The Phoenix herald., 1879-06-28
Detroit. Currency.

Don't fly your kite too high, little boy
 Go north, yoang man, and cool off amid the icebergs.
 'sNow that the heated term is upon us s"@* - we will see you later.)
 A prima donna is naturally timid creature, for her art is always in her throat.-Puck.
 Roscoe Conkling always used to say |: -.sY Yes, ma'am," to a man when he was boy That's why his hair curls.
 We know a man over 90 years of age who hasn't gray hair on his head-nor one of any other color.-Bostoaa Post.
 Was it a man with toothache who said, when he saw the forceps: How happy could I be with ether ?"-HeT0ld P. I.
 Over l, ,OOO actors claim to have been born next door to Charlotte Cushman, and yet Charlotte was born on the ocean.
 The young man who feels too proud to climb a greased pole for the amuse- ment of the Fourth of July public will never be heard of in school books.
 The boers of South Africa are moving for independence. In time they may come to be as independent as the bores of this country.-Neao Orleans Picayane.
 This is what the Buffalo Express says Beecher wrote in reply to it j: ''I do not wish to be a circus-rider. Let me pre- serve my mount and dignity and I shall be quite content"
 All the bread yet unearthed at Pom peii shows evidences that the emptyings had soured and that the loaves were heavy. They must have had cooks at S4 per week in those days as well as these.
 The Adrocats says '' Baton Rouge would be a good place for man with money to start a bank" Bankers are looking for place to start bank with other peoples money.-Nerc Orleans Picayasne.
 The idea that you can read a mans thoughts in his face is all bosh. Look the man in the face who borrowed $10 of you a year ago '' for day or two, and 1t expresses nothing but blankness the blankest kind.
 They call it $ wonderful presence of mind |" in Iowa when husband sees a tornado coming and pushes his wife down the cellar stairs. It opens door for fatal mistakes, but wives must take the consequences.
 Adirondack Murray says The true way is to let horse drive himself ;" and it would make him happy to come to Detroit and see how closely his ad vice is followed, and how the black | smiths and wagon-makers flourish.
 No one planes business man for wanting his sign to convey a big idea of his business, but a Michigan black | smith, in hamlet of 400 people, rather '' Foreign and domestic horses shod | here"
 The possibilities of the telephone are not yet exhausted, and there is no tell ing where the science of acoustics will end. Large steamboats are now daily | conveyed by Sound from New York to New Haven and vice versa.-lStanaford | Advocate.
 Several men were just on the point of being sun-struck in this city last Saturday afternoon, when that sudden change of weather set in, and 1t Is re- ported to have frozena majority of them to death, while badly crippling the rest. -Chicdgo Journal.
 It is a noticeable and very suggestive fact that those who know the least about the management and construc tion of newspapers are most disposed to criticise them. When we consider the extent and variety of the informa- tion and the labor required to produce first class daily journal, there IS no institution in the world that gives as much good with so little of the bad or the indifferent.-St Louis RepsEblieaD.