The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-05-15
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livery bad patient, and as insisting on
4 }oaftS StnG his tnfsllibility into the question
tots ck:r06m treatment-refusinR to re-.
main Elm bed when his physician would
81Ate him dpsso, and absolutely rebelling
jans the Ehttet OF wearing flannel and
Keeping himself covered With the bed
clothes,
! tea6her was illustrating the points of
tshe COMPASS g two pupils. "Now, what
fdEhsfore, yon g. !.sThe North. SIR" said
yohH i who WAS aui intelligent lad. CHOW.
Tommy, said he TO. the other, who had
Just donned long coat, what is behind
your" "My coat tail. SIR" said Tom
my.
An eminent physician ssys: .'Never
enter a SICK room in state OF perspira.
ti6n, as the moment you become cool
Soar pores absorb. Do not approach
contagious diseases with an empty
stomach, nor sit between the sick and
the fire, because the heat attracts the
thin vapors.
If it be true that the mind is in the
spinal chord as well as in the brain, and
monkeys are OF the human family, what
! extreme mental development may be
looked for in the monkeyl In him the
seat OF the intellect is wonderfully e1-
tended. fSa
3Thackeray tells us OF woman begging
aims from him, who, when she seen him
put his hand in his pocket. cried out:
May the blessing OF God follow you all
your iite! but when he only pulled out
his snuff box. Immediately added, 'and
never overtake ye'
Caroline Kibler. daughter OF Mr.. D.
Aibler. OF Newberry, died last week, of
meningitis. On Sunday. night. Miss NJ.
Cousynson. OF Beth Eden Church, New
berry, died OF scarlet fever, contracted
| from sleeping with one of the children
OF the recently arrived immigrants.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lee died at her home
IN Spartanb burg, about two weeks ago, in
her Tooth year. Messrs. Hancock Little,
respectable citizens OF the same County,
died last week.
A Danbury man imagined himself q
hen, and, while Under the influence of
that conceit, eat down on dozap eggs,
circus poster. His wife removed the
debris with the bald end of q broom.
A Baptist preacher, being caught in
shower, the other dsy. stepped into q
store close by for shelter, and being
afraid OF a ''ducking," replied in the
negative, but affirmed that he was only
afraid of ''sprinkling."
| A terrible whirlwind swept through
the lower part OF Marion and Horny
Counties, on the 9th instant. destroying
everything in its course. Some frightful
stories are related OF its effects. The
damage in many instances was serious.
An unknown man. whose name is be-
lieved to be William monaghan, from
kershaw County, died in Sumter County,
last week, in destitute circumstances,
and was buried in Nazareth Church
yard, Clarendon County.
The Marquis OF Queensbury believes
In the ''still noble art of self-defence, :"
and thinks that England may regret
some day that her sons should substitute
Tor the use of their fists the first deadly
weapon that comes to their hands"
An exchange says: "Worcee ter MASS. J
papers tell OF a woman stopping in that
city, not yet thirty years old. who is the
mother Of thirteen children" Well, We
should think it about time she was stop
ping somewhere.
local paper warns it's fair readers
that the sidewalks in Omaha abound in
nOie8 tne size OF ladyS loot" and in
another column recounts that boy six
years old foil into one of them the other
day.
"Where are the men of '76?" shouted q
Newtown orator. "Dead," responded a
sad-looking man in the middle aisle. The
Newtown orator wns astonished at the
intelligence.
At Atlanta, Ga. 10000 persons at
tended the Confederate memorial exer-
cises. Business Was suspended, and
General Darlington delivered the oration
in honor Of the Confederate dead.
fine deposit of gold has been found
on the plantation Of Mr.. Ward, near
Ph@nix, Abbeyille County, and the pros
pect for large Quantity Of valuable ore
is encouraging.
An escaped lunatic entered ball
room in jersey City, recently, and oc-
casioned quickstep by threatening 10
throw the ladies out Of the window il
they didn't engage to dance with him.
The wife of Louisville lawyer made
q hustle OF some important legal docu-
ments, and court lad to adjourn until
she could 60 home and return with them