Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-10
TYPOGRAPHICAL.


Amsrciless clergyman of Jefferson City,
n. Y, recently drove his horses ninety-two
miles in ten hours and half Exchange
That clergyman richly deserved coat OF
tar and feathers, If man ever did.
Under the head of "Matters and Things
the Louisville Commercial publishes col
umn Of very readable and spicy paragraphs.
Mr.. Watterson, of the Lou sville Courier
Journal, is in the city. Mr.. Watterson is a
good newspaper man and his papa has every
reason to exclaim with pride, await er son
he is i"-ESt. Louis Journal.
L. U. Reayis, of st. Louis, better known
as the 6 Capital Mover" is still going about
the country with his lectu on ssthe COM
merciai destiny of the Mississippi Valley"
No doubt ReaVis' lectures are immensely
popular, especially az this season of the
year. The title is one of the most attract
i've ever invented, and the people of
this country are perfectly wild on
the subject of ''the commercial destiny of
the Mississippi Valley" and every bit OF in
formation on that subject is seized upon
with avidity- Their, too, RsaVis has q
great reputation as writer. He endeav-
ored last spring to show, in a magazine
article more noted for its length and stu,
pidity, than for its brilliancy, that the news
paper writers of this age are, universally, a
set of corrupt, black-mailing ignoramuses.
without the slightest claim to the title of
gentlemen" This was an unfortunate
episode in Mr.. Reayes' literary career, and
be was not long in discovering that he was
much letter adapted to the task of moving
the capital of this nation FROM it's present
site, than to writing long winded articles
on subjects be has no knowledge of.
Spring is surely upon US. The trees are
putting on their foliage of green; the grass
is spriDging up and covering with its soft
carpet the i.lre earth; beautiful and fra
grant flowers gladden. the eye In every di-
rection; scores and hundreds of birds go
fitting and twittering about with their
cheerful songs of praise, and--there is an
odor of fried onions In the air. Yes,
spring is upon u.s.
For two days in succession Nashville
youth has made his appearance at this of.
fee with an earnest request that bis name
be kept out of our "Police Pickings." Now
there's modesty for you. Some people
have chronic desire, all through life, to see
their names in print, but this young man is
evidently made Of different clay. 1t is re-
ally refreshing, in these days of cheek and
brass, TO ffud modest, quiet young fellow,
possessed of such a strong desire to avoid
publicly. We expect another visit from
him to-day; indeed we would be glad to
have him drop in any time when he is pass
ing, as we would like to cultivate his &C.
quaintance.
The County Court has acted wisely in
fot Ell IN "a of n
fence about the courthouse, and this action
will receive the hearty endorsement of
every wide-awake, progressive resident of
the county, and now, before many years
have passed, the bare uusightly space about
the courthouse will be enclosed by a neat
iron railing, and planted out in trees and
shrubbery, so that instead of being an eye
sore, it. will be one of The most attractive
spots in the city, and which can be utilized
by the members of the Court in their
hours of leisure, by playing leap
frog and mumbly-peg therein.
That funny Danbury NeacS man draws
aside the vail in this way:
1t is bad enough to see bachelor sew on
a button, hut he is the embodiment of
grace alongside of married man. Some
times the patient wife scalds her right hand,
or runs silver under the nail of the index
finger of that hand, and it is then the
man clutches the needle around the
neck, and forgetting to tie a knot
in the thread commences 10 put on the
button. It is always in the morning, and from
five to twenty minutes after he is expect
ed TO be down street. He lays the button ex-
actly on the site of its predecessor, and
pushes the needle through one eye, and
carefully draws the thread after, leaving
about three inches of it sticking up for lee
way. He says to himself: "Well, ii wo-
men don't have the easiest time ever sea-"
Then he comes back to The other way, and
gets the needle through the cloth well
enough, and lays himself out to find the
eye, but in spite of great deal of patient
jabbing, the needle point persists In
buckipg against the solid part Of
that button, and finally, when
be loses patience, bis fingers catches the
thread; and that three inches he had lef. to
hold the button slips through the eye in a
twinkling, and the button rolls leisurely
across the floor. He picks it up without a
single remark, out Of respect for his child
rem, and makes another attemp, to fasten IL.
This time when coming back with the
needle ne keeps both the thread ana ouGton
from Slipping by covering them with his
thumb; and it is cut of regard for that
part of him that be feels around for the eye
in very careful a judicious manner,
but eventually losing his phil
osophy as the search becomes more and
more hopeless, be falls TO jabbing about in
a loose and savage manner, AID it is just
then the needle finds the opening, and
comes up through the button aud part way
through his thumb with celebrity that
no human ingenuity can guard against.
Then he lays down the things, with a
few familiar quotations, and presses
the injured hand between his knees,
and then holds it under the other arm, and
finally jams it into his mouth, and all the
while he prances about the floor and calls
upon heaven and earth to witness that there
has never been anything like it since the
world was created, and howls, and whistles,
and means, and sobs.