Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-05
MELANGE.
The eyentful day has come.

The eventual day has come.
How much have you st stake?
Sleeping cars are unknown In Englan j.
Iceland is exporting live fish to Scot
land.
"A shower of bones recently fell in Lou
isiana.
"A Bates College student has bet a skei-
eton on the election of Grant.
sold Pewter Bottom" is what they call
the CITY Marshal in a North Carolina
town.
60 to the pollssLo-day.
Moving for a new trial-PoppiBg to
Mrs. No. 2.
When is a cat like teapot When
you're teasin' it (tess in i0.
TO make thin man look fat, call after
him. and he will then look round.
"A couple of William Goats attached to
a wagon, attracted much attention on OuI
streets yesterday.
They are going to aid Beecher, poor
countryman, of Brooklyn, with $l00,00C
memorial.
"A young lady in passing another
should not turn around to see what the
other wears, because the other is engaged
in doing the same thing.
What would pig do who wished to
build himself habitatiOn? Tie knot IL
his tail and call it a pig's-tie.
Memphis is going to have "milk fac
tory" 1t is to be situated at the junction
of the Mississippi river and chalk cliff.
"A London tailor advertises garments
cut not only to fit, and in the best style,
but regulating any disproportions that may
exist, and enhancing the correct contour Of
the proportionate."
An English schoolgirl has been whip
ped with a birch rod for receiving love let
ter. Our school-teachers do not do that
thing because they do not care to take upon
themselves ten hours of extra labor.
"A Topeka, Kansas, father who has two
or three very courtable girls, placed notice
on his front door few nights since which
read: "Shut down for thirty days. No
stove in the parlor and but one lamp"
Scene at Hartford, Connecticut, fune-
raj: Two women, walking in procession,
saws one to the other: "LOrd have mercy
on his poor sisters soul; if she was alive
now, wouldn't she be glad to see the large
funeral he has"
"A passenger at the Nashville and Chat
tanooga depot, the other day, becEoned to a
news6oy, when that independent youBgster
called out, ''See here, Mister, if you want a
paper, you can come here and get it."
"A cigar dealer in Boston has some little
specimens of the weed in his case which
are Labelled La Petite. Near them are
some a trife smaller which bear the desig-
nation, La Petiter.
The latest piece Of sarcasm is that Won
Moltke has sent proofs of his work On the
late war to Marshal Mcmahon, to enable
him to correct any possible errors regarding
the part taken in the campaign by the
French Marshal.
Il don't care much about the bugs, said
Warmley to the head of genteel boarding
house, but the fact is, madam, l haven't the
blood to spare; you see that yourself.
james Anthony Froude is "a years old.
There have been over 10000 copies of bis
"Short studies" and 'History of England"
sold, and the sale is steadily increasing.
This is unparalleled, except by cheap tic-
ton.
Little Daisy usually takes midday
nap, and the other noon she asked her
mother "If she soOd say her prares." She
was was told to do just as she pleased,
when she replied, ''Den dess ont for |
tan Ia care myself in daytime"
"A young lady who teaches IN one OF
our Sunday-schools, and who tries to keep
somewhere near the fashions, was telling a
bright little shaver, last Sunday, that he
ought to keep his hair brushed back out Of
his eyes, to which gratuitous advice the I'M
grateful yOuugster responded: swell, Miss
=, think you'd better keep them curls
out of your own eyes" That teacher Of
fers no more suggestions.