The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-03-12

; An artist, showing his picture to a
customer, received the following sharp
retort:f 4Well, I don't think much
of thisl" said The customer, holding
up the picture before MIN. Don't
think much of it? WHY, that is,a
very rare print-very rare print, in-
deed, sirl"' Rare! I've no doubtit
Is rare-it certainly is NOT tbeQ done. "
The editor of the Warrenton ,Senti-
net says that farmers in that vicinity
who have substituted white for black
laborers, express themselves as highly
pleased with the change and declare
that, for $40 month, ono white
lnborer does as much work in day,
as negro ordinarily did in two days.
At recent court ball in Paris,
General Dix was attracted by the
gorgeous uniform of Belgian Of
ticer, and had q long conversation
with the wearer. Napoleon laughed
at the spectacle, for the officers uni
form covered only a secret police
spy.
John Murray, a farmer, went into
Hamilton, Canada, recently, and,
having drunk too much whiskey, lay
down on the sidewalk, and was
found frozen fast to the ground.
The police had much difficulty in
cutting him out.
A Western editor remarks that he
is glad to receive marriage notices,
but requests that they be sent soon
after the ceremony and before the
divorce is applied for. He has had
several notices spoiled in this way.
Somebody says it is "folly to e1-
pect girl to love man whom every
body speaks we'll Of Got up per-
secution and her affections will cling
SO fast that dozen guardians can't
remove them"
A French gentleman, who had
heard rum called spirits, went into
hotel n few evenings since and called
for glass of punch, requesting at
the same time that it should be made
OF "ghosts from the Vest Indies"
A firm in England put mp some
prepared meat for firm in New
Zealand, and by directions had the
packages labelled Canned Mission
aries" The natives cleaned out the
stock in two days.
The managers Of, railroads will re-
gard the past winter as one iu which
the frost has cost them mnch moro
than snow usually does. 1t has been
pre-eminently the season Of broken
wheels, axle and rails.
Klopstock engraved on the grave
of his wife two sheaves of wheat,
thrown, rs it were, carelessly toge-
ther, with the words: eve shall
ripen in Heaven.
A clergyman in town near Que
bee, whose congregation were lax in
the payment of his salary, struck the
other Sunday and brought them to
terms.
Quilp, who has heretofore been n
universalist, now believes there are
two things destined to lie eternally
lost-his umbrella and the man who
stole it.
A witness before the Common
Council Of Chicago agreed that he
would tell the truth as nearly as
possible. as much of it rs possible,
and as little as they wished him.
A young lady somnambulist in st.
Louis, recently, attempted to enact
in her sleep the tragedy of novel
she had read in her waking h ours, by
stabbing her sister with table knife.
A process has been invented by
which scraps of leather are worked
over into large sheets, SO that the
new article is as good as the piece
from which the scraps came.
81 have lost flesh" said topper to
his companion. mo great loss,"
said the other, "as you have mnde it
up in spirits
"Thou rainest in this BOSOM" as
the chap said when the basin of water
was thrown over him by the lady he
was serenading.
Thad. Stevens has been dying q