Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-05-08
PARAGRAPHICAL.

A Nashville young lady has adopted a
very ingenious expedient. Being possessed
of a fine sense Of the eternal fitness Of
things, and having due regard for the opin-
ion Of Mrs. Grundy, she has some hesita-
ton at remaining at dinner long enough TO
satisfy the demand of he. very healthy APP
petite, especially when the hotel at which
she boards is full of guests. She has pur-
chased msgpie-a good strong feeder, and
when ahe sends down to the steward for ga
tribe for her Bird" she gives said bird o
portion of what is sent to her room, and
appropriates to her own use the remainder.
A few years since, there was Presbyte-
rian minister at Columbus, Miss; who had
horror of shouting in church, Which, fact
was well known to his congregation. One
day, after he had preached q very spiritual
sermon, an old lady was observed 70 leave
the church in very hasty manner. Meet
ing her few days after, the minister asked
why she hau rushed from the church so
suddenly the Sunday before. "WeI," she
responded, ''the fact is, l was so filled with
grace in listening to your sermon, that
found couldn't contain myself, so l ran
over to the Methodist Church across the
way and shouted"
That ST. Louis Journal chap is so fool
ishly sensitive. Just because a man asked
him for the loan of his toothbrush for a
moment the other morning, when perform
ing bis additions in hotel wasllrOom, he
rushed of, sharpenei new pencil, and
wrote: otis astonishing how large a pro-
portion of mankind are merely thoughtless
beasts. They ask for 8 moments loan of
your glass at the opera at a critical Juno
ture, they neglect to pull out The plugs after
washing at the hotel and leave the basin
full of filthy water, they pick up and glance
over the paper you have laid down for a
moment at the breakfast table, and COM
NIT other vulgar atrocities without number.
Society will never be perfect until the law
authorizes man of sense and sensibility to
kill any one of the beasts on sight"
A gay and festive conductor on the Chi.
cago and Northwestern Railroad recently
had Wisconsin school marin on board of
his train. Instead of contenting himself
with collecting his fair passengers fare, the
wicked conductor planted four kisses on
her rosy mouth "a ct arms, for which quad
rilateral OSCILLATION the enraged WOLVERINE
has brought suit against her mis-conductor
for the sum of four Thousand dollars. A
Thousand dollars for luxury so evanescent
in its nature is large price, and the con-
ductors of the Chicago and Alton trains had
better confne themselves strictly to the let
ter of their official duties in future-C0u-
rier Journal. p.
The st. Louis Democrat has this to say
relative to very important matter: ga
Milwaukee paper has found out why the
money market has been tight. Men carry
too much money in their pockets. 1t says
that if people who do not absorb their
money 10 investments in their business
would make close calculations concerning
their weekly personal and domestic expen-
ses, and deposit the surplus in staunch saw
ings banks, money would become plenty,
business more active, wages better, etc.
We hope the misery gentlemen who are
wearing out greenbacks in their pocketbooks
will heed this suggestion and shell out"