Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-27
PARAGRAPHICAL.

The writer would suggest to Capt. Cor
bett the propriety of having inscribed over
the door of the city Workhouse this motto:
"Who enters here leaves soap behind"
| An exchange has learned and lucid ar
ticle on ''The Homologation of the IDEAL"
We had intended to write something on
that subject ourselves at an early day, but
this article covers the whole ground so COM
| pletely that it leaves US nothing new to say.
t-NOTTiStOaUn Herald.
The New York Tribune, in the course of
an article on the large number of passages
secured for Europe this season, says: ''The
| next excursion will comprise a party of
thirty school teachers and pupils from Nash
vile and Lebanon, Tenn, under the direc-
ton of Prof. Stark, of the former place. 1t
will occupy eighty-four days, during which
general tour of Ireland and Europe will
be made. For the purposes Of the party,
thirty frstclass berths have been taken in
the National Line steamship Egypt, sailing
from this port on June IA"
An old lady in this city is happy at last.
She remarked to friend yesterday: "Oh,
Pm SO glad. They're going to build the
Vanderbilt Anniversary on hill close to
my property"
The Nashville UNION AND AMERICAN
says: "One of two things is quite evident:
The "Small Talk" column of the Courier
Journal is either manipulated by a new
man, or else the brain of the old-time pro-
prietor of that column is softing rapidly"
The UNION AND AMERICAN evinces the
same ability in its surmises about the Small
Talk that it does in stealing its paragraphs.
-COlUieT-J OUnGL.-The COlTier-J Journal
is wrong, We have no earthly use for the
dreary paragraphs which now appear in its
"SmSl Talk" column, but il we had, we
could clip them from the exchanges "Small
Talk" steals them from. They would come
fresher that way.
"What are you lawyers making the
weather so cold foT?" said an individual to
a certain well known lawyer yesterday
morning. 81 don't know" said the ad-
dressed party, "that we lawyers have any
thing to do with the cold, but we do make
things right hot for some people occasion
ally"
A well known boatman of the long ago,
who Of late years has been devoting bis en-
tire attention to scientific matters, tells US
privately that he has discovered how to get
rid of rats in smokehouse. The plan is q
simple one, and worthy of trial. "Obtain,"
says our informant, ga COW bell, and sus-
pend it in the smokehouse, with a string
attached, leading to your bed room, and
every time you wake up at night, pail the
string. Bet every dollar you've got" is the
emphatic language Of Mike Huffman, shat
the rats will depart"
Yesterday afternoon a runaway horse
came dashing down Desderick street at the
top of his speed. A gentleman On the
corner Of Cherry ran out to stop him, but
by the time the horse came within fifty feet
Of him, be had changed bis mind and has
tened back to secure position. He said
be does love to see dumb animals enjoy
themselves, and as this one seemed to be
having very fine time, he couldn't find it
in his heart to interrupt him.
A Nashville gentleman has a fine lot of
peas up already. His neighbors' hens took
an active part in causing them to come up.
The following is clipped from an ex
change (not the Courier Journal, how
ever,): A very extraordinary child has
died recently in Memphis. She was oply
two months old, and yet we are told that
she ''rose as a star and beamed lucently
with meteoric resplendency along the hori-
zon of her parents, lighting their pathway
with the sheen Of hope" She was also ga
lovely gem of beauty cleaning brightly in
their casket of jewels" and has had her
"esrthly lustre eclipsed to corruscate with
renewed effulgence in the spirit world"
Moreover, she was "gentle rosebud, whose
vernal freshness impregnated her parental
hearts with its fragrance of love, blooming
sweetly in the bouquet of flowers that gar
landed their happiness" but has, "by the
blighted upss Of disease, faded away to
bloom with more brilliant hues in that land
of perennial purity and bliss to which little
children by divine behest are welcomed"
For an infant of its age this is hard to beat.