The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-05

ALASKA Our. 81. .OOO.O 900 slice. Alaska.
bids fair to turn out q profitable pur-
chase, after all. We are told there are !
fields there which will richly
repay Investigation, and now Mr.. Chas.
Bryant, special agent Of the United
States Treasury Department at Alaska,
says the United States derives over
5000. 900 revenue annually from the seal
fisheries alone, and that the amount is
yearly increasing.
An old fisherman was caught in his
dug-out on the broad Potomac by furi-
GUS gale. He padded to the shore as
hard as he could, scared to death, pad
died and prayed for mercy-prayed for
mercy and padded, until his canoe struck
the beach. Then he turned to the gale,
shook his fist and cried: elbow and be
d-dl Who's afraid OF you?"
It is said that Senaca Lake, n. Y, was
covered, few mornings since, by coat
ing Of thin ice; a remarkable oircum-
stance, as the coolest weather of winter
failed to produce such coating Of ice,
whether thick or thin. Syracusans are
polishing up their science and flooding
the papers with very various and unin-
telligible explanations of the phenome-
non.
The following pathetic note was picked
up on a Danbury, Conn, street: "Dear
Jane-I hope you ain't mad because I
didn't laff at you when you lafft at me
last evening at the post offs. I amt
prowd, dear Jane, but have got bile
under my arm, and can't laf as I used
to, as Heaven is my judge. Yours truly,
Henry"
A little girl, when her fathers table
was honored with tho presence of an es-
teemed friend. began talking very
earnest at the first pause in the conver-
sation. Her father checked her rather
sharply, saying: "Why is it that you
always talk so much?" "Taus I've dot
somesin to say" was the innocent reply
Mr.. Harry Heiss, q well-known Ten.
dessee journalist, says: Il was a rebel
snldier; they call me Bourbon; was
born a Democrat, am one to-day, and
always will be one, but I shall vote for
Greeley, no matter who the Democrats
nominate. or whether they nominate
anybody"
Mrs. Fair will come out at her second
trial with two af1idavits, one of whict
riddles the Judge and prosecuting attor-
ney, and the other is levelled at Mrs
Crittenden, and is 30 worded that one
would imagine the fair Laura the in
ljured wife, and Mrs. Crittenden the dis
carded mistress.
Discretion is the better part Of valor
Tom and Arthur have been rude to thei
mamma. Mamma has complained t.
papa, who is heard coming up stairs
Arthur say, Tom, here comes papa
| aLon 80 l., 81
shan't; shall get up and put something
on"
There is a woman in Boston who ha
stolen, in the course OF long and event
, full life, 1,001 umbrellas. The 1,OO1tl
one was taken on the evening of he
eightieth birthday. but unfortunately he
7 uncomfortable practice was detected
and she is in one of Boston's mora
prisons.
Some Detroit women, OF the practics
missionary stamp, lately visited sic
and widowed neighbor, shingled he
house, planked her sidewalk. pickete
, her fence, painted one room and papere
8 two, and split and piled load of sla
wood.
. A London paper says that the follow
! ing extract is from an old play-bill, sti
: in existence: "For the benefit of Mit
=. Brickler, 18th of May, 1857. At the en-
= of the first aot Miss Brickler will sing
y favorite song from Judith, accemp'
} MED by Mr.. Dibden on new instrume1
, called the piano-forte."
. Lake Choggoggaggoggmanchoggagl
e ogg, Michigan, is good place to go ft
q the summer. The place is particular
~ y recommended for people afflicted wit
q . stammering; by the time they can te
!. where they are, they're wholly cured.
70 An irate Western editor lately wro
y to contributor: "If you do not stc
=. sending me such abominable poetry, I
q print piece of it some day with yo
D. name appended in full, aud send COZ
ii to your girl"
n There are twin brothers in Newberr
u port, Mass, known as rights and left
ID from the fact of one being lame in h
d. right foot and squirting with his rig
A eye, while the other is lame in his Il
j. foot and squints with his left eye.
GO A Baltimore minister has been q
le posed just for playing whiskey pok
4 and auction pitch for the drinks in
lager beer saloon. Strange how lit