The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-28

ly received suoh appropriate punishment
az that meted out to Annanias and Sap
phlra. She would invariably burst out
into Zantippe violence, whenever an op-
portunity offered. On late occasion
she began to scold her husband SO in
temperately that she dislocated her jaw
and has not been able to speak q word
since. Peace, for the first time in her
domestic history, now reigns in the
household.
lady who recently got herself up
most gorgeously for dinner ut ono OF
the Newport hotels, had the misfortune
to snecze just as she sat down, when
suddenly the half of the waist of her
dress ripped out, and somebody had to
put shawl around her. Her dress was
an excellent tit upon well-proportioned
form, aud having been made upon
single-thread sewing machine, the sneeze
broke the thread.
A grey hair was espied among the
raven locks of II fair friend by lady.
"Oh! pray pull it out" she exclaimed.
''If pull 1t ont ten will come to the
fnneral," replied tho lady who made the
unwelcome discovery. "Pluck it out,
nevertheless, said the dark haired dam
sci; ''it's no sort of consequence how
many come to tho funeral, provided all
come in black"
1t has been the popuiar notion in this
country that shad could not be induced
to take bait, and when captured it
must be by the net in some form. A
Connecticut fisherman has. however,
discovered, after series Of experiments,
that shad will bite at peculiar kind of
| n orf foI AD ~, sok l.
very successful.
That was very touching incident
that of the little school girl who refused
to define the word clown as "a low, vul-
gar fellow" and for her stubbornness
was punished with the ferrule and de-
tained in play hours, all to no reforma-
tory end. The little child's father proved
TO be clown in circus.
An Ohio woman has recovered 81, 900
Of liquor dealer, under the new law in
that State, for ''the loss OF her hus-
bands society for three years." This is
putting high figure upon mans So
ciety, certainly, and muny would be
willing to dispose of their company fer a
smaller sum.
meeting was held ut Pomaria, S. c.,
on the 9th instant, to raise funds to
erect monument to the Confederate
soldiers. Several hundred dollars were
raised.
Louisville girls wear chunks of ice in
their panniers, enclosed in oilcloth
sacks, and keep cool and happy as Gu
cumbers all the day long.
Mr.. Summers letter nettles the Grant.
ties sorely. 1t is 30 full of points they
can't touch it without pricking their
fingers.
A Georgia judge who, seventeen years
ago, sentenced John Dotton to be hung,
last month performed the same office for
John bottoms son.
A Crestline citizen shot the stuf1ing out
of his wife's back hair, which was calmly
reposing on the window sill, and which
he took for cat.
A gent, recently living in Fort Wayne,
gives notice that his post office address
has been temporarily changed to the
State penitentiary.
A daughter of the late Confederate
minister, John Slidell, it is reported,
will shortly be married to German
baron.
Boston bellies nre easily recognized by
| the heavy boots they wear, and their
fondness for boiled onions and corn on
| the cob.
Grace Greenwood liked the sensation
of feeling stirrup under each foot 80
we'll that she will visit Colorado again
this season.
A couple of girls have opened ia
sionable tailoring store in Boston, and
all the young men are getting measured
for new suits.
DR.. Holmes says: "The brain women
never interest like the heart-women.
White roses please less than red.'
An excellent cure for dyspepsia is to
give hungry dog piece Of meat, and
chase him till he drops it.
In New York, last week, there were
nearly twice as many deaths as births.
A Detroit girl, aged sixteen, OF ave.
rage height, weighs only forty pounds.
It is reckoned that Niagara Falls will
eventually wash away.
There are 5000 wine shops in Paris,
employing over Is, 900 persons.
Both candidates for Governor in Maino
are prominent Univershlists.