Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-19
MELANGE.

Cheer up. my friend, nor even chafe,
Though dangers should increase;
For Heaven, who keeps the sparroWs safe
Will not forget the geese.
--Des Moines has highway robber aged
six.
The one-legged mans plaint-"Re-
member me-"
sold Probabilities" is only thirty, and
good looking.
Most of the men who own hsnd-carts
are now millionsires.
Hogs are now mysteriously tossed
about by the Macon, Ga, spirits.
A woman who tells fortunes from a
teacup need not be sauceress.
Walt Whitman warns the American
people of bis purpose to read his poems in
public.
An Alabama editor mildly alludes to
his rival as ga reservoir or falsehood and
an aqueduct of mendacity."
-Ot lady at the piano singing 81 can
not sing the old songs" a four-year-old
boy instantly inquired, "Who asked you
to?y
Cleveland is willing to offer contract
on advantageous terms, 10 the little girl at
Port Huron who browns thirteen cats q
day.
Cool "A butcher killed his neighbor
grocery mans favorite cat the other day,
and soon after sent to borrow his sausage
cutting machine.
A Minnesota man undertook to kill his
old rooster and chopped bis own wrist OF,
while chanticleer still survives to call him
up in the morning.
Benevolent Louisville people scatter
nuts in the park for the squirrels, and dia-
bolical small boys follow around and fill
their pockets before the squirrels know
anything about it.
The Chattanooga Times comes printed
on paper the color Of yellow dog.
1t is with difficulty that the local OF
the Evansville, Ind, Courier tears himself
away from the enchanting, soul-thrlllng
music created by three Italian harpers now
honoring that village with their presence.
louisville druggists take supply OF
horse medicine to bed with them and lower
it out of the window with string to Gus
toners.
-"Does he cough?" allow is he about
his feed?" "Have your horses got it yet?''
allow do they act?" These are sample
of the INQUIRIES heard on all our streets
just now.
ind now the Autumn days have come
The saddest of the year;
A little too warm for whisky,
And too cold for lager beer.
A Westerner was once asked il he
knew Mr.. So and so. "Slightly, was
blown up on a steamboat with him once,
and as | was going up met him coming
down."
Chicago has a petrifed baby. 1t was
petrifed with establishment at seeing its
father and mother get through one day
without quarrelling or threatening d.
vorce.
L. W. MuLhall, talented tooth yank-
er, of Indianapolis, has branded party by
the name of Fitzgerald as liar, adding the
announcement that the said Munhall is
personally and physically responsible"
jacobs City," the newest mining
town in Utah, few weeks old, was dedi-
Gated the other day. A flag was presented,
speeches made, man killed, etc.
"A young gentleman writes from Alta
DIV to bis wife in Troy as follows: "Dear
Wife: Dolly has got i'll mean the hippo
zoo. l am slowly hauling the buggy ill.,
Home tomorrow"
George Sand, alias Madame Dudeyant,
proposes to start female Masonic Lodges.
They would not be Objectionable great
while-as secret societies.
of a verify woman's devotion is un-
measured. A Boston brute beat his wife
black and blue the other day, and when the
court was over she was heard to say
"Thank God, l can sell my bed and pay
Johns fine"
"A Nevada man is hunting for 1900
sheep that were stolen from him last spring
If shepherd feels SO much joy at the re-
coyery of one lost sheep, what must thi:
one do when his eye again rests upon those
400 stragglers from the fold?
The COsrier-J Journal begins an inter
esting paragraph as fol ows: eve referred
the other day TO a melancholy accident By
which several boys had their necks broken
by the falling of scaifo!d on which they
were engaged in backing the boots OF the
| editor of the st. Louis Globe.
An aggrieved colored man down II
Florida consulted lawyer in the neighbor
hood, and after stating his case, said: Snow
| Mr.. know you're lawyer, but
wish you would, please sir, jiss tell me d
| truff bout dat matter"
-'If there is anybody under the cannis-
| ter of heaven that have in utter excres
| SLtS MIS-. L al LaLASgVh1 Az - Nh'
slanderer going about, like a boy construc
tor circulating his calomel upon homes
folks"
Why is the sluggsrd told TO go te=th'
ant to learns lesson of industry? Becaus
he can there recline upon 4 messy bank
and observe the WAYS of the diligent insec
at his leisure and without fatigue.
"A father in church, when the marriage
service came to the point where the clergy
man asks, ''Who givesh this woman 10 o
married to this mani" replied, ''Well, sill
l am called to do it, although it goes agil
the grain. / wanted her TO marry Bi
Blowser, who is worth twice the money c
that ere man."
"A young nobleman in frightfh rail
way accident, missed bis valet. One of tn
guards came up to him, and said, "My lore
we have found your servant, but be is Gu
in two CAV, is hep" said the young mar
with Dundreary drawl, but still with som
anxiety depicted IN his countenance. owl
you be good enough to see in which half b
has got the key of nv carpet-Oag?"