Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-25
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And now those Nashvil lie ladies-bless
'em whose compassionate and sympathetic
natures, have used them to remI in in the
city to cheer the eyes Of their masculine
friends in these dark days, are beginning to
grunble little. They say they cannot
wear their trailing dresses when out on the
streets because of the tar whichhas been
so freely distributed on
each side of said streets, and on the cross
ings. Patience, ladies, "a few more days
of sorrow" and the necessity for the use of
tar, lime, and all those disagreesble things
for disifectiDg purposes, will PASS away,
toget her with the cholera itself, and then
We will be happy again, as in days of yore.
The Louisville Commercial looks at the
matter in this light: "As Lucca has been
formally and completely divorced from her
husband, and intends to remain in this
country, we bet she will be supporting some
American squirt within two years, through
the aid of the marriage ceremony"
A very neat bit of satire is embodied in
this clipping from the Danbury Ne1Cs: ga
milk pitcher thrown by his wife at Nelson
street man, on Monday noon, missed the
aim ard ruined handsome frame which
enclosed the words God Bless our Home +"
Nashville business men are taking things
remarkable easy, these times. The writer
stepped in at one of our large book stores
yesterday evening, and found all the pro-
prietors sitting at the door, in as
comfortable attitudes as possible. During
his stay, gentleman came in and called
for q certain book. "Don't disturb us;
please don't disturb US" excl aimed one of
the PROJECTORS. "Here the whole day has
passed quietly by, without our being both
cred by anybody, and just at night you
come along and interfere with our quiet re-
pose" But they sold him the book.
The st. Louis Dispatch clips from some
o her paper the following: "The aptitude
of young boyhood to find way out of all
difficulties, was never better illus rated than
In a ase in Norwich when fiona mother
gave her fiye-year-old hopeful an outfit of
fish tackle. Soon she heard shout from
| Willie, and, running out, found one of her
b est hens fast winding up the line in her
crop, whittier the hook had already prece-
| ded it. Willie, observing the troubled look
of his mother, quietly remarked, "Don't
worry, mother, l guess she will stop when
she gets to the pole.'"
A Nashville young man says he makes it
| q point to neve miss a meal. He says that
he is opposed, on principle, to people be-
coming the sudden possessors of wealth,
and be knows that this would be the case
with his landlady if he should miss a few
meals. .....s ..-...
Boys place their own estimate upon the
| relative value of things. For instance,
thee is the Nashville juvenile, who, last
| Sunday afternoon, took his sisters $500
diamond ring from the wash stand where
she had carelessly left it, slipped it in his
pocket alongside of half dozen jsckstones,
| a handful of marbles, a small ball of Irvine,
his knife, jewsaarp, spool of thread, a
pocket comb, piece of chewing gum, sew
eral shingle nails, small onion and few
other things, and then went out in the yard
| TO have some fun. He tumbled around in
the grass for an hour or so, and then found
that he had lost the jackstones and the
ring. 1t was really touching to witness his
exhibition of grief over the loss of the jack
stones.