Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-01
N NASHVILLE. TENN. SUNDAY. JUNE l. 1873
PRRsoNALITIEs.

Madame Lily Berghmans, of Philadel-
phia, who succeeds Miss Pamela Cunning
ham resigned, as the regent of the Mount
Vernon Asso citation, was an intimate
friend of Edward Everett. :1a-s.
John Knox travelled all the way from
Dubuque TO jump over Niagara Falls, but
got into fight with hack driver, licked
him beautifully, and concluded that he was
rot living in vain, alter all.
Captain jack is cledited with stroke OF
policy in getting nd of the sixty old useless
women and cbiidIen who surrendered 10
Gen. Davis.
A youEg lady who ha. jnst returned
from Eurrpe advises her fri mas not to go
there, sunless you are sure that ycu know
eaough to appreciate th3 beauties OF
Europe. 1t lends such charm to Italy to
remember that among those groves OF
olives the immortal Beethoven sculptuIed
the Medicean Venus, amt Shakespeare COM
posed the sublime poem of Paradise Lost "
Postal cards addressed to ''the prettiest
girl in town" are quite numerous in many
places, and ole was directed to ''the mean
est cuss in Cohoes." al...
Pat Gilmore" says the St. Louis Demo
crdt, kindly and patronizingly, "who can
make more noise and less music with the
same number of singers and instruments
than any man in the world, is to superin-
lend the Chicago howl on the 9th of June" +"
The Lacrosse (Wis.) Democrat tells of a
country lad living thereabou s, who has q
mine OF wealth, if carefully husbanded. He
recently took the scalps of fourteen young
wolves to the county officers, and got the
IA nlA xrzoI-os
in the barn, and expects 10 raise another
litter in six weeks. Besides, he wih try TO
restore the sealps on his young peeled
wolves with hair resIoratives. This beats
raising trout.
In the Presbyterian General Assembly at
B iltimore the other day DR.. Van Dyke dis
turbed the usual gravity Of the members.
Famous for that special gift, counted so va
luable in {. minister, of soliciting charitable
contributions, he stated to the Assembly
that friend that morning had offered TO
write bis epitsph. Asking him what 1t
would be, The friend replied: "And it came
to pass that the besgar died" The Doctor
added that he told bis obliging friend that
being opposed to dividing texts he would
consent TO The epitsph if the rest of it
should be added: "Apd was carried by the
angels into Abraham's bosom"
The following extract from an article on
GA New Atlantis" in Lippincott for Ju1e,
cannot fail to be recognized as specimen
of word-painting of remarkable yigor and
beauty, ard was written by young man
who, three years ago, mad not dollar in
the bank, and was asher OF an apple-pie
stand in Philadelphia Hear him: aHere
it lies, barking at our feet, the warm anne
thystine sea of the South. 1t does not
boom and thunder, as in the country of the
'cold gray stones On the contrary, satJ-
rating itself with sunny ease, thinning its
bulk over the shoai fat beech with sue
cession of voluytuou- curves, it spreads
thence In distance with strands and belts
of varied color, away and away, until blind
with light its faints on 3 prooigiously far
horizon" -'f
a member of the Dent family has been
figuring in a divorce case in San Francisco.
The Chronicle, in its court reports Of the
q b inst, says: sArline Dent was granted
a divorce from Frederick Dent on the
ground Of extreme cruelty. The defend
ant is q nephew of Gen. Dent, and holds a
subordinate position in the Custom house
Ail lLllo C1-Js 1u6 COuII, Ucoiuoo dNdEUiuS
the plaintiff divorce, oecreed that the per-
soma. property described in the compliant
was the separate property of the plaintiff,
and that she be allowed TO resume her
maiden name, airline Shaw"
One of our exchanges gives the following
conundrum: "Why is it that young fell
low and bis girl can sit in the psrlor unsii
after midnight without making noise
enough for The old folks to hear them
through the partition, but can't sit in pub
lie place five minutes without annoying
the whole house with their giggling and
talk?" $50
The Louisville Commercial feai that the
fuss which is being made by number OF
the journals about the dead head system is
not uttered seriously by many of its advo-
cltas, and relates the following incident in
confirmation Of its suspicious: ''We remem-
DER al instance of this character. A certain
editor, prominent in matters of reform, not
on the northern side 0: the river, took a
bold stand against the dead-head system in
regard to operas. This was whsn Nilsson
came hcre the first time. Ii sounded well,
but our confidence was shaken when we af-
terWarG learned that the editor had, on the
same day the article appeared, sent around
to the manager and requested that several
seats be reserved for his use-dead-head.
This was done, and the editor made it pay
both ways.