Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-06
PARAGRAPHICAL.

A newspaper man who is familiar with
bar-rooms, is led to ask: Is not the eleva-
| tor In some of our hotels located inthe bar
| room?
A Chicago paper says that Matilda
Fletcher will join the innumerable caravan
of Washington female newspaper cores
pondents this winter.
Waterloo, of the ST. Louis Journal
wants to kill off that class of men who try
to borrow tooth brushes in hotel wash
rooms. Those Journal folks always were
proud, exclusive set. without particle of
Sociability about them.
1t is said that the foreign vegetarian, who
came to this country with the intention of
introducing unbolted -four, has given it up
as impracticable, because, as he asserts, the
Americans give such little time to their
meals that they bolt everything they eat.
We are grieved to learn that a worthy
young man came near being whipped at
the police station the other day by pep
pery-tempered resident of Huntsville, who
mistook the worthy young man aforesaid
for the police reporter of this paper. 1t
seems that the peppery-tempered resident
OF Huntsville had fallen by the wayside
during visit to Nashville, and did not at
all relish the effort made by this paper to
make him famous. Our police reporter
now carries constantly two deringers,
blunderbus and a slung-shot, and negotia-
tionS for the purchase of Sam Myers big
dog Ito serve as his bOdy-guard) are now
pending.
"Hi~ The exclamation was addressed
to College street car, and the ''exclaimer'
was one of our country's noble defenders,
who had evidently been increasing the rev.
enue by concealing from public gaze con-
siderable quantity of extracted corn juice,
and was somewhat shaky on his pins in
consequence. The driver paid no attention
to the soldiers efforts to stop the car, but
drove rapidly by. Then that noble boy in
blue started in pursuit of the car, making
the gravel fly as he threw his brogans into
the air. 1t was an exciting race. Irrev-
erent gamins sung out, $50 it, old hossr'
and bet peanuts and marbles on the result.
The blood Of that warrior was aroused, he
his speed, and finally, after a
chase of about three squares, overlook the
car, clambered in and sank utterly eX-
hauSted upon a seat. Just at that moment
the car halted, and the driver waited while
one OF his passengers went into a store and
purchased his weeks supply of groceries.
As soon as the soldier recovered his breath,
he SOliloquized in a very earnest manner.
\ LeavenwOrth paper discOurages the in
nocent pleasures of youth by publishing this:
A LeavenwOrth clergyman, while preaching
his sermon Sunday evening, perceived a
young man and woman under the gallery
in the act of kissing each other behind
hymn book. The good parson did not fly
into passion and discharge a volley of |
anathemaS at the misguided pair, as some
lScetic priests would have done, but, ten
as Goldsmith's Village Pastor, |
he merely broke his sermon short off in the |
middle of thirdly" and offered a fervent |
prayer in behalf of ''the young man in the |
pink necktie, and the maiden in blue bon |
net and gray shawl, who We're profaning |
he sanctuary by kissing one another in |
pew No. 6S.''