The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1871-09-27
VOLUME XvIII-~NO. 81,

lH-gotten and ill-spent riches
are double curse.
True religion makes no splut-
ter.
There are 9os agricultural SO.
cieties in Prussia.
New York dressmakers are
coming down in prices.
Iowa just bets ON million and
half bushels of apples.
A boy of ii in Oregon recent.
~ priso..ed his own mother.
A Kansas man broke his neck
Willie try ing to break colt.
White robins are now beino
captured in various parts of the
country.
A New York dairyman has
made a cheese weighing three
thousand pounds.
The idea of building a ship ca.
nal around Niagara Falls, on the
American side, is again revived.
The Dutch Gap canal shortens
the distance between Richmond
and Norfolk about nine miles.
Sally, what time does your
folks dine to>day 2" "Soon as
.,
ders."
A DRUGGIST in New Hampshire
threatened the local paper with
suit for putting an "i" in the
place of an &c" y" in his advertise.
rnent of grape pills.
A guest at Western hotel.
finding long hair in the butter.
ordered tho waiter to bring him
some bald, headed butter"
A New DoDoE.-A telegram
from San francisco says: @T,e
recount of the votes of San Fran
cisco has devel ped nothing frau
dnlent beyond the use Of nitrate
OF silver, with which the name eG
Badhom, a tax payer candidate
Tor assessor, was erased from
about twenty ballots, the erasure
not showing until some hours after
the ballots had been dcposited.'"
RIcH.-" This is tie 20Oth an.
plication in q week. Go to the dew
il. l cant hire every id fool"
That's what they say Mr.. Greeley
wrote to a man who asked for a.
situation. The receiver couldn't
make it out, SO he took it down to
the Tribune counting room, and
the cashier, supposing it to be an
order for 5000, paid him that
sum. The mistake was not dis.
covered until Horace came to
draw bis weeks salary and found
bis account already ovcrdrawn,-
so they say.
APPRoPRIATE NAMES. The fol-
lowing names are indeed appro
| pirate for the uses mentioned:
For an auc,ioneer's wife-Bid-
dy..
For a generals wife-Sally..
For sports wife-Bet.ty.
For a tisherman's wife-Netty.
For a shoemaker's wife Peg.
gy.
For a teamster's wife-Car rie.
For lawyers wife-Sue.
For a printers wife EN-.
For a druggists wifc-Anr
Eliza.
/ HONOR TIE ScIssoRs. Some peo-
pie, ignorant of what good editinc
is, imagine the getting mp Of select.
ed matter to be the easiest thing in
the world to do, whereas it is the
incest work that is done on a pa
per. LII they find the editor with
scissors in hand, they are surc to
saY Srikiakih NH LIKE thats G. the way you get mp
their new and witty question @&RH
an idiotic wink or smile. The
raotS orc, .ha. the interest, the
morality, the variety and useful
ness OF a paper depend, in TO small
degree, upon its selected matter,
and few men are fully capable of
the position who would not them-
selves be able to write many Of the
articles they select. A sensible
4 editor desires considerable selected
matter, because he knows that one
mind cannot make so good a rarer
rs five or six.
THE MONT Cans TUNNEL OPEN.
ED.-One of the great, and per-
maps the greatest, engineering
feats OF the age is finall y success
ioi, and trains are now running
from Italy into France, over and
through the Alps, by the Mont
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