Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-31
LEVlTIES AND BREVITIES.

Japanese oaroers are tne N )Ss popular ID
| San Franc SEQ. ..tr
Queen Victoria has ordered seventy bar
rels Of Michigan apples.
Two Elgisn la1le, at Catskill walk eigh
teen miles day for exercise.
You can buy ten ceuts' worth of cream
at Niagara now for Que d0llsr.
q L ,uIsviIle girls keep cool by wear q !
large blocss Office ia their pan ers.
The hotels at Long Or .ncd nave accom-
modations for twenty thousand people.
The coal fi-lds of China .re said TO cover
an area of upwards of 5000 square miles.
A grocer in Macon, Ga. exhibits sign
outside his store, which reads "Kole Oyi,
90 cents y gal.
Omaha has new hotel hat cost $780,
600, and hnpes to q I'd man soon who val
know how TO keep it.
Messrs Stanley & Co expect to reach
The central sh att If shs II IsIc tundel from
the east end next New Year.
IfyOu want II pay your Long Branch
sweetheart delIcA e little Attention che
proper thing to do is to send 500 bou
quet. ..-.
San Francisco pipa-makers are jubilanf
over bank If excellent meerschaum CLAY
r. ,ntly discovered in southern California.
A Pepin I'll } WON Al WAS asked by the
Preacher if htr husband feared the Lord
She replied, Far him! why, bless you, lie
is SO fearei of MIN Eha he never goes oIG
If the house IN Sundays without taking
mis- gun along"
A festive ufiopr wrote as follows to a St.
Louis h'rei ctsrk:
"pm G. u. Hoyt, of the o. A.,
feed IN horse oats and hay,
] want room Tor which I'll pay,
With pay l draw in the army"
A Michigan minister, bsiug 10 want Of
settlement, a iveItises the fact, bit gives
warning that he is as fSstidious about a
church as most churches are about a minis
ter. which is putting the boot on the other
foot decidedly. ''''
A rem rkiple chlracteI of the CalifDr-
uiaa mou tain climate is an extreme iuten-
sity and vividness Of am pspheric coloring
The deep blue OF an A . Ne sky is startling
on The first a"qu iinta ic1: but 10 the Sierra
Nevada it deepens still further into violet.
A clergyman having asked Gsrrick to ex-
plain why il was thst Garrick made so
much deeper impression on bis audience
| than the clergyman on his, Garrick ans ., er
| ed, 81 speak falsehood as though l believed
| it, you speak truth as though you disbelieV-
| ed it,"
A negro child fourteen months old, living
| In L ancaster, has head as iarSs as half
bushel and body knows what is the mat
| ter with it. Its eyes are completely closed
by superuundant flesh, but it laughs and
| cries a. d seems to have the senses of hear
| ing and smell
The famous race horse Lexington, the
| sire of Harry Bassett, died on the 9th inst,
at the Woodbury. stud farm Of his owner,
A j. Alexander, In Kentucky. Lex ngto n
was Withdrawn from the turf in 1856, and
was soon after bought for Mr.. Alexander
or Sl5 900. He was p years old.
luu car clear your rooms of the merci-
less mosquitoes Uyts7sing piece Of gum
camphOr about one third the size Of hens
egg, and evaporatirg it by placing il in 3 tin
vessel, holding it over lamp or candle,
taking care that 1t Dies up5 ignite. The
9 noae will soon fill the 100 and expel the
pet.
A movement Is on foot to utilize the
hines Of buffiloes killed on th5 plains by
Converting them into leather. Several
bales of hides have been sent to EpglaDd,
where they have been successfully tanned,
and the leather, after being split, used for
carriage tops or for patent leather. The
Or fit is sad TO be small, however.
Maine husbands come cruel dodge on
their faithful, if too talkative, wives. One
tells bis wifi, be is going to Ausanuquaran-
sogowmongotongn fishing. and in bis alb
sence has all his friends call at the house
and inquire his whereabouts. When he
returns the poor woman is exhausted, and
doesn't sp ak again for month.
W. W. Corcoran, the Washington mill
ionaire, has sold his beautiful country seat
| adjoining Washington, known as H4rwood,
for the sum of S225, 900. to an English gen.
tleman. The proceeds Of the sale, with
other benefsetioDs, are to be bestowed upon
the gall ~ of art, which he has already
presented to the city of Washington.
a severe test of patriotism and loyalty to
France has be placed upon tn ladies Of
! Alsace and Lorraine, who have been ill.,
formed oy the German government that
the lovers anil brothers Of such OF
them as are most viol4n5 in tn sir damon
-s,rat. oIis b Istlli.V 20 q 'rrnanY will be S.
lecled to serve In the German army after
DC ober LIST.