Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-06
pARAeRApHICAL.

The most enterprising woman has teen
discovered at Pttsburg. She sued the IN
dertaker who had charge OF her husbands
funeral, because the team of the mourner's
csrriage ran away and spoilt her mourning
suit.-N. o. Times.
Put these two paragraphs, (clipred from
Yesterdays BdRner) together and draw your
own inference! eThe Banner corps were de-
lighted last night with Splendid music from
a detachment of the 10th Infantry Band.
"a 6etachn ert of the Post Band have
been dispensing excellent music for q few
nights at the Exposition saloon"
An absent minded business man In Ma
con, whose appetite is rampered By hotel
hash, went to dinner without his coat, and
with his suspehders thrown off bis shoulders
and hanging around his waist. In this
dishGbiile be went into the dining room and
ate bis dinner, making no discovery until be
had finished bis meal. 1t Is said that his
movements at that crisis were equal to chain
lightning. Advertiser.
A Memphis paper haA this 10 say of an
Arkansas woman who "sculps" in butter:
"Great numbers of people visited the Office
of Mr.. Littleton, on Madison street, yester-
day, to see the wonderful work Of the sculp.
tors art wrought in frozen butter. There
was never anything like it. An Arkansas
housewife absolutely takes a spoon and
knife, and conforms the shape of butter to
that Of ones face aud features, even pre-
serving the expression, as well rs perfect
accuracy Of octllne. Powers never sur
passed this artist in butter, though he used
Parian or Pentilican marble, in d,fining
with perfect accuracy the outlines of human
forms and faces"
The Peoria ReUie,u man tells this story Of
sharp juvenile of that city: ain vigor-
Gus chase after rats, Friday afternoon, a
boy on Jefferson street broke down shelf
In the cellar and inundated six jars of pre-
serves. He gazed on the ruins without q
sigh, caught and killed tie ret, laid it among
the debris, and daubing his faithful dogs
nose and legs With the fruit sent him up
stairs, while the boy hid in the coal she'd
He heard feminine shrieks of dismsy; he
heard the wrathful objurgations of his sire;
he heard the unsuspecting dog led into the
back yard and shot, and spreading forth bis
hands said soleInnly, Another victim of cir
cumstantial evidenc5.'S
The Memphis appeal says: "The 6aily
pictorial paper Of New York, the Graphite,
contains photograph of large poster re.
produced in type in reduced form in the
Graphic, all within two hours. There was
a photographer In this city who devoted
three years to the perfection of this process
A year ago be went to New York, and this
Is his work, or that of some one who Dor.
rowed and perfected bis conception. Sew
eral gentlemen Of this City have their like
nesseS carved by the suns light upon meta
surfaces, and from these impressions have
been often taken on paper. The likeness
es, OF course, are as perfect as photography
produces. Our Memphis artist and inVen
tor proposed to take a photograph of crowd
in Court square and in ten minutes TO have
the newspaper press engaged in multiplying
the pictures. Is our old Memphls dreamer
ami monomaniac TIE artist ofthe Graphic"
The Evansville Courier steals from some
other paper this item: "Squattles, arriving
at home little earlier at noon than was
customary for him, found the wife busily
engaged in canning fruit. Thinking the
plan she had adopted was awkward, and
unscienti6c generally, he, in very gentle
terms expressed these convictions, where
upon the Madam, wiping her face with her
berry-stained hands, which operation gave
her much the appearance of Klamath
squaw, intimated that probably the gentle
man could give her some particular ideas,
and at the same time handing him fresh
stock of sesling-wax and a can that the
fruit had just been placed in. Nothing
daunted, he sailed in, and the result can be
summed up about as followsl Right hand
oadly scalded, sealiDg-wax scattered pro-
miscuously over everything within ten feel
of Rim, hole of no Insignificant dimen-
sions burned through his pataloons, and
from the kissing and Sizing of the flesh
and the way that be caDtered around and
INDUCED in irascible elocution, the impress
sion was created that he had been slightly
singed."