Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-17
BREvITIEs AND LEvITlEs.
)ut a woman-a hoop skirt,

al dDOUI d WOudu-d uOOp BklILs
Back wages-what it cost woman TO
dress.
Louisville has three hundred and ninety
pumps, but not counting reporters.
A mantle shelf-A lady's shoulders.
Song for greenhorn-'With verdue
Clad l.. ...
Seasonable advice-Have your census
about you.
There are some lvolunteers who only
rifle pockets.
The cup that neither cheers nor inebri-
ates-the hic-cup.
The man who hadn't got an idea went
to sea and picked up an-otion.
A medical question-Is opening dead
letter post mortem examination2
If man gets up when the day breaks,
can he be said to have a whole day be-
fore him9
A Mormon Paradise Paraguay, which
has fifty women for one man.
A woman as black as the ace of spades
says she was ''born to blush unseen"
When a person declares that his ''brain
is on fire, " is it etiquette to blow it out
The lash that man does not object to
have laid on his shoulders-The eyelash
of a pretty girl.
Why should Romeo not have cared for
the month of Junel Because it was not
July yet Outlet.
Is it fact that statute diminishes in
size when exposed to a shower of rain
Yes, 1t instantly becomes statue-wet.
There is a cOlored man in Winona,
Miss, who refused to take the iron-clad
oath when offered position as mail car
rier.
The man who got wise by eating sage
cheese has brother who proposes to be-
come skillful in the fashionable dances by
dieting on hops. . -.a.
A woman broken out with small-p ox,
and warning passers-by to give her wide
berth, was one of the walking sensations
of Halifax, few days since.
President Grants excuse for not know
ing more about foreign relations is, that it
takes up so much of his time to attend to
his home relations
Apropos of the tariff on corsets-Since
there is no tax on men getting tight, why
should not the ladies have the same priv
ilege.
A precocious boy in public school out
West, who stands high in geography; was
recently asked by his teacher where Afri-
ca was located. he promptly answered
''All over the United States.n
''Do you think" asked Mrs. Pepper,
''that little temper is bad thing in a
woman 2" Certainly not, ma'am, re-
piled a gallant philosopher; cts good
thing, and she ought never to lose it."
An Arkansas temperance society has
dissolved. 1t allowed ale as
beverage; but the members found it
'bunglesome to their stomachs" and fell
back on whisky.
An Arkansas paper says: 'We had
two great shocks in Arkadelphla last week,
one of which was the empanelling, for
the first time, of a negro jury, and the
other an earthquake. The earthquake
won."
In the classic town of Waterville, on
garden fence facing the street, is posted
the following 'tnotice: ~ ''Pleas don't
hich no Hoses Hear for 1t is sode"
Josh Billings is of the opinion that
great many persons spend SO much time
hunting after righteousness that they have
none left in which to practice it.
The heather emblem of the snake hold
ing its tail in its mouth has always been
explained to mean 'rEternity" We
should think it typical of 'Life, rather,
as indicating a continual effort to make
both ends meet.
The author of novel, just out, wish
ing to say that her heroine opened her
mouth, thus expresses herself: ''The
pretty coral doorkeepers of her words
gave way, and low, knocking laugh ran
out from them"
The latest ''sweet pretty" thing we
have seen is this: GAS the unseen violet
betrays itself by its odor, so will love,
however carefully concealed, discover
itself 5y impalpable emanations from the
heart that forms its arbor." The car
Dor" part is especially fine-and appro-
pirate. ..
A st. Louis reporter in fine FRENZY
says: ''The sun shOne Respondent. and
its rays kissed the beautiful ripples made
upon the bosom of the great Father of
Waters, each wavelet seemed to shed a