Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-16
CoNNUBIALrTIEs.

| Snowy with foam.
Brown earth and tossing fields Of grain,
whispering branches and falling rain;
Burning blossoms quenched IN dew;
Odors Of paradise-mus1c, tool
Ali yes, yes, this world is fair to seei
Bnt these make not the joy in my breast,
"For the sweetest thing in this world above
To mel to met
Is this-that have some one to love,
And some one that loves me,
Loves me"
o. Birdie was right in his swaying nest;
We study from day to day.
"To love- :" ITO be loved" We forget the rest,
And carry but this away.
With .'love" on our lips and "love" in our
hearts,
We journey this life all through,
And placing our SORROWS and troubles apart,
Love- enters with us on the new.
Can a lover be called sutton when he
don't suit her.
One of the most beautiful women of
Portland, Oregon, has just eloped with a
Chinaman and sailed for ''flowery land. !"
Let 8 woman once think you uncon-
querable, and unless she is unlike all
other women, she will still want to con-
quer you.
Two young Atlantans ran foot race
on Sunday for the honor of escorting a
belle TO church. The winner found she
had just gone with another fellow.
Skate" writes from Bridgeport, Conn,
to Boston weekly journal, saying: "I
married where l did not love, and now l
love where l cannot marry. o, what
shall dol"
The LOVERS DICTIoNARY.-Buss, a
kiss; rebus, to kiss again; sillybus, to kiss
the hand instead of the lips; blunderbus,
to kiss the wrong person; pluribus, to
kiss q good many; omnibus, to kiss
everybody; erebus, to kiss ia the dark. "
"High" Parsons would have couples tarry
When they propose to wed in Lent
But why? The sooner people marry,
The sooner, mostly, they repent.
A clever repartee is attributed to the
member from Mormondom in the new
Congress. A brother member asked him
how many wives he had. Enough to
keep me from running after other peo-
ple's," he promptly replied.
A bachelor says that all he should ask
for in a wife would be a good temper,
sound health, good understanding, agree
able physiOgnomy, pretty figure, good
connection, domestic habits, resources of
amusements, good spirits, conversational
talents, elegant manners, money!
A spirited girl observes that to her mind
the women who want female suffrage be-
cause it will cause division in families,
must be precious meek lot. A'woman
of any pluck can pick quarrel with her
husband without waiting to split on
votes.
In Albany, the other night, woman
met her once husband at wedding psrE.
They had been divorced for ten years.
A short chat at supper and a little tlirta-
ton afterward settled matters, and they
were remarked the next day.
About a year ago, in town in Ne
yada, a girl presented herself at the bed
side of young man and asked him if he
loved her. He said he did. In less than
a year thereafter there came suit for
breach of promise, and the young fellow
had So, 900 to pay.
Seven girls in Cincinnati have associa-
ted themselves into a society having for
its object the investigation of the ante
cedents of the wife hunters. Any girl
having an Golfer" may apply to the 30
ciety and in less than week she will re-
ceive history of her lover, from his
youth upward. Weddings are likely to
be scarce hereafter in Cincinnati.
Bachelors, says Josh Billings, care
always a braggin' of their freedom!
Freedom to darn their own stockings and
poultice their own shins l had rather
be g widower once in two years regular,
than to be a grunting, old, hair dyed
bachelor only ninety nine days"
CIVIL you take this woman to be your
wife 2" "Wel, Squire, F" was the reply,
''you must be green IN to ak me such a
question as that. Do you suppose I'd be
such a plaguey fool as to go to the bar
hunt and take this gal to the quilting frolic
if l warn't ssrtin and determined to have
here Drive on with your business. "
The author of "The Gates Ajsr" Miss
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ID going to marry
a nice young clergyman; that's her gait
now. Miss Phelps is said to be endowed
with a set of delightfully."- tormenting
nerves. The chipping of cricket in her
room will keep her awake all night. To
such an organization husband would be
an uncomfortable nuisance, of course. To
be compelled to lie awake listening to
the trumpet-toned snoring of great,
awful, unsentimental, numerous savage
Of q man Intolersblel
4 young lady in military feryor dis
guised herself in male attire and en-
listed at Muscatine, Iowa, in 1861, in the
twenty fourth Iowa infantry, served till
the close of the wal, and returned to her
fathers house, where she was warmly
welcomed, but told nothing of her army
history. Recently a member of her
! former regiment fell in love with her,
without the least suspicion that she had
been his comrsde, but as he was not a.
all shocked at the recital, they were mar
ried, and she for the first time told the
! folks about her military career.
MOthers-in-lsw are usually the subject
! Of dcTisiOn to Punch, but the old CyniC
makes the following exception:
! Happy the man who, when he takes a bride
! ESpouses her alone, and none beside;
| And doth not find, as many husbands do,
| That ne has married her relations, toe.
Let him that needs must wed select wife
/ Whose parents, both, departed nave this life,
/ Her sole regard that he may comprehend,
! And prove the else fTiendless orphans only
| friend.
! What mortal ever yet the husband saw
| Blest in the mother he acquired by law?
! Exceptions to all rules in time are born
! Long live thy mother-in law, Lord of Lorne
The Sparta (Wis.) Eagle tells thii
story: A specimen of the genus homo
came into lawyers Office the other dsy,
wanting to know if he could get divorce
| from his wife at the next term of the
court. Being told the time was too short,
as court met in fortnight, he retorteC
vehemently: 81 gave lawyer in tow
SO over a month ago TO get mea divorce
and he hasn't got it yet; now, what vii
you charge, and how long will it take 2
The lawyer informed him as to the tint
and expense necessita.ed by the law
delay. After rejecting with cloudet
bgoE for sometime, he showed a fact
beaming with satisfaction, raised his lon
and almost fleshless arm, and brought
down his bOny hand upon leg which
seemed too slender to Withstand the
shock, and raising his gaunt form to it
full height, eZcleimed in stentorian tones
''Sir, I've got 81, 900 in greenbacks, ant
am going West, onto the frontier Il
buy me farm, and when l get ready
Keep house l can buy squaw for $2t
and that is g dsrned sight cheaper thai
getting a divorce in Wisconsin, And b