Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-19
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

For a man of unbounded generosity,
commend us to that darkey who white
washed the police headquarters few days
since. He daubed the whitewash over
seats and chairs, allowed it TO trickle down
the walls where none was needed, marked
out battle fields aud lines of fertilization on
all the. floors, left his. mark on each indiyidu-
al stair, and touched up, in q manner more
or less artistic, the garments of such unfor-
Inmates as passed within rod of him while
be was at work. And the whitewzsh was
not his property either.
One of the sadiest and most discourag-
ing things to be met with in this life, issthat
image of Tom Thumb, to be seen in font
of a College street establishment. He Is
represented as standing in remarkably
constrained, evidently painful and very inn
possible attitude, with one foot stretched
back behind him, and resting on the toe,
in q very distressing sort of a way. He has
bis hat partially raised from his head, evil
IDENTIFY determined TO do the polite thing to-
wards the patrons of the establishment.
But it is the expression of the young NAYS
face which touches us, and causes the heart
to bleed with sympathy nnutterable. There
is about it look of gloomy tespair-a
fixed expression of utter dependency, as
though the owner of that face had thorough
ly tested life and all lis pleasures, and had
been finally forced to the sad conclusion
that "there's nothing in absolutely
nothing 10 it." The effect of all this upon
the mind of the sympathetic and tender
hearted beholder is very depressing, burE-
ing itself, as 1t were, into his memory, there
10 roplzln and hio doaitninO
years to be filed with unhappiness and woe
especially woe.
u reporter of Western paper, speaking
of certain fair creature, remarked that
s'the profusion and color Of her hair would
lead one to look upon 1t as though it was
spun by the nimble fingers of the easy hours
as they glided through the bright June days,
whose many sunny rays of light had been
caught in the meshes, and were contented
to 90 no further" This is better than say
ing the girls hair was red.
One of Detroit's smart young men was
accosted on Woodward Avenue yesterday
by stranger, who asked what building
that was, pointing to the City Hall. "Thats
an idiot asylum" replied smartness grin
ming. "Ah just so" replied the man ''but
do they allow you out without wet sponge
ON YOUR leaQ!'-fT66 fT6SS.
The Cincinnati Commercial has evident
ly made study of the characters les of the
average Bostonian. 1t says: The Vienna
correspondent of the Boston TrtnlScriDt,
writing of the great dome of the EXPOSE
ton, says: "Looking up also to the dome,
it is impossible to realize that our Bunker
Hill monument could stand inside with
nearly forty feet to spare" Yes, 1t is i'm
possible for the Bostonian to rea ize thai
the Bunker Hill monument is not ighly
superior to any other structure on the
globe.
The following account of very singular
death is going the rounds: "a singular
medical clse occurred lately at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire. Mrs. E. S. Emery, while
washing, felt a sensation in her left eye
which she said sounded to her like watch
running down. Soon the eye, eyelids, and
left cheek began to swell, until the lids
were beyond the eyebrow, and the eye be-
yond the lid. Her physician treated her for
erysipelas. Some days after the eye began
to slough and was removed, but the morti-
fication went on under the compress, and
four days after the patient died. The
medical men pronounced the case one II
apoplexy of the eye, caused by the breaking
of a blood vessel, modification ensuing,
and ultimately apoplexy Of the BRAIN"
The local Of the Evansville Courier eVid-
emily believes that man and his wife are
one. Witness the following personal: 81.
Wyttenbach and wife, of the RockpOrt
Democrat, ia in This city, and has register ed
at the Sherwood House."
An exchange tells us that "Lucy Quin,
of Philadelphia, sold her new bonnet SO
that her lover might purchase ball ticket"
The feeling of intense interest which is ex-
cited in our mind in relation to the charm
ing Lucy Quin, is somewhat modified by
the information that she already has low
err. However, we would like TO get the pos
office address of that self-denying maiden,
as some fatal accident might befal the young
man for whom that ball ticket was pur
chased, In which case We would see TO 1t
that such rare feminine virtues are not
allowed to go through life unappropri-
ated.
The st. Louis Journal propounds this
nest conundrum for the consideration OF
the legal fraternity: "Ought not an inebri-
ate to be arrested only on a writ Of fiery
face he hdS?'"
A Nashville young man who lately be-
came very much interested in young lady
living few miles out in tie country, re-
solved to pay her visit at the paternal
mansion last Tuesday, and in order TO
make first call q success, he put on his
society clothes, had boot-black labor upon
his number skies, until the perspiratiOn
streamed down his ebony cheeks, and in
structed bis barber 10 touch up bis coal
black locks, in the most a. tistic manner
POSSIBLE. His preparations were finally COM
pleted, and then in company with friend he
rode out to the residence of the young lady,
where be found rival comfortably seated
on the porch, smoking in company with
the lady's father, and evidently quite at
home. The new corners were heartilv
welcomed, but our Nashville young man
failed to take that degree of interest in the
visit which he had anticipated, and all be-
cause of the very much-at-home air that
hated rival displayed during his stay. He
says now that he will never again best W
bis young afftc tions upon lady without |
first finding out whether she is engaged or |
not.
There was some profanity INDUCED in on |
Deaderick street yesterday. A darkey |
drove along that thoroughfare with a cart |
loaded with lime, which cart he stopped |
sever and anon," and spread its contents |
along the sides of the street with lon
handled shovel. A Zephyr was passing |
down Deaderick at the time, and but a
small portion of the lime reached the ground |
after leaving The darkey's shovel, but sought |
a lodging place in the noses, mouths, ears |
and eyes of the disciples of Blackstone who |
haunt that locality. Hence the profanity. |
"LIGHT-MORE LIGHT.o