The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-07-13

@AOW AuhHJ JOuuS In61 are 6Aff1eQ
away by fa fine musical, charming
voice-a pretty, light foot, reeling
ballroom dancersa lazy, Ionnging,
street. t.yarning hirt-an oily-tongued,
hollow-hearted, deceptive piano forte
FOUNDER, and regret their folly when,
alas, too late.
s'PHILoPGNA." An exchange SAYS
this word signifies, in its common
use, friendships forfeit" It is q
Greek and Latin compound, and,
literally interpreted, signifies, "I love
the penalty"
An afflicted editor, who is troubled
with hand-organs under his window,
longs for the ''evI days" mentioned
in Ecclesiastes, when "the grinders
shall cease because they are few"
and "the sound of the grinding"
shall be ''low."
A very sensible woman, who is
going to Europe, desires that when
her husbands name and her own are
published in the list of passengers,
it shall be "Mr. - and wife, not
lady, for he goes abroad with his own
lawful wife, and nobody else."
care these pure canaries?" asked n
gentleman of bird dealer, with
whom he was negotiating for "gift
for his fair
Eyes, sir" said the bird-dealer,
confidentially, "I raised these're
birds from canary seed"
At Darien, Conn, last week, Moses
Mather and his wife Sally received
eighty-one of their descendants,
whose united ages were Q, ,42S years.
The couple are eighty-five years old,
and have been married sixty-six
years.
Here is n letter that was sent to an
undertaken by an afflicted widower:
"Sur-My waif is ded, and Wants
to be berried to-morro. At Wunnor
kock. U nose wair to dig the hole
-bi the side of mi Uther waifs-let it
be deep"
Albert Pike has performed one
great achievement. In a recent edi-
torial, he produced n single sentence
of 21O words, without any other stop
that few commas. 1t is said that
Henry A. Wise tainted away on read
ing the sentence.
An exchange says the young ladies
in Mississippi do not seem to be very
particular rs to whom they marry.
If the right man does not come ND to
time on the evening appointed for
the ceremony, another one will do as
we'll.
A general beer-drinking trial has
come off in Germany. One man
drank twelve gallons in half an hour;
the other fifteen-and both bursted
about the same time.
DEATH.-"Death, it is true" saws
Victor Hugo, "has its place at the
Exposition, but tbs in the form of
cannon, not in that Of q guillotine. -
He adds: GA very fine scaffold was
offered, but refused"
a gentleman, of Cork, ordered his
man to call him up at o'clock; but
he awoke him at 4. Being asked
the reason, he replied, "I came to
tell him he had two hours longer to
sleep.
In new book, "ChrIstianity and
its Conflicts" Mr.. Marcy estimates
that one-third of the people of the
United States deny the divinity of
Christ, and 100000 Protestants in
Europe also have n similar want of
belief.
81 believe that mine will be the
fate OF Abel, " said wife to her hus-
band one day. "Why so?" inquired
the husband. "Because Abel was
killed by club, and your club will
kill me, if you continue to 60 to it
every night"
One who had espoused an old and
ill-tempered wife, but extremely rich,
used to say, "Whenevar I find my
temper giving way, I retire to my
study and console myself by reading
her marriage settlement"
The Court Journal says of CARLYLE
For knotting the language and
making the sound unpleasant, there
IS no man his equal. Is it real? is it
the embodiment of his knotted
thoughts, or is it affectation?"
A priest asked tipsy fellow lean
ing against the fence, where he ex-
pected to go when he died. eff i
can't get along any better then than
now, said he, 81 can't go nowhere. ~
A Western editor says he will labor
to put down the cause of intemper-
ance AS the cause of intemperance