Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-02
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the tips OF their noses from peHedtA tno
snow-banks. si1alasi ,liiis0iAa 'l9taf
i, "A Louisville family is to write q book
on 'sHow it feels to go without coal for
three days" 11 V0t,o !"
lzrs--Michigan never brags much about it,
but she has sixty murderers in her prison
underiIifs sentences.
"A Kentucky man lately committed
suicide because be was $50 wicked.h 1t
win not do to encourage that sort of thing
in Kentucky. Lpt ~ 4ei-@ 11f
Gen. Sheridan intimates that he will
| put head on the individual who next says
he is engaged.
-Philadelphia ladies now come forward
and declare female clerks are bundles Of
sssasss and impudence. .~ /
"A justice at Vernon, La, wound up .
marriage by saying: "And now / send you
| to the county jail for thirty days" He was
| thinking Of another case.
Memphis consumes 200 bushels OF
| chewing gum annually, most OF which is
pressed between the jaws Of young girls
who have no one else to love nor caress.
| "A citizen of, Clarke County, Ga. went
out in bis night-dress and drowned him.
self, and his widow in her grief is consoled
l
unimpaired for his successor.
The young ladies of Buffalo invite
young gentlemen callers to leave4heir auto
graphs and the date of their visit in book
kept for the purpose. This book is posted
once month, and any young man who has
| failed To record his name In that time is
dropped from the lady's acquaintance.
The man who returned his neighbours
borrowed umbrella was seen, day or two
ago, walking in company with the young
lady who passed a loeking-glass without
taking peep. 1t is believed they are en-
gagged. it--Ea3-e- 5tf
There's paragraph going the rounds
| to the effect that an old fellow who has
lived in hollow oak in Kentucky for years,
has just got married. What funny thing
| it will be to see olive branches coming out
of an oak.-[St. Louis Journal.
"A Green Bay, Wisconsin, girl who was
all dressed and ready to be married, was
attacked by the to0thache SO severely that
she could not go through the ceremony.
For two hours she sat with her feet in a
pail of hot water and feather bed wrap
ped around her jaw, while her waiting Aft
anced stood out in the woodshed and cuss-
ed. -t-, a E s.-aTJr-i
Two off the employees of aSan Francisco
hotel have had falling out, al about q
woman, and things have been placed on a
war footing in the ''kitch." The pastry
cook rolls out pie crust with policeman's
club; the first meat cook stirs his soup with
navy revolver; the vegetable cook slices
up cabbage with bowie-knife; and the rest
of the employees keep behind tables and
stoves as much as possible.
Eastern women think that people are
growing over-fussy nowadays. If man
die, and two or three grains Of stryehnine,
or half a pound of arsenic, or an ounce or
so of antimony be found in his stomach,
his poor wife has TO go to prison, and go
through trial, and see her name in the
newspapers, and be acquitted, and neglect
her sewing until she hasn't thing fit to
wear. a.aHr oa
"A bright-eyed lad, about fifteen years
of age, frequently makes his appearance in
the Senate Chamber, where he remains for
hours, watching the proceedings with the
deepest interest. That boy has q brilliant
future before him, if he lives.
One Of the honorable Senators is
strongly opposed to "bresking UP the five
hundred acres of land at the Hermitage,
and scattering them abroad" And he is
right. If this Legislature ''scatters abroad"
five hundred, or any other number of
acres of ground, it viii be establishing a
bad precedent, and there is no telling where
this sort of thing will stop.
"A Nashville Office holder makes fire.
qHent mention of the "nae-andering Of the
river" 80
"A member of the Senate remarked In
the course Of a speech yesterday, that he
"wished to cast 10 reflections upon the
Nashville hospital but that it strongly re-
minded him of rope factory, or laund-
Y."
AT reception held lately in this city,
an old gentleman from one of the back
countries, was helped to wine by one of
the most elegant ladies in the city, what
mought your name be?" he inquired, as
the glass was being filed with the spark.
ling liquid. She Immediately impaired the
desired information.
Such Nashville bummers as are so un-
fortunate as to carry a banged-up pepper
just now, are charged with having q
y ,Mardi Gras" eye.
Senator Mcconnell, of Trousdale,
comes out strongly in defence of that much
abused clsSs-step-mothers In one of bis
speeches yesterday, he gaveit as his solemn
conviction that step-mothers are a traduced
class, and deserving of great sympathy, es-
pecially when they have "great hulk of
step-son 'cslaYering around Just what
be meant by "calayering around, " however,
he failed to explain. ..- ID r..
james, OF Hamilton, says that his inn
mediate pateTnal ancestor was engaged in
mercantile pursuits, and that it was his Gus
tom to distribute, gratis, much candy to
the children, in order to secure and retain
the custom Of their parents.
? The st. Louis Journal man has joined
the AIikerites and is preparing his ascen-
sion robes. He is making his calculations
to ego up" about the LIST day of april. His !
preparations, however, are conducted with |
the greatest secrecy, for he is deeply con-
scious of the fact that if his confding land
lady knows of his intentions, she would |
aforesaid, which are beiIg built out of |
secondhand flour sacks.
The Courier Journal frequently quotes |
local paragraphs from this column of the |
UNION AND AMERICAN, which is very |
sensible indeed on the part Of that paper,
but it is very wicked act to credit those |
items to the Banner.
This life is full Of disappointments, and |
you can't most always tell what's going to |
happen next. Yesterday morning the |
Nashville small boy rose betimes and was
filed with delight at discovering the ground |
covered with STOW. "Bully," quoth he,
'swon't L have rippin old time sIidin'
down hill today" (The small boy is |
slightly addicted to slapg). Those of our
citizens whose business required their pass
ing up and down Cedar street, contemplated
their days experience with shudder,a AS they
they saw coasting sleds by the
score flying down that thoroughtare, and
themselves carried home with broken
limb or fractured rib or two. The small
boy rapidly swallowed his breakfast, gath.
cred bis comrades about him and betook
himself to the top of the hill on Cedar, oppo-
site the State House, and prepared for
lively day. But alasl he had but fairly en-
5ered upon his day OF fun and enjoyment,
when the heavens opened, and the rain de-
,ended, and the floods came and beat upon
hat bill, and soon that snow-that be-uti-
i'll SHOW had vanished like dream, leaving
he small boy disconsolate.