Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-12-11
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'Tis sweet to court,
But OIL how bitter
To court a girl
Ann then NOT oft her.

To court girl
Ano then not git her.
--Tailor's revenge Giving customer
fits.
-De-mewer-The cat. De. seat full
Fat man in chair.
-Lucca has a tremendous appetite, and
she drinks as much lager as Nilsson does
claret.
They are having pleasant little showers
in India. About foot Of rain generally
fails in an evening.
"A Louisville landlord turned away q
young woman recently on the single ground
that she appeared alone to apply for lodg-
ings.
Georgia boys have become so expe-
rienced in the use of sings that they can
kill poodles in ladies' arms as they go along
the street.
An exchange suggests that select jury
of persons crippled by railroad accidents
might do something toward admonishing
engineers.
Apples can be purchased for four cents
bushel in some parts of Illinois, and sew
ersl editors have purchased half bushel
for winter use.
Cough tells of a stolid man who, when
told that a Ike could not be pounded into
him with sledge hammer, asked if people
ever did pound jokes into other people with
sledge hammers.
There is nothing like good definition,
as the teacher thought when he explained
the meaning of sold maid" as a woman
who had been made a very long time.
AN indianapolis swell not being able
to raise the necessary to purchase bottle
of Lubin's best, slowed dead muskrat in
his coat tail pocket and was the exposure
of every nose in the ball room.
"A Radical politician wrote two letters
after election. One was to bis son con-
tanning the single word "Hurrah," the 9TH
er full of consolation to a weeping friend
who had just lost his wife. In bis excite
ment he got them mixed in directing and
the result can be imagined.
-Iu buying hose in Poissy, France,
which there are not numbered, ore is not
asked as in England, if you desire inside,
middle, or outside women's stockings. but
to double your fist. The shop girl then
takes the foot Of the stocking, and if the
heel and toe will well meet in comprising
the fist she tells you it isyour size.
Shakespeare was married at Is; Dante,
Franklin and Bulwer; st24; Kepler, Mozart,
and Walter Scott, at 20; washington, Ma
poleon, and Byron, at p; Rossini, the fist
time, at so, and the second time at 81;
Scheler and Weber, at 81; Aristophanes,
at 45; Wellington, at 81; Tallna, at 80; Lu-
ther, at az; Addison, at A; Young, at Al;
Button and Goethe, at 81.
Those Montana editors are perfectly
irresistible in their free familiarity. Here
is a sample personal" from the Bozeman
Courier:
Van II. Fisk, the "Judge" Of the Helena
Herald, has been with us few days, and
Judging from the number of times he drew
his subscription book from his pocket, we
were led TO believe that subscribers are
plenty. Come again, thou jolly cuss with
the round form.
Down in Arkansas, IN some counties,
the people live on sausage in the winter
time. Guests at the boarding houses there
become accustomed to the fare, and know
what to answer when the hired girl comes
to them at the table. The colloquy runs
something like this: Grl-"Whatn yer
have sir?" Guest-"Sausage. Girl
"Long or ball?" And the guest then names
his card.