Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-23
GLEANINGS.

| Although the milkmaid has passed
away, made milk hasn't.
Madame Ratazzi has seventeen novels
on her conscience.
"What the Face Said, is the title of
the last English novel.
The farmers of Cape Fear grumble at
the low price of peanuts.
| Gen. Jordan has made road that the
| Spanish General cannot travel.
| Prince Pierre Bonaparte is the author
| Of ''Treatise on the Use of the Sword, :"
but for his own use he seems to prefer
the pistol.
A Questionable DIVORCE is announced
in New York. The parties may be fash
ionable, but they are evidently not well
connected.
New York toilette reporters have taken
to criticism. One of them says: "In
Mrs. LIS pink tule we recognize the
| dress of last winter"
Mack says Yates came into the Sen
| ate the other day Cooking for all the
world as if he had been fighting tom-cats
all night and had got the worst of it."
What is the difference between man
| paralyzed with fear and leopard's tail
One is rooted to the spot and the other
is spotted to the root.
South Carolina elected a cOlOred man
as Associate Justice of its Supreme Court
only for an unexpired term, which ends
on the goth of June next
In Jasper county, Illinois, during the
year 1869, Oversee, 600 acres have changed
hands, at an average price of s. per acre.
Nearly one-half of this was bought by &C
tual settlers.
A Mormon preacher, who held forth in
a school house in Lorraine, New York,
recently, was obliged to sleep in the build
ing, on the benches, because none of the
audience would tender him their hospital
ity.
The collection of minerals which Pro
fessOr Bruce began at Princeton College
in 1890, numbering about five thousand
specimens of American ores, is to be
| placed in the museum of the Maryland
| Academy of Sciences in baltimore
The New Orleans Times is responsible
for the statement that after a partridge had
been killed and laid on table in a kitch-
en-, in that city, its mate tluttered in, and
after many hOppings and manOeuVres
took place beside its dead companion.
The Russian Socialist conspiracy is
ascribed to the RevOlutiOnist Bakonnin
In 1849 he headed the insurgents in the
streets of Dresden; he was afterward
| given up by the Austrians to the Russian
Government and sent to Siberia, whence
he escaped, and is now at Geneva.
Rev. Mr.. Russell, of Pellin, practical
| taXidermist, proposes to put into the
| Mercantile Library rooms of Peoria, Hi
nois, a case that viii contain a good col
lection of the birds of Illinois, including
a pair of humming birds and their nest,
on condition that the citizens viii raise
for him $3.50.
One of the short railroads leading out
of New York city has decided to issue a
a free pass for a term of years to every
head of family building and occupying
a house at certain points along the road,
| in order to stimulate the building up of
the suburbs. No doubt the experiment
will prove successful.
Active operations will soon begin on
the Potomac Railroad, extending from
Fredericksburg TO Alexandria, Va. An
organization under the charter granted by
the last Legislature for this road was
effected sometime since by capitalists
from Virginia, Washington and Philadel-
phia, among whom are Jay Cooke 81 Co.
At a religious meeting at Allanburg,
Canada, on Sunday night, the 9th inst,
an old man arose, and calmly said he had
but short time to stay, and was determ-
| ined to live in such a manner as to secure
an entrance to heaven. He sat down, but
in few moments again arose apparently
i'll. A friend near him caught him as he
was falling, and in few minutes he
| died.
AT a levce given at Gardiner, Maine,
Thursday evening, Feb, 10, barrel of
flour was given to the soldiers widow re-
ceiving the most votes. The next day a
deputation of four of the principal citi-
zens, hauling a large sled on which was
the flour, preceded by coronet band,
marched through the streets, and finally
left it at the house of Mrs. Buck, whose
husband was killed during the war.