Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-03


Satan was certain both Of them would fall
But then another difaculty rose
| How to get Adam to accept his bridei
[ This he oercames as everybody knows,
4 By sending him to sleep: then By his side
Placed Eye-for sstaA know this much Of life,
Thst wide awake he'd never take wifel
/, BLEsr MIXTURE
From the rosebuds yet unknown, whose vernA
The purest purple take-and steal from May
The pearls that gem the lawn when springs the
day;
Crop the young violet from the scented bed.
And spoil the primrose of its velvet head,
With loves own od0rs charged, and stepped In 10y
The honeyid labors Of the hive employ,
| But search with care the aromatic work
Lest danger in the sweet temptation lurk
ana mar the luscious toi-fOr should st thou leave
One sting behind, twould al thy hopes deceive.
| INTO the fragrant grass let Zephyr fling
The newest, earliest whisper Of the spring;
me chirp OF beantys darling bird prepare
ana mix the murmurs Of the turtle there.
heE smiles and graces Venus must infuse,
And thrice eulbaim the whole with Paphiau dews
II the blest mixture eaintily you'd sip,
rs found perfected on thy swesthearts lip.
| The rule of three-'eTwo's company,
three's n0ne.n
! Said conceited young lady, you young
men are a covet-us set
There are twenty five local Woman Suf-
frage Associations in Ohio. a4 aa
The Queen of Madagascar is anxious to
get an American husband.
Seven of the Avondale widows have
dried their tears and remarked.
Nearly 200 Philadelphia girls were mar
ried to foreigners last year.
The street which old bachelors particu-
| larly shun in New York is Maiden Lane.
''What, said lady, edo you think of
PlatOnic love?" Madam replied the
| gentleman, cit is like all other tonics-
very exciting"
A girl at Fort Madison, Iowa, worth
800, 900, has just made a poor artist
happy by marrying him. Such practices
are very common and decidedly popular
| out there.
Dr.. Elizabeth Blackwell has commenced
the practice of medicine in London. She
is the daughter of Bristol sugar refner
who emigrated to the United States in
1882.
The Boston Post thinks sympathy Oh
Queen Victoria is wasted, because she
wears a wig, and ''has no gray hairs for
Wales to bring down with sorrow"
Nettie Chase, daughter of Chief Justice
Chase, is about to publish book of the
nursery songs of several lands, each one
with an original illustration of her own
Here IS q matrimonial advertisement
cut from Contemporary: ga young lady
of exterior and pleasant appearance wishes
to marry gentleman of Just the same
way of thinking"
A male tyrant in Chicago finds fault be-
cause his wife threw dishes in his face
while he wss sick and helpless. Being
woman of proper spirit, she has gone to
Omaha with gambler
A Tilted swain spitefully says: ftEve
did not know as much as her daughters of
the present day. Had they been in her
place, instead of being deceived they
would have deceived the devil
The ladies of the Universalist Church
at Clinton, Iowa, have hit on new dodge
| for raising funds. They have Glove
| making and mate choosing meeting" at
| twenty-five cents per head.
A young man having devoted himself
| to the special entertainment of company
of pretty girls for a whole evening, de-
manded payment in kisses, when one of
them instantlyreplied Certainly, sir, pre-
sent your bill"
Touching and irresistible was that in-
vitation of the rustic maiden to her swain:
''COme over and see me, we have new
lamp at our house, that we can turn down,
| down, down, until there isn't scarcely a
bit of light in the room"
A female button maker in the employ
of the Waterbury Button Company, has,
in busy times, made lightweight gross OF
cloth buttons per day, This would be
5000 buttons, requiring her to press
her foot on the treadle 26, 400 times.
The neglect of Cincinnati husband to
kiss his wife goodbye, before going on
short journey few weeks ago, re-
suited in his being presented on his return
with her application for a divorce, the
complaint containing eight charges.
The Princess Metternich lately ap-
peared at ball in black tulle, with the
very fashionable scarf sash of black gros
grain thrown over the skirt much below
the waist. In her hair a diadem of dia-
mOnd leaves with toquet of black vel
vet, white and black plume down the
back of the hair.
A young and sprightly widow once
appeared at a masquerade at Bath, Eng
land, with a paper pinned to her bosom
bearing the following lines:
ITO be let ON lease for the term of life,
1, Silvia ii In the shape Of wife:
I am young, though not handsome, goOd-na tured,
though thin
For further particulars pray inquire within"
Lady Franklin arrived at Rio Janeiro
on the 4th of March, from England. AL
though now nearly eighty years old, she
is upon a trip to the Pacific coast, she
having heard that some one living in Van
couver's Island is in possession of letter
from or regarding Sir John Franklin,
which he will not deliver to any one but
herself in person.
A new proof is given of the superiority
of women to men. The latter kick and
struggle more than the former when under
the hands of dentist. Women also do
not chew tobacco when in distress. They
do not take to drink under reverses of sor-
tune. For these important facts we are
indebted to the ReUOLutiOf.
a very young man, who had been in
love with woman of forty, with whom
he had a quarrel, was advised by an
elderly female friend to require return
of his letters. 'Probably she has them
no longer" eyes, yes" said the elderly
friend, undoubtedly she has them, for
after thirty, women very carefully treasure
AL love letters.
If woman wishes to be general ia
vorite with her female acquaintance she
has only to permit them to outdress her.
The more intent they are upon gewgaws
and decorations, the more profound will
be the respect for her that totally disre-
CARDS them. Let any one look amongst
his or her friends and see if she who is
most beloved is not one of less pretension
to fancy than those around her.
An English paper says the higher edu-
cation of women is attracting as much if
not more attention in SclavonIc countries
than in England. Nowhere has more
been done for it than in Bohemia. In
Russia it has made great progress, and
now we are told that public lectures are
to be provided for Polish ladies. They
are to be delivered at Warsaw, and will
treat of technology, natural science and
political economy. In order to assist In
providing employment for women, the
Directors of the Black Sea Navigation
Company propose to employ women in
future as book-keepers, telegraph clerks,
and accountants.
A lady writer in the GALAXY defends
American laGies against an English charge
that they are ''scraggy," and that hand
some leg is rarity. This the GALAXY
writer says is as baseless as it is unbeara-
BILE. And she goes on to say that though
she is ignorant of the ballet and profess
siOnal dancers, she has passionate sense
of lzpaI1tu of form, ond hnn tnIrcr, ad-