The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-12-22

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any person who cannot procure one in
his neighborhood. D22 1871
The city missionary of Dubuque is
overwhelmed and discouraged. He
talked to an excited German, and the
German.said: "Dame it, why dond you
go to work? Vat in der teivel vas der use
OF your gone round nit dem pieces of
baper? Dem wes played oud. Dame it,
60 to work, and dond be acdipg der
lcafer nit your blows about dem religios
bzuess."
The Augusta ConStHuionnlist has this
piece OF news: ':Since 1865, many, We
may s"y y large number of planters in
Georgia, have hid away largo amount of
gold which they received i'll pay ment for
cotton, or which they obtained for
grcenbacks at the rate of forty-two or
tfty-one per cent. premium. We have
heard the amount estimated as high as
Sl5. 600. 900 or S20,000,0O0.
\ renorseless Terre Haute MAJ sis
keeping diary which was commenced
continued by his grandfather in the
same country and on the voyage across
the Atlantic to this coutry, and by him
kept mp in the United States till just be-
| fore his DEATH when his son, the father
of the present diarist, took up the task
and brought it down to 1927, when the
present keeper began it."
DR.. Grant, of the American mission at
| Cairo, has found Hebrew manuscripts OF
portions of the Bible in d synagogue re-
ported to have been built forty fve
years before the second temple was de-
stroyed. 1t was carefully deposited in
niche in the wall, ten feet above the
ground, and could be secured only by
means Of IL ladder.
\ gentleman handed mp ten dollar
bill in one of the Red Line coaches,
from which one fare, five cents, was to
| be taken. ''Look here" said the
driver, down through the hole, (which
of these two horses do yon wish to buy
with This ten lol!ars?" We'll" ccolly
replied the gentleman. 81 thought I
might get them both for that"
Boston 7i.ureN:r.
a n year old Socrates lately stated
the situation us follows in Detroit
police station: "Oh, it's tho old folks
again, pounding and mauling ench other,
and smashing up the dishes. I've talked
to en- an reasoned with 'em, but they
keep right on. It's getting drenry up
there, and I guess you'd better bring
'em both in and give 'em three months
each.
every thing has it's nse. said paiio.
sophical professor to his class. "Of
what uZe is drunkard's fiery red nose?"
asked one Of the pupils 1T is like
lighthouse, to warn US of the little water
that passes underneath it, and reminds
lis OF tho shoals Of appetite, on whicE
we might otherwise be wrecked" an
swcrcd tho professor.
"If NIL the cities OF the world were re
duced to ashes, you'd have new set Of
millionaires in couple OF years or so
ont of the trade in potash" says the phi
losopher Oliver Wendell Holmes. in his
jnst-published "Poet ut the Breakfos.
Table"
When the Parliament began to coin
money, an old cavalier, looking at tho
new piece, read this on ono side: God
be with u.s." on the other, "The Com.
monwealth of England" II see, God
and Commonwealth aro on different
sides, said he.
An Irish editor says that, 'ir III, ,:b.
aeuce of both editors tha ,,,.,,. rs