Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-05
pARAGRApRIcAL.

Huntley, Of the 81. Louis Globe, talks
leaTnedly about "coigneS of vantage" and
the commendable desire of his readers to
know what the man means has caused a
rise in the retail price Of dictionaries.
The EUdnsUiIe' Journal tells about a
man forty years old, who grew eight inches
in height iItwo weeks, and who was COM
PEELED to 90 to law in order to prove his
identity. The Journal claims to be a
truthful paper, too.
The So. Louis Globe publishes few col
umns of sermons every Monday morning,
under the head of s.Holy Thoughts One
would suppose from the general makeup
of the Globe that no one connected with
that paper ever INDUCED in thoughts OF
that character.
| A Nashville man in speaking Of some
very small rooms yesterday, conveyed to
the minds of his hearers clear idea of
their contracted dimensions by saying that
they were ':not big enough to whip a dog
in"
Little paragraphs like the following con-
stitute regular Balm o. Gilead to polite
but bashful young men "a gallant young
man won wife in Dubuque, the other
day, by paying the fare Of q strange damsel,
WHOSE DcdutN 1dSCllldttQ luCN MNlC
welded the same day"
We regret exceedingly to observe the dis
position manifested by certain ill-mannered
editors to speak lightly of lady lecturers.
We clip the following in order that our
readers may hold such men in utter scorn ::
Gamma Dickinson kept IA Syracuse audience
waiting half an hour, The other night, be-
cause her green dress with a trail had not
come"
This practical suggestion, for which the
Louisville Board of Education are not
charged a cent, comes from the st. Louis
JOmndl: Louisville has attempted to heat
its new female high school building by
steam, and failed. If the managers of that
female high school building want to really
heat it, they should just forbid bustles, or
shut off the supply of chewing gum for a
dav.'
We like the writer of the following, and
would be willing to walk a mile in order
to borrow dollar of him: The present
system of eneOres at concerts, oratories, etc,
has long been condemned as most Objec-
tionable. Those who are opposed to it
viii be interested to hear Of proposal that
in future all encored pieces should be given
together at the close of the entertainment.
| Speaking of the December number of the
AL5iEe, the NdShritle Bulletin says: 'There
are six full page pictures of remarkable
merit, besides a host Of smaller ones, each
a typographical gem, and many of them a
real art of GEM" For good, hefty criticism,
commend us to the NdshriIe Bulletin.
Miss Abbott, the young American girl
whom Miss kellogg discovered, we be-
lieve, and whom Henry Ward Beecher,s
church sent to Europe to be musically ed
ucated, is making remarkable progress
The principal masters of Europe are
charmed with her voice, which they pro-
nounce perfect, and her bosom friend, Ad
elina Patti, is equally delighted with her
The young singer was urged to go to St
Petersburg and sing with Patti, but better
counsel prevailed, and she returned to hel
studies. She will come into view with &
flash by and by, from. all accounts.-E1
change.
Literary gent, at the Maxwell House
breakfast table, says to his fellow country
man: ''Sad accident-very sad, the sink
ing Of the Wiley der Havver." "Why," re
piled the other, II was told that the vesse
sunk was called the City OF Havre.' Cues:
YOU have the wrong name" mo, sir;
am not wrOng-in tact, / never am.
know positively that the vessel which SUM
was the Wiley der Havyer,' and there wa
no such vessel near there as the City o
Hayre,'" replies No. l, with that lofty eX
preston of polite, yet scornful irony, whicl
| knowledge sometimes wears.