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

which will spring up In the best
regulated families, .swheaa a man and
his wife have quarreled, and each
considers the other of fault, which OF
the two ought to advance towards
q reconciliation?" ''Tiie best natured
and the wisest Of the two" said the
wife, putting up her mouth for q
kiss, which was given with an
JUNCTION. She was the conqueror.
When the State constables called
at o saloon at Westfeld, Mass, the
other day. the proprietor slipped the
chain from large black bear which
he keeps. and retired to an ante
to await results. The officers opened
the door, and the bear courteously
advanced to give them friendly
embrace. The door was quickly shut
again, and no sign of constable has
been seen around the place since.
Mrs. So-and-so lost her husband,
a. very good man, to whom she was
much attached. A few days after
the funeral, the sexton brought in
his bill. "For digging grave. two
dollars. " 'My gracious, said the wo-
man, ''you don't charge two dollars
for digging a grave in such soft
spot as that? Iwould willingly have
dug it myself for one dollar"
A printer and painter loved the
same girl in Chicago. The parents
liked the printer, and the girl loved
the painter. The printer married
the maiden, but after two days of
welded bliss, the printers exchequer
was found to be very low; divorce
was applied for, and the third day
it was granted. The painter is hope
full.
A steam carriage gun, fired recent
ly at New York before q board of
army and navy engineers and ord
nance officers, fired twelve rounds
with solid 450 pound shot, and forty
pound charges of powder, within six
teen minutes, q result which had
never before been attained with
cannon of that description.
A patent has recently been issued
to Lorenzo Sibert, of Augusta Coun-
ty, Va, for making steel railroad bars
and other steel direct from blast
furnace, at comparatively little ex-
pense. If such process is success
full, it is one of the most important
discoveries of the age.
The following atrocious conundrum
is out, and the inventor has the te-
merity to ask for patent: Suppose
the Queen resolves to pare off her
thumb nail only once in seven years,
why is that like the said Queens
robes of Office? Because it's her
oare-of- of-her-nail-.yeu' (paraphernalia.
DAM-LoNG-AwAY-o oFF-sKI. .-Sitha.- -
1t is ascertained from Gen. Rousseau,
who is the Commander of the De-
partment of Oregon and Washington,
that our recently acquired Russian
American territory is to be attached
to his military Jurisdiction.
The Gear of Russia has shown
spirit of great generosity. He has
asked the Emperor Napoleon to spare
the life of Berezoski, the would-be
assassin, who attempted to take his
life.
A gentleman advertised for board
ing the other day in n Brooklyn pa
per-two or three lines only, inserted
once. The next day, as he explained
in amusing distress, he got ninety
eight answers from Brooklyn.
An IRISH Absentee One of these
gentlemen is said to have sent this
comforting message to his steward:
"Tell the tenants that no threats to
shoot you will terrify me-"
The INDIAN. the Indian race
which once thickly peopled this con-
tinent, only $4,000 men women,
and children remain in the United
States.
Juarez, the President of Mexico,
lived in New Orleans q few years
ago, and carried on the business of
manufacturing cigars. He was at
that time n political refugee.
The Russian Empress gave $780,
600 to the wife of the equerry whose
horse received the assassin Berez-
nowski's bullet.
There are signs of prosperity in
the South, for we begin to have our
railway disasters.
Petroleum shares are defined by
Pope-not the General-as parts in
one stupendous hole.
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