Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-10-23
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Charms and counteT-charnS love and marriage.
Al what time of day was Adam crea,cu2 \ liyte
before Eve.
4 legal gentleman has defined love letters to be
"Xrils Of attachment
II parents are shameless. the conduct Of children
will generally be shameful.
According TO bachelor horticulture, the genuine
domestic evergreen is-a husband.
Ladies. please be sweet but don be too formal
BE roses but don't be prim-roses.
The first person who ever entered largely into the
salt business must have been Lots wife
Love is u such superiatve worth that it IS more
honorable 10 be its victim than Its conqueTor.
She that marrics man because he a good
match" must not be surprised if he turns out
"ucitcr.
The fashionable BARRIERS IN New Orleans have held
a meeting, and raised the price of shaving from ten
to fifteen cents.
Personal beauty is letter of recommendation
written by the hand Of Divinity, but not unfrequent-
~ dishOnored by the bearer.
If You respect yourself much as you do others,
YOU will be careful to do nothing mean while
alone as when in company.
A Young man, who has recently taken wife says
he did not find 1t half hard get married he
dill afterward TO get the furniture.
Horne TOUke being asked by George Ill
whether he played ut cards, replied No your
Majesty; the fact Is, cannot tell King from a
knave."
Mrs. Darlington wants to know if it were not in
tended that women should drive their husbands why
A lady being asked her place of nativity replied:
Il am 50 unfortunate to have no native place; l
was the daughter Of 4 Methodist clergyman
An Arabian philosopher once said: "Oh, God! be
kind TO the wicked; TO the good thou hast already
been sufficiently kind in making them good
A Western editor says he was taught, when boy,
10 refrain from grumbling at two things; the one,
that which he cannot help and the other that which
he can help.
Many a man thinks it is a virtue that keeps him
from turning rascal, when it is only full stom-
ach. One should be careful and not mistake pota-
toes for principles.
The moral hero Is one whose voice is often at first
alone still small voice in the moral desert against
the wind and the earthquake and the fire Of strong
and evil passion
Jones inquired why the whistle of a steam engine
was a work of art After lapse of some seconds,
which passed in silence he said, because ITS
modern CaI-tune.
Take especial and seasonable care. if you
man, that your children shall not have fool for
mother: and. if YOU woman, that they shall
NOT have a father.
An afflicted husband was returning from the tu-
neral Of his wife, when a friend asked him how he
felt We'll. said ne. pathetcally, Il think feel
the better for that little walk
waE said. 81 loved my wife at first. For the
first months felt n if could eat her up; ever
since. have been sorry | didn't
-'Grandms, sand little urchin, You specks are
upside down-do You wear them thus to see TO
sew " No my dear, wear them so to see
A few weeks since a very sudden and eXtraOrdI-
Vary rush Of the tide occurred the west coast of
ireland and Scotland. most probably caused by the
falling OF large meteor into the Atlantic Ocean.
To tell your secrets Is generally folly, but that
folly IS without guilt; TO communicate those with
which you are lntrusted i always trcacherv, and
treaChey for the most part combined with folly
20 Thomas hood died compoSing-and that too an
humorous poem. lie Is said To have remarked that
he was dying Of charity to the undertaken. who
wished to ijU;lg HGssk
no Is confined thu .;ralo .,F
their acquaintance. 1t spreads ON every side of
them like the unduiations of the smitten water
and will reach those whom they never saw
A woman asked her gardner why the weeds al
yvavs outgrew and covered up tho flowers !?
Madam" he answered. THE soil is mother Of the
weeds but only stcp-mothcr of the flowers"
The only fountain IN IN wilderness of life where
man drinks OF water totally unmINed with bitter
ness: Is that which gushes for him in the calm and
shady recess of domestic life.
When men hv age fail in their sight and hearing
they had better console IN mseltes with the thought
thar they have seen and heard quite enough.
We interest ourselves too much m things that
ought t. have no iuteres; for us. Our miud PLAYS
"a. wanton. and giv-s itself o. every wuo.r-
Are these bells ringing Tor fine. IUquIr. d simon
ul TyherIas. No indie d. answered HHr. they
avePienty OF fire and the bells are now ringing for
water.
Noble spirits rejoice in the CO.'S. iousoy>s of a uo
tive base uup> a.ai -Ht only IN prcr,NL
Liebg says: Give me the amount OF soap people
u-c. and w'b make an accurate estimate OF t"er
moral condition
A PNswoNoys MAEQJ,S.-The wealthy Marquis q
AlI-ro, of France. who dIyG some time ago was So
parsimoniUU~ thar. -eeng his servant one day with
suart.ooEng HAT. he reprimandyd him for his eX
N2 sgauCc.
But il is the old hatyou gave me had it ironod
for "a franc.
"AH. said the marquis but did not know il
could be restored. Here is the franc you paid
Wili take the hat and he henceforth transferred
the renovated beaver TO his own head.