The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-10-26


| An Irishtnanisnada ssaadd dn6. bg1k, into
2 dr9ggist's shop sspek tso1 1is aaksS
|!witk sone pre- liqnSs, ma handing as
horeSs the d3unter, -a8sIaiESed: s5ssI IheTe.
housDr, snuH that, viii % he 49, -.
aor sSdid as Eshe was directed ana prS4
hoqaced thSs liquor to be genuine Mhis.
key. 'Thank you, d0ctori said the
Irishman. ''Hand IL to oame again, II
you please" The doctor again did as
directed, and asked what he meant.
"Och, thin," said Pat, ''if you will have
it, the priest told me not to drink any
of this unless I got it from the doctor.
So here's your healthsand the priests
health"
Here are the results of lady's obser-
vation Of the difference between French
and Prussian women: ga French wo-
man sobs and exclaims when bidding her
lover farewell on his departure for the
war, and then seeks her chamber in tears,
A Prussian woman hugs him tightly,
with tears in her eyes, watches until lie is
gone, then turns within and comforts
herself with q mug of beer aud sub
+stantial meal, after which she calmly
goes to her work"
A story is told of an ancient Mohawk
notion that some great misfortune would
happen if any one spoke on Saratoga
Lake. A strong mided English woman,
on one occasion, while being ferricd
over. insisted upon talking, and rs soon
as she got over in safety, she rallied her
hoatman on his superstition. But he
had the best of it, after all, for he at
once replied: "The Great Spirit is
merciful, and knows that white woman
cannothold her tongue"
The following delightful fortunes have
been prognosticated for those born in the
month of October: "The man will have
o handsome face and forid complexion.
He will be wicked and inconsistent. He
will promise one thing and do another,
and remain poor. The lady will be
pretty, and little fond of talking, and
will have two or three husbands, who
will die with grief"
New York is determined to bo second
to no city in the world upon the score of
attractions. It's last enterprise is the
construction of q Crystal Palace 5000
feet long and $50 feet wide, built in the
form of q square, with garden in the
centre of eleven acres, The cost of the
whole affair is expected to be 81, 900, 900.
A cute young wife says: "When I want
q nice snug day NIL to myself, I tell
George dear mother is coming, and then
[ see nothing of him until one in the
morning"
| A correspondent points out that Stras-
burg was taken by the French on the
2Sth Of September, 1851, and re-taken
by Germany on the 2Sth OF September.
1870.
A kentucky bachelor offers ten dollars
in gold as q prize for the neatest patch
to be put on an old garment by an unmar-
ried lady, to be awarded ut County
fur. 4 bid for wife,
Loss OF THE STEAM-TUG SAAIsoN.-In-
formation has been received that the
steam-tug Samson, on her passage from
Charleston to Mobile, has been lost near
Indian River, Florida.
Mrs. Ophelia Bennett, who was badly
burned in Richmond, on Friday, by
treading on parlor match, and her
clothes catching fire, died the same
night.
A man lately jumped off the Clifton
Suspension Bridge in England, height
Of $50 feet, in emulation of Sam Patch,
and, like him, came to grief.
SENSIBLE. A certain J. NJ. Langston,
black man, said in recent speech he
accepted the word negro because he was
negro himself"
A BRUTAL HUsDAND.-James Halligan
kicked his wife to death last week in Sa.
vannah. Halligan has been arrested on
charge of murder.
In Bates County, Missouri, on Tues
day last, John Hit was married to Mary
Miss. 1t was "palpable hit"
Eugene is herself again. When last
heard OF she was bonnet-buying in Bond
street, London.
The quickest way to learn the Dutch
roll"-drink Holland gin.
Giving man hard name Calling
him q brick.
G1orh Wontod