Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-03
BREVITIES AND 'LEVITIES.
Eugene paints thickly.
Grant is fond of HOar- ding.

Grant is fond OF boarding.
Revels keeps dark in the Senate.
Bailey is one of the "wicked flee"
family.
Chicago's latest notion is a new Ameri-
can religion.
De Rodas finds de road over Jordan a
hard road 20 travel.
Capillary falling in love
! with a chignon.
Which is the largest jewel inthe world!
the Emerald Isle.
Frankly speaking can Senator Reyels'
letters be called ByackmdI
The time to buy another umbrella
| just after you have lent one.
Ofice-seeker's cry: ''Ohl that were
an event, that might take place"
What should clergyman preach abOutl
About fifteen minutes.
Actors may not be fond of duels, but
they dearly love 70 be called out.
Sentiment for temperance host
sDrink to me only with thine eyes.
Of the skaters at Paris, American ladies
and Polish gentlemen carry off the palm.
How many apples did our first parents
eat in the garden of Eden9 Eve s and
Adam 2.
The great moral question which con-
Vulses Illinois is, GLOW to prevent boys
playing marbles for keeps2"
A Boston clergyman sprained his ankle
the other day, and 50 became lame 'un
Qayman.)
When q man becomes wreck by in
temperance, you will generally find that
wreck high and dry.
Thieves do not have very quiet life of
it, Notwithstanding they take things so
easy.
Why is a mans coat larger when he
pulls it out of a carpet-bag2 Because he
finds it increases.
A schoolmaster said of himself, 81 am
like hone; l sharpen a number of
blades, but wear myself in doing it.
A clergyman in Hartford is going to
preach on chignons from the text, ''The
glory of woman is in her hair.
One of the sages say: ''Don't go to
law unless you have nothing to lose; law
yers' houses are built on fools heads"
A Scotch lady, who was discomposed
by the introduction of gas, asked, with
much earnestness, ''What is to become Of
the poor whales 2"
A New York paper describes the bon
nets that are coming with the spring as
Notwithstanding like a sun1ower on
the peak of a haystack."
a fop in company, wanting his servant,
called out, ''Where's that blockhead of
mine =" A lady present answered, Con
your shoulders, sir.
Greeley has never been accounted
success as a druggist, yet he seeks to con-
vey the idea, in his Essay on Farming,
that he is the fanny cutest chap in Chap
paqua.
A San Francisco wag says he thinks
the Chinese will yet win universal respect
in ChristendOm, on account of their
heathenish habit of minding their own
business.
A constable in Missouri had a writ to
serve, and by the following return on the
back of it, it is believed he didn't have a
pleasant time: "Saryed the within writ,
but was fit with brix so that l couldn't
sarve it!n
A clergyman in Pennsylvania has re-
fused to buy Mark Twain's book, and is,
in fact, disguised with it. "Why," said
he to the agent, ''the man who could
weep at the tomb of Adam must be an
IDIOT"
Some Michigan Spiritualists called for
the Devil at recent seance, but when
he appeared, ''six feet high, clothed in
black to the ends of his fingers, which
were armed with cruel claws" they
cleared the room, and viii ''raise the
DeviP' no more.
The New York Sun pertinently asks
''Why shouldn't people have more sense
than to use tobacco in theatres, churches
and other public places? The world is
all before them where to chew, and they
might be a little more delicate in the
matter