Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-07
PARAGRAPHICAL.

| phOnso, having attended a war meeting
says that buckling on ones armor tbIs
weather is not half so pleasant as buckling
on to ones charlner.
The local of the Terre Haute Ernyese
pathetioally alludes to an ssenormous red
hair' which he picked out of the butter at
his boarding-house lately. Enormous, is
good-very good; much better than the
| butter referred n.
Mrs. Law, Of VeInon, Called her his
band liar eight years ago, and he has not
spoken to her since, though remaining in
the house.-E1chd1lge The fool-killer
certainly hasn't visited the locality in which
that man lives during the past eight wears.
The Cincinnati Times feels relieved
ave were much mortified few DAYS since
to hear from Cincinnati lady that our
Fresh Currents were utterly worthless. but
considerably relieved to learn that she had
attempted to use them in pound cake.'
| A weak-minded Nashville man who has
occasion to ratronize those lines, saws he
can't understand how it is possible for
Houk to collect the fare on all the Church
and Spruce, and Church, Spruce and Broad
street cars, seeing that he is neither twins
nor triplets.
Doak praises '.pateht water elevator
which somebody in his town has for sale.
This is the sublimity of impertinence. He
can by no possibility know anything of the
working Of a machine to elevate water.
He never ..hists any of il in.n-Lebdaon
Herald.
Some women are so unreasonable. Mr.
Prather, of indianapolis, was trying to Dor
row two dollars to leave town with the
other day. He said he was bound to leave
his wife, as he couldn't get along with her
without knocking her down once and
while, and that was too expensive, as she
insisted on having him arrested and fined
every time he did it.
st. Louis has been Boosting over an en-
terprising resident of that city who has
mania for playing off grim jokes on under
takers by purchasing collins and paying for
them with bogus checks; but last week he
tried to settle his Indebtedness toa hashery
in that way, and then the natives concluded
to put stop to the young mans eccentrici-
ties, and so they locked him up.
This gratifying bit of information comes
to us through an exchange: A mild-minded
magistrate of Guthrie county. Iowa, has
just made decision in the case of parent
who sued his daughters wooer for kicking
him out of his own parlor. 1t was held by
the court that counting was necessity. and
must not be needleSsly interrupted; that a
parent has no legal right in room where
counting is going on.
An exchange tells us that the daughter
Of Don Carlos, of Spain, had so many names
that lit took eight able-bOdied clergymen
to baptize her, and her visiting card is made
as large as a cellar door and carried around
on a push cart. Her monogram is said to
resemble handful of fishing worms; and
when she has her name put on her UNI
brella, the engraver begins at the handle,
works up one side, over the end of the
terule and down the other side, in order to
crowd it all in. She was named after an
entire orphan asylum.
This is what hotel waiter told CORE
spondent Of the 81. Louis Republicans: 'Fat
do you think Of that Capoul? Mixing
spoonful OF oatmeal in bit of water and
sending it to the kitchen to be billed; thin
squazing in limin and washing his face
ive:y night in that Cruel, and wearing kid
gloves to bed? And there's Nilsson, and a
poor unfortnit crathur for a maid named
Layina, and l used to hear her ever call
ing Lay there" Lay herer Thinks /, why,
fats the matter, thegirl don't lay where she's
asked. Come to, it was calling the maid
she was"
Under the heading of "Lookine into
Deaths Eyes" a higmalutin writer has
something to say about the "dreadful pas
sion of fixed resolve" Of the human eve in
battle, and of the certainty of one side OF
other giving way, in a bayonet charge be-
cause of this fact, He says: calculations
have been made TO supersede this. by the
order that each soldiers bayonet shall not
take the man directly in front of him in
the enemy's ranks, but the next man to
the left This suppoSition that men in
battle march so coolly and deliberately |
upon the enemy's lines that each man
would bayonet the one directly in front of |
him, or that an order to take '.the next |
man on the left" could be carried into |
effect, will strike the minds of those who |
have been in battles, as the concentrated |
quintessence of bosh.
Describing a grand entertainment in |
Washington City, correspondent has this |
to say OF one Of the young ladies present: |
You may have deem attracted earlier in the |
night by her delicate toilette and her face |
pure as pearl; you saw her later, warm |
from the dance, eating and drinking in the |
SuppeT-TOOm; then her partners arm was
round her waist, her head was on his Shout
der, and that she was plunging into the |
German, whirling to madening measures,
presently caught in new embrace, flying
from that mans arms to anOther's, growing
wild with the abandon of the figure, hair
flying, dress disoriered, powder-caked face
burning, till pausing an instant for the
champagne in the servants hands, your girl
with the face as pure as a pearl seemed
nothing but bacchante.