Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-10
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A miss nametii title was in love ~
With one whose name was Long
A swain called Mann once yainly stroVe
To win that love so strong.
aMy cake,v he mourned, 81 fear Is dough-
And hummed this Little song; rs
"Mann wants but little here below" T
Nor wants that Little Long.
Snow be a little maid, L can"
She answered to his song.
"But meier could be Little Mann,
With my true love Long"
He cried in an un-Mannly way.
s.Why should / suffer LongY -ai
I'U stretch my neck this very day
With this stout leather thong"
No more at present wen unfold;
Although 'twould not be wrong,
'TWould change that Little we have tolu,
And make it out as Long
A friar has got into stew in Rome FOL
passing counterfeit money.
An Iowa hen is laying eggs with San-
skirt characters on them.
The friendship OF two young ladies' L
always plot against third one.
"A Pittsburg jury handed up to the
Judge q communication endorsed "To the
onorable gug."
Butter being scarce in Kansas, the fru
gal citizen lubricates his fapjacks with
wagon grease.
-"Well, wife, you can't say l ever con
tracted bad habits" ''No, sir, you gener'
ally expand Them"
-Mayfeld, KY, ladies are such accom-
ulished chin musicians that their tongue;
are frequently sunburned.
When Cincinnati woman shoots al
4 l-,-l-o,a nd md rnicaoa him the
newspapers say: "Another bullet wasted.
An Ohio man killed "young" goose
the other day, and discovered in its crop
gold ring his daughter lost ten years ago.
-Aromantic Missouri girl lately made an
Intellectual attempt at suicide on discover
ing that the persons who had brought her
up were not her genuine parents.
Denver is to have a new hotel, and
the public are assured that the walls will
be bullet-proof, so that guests won't run
ary risks on account of an affair in the other
room.
The weather has moderated so in st.
Paul that the men now take off their boots
when they 90 to bed, and the hotel cooks
make buckwheat cakes with their furs off
Next to the boyish delight Of surrepti-
tiously sucking the mouth Of molssses
Jug, says philosophic correspondent, is
the pleasure of breaking an engagement
with the dentist.
Byron Wright, the schoolmaster in
Iowa who preferred death to matrimony :.
and who was accordingly shot by Almira
Stickley, is now able to be out of bed, and
is getting better fast.
Every day in the week is the Sabbath Of
some nation. Sunday is observed by the
Christians, Monday by the Greeks, Tues
day by the Persians, Wednesday by the
Assyrians, Thursday by the Egyptians;
Friday by the Turks, Saturday By the
Jews.
"A St. Paul girl has gone crazy with
love. She met an attractive young gentle
man, and without leave or license, proceeded
to fall in love with him, and cherished his
memory when he had gone, till she by
some means procured his picture, and then
she used to sit up nights TO gaze on it. The
| first intimation of the trouble ha had occa-
stoned was the news that she was raving
wildly about him, and still she raveth.
The mischievous result of practical
Joking is exemplified in the case of an I'M
fortunate New Haven gentleman whose
wife, having been placidly dumb for several
months, was instantly restored to loquacity
by his imprudent playfulness in suddenly
| startling her.