The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-08-14
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mOnaue ana SyrupS Wnlcn our good
old grand found sufficient
for their refreshment." Humbug!
There was as much drinking at even
ing parties sixty years since rs now
n little more so. In those days every
gentleman had liquor on his side
board, of which each visitor was in
vited to partake; and gentle danes
laced their night-caps with Jamaica
rum or French brandy.
The latest pin which disrespectful
Britons have attempted to stick into
the bladder of royalty, is q comic
cartoon ridiculing and rebuking the
Prince of Wales. 1t represents the
Prince rs Hamlet, struggling violent
ly with paternal-looking John Bull
as Horntic, who vainly tries to re-
strain him from rushing after the
ghost of that rake and roue, George
~. The Prince gazes earnestly after
the ghost and cries, "I'll follow thee"
DO let me have your photograph,
said dashing belle to gentleman
who had been annoying her gith his
attentions. The gentleman was de-
lighted, and in a short time the lady
received the picture. She gave it to
the servant, with the question,
would you know the original if he
should call?" The servant replied in
the affirmative. "Well, whenever he
comes, tell him am engaged"
"Why, Mr.. B. said Il tall
youth to a little person, who was in
company with half Il dozen huge
men, 81 protest, you are so very
small, l did not see you before
Very likely" replied the shorter
gentleman; 81 am like sixpence
among six copper pennies-not easi-
" perceived, but worth the whole Of
them"
CONCESSION Is AGITATION. Sam
Slick says: Concession never stopped
agitation since the world was first
squeezed out Of q cnrd--it only feeds
it. THROWN slops to q varmint only
brings him back again; and when
you have nothing more to throw 'em,
they are plaguy apt to turn and tarc
you to pieces.
He who weds belle must lookout
for the clapper-this never is seen
until after the ring. Be sure to as
certain whether the young lady is
Sound" on such things as pic
making, else your house will be all
pi at time when it will be impossi-
bic to "set 'em up again"
BOLD MAN.-Miss Buchanan. once
rallying her cousin, an officer, on his
courage, said, "Now, Mr.. Harris, do
you really mean to tell me you can
walk up to q cannon's mouth without
fear?" eyes," was the prompt re-
ply, cor Buchanan's either" And
he did.
"Well, wasn't that finished ser
mon we had this morning?" asked
one person of another as they came
out of church. "Finished!" was
the reply; 'yes, it was finished
at last, although I began to think
1t never would be-"
SoLAcE FOR THE CHILDLEss. -
Prentice very truly says ''if this
country gets to he much worse to
live in than it now is, all births will
probably, at no distant day, be pub
lished under the head of Disasters "
Here is IN amended quotation, by
married man, who has been waiting
Tor his wife "to put her things on:'
Hope springs eternal in tho husbands
breast,
Wives never are, but always to be drcssd.
The way they weigh hogs in
Kansas is as follows: They first tie
the hog to one end of rail, balance
the rail on fence with rocks tied
to the other end, and then guess how
much the rocks weigh.
The world estimates men by their
success in life, and, by general con-
sent, success is an evidence of supe-
riority.
a rascally old bachelor says the
most difficult surgical operation in