The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-09-27
COLUMBIA. s. g.. SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 81 1868

West Point, since it's first estab.
lishment, on March 16, 1902, had
admitted 4, 1893 cadets, of which 2,218
were graduated. The total appro-
priations for the academy, for the
period of sixty-six years, have
amounted to So, ,552, 339. This in
cludes the cost of the grounds, i'm
provements and educational appara-
tus, as well as the pay of the profess
sors and the subsistence of the cadets.
A new and good story is told of
Mr.. Spurgeon. A certain dissenting
minister refused to interfere in poll
tics, with the remark, eve are not of
this world" "Pshaw," said Mr..
Spurgeon,' vigorously, call that is
metaphor. You might as we'll, being
sheep of the Lord, decline q mutton
chop on the plea of cannibalism.
An old clergyman of seventy, and
his daughter of ty-eight, both
highly educated and accomplished,
have been discovered living as her
mits about thirty miles from Chicago.
They have lived thus in most out
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corn bread, for twelve years.
While ball was going on at
Bethel, Conn, the other evening,
some unlimited fellows thrust through
the door a two hundred pound hog,
which at once mingled with the
dancers and created q marked sensa-
ton.
The wickedest man in Cape May
eats "deviled' crabs, drinks "sul-
phur' water, and defies Jersey
"lightning"
How to bother q carpet-bagger-
Ask him for the name of the Sheriff
or jailor of the County he migrated
from.
A man in Dover, New Hampshire,
who boasted that if his house were
entered by burglars, there would be
@ funeral of one less blackleg, was
recently robbed Of q gold watch
hanging over his head, and his
empty purse was placed upon his
revolver lying in q chair close beside
his bed.
An English girl, who has climbed
the Alps, and strangled wolf with
her own hands, finds these sports be-
gin to pail, and is now going to Cen
tral Africa to shoot panthers.
Henry Ward Beecher says if the
Lord wanted to make mill-slones, he
would make them from the Anglo
Saxon races; they have so much grit
in them.
The grasshoppers recently ate up
O half acre of tobacco for man near
Des Moines, and, when the owner
went out to look at it, they sat on
the fence, and squirted tobacco juice.
Heaven has killed its hundreds
this summer, but the lightning of
the stills Stays itsethousands and tens
of thousands, summer and winter.
Bishop James asserts that the Me-
thodists of the United States paid
last year 100000 tax on the to-
bacco used by them, while their
missionary treasury is $4,000 in
debt.
The dog that wakes up from sound
slumber and looks about him for q
OOoICi pooibioI3 tuIuo IOuuu dUu TOuuQ
q dozen times or more, and finally
lies down in the same place, is q per-
feet type of thousands of persons
whom we meet in the daily walks of
life.
They estimate at 100000 of
pieces the annual fabrication of
calico in Europe; it has value of
$50. 900. 900. and employs $500, OGG
individuals.
Two men have been held for trial
in New York for "defacing natural
scenery" by posting advertising
placards on the curb-stones.
The European farms, which have
been cultivated for 1000 years, have
had their fertility renewed by lying
idle every few years on account of
war;
The founding hospital for illegiti-
mate children, at Rome, has ut pre-
sent 1000 babies and 1000 nurses.
Very queer but quite true, that
while nature is excessively and suffer
ingly dry, humanity is equally moist.