Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-15
MELASGE.

Obi tell mel hast thou ever been
Where circumambient lodestars dash,
Where leaps the sold lightning Hash,
| Where sombre pals Hume the scene 80
Mid qnivering cliffs OF hippocrene,
Where evanescent whirlwinds creep,
Where headlong torrents pause to dream,
And wash their walstcoats in the stream,
While vultlres lnrepentant weep,
And echoes in French bedsteads sleepY
Yes, tell me, hast thou seen on high
The armor-plated frigates soar,
While comets sat upon the shoreT -
For if thou says't SO, my reply
Is simply that thou tells't reinstatement.
-Overcoaty weather.
Mr.. Seward was of Irish lineage.
Louisville has new soap mandatory.
Squirrels and cartridges are dead ripe
now.
The Cincinnati Gazette Keeps boss
analyzer of beer.
AN Indianapolis poodle chews tobacco,
but doesn't swear.
Kansas is raising cabbages and bald
eagles four feet high.
-"Orpheus G. Kerr" does the Social
Studies in the New York Sunday World.
-Spinks says his wife's winter cloak is
two sleeves, fastened together by band.
Dubuque has white ghost, twenty
five feet high. Is it the ghost of steeple
or giraffe?
Z Those profane people who wished the
horse disease sin Halifax" are gratified; it's
got there.
The scalding tears of 9l9 prisoners
battle the IMPLYING stones of the California
State prison.
Olive Logan thinks that with half the
Ia hAr q. no hoc r1rrf into q hOnl ohn aar1ld
have secured fortune in the millinery line.
diamonds as large as hens eggs, and go
barefoot, is fast becoming extinct.-1itaS-
uille Press.
Its an i'll wind that blows nobody good.
Here are the horse blanket manufacturers
rejoicing in the briskest trade ever known.
"A Philadelphia chap will marry dress
Of Belgian lace next month worth $1,000 in
gold. There is to be woman in it.
-"Whst makes the man say fall abone,'
Pa" inquired little boy on the Nashville
and Chattanooga road the other day. The
conductors Gall aboard" was too much for
him.
Bullock is writing yindicatory address
es to the Georgians. They are writing
viDdictive ones in reply.
-"Meet me at the gate, love-" has been
changed to "Meet me at the CRATE, love-"
The cold weather has necessitsted the
change.
1t is gratifying to note that arrange
ments are being made to lay pavement in
our market house; at present that establish
ment is without rival for dirt and general
filthiness. The appearance of some of the
articles exposed for sale, is enough to turn
the stomach of an ostrich.
--Circumstantial evidence is not always
correct, bat when You see an old farmer
who owns fine watermelon patch, buying
jalap, CT ipecac, it is safe to wander beyond
his plantation in seeking your melons after
dark.-7HatSUille Herald.
-GeofraBcistrain has received another
setback, and this time from Woodruff.
The IN. P. A." (Nebraska's Phenzied Ass)
proftered to become bondsmau for the ap-
pearauce of Vic. at her trial, but she refus-
ed to accept the offer.
ABoston correspondent hopes to get pure
milk oy having the Legislature pass law
that milkmen shalt put saddle on the COW
and ride UP to the door of their customers
and there milk the COW.
1.-THE foliage is fast turning to plum
age" remarked a sad young man as be
gaZed from the window upon the partially
denuded trees. "How SOP" inquired ano.h-
er and sadder young man. "Don't you
ses," replied the first, shat the leaves are
nearly ali dowG?'
"A Spartan mother who lives st Spart-
ansburg, when her son goes out to battle on
election-dsy gives him Nheelbarrow, with
the terse injunction to return with it or
within it. The young man has obeyed her
several years.
The Greenbush Gazette is responsible
for the following: "A prominent citizen
Of this village went home few nights
since at a late hour, and gently tapped on
the door. who is ii?' enquired his better
half. TIE which very proper inquiry The
heartless man replied by asking, Whom
do you expect at This hour of the night?'"
-Smiggles has gone into retirement for
a few days to try and find out how it is that
an Alabama child can have living four
grandfathers and four greatgrandfathers,
i've grandmothers and five greatgrandmcth-
ers, as reported By the papers.