Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-30
BREVITIES AND LEVITIES.


The names Of sixteen States in the Union
are Of Indian origin.
SANDER is the revenge Of a coward, and
discrimination his defense.
The mosquito as 2 public singer draws
well, but never gives satisfaction.
"The palpitating, respiratOryihumper" is
the latest novelty in wOman's things.
There is revival, in Spain, of the an
cient fashion of high combs and short
skirts.
A new fort, with all the modern improve
ments, is soon to take the place Of the ruin
ed Sumter.
Some gof the largest steamships burn
eight tons of coal crossing the Atlantic
ocean. -
A million Of gold dollars, according to the
figures of the United States Mint, weigh
about two tons.
King Victor Emmanuel has exercised
great attention to the sufferers by the erup-
ton of Vesuvius. .
Base ball ought to be styled the mutual
admiration game. The clu0s SO unremit-
tingly "play into each others hands"
A neW-fangled corn dropper, which drops
two rows and hunts ground squirrels at the
same time, deli ghts the Indiana farmers.
The widow and infant grandchild of ex-
President Tyler, have just been received in
the Catholic church, at Georgetown ID. Z.
1t has been remarked that every Euro
pean prime minister, except Cardinal An
toueIli and the Turkish Grand Nizier, is a
Free Mason.
1t has been estimated that of the vast
number of claims for pensions growing out
of the rebellion probably one-fourth are
fraudulent. ....
An irritable man, who was disappointed
in his boots, threatened to eat up the shoe
maker, but compromised by drinking
cObler.
Since ladies have taken to wearing news
papers for bustles, publishers complain that
their fair subscribers are more in ''arreafs"
than ever.
The time to possess your soul in patience
is when your hat blows in the street and
your eyes are too full of dirt to see which
way it goes. .-... 80
There is a report that W. II. Gregory,
chief of the money order department in the
Detroit postotfice, is defaulter in the
amount of $1,000.
The gas company of North Adams, Mass,
has resumed the manufacture of gas from
ccal, after full and satisfactory trial Of
naptha gas.
it is stated that Gen. Trochu, the cele-
brated French soldier, has renowned RO-
man Catholicism and become a member Of
the Anglican Church.
A pair of twins born in LOWndes coun-
ty Miss, the other day-a boy and girl
were named respectively Horace Greeley
and Dolly Warden.
Crowds of negroes were baptized at st.
Louis recently. One old woman, after she
cot out, exclaimed: "Bress de Lord OATS
hbe times Use been baptized"
There is young lady in Yonkers study
ing Latin. She has beau. He asked her
what SIC transit gloria nl1nldi meant. She
Translated Sit "come and see me Monday
Eminent geulogists say that England
forms the cover of 4 subterranean well of
fire, and is liable at any moment to meet
the fate of the district around Mount Vesu-
vius.
A fine quarry of photographic stone has
been discovered on the line OF the licking
ton and Big Sandy Railroad, Kentucky,
There is but one other similar quarry in the
world.
A lady lately, on being asked what she
thought was the true meaning ofthe words,
"The pestilence that walketh in Darkness"
answered that, Gin her opinion, it was bed
bugs"
The forthcoming "Life of Amos Kendalr'
viii be immensely popular with politicians.
He was the prince of wire pullers, and his
son-in-law, Mr.. Stickney, tells how be used
to do it.
Tue Spanish merchant steamer Clara
White, going to Santiago de Cuba, accident
ly ran into the Spanish gunboat GGaiage,
sinking her in six minutes. The crew and
money box were saved. ....s
The blacks and mulattoes of Jacksonville,
Florida, have declared war against each
other. The mulattoes have organized So
ciety to which the highly cOlored are no.
admitted. Hence the trouble. -
California sets liquor laws at defiance
with the discovery ola natural spring whose
flow, instead Of the loOsening influence OF
most mineral waters, has the effect Of max
ING those who drink it slight" ...
-Four years ago, Lincoln, the capitol of
Nebraska, was "away out on the prairie"
and was called 'sY ouIg's Colony" Before
the close Of the present season it will have
six railroads and will be lighted with gas.
A New York paper says: "Three hun
bred and fifty murders last year, and but
one man suffering the extreme penalty Of
the law. He, poor Jack Reynolds, half-wit-
ted, without money or friends, was hung as
an awful example.
When aman or woman begins to say, 81
will try" new life opens to them. Try,
then, to live nobler life, to do good, to be
| careful, honest, sober, and Faithfully these
| are the virtues that make us truly noble
men and women,