Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-11
PARA6RAPHICAL.

1t is currently reported that there is q
close connection between the enormous
sale of pepper in the Nashville market and
the soup-erior accommodations OF the Max
well.
It is stated that during the big fire in
Chicago the other day a woman carried her
silk dress mile and left her baby sleeping
In its cradle.
1t is impossible to guard against the play
fulness of Young America. An exchange
tells of sinful urchin in GAINESVILLE, Wis ,
who quietly meandered through crowded
ball room, scattering cayenne pepper as he
went, and the scene which soon followed
was awful.
There Is brevity, but yet explicitness
about the following clipping, which is really
refreshing: sOne OF the Cinnamon at
North Adams, who slike Mclean woman
muche,' asked married woman to elope
with him, and he Is now having new
queue plated of horse hair"
The Laramie Sentinel sends up this Ma.
cedonian cry: "rhere is fearful and terri
bic scarcity of girls in this country, not
only for cooking purposes but we know
of lots of young men who would even be
willing to take them raw.
Nashville motheIs are warned to beware
of toy balloons. They look harmless
enough, but for all that possess latent
power for mischief which should be care
| fully guarded against. A Vine Street
mother purchs sed one yesterday for the be-
guilement of her blessed baby, and wher
she got tired Of holding the string attached
| it TO the infants clothing. Fortunately the
mother heard the little ones screams as il
started up in the air, and but for that, thai
| b, b, might have been demonstrating the
practicability of Prof. Wise's idea, at this
instant.
The inability of the average female mind
to successfully grspple with intricate finan.
cial problems, is beautifully illustrated by
the following, taken from an exchanges
s'Husband, who has been out West on bus
mess, and left his wife some blank checks
-"Mary, 1 find you have considerably over.
drawn at the bank" Mary-"Nonsense,
John, how can that be? I've two of those
blank checks left yet"
A couple of gentlemen were on the point
| of taking street car at the corner of Dead.
erick and College yesterday, when the one
in advance noticed the placard indicating
that the car conveyed passengers to the
7
on?" asked his friend. Because that car is
not intended for Gentiles like you and l.
1t is for the Fair-I-sse," was the reply.
"But why do you weep" he continued,
seeing the tears stand in his friends eyes
81 weep because that joke is so Sad-you-
see." He added, in mournful voice, that
shed take cigar in his'n."
The Baltimore Gazette touches up Rus
| tin, the English critic, and who has won
dered how any one could live in America,
where there are no csthedrals, or castles, in
this neat style: "Mr. Welby Pugin, well
| known English architect, is now in this
country for The benefit of bis health. He
| is an authority in England in Gothic archi-
lecture, and on bis return Gao inform MIR.
Ruskin how far life is tolerable In country
without cathedrals or castles"
The Peoria ReUje'c employs the most
musical and dramatic critic In the country.
The expense is heavy but it pays in the
| long run. Here is one of bis latest efforts:
ssMlle. Liebhsrt didn't leave dry eye In
| the wigwam when she sang "There sno
plash Ii kome," and it was the general i'm
preston among her German auditors that
she sang Crawling Awdah" In English
while the EngIish-speaking Inhabitants were
equally positive that "Robin Adair" was q
German ballad. Mile. Ormeny had, and we
suppose still retains magnificent voice for
fog whistle. Its compass was perfectly
surprising. She would shake the chande-
| lier with a wild whoop that made every
| man instinctively feel for his scalp, and fol-
low it up with roar that would shame 8
bassoon.