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

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It is said Of q somewhat slim Nashville
young man, that his washwoman stretches
his summer trousers ovef PAR OF tongs, in
order TO iron them. 49,
A young lady in this city who never can
remember names, was introduced, not long
since, to Mr.. Stone. Meeting him soon
after,she startled her newly made acquaint-
snce by addressing him as "Mr. p bble."
She said she knew it was a name having
something TO do with geology, in some
way.
A careful Nashville mother, with daugh-
tiers of her own, says that the effect OF new
dresses 10 the spring, when the weather is
cold, is to make somebody sick.
Occasionally man is 10 be found who
possesses talent and business ability to con-
duct more than one large enterprise. in a
successful manner. An instance of this
character is to be seen upon the corners of
the streets of Nashville, in the person of an
able bodied man who sells one day patent
needle threader, and the next, small iu-
strument for cutting glass, and In these
widely different pursuits, he seems to be
equally successful, and besides all this, he
is big enough and healthy enough, and
stout enough to make frst-ciass black
smith.
There is young man in Nashville who
is famous for his politeness. He has way
of asking caller to stake chair" just as
said caller is on the point of opening the
door to take his departure, after, perhaps, q
lengthy stay, during which he receives no
invitation to be seated. Some of these
days, a disguised caller will "take CHAIR
out with him as he leaves the Office, and
then that polite young man will bitterly
and sadly mediate upon the error of his
ways.
ITO the making of many books, there is
no end" and in this age, when books on all
imaginable subjects are brought before the
public, it is necessary that every well regu-
lated newspaper should have upon its staff,
some man who is able to read and whose
special duty it is to closely and critically
scan the pages of said books. The Atlanta
Herald boasts man of that character, and
he thus welcomes new Georgia poet, from
whom his paper has received "a handsome
| little volume of poems, sent flirting on the
great waves of literature from his virgin pen. /"
1.-THE dement's ofthe book" it says, "though
glazing, are somewhat nuliti9d by tender
vein of talent that runs through its pages
Some genius probably the Danbury
! NelcS maD) draws the following picture
from real life: "This is the season when
every owner of hens is engaged in en-
| deavoring to suppress the maternal in
stincts in one or more of them. The man
comes home to supper, and the wife OBJ
serves, That yaller pullet is on the nest
again. Then the man goes out TO the coop,
and says, What in thunder is the matter
with the beasts, anyway" and crawls in
under the roost to the nest, and reaches in
and brings out a handful of feathers
| Then the hen screams and starts for the
door, and the other hens set up howl,
and likewise depart for the aperture, ard
| the man-nearly schoked by feathers and
blinded by dust-falls over the water
trough and skins his ankles on the boxes,
and finally bursts out into the yard, with a
piece of brick in each hand, and goes after
that yellow pullet, with bis face as red as
lobster and his back curiously wrought
with mosiacs from the floor of that coop.
| When he catches the hen he cuffs it over
the head few times to show it how he
feels, then he jams it under barrel, and
| pours pail of water through the cracks,
and leaves it there until morning, when it
is released, and the same operation gone
over again in the evening"
The funny man of the Louisville Com
mercidL draweth lessons of wisdom from his
| own experience, in this fashion:
"Kate Williams, of Peoria, ILL.,, knocked
her lover fiat to the ground because he in
sisted upon kissing her the third time at the
garden gate on moonlight night recently.
| Two was her limit" We don't believe a
word of it. Our experience is that this
game is played without any limit.
A Paris landlord, who has no music in
bis soul, has sued bis tenant, Madame
Cbaises, widow lady, for allowing her
daughter to pound her piano from eight in
| the morning until late at night. The plaintiff
claims that piano pounding is a nuisance,
which the law should abate at the suit of
those who may be aggrieved thereby. Tie
common low defines nuisance to be "that
which wOrketh hurt, Inconvenience or dam
age" and the fondest parent of the mos t
promising and precOcious piano FOUNDER will
not contend that such persistent pounding
as that complained of by the Paris land
lord can be called harmless pastime. The
| Paris Judge took sensible view of the case,
and granted an Injunction forbidding the
continuance of The nuisance, but as the case
has been appealed the law cannot be re-
gsrded as settled until the higher tribunals
have passed upon the question. That the
landlord is a reasonable person and not dis
posed to be litigous, appears from the fact
that he offered to, compromise the case by al
lowing toe young lady to pound from IL
A. NJ. to p. NJ, and from P. NJ. to 10 p.
M.-St. Louis Democrat.