The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-25

ie'oiVe ny vulgar whlp-cOrd and
handle, and when it reaches its max
1mum of rotation. six small tops come
out OF it and begin to spin round
1T; Mt the will of the spinner they
return to the bosom Of their mother.
The inventor calls this the prolific
top; happier name would be the
opossom top.
lndigent freedmen in Richmond
are falling off in number. and indi.
gent whites are increasing. In March,
l2,5O3 OF the former were assisted by
the treedmen's Bureau, against So
O00 the previous month. The whites
assisted were 1904, which was quite
an increase over the number in Feb
ruary.
An autograph of Oliver Cromwell,
bearing his signature, "Oliver P.
was recently sold in London, for n
good price. 1t wins attached to a
treasury warrant, dated December
20, 1906, for the payment of e50O
ior the benefit OF the person named
there, for his continued attention to
the service of the Commonwealth.
AN EASY WAY TO MAKE A For
TUNE.-The New York Commercial
4Adcefiser, Of the 10th, says cable
dispatches announcing that Bismarck
had made peremptory demand on
Napoleon. relative to the armine i
France, enabled firm i'm that citv
who first got the intelligence to make
nearly 81, 100000.
DEATH OF AN ENGLISH EARL. 1.-The
death of the Earl of Brownlow is
announced i'll England. The de-
ceased was worth 913O,OOO n year.
and used to ask thirty or forty poor
people who were invalids like him
self to spend the winter mt Madeira
he paying all the bills No kin to
the present Governor of Tennessee.
A temperance lecturer, having an
eye to business, short time since,
finished his discourse thus: "And,
finally, my hearers, why should any
OF You drink ardent spirits? MY
son, Tom, has got as good cider as
any in the country, at sixpence
quart"
1t is an old maxim, that falsehood
strides to remote bounds while truth
Is getting on its boots. From the
fact that the fanatioal and persecutinr
sort, who dominate in the land, usu-
ally read only one or two of the most
ultra and pnscrupulous newspapers,
representing their general views.
Gen. Griffin and Gov. Throckmor-
ton, OF TeXas, are to cooperate to-
gether Ill the registration of voters.
Inc former says he is anxious not to
go out of the State for registers, and
is deslrous of obtaining names OF all
persons, irrespective of color, that
are qualified to act in this capacity.
Mary Lynch, servant employed
by Nathan Lazarus, of Hartford
Ct., whose four children were poison
ed with corrosive sublimate last
week, has been arrested on suspicion
of the crime. None Of tile children
have yet died, but there are very
slight hopes of their recovery.
They arc telling IL queer "fsh
story, up in Wisconsin. The papers
say that, recently, the mills on the
Neena and Mcnaskn were obliged to
stop work because the water wheels
and fumes were so clogged with fish!
or, MS one paper expresses it, there
was more fish than water!"
The duration of human life is said
to be longer in the United States
than any other nation. This, and
the tattering prospect of q life of
prosperity in America, accounts for
the swelling tide of emigration al
ways setting towards our shores.
AT celebration of marriage, in q
Western city, large number of
young ladies were present. The mi
mister said: "Those wishing to be
Joined in the holy bonds of matrimo
ny will please stand up" and nearly
| all arose.
That wicked Home Journal saws
false lips, made of pink India rubber.
which are attached to thin lips in q
manner which defes detection, and
which give pretty, pouting appear
ance to the mouth, are much worn bv
New York ladies.
Sheep, in Germany, before being
sheared, are rubbed in vats of very
warm water, with potash. After
cooling, water is sprinkled over them
until the wool is white, and they are
then Kept in clean and warm shell
ter until dry enough for shearing.
A stray contraband from down
South was lately inspecting horse
power in operation, when he broke
out thus; Mister. [ have seen heaps