Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-06
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Cinclnnati's tendencies are hoggish: it |
has packed $4,000 hogs so far this
season.
There is wisdom in this perverted
maxim: ''The want of money is the
root of all evil"
A South Carolinian lately took his in
tended second wife to view his extended
first wife,
Charleston comes up smiling as the
latest claimant for the authorship of
''Shoo, Fly"
The Queen of Prussia gives $50, 900
year in charity. The people give it all
back in taxes.
Brick Pomeroy came to grief in Central
Park the other day from driving too red
hot team.
A 'Past Grand Worthy Patriarch" of
the Virginia Sons of Temperance has just
died of delirium tremens
Auerbach asks $75, 900 for the copy
right of his new novel If he gets it the
''copy" will be a STAT take"
A young man in Stonington tried to
clean his gun by putting red-hot poker
down the barrel. He can't find one of
his fingers.
| Reddy the blacksmith has been smash
ing glass show cases on Broadway, and is
in Jail. He is very nearly Reddy for the
gallows, is Reddy.
A church society in Grundy county,
Iowa, raises the minister's salary by hold
ing meetings and charging twenty-five
cents to kiss the girls.
A Southern paper says of recently-de-
funct rival that it "has Kissed it from the
arena with the fingers of scorn." Kissed
with fingers is good.
New Workers complain that retail shop
keepers monopolize the sidewalks of that
city with their baskets of fruit, barrels of
provisions, furniture, masses of crockery
aud wooden Indians.
A rule of practice in one of the courts
of Wisconsin fOrbids counsel on either
side to consume more than an hour in
summing up case. Jurymen must like
to serve in that court.
Sherman has given Prince Arthur fine
gun, and Belmont, Dix and Grinnell are
to give him ball. Is there not addition
al liberality enough in New York to fur
nish the rest of the ammunition?
| A Western paper publishes the follow
ing correction: ''The words printed
pigs and coaUS in Mr. Parker's~ setter or
the land question, in yesterdays issue,
should read pros and cons"
A keen politician in the city of Glasgow
heard one day of the death of party
opponent, who, in a fit of mental aberra
ton, had shot himself "Ah!n said he,
'tgane AVA that way by himself, has he
l wish he had ta'en twa-three day shootin
amang his friends before he went!"
A new notion is to substitute hollow
spheres in the place of carriages in pneu
matte railways, run the tubes on poles al
over the country, and thus provide {
means of transporting merchandise at the
rate of 200 miles an hour. The building
and equipment of these communication
is estimated at $4,000 a mile.
A musician at a MANAGE casino lately
bought bottle of champagne, and sitting
down to the piano, he played the gayes
!; music and drank his wine until but
. single glass remained; into this he poured
bottle of prussic acid, drank it off, ant
began solemn funeral march which
ended only with his death.
| A lady in Leavenworth has written to
town in Missouri that she is '1ectorin OF
the influence and duties of women" ant
would like to 'Gector for the benefitof tn
church or Sabbath school, or eny individ
, uel in that town for 80 dollars, or fOl
one-half at 80 cents ticket" She ask
her correspondent to ''pleas right and lie
l her no what can be dun about it.
Until the year ITO this law was in fore,
in England: ''Whoever shall entice int
bonds of matrimony any male subject o
Her Majesty's by means of rouge, whit,
paint Spanish cotton, steel corsets, erin
oline, high-heeled shoes, or false hips
shall be prosecuted for witchcraft, anC
l the marriage declared null and void
Isn't it about time for this law to be re
l enacted?
There is pungent flavor to the remark
of the Pal lIdU Gazette, that 'HBritisl
amusements are, to great extent, base
on the Newgate calendar" To this i
adds: 'Our three-volume novels are de
lightful records of guilt" 1t has com
to this, that no work of fiction is certain
of great run, here as elsewhere, unles
it contains plot through which the tend
rils of great crime ramify like the root
of schirrus tumOr.