Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-26

Mr.. Knight edits the Georgia Dmcn.
-Barnum wants fire proof animals this
time:
The anhtal expenses of Baltimore
poodle footed up SITS.
Memphis has female lamp lighters, With
boys to hold the ladder.
New York pays thirty-three thousand
dollars year to bell ringers at fire alarms.
Madison, Wisconsin, society bellies put
beautiful glow upon their cheeks by rub
bling them with brick.
"A Kentucky farmer keeps warm in q
homespun overcoat presented to him by
his wife forty years ago.
= The difference between sealing=wax
and women, says Reuben, is that one burns
to keep secret and the other to tell it.
Five hundred and thirty women in the
United States are doctors, twenty
| are dentists, five lawyers, and sixty eight
preachers. .-
Nashville, Tenn, is haunted by fash
ionable spectre with Grecian bend.-EI.
change. Correct in the main. But the
fact is, our spectre does not affect the Gre
clan bend; neither is it fashionable spec
tire, and thirdly, we have no spectre. How
ever, we feel warranted in saying that if we
had one, these would be its characteristics.
-Junius Henri Browne says that '4he
masculine and feminine strive toward each
other, wanting rest until conjoined." This
comes of Brownies never having lived in
Chicago.
Misery loves company. An Iowa BRIDE
groom refused to take the VOW at the altar
until the sister of the bride had consented
to marry his brother.
"A man in Germany recently baked bis
wife in a huge oven. The man was arrest
ed, though all the world knows that wives
are best when cooked that way. [St. Louis
journal, of course.
Erie, Pa, is one of the liveliest towns
in Western Pennsylvania, and is a great
railroad centre. Last month the receiots
at this point were two boxes sardines and
bag of cats, but this month it will be near
ly double that.
"A Nashville darksy was holding forth
to an interested auditory as to the relative
virtues of Tennesseeans and Mississippians
lately. Said he: "There's more NOR
alization and similarity among de people
of dis State dan in Mississippi" That has
been our opinion all along
"A few days since Thomas, Doorkeeper
Of the Senate, was sent out to hunt up one
more Senator in order 70 secure quorum.
Thrusting hS Intellectual Uranium in the
open door ofthe State Library, he called to
Mrs. Haskell, the librarian, sis there a sin
gle Senator in here?'' "Do you mean a
bachelor or widower?" inquired that puz-
zled lady.
Waterloo, of the St. Louis Journal,
kicks up his heels like risky colt in joyous
anticipation Of the pleasant times he will
have during "moving week." when he pro
poses taking his hash down town while the
wife of his bosom superintends the removal
and resetting up oftheir marble-top furniture
and things. That estimsble woman is one
out of ten thousand, and Waterloo is awful
proud of her and all that, but he says be
always enjoys more freedom of action, as it
were, when away from home.
in the Senate yesterday, petition was
presented beginning eve, your Honorable
Petitioners" Modest, isn't il?
-"Now l don't understand it," said a
carefully trained Cherry street young man
yesterday. 81 want to do the straight
thing, you know, but I'm getting little
mixed. like to play euchre, but they say
it's wicked, and yet church members will
play 'Bezigue,' which requires the use of
four euchre decks, and it seems to me that
makes it four times as wicked game as
euchre, which is played with one deck"
He borrowed dime of newsboy standing
near, paid the bootblack for polishing his
number skies, and passed on down the
street, trying to solve this difficult problem.
The newsboy had his difficult problem to
solve, too, as he walked of, cogitating upon
the probability of bis ever seeing the color
of bis dime again.