Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-13
BREyTrIEs AND LEvITIEs.

BREVITIES AND LEyITIES.
/ A deer dish--yenison. es 7s
Taking people-thieves
1 Late Acknowledgements.
Heightened man-the tenor singer.
Strange wafers-bay rum.
A fruitful vehicle sloe coach.
/ Natures weapons blades of grass.
| Giant cOnfectionary--rockscandy
! Pleading at the bar-begging for
drink s t-S
! Woman's (naturaD protective union
marriage. 80
/ The most difficult thing to remember
the poor. 4t
/ Is man with red face necessarily a
| Florid-ian2 - 80 .t5 e-ssl ~ ~ 5
| Ill starred men-many of our late
BrigadieTs. rs L,itsiga ls;s 3, saa 49,
/ Can a windlass BIZ. 1considered an airy
nymphf IL lafi ts-- er.-r -.
| Unwholes0me onithOlogy-dropping
| The most fashionable of 1okcrs-the
dandelion. aa' - hzz11
| Isa vessel in the water when she is
| bound for sea $50 sigou ss
| Chronological Collections - prune-ing
the dates.
Is a season OF stagnltion the true one
for deer huntingl
| A well-balanced man-one with large
bank account.
The cup that cheers but not inebristes
the buttercup.
The only organ without steps is Cos
sips tongue.
Bed-ridden-those who travel by night
in sleeping cars.
High living that does not produce the
gout-iving in garnet.
The work of an hour-anything Won do
in sixty minutes.
"What ais your eye, Joe 2" 81 told
man he lied, " replied Joe.
Necessity has no law bat an uncom mon
number of lawyers.
Every bird pIeases US with its lay-es-
pecially the hen.
Dogs can't sing Old Hundred, but they
can howl like sixty.
Unlawful pharmacy-compounding fel-
ony.
A questioning ghost-the shade of a
doubt
The Cardiff Giants lullaby-"Rockm me
to sleep, mother. ="
Are familiar mathematics represented |
by the sign of the time2
Can pocket-picking be considered an
appropriate profession9
Improbable industry-spinning yarns
on the street corners.
Dangerous rural bookkeeping a
shooting box in The country.
Can the current of "a mans being be
considered the fruit of lifc2
The most intellectual of all the months
the March of the mind
When a murderer is respited, be is still
hanging-On expectation.
An eccentric egotist is likely to be I
troubled with humOrs of the eye.
An over-scrupulous young lady-one
who viii not receive a stolen look.
A man who owes his shoemaker cannot
say that his sole is his own.
Men of regular habits-those who get
drunk every morning before breakfast
To take spots out of linen-use very
sharp knife or pair of scissors.
Making light of Observation-Disclosures a
poor poets verses into the fire.
Suffering from wet groceries, is the
polite name for drunk in Chicago.
The story of the 'Iost Herr is sup
posed to turn upon a dropped chignon.
Does it add to a persons Intellectual
appearance to be in a frame of mind9
The man most likely to leave his mark
upon the times-one who cannot write his
own name.
Coal dealers say that anthracite is a
drug, but it is one of the drugs that are
good for a cold
viii you take a lunch? is now rem
dered-Win you surround some nourish-
ment?
The man who attempted to look into
the future had the door slammed in his
face.
Could frogs have chosen log for
sovereign, with such love as they have
for erow-king3
'Died from the effect of mixed collat-
erals, is the way they get at delirium
tremens in Cheyenne.
Sentimental youth-''Dear Maria, will
you share my lot for life2n Practical
girl-''How many acres in your lot, sir2"
The practice of taking babies to church
to distract the audience is defined as spa
rental barbarism" by an exchange
FOly-to think that you can make
pork out of pig iron, or that you can be-
come shoemaker by drinking sherry cob
lers.
One of the popular doctors of Louis
vile is named Grassland one in Lowell
named Graves. TheiSpatience go to
them.
A Cincinnati paper advertises for 'sgirls
for cooking" A contemporary replies
''YOu would like them raw, when you get
accustomed to them. "
'Gsn't your bill awful steep2" inquired
a spendthrift of his tailor. ''You ought
to know best, for it was run up by YOU"
was the cool reply.
A correspondent wants to know, when
the ''Refuge for Homeless Dogs" is estab-
lished, whether Husbands who live a
dogs life" will be admitted.
'1t is a sad moment in life" said Cynic,
''when you find that love, glory, happi-
ness, are, altogether, not worth good |
cigar" SIT is a saddcr moment still, " re-
piled his friend, "when you find that the |
cigar itself is bad.
A gallant was lately sitting beside his
beloved, and being unable to think of
TO say, asked her why she was
like tailor. 81 don't know" said she,
with pouting lip, ''unless it's because
I'm sitting beside goose"
An urchin, hearing his father read an
article in the paper in relation to a new
invention of bricks of glass, exclaimed:
''Glass bricks2 know what them is. :"
''What are they2" inquired one of the
family. 'Tumblers of liquor" said the
Juvenile
''Do you believe in second love, Mister
McQuade 2" 600 | believe in second
loveg Humphi If man buys a pound
of sugar, isn't it swateG and when it's
gone, don't ne want another pOundl and
isn't that swate too2 Troth, Murphy, I
do believe in second love"