Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-05
BREVITIES AND LEVITIES.

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women.
The bed of the Ohio is the favorite prom
enade at Louisville.
The sheriff formed an attachment for
Lisa Weber at Louisville.
VandenhOff, the elOcutor, is dead in the
papers and alive in Boston.
The boys of Burlington, Vt, had a snow
balling match last week.
'WOodhulling" is what they call il now
when wife cuts her husband for an af-
finity.
An OleaginOus fact-Whale a boy and
you will find him full of blubber.-.Ne,v
Orleans Times.
When a man is "roOted to the spot" how
long must he remain before he IedUes?
The last fling at Bergh is that he won't
let the New Workers bottle catsup.
The Piutes stoned to death one of their
medicine-men who failed to cure two in
valid chiefs.
A Nebraska lunatic amused himself by
throwing baggage from railway train be
tween stations.
a man with beard twenty-nine and a
half inches long is the boast of Dawson,
Georgia.
Mr.. LincOln's walking-stick and John
Browns pike were burned in the Chicago
fire.
Two cOnvicts of the Indiana Northern
State Prison turn out 100000 barrels and
$1,000 chairs annually.
A Cattaraugus county boy saw tree fall
ing and in his fright ran directly under it
and was killed.
A bar Of silver as heavy as a barrel of
pork has been presented to the Pope by
Californian friends.
In too many lamentable instances "the
last scene Of all this strange, eventful his
tory" is-kerosene.
Mutual admiratiCn-As the season of
parties approaches boys begin to feel gallant
and gals buOyant
The floor of a New Hampshire stable fell
out, and three cows that were hitched to
the stalls were hanged.
Among the remarkable signs of ChicagO's
recovery is the daily advertisement of base
ball games to come off,
AT a recent burglars convention in Yer
mont, it was resolved that it was sexpe-
dent" to use chloroform on victims.
The prices of the best wheaton bread in
London are from fifteen to sixteen cents Der
four pound loaf.
Mr.. Mccormick lost S75O,OOO in Chicago.
and is ready to admit, no doubt, that the
great fire is the champion reaper.
The three things most difficult are. to
keep a secret, to forget an injury and to
make a good use of leisure.
A Wisconsin man reported that he
couldn't find word in the dictionary, be-
cause 'the blasted book hadn't got an in
dex.n
In a Charleston meeting a dissatisfied
disputant "brOke" with the chairman. broke
two chairs, and broke up the proceedings.
Among the furniture necessary in the
church in Baltimore where the Episcopal
Convention is in session, is said to be 295
spittoons.
The New York Herald mildly calls
BrownlOw ''that wrathful and remOrseless
old mouthpiece of sulphurouS Satan"
An Ohio physician may justly claim sym
pathyv He poisoned apatient for $500, and
then the widow refused to pay him.
Mrs. Moore, of Indiana, thrashed her
husband for getting drunk, and the Louis
vile Ledger calls her ''the bride of lama
Moor"
In the garden of Mr. Morley, the Pack
Horse Inn, near York, England, there is a
pear tree with three distinct crops of fruit.
An extraordinary ease is that of a Scottish
girl, who recently died at the age of 10,
whose body was less in size than that Of
an infant.
A year-old boy-baby, beginning to walk,
is by no means a good euchre-player be-
cause he insists upon ''going it Alone"
Ashbury has made several successful
deadbeats to the windward, but has gained
the reputation of being a very successful
d. B. himself.
Disguised with the decadence of Tia
Nnrv York Tipaao 10 Lot.
mond is said to have started paper in the
spirit land.
''Dew d'Andes, for pOcket-handkerchiefs
is the latest novelty in the perfumery line. |
Probably the dispensers Of it think it viii do
for handles.
A Western editor who had heard about
enough big apple stories, kindly acIlnowl.
edges the receipt of an apple, weight two |
and half tons.
Alexis was so young when his father de-
clared emancipation, that there is a talk of |
taking him down to Long Branch for the
sake of showing hira a surf.
$50 to thunderl' is now rendered thus:
''Take your departure for the abode Of the
reverberating echoes of heavens artillery"
We think that there are at least six papers
published in the United States that have /
not yet remarked that "Chicago viii rise,
Phoenix like, from her ashes"
An illiterate butcher Of Athens has do !
mated 10000 to the Greek University /
there, in which he was probably prompted /
by nothing but sheer respect for letters.
On being acquitted on the charge of mur- !
dering his wife, Rudd bolted from the court |
room, ratified down the stairs three steps at
a time, and was out of sight in a twinkling. !
A seventeen-pOund trout, over three feet |
in length, was found in the river at Haver- |
hill, Mass, a few days ago. 1t had been in
jured in going over the dam at Lawrence.
An Obdurate screw nail may be easily 4
drawn if piece of red hot iron is put on
the head of it for minute or so, and the
screw-driver Immediately afterwards ap-
piled TO draw it.