Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-26
MELANGE

The leaves come down ia hosts;
The trees are Indian princes,
But soon they'll turn 70 GHOSTS
The ieathery pears and apples
Hang russell on the bought
It's autumn, autumn, autumn late,
Twill soon be winter now
Sounding on a bar-Rapping Tor
drinks.
ute. Eggsactly.
If Won want to know whether q tree Is
hollow or not, ak it.
-Carboniferous ornaments are hagtn-
ming to scintillate In the shirt fronts OF cpl
zeotic Esculapians.
"A cigar stump upset a pedestrian on
Cherry street last night, with all the sill OF
an orange peel.
The purser of the Inflated steamer
Missouri, which burned off Nassau, Was the
fance of Miss Ida Greeley.
"A philosopher who married a vulgar
but amiable girl, used to call his wife Grown
sugar, because he said, she was SWEET bat
unreGned.
The local of the Memphis AppeGt is a
sentimental chap. He says it was "a pretty
sight for the world-weary eye" to see a
| wedding which occurred in that city lately
| "A BOY being asked what name wa.
given 10 residents Of the Upfted Stgssa
/ promptly answered: "Tsxpayers.1
J ID cart drink liquor" said BeHs *
zses ,ixbt to my head" fgaG, yhert
cad 1 - aslsh less danger Of Being zsowa
George Flxacas Traia=threzSsAs to livt
| 20 four score, ssz2sss and feI, which is IN
scriptural as weR rs unkind to the human
race.
Dom Piia&ttt and George Alfred Town
eend are said to be about TO sink green
back shaft in Washington City, in the shsp'
of an evening paper.
- The portrait Of Mark Twain IN tn
London Graphic looks Ike the representa-
tive door-keeper of minstrel show.
- Dana's New York Sun talks in bi
headline about ''the great pork corner.
That must mean Cincinnati.
1t requires more delicacy of touch,
better acquaintance with the inner emotion
of the heart, and grander pathos of sent
ment TO make declaration of love than
does to put up stove.
"A knowing one says !. may be set dow
as a rule that the sentimental young ladie
who scratch off poems about death and th
grave, have holes in their stockings.
= Credit the New Orleans Times: 81
was a good idea to haul up Col. Blood as
witness IN the Woodruff Claflin libel cast
because Blood viii tell"
John Dee, colored man OF Farming
ington, Conn.,, has been arrested for snatch
ing $3.50 from boy. He intended to us
the money to bail friend and wants
! know if the kindly instincts of the huma
heart are to be suppressed in this way:
"A young man who boards for Twin
says he found the title of song in the bu
ter the other morning. When asked IL
3 title, he said it was "Only Woman
e Hair.n
Now days the ambitious young write
must produce something like this: "A hsr
fiendish laugh, scornful and pitiless, force
/ It's passage from his throat, through the lii
q that curled in mockery of her appeal; 81
!, covered her despairing face, and gust ar
whirlWind of sorrowing agony burst forth
her irresistible tearsw
The "Fat Contributor" digs out Il
!. origin Of the practice of parting the hair
q the middle, as practiced by male person
n eIt was first adopted by an angry fathe
q who, from some show Of weakness on Il
part Of his son, so treated the hair OF tn
youth, 10 order to disgrace him in the ey
|. of his companions, Th9 operation was
complete success, for the boy, unable
!. hear the stigma of looking like girl, wel
q STRAIT htway and hung himself"