Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-29

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Anything concerning the darwin theory
never falls to interest the average St Loud
an, snd when a visitor is seen upon the
| streets of that city, wearing ears OF less d.
mensions than dinner piste, the strange
| factsis commented upon. Witness the fol-
| lowing, from late St. Louis paper: HDar-
| win claims that the pointed ear In man is 3
| relic t.f' lower species. Bell, the para
| era phist of the Nashville Union AND
| AMERICAN was In So Louis recently, and
his pointed ears attracted general stem
| tion.n
| The Louisville Commercial man former
az lived in Lafayette, Ind, bat was com
| PEELED to leave fiat village In order to pre-
vent his feelings being too frequently laeel~
ated by little tricks Of this character :
"Whs n man wants to ruin his neighbOr
in Lafayette, be sreeps np 10 his gats-post
at the dead hour Of nighi, and nails an
empty beer xeg thereto. The feelings of
the unhappy man next morning, when he
discovers that the key Is empty, can be
Imagined but not described"
Tbs Uouri6r-J 0aH5sat enters this protests
edwin Booth, the tragedisn, whose sud-
den death ii Paris was announced by the
| ocean cable few days since, is enjoying a
profes sional vacation at his beautiful coun-
| try seat, short distance from New York.
| The lightning has our permission to slangh-
ter the bad sc ors as fast as 1t can; but, In
the name Of the deer poachef who wrote
Hamlet, we protest against its transporting
q good one over the ocean for the purpose
of killing him.
Waterloo, of the st. Louis Journal, was
I..r
last week, and in the course of his wander
ings about the suburbs of the city, he spent
a pleasant half hour peepink through the
cracks OF q fence st a party playing croquet.
BE had never seen the game played before,
bpt he Vas DO pleased with Whist he cav at
that time, that on the following day be
wrote this editorial: "Weak-minded eds
tors are trying 70 be funny at the expsns g
of croquet. The real fact Is that cro4uet
is sensible and enjoyable. There's some
excitement In il when well played, and
being an out-of-door game there's always a
supply ofoxygen to keep the spirits up. The
lsdy who plays eroquet mustshow her ankle,
and . glimpse of q pretty ankle is as good
as square meal. The editors who attack
croquet are always men with big feet, who
are ashamed to play, and WHO growl wisk-
ediy with malIets aforethonght."
differ Dinner says this very sensible
thing regarding great American humbug:
sit seems to be an impossibilitY for Ameri-
cans to collecS together for any purpose
without calling upon some poor wretch to
say something. They can't havea cbowder
down the harbor without it--they can't
picnic in the woods without it--they can't
have apleasant excursion over the country
without It. Itinterrupts travel, mars the
tour, spoils the dinner, and has become one
of the chief nuisances of human life.n
The Saturday ReUieso has very favor
able notice Of Bret Harte's works, and re-
afirms its judgment that be sis story
teller and poet Of true genius" The most
distinctive feature of his manner is its sug.
gestiveness. "With few touches, thrown
in as 1t were by accident, he describes re-
mote or trivial consequences 80 as to carry
our thoughts at once to the centre of ac-
tion." The Reries1 is naturally attracted
by the California tales VIII CHI describe a
phase of civilization so Unlike anything that
Europe presents. Erehdnes.