Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-05-04
pIcKINGs AND srEALINes.

-1fthe dealers attempt "corner in ice,
it il hoped they will slip up on it.
"A Buffalo clergyman lately delivered
sermon in easy words of one. syllable.
The famous Spotswood Hotel in Rich
mond, Va, was recently sold at. auction for
$40, 900. .rg -
Tie project for introducing sewing
machines into the schools doesn't involve a
needless expenditure,
-"Lueca.here now,s is the way Pitts
burg paper announces the presence OF the
famous cGntdtrice.
The young man who boosted that he
could marry any girl he pleased, found
that he could'n please any
"A handsome Georgia girl has accom-
piished the feat of riding mule eighty one
miles in one day.
The Cincinnati Commercial says "lf
O'Kelley doesn't eliminate pretty sooD, we
shall order the printers to distribute bis
obituary"
Snip wants to know why it is that
when a woman goes to store to purchase
No. shoes she always says ste is getting
them for some one elsep
The St. Louis Bible Society collected
forty-fve dollars last year, and its report
shows that the people of the future great
city get along with very few Bibles.
Brigham Young, in giving up the cares
of State, has retired to what the newspa-
pers cali "ths bosom of his family" Since
the DAYS of Solomon, no ia nily ever had
such bosom.
An infant was recently born In house
In Lewiston, Maine, which holds as its ten
nants the child's parents, two grandmothers,
two grandfsthers, four Of its aunts and an
uncle. Poor child.
The editor of popular magazine in
New York, declares that one hundred thou
sand women are constantly sending poetry
to him, the commonest subject treated be-
| ing "Our Dead Baby"
| "A young woman in Cempballsville, KY,
was engaged to an old man and tried to
elope with a young one. She got away
safely, but went back to get her wedding
dress, and was compelled to marry No. i.
The young ladies in Waterbury are get
ting high.toned. "W-hy, 70 no l-d-sar
dime? Is that you?" is the way one fair
one ssluted another one on the street the
other day, and the angel in hustle and high
heels enthusiastically responded: "You oct!
Pm your Katy did every time"
| -Why,now, IS Mr.. Wendell Phillips like a
forgetful pastry-cook? Because he wants
puffs? Not at all. Because he makes so
much use of John Browns pike-rust? Not
a bit of it. Something about cake-ology?
Quite the reverse. Well, why, then? Why,
because he's going about the country again
to lecture on Lost Tarts.
"A leading medical journal says tlat
sleeping rooms should always be arranged,
ifpossible, SO as to allow the head of the
sleeper to be turned toward the north. FIRE.
quently, in cases of sickness, person will
find it impossible to obtain rest if his head
is in any other direction, and often cure
is retarded for long time.
The question-"Was John Wesley a
bad husband?" has been settled by cor
respondent of a Philadelphia paper, who
gives the authority of"an eye witness" that
Mrs. Wesley used 10 indulge in the luxury
of dragging her husband around the room
ty the hair of the head. This treatment,
no doubt, gave the great Methodist apostle
a realizing sense of the necessity of some
future state of reward.