Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-19
PARAGRAP HICAL.

"A NaouVIllo m2O Complains tuaG t1ere
is no nutriment in venison. He says that
before now he has eaten whole oven-full of
it, TO get up the next morning as hungry as
q wolf.
An absent-minded elderly gentleman,
was observed vending bis way down
Cherry street Yesterday evening bareheaded,
but with his umbrella tucked carefully 10
der his arm. He had left his hat hanging
in the Office.
During the late cholera excitement
the enterprising and ingenious masculines
Of q village about ten miles from this city
effectually warded off the dread disease by
wearing small bags of asafetida tied under
their nasal organs, and thoroughly waxing
their mouslaces with tar. They are low
employing their leisure time with efforts to
remove the tar.
The st. Louis Journal man has an init
mate friend who fills the responsible and
lucrative posi- ion of car-conductor on the
Olive street line, and it was from this gentle
man that he obtained the information en-
bodied in this paragraph: Gan Olive street
lady forgot to put on her corsets before
going down town the other day, and a
sLreet-car conductor was heard to remark
that day and one of them was too limpsy
for anything.n
"What / should like TO know Is this"
said Nashville young man at the Maxwell
House breakfast table yesterday. "Does
the proprietor of the Maxwell Hous. get his
beefsteak from the Maxwell House Shoe
Store, across the way, or does the proprie-
tor of the Maxwell House Shoe Store get bis
sole leather from the Maxwell House." and
look Of deep perplexity rested upon his
countenance, as he laid down his knife and
fork, and wiped the perspiration from mis-
manly brow. His queries remain unan-
swered
There is mine of undeveloped romance
and sentiment about the Banners side
walker" which ought to be worked, by
all means. Witness the following, which
he wrote with one hand tied behind him;
"LOVers at Beersheba take evening walks
to the rock door, whsre lovely scene iS
opened up to them. They observe a small
waterfall TO the right, and it at once re-
minds them of bridal veil and wed.
ding-when shall it be? On, estate
thought land soft whispered nothings and
an imprisoned kiss seals the engagement.
And now White, of the Lebanon Herald
strikes terror to the heart of our police re-
porter, by holding him up to the ridicule Of
the one hundred and twenty five
readers of the Herald, thus: "Shaks-
peare says that "a voic9-soft, gen.
tie and low is 'an excellent thing in
woman The police reporter of the UNION
AND AMERICAN, attempting the quotation,
makes mess of it, as usual: "a low. sweet
voice is lovely thing in womsn.'' Our
police reporter read that cutting paragraph,
and then asked, who's Shakespeare aud
what relation does be sustain to Judge Du-
ings temple Of Justic ?"
Out on Whites creek, very neat little
church vac completed about the time the
cholera made its appearance in that sec
ton, whereupon nearly all the worshippers
in that church, betook themselves to wha,
they considered safer localities. At the
first well attended meeting held since their
return, prominent man in that section
one who had contributed largely toward
the erection of the building, but was not q
professor of religion, arose gravelY and told
the ''feeing brethren" that he hoped they
would never again sing that good old hymn,
"I'm glad that | was born 10 Gie," as be
thought from the activity they had displayed
in leaving home few weeks previous, that
none of them were really anxious to die.
In an advertisement Of medical quack,
we are told that ''the woTld.renowned ban
Usher of all classes of disease has made
himself popular with the masses in all parts
of the United States. The millions he has
cured, from a pain 10 the most deplorable
case of rheumatism, all cry aloud in his
praise" We recognize in this advertise
menS traces of the same scholarly b md
which writes all the advertise ments of that
character. The last sentence is peculiarly
pleasing. We imagine "lhe Millions
whom that fraud hss ,'cured, from a pain
TO the most deplOrabls case ofrheumatism,"
drawn up in line, four deep, 'crying aloud
in his praise" and as we fat cy we hear that
tremendous shout, we ende8vored to pic
tGre to our own minds the feeling of joy
and satisfaction which philanthropist who
res ores s'millions" of his fellows to health,
must experience.
The editor fthe Savanna, (Ga.) Adver-
iser, reads the Philadelphia papers, and is
thereby led to comment in this fashion:
"When the coal beaver in Nicholas Nickleby
waited to get shaved, the barber replied
that gentlemen in his line could not be
shaved at that shop. "Why, | see you a
shaving of q baker when l was looking
through the winder, last week." said the
coal HEAVIER. DIS necessary TO draw the
line somewhere, my fine fellow, "replied
the barber. We draw the line there. We
can't 60 beyond bakers" In Philadelphia
they draw the line at Arch street. Sore
impecunious but aristocratic family in Mont
gomery county, Pa, wants sun mer boarders
from the CITY but they must be of the right
quality. So the advertisement in the
Ledger warns 'Ghose residing north of Arch
street" not to apply. Those who want to
enjoy ga beautiful country seat, half hour
from the city," must come from that chosen
haunt of the old families of Philadelphia,
the district south of Arch street. What
would be demanded from New York or
Cincinnati answerers Of the advertisement
does not appear. We may conjecture that
it would be easier to enter West Point
than for any such outside barbsrians to get
inside the Montgomery county retreat"