Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-21
PARAGRAPHICAL.

There are but few men in this country
who are more ready to give advice than old
Mr.. Waterloo, of the St. Louis Journal.
Hear him DAT this season it is proper to
advice clergymen that brevity IS the soul OF
wit and that the Sermon on the Mount, an
excellent model for them, could not have
been more than ten or fifteen minutes long"
As the Journal man was never known to
90 to church ",hisaelf," the kindness of
heart and pure benevolence exhibited In the
foregoing paragraph, are calculated to brig
tears TO the eyes of the most hardened
reader.
Society reporters who ado" the bon ton
marriages for their papers run in grooves
altogether too much. For instance, when
the marriage rite was soIemnized according
to the Episcopal form, we ara Invariably
told that s'the beautiful marriage service
was read in the most impressive manner"
This is getting monotonous, and, without
seeming to give advice, the writer would
suggest the propriety of transposing the
adiectives, so that the report would read:
"The impressive marriage service was read
in the most beautiful manner" etc. A
pleasing aud charming variety would thus
be introduced, which would be very graft
flying TO the constant reader of that partic-
ular kind of literature.
The Chicago Post halls with peans OF
| JOY and thanksgiving the dawn of better
| things: sFor once marriage has more than
kept pace with divorce in Chicago. Our
County Clerk issued no less than twenty
four marriage licenses yesterday. All the
| divorce mills In the county cannot make
as good showing as that for any one days
work"
The funny man OF the Fayetteville EI-
press describes the manner in which be now
employs his leisure time. He says: "The
fat woman at The circus created sad havoc
among the hearts of some of our young
men last Saturday, by declaring that she
was anxious TO marry and settle down. An
ticipating the delightful probability of her
choice falling upon one of their number,
every mothers son of them has been prac-
| ticing matrimonial tactics most likely to
suit woman of her sylph-like proportions,
| by hugging the turn table at the depot"
| Startling news from Kansas reaches usb by
way of the Cincinnati Times and Chronicle:
"The professional washers of white skirts
| and light pantaloons in Fort Scott, Kansas,
are in the depths of despair. Maidens will
no longer sit upon the grass, and young
men absolutely decline sport upon the
green. The innocent cause Of all the
trouble is young naturalist who brought
up from Texas a handsome collection of
tarantulas, scorpions, centipedes, horned
frogs, and all that ilk, and which accidental
| ly escaped from him. The anxiety and ter
ror that brood over that neighborhood are
pitiful to contemplate. Micawber's occupa-
TONS gone. No one will sit idly down, for
fear that something will turn up too
quickly"
Just at this time the local men of the
Nashville press are earning their princely
salaries. Indeed, these are sthe days which
| try (newspaper) mems solos," rs vast
amount of trsmping up and down our
| somewhat deserted streets is required In
order TO collect items sufficient to fill the
bill. The reporters of the city papers are
accommodating vast amount of j formation
relative to former visitations of cholera in
this section, and they are surprised, and
also gratified to find that athe oldest inhab-
| liant" has such s remarkably vivid recoilec-
ton of all the circumstances attending said
visitations, even as far back as 1882, and is
consequently able to tell just show the old
thit worked" each time, the medicines
which proved the most successful, the food
people ate, the number of deaths per day,
| the strange and unaccountable difference in
the symptoms upon each occasion, together
with graphic and minute description Of
the appearance of the city, the exact num-
| Der of people remaining in town, etc.
| There is something really wonderful about
the deep and absorbing interest the repor-
| ters aforesaid take in these cheerful statis-
tics. 1t does seem as though they cannot
get enough of them. The writer, for in
stance, spends every moment he can upon
the streets, bouncing down upon every ven
cradle coon who looks as though he might
be "the Oldest inhabitant," or one of his
brothers, aid begging and pleading with
the said v. C. TO tell him something about
| the cholera in 1882, and the cholera in
1849, and the cholera in 1856, and the
cholera in 1865, and the
cholera in 1873. And the
old coon always tells him, and seems to be
quite interested in so dong. The writer is
glad to note this fact He is becoming en-
thusiastic on the CT olera question, and is
bound to obtain all the facts he can on that
interesting subject, consequently he propo-
ses to continue to draw upon those old
covies who were living in Nashville in
1882, 1919, 1856 and 1868, and he will also
pursue his investigations in relation to
what they know about cholera in Nashville
in 1873. But be is also willing to answer
questions. A deluded Nashville public
have fallen into the error Of supposiDg
that the. newspaper men of the
city are in position to state the exact num-
Der of citizens who have died up to any
given moment in the day. This is mis-
take. a list is made out by a reporter from
each Office, at a certain hour in the evening,
but previous TO that hour, he knows no
more about the number of deaths per diem,
than any one else. The writer is asked,
on an average, 462 times day swell, how
many deaths today" to which question
be always replies, kindly, but firmly; 81 don't
know" There may not be quite the
amount of satisfactory information enbod-
led in this answer which might be desired,
but be is always proud of an opportunity to
answer the question, and it is not his fault
that be don't know everything. He wishes
| he could.