Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-29


A gentleman ct this city, who, with COM
nendable sectional pride, insists upon It
that there are no mosquitoes In this vicinity,
has tE mosquito bars over his bed, and
yet 60 s around with bis face marked up as
though be were Just getting over an attack
of the smallpox.
''Dld he have any haggagesr asked gen.
tleman of . clerk at the Maxwell House
yesterday. "Not much bagg-g e," respond
ed the clerk. "only rosebud and walk
ing cane.o
A nice young man was reading yesterday
our report of the meeting CT the ImrrJyed
Order of Rel Men. held the night previous,
when be read aloud this paragraph: "The
Great Council then took recess uutil the
second run after High Sum-" Sad he, ~
don't know anything about the second run
but 1 'pose the first run after high SAM
would be the run to dinner.'
A Nashville society young man made an
engagement with one Of the bellies of the
city few evenings since, but unfortunate
ly forgot the fact until half past eight on the
evening in question, when be at once
rushed around to the residence of the LADY,
to find that she had just gone out, leaving
message for him to The effect that she
didn't consider half past eight proper hour
TO call for the purpose of fulfilling an en- ;
gagement for the evening. The young man
took his hat and departure with a sad heart,
mentally resolving he "gouldn'l never do
so no more.n But he will.
6ol. Charles ID. Mclean writes to the
Memphis Appeal: 81 have noticed several
attempts, by different writers, as to the ORR
gin OF the names of the counties In Tennes-
see, and In no instance have found it COM
plete." He then says: lafayette was
named for Gen. Nj. ID. Lafayette. the dis
tiDguished citizen of France, who assisted
in achieving the Independence of the United
States In the Revolutionary war" an. D..
La Fayete" is good-Uery good. If Col.
Charles D. Mclean would read up little
he would find that s'the distinguished citi-
zen" etc, to whom he refers, was not NJ.
D. Lafayette, but Marquis CO Lafayette,
his family name beng Marie Paul Joseph
Roche Yves Gilbert Mosier.
Under date OF yesterday, q correspondent
signing himself "Fsir Play" propounds the
following conundfum. "Editor UNION
AND AMERICAN, Dear Sir: Will you per-
NIT subscriber to your valuable paper
to enquire of the writer who edits the
'paragraphicar column of your daily, why,
in the last item of i'd column of this
mornif G, copy books ten cents each was
substituted for undecipherable copy? No
seeing anything In the above substitution
relative to the subject matter of the para
grauh the subscriber would respectfully ask
the meaning of that substitution. Will the
paragraphist raise to explsin?" Nothing
would give the paragraphist more
intense qualification than to answer
the foregoing inquiry propoundei by
"Fair Play" in a satisfactory manner,
unless it would be to he able to
borrow a quart r of him. For years he has
made the vagaries of the average printers
mind study. He has remained up late at
night and gotten up in the "wee sma hours"
IN order to devote more time to this inter-
esting investigation, for he hiss really bad
sn earnest desire to know why l. Is that
printers occasionally perform such wonder
ful things with copy entrusted to their
hands, but in vain. He would suggest to
''Fair Play" however, that possibly the
printer he refers to substituted the sentence
quoted for the two undercipherable words,
simply because they had no connection
with the subject matter. Fair Play might
devote a couple of hours per day to consid-
eriDg the suggestion thrown out (for which
he isn't charged cent?, and in the mean
time if the parsgraphist hits upon q more
satisfactory explanation of the problem, he
viii send a small, cheap boy to Fair Plays
place Of business and let him know it.