Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-09
MELANGE.

There are fifteen narrow-gI age rail
roads in operation in The United States
with an aggregate length of 474k miles.
The ort Valley Mirror man wants tC
cell parlor still. He rem srks that it car
grind out five hundred gallons in season,
and every family needs pura brandies.
AT candy pull recently, the two gallon
pot full of blazing liquid was put out 10 the
yard to cool, while the jolity went on inside
The cats corpse was removed and the candy
given TO the poor.
"A woman at Wheeling wanted straw
berries for supper, while her husband didn't,
and she settled the dispute by shooting him
through the shoulder. He is a straw berry
man now.
"A book has just been published entitled
'Why She Refused Him." 1t is hardly nee
essary to wade through a three-hundred-
page volume to ascertain why she refused
him. 1t proves to be because he wasn't
rich, of course.
-"What is your business?" asked the
Judge of prisoner at the bar. swell, 1
'spose You might call me locksmith."
"When did you last work at the trade?''
Last night, when 1 besrd q call for the per-
lice, a. made bolt for the street door,"
The new remedy for freckles is pro-
nounced great success by the principal of
the young ladies' seminary at Bridgewater,
Mass, W ere 1t has been tried. l. is COM
pound of oxolc acid and vitrol, and has
never been known to fail. l. takes the skin
off with the freckles.
Sidney Smith was good natured and
tolerant; but when Lord Melbourne, whom
he had gone TO see upon some business, in
terlarded his remarks with much cursing,
he quietly remarked: "Let US assume that
everybody and everything are damned, and
proceed with the subject"
- A family in New York is in deep
trouble. The eldest daugh er recently was
discovered darning stockings, and afteward
Insisted on helping her mother in the kltch-
Ell TO make bread. The ri always enjoyed
good health, but these alarming systems led
her parents to fear thai her mind is affected.
= The most practical lover has been dis
covered al Bristol, England. In one of his
letters to bis sweetheart he w.Ote: 81 wish,
my darling, that you would not write me
such long letters. If you were to bring an
action for breach of promise against me, the
lawyers would copy the correspondence be-
tween US, and charge four pence for every
letters the more we save from he lawyers
"A tile girl, nine year, old, in Milwau-
kee, Wisconsin, who had stolen nine sets of
earrings from girls of about her own age,
has been cut short in her downward career
by the police. Her plan was to accost the
girsl, in the street, il form them that their
jewelry was falling out, and then, pretend
ing to adjust it, work out the rings and run
off before the astonished owners could stop
her.
The captain Of a Lake Ontario steam
tug states thai, willis on bis way up the lake
few nights ago, there suddenly appeared
in view the city of Oswego -thirty-one
miles distant-with the gaslight in the
streets, and all the appearances that = bril-
town would present from a
hill III the immediate vicinity at night. The
light house ct Oswego, also, as well as a
dezen others on the lake shore below, as far
as Sackett's Harbor, were distinctly seen.
The display, he asserts, was witnessed for
several minutes, and then slowly faded into
darkness