Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-24
PARAGRAPHICAL.


1t was sad to witness the looks of de-
spondency and gloom which Nashville soda
water men bestowed upon their reservoirs
of tGsryescent GOODNESS yesterday, as the
mercury slid down forty or fifty degrees
from the position it occupied the day be-
fore. sl1a ~ A
A darkey named Hoxey Tor is 1t ''Hoax-
eyS) occupied PORTION ofihis leisure time
yesterday By entrapping the innocent and
guileless pigeons which flock about the
Markethouse, and this was his little game:
He fastened fax threads to stones of a
couple of pounds weight, and attached TO
the other end of the thread a grain of corn,
scattering several other grains carelessly
around. The nnsuspecting birds would
swallow all the corn, and when the baitei
grain was picked up, the stone would serve
as an anchor, and then that designing AZ
rican would walk up and capture the pigeon
without difficulty. A I8J
A Nashville official has managed to So
lace himself with only five boxes of cigars
since the first of the month, but notwith-
Standing his persevering eaoits In the
smoking line, be has a headache every
morning. 5ci es s w tgs1ra
There is gentleman in this city who is
exceedingly regular in his habits. For
eighteen years past, be has made it point
to put in an appearance at the market
house at precisely 8 O'Clock, a. NJ. One
morning, he was a minute late and the
marketbouse folks said they knew some
thing would hsppen in consequence, and
sure enough heavy hail fell in the after
noon. t 4fDt9 l'-3 s-
For conscientious performances Of duty,
under circumstances which would seem to
excuse slight Sinking thereof, commend
us to the darkey who was busi,y engaged in
driving his sprinkling cart up and down
Cherry street yesterday morning, watering
that thoroughfare, in the midst OF heavy
shower. @
A Baptist minister in California SAYS. at
came here with the old opinion that plen-
ty of wine would promote - .c temperance
cause wnen see whole families, father
and mother, boys and girls, made drunk
ards by the produce of their own vineyards,
1 am convinced that wine making Is q
curse. California is becoming State OF
drunkards."
At Nashville residence they have col
ored iavenileSwhnse love of truth equals
that Of the hero of the Ratchet romance, as
the young lady of the house Is willing to
bear e:tiIhonJ, she having utterly failed in
her endea7ors to get him to say to tinwel-
come callers, when ANSWERING the door-h6ll,
that she is not at home, when he is con-
Vinced that she is.
The Nashville Banner credits the Gazette
with 'oracular intaEibility." Our contem-
porary doubtless intends to. be- courteous,
but we must decline all compliments that
are not correctly spelled Cincinnati Ga
zette.
One of the solid men of Boston kindly
promised to comply with the request of a
friend, who was impatient to leave The
church, to deposit dollar bill for him In
the contribution-box, but he quietly return
ed his own pocket-book to his pocket WITH
out lesseniug the amount of money con-
tanned therein, and when the collector came
along ostentatiously dropped his friends
bank pote in it and sank bsck on his cush-
Toned seat IS if conscious Of good acs well
performed CoRieT-J Journal.
A gentleman who was induced to try a
glass ofthe exhilarating "Blue Lick'' water,
for sale at the Maxwell, gives it as bis opin-
ion that an excellent substitute for said
water can be manufactured in this way:
Put pint of water in green gourd, dis
solve therein an ounce Of EPSON salts, drop
in handful of rusty nails, and then break
into the mixture rotten egg. Shake the
mixture up thoroughly and drink as quickly
as possible: