Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-25
GEOGRAPHICAL.


| A gentleman residing in this. city, SIX
| years of age, has become addicted lately. &c
the habit Of using long words, and 1t some
times happens that these words are some
what ont Of place. Last night he was
trying on pair Of tso1sers which had Just
been built for his especial use alld bsneft
and be experienced some difficulty In get,
ting them of again. aAunt Ms" said be
II can't get these pants of; the legs are
stockaded.o -. --siigr5sisI
A Nashville gentleman has received let.
Ter from a unsteady inclined young man
residing In ton, Kentucky, which letter
contains request, couched in the following
words and figures, to wit: ssMr-. Sir,
1 Want you to Send me a Teacher to Teach
music on horns either Wife or Black and
| oblige ------@.,' -
DR.. L--, of this city, bad fine bug
g. whip stolen from bis buggy In open day
light a few days ago., Yesterday be pur-
chased another, and having bis late expe-
rience fresh in his mind, told the dealer OF
whom he bought the whip, that he didn't
want any expensive one-hs merely want
ed TO buy whip that 'iwpuid do TO steal. .
The Chicago Eeeniag journal publishes
essays and things from the London Lar
Tines and the London Legal Neaos. The
Chicago EUening Journal is a live paper
unless it has died within the last forty EIGHT
hours, which Is not improbable tcal
have the Nescs, even If 1t does have 10 wait
until some acquaintance comes back frtm
Europe with it in his bag Courier
Journal. 80. - .-.t.s
/ "The richest newspaper publisher and
mr. Of ~ IN e.
Young Scammon, of the Chicago Inter-
Ocean. He issupposed to be worth S.
100000; but be did not make any of it in
journalism" But 1t is insinuated by those
who ought to know, That he is loding some
of it in journalism. Young Scsmon
was an intimate personal friend OF Presi-
dent Lincoln's, when the latter was SPRING
field lawyer, and it was in the office of Mr..
Scamon, that Robert Lincoln studied law.
The Inter Ocean is the successor of the
Chicago Republican,, which paper fell by
the waysije during s'the heated termn which
occurred in Chicago in the fall of 1871.
The Inter-Ocedn never attempted but one
joke. A rival sheet spoke sneeringly of a
paper which 'divided its name in the mid
die, "whereupon the Inter-OceGn retorted by
saying that it was better to divide its name
in the middle than to divide its subscription
list in that manner. This joke was duly
published, but its author ssneVer smiled
again." 1t was too much for him. He
gradually dropped and faded; a deep mel
ancholy settled upon him, and when the
violets came, in the esrly Spring tide, and
the gentle daisies lifted their tiny heads
above the bare earth, they laid him away
to rest. After be had rested thoroughly, he
left Chicago and went to Pittsburg to live.
a Nashville young man, who has been
affected for years by fluctuations in the
money market, but whose intentions are
always honorable, was asked yesterday why
he would resemble vessel loaded with soft
soap in case he should marry bis landlady.
At the time the conundrum was sprung on
him, the young man was in unusually low
spirits, and he was forced TO give it up, al
though he would have answered it with
cheerfulness and alacrity if he had not been
feeling 50 badly. because, in case you
marry your landlady, you would have a
soft thing on board" kindly explained
the propounder of the conundrum. The
depressed young man sadly shook his head
with the remark that he. was utterly with
cut hope.
A st. Louis paper sees good in every
thing, and thas halls with joy a proposed
reform in Paris society: s'The abolition of
gloves is proposed in fashionable Paris soci-
ETY.. We are glad to hear it; the white kids
uniformly worn by our reporters, press
men and compositors, wh=n at work, in
order to keep up the arfstocratic reputation
Of the Journal, have heretofore formed a
serious item of expense" The writer used
10 visit the Journal Office frequently Chat
was before the Bogardus kicker was in
Vented), and he was always charmed with
she sristocratic, exclusive atmosphere the
air Of repose, so to speak, which character
zed that establishment. He made mention
of that fact at one time to the proprietor. |
The proprietor happened to be in conf |
1ential mood that day, and he responded |
bat there was almost too much of Gan air of |
'epose" about the establishment to suit |
him, and then he changed the subject alb
'uptly by asking the writer if he knew
Whether the Sheriff was in the city or not.
Tie writer didn't know. rta