Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-07-01

CURRANT ITEMS FROM ALL QUARTERS.
FACT, FUN kNDFANCY. -

CURRANT ITEhs FROM ALL QUlRFERs.
FACT, FUN AND FANCY. ~ g
% WHAT UNCLE SAM HAS DoNE.NGThe fol-
lowing contrast is felicitowly notedby the Brock
lyn Eagle: ~ ,.t,'.'' .'.,,- -
Uncle Sam, after carrying on business for the
past eighty years, having three wats, buying
roads, speculating in bank, and trading with
all creation, comes out with snug little balance
on hand Of twenty-five millions, enough to set,
up several millionaries, and which makes Sam a
millionaire among nations. Since our revolution
England has quadrupled her national debt, and
other nations of Europe have rulqp- = score
nearly in proportion, while Sam has psid'of his
debts, bought real estate, and hss moneylaid by
for rainy day. o.ft!sri': -
* ONE WAY OF TrLIfrG fT:--An e1-
change thus walks into his delinquent subscri- &c.
bers:
pAY Up.@.Don'twait to be;esilsd upon-pay
up at every time, in the church and out-pay
up-walk up-stand up. Be scrupulous on
this point, conscientiously so-it Is your gain,
your interest, your safety, your Life. No man
ought to put his hand to paper, make any con-
tract or engagement, without intending expect
ing, determining fully to refund the SUM prom
ised at the time, precisely, unless it be. tor
newspaper. Pay your grog biH but never for
moment think of paying off your printers
bill punctually-ind it makes but little DIFF
ference if you never pay it. What does an
editor or publisher want with money!
X A New KIND OF BR1cK.-The Austin
(Texas) Times notices the construction OF .
house in that vicinity out of new kind Of brick,
not burnt, but the clay element united BY some
mechanical process, the discovery Of Q Mr.: Ray
mond. The cost of the walls will be fifty per
cent less than ordinary burnt brick work The
ingredients combined with the clay, It 10 said,
give it sufficient consistency within twenty -four
hours after the time Of moulding.
Why don't you take seat within
the bar 2" asked one gentleman OF another at
the courtroom. "For the best reason In the
world" replied the other, q my mother always
told me to keep out Of bad company"
EE Frog Eating is carried on at an extern
sive rate in Albany, N. 7. One hotel keeper
uses 1900, per week, and a restaurant disposes
of about 800 in the same time. The frogs
are caught by dealer nea. Utica, and sent alive
to Albany, where their hind legs are served up
to the epicures, fried after the style OF fried
chicken.
E A New BooK.-Judge Meek, Of Ais
bama, the author of Red Eagle and number
ofbeautiful fugitive poetic productions, oontem-
plates issuing this summer, two volumes, one to
be called the Songs and Ballads of the South"
and the other, entitled "Orations, Essays and
Sketches, Historical and Literary" which viii
embody some romantic chapters Of South-wes-
tern history never before pubished.-Tsras
Christian Adpoeate. - .,'.:'- -
* New TrrLEs-aMy brethren" said
good old backwoods preacher, u am gwuine
to preach you a very plain sarman to-day-a
sarman what even women can understand. You
will find my text in varse of the two-eyed
chapter of one-eyed john" 1t was some time
before it was perceived that he meant l John,
chap. II.
E"HE's ONLY PAUPER."-SeverA OF
the officers of the poor house, in Chicago, have
been detected in selling the dead bodies Of pau
pers to the Chicago Medical College, and the
Medical College, of Michigan, for dissection.
DR.. Peck, the county physician is one Of those
who are implicated. The bodies were packed
in barrels, and labelled beef or pork. Twenty
dollars were paid for each body deliyeredat the
depot.
F A CHEAP PANr.-A correspondent OF
the Country Gentleman gives the following re-
ceipt:
If any of your readers wish tn use very
cheap and substantial paint, of drab color
without lustre, let them mix water-lime with
Skinned milk, to q proper thickness to apply
with brush, and it is ready to use. 1t is too
cheap, almost, to estimate, and any one can put
it on who can use paint brush. twill adhere
well to wood, whether smooth or rough-to
brick, stone, or mortar, where oil paint has not
been used, in which case it will cleave to some
extent, and forms very hard substance, as du-
rable as the best oil paint"
Il A Kentucky editor advertises as fol-
lows, "Wanted at this Office, a bull dog of any
color, except pumpkin and milk, Of respectable
size: snub-nose, cropped ears, abbreviated contin-
uation, and bad disposition-who can come
when called with raw beef-steak, and will
bite the man who spits tobaccojuce on the stove
and steals our exchanges"
IL Or COUNSEL TO PARENTS, the fol-
lowing is an excellent chance bit:-" Whatever
you think proper to grant a child, let it be
granted at the first word, without entreaty or
prayer, and above all, ,oithom making any con-
duions. Grant with pleasure, refuse with re-
luctance; but let your refusal be irreVocable-
let not importantly shake your resolution, let
the positive No." when once pronounced be
wall of brass, which child, when he has
tried his strength against it half dozen times,
shall never more endeavor to shake"
liza lady asked gentleman at dinner
table, If he was fond of salad u am par
ticular admirer of the ladies'" answered he,
"and it will be readily conceded that the Ia
dies are flesh. According to Scripture, all flesh
is qrdss-salad is species of grass therefore,,
I am very fond of salad"
- IMPORTANT FAcr-In conversation
with DR.. j. F. Alexander, of this city, few days
ago, he informed us that during the late small
pox panic, he has vaccinated over two hundred
children, and that lie has found vaccination
certain and speedy cure for the hopping cough.
Atlanta Intelligencer.
r. C1oAR-PARALYs1s!- "A medical writer
saws =" Tobacconists are using prlssic acid to
give an almond favor to the Leaf, and in conse-
auence of this poison, q number Of smokers
have lost the use of their limbs"
@ Pride, though il cannot prevent the
holy affections from being felt, may prevent
them from being shown.
1ar Struggle to leave thy sons well educated
| rather than rich, for the hopes of the learned
are more valuable than the treasures Of the
ignorant