Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-05-02
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

The only way a person can distinguish
the St. Louis Dispatch, under the present
reoinae, from a Philadelphia paper, is by
looking at the heading, as it is characterized
by that exhibition of vivacity, sparkling
wit and irresistible humor, which has made
the newspapers published in the city OF
Brotherly love famous, the world over, and
vet those Dispatch men don't write SIS funny
as they do. They daren't do it. The conse-
auences would be TOO serious.
Louisville is to be congratulated upon
the organization in that city OF society for
the prevention of cruelty to animals, and
it is to be hoped that similar organizations
will be formed in every town, village and
city in the land, in order that Certain Class
of people may be taught that dumb ami
mails have rights which must be respected.
A Florida hunter has killed nine hundred
alligators since the middle of December,
none of them being less than five feet long
and some much longer. The mind is filled
with amazement at the contemplation OF
six thousand feet of alligators, mor6 or less,
crawling with open jaws over the breast OF
that Florida Nimrod in CHASTITY and grin
ming nightmare. Courier Journal.
a Nashville lady says there is but one
| thing that she would not rather come in
contact with than with fashionable, heart
less woman of the world, and that one
thing is an escaped elephant.
Mrs. Charlotte Smith, the publisher of
the Inland Monthly, has decided to- estab-
Ii,h "Women's Printing Office" The
| MOnthlu will be published there, and Job
work will also De attended to at az low rates
a. at any office in the city. All the en-
ill ho and tho
movement will furnish lucrative employ
ment to large number. The Office IS 70
| be established through stock company 70
be organized, and will be located at No. 219
Pine street. The shares are $50 esch, and
the capital stock will probably be limited TO
| $4,000. This is movement III the light
| direction.-St. Louis Democrat.
There are but few men in this country
| who are mote vigilaut in keeping track OF
new inventions than Max Adler. Hera is
his notice Of one which, it appears, turned
out unsatisfactory: "Alcibisdes Botteiel
used to keep a barber-shop up near ouI
house some years ago. He was Of an III
yeutiye turn, and it occurred to him one
day that he might construct sbsmpoolBg
machine which would perform the work
more quickly and effectively than the
human band. So he fixed up a contriVance
with kind of an iron stand, from which
two ioiuted arms with steel claws protrudef
These claws were covered with chamoiS
skin, and the arms were moved in any d.
rection by series Of crarks and levers
Steam-pozsr vas obtained by means o.
uullevs from the factory neEt door, anC
Mr.. Botteler, being all ready, invited
couple of friends to see how the concern
worked. Mr. Botteler though he would
take the first shampoo himself. 81
he Instructed tie shop boy how Il
start the machine, and then, seating him
self in a chair, he placed claw on each
side of his head, and told the bog TO begin
We never knew how it was exactly, bu
that boy must have pulled the throttle
valve out about foot too far, for in min
nteth steel claws clutched Bottelar's heat
so that be thought his skull would crack
f and the shampeoning- machine began t.
rear and plunge and tear around the room
and il lifted AlCiOiades from his chair vat
Jerk. and scoped him around among tn
ings of hair dive and beat him against tn
ceiling and sOused him into the wash-basiI
and raked him around among the shaving
; mugs and the raz0rs, battered his hea
against the wall, and al the time the stet
claws worked and scratched and grabhie
for a better hold OF bis head until the shu
off steam in the factory, when Alcibi2de
= Bother was found with his legs through th
; | v.niow-sash and his neck elongated q
j least six inches. The patent for that shan
rooing machine can be bought cheap.
never came into general use, even in Bo
er's own place. He said il seemed MOI
/, economical, somehow, to shampoo Gust
: mers with the hand"