Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-11-27

The maid that hands them-'pon my life
Well, let 1t pass, we're all soft-hesrted-
whispering asked for "Man and WIFE,
She hsped, Engaged" aud so we parted.
Mss Bessie Cotton, of Indiana, boasts
of being engaged to eight young gentle
men at once for year.
You can't marry a-miss if you marry a
widow.
The men of the day most popular with
women--Hymen.
Some of the fair sex have hearts as
brittle as glass. He that would leave inn
preston must use diamonds.
Figaro says he has reflected good
deal on the lapse of ages, and prefers, on
the whole, the age of seventeen.
A Chicago bridegroom is reported to
have recently given clergyman bogus
check for $S7, and received $92 in good
money.
Mrs. Polly Deer, of Montgomery couu-
ty, Ind, has an unmarried daughter
weighing quarter of ton. Who wants
the little dear2
A wicked little lady in New York has
q collection of eighty-four vanquished
and Tilted mssculines, which she calls
her ''noble army Of martyrs"
A Chicago girl who had been tilted,
and who had determined on suicide,
wrote 10 her faithless lover: "My folks
are poor, and will you please help them
bury me
Onion lOzeDges are the latest invention
| in the confectionery line. They are in
tended for the use of lovers and ladies
who are annoyed by gentlemen addicted
to long calls.
A jury at New York has fixed the price
| of ''kissing ladies for fun" at $3.50. They
| decide that it it is apt 10 raise hopes of
marriage, and make breach of promise
suit good. 4
"Whati tipsy sgain9" said wife to
her husband. ''No, my DEAR" said he,
mot tpsy, but a little slippery. The
l fact is, somebody has been rubbing my
boots till they are as smooth as glass"
/ A wealthy bachelor married, offhand,
| beautiful young lady whom he caught
inspecting cook stoves at the fair. Since
then, you can't get within forty rods of
the stove department, for the crowd of
pretty girls.
A young woman in Sacramento, Cal,
is threatening to get a divorce on the
novel ground of "protracted festivities. y
She says her husband celebrated his
marriage by getting drunk, and has kept
up the festival ever since.
Quite large number of cadets who
have just graduated from West Point
have entered already into the bonds OF
matrimony. Their excuse is that they
1 60 Ifaofr1ipo ond nrIor hot
they cannot get along without it.
Mrs. Esther NJ. Davis, of Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, who left her husband because
he was too lazy to work, and was in the
habit of whipping her seven times week,
announces that the situation is open il
any of the Cedar Rapids women want tC
try him on. ...-
A man was married he lost his wife,
and had a stone erected over her grave
He married second wife, and when sht
died he had the gravestone split, and i
thus served for the two departed. He
proposed to the third, and the LADY
quaintly remarked: 81 do not believe
that stone will split again"
How beautifully wife's constancy i
1 illustrated in the case of the woman a
| Newport, r. l., who having had her hus
band put in the watch house for brutalIt
toward herself, carried him his pipe auC
tobacco, saying that she wanted him t
take as much comfort as possible durini
his confinement.
A striking illustration of the saying
the pith of lady's letter is in the post
script, was that of a young lady who
having gone out to India, and writin
home to her friends, concluded with tn
following words: ''P. S.-You will Sc
by my signature that l am married"
The following will was filed recently il
the Surrogate's Office at New York: ''Ur
to my beloved wife - All m
worldly goods l have in store l give m
beloved wife and hers for evermore.
give all truly; no limit fix. This is N
will, and she is my executrix.
Apropos of weddings, the latest cod
of etiquette in regard to young ladies abor
to be married is said to be that the
should not make calls after the engage
ment is announced. There is also al
other new decree of fashion in this con
nection. Ii is not in good taste to divulg
in advance the direction to be taken
the wedding tour. One young lady OF
served this rule 50 strictly as to decliD
/ taking any member of the family, eve
/ her mother, into her confidence as II
: | garded this important matter.