Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-15
PARAGRAPHICAL.

The writer observes, with feelings of in-
tense satisfaction, that at various and sum
dry places throughout the city, repairs are
being made in the sidewalks and crossings.
sHere's to ye," members of the Street
Committee. Prosecute your noble work
until new sidewalks have been laid through
out the entire city, and a grateful public
will rise up and call you blessed.
And old farm house with meadows wide,
And sweet with clover on each side;
A bright-eyed boy who looks from out
The door with wOodbine wreathed about,
And wishes, his one thought all day:
"Oh, If 1 could but fly away
From this duh spot the world to see,
How happy, happy, happy,
How happy should be!'
Amid the city's constant din,
A man who round the world has been,
Who, mid the tumult and the throng,
Is thinking, thinking all day long:
''Ohl could only tread once more
The feld-path to the farmhouse door,
The old, green meadow could see,
How happy, happy, happy;
How happy should Ibe,"
eff the pretty girls of Nashville are not
the most graceful walkers in the world, the
owners of many dewalks have no right to
indulge the riticism,"-[ Bqnner.1 off the
pretty girls of Nashville are not the most
graceful walkers in the world" etc. No
amount of wealth would induce us to
change places with that reckless young man
of the Banner ''if the pretty girls of Nash
ville' saw fit to arise in their power and
| majesty to visit proper punishment upon
him for daring to insinuate that they are
not sthe most graceful walkers in the
world"
1t is said that DR.. Harrison, the anti
Spiritual man, has very fine lecture on
"Woman." The writer knows a number
| of very fine women who have lectures of
their own, as their husbands can testify.
There is family living in the suburbs of
the city who have their bees so well trained
that, at a given signal, they settle upon I'M
welcome visitors and make times SO lively
| for them that SAID visitors never come
again.
An immense amount of solid happiness
| and intense enjoyment can be obtained by
the use of backing brush-one of those
that have circular piece of wood fastened
| to the main brush with a single screw; the
| ostensible purpose for which said circular
piece of wood was designed being to apply
the backing with, but the real object being
to inculcate lessons of patience and for
bnarance upon the minds of mankind.
Nobody ever saw one Of those brushes,
after it reached the years of maturity, that
that round block was not loose, and it has
a way Of turning just at those lines when
you place the most reliance upon its sta bill
| ty of character, which is really discourag-
ing. You always get through using one of
those brushes with a sense of relief; also
with your right hand touched up
here and there in an artistic man
ner with the backing, and with the
epidermis removed from said hand in spots,
at such places where it has come in violent
and unexpected contact with the sole of
your boot. You lay the brush aside with
mental resolve TO never pick it up again,
but bless you'll you never keep that resolu-
ton, but on the cont airy continue to use it
until it is entirely used up, INCREASING your
stock of familiar quotations meanwhile,)
and when you are finally compelled to lay
it aside forever, and get a new one, you
look upon the latter with distrust and sus-
picion, and feel that there is something
wanting to make your happiness complete,
until you finally succeed IN getting the
backing part on the new brush loosened
up so that it will turn, and
you enjoy life once more.
The Providence Or. L. Herald, wide
awake journal, has this to say: "When q
great calamity occurs the synpathies of the
American people are very properly excited,
and there is usually an expression of prac
teal Christianity that Is very creditable,
to human nature. 1t is, however, almost
Invariably accompanied with excuses and
oversights Of very awkward character.
For example, in this Atlantic disaster, the
one bright boy saved, a lad of twelve years,
cheerful, hopeful, buoyant, though sudden
ly beref5 Of his family,
is not really needy. If he
we're, one or two warm hearted friends
have volunteered to give@him good home
and provide him with every want. Yet we
hear of him from Halifax to New York as
the recipient Of gifts, and now a sum of
money amounting to several hundred dol
lars has been raised for him. Wi b this in
telligence there comes an account of scores
of poor emigrants equally deserving, who
leave for their Western destinations with
two dollars or FIVE dollars each, the gift of
the company who wrought their ruin, and
barely clothes enough to cover them. We
are a generous people but how we do
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