Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-09
TYPOGRAPHICAL.


A sprightly Nashville young lady received
a letter this week containing thirty-six
closely written pages, from one Of her nu-
merous admirers.
The Charleston Neaos says that the White
Sulphur is probably the only fashionable re-
sort where life does not materially depend
for its support to the brides given the wait
ers.
The letter which appeared in yesterdays
Banner, descriptive Of things at Beersheba,
for genuine humor is far superior to any
thing which the Danbury man ever wrote,
and is even worthy of Mark Twain--that
greatest of American humorists.
An estimable lady of this city, says her
children never did act like any one else.
For Instance: Her son never puts on linen
troHsers until about the beginning of cold
weather, and her dsughter always goes to
summer resorts at the end of the season.
Robert, the gifted chap of The Evansvil e
Courier, finds fault with newspaper pub
lished in Hoosierdom for mis-spelling his
name. In view of the aforesaid gifted
chaps well known propensity for stealing
paragraphs, his name should be spelled
"Robber."
( 4Dc haDSao Olby 1MtcO uSauS It's COlull1u
of local paragraphs: "Local News, Noes,
Street Gossips and Reportorial Fancies,"
and the margin which those Times men al
low themselves in their "Reportorial Fan
ciesn is so extensive as to command the un-
bounded admiration of their readers.
An exchange says: 'sCincinDati can count
up two hundred and eighty young men who
part their hair In the middle" And now
let Cincinnati come brsvely up to her duty
in the premises, collect those two hundred
and eighty young men together, march
them down to the river and drown the last
one of 'em.
The st. Louis journal INDUCES in cutting
sarcasm, when 1t says: 'sThe indianapolis
Herald says: There are some hundreds
of bad boys in this city who are slowly but
surely ripeniDg for the penitentiary or
sallows.' The impression, upon reading
the wicked Herald, is that some of the boys
have already Fipened."
There ia geographical rooster on the
| Nashville UNION AND AMERICAN who
daily let's on and crows over the intellect
ual eggs laid by other bipeds.-[ Memphis
Ledger The rooster referred to wastes
no time in either setting on or growing over
the intellectual eggs laid by the biped who
runs the local page of the Ledger.
| The Courier Journal has a new parl.
graphist, who starts out by fiiDgiDg to the
world another joke about big feet. It's nc
use, young man-it's no use. The rews
paper-reading public will not allow itself t.
be humbugged with another food of stale
wittic.sms on the subject of big feet, sucf
as swept over the country last fall.
The st. Louis journal man has beer
specializing in horsefesh lately, and that b,
is not boisterously hilarious over the result
is demonstrated by this editorial which h(
d -afted with his gifted pencil, few day
since: 1t is very reprehensible in a mar
who has span Of horses troubled with thu
bots to advertise them as "a fine buggy
team"
sThe minds ofsensitive readers sicken will
horror in the perusal of items like the fol.
lowing, clipped from an exchange; "Once
q careless man went to the cellar and stuck
the candle in what he thought was keg Of
black sand. He sat near 1t drinking wiDC
until the candle burned low; nearer anC
nearer until at last the blaze reached thu
I
black sand, rothing happe ned"
The appeal tells this instructive stor!
about Memphis small boy: ga little boy
last Sunday fell from tree and vas reprov
ed by his grandmother, who said: tom
ME, told you never to climb trees on
Sunday With the candor of ph.losophi
simplicity, Tcmmie asked: Grandma, if il
had been Monday would the rotten limt
have held me up2 Alas, for the want OF
faith and the rational instinct of child il
apologizipg for unknown derelictions."
The gifted chap on the Evansville Courier
who earns bis daily bread by his dexteritI
with the scissors and paste pot, in Friday:
issue Of the Courier, sandwiches between
two parapr' phs clipped from this column
of the UNION AND AMERICAN (Which b,
localizes By substituting "Locust street
for "Cedsr street" in one, aud San Evans
Vile young mar" for 'a Nashville youD
man" in the other,) this original items 81
party of bad boys out by the Bulls Head
about Line o'clock last night, took water
melon and dug it out and fastened it int
an imitation skull, with eyes, nose an'
mouth complete. Next they procured
candle, and were having q terrible lot o
fun, and came near friPhtening q greer
horn out of his wits" We shall go dow
to our grave with the firm conviction tina
tie COurier's gifted chap is the individus
who was q badly frightened, that the aft ii
occurred some time ago, and that the vic
tim has not yet recovered from the effect
thereof.