Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-15

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Il s She who deems that inward grace
Far surpasses outward show;
She who values less the face
Than that charm the soul can throw;
Whatsoeer her fortune be,
| She's the bride-the wife-for me.
She who knows the heart requires
| Something more than lips OF dew:
i That when loves brief rose expires
Love itself dies with IL too eA
Whatsoe'er her fortune be,
She's the bride-the wife-for me.
| A lady's sleeve link-A gentleman
arm.
| Fifteen thousand wives are wanted il
Kansas.
| The best band to accompany q lady vo
calist-A husband.
| The Oldest maid-Naomi, daughter Of
Enoch; she was 800 before she got hus.
band.
| An Indiana man has just shot himself
after three weeks of marriage. He couldn'l
stand grief.
| As every rib serves as brace, we do
not see how there are so many bachelors
in the world.
| A Mr.. Pikkleton was recently married
at the Walnut street church, in Phiadel-
phia, to a Miss Julia Sardine.
When woman tries to catch o rich
man, it is eyidentthat she cares less about
outstanding him than his cash
An innocent writer informs US that
mankind embraces woman. He would
be funny kind of man who did not.
Three of the wives of men employed
on the steamer City of Boston have con
soled themselves by remarrying.
An Indiana lady got tired of waiting
for her divorce and went beyond the
reach of connubial bonds by means of a
dose of morphia
A brave husband is Peter Fuller, of
Delaware county, Ind, who, getting
| frightened at what he thought was a
ghost, crept to the back side of the bed
and made his wife lie before him.
A man having bought hundred dollar
pocket handkerchief for his better half,
an acquaintance remarked that she must
be ga duck of Wife" to which by
stander added, cor he must be a goose of
a husband
Before you pay $50 for coat, young
man, find out whether your lady would
not just as soon see you in one that cost
you half as much. If she would not, let
her crack her own peanuts and buy her
own clothes.
1t is very good thing for girl to
marry doctor in good practice, for then
she will not see enough of him to get
tired of him, and at the wedding the
bride will receive presents from all her
husbands patients.
A young lady at Lansingburg got all
ready to be married few days since,
when the groom could not be found and
the thing was postponed. She wants to
know if anybody has seen anything of
him, or knows any other chap that wants
to marry, and will keep his courage up
until the ceremony is over.
A New York paper says: "There is a
trick being extensively practiced by
homely, but wealthy girls who want TO
marry. They get themselves up to look
like dyspeptics in the last stages, when
some nice man marries them. Parties in
this city will make splendid counterfeit
dyspeptic or consumptive out of healthy
girl in threedays for $50.
James Wright, eighty-twO years of age,
and wife, seventy-twO, celebrated their
golden wedding, in Pittsburgh, on Mon
day. Fifty-two children and grand
children of the ancient couple were
present and enliyened the occasion. This
numerous progeny had llocked home from
Missouri, Mississippi, L uisiana, Ohio and
Pennsylvania. They represented nearly
all the trades, occupations and professions.
Among the COssacks of the Ukraine
leap-year is eternal. When young wo-
man feels a tender passion for young
man she seeks him at the residence OF his
parents, and addresses him as follows:
"The goodness l see written in your
cOuntenance is sufficient assurance to me
that you are capable of ruling and loving
wife, and your excellent qualities en-
courage me to hope that you will make a
good husband. 1t is in this belief that |
have taken the resolution to come, and
beg you, with all due humility, 10 accept
me for your spouse" She then addresses
the father and mother, and solicits their
consent to the marriage. If she meets
with a refusal, she declines to leave the
house, and such conduct is usually crown
ed with success. The parents of the
young man never put the young maidens
away, if they still persist in their stay,
believing that by so doing they would
bring down the vengeance of heaven
upon their heads.
One Brice publishes his wife in the
Athens (Tenn. Post, and the injured la
dy replies as follows, in the same paper:
In reply to the notice in the Post in re-
gard to my leaving his bed and board, he
had none; he is mistaken, he had neither
bed nor board. He left my bed and my
fathers board. AS for running you in
debt, it is something you could not do
yourself, for you can't get credit for any
thing. l understand you have made an
application for a divorce; and now to
save some lawyer some hard pleading for
nothing, will raise a public collection,
for think the community viii help to
pay some good blacksmith to make you
one out of good iron that will last you
your lifetime; so when you get your di-
vorce in your pocket you will weigh
heavier than you ever did before, for you
are very light article anyhow. Now l
have one request to make of the commu-
nity-that is, for everybody to give him
a shake of the paw, then ne will laugh
himself to death, and will get shut of
him.
Respectfully, MARY BRICE.