Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-28
BREVITIES AND. LEVITIES.


Mans greatest enemy is the wine glass ;
woman's is the looking glass.
A good little Ohio boy husked enough
corn last fall to buy his mother piano.
Old Probabilities has been right, 60
iOOths of the time during the first year Of
his life.
Next year is Leap year, when the girls will
take the boys out sleighing, pay all the
bills, etc.
Mr.. Moffat of Ohio tried to melt bullet
out of his gun. lie succeeded. Age sixty
two.
At a Jersey city auction Horace Greeley's
war book sold for less than Josh Billings
Almanac.
"Figures won't lie.n Won't they? Does
a fashionable woman's figure tell the
truth?
The Chicago Republican chronicles s'33
deaths from cholera in Philadelphia" among
its "Trifes''
The blonde New York exquisites are
starching their hair to make it scrUbby,
like that of Alexis.
James Fisk, Jr., is presenting geld medals
10 the engineers who managed th Chicago
relief train.
It is said that Boaz married because
he feared that his laborers would think
him Ruthless master.
An uncle of George Francis Train has
made oath that Francis is a unatic, and
petitions to be appointed over him.
One button was found where a Missouri
ian had been seen sitting upon keg pow
der, smoking cigar, few minutes before.
The New Haven authorities provided
for the happy resurrection of a poor little
raisin box.
New York claims him-the one hundred-
and thirteen-years old man, who voted for
all the Presidents, saws wood, and all tha..
Teacher. ''Charles, what do you know
Of Napoleon 2" Charles. ''He begins with
a great N and end with q little II.
There are many pickpockets about Just
now So he shat would keep his watch.
"This let him do-pocket his watch, and
watch his pocket, too"
Mr.. Murray, of Hartford, executed a pigeon
wing with pair of skates on the cOunte-
nance of Mr. Buckingham, with such effect
as to cut off the lattef's nose.
An Illinois mother was so indignant at
the low stand her daughter took in the
printed graded list of her school, that she
knocked the principal down'with curling
iron.
MARY had little corn
That grew upon her toe:
And every where that Mary went
The corn was sure 20 go.
colored men named Wooten and Cook, the
former belted Cook with his black embrace
with such earnestness that the services of
six pall-bearers had to be secured on the
following day.
$50 you are going to keep a school p
said young lady to her maiden aunt.
"Well, for my part, sooner than do that
would marry widower with nine chill
dren." 81 would prefer that myself was
the quiet reply" "but where's the widow
er ?''
The high Spanish comb is coming in
fashion again and is made Of gold, studded
with precious stones of Oxidized silver, of
Jet, or tortoise shell. 1t is very stylish and
invariably becoming.
The Chicago Republican publishes Of
what it calls ga very bad poem" on the fire.
and says that if any of its readers know
the author, and will kill him, it will publish
bis obituary free.
Gail Hamilton's new book, "WOman's
Worth and Worthlessness" is TO be published
next week by the Harpers. 1t attacks the
doctrine of woman suffrage.
Lotteries owe their origin 10 Roman festi-
vals of the Saturnalia. They were natural
lied in England in 1859, and sanctioned by
a drawing in st. Paul's Cathedral. Their
religious character in that country is still
maintained, though on piously small
scale.
Jacob Phiney, a veteran who served I'M
der Commodore Perry at the battle Of Lake
Erie, lately died at Somerset, Penn. at the
age of eighty-three. He was on board the
Niagara during the fight, and was one Of
the only three on that vessel who escaped
unhurt. All three were n-en Of giant size,
the smallest measuring six feet and three
inches IN hight.
Tire Okaloaa, Miss, Ns,cs takes this
clleeTftl view of the section where it is pub
1ished: aI'he cotton and corn crops of the
country are turning out short-decidediy
short-and the meat crop proves to be no
crop at. al, and up-eountry meat can be
had only for cash, and cash is a scarce com
modify. Ia this state of the case the situa-
tion appears to be this; Starye, beg or
steal r'