Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-20

been mother. But / am in pos,
session of my senses, notwithstand-
ing public opinion to the contrary.
Public opinion needn't be contrary
about it, however, unless they
: chews. But l will 90 on and speak
e of the 5 senses of mankind, in "Open
: order" "single fle," the LIST of
which is
SEEING
This here is a faculty yherebva
man can "go it blind and still sssee
man and raise him" at the same
time. Sometimes people see double,
which it is specie of ID sight. 1t
is an optical illusion of the mucous
membrane, Oscillating the abnormal
functions of the visceral yertebre:
the Latin for this being IN hook Sal
ammonia elmo Ueritas. Many folks
who don't know Sal are acquainted
with hook. The human vision,
which means seeing, can reach far
Their than anything else except the
imagination of black republican
editor, or Gen. Butler for spoons.
Without eyes, there couldn't be a
blind man, and if some folks wasn't
blind and had guideboard in front
OF EN-, with words on it to those
effect, they couldn't git a livin'.
Then there is people, who, in the
language of an ancient" patriarch,
"have ears and they see not, ewes
and they hear not met blind
man the other day and he held out
his hat and asked me for aims. I
told him he had two already and
that ought to get a Twin for one
man. But had taken a warm BATH
that morning, and my pores were
all open; so gave him a twenty
five cent shinplaster and was about
going on, satisfied that | had done
a good deed, when he sung out
"that amt good for nOthin the
d-n things counterfeit Poor
blind man / walked on hurriedly
and thought as did another patri-
arch chap, chow sharper than
serpents thanks it is to have
| tOOthleSS child :"
Seeing is a divine blessing, ex-
cept when a man sees a pile of
''bills payable in front of him, or
a bill for board and no stamps to
pay it with. 1t is also disagreeable
to see such Wretched bad Jokes as
mine, or such fearful attempts at
acting as some of our theaters ex-
hibit nightly, least TO the whole
strength of the''-eyesits
1t is pleasant to see your girl
kissing another Teller, or your wife
hugging another man when you
have to pay all the expenses. 1t
| isn't pleasant to see too much of
one subject; so we will go to
HEARING
Something else Hearing is a great
acquisition to the human skull ( and
cross bones). 1t is so sweet to
hear the little birds sing the organ
in the church; the and-organ out
side the church; the gentle zephyrs
as they 1oat-as they float on the
mur5 of soft lutes and the filing of
crosscut saws by the moonlight!
It's mice. Then, too, to hear the
gentle rats gnawing the floor under
your bed when you want to sleep
L have sometimes wished was
1.-THE Pretty Little Rat Catchers
daughter" But / was born other
wise.
Hearing enables US not only to
understand ancient lore, but also
modern lower in the Louisiana
Legislature, than which no mOderns
have ever got lower. 1t is COM
manded that He that hath ears to
heyah let him beyah ;" and the ears
of most of the members of that
Legislature are long enough to hear
any distance in thick fog. But L
hope they will have no
FEELING
Against me for making a serious
Joke at their expense, as | speak
of them as a body, and am on my
body guard Without some feel
ing, however, We should be mis-
cradle sinners, Men aud women
should have some "feller feeling in
their bOsOms," and strive to love
one another, as / do. But there
are people destitute of all feeling,
and are too mean to ache when they
are hurt.
Feeling differs from the sense of
hearing, inasmuch as you can't hear
your teeth pulled out when you 60
to dentist 5, but you can generally
feel it. Ii it wasn't for this you
couldn't enjoy the operation at all.
The sense of feeling is great bless
ing in good, squar' cases of the
''danga,' called "break-bone fever
for short. If 1T wasn't for feeling
we shouldn't enjoy the whisky sold
now a-days; for it makes US feel
worse than sleepin' all night in an
open field, with the bars down and
the gate open, and a hole in the
fence to boot. But
/ TASTING
k4riumphs over all the other senses,
especially when you have to take
cod liver oil, as i have to, or some
of the liquors sold on st. Charles
street. Tasting is a great gift, and
is simply the irritation of the cor
ruscations of the palate, which, in
the Doctors latin, reads, "Edi-
mus et TiUiBHS non T'iujmUS e.
EdimUs;.' which was not only
wrong in Edimus, but he came near
| getting into a muss for doing it,
But the Doctors latin is only hog
latin.
Tasting is great quality in many
respects. | have wanted to kiss a
pretty girl before now so bad / could
taste it. Who was to blame2 / OF
the girl But
SMELLING
Is the greatest of all the senses, for
if it wasn't for smelling the people
of New Orleans couldn't 'smell a
mice, or the stagnant water Of the
back swamps and trenches Of New
| Orleans in hot weather. But when
| II cornos IN sticking ones nose into