Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-15
PARAgRHPHICAL.

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AID DR.. Bill Of louisville. is stin telling
the public, through the columfss Of the
Cos9ier1J Journal, what be knows about
cholera.
Those Illinois farmers are the most perse-
vering and determined men in the world.
One Of them offered widow lsdy-in Shelby
county $75 for three calves, which she re-
fused, saying she didn't want to sell them.
But the man WIS bound TO have the calves,
and be married her.
An ingenious Nashville youth ID in a bad
way; be says this Is the way the thing oc-
Cured: ut was down to the Opera House
the other nigh You know. The girl kept
Iookin' at me and kept lookin' At her aud,
by George, the first thing III ew, was
struck, and I'd been glad If The perform.
ance had lasted AL nigbt.n
The Chicago Times of the 9th, the second
anniversary of the burning of that city, de-
votes sixteen columns to detailed showing
M of what has been done In the way OF re-
building during the past twenty -four
months. An enormous amount of labor
was required to collect all the facts pub
lished in these sixteen columns.
We learn from an exchange that Jones
was thrown into a state of wonder by the
sigE sladies' felt slippers" which he discov-
cred when passing shoe store. He can't
understand it. He says children felt slip
pers in his day often enough, but ladies gem
orally wore them, except when they were
removed for cause.
According TO California paper young
lady of that city, in telling q gentleman
about her Yosemite trip, said the scenery
was gorgeous perfectly raviHhing-but she
didn't ike their style of locommoti0n down
there. Allows that?r said hsr friend;
chow did yon locomote?" "Why, don't
you think" she replied, 81 had to ride la
clothes-pin."
BY the way, l cannot resist quoting the
following delicious Gladstoneism which has
Just appeared. 10 letter about Wedg-
wood, the potter, Gladstone, wishing to say
that he was an Ingenious and pushing man
ufacturer, calls him ''that remarkable per-
son whom observation and reflection lead
one to regard as perhaps the most distin-
guished individual 10 the whole history o!
commerce taken from the earliest ages
| The force of pleonasm could no. further g.
London Letter.
A gentleman acquainted with the facts,
writes TO ask why i is that the Banner OF
OUA0Af RdNsAoACo 80 = St<-t4A eCAOEA al
from Tullshoms to that paper, the account
of the burning of Whiteman Bros paper
mill at Manchester, the Friday night pre-
vloas. The writer sayshe knows that the
facts so published were given to Banner
reporter Saturday by aresident of Nashville
and that they were not sent by telegraph to
thai. paper as especial" or otherwise. In
answer, We would say to our correspondent
that, for ''ways that are dark, and tricks
that are vain," some newspapers are pecul-
iar-Uery peculiar.
The Chicago Times is uugallant enough
to say: Tom Mast is still employing his
pencil in fattering Grant. This week Grant
| Is policeman helping Columbia out of the
ruins of Wall Street. Think what Mast
might do with Grant at Jay Cookies palace
on the Philadelphia hills the night before
the Grassland the little "tin box sent
early in the morning 10 the White House!
In the distance might be seen ex-President
Johnson's $4,000 going with that of the
crowd of plous widows who, deceived by
their religious newspapers, whose editorials
were bought, had invested in Northern Pa
cific bonds. Grant and Richardson, with
Jay Cooke, Henry Clewes and Boss Ssep.
herd, deserve touch Of the terrible pencil
that blasted the Tammany Ring.