Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-07
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weight for the wagon" is what {
heavy Nashville lsdy sings.
How much longer viii our 'trefreshins
shower" which has, now lasted two days
| continue?
The Quincy Herald has emammotl
! zephyrs playing with women's skirts.n
Punch has found man too lazy to Ia
Dor under an impression.
A seminary at Greenwich, r. l., ha:
been obliged to shut up on account of rats
The dinner hour is getting later and
later; it must end in our not dining unit
| tomorrow.
| The three stages ofDarwinism are now
said TO be positive, tail, comparative, tailor,
| supeTlative, taillessl
An Iowa man refused to see his wife
die, because he was afraid she would pledge
him not TO marry.
An enterprising Yankee has opened al
institution in Boston for turning left-hand.
ed people into right-hsnders.
"A widower who had never quarrelled
with bis wife, said the last day of his mar
rage was as happy SIS the first. Another
widOwer said the last day of his marriage
was the happieSt.
-"Do you see the resemblance between
the whipping of his wife by that man ycn.
| der, and the running Of that chicken : Il IS
| the cOor-yard in front Of them?" asked one
passeT-by of another. 81 do not" was the
reply. That's strange" quoth the first
speaker, ''as it is plain enough that each is
a foul proceeding"
If the "borse epidemic" kills off many
of the horses OF the country, will not the
Colt Manufacturing Company, at Hartford,
| DC obliged 10 increase their facilities in Or
der to supply their places?
There are some smart men and animals
in Bath county, Ky. i calf leaped one
hundred feet down cliff, escaping unhurt,
and horse, buggy and minister tumbled
down ledge fifty feet, landing on stump
and damaging only that and the vehicle.
"A little girl in New York orphan asy-
lum quarrelled with another girl and
scratched her face. For this she was
punished and required to learn and repeat
a verse from the Bible, being allowed her
own selection. She chose the first verse OF
Psalm CXLIV.
For frank man commend us to the
gentleman in Springfield, Mass, who an
uouncas that the fire in bis block the other
Jaw was so clearly due to his negligence
that he does not intend TO call on the insur-
snce companies to make good his loss.
Poor old Briggs, of Boston, labored IN
der two natural defects, the one being his
inability to pronounce the letter Y, and the
other "pscuniary resentiveness,' vulgarly
known as parsimoDy. "What queer pro-
nunciation your uncle has," observed some
one to nephew of Briggs. "Ah, yes" re-
piled the graCeless youth. at is impossible
to get V out of him!'
"A very wicked boy camphened and ig-
nited the story portion Of a miserable dog
Monday night, and the animal fed over
COalpit Hill at terrific speed. The down
town people Who were outdoors stared at
the phenomenon till it disappeared, some OF
them pronouncing it the most brilliant me.
teor ever witnessed, but the older and wiser
just shock their heads and spoke in low
tones about the inscrutsble ways of Provi-
dence.-DGltbuTy Meas
Speaking OF the late James z. Spauld-
ing, at one time chief editorial writer of the
New York Courier and Enquirer, who
died at Dover, New Hampshire, on the
18th ult., the Springfield Republican says:
"The breaking out of the war separated him
from noted Mobile lady, the authoress of
'Beulah,' to whom he was engaged, and he
afJerWsrG married lady from one of the
| towns on North River, but she soon be-
| came insane, and survives him in that con-
dition."
"A little Danbury boy ran away from
| school Monday to go chestnutting. Dur.
| ing the expedition he fell twice out of one
tree to the imminent danger of breaking
his neck, was licaed by one of the other
| boys whose breath be materially lessened
by stumbling against bis stomach, ran a
silver into his knee, and was bitten vio-
lantly on the neck by new kind of bug.
When he got home his father annointed him
with the boss end ola billiard cue, aud the
next day at school the teacher escorted him
twice around the room by his poorest ear.
lie says that chestnuts are so wormy this
year that it don't pay to go after them.
"A Cleveland paper says: zone of our
young citizens, who went into the country
last week 10 work on q farm for few
weeks, and seek 'health instead of dissipa-
tioD,' returned the other day little out of
sorts, but healthy. He had blistered his
hands hoeing corn, torn the seat out Of a
pair Of twenty-dollar pants at picnic, one
eye was blackened from attempting to draw
water from an 'Oid Oaken bucket and a
crank, his forehead was frescoed with mus
quito bites, a stOne-bruise gave him The
Alexandra limp, he was freckled like
leopard, and had been sun-struck four
times. With these exceptions he had ex-
perienced an elegant time, and is going next
summer to Jail in preference to the country"
"A certain popular clergyman in this
city always writes his sermons, and then
hunts up text to fit It. Another has a
way ofsaying when speaking of a consis-
tent christian THAT man will staud-he
will stand fast in that last day, when this
world is smoking clinker on the CRATES of
eternity" certainly very beautiful figure,
but won't it be rather warm for the poor
man at that time, and is it not likely that
be would prefer the privilege of moving
about little?
"A party of our young folks who were
engaged in candy making last night, set a
pan of molasses into the yard to cool, and
on going to it few hours later, were as
tonished to observe an upright cat in the
middle of it. The question now is not so
much how the cat got there, but how it is
to be got from there. If any of our read
ers can suggest plan, we hope they will do
so at once, as the owner OF the cat is in a
hurry.
Truu drivar of aTonspJ OF Tho VII