Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-15
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

y. Nj. Below VIII return TO New DIRK In
October and read "Alexander's Feast" with
an orchestra of sixty pieces.-BoSton Post.
A Nashville young man purchased huge
album several months ago, with a view of
collecting pictures of his friends. Thus
far, his album contains but seventeen pho
tographS, sixteen of which are of himself,
but yet he is not discouraged.
A very observing young lady of this city
says she can always recognize newly mar
ried couple when they make their first ap-
pearance at church, as they sit either too
close together or too far apart.
Memphis invested more money in the
Louisville lottery and drew more blanks
than any city in the Observation-Disclosures
We are glad to know it, for Nashville has
been of the belief that she was the "tanner"
city in that particular.
The newly married young men of Nash
vile are so tull of their jokes. When one
Of them meets another, he never fails to
PROFOUND the excruciatiDgly funny connun-
drum of allows your family?" to which
the equally funny reply Of "She's WE'LL" is
always given.
The Boston Courier says that a woman
ought at least TO have skill enough "to COM
pose breakfast" Nothing will more GER
tainly produce this result, than making
cooking a branch of modern education.
Why should not the female mind be direct
ed to the beauties Of a chop, as we'll as of a
Cboping
The Saturday Reuietg reviews merciessly
one of the ''goody" books of which the age
is so prolific, entitled every Little Stories
for Very Little Girls" Il says: "This au-
thor, with her swords in season. for spring
time, reminds US that we once heard of a
person in greasy black clothes and white
tie who got into an omnibus and handed
TO his fellow travellers tract bearing the
ms piring title-"Are you aware that you
are going TO helI?"
We always did admire men who are able
to ''grasp the situation" at e glance, and
who always act promptly In every emergeE-
cy. Therefore do we love that preacher
who, when rowd Of jsyhawkers started
disturbance in Texas church, the other
day, raised up shotgun and said: "Wm.
Dilo, sit down, or l'Il make it painful for
you" II is said that William sat down,
and was as quiet as lamb during the re-
msinder OF the service.
an. II. b." the elegant, modest and diE-
fideDt lady correspondent, who dishes up
Gotham Gossip" for the st. Louis Repub-
licGE, MARBLES thusly regarding female suf-
fr8ge: 81 know it's nasty TO be ruled by
men, to have no voice in the affairs of state,
TO be inferior TO the inferioritY Of mankind.
But just before the reigL of woman, just
before pettyGoat administration common
ces, Just before the battle, mother | want
TO die Of Group, or a measle, or something
easy, aud be put In my little earthly bed,
where, whatever occurs, 1 shall escape the
awful condition of sublunary things under
The regime de femme"
The Indianapolis journal tells this story:
To illustrate the strength of woman's de-
votioE. A lover SHE'D brick at the head
of his inamorass on the corner of Delaware
and Washington streets, an evening or two
ago. The woman picked up the missile and
went home. A seIni'ofiCial saw the oc-
currence and Informed the grand jury, be-
fore which inquisitOrial body the woman
was summoned. When questioned che
stated that the lover inquesLion had drop
ped an ale bottle, which she hid picked up
and taken home. Although she was held
for two hours she WhOuld tell 10 other
story. Women are indeed ''rum critters"
The Baltimore Gazette has this to say re-
gardiDg Mark Twain: Mark Twain once
found himself in the position OF a guest who
had reputation for wit, and was once in
Vited to an evening party. He was enjoy.
ing himself discussing an interesting ques-
ton on agricul ure, quietly, sensibly and
pleasantly, when the little girl Of the hostess
approached and crushed him for the evening
with "Mr. -, mother says won't you
please say something funny" Mark Twain
accepted the invitation of the New York
Herald, accompanied, of course, by a
sufficient money consideration, to write up
the Shah's visit to England. He did it. He
was probably sea-sick in crossing the Chan
mel. He certainly was not witty. Yet his
name carried his lie tiers all over the coun-
try, and the papers, while they grumbled,
printed them. The frank admission of the
st. Louis Democrat gives us ground for
comment. 1t says: "Of course, nobody
would write his best for the Herald, any
more than Dexter would trot his hest to an
oyster wagon; but in copying Mark Twain's
last letter from England, We deemed it neCes-
sary to instruct the foreman 10 put mark
Twain in big letters above aud below it,
lest the Democrat be accused of printing
two cOlUmns of dullnessD