Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-30
A Few Eunnygraphs,

Among the following paragraphs are an
man. These we heartily repudiate. and have
directed the printer to leave them out; but
we don't suppose he'll do it:
Serious undertaking. funeral.
The only cure for drunkards--the water
cure.
May not the child of a very wealthy man
be regarded as a mllion-heir?
An age few women reach the age of
discretion.
Though few men can be considered odd
fish, they have all been suckers.
The first acquaintance of child was as
tronomy-the milky way.
Most married men must think the devil
slow of foot. they so often catch him.
Though few washerwomen are satirists,
they deal largely in fat irony.
Poets often compare mans life to can
die, probably because it is so wicked
Why can tailor never go into business
alone! Because he always enters on shears.
Can Rary's torse-training exhibitions
be regarded as anything but raree-shows?
The fashionable woman's creed-There
is no God but the milIiner and / am her
profit.
New discovery in Mythology-Plutusi is
the only deity that make Cupid, the blind
god, see.
1t is generally believed now -a-days that
Cleopatra loved Antony because he was a
man of Marc.
-"Cotton is king" is an American aphor-
ism, but when transferred to woman's dresses,
it becomes queen.
1t is often said of ordinary men that
there is something good about them. 1t is
about but never touches them.
When an editor speaks of his review of a
new book, does he mean that be has looked
at it twice?
"A brute of bachelor asks why one of
the old Venitian prisons is like marriage
Because it is an awful cell.
We do not know what color harmonizes
most completely with women's compilations,
but green answers best for their charac-
tiers.
Strange, but when the fair sex wish to
condemn a mans conduct most severely.
they say it reminds them of a woman's.
Unhappy people. when reserved, are
less disliked than most others, because no
one envies another the possession of misery.
An editor of our acquaintance inserts
marriage notices gratis, because he thinks
it wrong to make man pay for his Attic
lions.
-Naughty-a term young women use to
their gallants when they wish to express
their love in form of attractive complaint.
The easiest way for woman to obtain
the loving gratitude of man, in his rejecting
ria ge.
1t is wisest and honest for many ortho
dox ministers to speak of the burden of their
discourse. for it is a burden they alone can
bear.
The fact that in valid women have often
been enred of consumption by marriage is
only another proof that desperate diseases
require desperate remedies.
"A rural individual, having been asked
by clergyman how he would like to go to
Abraham's bosom, said he would prefer go
ing to another girls.
The laying on of hands, though one OF
the old forms of healing, could hardly be eff
fective in love-sickness; indeed its tendency
would be to aggravate the disease.
Jean Jacques Rousseau married VIC
man who could not tell the time of day
Many dissipated lierge-lords no doubt wish
they had welded one who could not tell the
time of night.
"A little boy having fractured his arm
the other day, his father observed: 'How
devlish unfortunate 1 am; if that had been
any other persons child, he would have bro
ken his neck"
A poor, penniless wretch, sent to Jail re-
Gently for assault and battery, remarked that
the Grand Jury might find a bill against
him, but that all the Courts in Christendom
could not find one on him.