The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1857-12-31
NUMBER 81.
Miscellaneous Waits.

"S.o's' tue word knew the real motives
which produced them.
IHE happiest man in the world is the one
with just wealth enough to keep him in sp;-
rits, and just children enough to make him
industrious. 80
EARTH is eaten as bread in several parts
OF the world. Near Moscow, a hill furnish
es earth OF this description, which will fer.
ment when mixed with -four.
MEN are not attracted by highly polished
women so much as by truly natural and art
less women--women sufficiently educated to
write and speak accurately, and sufficiently
childish not to despise common things.
A BEAuT1FUL THouoHr.-Some one has
saId OF those who die young, that they are
ike the lambs which the Alpine shepherds
pear IN their arms to higher green pastures,
that the fiecks may follow.
HOMESTEAD LAw-This bill, for the mas.
sage of which J.. Wofford Tucker. ESQ Of
Spartanburg, labored so assiduously and
placed upon the statute book, has been re.
pealed at this session.
A YOUNG man was once questioned as to
why he did not marry certain Young ladv
for whom he had particular fancy. aOh.n
said he, "tbe times are too hard. and cam,
get money enough to pport-'er."
Quaint old Fuller says: "Let him who
expects one class of society to prosper in the
highest degree, while the other is in distress.
try whether one side of his face can smile
while the other is pinched."
KILLED HIS WIFE.-A man named Car.
ter, in a fit Of drunkenness, shot his own wife
through the head, killing her Instantly. near
Greenville, Tenn, recently. Another in
stance in favor of the whiskey tradel
A SMALL Locofoco editor says, that if occa.
sion arise, we shall find him good at biting
and scratching. He is more accommodating
than most vermin, says Prentice they gem
orally bite, and let you scratch for yourself.
re- Col. Samuel Colt, of pistol fame. has
reduced his rent from l5 to 20 per cent.
and has sent barrel of -four to every ten
ant in his village, near Hartford, Conn
Such acts are not calculated to injure his
standing III the other world, when it is time
for him to 60 there.
CENsuRE is willingly induged, because IL
always implies some superiority. Men
please themselves with imagining that they
have made deeper search or wider survey
than Others, and detected faults which es.
cape vulgar notice.
Pray, Mr.. Professor, what is peripha-
sis 7" Madam, it is simply circumlocu-
tory cycle OF oratorical sensorislty, circum.
scribing an atom of ideality, lost in verbal
profundity."
"Thank you, sir"
a. YOUNG physician, descanting upon the
lovellness OF female, perforated with,
)" Wouldn't she make magnificent SUBJ
Ject--how | would like to dissect her %
That's what you might call professional
enthusiasm.
IT was Cobbett who said-and told the
truth too-that woman is never so amiable
as when she is useful as for beauty, though
men may fall in love with girls at play, there
Is nothing to make them stand to their love
like seeing them at work-engaged in the
useful offices of home and family.
GoD made both tears and laughter, and
both for kind purposes for as laughter ena.
bles mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so
tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently.
Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair
and madness and laughter is one of tha
very privileges of reason, being confined to
the human species. ..
BRIGHAM YoUNa.-This noted "Saint -
is said to be one of the proprietors of the
town of Florence, in Nebraska Territory,
and has also certain special rights in the fer
ry privileges at that place, by which his fol.
lowers areto be ferried across the Missouri
at half the usual rates. The fact of his
ownership has but recently been ascertained,
and has caused no little excitement among
the Nebraska Gentiles."
VERY GooD.-The New Orleans Chris.
tian Advocate treats an illiterate writer for
that paper with but little ceremony. Wit
ness the following:
After three pages Of manuscript
p. S.-To the Editor Please excuse me
for not correcting mistakes and writing the
rules of punctuation, as l write in hurry.
| F.w. s.
Nofe-We make haste TO throw it under
the table, being also in bury.-EDIroR,'
No CLASS suffers more from intemperance
than the poor in the city and country. 1t
robs them Of the little they haye--of food,
OF fire, of health, and of respectabiliiy.-
Their limited means does not justify the