The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-07-27

| gEoeS or hlemphiss on the Fourth et
PIC. nicg They became highly in
oensed and the most of then, left,
declaring they didn't 90 there to
hear such did rebel stuff. ,,&
Among the toilet srticles which the,
Sultan has brought with him into Che
countries of the infidels is an inn.
mense tank Of Nile water. His high
ness is forbidden to bathe in any less
sacred water.
Luck lies in bed, and wishes the
postman would bring him news of a
legacy. Labor turns out ut O'Clock,
ana with busy pen or ringing ham
mer, lays the foundation of compe.
tency. l '-I
All London is at the feet of Mile
Christine Nilsson, young Swedish
singer, who has of sudden made
almost as great a sensation as did the
Swedish nightingale, Jenny Lind, a
score of years ago.
AT Saratoga, the gambling hells
have, as signs, a picture of n kew.
with the word "no" under it-keno
AS a general thing, the dupes of pro
fessional blacklegs need no guide to
pilot the way to their ruin.
Tie annual loss by the wear of coin
is estimated at one-tenth of one ner
cent, and the consumption by the
arts and loss by fire and shipwrecll at
$3, 600, 900 n year
Singular ideas of amusement pre-
vail In indianapolis. The opera house
IS occupied every evening this week
with :, debate on the doctrine of eter.
nal punishment.
Out of nine of the editors of
Vlcksburg paper, five were shot or
stabbed, one was severely wounded,
one died of yellow fever, and one had
a prison experience.
Jinks says that cucumbers can be
made into pickles, while growing. if
you get II cross old mail to look over
the fence at the vines three times a
week.
One of Brownlow's militia, on
being arrested for murder in broad
daylight, boosted that he had killed
eighteen men. He was allowed to
escape that night.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe says she is
woman, "whose soul has been ener
eized by study, elevated by refec
ton, chastened by sorrow, and sane
titled by fault"
bridesmaids wear bonnets now in
stead of wells, but have long tulle
wells, divided and worn like scarf
on the sides of the bonnet, nearly
enveloping the figure.
A cockney, seeing an urchin lying
across side of leather, remarked
that the boy could not see straight.
because he was cross hide.
O'Leary, gazing in astonishment
on m elephant in menagerie, asked
the keeper, "What kind of baste is
that atm hay with his tail?"
Perfect valor consists in doing.
without witnesses, NIL we should be
capable of doing before the whole
| world.
An Ohio paper says there is man
In Cleveland so mean that he sits on
the door-steps, Sundays, to save the
wear of his pew cushions.
A country boy, who had read of
sailors heaving up anchors, wanted
to know if it was sea-sickness that
made them do it.
The body is the shell of the soul,
and dress is the husk of that soul:
but the husk often tells what the
kernel is.
If man waits patiently while a
woman is putting her things on" or
shopping" he will make q good
| husband.
A gentleman in one of the interior
towns is so much opposed to capital
punishment that he refuses to hang
his gate.
Advertising for wife, says q CO.
temporary, is just rs absurd as it
would be to get measured for an UNI
brella.
The new India rubber neck and
bust" is probably made of that mate
rial because oil finger-marks can be
erased.
A Mrs. Warner was the 4th of July
orator at Richmond, Wis, and she
made the national bird scream melo-
diously.
A man in New York has got so
deep in debt that not one of his Gre
ditors has been able to see him for
months.
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