Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-30
MELANGE.
The Michigsnders are sleigh riding.

The Michigsnders are sleigh riding,
Whaling grounds-School-h no uses.
Mark Twain is the guest of Tom Hook,
in London.
The French heel has gone completely
out of fashion.
You must make your wedding cards
smaller this winter.
"A Chinese Lodge of Mssons has been
formed at Oregon city.
Charles Nordhof has quit journalism
for authorship.
-Scoff not at cough; coughing often
ends in the coffin.
"A Dew head of Juno has been discov-
cred. Even Juno herself wasn't aware of
it.
San Francisco has successful epposi-
ton gas company. Lucky San Francisco.
Worth, the man milliner Of Paris, is
worth nothing, having failed in business.
That bad man, John Smith, has been
convicted of counterfeitiug in San Fran
cisco.
Why is a muff like foolp Because it
holds lady's hand without squeezing.
in addition to her manifold affections,
Chicago was compelled to listen to Wood
hull last Sunday night.
Merely because it had the good sense
to publish the fact that there was small
pox in st. Louis, the press of that city de-
nominate the st. Louis Democrat, the
smallpox paper"
Why was Robinson Crusoe unable to
get Ep an oyster stew? Because he hadn't
the skill-it required.
-Wachtel is coming back to America,
accompanied by the great soprano Madame
Mullinger.
Wedding invitations in London are
now written on parchment by the prospec-
tive brides mother.
"A Chicago paper is talking about ''the
next Worlds Fair" just as If we didn't
have trouble enough with this worlds
"Fair."
"A man lately made wager that he
had seen horse going at his greatest
speed and dog sitting on bis tail, and,
strange as il may seem, be won, but the
dog sat on bis own tail,
The dry goods clerks In Cincinnati
threaten to strike, and the Enquirer wish
es that they would, and clear out, leaving
their wages and places to women. Sensi-
BILE advice.
-Constantinople has at last started
newspaper devoted TO social reform. It
must be "harem scare 'em" kind Of sheet,
then.--Boston Post.
The Atlanta SIN does not always fill
up with Mr.. Stephens editorials. 1t is
now publishing the Code of Honor, as pre-
pared by gentleman with a protuberant
middle name. Courier Journal.
Sweet idea for new drawing-room
bsllad-"I'l bury my love in the garden, it
will make the apple-tree grow"
An Illinois woman and her husband
have had a passage-at-arms. She used buck
shot, he stove-wOod. The coroner decided
that the superiority lay with the former.
"A lady, who sported an extensive trail,
was heard to remark to companiQp, while
walking down Cherry street yesterday,
''It's mystery to me why these confound-
| ed men will step on my dress whenever |
come out on the street."
"A man who bought thousand Havana
cigars, on being asked what he had, replied
they were tickets to course Of lectures 10
be given by bis wife.
The Louisville Ledger attributes the
fact of smallpox being so wide spread at
present to Grants Indian policy, claiming
that it was conveyed to Philadelphia by
means of a lot of robes captured by Sheri-
dan after one Of bis assaults upon an Indian
encampmet.
Giving lady away at wedding is
| simply farce. The old proverb says,
"Where there's will there's a way" Con-
sequently, as all the world knows that
every lady has will of her own, giving her
a sway" seems quite superfuous.