Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-15
MELANGE.

An honest lover in Massachusetts, has
given to his prospective father-in-law load
of wood to replace that Consumed during
his evening s'sparkiRg" visits last winter.
"A Peoria man says that bis wifeis
tongue wears out so many sets of false
teeth that the dentists bill have nearly
broken him up.
Two curious suicides have taken place
at Paris, both oceasioned by the remorse of
The vIctIms It having scolded their wives.
"A young man twenty years old, citi-
zen of Augusta, hung himself the other day
because his coat wrinkIed in the back. And
he wasn't at all particular, G ither.
The. old gentleman who put his postal
card in a stamped envelope is matched by
an Omaha man who has his money orders
sent by registered letter.
"A friend Of ours is in a dilemma; be
says his fiancee objects to bis being "looss,'
and yet threatens to discard him if she ever
sees him eight" ~
Some one calls s'the race of American
women INDECENT" whereupon one of them
retorts, 81 wonder if that man ever reflect
ed upon the amount of shopping we dc,
and thel willingness with which We do
~"
n Cyl Ia ChlSOi OlA LIS va hbluC LuC
other evening had the misfortune to lose a
sum of money which be had been saving
u 10 invest in real state. The amount
lost, including the value of the pocket-bOok
and some articles of jewelry, was sixty-four
cent?.
VIM. Adams of Lake Pepin, MINES
ota, who achieved atemporary notoriety by
shooting "white pelican" last week, has
been fined $l1 80 for shooting neighbours
Egyptian goose. @ J3-
The wives of Cincinnati are loving,
fragile, little beings. Last Sunday morning
one Of these clinging human vines, named
Mrs. Malcure, seized her husband and threw
him off from a second story porch to the
ground, causing injuries that will Kill him.
When Turkish wife forgets to keep
the suspender buttons sewed to her hus-
banda trowsers, she is patted on the back
for If an hour with pine board an inch
thick. An African wife is better treated.
The frown is chased from her lofty brow
with fat-iron.
Edmund Munger, speaking of the time
when he was boy, says it was the custom
Of the school children, as you passed a
schOol-house, to make bow; but in these
latter days, as you pass school house, you
must keep your eye peeled, or you will get
a Snow ball or bIick-bat at the side of your
head.
The Graphic, in speaking of the young
lady who wrote Mr.. Cartoons ''Beisy and
l are Out" says she was ''b IN Of four
generations of Baptis. ministers" Any one
who has been 50 extensively born as that
ought not to be under the necessity Of be-
ing born any more.
Mrs. COyle put her head out of the
window during the storm, and was struck
by lightning She was stunned for mo-
ment, and had the top of her head singed,
but she recovered. She says if she had
'only seen the lightning minute sooner
she would have lodged it, but somehow she
amt so spry as she was sixty yesrs ago."
Mr.. Carpenter, of Marquette, Mich,
had not the slightest idea he was about to
create an atmOspherical disturbance when
he knocked the ashes out of his pipe on
the head of powder key. And when a
fellow workman conveyed all that was left
of Mr.. Carpenter to his wife in bag, she
quietly remarked: "Just bis luck; hang him
up In the wood shed where the cats Won't
get at him, till night"