Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-23
MELAHGE.
daY YesterdaY.

damp Gay yesterday.
-Protracted meetings are likely to fol-
low the session Of the Tennessee Confer
ence. .slt
: Memphis is receiving oysters from
Iowa has an ear of corn ornamented
with l,040 kernels.
An Indianapolis young woman has elop-
ed with coaehman.
limitation tortoise-shell ornaments are
known among cheap jewelers. as mock-tur-
tie. -fr
Kittens have supplanted poodle dogs
as pets among the weak-minded sisterho0d
of Gotham.
If a topper and quart of whisky were
left together, which would be drunk first?
When is a lawyer like a donkey?
| When be is drawing conveyance.
The only man not spoiled by being
'slionized" was the prophet Daniel.
If that Japanese dignitary who sup
ports the title of 'tHis Grace of the Twen-
| ty-foar Umbrellas" had been In Nashville
yesterday, he would have been much sought
after.
An exchange says: "Mr. Baker has
shown us an egg which is seven inches in
circumference. Can anybody beat ths?"
Certainly: Break the egg in 3 bowl, and
beat it with spoon.
The Secretary of the Treasury is said
to have decided that imported chignons are
liable TO extra juicy.
The difference between fixed stars and
shooting stars: The one are suns, the 9TH
ers dGrters.
"A Wisconsin man lent cook $50
watch TO tell when to commence cooking
dinner, and now be has neither watch mol
cook. 1
Here is an advertisement from an Irish
paper: "One peand reward. Lost, cameo
brooch, representing Venus and Adonis OF
the Drumcondra road, about 10 O'Clock or
Tuesday evening"
This is a personal item in the mos
approved style of the Western papers
Jacob Bumgander blew into the muzzle o
his gun to see if it was loaded. 1t " as
Funeral on Sunday.
"A careful observer has noticed tina
young ladies with new solitaire ring!
never require much urging to play th'
piano.
Next to the s'little busy bee" the boot
black furnishes the brightest example 0
improving the "shiDing hour"
The coming winter will be a sever,
one-a fact indicated by the unusual thick
ness of the bed bugs cOccoon.
"A lad in Michigan did not believe hal
the stories he heard of nitro-glycerine anC
kicked can just for fun. He has Learned
TO hop about on one footquite well, but ha!
given up base ball and tag.
-''What are you doing there, you rss
cal?" ''Merely taking cold, SIR" at look
, ! - etc ioa g1EEaI
-yes-perhaps it viii bear that construc
tion."
allow does that look, eh?" said bis
fsted Wall street man to friend, holding
up one his brawny hands. "That," saiC
the friend, "l0oks as though you'd gone
short on SOAP"
-''DO you prefer Newport, this season.
asked a wife of her husband. mo
ma'am," said the husband, II prefer ole
port" The wife smiled, and SO did th(
husband, soon after.
"A dancing master with an eye to bust
ness has introduced for the season quad
rifle called the "Kiss qaadrille," in which
the gentlemen kiss the ladies as they
''sWing the corners" The young people
of this city are anxiously enquiring whetb
er or not this dance will be the styl
here this winter.
I st. Louis reporters are a favored set
I for whenever they are short of items, the.
can always fail back on the freaks of tn
stray bovine who wandered through th
streets promiscuously that day, following
sshis own sweet will" IL is an every ia,
occurrence there for an excited animal Il
leave the GROVES of cattle which pas
through the city daily, and 70 dashin!
along, snoring and believing, breakin!
: into houses through half opened doors o
windows, and the individual who does no
have his story to tell Of ''hair-breadtl
'scapes" from one of these furiously excite,
creatures, is at once set down by the citi
zens, who have become accustomed to thi
sort of thing, and rather like it, upon tn
whole, as a new conner. The cattle driv
ing business in st. Louis is better than ;
kicking mule or buzz-saw for items, an
the reporters look upon the festive drover
in the light of "angels in disguise"-ver
much in disguise.