The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-02-07
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OfTY MATTHRs. price OF single
copies OF the Phoenix is fye ceits. .
Accounts due the PaGN1x ofiice mus.
De settled promptly, as further indulgence
cannot be giyea. We must have, money
to carry on. business.
Old newspapers for sale at PHgN1x
Office, at fifty cents a hundred.
The latest styles wedding and visiting
cards and envelopes. tastily printed, can
be obtained at the PHGN1x Office.
The PHOENIX is in receipt Of 3 Int of
printers copying ink. It serves the pur-
pose of ordinary copying ink, and is in.
valuable to railroad officials and others
who have much printed matter to- copy.
The cost of printing dono with this ink
is but little moro than with the ordinary
ink.
See the card of Dr. J. ". Parker. He
offers to sell real estate located in differ
ent sections of the State.
After two or three pleasant days,
muggy weather set in yesterday. There
was no material objection to the rain,
but tho fog was ruled out Of place.
Javan Bryant. ex-Representatiye from
Spartanburg, has been rendered the
position of postmaster at that place, and
probably has, ere this. been appointed.
st. Valentines day falls on Friday this
year. 'Love sick swains" look forward
to it with interest.
A. Shaw, Esq, Of Wilmington, N. c.,
has been appointed master of transport
alton Of the Wilmington, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad, and has entered upon
the discharge of his duties.
The following is the programme Of the
18th Infantry Band. this afternoon, at 4
o'clock:
Guard on the Rhine Qaickstep-Bach.
Selection from Ernanl-Rosaini.
Royal Cirque Quadrille-Wad
Overture Oaliph de Decentralization
| Coeur About Polka-Yikoff.
Flying Cloud Galop-Goe.z.
MASQUERADE Many of our citizens
will bring to mind the enjoyable occa-
sion provided by GAIA Lodge, I. o. o.
B., No. 168. last Purim. We have the
satisfaction of announcing that at tho
request of many of the participants in
the first. second masquerade ball will
be given next month. The pleasures of
the occasion Will be increased and varied
by the addition of tho regular ball dress
feature, giving to the visitor the choice
OF masquerade or ball dress. The ball
will be given on the night of the 18th of
March, which, in the Hebrew calendar,
is the l4th of Adar, being the celebra-
tion OF Pnrim, or the Feast of Esther.
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PHGNI1IANA.-There ore 200 bones in
the human body. An end-man in a
negro minstrel troupe has sometimes 2O4.
An economical gentleman hos had the
CRATE in his sitting-room furnished with
fir0-board, on which celebrated artist
has painted with admirable skill blazing
fire. which warns with the look of it,
and does not require to be replenished.
Angors cats, which used to be common
drawing-room pets in the days Of our
grand-mothers, are said to be coming
into fashion again. They ore valuable
in proportion to the pure whiteness and
the length of their silky hair, and their
purr is softer and more musical than
that of the ordinary cat.
A ohiropodist is honest enough to tell
his patients that the surest way Of pre-
serving the feet from corns and bunions
is to have at least one pair Of shoes for
every day in the week. He always re-
commends to visitors particular shoe
maker. in whose business it is reasonable
to suppose he has On interest.
A dentist wishes to know whether the
barber-surgeons of old did not use wise
saws for cutting wisdom teelh, but says
that there are certainly no modern in.
stances Of it on record.
Wise sayings often fall to the ground,
bnt kind words never die.
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