The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1858-01-07
Miscellaneous Paragraphs.

ARE you AS particular to keep Your ap-
pointments with God us with fellow beinp2
JohEs says of an ancient unmarried fs.
male that she was fearfully and wonderfully
maid -. = o. a ). IS. -
s CHARLES FENNo IToFFMaN, the insane
poet, is said to be so i'll that he cannot live
much longer.
TnE sum Of S4GO has been contributed
at Cincinnati 10 the Herudop fund. aud for
warded to Washington. ..... =
y AT the Buffalo Fair grounds. few days
since, an lntiian run ten miles IN fifty-six
minutes and nineteen seconds. ~
{ ThE word telegram, for telcgraphic dis.
patches. is hereafter 10 he placed in the die.
iionaries published in England.
fHE standing army OF the United States.
as now organized, numbers 1926 men, if
the companies were all full to the number
authorized by law. -
lHE best bank ever known, is bank of
earth 1T never refuses to. discount to honest
labor. Andtlre best SHIRE is the plough.
share, on which dividends are always liberal.
SOMEBODY says that friend of his car
rles his sense of honor SO far as to spend all
his time in perfect dleness, because he does
not even like to take advantage of time.
: NoNcnALANr means that peculiarly
Indifferent look which is. put on by men.
who never pay when dunned for money:
II should be written, none she'll out
a SOUTHERN EDITOR says the people there
have not discovered that the times are hard.
Let them undertake to pay their debts and
they will make the discovery Immediately.
For more than two years Mr.. George u,
Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, has writ
ten his editorials by amanuenses, his hands
! being parayzed to such degree that ho
cannot use ihem
THE MoRMoNs.-It Is stated. that sbouIJ
tile Mormons be driven out of Utah. thew
have a settlement in Lower California, be-.
longing to Mexico, (Which they will oo.
asking the Mexieans and Indians no fayors
STERNE says |" l never drink cannot
do it on equal terms with others. 1t costs
them only one day, but me. three the first
in shining, the second in suffering, and the
third in repentipg." =
AN impertinent editor in Alabama wants
TO know when wes.inlend to pay the debt
of nature" We are inclined to think that
when nature gets her dues from him il will
be by nm eeeeutio's. louisville Journal.
LorrERrEs IN GEORGIA. Tho Legislature
OF Georgia has unanimously pronounced lott
teres to be curse aud swindle. Il is
thought THAT. at theexpiration of the present
charters for lotteries, no more will be grant,
ed.
! JoSEs-th philosopher Jones--has di.-
covered the respective natures of a Distipc-
.ion and Difference. He says that little
Difference frequently makes many enemies.
while a little DISTINCTION attracts hosts of
| friends.
DEsEcrrvE RsLleIox.-A religion that
never sutiices to govern man. will never
suffice to save him that which does not
sufficiently distinguish one from wicked
world, vii! never distinguish him from n
Pershing world. . Ho,oe.
A GENTLEMAN, of Raleigh county. Va,
has q fine large calf which has no eyes, or
any appearance of any,yet can 90 through
a gate, q gap in the fence, or any entrance,
without difficulty, ard knows as well as a
person when ills getting near tree, stump
or fence. - so
CoMPLIMENTARY.--Du During one of his re-
cent lectures in Manchester, England, Kos
sutli was very severe on Louis Napoleon
Among other expressions of the kind, he
used This language in regard to Napoleon
Ill Sprung up like toad.stooi on a
swamp OF blood, he could fix no roots in the
soil of his country"
"THE PRINrING DID THE BUSINESS FOR
Us."-~A member of manufacturing firm
in Vermont, remarked the other day, while
paying bill for some advertising and i,b
printing, that printing did The business ssof,
us---it has already brought us more than a
thousand dollars woyM of work." Tho
amount Of the printing was $5.
TnE English papers qaotc, as illustrative
of American advertising. an advertisement
in the American Publishers Circular. of n
book announced rs " The most stupendous
work since the food--3, ,427 ,9Is,615 copies
ordered in advance publication necessari-
/ ly postponed for renttpy, on account Of
the overwhe hniag nanbet Ct forders, DC.
Tue MASSACHUSETTS 9t.AvE TRApE.-Of
four cargoess o. African negroes lately landed
in Cuba three Of the yess3 3ls which brought