Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-12
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lfeach of Brigham's wives were to get
100000 silmony, it would take about all.
mony he's got.-Wortd course.
It is said that the Rev. Mr.. Black, of In.
disnapolis, so closely resembles T. L. Bar
nun, that circus agents frequently tap him
on the back and call out: SLOWS things,
you old mud-turtle?"
The st. Louis Journal man is a very
practical individual. Hear him: "The
caterpillar is upon US, what shall we do?"
walls South Carolina paper. If it were
our case, we should brush him off,
Robert, the gifted kleptomaniac of the
Evansville Courier, is getting discourag-
ed. Hes afraid that be wont have his
''day." Hear him wait: sit has been
said that every dog has his day. but
vail not last long this season, inasmueh as
we are inclined to the opinion that dog days
there are more dogs than days"
A gentleman will send the appeal cab
bage-stalk, crowned with eight heads, each
large and perfect. It grew on the river
shore, twenty-five miles below the city.
Memphis appeal Can it be that cab
bagh."head," instead of cabbage-"sta'k"
is referred to, that the gentleman has sent
~ w thS <APpCNC dA0 thoo ooho OoO
bage-head is doing locals OF that paper?
According 10 the Baltimore Gazette, Walt
Whitman has at last found one person who
really appreciates him, judging from this
paragraph: "Walt Whitman, who read
poem a. the Dartmouth Commencement,
says the boy who asked him into back
room to take drink after he had finished
the performance, showed higher apprecia-
ton OF his genius than all the professors
who applauded him."
The Detroit Free Press tells this joke on
some of its friends: ga family of six per-
sons arrived here from the Fast yesterday
morning and desired to go to the house of
| an old acquain' ance to get dinner and save
two or three dollars eSpeDse. They drove
about from one place TO another until the
expressman's charges amounted to s., and
then the search was pursued on foot, the
assistance of the polic9 having been evoked.
About one o'clock the residence of 'old &C
quaintance' was found, the front door bear
ing the placard, gone into the country"
The Evansville CourseY's gifted chap
thus relieves himself: "The heartless fend
who butchers the Anglo Saxon for the local
/ page of the Nashville UNION AND AMERI
CAN, spells sssors, "sizzors And yet be
uses them more than any man we know Of"
There's modesty for you. The Courier
young mau never negleets an opportunity
of paying compliment, even at the sacri-
fee of bis own claims to distinction. TO
be sure bis IDEAS as 10 what constitutes a
compliment are somewhat vague, and, per-
haps little enoreo1s, but this may also be
said regarding his ideas of journalism, and
ofho- fkat
ter.
The Charleston g. CO. Ne,cs and Cdur-
Ter says that that city can point to a score
Of young men Of gentle blood an6 excel
LEM education who ara making comfort
able livelihood by hard manual labor.
"Thev could not find the tort of work they
liked, and they took what they could get.
Throughout the State the whites are work
ing like good fellows. 1t is there only
chance and they know it."-G Exchange ]
Well, what of il? Is their anything in the
Constitution of the United States to prevent
"Young men of gentle blood" making a
living by "hard manual laboI"
TGe following story, going tie rounds of
the exchanges, is but another illustration
of the way in which the tyrant NJ u, i'm
poses upon and Expresses downtrodden
WOmduuOOus All oAptIlSuCCU IuSDaHu
in Lafayette, Indian, sent two switches
home to bis wife, from which she was to
make selection, but before doing it he
changed the tags, putting the s25 one on
the $40 switch, and rice rersa. After
critical examination by herself and lady
friends, the choice fell upon that labeled
S25, and she decided to keep it, notwith
standing her husbands plaintive protest
that be could not afford to pay more thar
$40 for such an article F."
The Utica Herald paper which has
habit of telling good stories, says: ga
young lady in neighboring town was
dressing for a party the other evening. Her
little riece was chewing gum and watching
her. The little one asked the young lady
if certain other young lady, who was 60
ing, had a beau. She was answered in the
affirmative. She then asked the question
with reference to a second lady, receiving
similar answer. Miss Curiosity then asked
her aunt If she had man. The latter re-
Piled in the negative, to see what tbe little
one would say. The child stopped chew
ing the gum, removed it from he: mouth,
and, after gazing at it wistfully for a mo-
ment, held it out with sudden generous
impulse, saying, well, guess you had bet
ter take this gum along then"