Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-02
PARAGRAPHICAL.

A Nashville lady of inpulsiye teinpera-
ment. when referring to the building In
this CITY known as IS Folly, invariably
speaks of it as ''that foolish house"
The Ne,v York World talks about ''the
agonies Of sobriety." If there is anything
a New York journalist delights in, it is to
dilate upon some subject with which he IS
totally unacquainted.-St. Johns journal.
Fort WAYNE. Ind, had breach Of prom
Use suit lately, and when it was shown that
the lover had written the lady '1ni hart
beets oanly for the, mi darling hiney,
they lost no time in agreeing upon YER
dict for the plaintiff.
joaquin Miller's lover is blood-thirsty
wretch. Hear him:
o, Lot blood, born of the heavens abovel
/ shall drain her soul, / shall drink her up;
] shall love with searching and merciless
love.
shall sip her lips as the brown bees sup
From the great gold heart OF the buttercupi
The Troy Sun Up is new paper which
was born last week in the western part OF
this State. Judging from the following
editorial" the chaps running it are men
of talent: Major Howard has lost his little
'.speckle pup" He will be very happy ii
some one will tell him where he can find
the little 'pup."
A Nashville man was out nearly all day
yesterday trying to secure a servant. The
bargain which he was about to close with
one was efiectually checked on account OF
his being compelled to return an answer in
the negative to her inteTrogatory OF "And
is YOU un's all got pyanner?"
ssTake a wing" gushed a pompous up
start. extending his bent arm TO sensible
young lady, at the close of the prayer
meeting. s'Not of gander she quietly
replied, and walked home with her mother.
-Erchdnqe. Little incidents Of that kind
have very depressing influence upon the
minds of the noble youth of the land.
A Nashville young man visited India
napolis not long since, and fiattered him.
self he was making an impression upon a
bright-eyed waiter girl at the hotel he was
stopping at, but was undeceiyed when he
overheard her, speaking of him, remark to
another waiter: "Oh, he amt as green as
he looks. It's only on account OF the way
he has of combing his hair"
Doak, of the Cldrksrille Tobacco Leaf,
has the cheek. even in these trying times,
to indulge in joaks of this character:
1Whv, the currency as it is has no elastici-
ty whatever. We tried to stretch five dol
lar william last wesk, so as to make it
cover a great deal of ground, and we
couldn't get it to 90 round. There is nc
stretch about it. If they can infuSe little
elasticity into it, it will be the making OF
| the currency"
One of our nobby College street clerks
noticed that squarly-built old lady OF
Tutonic origin to whom he was selling a
bill of goods few days since, beamed upon
him with looks of admiration if not a
more tender regard. As she concluded hel
purchases and rose to so, the tears came in
to her eyes as she shook his hand, remark
ing. 81 likes you, you looks shust like mein
first beau. He is go tied nOw-he vas eir
butcher"
The minds of such Of our society young
men as had made arrangements to escort
Young ladies to the opera house last night,
were filled with apprehension and gloomy
forebodings during the afternoon, because OF
| tie indications of rain. 81 tell you,
c." said one of these, to his chum,
who was similarly situated, after taking a
| long look at the sky, 'sProvidence is against
US, and this is going to be shack night
sure as you're born," and deep sigh shook
his manly frame, as he made a mental
calculation of the nights probable expenses
The Gdinsboro Netcs man still insists
| that they have '.fresh milk COWS" in Jack
son county. Does he mean fresh mich
cows?-Spdrtd Inder. Not at all. He
meant exactly what he said. Does the
| Inder man feed his children on '.milch," OF
| is White county what we always heard il
was, "a land flowing with milk and hOney?'
| II orr friend has any of the smilk of hui
man kindness" in his bosom, (and we know
he has, he will come squarely up to the
question instead of ''milching" round like
he does in the above Standardization
Ne,rs. For the hubbub raised we fear the
Ne1rS man must have ''stale milk COWS" as
well as the fresh milk variety.