Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-21
TYPOGRAPHICAL.


The LalorencebTg Journal make this
plaintive appeal: Amt We 'shamed cause
we hain't paid fur yer paper.
| 1t is said that a Connecticut father has
christened his daughter Glycerine. She
will be good for chapped lips.
An exchange makes this brief record; A
Maine woman ate four quarts of oysters at
one sittihg the other day, and won 800 by
so doing, which after deducting her burial
expenses-ei dollars-left her fif-
teen dollars to commence the next world
with.
We fully sympathize with and bear
friendly feeling for the small boy herein
referred to; There is a good story of q
little boy who, going into Bookstore with
his mother, crept up to the Juvenile OF the
establishment with the sly query, ''Say,
have you got any books for boys that amt
got religion in emp"
'sPlease don't stop me-" said a College
street young man yesterday morning as he
rushed up Cherry street. "Why this I'M
seemly haste?" asked the friend to whom
the remark was addressed. 'I've Just
learned that they're got me down for one
of the tableauX at the Fair tonight, and
they're goin' to dress ME in tights, and I'm
too shaky for any such experiments as
that, and SO I'm goin' round to tell 'em
can't act" and he was right; he was too
shaky for those things, being all length and
no breadth, and so the managers of the
Fair concluded, when they got good look
at his physical structure.
4 very respectable gentleman from Chi
cago reports new sensation. The block
whereon is erecting the new customhouSe
in that city is incloSed by high board
fence and the workmen can be seen only by
looking through the knot-holeS il the
boards. For some time past a respectfully
dressed man has regularly visited the To-
cality and, applying his eye to one of the
knot-holes in the fence, has stood obServant
for hours at time. The workmen in
side the walls discovered several days ago
the habit of this strange visitor and be-
came uneasy. The eye peering upon them
through that knot-hole seemed to have
something supernatural about it. The
police were called to the rescue; the man
with abe starting eye was arrested and an
explanation of his conduct demanded. His
countenance was sad and It's yearning eX-
preston remarkable as he explained mourn
fully: Il couldn't help wanting to look at
the only unincumbered piece of real estate
in Chicago"
A number of very worthy people deluded
themselves with the belief that the world
would come to an end on the 9TH of Novem-
Der of this year. Our neighbors, Mr.. and
Mrs. GrillparZa, were among these Second
Adventists, and on the morning of the 9Th
they fixed themselves up in muslin robes
and proceeded to ascend to the roof of the
wOod-house, 50 that they could fly upward
without meeting with any obstacle. After
GrillparZa had reached the roof he looked
down, and saw Mrs. Grillparza coming
out of the house with an umbrella, a
caIpet-bag, and her gum shoes. She
also had her false teeth wrapped up in a
piece of paper. Mr.. Grillparza remOnstra-
ted with her upon the abSurdity Of taking
an umbrella with her into the next world,
aud commented with much severity upon
her frivolity and wickedness in thinking
about her false teeth and gum shoes at
such a solemn time. But Mrs. GrillparZa
said that she wasn't goin' to risk rheuma-
tism just for the sake of appearances, and
that if she found she didn't want her teeth
where she was goin' she could give 'em to the
poor. Grillparza angrily told her that nobody
would want such things there. But she in
sisted upon taking them along. Then Grill
para told her that he wouldn't let her come
up the ladder unless she threw away that
umbrella and her teeth. Mrs. Grillparza
then became angry, and, with very proper
spirit, she shook her umbrella at Grillparza,
and told him that if he would come down
she would pound some sense into him.
Rut Glillparza would not come down, so
Mrs. Grillparza took the ladder away, and
went into the house-mad. GrillparZa
spent all that day and the succeeding night,
on the wood-shed, and finally slid down the
water-spout, at the risk Of his life.-Er-
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