Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-27
MELANaE.

The boy with the big watch said time
hung heavy on bis hands.
A man named Tease went to see a lady
named Cross, and leased her until she
consented to be Cross no more.
"A new fabric for ladies' dresses is "war-
ranted to last until the wearer hates the
sight of it,"
They call it enaivete" in Scranton
when youn lady, while waiting for Ice
cream, playfully places a spittoon on the
tAhlo.
Country plpers Just now are very san
guina'y, advising farmers to shoot Lightning
rod peddlers on the spot.
Love Is blind. ASyracuse son-in-law
evinced his love for his mother-in-law by
throwing pepper in her eyes.
-Rasper, being told he looked seedy, and
asked what business he was in, replied,
"The hard-wear business; look at my ward
robem
"A sagacious papa exceedingly mortified
his daughter by ordering to be printed on
her wedding cards, 'No presents except
those adapted t. an iHcome of $780,"
"A Worcester county man owns p III
of horses forty years old. He calls them
2 4O's.
-"Yours to cinder," is the expressive
termination Of love letter which was put
in as evidence in recent case IN London
court.
The real Byron seer is out at last.
He refused 10 sit up more than three nights
a week to hear Lady Byron repeat the
multiplication table.
During pleasant evenings the principal
occupation of the "girl of the period" seems
to be sitting on the stoop waiting for the
''coming man."
An exchan g says: "Worcester Mass
papers tell of woman stopping in that city,
not yet thirty years old, who is the mother
of thirteen children" Well, we should
think it was about time she was stopping
somewhere.
There is strike of printers in the Office
of the Savannah Ne,Us Says the NeCos: "The
exchange fend occupies the gloomy soil
tude of the editorial room alone and COM
mits his atrocities undisturbed. The obi
tors occupy the stools of the genial but way
ward compositors.
The course Of Tue love runs coarser than
a nutmeg crater in Vermont, as witness by
the following incident: a young gentleman
in Rutland, VT, pawned his best suit for
$22 and bought ring, which he sent to the
object of his alteration. She sent it back
to him with the emphatic request to Ike pit.
The Missouri Democrat says that ''since
the discovery of the Bender murders there
is not Chicago drummer that travels who
has not been in the habit of dining at the
Bender mansion frequently. The reason
they escaped is, that when the fatal
hammer trap des cended on their heads it
was like Draining sponge of indis-rub6er
ball.n
--AIgenius who has given some attention
to the diet of distinguished men, says: Star
actors live on their great roles, vagrants on
the common loaf, commercial travellers live
upon stirabout. Lawyers i've on sue-it
pudding, gamblers on stakes, and country
editors, who publish patent insides, live on
puts.
Was ever the mania for ad cIptandum
titles carried to more absurd lengths than
the "girl- book" literature of the day? "We
Girls" "Our Girls" "The Other Girls
"The Old Fashioned Girl" "One Poor
Girl, f." "Only Girl" THE Rescued Girl"
"Three Successive Girls" and "The Girl
He Married." are few Of this swarm Of
pseudo romantic titles.
The glowing descriptions of Mrs. Cover
nor Bsveridge's toilet, which the Chicago
Jeakins went into raptures over at the Jubi-
lee ball, was not so very gorgeous after all.
Many q lady there was dressed far more
elegantly. Moreover, Mrs. B. was not in
full dress toilet. She was not, in fact, at
the ball, being in Europe On that occasion.
That is all the mistake there was.