The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-12-29

u,Sn .-SuS shou rour SHADOWS Delore US;
wen turn frem thy darkness, and borrow
New light from the dawn that breaks DER
For why should we always be signing.
:When time is 30 feet on the wane,
II grfef can't prevent it from flying,
Nor bring back past blessings again?
An! then let us emile in the morning
VI youths glad and heart-gushing flow,
ana veli In far Heavens blue awning
ihe shadows that shroud us beloTl
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A hcrse-dealer in the Athenian city
OF Oxford made an addition to his
stud OF two fine horses, to which he
assigned the classical cognomina of
Xerxes and Artaxerxes. A gentle
man colnmoner having demanded of
him h:s ''c1assii. ''c11aasssii..o REASON; for so
doing, he replied: "Why, you see, :
when / drives tandem, L makes
Xerxes MY leader, and puts the other
in the shafts, and SO I calls him
Arta-Xerxes." -
An anecdote Of the, Duke Of Cam.
bridge is 'going the. rounds. The
princely carpet warrior is Command,
er.in- Chief OF the British army, and,
in his military capacity Is somewhat
prone to blasphemy. A waggish co.
lionel, who had been the object OF
several emphatic eKpletives, was
asked If the Duke had arrived to
take command of force to be re-
viewed. "Yes,"' says the wag, she
swore himself in half an hour ago"
To FIX PENCIL WRITING. Pencil
writing may be fixed almost indeibly
as ink, by passing the moistened
tongue over it. Even breathing
slowly over the lines, after writing,
renders them, much less liable to
erasure, than when not subject to
that process. A trial of the expert
ment will readily satisfy any person
of the utility of the idea. 49,.
Boston Journal Of Chemistry.
Hdany lessons may be learnt by
"civilized" nations from the savage.
We speak within the bills of mortali-
ty when We assert that pocket.picking
is an offence absolutely unknown
among the aborigines Of Australia.
This speaks. volumes, not only for
their honesty, but for their simplicity
of costume.
Voltaire once praised another
writer very heartily. cit is very
strange" said the. person whom he
was addressing, that you speak so
well of him, for he says that you are
charlatan. "Oh," replied Vol
taire, "I think it is very likely that
both of us may be. mistaken"
"Don't put too much confidence in
a lovers VOWS and sigh," said Mrs.
Partington to her niece. "Let him
tell you that you have lips like straw
berries and cream, cheeks like tar
nation, and an eye like an asterisk;
but such things oftener come from q
tender head than tender heart"
A Scotch old maid, who was asked
to subscribe to raise men for the king,
during the Peninsular war, answered:
Indeed, I'll do no such thing;
never could raise a man for myself,
and am not going to raise men for
King George"
Brigham Young advises the Bish-
ops and Mormon people of Salt Lake
to lay up from two to seven years
supplies of wheat and -four, as he ex-
poets a great famine.
About mile West of Fremont
there is IN underground stream 70
feet deep, with a rapid current. 1t
has no visible outlet South of Lake
Erie. 49,.
The philosopher Bion said plea
sanity of the king who, by handfulls
pulled his hair off his head for sorrow,
docs the man think that badness
is remedy for grief?"
A famous lawyer, the leader of the
Western circuit of his day, used to
say that the further he went West,
the better he understood why it was
the wise men came from the East.
The Wilmington Slo' complains
that it has blown out its stock of ad-
jectives and wants a new hand at the
bellows to talk about festivals and
fairs.
Madame Demorest's 800 employees
were to give paper masquerade on
Christmas Eve. Antique costumes
were to be illustrated.
Cattle are among the chief exports
of Texas, yet the State imports ex-
tensively butter, cheese, and even
milk.
Why are the Marys the most amia-
ble of their sex? Because thev can