The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-10-04

She was 30 strange and 30 shy.
But yet we loved Indifferent things
The sproutinH buds, tho birds in tune;
And time stood still and aheathed his wings
With rosy links from June to June.
For her, what task to dare or do?
What peril tempt2 what hardship beal?
But with her. ahl she ncyor knew
NY heart, and what WAS hidden there!
And che, with me, 80 cold and coy,
Seemd like maid bereft OF sense;
But in the crowd all life and Joy,
And full Of baBhful impudence.
She marriedl-well, a woman needs
A mate. her love and life to share
And little cares sprang up like weeds,
And play'd around her elbowed chair.
And years roll'd by-but T, content,
Trimm'd my own lamp and kept it bright.
Till ages touch my hair besprent
With rays and CLEANS OF silver light.
And then, it ohance6, I took the book
Which she .perused in days gone by;
And as read, such passion shook
My soul, needs must curse or cry.
For here ind there her love was writ
In old, half-faded pencil signs,
As II she yielded-bit by Bit
Her heart in dots and underlines.
Ali eilver'd fooIl too late you look!
know it; let mo here record
This maxim: LEND NO GIRL BOOK,
UNLESS you READ 1T TAFTEnwARD.
At Grenada, in Spain. in an old house
which had tu,nbled into ruins and has
been for some months past undergoing
reconstruction, the workmen have cnme
upon q subterranean passage 1876 feet
long by ~ feet wide, carved out of the
solid rock, and at the eud OF which we're
found seven female skeletons. BY medi-
cal examination, it has been proved that
these skeletons have occupied that posi-
tion not less than forty nor more than
sixty years. But by comparison Of
dates, it has been found that the house
at that time belonged to a wealthy mer-
chant, q Portuguese Jew, numed Isaac
Pedro Corne, whose sons are stlll living
and occupying high financial positions
in America. This merchant died at Vera
Cruz, in 1849 or 1850, at the age of
seventy.one years, being at the time of
his death the widower of his ninth wife.
The horrible question has therefore been
raised in Grenada, whether these tkele-
tons are not the silent witnesses of some
dreadful crimes, and whether this mystic
rious cavern may not have been the dun
geon of Bluebeard more terrible than
any ever read of in story. The disco-
very loses none of it's sensational effect
by having been made among an excita-
BILE and passionate population like that
OF the South Of Spain.
II GoTs NUFF NIT SUoH FOOLISH
NESS. 1t is pleasant to become pa
rent; twice as pleasant, perhaps, to be
blessed with twins; but when it comes to
triplets, we are little dubious. Now,
there dwells in Jefferson County, Wis
oonsin, worthy German, who few
years ago was presented by his wife to q
son. Hans said to her:
"Katrine, dat ish goot."
couple Of years later, the good
woman placed before his astonished gaze
bouncing pAir of twine.
''Vell," said Hane, "dat wash peter
ash der oder time; thinks more ash ten
glass peer on dat"
But the good woman next time gave
birth to triplets, and that made him
sshpoke NIT his mout shust liddle."
''Mein Gott, Katrinei vat ish de mat
ter on youP Peter you shtop dis pizness
fore der come more ash village full.
I gots nuff nit such foolishnessr
No later returns have been received.
Dion Boucicanlt says there is a diff
ference between the cid theatre and the
new. In olden times real life was COM
paratively quiet. and people went to the
theatre for excitement and for elevation
OF thought; but now the existence of
every day is 30 feverish that people at
tend the theatre not for excitement but
relief from it; not to think but to escape
from thought.
The Marysville (Cal.) Standard is dead /.
Ihe editor, in his valedlctory, snys be
bns "devoted two AMI half years in his
efforts to keep up the paper, which he
conr'aers equal to FIVE years in the State
prison."
Jane Fox, OF st. Louis. had regular
prize fight with her brother for fifty dol.
lars the other day, and knocked him out
OF time on the sixth round. Time,
.hirty-fve minutes.
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