Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-06
MELANGE.
Waiting for the verdict.


An epidogis is rapidly killing the can
mes of this State.
The Tribune trustees still vote Greeley
his salary.
-Thiers does not want to be President
for life. Life Is too short.
-Bennett Of the New York Herald is
engaged to a Washington belle.
French opera, after run of fifty years,
has been abandoned in New Orleans.
"A colored preacher of Georgia writes
his name "rev. louis POPE" and votes the
Grant ticket.
This occurs In an old book on NEGRO
mancy-never mind Which:-"HOw to raise
tie devil-Contradic your wife"
Ladies and gentlemen plomenading
together of afternoons this fall are COM
manded by fashion TO walk arm in arm.
Miss Bell silva, native singer of Tole-
do, is going abroad. She viii next be heard
Of as Signora Angelica da Correllissimmi
All the slate pencils are made in Yer
mont, and the sales amount to from $4,000
600 to 100000 per year. This includes
what the girls eat
Gentle zephyrs prevail TO such an eS-
tent in Memphis as 70 blow medium sized
poodles about the streets promiscuously.
Louisville dead beats are an ingenious
set. They efectualIy ward off dunning
creditors by flying the smallpox emblem
from their tionicil.
"A barber in TitusYille, while cutting
the hair of a rural customer, ran his shears
against some hard substance, which proved
10 be a milestone. The old farmer said he
chad missed that milestone ever since hay
ing time last July, and had looked all over
q ten-acre lot for it, but now remembered
sticking it up over bis ear"
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: zone
should nor look a gift horse in the mouth,
but the President is doing it to find symp-
toms of the epidemic in his Brooklyn
equine"
An instance Of throwing ones self
about was witnessed few evenings ago az
q party il the case Of q young lady, who
when asked TO sing, first tossed her head
and then pitched her voice.
old Scotch lady: cake snuff, sit?"
Gentleman with large nasal promoDtory,
Indignantly: "Do l look like a snuffer?"
Old lady: "Well, Gamma jist say you do,
though l maun say ye haze grand accommo.
dations."
Miss Nellie Margach, Of Meadville,
fred a revolver at a mark and hit herself.
She is evidentlyn not a success in pistolprac
tice, but would probably shine as boom
erangist with very htils instruction.
The Titusville Press says: "They
change school-books so often in the Oma-
Ia schools that the school-houses are sur
rounded every day with scores of book
peddlers' carts, and the air is filed with
! the ye!ls of the dealers, who speak Of the
| ,,,or;fs Of fl,oir rncr,nafiCa hO-lyS -
| -"Charley, what makes your cheeks so
red?" asked bis sisters sdmirer, of little
| urchin five years Old. "Cause put some
every day. 1t was an embarrassing dis
closure all around. At least Charley
| thought so, after the visitor was gone.
"A rural contemporary remarks: "The
| yellow pumpkin lies golden on the billsides
IN the country" The poetry of that re-
mark induces pie-ous thoughts.-OtrenSb0-
70 Monitor.
Oshkosh, Wis, has had an Enoch Ar.
den, but be didn't come back and gaZe
through the window at the felicity of the
| reconstructed household, and then go into
the green and yellow melancholy business
not any. he kicked the new husband out
sorted over the children and sent his brat;
after hiIn, and then, after thrashing his wife
settled down into a peaceful and happy
head of the family.
-Kaine, of the st. Louis Globe, put hi:
foot on the hay scales the other day and
weighed it, at the same time Offering to BET
his shoemaker an entire edition Of The
Globe against a wooden boot,ja that
pair Of shoes couldn't be made inside o
eighteen months. The shoemaker meek,
replied that "as for himself, be wasn't bet
ting man."-COH-ier-JOWWGE.
The finty hearted local Of the Loui
vile Ledger is happy in being able to chron
ice the fact OF a cOal-cart driver in tina
city, having been run over by bis vehicle
the accident resulting in a broken hand
As this class of JehUs have pleasant wal
of running over other people, the Ledge
man heads his notice Poetic Justice"
The College COl,rGnt despairs {
journalism because the great duties lac
"culture." There is nothing that youD
men in college do not know, and if th
great dailies expect TO attain universe
circulation they will give the College Com
ant earnest attention, The Chud'S Pdpt
and the SUndGy-ScbOOL Visitor should nc
permit the young gentlemen of the Cou
ant to make this good fight single-handeC
however.
AT one Of The schools in Cornwall
England, the inspector asked the childre
if they could quote any text Of ssriptuI
which forbade man having two wive;
One of The children sagely quoted in repl
to the text, "NO man can serve two ma
teTs."
The editor of the Peoria ReUie3o say
awe never owned but ore horse, and l
| was a saw horse, and our natural aversiO
J | TO riding was such that we would rstht
! | walk ten miles than ride that horse half a
. hour. That sturdy old steed was swel
, away one night in IN epidemic that passe
] | through the wood shed and carried of,
: addition, or rather in subtraction, lars
axe, the wood saw, rat trap and tV
pairs of skates, and we saw thai horse I
more"
z Boston forever! Her common reVel
berated last week TO the thunder of 10
guns, fred by order of the Governor of th
;. Commonwealth. For what? Why, {
E commemorate the discovery Of America b
0 Columbus in 1892. They have a liugerin
4 impression all around Massachusetts Ba
that Christopher pleaded with Ferdinsn
and Isabella, equipped bis expedition an
sailed over the sea expressly to discover
place to establish BostOn.-St. Louis r
publican.
: "A recently employed indianapolis loo
/. was annoyed by seedy looking fellow vi
sat by the stove one cold night last we,
: and warmed himself. "Sea here, old Fl
: low" said he, finally, hadn't you better
home?" The sold fellow" glared at hil
+; but said nothing. After few minutes Il
, editor took the CID fellow by The shOulde
: to lead him out, remarking that it was I
= place for loafers. "See here, young man
: roared the old fellow, ''yOu evidently doI
know who you're talking to. am one
. the proprietors of this paper" Tt
: sstounded editor plundged beadlong into
a gimlet hole.
q It's maxim Of seTvantgalism in Ne
e Yoik, that the summer quantum of was
= ing shall diminish from and after the
4 teenth of October. Biidy allows h
Y young missus three white skirts
= week until that time, and only two aftC
r When she comes to count the skirts In I
o basket on Monday morning, she epitOmi7
= any transgression In something like the fl
!, lowing sohloquy. Beginning with the to
|. most skirt, she counts, "Wan-two-thrO
q an DO me eyes decave me?-FoOr!! M
r the Lord have MARCY on me, but she's