Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-06-12
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| The clover blossoms kiss her feet,
/ She is SO sweet.
| While I, who may not kiss her hand,
| Bless ali the wild flowers in the land
| Soft sunshine falls across her breast,
| 80 She is 50 blest
| l am Jealous of its arms of gold;
| o, that her form these arms might fold!
| Gently the breezes kiss her hair,
| She is so fair.
| Let flowers ard sun and breeze O. by;
| U, dearesti love me, or die.
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| Hint to Lovers succeed as su.tpr,
you must Sttither well.
| A Bachelor--A man who neglecis his
opportunity TO make some woman misera-
| bic. -
When a married mn becomes corned,
i, is perfectly proper for his wife to pull
| his EARS.
An Indiana wife, who scorns divorce,
has caught her runaway husband, had
him fined $3.50, and locked up for six
| M nths.
The San Francisco board of education
has voted to discharge any female teacher
who may commit the crime of marriage.
Divorce on the ground of desertion is
what an Iowa woman wants, whose hus-
band is in the lunatic asylum.
The editor of an Iowa paper believes
that any one man can start out and marry
twenty women in his town before night.
An admiring husband complimented his
wife, who was sweeping the parlor, (for
exercise and amusement of course), on
her industry.
The Allegheny (Pa) Presbytery has
''solemnly rebukedn Rev. DR.. j. B. Clark
for breaking promise of marriage with
young lady.
Impecunious bloods in New Orleans
capture rich wives by exhibiting lottery
tickets, and afterwards claiming to have
drawn the grand prize.
Many woman who has forced herself
into the matrimonial market wishes,
when too late, that she had not been 80
badly sold.
The principal occupation of the 'tgirl
of the period" is said to be to sit at the
window and watch for the "coming
man."
The Troy Wing thinks that if clergy
mems pay was bigger there wouldn't be
so many hasty marriages solemnized.
Hayes City, Kansas, has q female con-
stable. The young men are in constant
fear that she may have San attach ment'
for them.
Forty-seven couples are at the Niagara
hotels already, trying to look as though
they had been married for years, but de-
ceiving nobody.
Jones, in Troy, told his wife to pour q
little kerosene in the stove and the fire
would kindle quickly. He was divorced
without the laws delay.
Monograms on wedding cards have had
their day, and have ''gone out" The
latest style is the letter only of the brides
name, large, plain, and simply printed.
A loafer left his wife in rage, telling
her that he would never come back till ne
was rich enough to come in carriage.
He returned the same evening in wheel
barrow.
Filtration is described by some one as
"gsme in which both sides know what
they are playing for, and it is mere trial
of skill to see which one will come off
second best. y
johnson was right. Although some men adore
Wisdom in women, and with wisdom would cram
There is not one in ten but thinks far more
OF his own GRUB" than Of his spouse's gram
mar.
1t is customary in Jewish churches at the
marriage ceremony, for the bride and
groom to exchange rings, on the principle,
we suppose, that stair play is jewel
B1rs. Jennie June Croley'propounded
most ominous question to her sisters:
'Iet every married woman here ask her
self if she meant every wori of love she
ever wrote to her husband"
A young widow was asked why she
was going to get married so soon after the
death of her first husband. "Oh, Ia"
said she, 81 do it to prevent fretting my
self to death on account of dear Tom"
Brigham Young has just been refused
by transient lady, whom he asked to
become Mrs. Young No. rs. She said
she was small and didn't ike to take her
chances among so many jealous women.
A lady, whose husband, an officer in the
army, was ordered to Fort Larned since
the Indian troubles, refused to accompany
him, as she had but very little hair on her
head, but what she had she preferred to
keep.
A New Albany, Qnd) man stood by
while an exciting fight was going on be-
tween two women, every now and then
exclaiming: click her, Betsy, lick her;
you're my wife, and if you don't hex her,
III lick you" Betsey obeyed her lord.
Judge Jesse Lambeth, of Rome, Ga,
has made 2,700 couples happy in his life
time. The Judge, it appears, was bache-
lor until a few days ago, when an
estimable young lady, named Miss Lang
ston, appeared and captured him.
An unfortunate married man was very
ill-used by his Xantippe; he was even
treated with an occasional thrashing. His
friends rallied him upon this, and at last
spurred him on to declare that he would
make an effort to be master. One day,
not long after, his better half was so furi-
Gus that he found himself compelled to
seek shelter under the table. Just at this
moment the voices of his friends were
heard in the passage. ''Come out, come
out !" cried the wife, fearful of an ex-
posure. 'sNo, mol" cried the husband in
triumph; ''come out indeed Not l |!
tn sho1O for once that I am MASTER 2"
A paper gives the following reply to
correspondent: There is no stated rule
for writing love letters. You should write
on foolscap paper, and bear on as soft as
you can, using words of such burning
love that they will sizzle on the point of
the pen. 1t is also advisable to sling in
bunch of pathos occasionally, such as
Dearest Augustus, love you with love
larger than an elephants; l think of you
every day, and by and by, when the days
grow longer / shall think of you twice q
day 1t is also well enough to put an
ink-blot in the corner, with the observa-
ton, darling, l kissed this spot, or 4
hove sigh in this vicinity"
COTTON PROSPECTS IN INDIA.
The prospects of cotton growing in
India, are far from encouraging. In ad-