Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-02
PARAGRAPHICAL,

The assemblage Of medical gentlemen
now holding their annual convention at the
Senate Chamber, are evidently very able
body of men, but the question which agi-
tates the writer Just now is, what's to be-
come of suffering humanity whilst the
guardians of the public health are absent
from the post of duty?
In Boston the average hackman is found
sitting in his place, reading Plato in the
original Greek, and when an intending
customer salutes him and intimates that
he desires conveyance, he leaves bis post,
takes off his hat, opens the door, hands l.
C, in, and gives him tract, and that when
the journey is ended, he repeats the same
poliLeness of manner and charges some
thing less than a dollar a minu or five
dollars a mile, which is believed to be the
tariff of the fraternity in less favored COM
munities.
The writer is getting discouraged in his
efforts to keep the public posted with ref
erence to the weather. He prepared, Tor
yesterdays issue, a remarkably brilliant
and spicy paragraph, alluding, in terms
calculated to bring tears to the eye OF the
reader, to the ge-lorious weather we were
ey experiencing at the time the paragraph was
written, the indications being that that
weather would continue. The thousands
who daily draw inspiration from the local
columns of this paper, read that beautiful
paragraph, yesterday, in the midst OF
| driving rain storm, and with "heaven's ar
tillery" (borrowed) sounding in their ears.
| True it is that emo one can tell what day
may bring forth"
| eff newspaper enterprise progresses at
| this rate, there will soon be no safety for
the profession. New York reporters have
been incarcerated in lunatic asylums, and
| shipped across the ocean as emigrants, in
order to write up the thing, and San Fran
| cisco localis.s are taking balloon trips for
the same purpose. 1t only remains for the
Herald commissioner at the Modoc camp
to get himself scalped, and for the Times to
take morphine a la Foster. In the mean
time the controversy continues as to wheth.
er Goodrich could have shot three bullets
into his own brain, and we suggest to the
founderer of the Tribune that this glori
GUS field for personal experiment.-CinciIr
natl Times.
There is one thing no family pretands to
do without. That is a hammer. And YET
there is nothing that goes to make up the
equipment of domestic establishment thai
causes one-half as much agony and profan-
ity as hammer. 1t is always an old ham
mer, with handle that is inclined to slive
and always bound to slip. The face is a
round as a full moon and as smooth
as glass. When it strikes mai
full and square, which it has been known
to do, the act will be found to result from
a combination Of pure accidents. Th'
family hammer is one of those rare artic e
we never profit by. When it glides off
nail head, and mashes down couple @
fingers, we unhesitatingly deposit it in tn
yard, aud observe that we will never u Sc
again. But the blood has hardly dried OF
the rag before we are out doors in searcl
of that hammer, and ready to make an
other trial. The result rarely varies, bu
we never profit by it. The awful weapo
goes on knocking off our nails, and mashin
whole joints, and slipping off the handle t.
the confusion of mantle ornaments, ant
breaking the commandments, and cuttin
up an assortment of astounding and unfor
tunate antics, without let or hindrance
And yet we put up With it, and put To
handle on again, and lay it away where
won't get lost, and do up our mutilate
and smarting fingers, and yet if the GU
rageous thing should happen to get lost, W
kick up regular huliabooloO until 1t
found again. Talk about the tyranniziI
influence of . bad habit 1t is not to
compared to the family hammer.-DD