Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-27
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Mosquitoes have appeared in Hartford.
A Louisiana operator makes soap out OF
cotton seed.
Omaha advertises for "frizzle-haired
bar-tenders."
"A St. Louis girl advertises for the man
who saved her from drowning.
The only religious exercises In Ander-
sonville, Ca, on Sundays, are wild cats
fights.
"A Kentucky man offers to wager 500
that he can out-sleep any other man in the
State.
1t Is proposed to change the name OF
the State of Pennsylvania to Tom Scotland.
"A girl in Alton, H., got her behind rig
so high that it tipped over her face and
smothered her to death. An awful warn
ing.
"A blessed rain sufficiently heavy to set
tie the dust, decendeS, like the gentle dew
of Heaven, upon US yesterday.
-"My life work is done" said the woman
who had just married off her seventh and
last daughter. Her sons-in-law devoutly
wished her life was done too.
There is an engineer on the New York
Central who has secret ambition to run
his train so fast some day that the passen-
gers will become bald-headed.
Marquette. Mich, was out OF chewing
tobacco for several days last week, and, it
is said the town on the third day looked as
if the cholera had passed through it.
-Dicky Turner is said to have made
the following extraordinary appeal: "Let
us be up and doing, comrade! Let us take
our axes over our shoulders, and plow the
deep till the good ship Temperance sails
gaily over the land"
Tommy asks if Professor Longfellow
in what he says of the ''trailing garments of
somewhere, expresses any preference be-
tween red and yellow flannel.
That Pittsburgh girl has sent back
those two barges of coal, which her father
gave her as bridal present. She says she
guesses she can make it hot enough for
chubby" without any outside help.
Pennsylvania gloats over the richness
of Mrs. Mary Ann Reichert, Of Ashland, the
circumference of whose sylph like waist is
eight inches more than her height, and
who, if she were unladylike enough to kick
anything, wouldn't kick the beam at 500
pounds.
Said tipsy husband to his wife: "You
need-needn't blaine me! Twas We
man that first tempted man to eat forbid
den things" "Woman may have tempted
man to eat forbidden things" said the
wife, shut he took to drinking Of his own
accord"
Even our grave and dignifed Senators
were somewhat demorslized by Mardi Gras
festivities. One of them referred in elo-
quent terms yesterday to ''the county of
Nashville il the city of Davidson" all of
which was very sad indeed.
Senator Richardson made forcible ar
gument yesterday on the Insurance ques-
ton, which able effort was characterized by
Senator White as being ga very chaste bun
die of remarks"
The Boston Globe, with rare exhibit
ton of judgment and good taste in literary
matters, quotes largely from the police re-
port of the UNION AND AMERICAN.
"A pious invalid went to church last Sab
bath for the first time for several months.
{" Did you not enjoy the sermon?" said her
husband, thankful to see her in his pew
again. "Enjoy it, guess did, immensely,
till l looked at the lady in the front seat,
and all at once was unhappy, for would
you believe it, my back hair wasn't up high
enouSn'
Merrill, the Nashville correspondent of
the Courier-JOurnd is eminently practi-
cal young man, but be has mine of poetry
and sentiment about him which should be
developed, Witness the following which
he evolved from his inner Consciousness a
few days since without thought that be
was doing anything out of the common:
"For whom and by whom is all the fine
speech making of our Lycurguses? For
the beautiful young ladies who hang about
the galleries, by the handsome young
bachelors who seek to tickle their little
ivory ears with orient pearls of rhetoric"
We would rather have penned that beau
tiful paragraph than to be the owner Of
pacing mule, which, thus far, has been the
apex, the crown, the summit, as it were, Of
our ambition.