Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-25
MELANGE.

Ek-- Goal Qealer reJolceCn.
Gov. Wsrmoth is printer.
-Lucca is thinking Of a divorce.
Melville D. Landon is better kno wn
to the public as sell Perkins"
At one of the recent strike-meetings
wheel-wright was the best spokesman.
1t has been reported that Bonner's COL
lection of fast eqaines have been attacked
by the horse disease now raging in the
East.
The married ladies of this city are agi-
tating the matter of organizing ''Come
Home Husband Club" Broomsticks are
to figure among the inducements to come.
Matte Strong of Newton, Michigan, is
the well-to-do young woman who dug a
well last summer forty feet deep.
The st. Louis papers are urging the
procrsstinating citizens of that place to
walk up to the doctors Offices and have the
little ceremony of vaccination performed at
once, smallpox being alarmiDgly on the in
crease.
Just because his mule died, VIM. Stew
enson, of New Orleans, thought Provid-
ence had deserted him, and drowned him.
self.
Scattered throughout the State House
by the dozens, are placards requesting Jas.
Glover, Superintendent of the building,
not to spit on the floor or steps. 1t will
strike candid man as being somewhat
strange that Mr.. Glover should be asked to
surrender bis right to spit where he chooses
"a perogative so dear to the heart OF the
male American,) while the hundreds of
people who visit the building daily are al
lowed to do as they please in this parti-
cular.
The gentlemen connected with the q.
S. Circuit Court must be perfect salsman-
ders. The court room was kept heated up
Yesterday to fever heat, the doors and win
dows being kept carefully closed.
-"Daughtercultura show" is the latest
name for fashionable party.
-Query-When a man fires with wrath
what sort of shot does he use?
-Pawnbrokers sometimes prefer custo-
mers without any redeeming qualities.
Can EPSON be properly called a sum-
mer-salt. 1t turns one over so, YOU know.
Work on the new building fthe South
ern Methodist Publishing House is progress
ing rapidly, and when completed, it will be
one of the most extensive establishments
of the kind in the country.
- LdueoPOl > Ah0lohoJ AAeAS ANS-A - ASAASA'AS
ing snow-storm.
- Col. Forney has returned again to an
ecdotes of public dead men.
- Wachtel is coming back, and will bring
with him the great soprano, Madame Nal
linger.
= The Baptist Church in Elizabeth, N.
j., mean to treat their new minister's wife
well; they have given her $4,000 house.
- Kansas is getting immigrants at the
rate of 10000 aSear, and now has apopu-
lation of 100000.
- In long course of legal practice, Mr..
Seward was never known to act for a man
against woman.
- An editor asks his subscribers to pay
him that he may play the same joke on his
creditors.
A boy whom some one was question
ing about his home affairs, was asked, ado
you have family prayers? ?" "No," he
promptly replied, "but we have four bay
windows"
- Mrs. Jones, Of Chicago, has ordered
some strychnine for her poodle, and en-
gagged quarters for two of her boarders at
the hospital to be taken as soon as hydro
phobia shall develop.
- Young ladies who did not succeed in
finding a husband at the watering places this
summer are making travelling excursions
about the country and admiring the aU-
tumn scenery.
- Bangor street Arabs swindle unsus
pecting upper-ten women by leaving bun
dies at their residences, marked "Pay the
boy ten CENTS" which are found TO contain
chestnut burs or other equally valuable
property.
"A Detroit man wished to be wise in
time and lay in his winters store of fuel,
but, unfortunately, he took the requisite
four cords of wood from EaRother mans
lot and will be provided with winter lOdg-
ings warmed at the expense of the State.
The saddest instance of misplaced con-
fidence on record is that Of Connecticut
man who rescued another from watery
grave only to find that instead of his long
lost brother it was a person to whom he
owed three dollars and half for turnips.
The st. Louis. Democrat of Tuesday de-
votes our nine closely printed columns to
facts and figures calculated to prove that
the new county building lately completed
at cost of S777,000 is not worth the
money.
There is a gentleman living in Della
ware who owns a horse that is now over
twenty years old. He has made him
twenty-thTea crops, and hopes to make
many more. The horse does not appear
to be more than nine years old. In his
younger days the owner rode him on his
counting expeditions, and his grandson is
some day going to sea the girls on the same
horse, and will probably find wife in this
way, as his father and grandfather did be-
fore him.