Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-10-15
TBREvITIEs AND LEyITIEs

Serpents on the hearth-EeIs on a grid
iron. ''' "a gnu
s The man who works with a will-Tbe
& Probate Judge.
every young doctor must get on If he
<only has patients.
Old fogies are sverse to ova,ions- We
zmean Innovations.
8 Caution to bali goers-Never wind up
kthe evening with reel. sf
q Why Is the sun like a good loaf Be
Acause it's light when it rises.
s Charles Lamb calls colored children
innocent little blackness.
4 The s'hottest of the fight is always
where the coolest courage prevails.
The horse is curious feeder. He eats
$oest when he hasn't bit in bis mouth.
q People who lisp don't believe in young
siadies. Every miss is mythsta them.
& Time, says Horace Smith, sis the
vehicle that carries everything into moth
ling"
Song for engine drivers before a coliis-
3ion-"Whistle and I'u come to you, my|
Had
4 A little boy we know, is horribly afraid
that when ne is born again he will be born|
"a girl
What is that which many a man never
possessed, and yet leaves behind him2 AL
will
A new Mexican suicide left a note!
stating, 81 do this rash act for reasons
best known to MYSELF
1t is very difficult to keep up your own.
speace of mind, if people thrust pieces of
theirs upon you.
A wag says we ought neverto be fright.
Tened at the arrival of ghost, because id:
lis quite immaterial
Honesty" said the late intelligent XI
-, sis the best policy, but the worst
1 diplomacy. have tried both"
"Lottie," said little visitor, "what
makes your kitty so cross!n ''Oh, cause
she is cutting teeth, l 'spect."
Patience is exemplifed in the man who
left his wagon while his horse baked, sat
Cd stump and read the war kilograms
IT'LL the animal was hungry enough to gok
home.
& Pennsylvania paper tells of "notet
shaver, in Meadville, who keeps the trunk {
containing his securities near the head of
his bed, and lays awake to hear them
draw interest.
There are twelve brothers and four sis
tiers in New York family naroed Frost,
and five of the brothers were christenedf
las Winter Frost, White Frost, Sharp
Frost, Jack Frost and Snow Frost.
Conscientiousness in measuring time
takes no note of the almanac. There is
Ia difference in the length of the hour
when you are waiting for belated train,
and when you have note to pay and no +
funds.
A young rural lawyer in Illinois is goingE
Ito take the stump during the fall cam
|paign, and proposes to grasp a ray of +
light from the great orb of day, spin i'd
into threads of gold, and with them
weave shroud in which to wrap the :
whirlwind which dies upon the bosom Of
Jour Western prairies"
A dying Irishman was asked by his con-
fessor if he was ready to renounce the I
devil and all his works. 80, your hon
or" said Pat, "don't ask me that; | am
going to a strange country, and don't in
tend TO make myself enemies"
An old fifteenth amendment friend was
asked the other day, "WhO are thosek
young ladies 9"-referriug to two hand
some colored girls that happened to be
passing. The brother, picking up his ears,
and cooking his eye" replied: EFF de I
Lord doesn't know EN- better dan l do,
dey's lost!"
An American philanthrOpist, Visiting4
the State prison, remarked to a prisoner
s Most of your friends think the time of :
your sentence was excessive; nothing like !
it was ever known" eyes, I suppose
so, )" was the prisoners reply; ''but then, 8
you know everything has gone up SINCE
the war;