Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-13
LEVITIES AND BREVITIES.

The only crop that grows BY gas light is
ssWild oats"
An exchange mentions Mr.. Abt, author
of the "Homeward Fly"
In New Mexico, recent vote on estab-
fishing free schools stood 81 for, and 5,O7G
against. ..- -rEE- E-
He who receivesa good turn should never
forget it; he who does one should never re-
member it.
A CoLoRED MAN in North Carolina pull
led mules tail to show his docility. His
funeral sermon was an hour and a half
long.
4 POCKET BooTBJACK has been inven-
ted. You put your foot into your pocket,
Civ. spring into the air, and OIL comes
your boot.
The cost to each student per annum at
the East Tennessee military school is $3.50,
which includes clothes and all other neces-
sary expenses.
Edwin Booth has cleared SIPS, 600 during
the season just closed at his theater, which
will almost cancel the debt incurred in its
erection.
A mean man in Wisconsin avenged him
self of his adversary, who is poor widow,
By emptying half bushel of potato bugs
into her garden.
Minnehaha, a Digger squaw, has been
dragged to a California prison for imbibing
too much "laughing water" Where was
Hiawatha thena
The United States navy at present con-
sists of siXty-nine steamers, twenty-nine
wooden sailing vessels, five monitors or
iron-clads and twenty-eight tugs.
Miss Jennie Holridge, Of Batavia, N. Y,
was blistered in places from head to foot by
| lightning last week, but survived the shock
| and is doing well.
A London journal states that 120, 900
| square feet Of land on the HOlborn Via
| duct in that city has been let upon build
ing lease for fl5,000, or $4,000 gold per
annum.
The new homeopathic medical college on
the corner of Sd avenue and 23d street,
| New Yok, which was endowed by Mrs.
Emma A. Keep with 100000, is now
ready for occupancy.
| Pleasure trips to the United States are all
the rage in Germany this summer. Seven.
teen different parties will arrive from Co
logne and Hamburg during the month Of
| August.
Judge MeErimaD, of North Carolina, is
1
I Congressman Pool for lending his frank to
send printed circulars over the country con-
tanning ISLANDERS of the Judge.
The German prize Of 1900 thalers fol
the best plan foy parliamentary building
at Berlin, was won by Prof. Bohustedt Of
Gotha. Eight second prizes were awarded
| Of which two were taken by Englishmen.
! There are, we understand, two papers
| published by Americans in the English Ian
| guage in Germany and one in Switzerland
A new American paper has likewise ap-
peared recently at Dresden and another il
Rome.
| The proprletoFs of the Berlin VOSSicht
| Zei5tsag, in honor of the one hundred anC
fiftieth anniversary of the foundation Of the
paper, distributed $4,000 thalers among
their employees, and gave each of the re-
| porters 1000.
Walnut stumps have become an article
of merchandise, and many Of them are very
valuable. The curly grain Of the roots is
, used for vaneering, and some stnmPs are
worth $50, after being properly worked In
to shsyo.
In 1869 the NoniteHr, in Paris, had TWEEN
ty-tWo thousand subscribers, and its good
/ viii was appraised at twelve thousand francs
| It prints now less than one hundred copies
and it may be bought for fifteen Thousand
francs. ~
During 3l9 years following the discovery Of
Hlspaniola 81, 0D0, 10000 worth OF gold wa:
poured into European markets. MIR. Ihom
as Hankey, writing in the Economics, say
that an equal amount bss come to EWopt
since 1928.