Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-31
PARAGRAPHICAE.

A letter with the following address passed
through the Nashville Postofice Yesterday;
sAEr. J. B. Cunning Ham Johns vile Um
pharous county tennessee, if not Delivered
w in 10 Days to b retuInd to the oner."
We trust that it will not be found necessa-
ny to return that letter.
The Common Ccupcil of Brooklyn pays
the reporters $50 piece per annun for re-
porting proceedings and for the loss of caste
in mixingup with Aldermen.-DetroHF Free
Press. Those Brooklyn reporters must
have a perfect passion for money, and not a
bit of self respect.
The Chicago Times always was a pro-
gressive paper, and has done great deal to
elevate the moral and religious tone of its
home readers. 1t now Insists upon a bill
lizard hall in every church, and claims that
better Christians and fresher sermons will
be the result.
"Eighty-eight young ladies in Minnesota
have banded together and agreed not to
marry any man who uses tobacco in any
form" Now let the young men refuse to
marry any young lady who uses cotton in
any 'form. - Cincinnati Times.
"a stOical Scotchman was addressed by
his sick wife, 'Oh, John, shan't leave this
bed alive 'Please theeself, Betty, and
the'll please me- returned John, with great
equanimity. 4 have been good wife to
you, john persisted the dying woman
'Middlin', Betty, only middlin'.'" Just like
a Scotchman.
A Boston lady discovered that her Swed3
ish servant girl was staying at home from
church because the shade of her neckt.e
was not becoming. "When you consider"
says the lady, ''that up to six months ago
she had never worn anything on her head
but cotton handkerchief of the peasantry
of Germany and Sweden, and never pos
sessed at one time but two gowns, you
must allow that the love of. finery is of
rapid growth. '-Erchdage
"A Granger went into the Union ticket
Office Monday, planked his wallet down on
the counter and remarked: 81 want to sub
scribe for the UNION AND AMERICAN tor
next year, SIR" The accommodating and
efficient" remarked that they were not re-
ceiving subscriptions for this paper at that
office, when the stranger explained that he
saw the word ''Union" on the office sign
and thought he had struck the Office he had
been looking for.
An editor IL male being whose biziness
IL to navigate nuze paper. He writes ed
itorials, grinds out poetry, inserts deths
and weddings, sorts out manuscripts, keeps
a waste basket, blows up the 'devil," steals
matter, flies other peoples battles, sells his
paper for dollar and 80 cents year, takes
white beans and apple sass for pay when he
kan git it, raizes large family, works 10
hours out ov every "a, knows no Sunday,
gifts damned bi everybody, and once in a
while whipt bi snmboddy,s livs poor, dies
middle-aged and often broken-hearted,
leaves no money, is rewarded for life ov
toll with short but free obituary puff in
the nuzepapers, Exchanges please COPY
Josh Billings.
The literary man of the Cincinnati Times
devOtes two columns to an elaborate re-
view of ''The Gilded Age" Mark Twain
and Charles Dudley Warmers new book.
He advises everybody to read the book, but
claims that it has ''neither the brilliant wit
of Mark Twain nor the Ileditative sweet
ness of Mr.. Warner" and does not come UP
to the public expectation in any particular.
He says: ''Upon two points there is re-
markable similarity between this story and
the novel of our townsman, Thew Wright,
which we reviewed on Saturday. In both
books the heroine studies medicine, prac-
tices, and then falls in love and marries;
and IN each, all the characters excepting
two are left in the lurch when the story
closes. Beyond this there is no resemblance
between the stories, because one is very
powerful book, and the other is not"
4 FEW evenings since, dspper youth
was observed fastening along Church
street, evidently on his way to ''hern home.
He looked like a gay young troubadour,
with his lavender kids, and his nice little
cut-away coat, and his nobby cane, and his
glossy tile gifted slightly to one side in
the most killing manner), and his ''perfect
love" of a vest. As he ambled gracefully
along, a sweet smile rested upon his cheek
as he imagined the tender welcome await
ing him, when, oh horrors. a Second-story
window just above him was opened, and
the contents of P goodly-sized wash-bowl
struck him full and fair. For a moment
our little beau stood silently contemplating
the ruin of his gorgeous and Immaculate
toilet, and then he "burst forth in the re-
sistless eloquence ot'-cuss words. His
remarks were 80 pointed and emphatic
that, if swearing would give one a sore
throat, that demoralized youth will have
the diptheria for week to come.