Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-14
LEVITIES AND BREVITIES.


Itrequires $4,000, 900 year to keep San
Francisco drunk. ,h
mt. San Bernardino, Nevada, is eleven
thousand feet high. -.s.5
A Milwaukee widow Of "a was recently
bowed with grief at The death of her sew
enth husband. xii
Mirrors laid over with gold are reported
to reflect sixteen times as powerfully as
ordinary quicksilver ones. f Is
A lake has been disc Dvered in the Cas-
cade Mountains, Oregon, completely sur
rounded by wall of rock 1000 feet high.
The Boston jubilee building contains
the largest organ, the largest chime of bells
and the largest drum in the world.
Kalamazoo is not large place but it is
enterprising: it sent forty-six criminals to
the penitentiary in single month.
Twelve hundred and fifty dollars made
the ancient ''talent." 1t takes some talent
to make 81 ,250 nowadays. H
English ignorance of American geography
crops out again in the location of Norfolk,
Va, in South america, by London jour-
nal. . la
The beer stamps issued during the
jscal year ending June 80, was 1855, 500,
an increase of 100000 over the year pre-
vious.
A thief recently pried out the corner.
gtone of the Episcopal Church at Middle
field, Massachusetts, and carried of the con-
tents.
''Never mind the obituary, Judge" said
q Montana culprit when the court became
pathetic in pronouncing the sentence; ''let's
fix the time for the funeral"
Wise, the aeronaut, has announced his
intention of setting out from Boston on the
4th of July with balloon and boat to
cross the Atlantic ocean.
Fifty years ago Ohio abounded in woods,
and recently bill was brought before the
LEGISLATURE of that State to encourage the
cultivation offorest trees.
Milton says the hearts of men are their
eloquence. The reason there is no little
real eloquence is that there is so little depth
and fervor of heart.
A Western exchange says Mishawaka
girls take comfort in the fact that Naomi,
daughter of Enoch, "was $50 years old
when she married" s 10 ...
Decatur, Illinois, had strawberry festi-
val for the benefit of church, ami after it
was all over, some miscreant went in at the
back window and stole all the proceeds.
The actual duration of flash of light
ming does not exceed the millionth part of
a second, but tn = retina of the human eye
retains the impression ofthe electrical fash
for much longer period.
A new system of casting type is coming
into vogue in England, the type being cast
in syllables, enabling an average compost
tor to set five thousand ems an hour. The
invention has been patented.
Robert johnson, of Philadelphia, who
has been serving term in the Virginia
Penitentiary, has been pardoned, on c0ndi-
ton of leaving the State and never return
ing. .r
A cane presented to the Indian chief
Keokuk, by Henry Clay, at the close of the
Black Hawk war, is in the possession of
M. Niles HolcOmbe, of Portland, Van
Buren, county, Iowa, b. t
1t is said that about one-fourth of the
saloon-keepers of Illinois have already
closed up, and that about one-fourth of the
remainder will go out of business before the
first of July, on account of the State tenn
perance law.
At Nassau, New Hampshire, the fish are
sold in the market while still alive, being
kept in tubs of water. A single blow upon
the head of the fish closes the bargain, and
the purchaser is sure of the freshness of the
article.
A lump of pure gold weighing half
pound, was recently found by negro wo-
man on the plantation of Mr.. Hugh G.
Nisbet, in Union county, North Carolina.
The woman was hoeing cotton and knocked
the lump over with her hoe.
John Cusac was burned to death in
San Francisco the other day. A hole had
been dug in the street to connect a new
gas main, and while Cusac and two other
men were in the hole making the connec-
ton, the escaping gas rose over the surface
and caught fire from burning candle, and
Immediately the three men were enveloped
in flames. Two men Jumped, or were
helped out, being but slightly burned, but
Cusac was literally roasted before he was
extricated.
The Boston TrdUeter says there is great
increase of drunkenness in Boston. "The
law is dead letter, public sentiment is
adverse to its enforcement, public men give
their countenance to the drinking customs
of the day, women who move in what is
called good society encourage drinking by
their example, many of the pulpits are
silent or worse than silent, and the commu-
nifty is rapidly drifting upon a current
strewn with the wrecks Of desolated homes
and broken fortunes, and ruined men and
women."