The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-04-01

The Budget of Public Assistance
in Paris spends SO, 600, 600 annually
in giving aid to the sick, the poor,
and to foundlings. Estimates for
the current year have been made
for 5000 needy persons. $4,000
abandoned children, and for main
tanning 20, 900 beds in the hospitals.
The revenue for this purpose is de-
rived from legacies, tax on the
undertakers, pawnbrokers, md
upon the theatrical managers. who
pay heavy duty levied on their
receipts. The city makes up the
remainder from municipal budget.
FROM Poverty TO WEALTH.-W.
s. O'Brien, of San Francisco,
whose immense riches were so
suddenly acquired in Bonanza
speculations, is q son of Wetmore
OBrien, respectable citizen of
Minneapolis, Minnesota. He az
rived at the mines with but fifteen
cents in his pocket and worked as
o laborer, taking mining stock in
payment of wages i'll lieu of money,
which he could not get. His fortune
is estimated at $250,000,000.
Gov. Chamberlain has been in
vited by the faculty and students
of the law department of Yale
College to deliver the annual
oration. To be thus selected to
deliver the Grafton before the law
school of Yale is a high honor,
which has recently been accorded
to Hon. VIM. NJ. Eyarts, Hon. Jos.
Choate, Hon. II. B. Harrison, and
last year by Hon. Edwarn Pierre
pont.
.'Uncle John" Robinson, the old
Snowman, who is on the track for
the Cincinnati Alayoralty, is made
of such tough material as Scotch
and Dutch blood. He started ont
in life as a sailor, but his ship was
wrecked almost before she got out
of sight OF land, which induced
John to stick to terra Jirma, where
he has been ever since, and has
made q million dollars in the cir
Gus business.
NICE GLovEs.-There are some
people at Port Colborne, Canada,
who think they can make q ''kid
glove" from q catfsh's skin, and the
factory viii be open this spring.
Paris has been making kid gloves
from rat skins for o long time, and
everybody is satisfied with the pro-
duct if it only bears the requisite
trademark. The leathery integu-
1nent of the catfish is said to be
equally available for the purpose.
The Brooklyn trial was COM
menoed with the intention of de-
monstrating whether Beecher fre-
quented Mrs. Tilton's apartments
or not. Somehow or other the
track has been jumped, and the
effort now seems to be that of re-
futing Beecher's indiscretion by
demonstrating that Tilton frequent
ed the boudour Of Victoria Wood
hull in his stocking feet.
The Congressional resolution
permitting Mr.. Fitch to accept the
Khedive's ipresent to his wife, did
not release the duty charges, $17,-
800. So the diamonds will remain
in custody. until another Congress
shall remit the duty, or until some
body can hand over to the custom
house the necessary cash.
A. T. Stewart is worth $40, ,OCO,-
600, and he has no son to squan-
der it, Or daughter to marry it
away: He seems to be one Of the
few men who are lucky in every
respect. i.@ense aeo
The atmosphere. Of New Eng
land is too frosty for daily news
papers. OF the twenty-nine that
were, published in Boston, in .1843,
only six are Jeff n1s,,',I ,so, i,g4 ,,' + +',T
Duels between the students have.
been prohibited by the, authorities
of jena University. ip consequence
of two studants having been killed
in that way just befdf Christmas. 2
Potatoes IS. ;Be good should
never be exposed to- the Light, but
be kept IN nS dafk n places as 1,os-