Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-08
CoNNUBIALITIEs.
The following lines were taken from
young lady's hymn-book, few days ago,
which she thoughtlessly left in church:


81 look in vain-he does not come;
Dear, desr, what shall do 2
cannot listen as ought,
Unless no listens too.
He might have come as well as not
What plaques these fellows are!
III bet he's fast asleep at home,
Or smoking cigar
Seven Philadelphia girls married boSu
counts last year.
There are 1000 men who can't finC
wives in Kansas.
A safety maich-ten thousand yea
on both sides.
You can not do without money; you
may do without a mother-in law.
Bridal tours on street cars are SAID u
be fashionable in Baltimore.
Au Indiana belle has broken eighty
seven matrimonial engagements
A well setting dress makes dalnsel
feel nicely fitted for some young man.
A floral sentiment-if you look tc
'sheart's easA," never look to marry
gold"
The Queen of Madagascar wants tc
marry an American clergyman who is
young and tender.
Victoria has been unsuccessfully nego'
tiating to marry one of her daughters to
Prince of Orange.
Why ought woman prefer brewers
drayman for a husbands Because he'll
always supporter.
Of the 496 ladies who graduated at
Oberlin college, 172 have married gentle
men who were graduates of the same In
stitution.
The female engrossing clerk OF the
Iowa House of Representatives has got
all her rights. She has married one OF
the members.
A young girl being asked by rich old
bachelor, sEif not yourself, who would
you rather be ?" replied sweetly and mod
estly' "yours truly"
A Maine youths courtship is embittered
by the fact that his lady-love's house is
haunted, and the ghosts make it lively for
him every time he calls.
A female writer says that young ladies
should have some aim in life. Almost
every one does. She gets beau, then
she aims to get married.
A Young man in Penn Yam was en-
gagged for seven years to festive widow,
and now 'breaks it off" and exculpates
himself on the ground of mental weak
ness.
A Newark man is getting very suspi-
cious because his wife has several times,
lately, asked him why he didn't apply for
work at that nitro-glycerine factory which
has exploded twice lately9 He wants a
divorce.
A Pennsylvania editor rejects an adyer-
tisement sent him by an Indiana lawyer,
on the conditions that he should take his
pay in divorces, saying, however, that he
does so because he is bachelor, and the
proposition is t'scandalously premature.
A remarkable marriage took place at
Galesburg, ILL.,, last week. The parties
were Lamuel r. Crosley, of New York,
aged eighty-three, and Mrs. Amanda
Hurd, of Galesburg, aged eighty-one.
They were engaged at the age of eight
cen and sixteen respectively, but broke
their troth, and since then have each fol-
lowed two companions to the grave.
Marriage offers the most effective op-
portunities for spelling the life of another.
Nobody can debase, harass and ruin
woman so fatally as her own husband,
and nobody can do 1.-THE so much to
chill mans aspirations, to paralyze his
energies, to draw sap from his character
as his wife.
Greatly, my dear" saidpoor Mr.. Jones
to his better half, ''you have sadly dis
appointed me. once considered you 9
Jewel of woman; but you've turned out
only bit of matrimonialpaste. " 'Then,
my love-" was the reply, ''consOle your
self with the idea thai paste is very ad
hesive, and will stick to you as long a
you live"
A good story is told of a diminutiv'
mercantile gent of a neighboring city,
who, it is said, recently proposed to {
young and buxom damsel, with the fol
lowing result: ooh, no." said she, g
can't think of it for moment. The fac
is, -, you're little too big to put il
a cradle, and little too small to be pu
in a bed" The back hair of the stricken
youth has since run to seed.
The New York Mail says: GAS Their
| seems to be much diversity of opinion a
to what is the correct thing for bride
| groom and grOomsman to wear at morn
| ing wedding, we give our readers the fol
lowing from the most reliable source
''Blue superfine cloth frock coat, plai
lappels, velvet collar, and edged wit
round silk cord, buttoning only two bu
tons; with white ribbed Marseilles vest
double breasted, to show three-quarters c
an inch above the turnover of the Goa
lavender whip-cord trousers, with q sma
welted side seam and no stripe; rich blu
Lord Stanley or Prince Teek scarf with
small neat pattern in lavender, and lavel
der colored gloves"
The husband suffers by the mistake
which his wife makes about him in gen
eral. She fancles he has more weaknesse
than other men, simply because she know
more about him than them. He migl
turn around and say, though he woul
probably not convince her: 'DOnt 20
imagine all the men you see are invariabl
so heroic as they appear to be before yol
Because they are all pretty speeches an
smiles and nonsensioal, eXtravagant q
tention toward you, do you imagine tn
they always maintain that admirable q
titude Don't be fool, Anna Maria; b1
believe that all men are pretty much alik
and that l am not the only monster in Il
, universe.
AS all young ladies desire to be col
sidered beautiful, we publish the folio
ing receipt for accomplishing that desir'
, end:
How to be beautiful when old ?
can tell you, maiden fair
} Not by lotions, dyes and pigments;
r Not by washes for your hair.
While you're young be pure and gentle,
Keep your passions well oOntFolld,
Walk, work, and do your duty,
You'll be handsome when your oc.
I snow-white locks are fair az golden,
Gray as lovely as the brown,
; And the smile Of age more pleasant
Than youthful beauty's frown.
lis the soul that shapes the features,
4 Fires the eye, attunes the voice;
: Sweet sixteen be these your maNims,
n When you're sixty you'll rejoice,
THE COMING NEWSPAPER.
le From the Toledo Commercial.
# The New York Mail, in announc
10 the issue of John Russell Young's n
paper, the Standard, on Saturday Ii
II saws the older journalists of the metro
" lis are passing away, and that the fut
ct of journalism is in the hands of the Yol
men. This is nearer TUE than we r
eF lied at first glance. When Greeley
b. Bennett drop out of the traces, which
tie be in a few years, the New York p
Oh will be in the hands of new genera