fern says that the men like
to "pick the ladies to pieces. We
have certainly found it very pleasant
sometimes to take one of them apart.
Many English merchants and bank
ers are said to have agents engaged in
the South selecting cotton lands.
An Irish attorney says, no printer
should publish death unless apprised
of the fact by the party deceased.
Herod's wife is said to have been
like Fenian organization, because
she had head sent her, (head centre.
Never let man go cunning at
your expense, unless you want to be
made game of.
Gin-slings have "slewed" more
than the sings of old.
Hibernian hernia-the Fenian rup-
ture.
Champagne is the cause OF many
real pains.
SHIP NEWS.