Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-12
MELANGE.
: April showers
RriuC Nav flowers. ,

Bring May howers."
remarked Nashvillian yesterday, as he
scudded homewsrd to get his umbrella.
Cedar Rapids, La, has resolved that
policemen and street lamps are useless ex-
travagances.
Maine reports that with the mild
weather pickets are beginning to come up,
and farmers expect fair crop of fences
some time this summer.
Miss Faithful is panied to see that
many American girls protesting to be
highly educated are merely [" dipped into a
weak solution of accomplishments"
Carloads of old hens from Iowa are
shipped to Chicago. where they re-appear
in society as spring chickens.
How can an Englishman have any as
pirations toward heaven, when he refuses
an aspiration to the first letter Of it?
The Arizona school superintendent
writes that be viii pay SIS to 500 3
month to Yankee schoolmarms and find
them husbands within six months.
1t is hoped that the Senate Erie inves-
tigating COMMITTEES, in wading through the
multitudinous tables Ct figures of the COM
pany's books, will not become Erie table
themselves.
A trunk exploded in baggage car at
indianapolis few days ago, seriously in
juring the individual who was handling it
roughly. Ali papers that circulate among
railway employees please copy.
- An Albany girl writes to the New York
World, saying: 81 sm thirty years Of age,
and have never had an offer of marriage.
What are the men afraid OFF" VIII any
body answer this lady?
- Josh Billings says: 81 don't expect
emmy poodle, but if ennybody duz give me
one he must make up bis mind to be tied
onto a long stick every Saturday, and used
for washing the windows on tie outside.
Wild pigeons and pot-pies are plenty in
the Miami Valley, Ohio, the Inhabitants
wear contented look, the lower buttons on
the vests of the male sex are unbuttoned,
and there is no demand for corsets.
"A new style of rouge has made its ap-
pearance. 1t consists of tablet of what
looks like green tinsel, which, when rubbed
with a damp cloth, gives red pigment,
which seems very natural when trans
ferred to the cheek of beauty. 1t is Chi
nese invention.
Can nothing be done to check The Gus.
tom Of brow-beating witnesses, now indulg-
ed in to such an extent? Neither age nor
OSot oteAAAhSo ALL AAihA5 AOobL4t ID O
defense against the insults of 'qearned
counsel" When Gen. CoIe was on trial
for murder at Albany, one of his counsel
asked a gentleman who was witness on
the other side: "Were you not in trouble
at one time in regard to your accounts
with the bank of which you are c2shier?"
Quick as flash the reply came: "If had
you outside for ten minutes, would show
you very soon whether there was any
trouble or not" In this city, during the
hearing of civil case in the marine court,
lady had been so tainted by counsel while
testifyiDg, that a juryman Of sixty years
arose Indignantly and said the remarks
were "uncalled for and insulting" and that
if be were the lady's brother he would
slap the lawyers face and "knock his teeth
down his throat" He then asked the
court to protect the lady, but the court first
finished hearty burst of laughter at the
joke, and then-reprimanded the juror
The Graphic.