Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-06
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

Nashville girls say that if their gentle
men friends realized the cost of fans, they
would handle them less recklessly when
making evening calls.
A nervous young lady Of this city, who
was keTt In very kcited frame OF mind
all day Friday By reason of the free use Of
fireworks by The neighboring Juveniles, says
she wishes the Declaration of Independence
had never been written.
How simple it is for q ri n man to make
money. There's A. T. Stewart, Re made
$500 last year by fning his cash boys for
looking out Of the windows. The Sinking
little rascals are paid from one to three
collars week.-LUui5otHe Commercial.
| Under the head of "Amusing tie Ba-
Dies" "fJnd PARENT" has this to say,
among Other things: "My baby, not yet
three years old, is sapreInely happy if al
lowed piece of paper spread over cane
seat chair, and an ivory knitting net dle-
with which she punches holes in the paper
to correspond With those in the chair"
Under similar cir umstances, tie majority
Oh babies would give pleasing and exeit-
| Ing variety to the performance by thrusting
the emitting needle into tEeir eyes, or uptheir
small noses
Tie writer would be highly gratided by
oeirg afforded an opportunity to grasp by
The hard, The chap who wrote this para
graph for Chicago monthly. "Slang is
neither more nor less than technical Ian
gusge; chemical nomenclature is slang;
medical terms are slang; aud we have
heard preaching whose fymiliar and
meaningless hrases had very much the
sound Of slang. There is not a better word
in the language than 'skedaddle,' and 'shod-
dy' will live until z more expressive term is
invented, and cur grandchildren will listen
to a magnificent burst of poetry reaching
climax in TIE exclamation, How is this
for isb?"
The Nashville specimens CT Young
America sre sharp. Not long since one
took dinner at a certain Spruce street resi-
dence, and was 80 well pleased Herewith
| that he made it convenient TO be in that
vicinity the next day when the dinner hour
arrived. Meeting one of the boys of the
house, our little sharper exclaimed: 81 tell
| you, them batter cakes VIC had at your
house for dinner yesterday was hghtnin'."
| The expected invitation TO a second dinner
was Immediately given.
The Philadelphia Aga publishes this par
| 81 6fAls AeNh SASt-d - . lAAOhNog - "Nh as
"big Iriiu." He wants eleven hundr
| stand of arms for his young braves, and
ore hundred white squsws TO be distributed
among bis tri~e. He thinks that if white
men take Indian wives red men should
have white ones. w fear Red Cloud has
| rather cloudy ideas as to the management
| of Indian affairs from our standpoint"
Our musical critic was holding forth in q
IN
on the subject of music, aud the capabili.
ties OF the human voice, dwelling esp acially
upon what he wss pessed to term a
"round, full, deep, sOnorOns voice." when
he was interrupted by Snobbs, very
disagreesbl3 and conceiied young
man who comes into this office occasional
ly, 81 don't know what you mean by $50
uorous voice." said be, "but if you could
only hear my roommate 'ift things some
hight, you'd come 20 the conclusion that he
has 'sonOrOus voice." Our musical
critic deigued no reply; he merely cast up
won d have withered him, if be had been
one Of the whitening sort. Unfortunately,
Snobbs is not that kind OF chap.
The Louisville Commercial tells the fol-
lowing pathetic story, which will doubtless
1CNlhG o14 AEOJlCNtAJl4O III btIC hlliA4o Va
many of our readers, as they recall their
own childhocd's experiences: "Fhe de-
spair OF children is keen-as keen as their
innate sense Of justice. Here is a sad little
story from Germany, the moral of which is
applicable to any civilized country. In
Muirenburg, hoy only ten years old hung
himself in his schol-roonn, leaving a letter
in which he placed Us death at his teach
er's door, bequeathed bis small property to
his sister, and kej pardon of his fa'her
and mother for the sin
be was about to commit. In
quiry showed that during the mornings
lessons tie boy was inaJtenLiVe, and the
teacher, instead Of suspeciing fatigue, could
think of no better remedy for this than
censuring aud Furnishing him, in spite OF
bis icing usually a willing and industrious
scholar, and Of a cons tuition not strong.
Taking exhau.tion for lsziness, the as.er
struck, threatened, and at last locked him
alone IN The schOOi-rOOm, where the IN
happy and tired little fellow, utterly hope
less, scrubbed his pathetic letter and went
out of the wOyli." As 2 general Thing,
children are not treated " tn proper respect
and consideration, and msny 3 boy has
grown TO manhood with all the instincts
of a generous, manly nature, absolutely
crushed out Of him by uukind. coarse and
brutal treatment a. home. Our readers
doubtless remember the story of the young
man who was iniure in some way about
the head. Hearing the ply, ici&n who was
dressing his wound remark to an attendant
that the brain was exposed, he poor fellow
reused up suddenly and slid: "Please
write aud aud tell father, for he has always
said had no BRAIN" Who can picture the
thousand and one sights, the rebukes and
rebQffs that young fellow had been COM
PEELED to endure at home, until he finally
reached the conviction that what his father
told him must he true, and that he really
40 no brain. More than one boy who has
lived to make his mark in the world has
found his best friends among STRANGERS,
and il was not until they got beyond tie
influence Of hGme and home ASSOCIATE MS
that they became aware of the fact that
they were anything but clods. Boys need
encouragement. They want to feel that
they are appreciated, and should be taught
that they can MAZE something of them
selves if they will Properly encouraged,
there are ont few things bright, energetic,
high spirited American boy is not capable
of OF will not accomplish when he becomes