Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-11-16


bottom Of The box, but the young lady didD't care
for That Having given her husband Der e very
ordinary kind Of domestic discipline in modern
Households she ran of after her things" atwhieh
EPmETHEUs rejoicsd as happy riddaaoe Ever
since this occurrence, getting married has been call
ed getting into q bad box ="
Daphne,
was very good looking young oman who lived
several hundred years ago. She was the daughter
Of PEyEUs and TEnRA. the old lady being great
trror to Miss. DAPEEEs beaux. Apollo VITO in
addition to being sort Of celestial carriage driver
was Que Of the most eminent physicians OF his time
became ouamored of the damsel-aud, tradition saya,
he found her dam sell indeed, before he was done
with her. APoLLo was getting on very vel with bis
wooing until CUPID, misobievous boy in he neigh
borhood, raised fuss between them. Well, the
Doctor called around day, usual With his sad
dlebsgs On his arm, pretending he vas going 10 see
a patient But his sweetheart would have nothing
to say to him, and the Doctor lOs his patience, as
Doctors generally do and thrust his 5H in her faces
wbereupon, DAPHNE was offended aud ran away into
the woods APoLLo searched all over the house, and
when he failed to find her. he curty remarked 70 her
brother dag; "DIAG. no Sis" and ever since that
when person begins to decline, physicians are in
the habit Of saying Diagnosis. He followed her
into the grove, however and found his lady-love up
a persimmon tree, which he Economically called a
laurel Another account is that the lady being
closely pursued by her lover, was changed into q
laurel, from which cause the Doctor became SO en-
smorsd Of herbs thathe commenced using them fer
medicine and founded The Botanic School Of Physi-
clans. his "feelinEs" are so well described by a
modern poet that we viii borrow his verses:
Her memory he nursed as a kind Of tonic,
Something bitter chew when he'd play the Byronci
For though twas step into which he had driven her
he somehow or other had never forgiven her.
UAIycase Is like Dido's" he sometimes remarked.
When last saw my love, shewas fairly embarked
Let hunters from me take this saw when they need it,
You're not always Of your game when you've freed it.
Just conceive Of such change taking place in ones mistresl
What romance would left Whoean haer and kiss trees
And for meroys sake, how could keep up dialogue
With duh thing that viii live and viii die log
Nottosay that the thought would forever intrude
That you've less chance her the she is aooodF
Ali it went to my heart and the memory still grieves
To see those loved graces all taking their leaees;
Those charms beyond Speech enchanting but now,
As they LEFT me forever, each making It's Dough!
If her tongue had tang sometimes more than was right
Her new barr is than ten times her old bite.
The Baton Rouge AdOoeats is one Of the soundest
and best papers in thu Union. Il thus bOunces the
editor OF the Louisville Journal:
PRExrICE.-This individual psys his respects TO
us in the last issue Of the Louisville Journal He
thinks we are ''more fool than knave," compliment
which our regard for truth totally fOrbds to re-
oiprocate les good thing for Prentice, too, that
he isn't 'ioOl;" It requires all his wit to him
from the consequences Of his predo inaing knayery