Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-04
SMALL CHANGE.
Silk has been made in Arkansas.
The pale of society-the blondes.


Silk has been made in Arkansas
The pale of society the blondes.
Shad have been caught in the Potomac.
Courtship is bliss, but matrimony is
blister.
New York spent $3.50, 100 on theatres
last month.
Lager beer is down to four cents glass
in New York.
lobe anybody ow-a-days one must first
be viewed, then reviewed, and finally in
terviewed.
Between shooting and imprisonment the
life of Radical journalist is lively ex-
istence in Paris.
Rubber pens are manufactured which
are said to combine the good qualities of
all other pens in use.
A Chicago reporter speaks of ''palatial
residence" being ''denudedn of two over
coats by an entry thief
Indiana lyceums are entertained by a
tame Indian, who closes the lectures with
war-whoop and a scalp-dance.
Jurymen at Muscatine, Iowa, take turns
at the whisky-bottle. Eleven do the bust
ness and one does the benzine
A Kansas clergyman thoughtfully hung
his hat on pole over the hole in the ice
into which he dropped TO commit suicide.
The statue of Nathaniel Greene, which
Rhode Island has presented to the nation,
is said to be the finest piece of sculpture
in the Capitol.
One great cause of rheumatism and
neuralgia affections in this country, Is
said to be the evaporation from stoves
and cooking utensils.
Revels cannot expect Summers full SYM
pathy. He is not a full-blooded negro,
but only clark brown" and the Senator
will admit only the genuine article to a
seat by his side.
A friend sat up with q sick man at FOn
du Lac, the other night to whom he was
to administer brandy at brief intervals.
The friend took the brandy himself, and
the sick man recovered.
A Philadelphia paper, in speaking OF
Paganini's Nine Muses., says that the ii
tie bestowed upon them by the artist can
not be called happy one, as it raises ex-
pectations which the paintings themselves
do not crafty.
Texas wakes fat. The Calvert Enter
prise says that all over the State, from
Red river to the Rio Grande, the presen
/ year has been one of unexampled pros
perity. There has never been a NOR,
prosperous year for the planter, stool
. raiser, merchant and artisan.
The Hon. R. S. Helm, Radical mem
Der of Congress from Alabama, was late
ly found in his room at Washington al
4 most suffocated by gas. When brough
to, he said he ''tried to pinch the ligh
a out, but found that somebody had stole
: the wick"
e The pen is mightier than the sword. !
d large tin sign in Detroit, representing
4 gold pen, was recently torn from il
Y fastenings by the wind, carried up int
t the air, and descending, its point penC
d trated the back of dog, killing him il
It stantly.
!, A man lately made application for il
Il surance on a building situated in a villae
where there was no fire-engine. He wl
L asked: 'What are the facilities in you
village for extinguishing fires?" ''Wel,
: rains sometimes" he replied, with gre'
u simplicity.
~ A young man in Indiana worked all la
4 summer to clear an eighty-acre tract {
II land belonging to young woman VII
4 had promised to marry him. When, jul
- as the weather began to- get cold, he wei
" to claim his reward, she married anOth'
= fellow who had looked on to see the victi
work all summer.
|. The majesty Of the law was fearful
Ic sustained by Lord Eskgrove, who, it
r related, once sentenced a tailor for mu
II dering a soldier, in these words: ''A1
/ not only did you murder him, wheret
/ he was bereaved of his life, but you d
1t thrust, or push, or pierce, or prOpel Il
i lethal weapon through his regiment
N breechcs, which were his Majesty's.n