Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-11
TYPOGRAPHICAL.


Tie announcement is made that the
Kansas Magazine is no longer published
There is nothing surprising about that.
We learn from Northern exchange that
Fort Dodge talks of a monument to the
Cardiff giant, who is said to be dead.
"Ah, Sir Edwin, am glad to see you;
am so fond of beasts" said the King Of
Portugal on being introduced to Landseer
the painter of Misunderstanding.
This paragraph is going the rounds: The
managers of the Vermont State School
Library have resolved that Dickens novels
have an immoral tendency, and if those
managers are as slnal-souled and narrow
minded as such an action would indicate
they viii eventually go to the dickens, de-
spite their present efforts to the contrary.
The Puldski Citizen says: 'EQuite an ex-
citement on the east side of the Square was
occasioned last Saturday by the report of a
pistol in Finley & MOores back room. 1t
turned out, however, that Mr.. j. G. & A.
Smith had only dropped pistol in making
up the bed, which exploded" If Pulaski
beds are in the habit of exploding, the fact
that ]. G. & A. Smith were engaged in
'.making up" one may be accounted for.
But isn't it rather dangerous to sleep on
one of them?
The lady who might have occupied the
White House as its mistress, has again been
heard from: ''The lady who refused the of
fered hand of James Buchanan, late Presi-
dent of the United States, and thereby
caused him to live bachelor to the end OF
his days, lives in Moulton, Iowa, the wife
of good husband and the mother Of a
grown up family of children-lives in a
story and half house, belongs to the Meth
odist Church, occupies a good social posi-
ton, is contented and happy, and not bit
sorry that she did not accept young Bucks
offer"
This bit of information regarding a
''muchly married" man will be read with
interest: Brigham Youngs III children
have been learning to sing ''Father, dear
father. come home" one singing the solo,
while the other 116 join in the chorus,
until each one has successfully given tug
at their fathers domestic affections. The
chorus tears Brigham's tender vitals to
flinders.
\ gentleman in the north end of town
has baby at his house. 1t is the finest
baby in Giles county, of course, and its
papa is very proud of it. He was down in
town the other day in crowd, when he
saw his nurse going across the street with
baby yelled to protect it from the cool
winds that have lately set in, when he
called to her to come there. ''Now," says
he to the crowd, ''I'll show you that baby
that I've been Dragging of; and if you don't
say its the best looking baby in town, and
that it is the exact image of its papa, I'll
treat" By this time the nurse had ar
rived, and he called her to him, took the
precious little darling, set it upon his knee,
and saying, snow, its papa's dot it," he
raised the veil, when horror of horrors! it
was the blacklist, slickest little African you
ever saw. He dropped it, mOtioned to the
crowd to follow, went into the nearest sa-
loon and laid a V on the counter, saying,
s'Boys, Just drink that out" and while the
sugar was being stirred he slipped out the
back door, and the scenes that knew him
once will know him no more until the boys
forget to say, ''now, its papas dOtit. PIE
ldski Citizen.