Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-09
PARAGRAPHICAL.

The ClarksUitte Tobacco Legf and the
Lebanon Herald are disputing by the col
umn whether it is ''Knight Templars,"
knights Templar'' or ''Knights Templars."
We await their decision with suspended
breath.
In these days of fashion and frivolaty, it
is really refreshing to learn that "Mrs.
Sarah M. Z. Perkins, of Cooperstown, n.
Y, the writer and lecturer, has taken one
of the prizes at late Otsego county Fair,
for the best loaf of wheat bread"
A Western paper thus explains the de-
feat of certain political aspirant: A Ne
braska man didn't get elected Sheriff be-
cause some of his hard-handed constituents
heard him talking about oysters fried with
crumbs, quail on toast,t etc. They didn't
want any aristocrat to represent them.
Thirty-six young lady students in the
medical class at the Michigan State Uni
versity remained unmoved during diff
cult surgical operation recently performed
by Professor Mclean, who, in their pres
ence, distracted the greaterportion of the jaw
bone ola young woman patient. Exchange.
That's because it was young woman
patient. If the operation had been per-
formed ON a nice young man who parted
his hair in the middle and had rosy cheeks,
every one of the thirty-six would have
tainted.
This touching paragraph is clipped from
an exchange: A young woman whose hus-
band lately died was forced to repress her
tears and wear smiling face, because, as
she said, she ''hadn't handkerchief fit to
be seen, except one" and that she had to
''keep for the funeral"
1t is said that ''lager and anti-lager de-
fine the political parties which divide Chi
cagO to the exclusion of all other issues.
The latter insist on trying northwest
passage through open water, whilst the
former regard beering- straight as the true
route to the pole"
The M,uJreesborO Nelcs is engaged in a
work which will receive the approval of
Richard Grant White. Thus: 1--WE never
knew the failure of speech until Monday
night, when we were aroused at midnight
by the torcible remarks of neighbor who
awoke and found a 1900 pound COW tread
ing gently and smelling softly among the
roses in his front yard. We have three
translators at work upon his remarks-con-
sisting of steamboat captain, prize fight
er and mule tamer-and as soon as they
cen reduce his cuss-wOrds sufficiently, we
shall forward them TO the combination
cursing society of Boston, to be used by
Ben Butler upon his Radical friends for go
ing back on him." But if the Ne,cs man
knows that those remarks consisted of "a
steamboat captain, a prize fighter and
mule tanner" why employ translatOrs?
The wooden youth who serves as a sign
in front of the Tom Thumb clothing store,
in view of the near approach of winter, has
been provided with a comfortable coat of
paint, but notwithstanding this seasonable
attention, he still preserves his gloomy,
Respondent expression of countenance. In
observing his look of sad despair, one can
not resist the conviction that he has thor
oughly tested life, and has reached the con-
clusiOn that ''there's nothing in it."
Was ever the word ''glared" used more
effectively than in the following: General
Schenck, our Minister to England, having
had as a fellow passenger on the outward
steamer a son OF Ben Holiday, of overland
stage fame, thought to make joke on 4
gentleman named Christmas, whom he met
soon after landing in England. Said the
General: 4 think | met relative of yours
on the steamer, judging from his name-a
Mr.. Holiday .Ah.' said Mr. Christmas,
meditatively, i think not. | never heard
of any relative of that name Afterward
Mr. Schenck told the story at a dinner
table, and the guests each glared at his
neighbor, and no one saw the joke. At
last, out of very civility, the host, a noble
Lord, feebly laughed and said: 'Ah! yes;
very good. General. All, 1cere they-ah-
related, you knowr
In a very able criticism of joaquin Mil
ler's new book, the Cincinnati Times says:
One fault reappears in ''Songs of the Sun
lands that disfigured Songs Ofthe SieITas. .
1t is the authors tendency to ring all the
changes upon some happy descriptive word
or phrase. For instance, in isles Of the
Anlazons'' every reed is "keen,' every boat
is a sudden canoe and the stream at
nearly every mention is a ''resolute river. >
Another thing that is almost eXasperating
to an admirer of Miller is his immOderate
use of the word s.brown." Every woman
in these poems is brown; her face and hair
are brown. her eyes are brown, her limbs
are brown, her bosom is brown: every baby
mentioned is a brown baby, everybody has
brown hands, every aspect Of nature is
brown, and in fact everything in Millers
poetry is ''done brown"
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