Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-29
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several New York ladies applied for |
PERMISSION to see Foster hung;
1t has been discovered that fresneIs
make the mouths of rivers water.
nlegible writers are undesirable acquallA1-
ances-their characters" are pad. !.
Can a son be said to take AFTER nus
father, when the father leaves nothing W
take? a.
many, but swell at sea IS apt 10 sickeh
everybody. ,;sou
ent languages, but cinnot paAe io~i =.
bread to save her life.
a Danbury infant who was last fall
cbristened Schuyler Colfax appears this
snr,no under the alias Of William Henry.
FPS said that William Tell shuddered
when he shot the apple from his boys head,
because the dear child had such an narrow
escape. -. a. ,,,o,rv
| Anna Dickinson; he says be amt, put
| what does man know about such things
| in these DAYS of strong-minded women! =,
Ont of forty girls at a boarding scnool
none of them could tell how many years
George Washington was President, out
thew knew to a cent the cost of any kind
OF hustle in the market. ."
Postal cards will be convenience TO
neople who wish to tell you all they know
smith saws to his landlady: "Any letters Tor
me 10 aay?n Hnd she answers: "Only TWO
postal cards, but there's nothing particular
on them" ,...., ;o,,
tion. IT creates such smell when burn
inc that the mosquitoes ask to be excused
M drives human beings outdoors alsoi
which is its only defect.
A bright lite boy hearing his father
say that man ought to ''stick to his bush
ness tempted bottle of mucilage in the
old ocntlenan's Office chair. The old man
: saws he has not been stuck so badly since
1857. and rewarded his offspring by ia king
] him on a whaling trip to the back cellar.
"A lady who was urging some friends tc
stav to dinner felt disguised when her 8
wear old boy came in and said: "Mrs' Jones
3 saws she can't spare no bread, and Mrs Fog
? amt to home, SO l didn't get any butser.
. THE friends thought they had better dine
J, elsewhere, and the lady thought so, too,
s hut she taught that boy that the way OF
= fine transgressor was hard before evening.
: The Macoupin Qll.) Inquirer says Ina
Il a Greene county young lady, who Is WORT
SEQ. 900. recently refused to marry clergy
man because she thought she was unit t.
|. he the wife of minister. he then aDan
i doned his sacred calling and proposed again
= The second time she declined his offer Oh
= the ground that she was too GOOD to MARI
n a man who would throw away his clerica
Of robes TO win womsn's hand.
II "A clerk in the indianapolis post-ofhc
ia nov In the last stages Of drought, occS
a stoned BY his own gallantry in volunteerin
to lick and adjust postage stamps for tn
Young ladies' who came to bis window. =
is yery charming, and Indianapolis is fu
of good-looking girls, who loved dearly
Ia see him run out his tongue and moisten
az stamp: and the first thing the unfertunat
ia man knew be had exhausted his salival
r. secretious, and was as dry as boarding
le house pie.
o. "A solicitor who had recently been q
as gagged by a prominent life insurance flrI
Va retnrned to the office of his employers Il
A. other day, and complained that be had BEE
ns snubbed BY gentleman on whom he Ia
Mt called. "Snubbed," cried the manage
"snubbed? Why, what did gol 90 IN;
nt he should have snubbed you? | have
in licited life insurance from the Atlantic
IS. the Mississippi, and have never yet be'
bo spubbed. | have been kicked down stair
al | beaten over the head with chairs, al
If thrown out OF the window, but snubbed,
in never have been" The solicitor is drlViI
lrL a coal wagon.