Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-11

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auy more. They find it more agreeable tC
marry again.
What requires more philosophy than tax
ing things as they come? Parting with
things as they go.
Which of the reptiles is mathemati-
clan? The adder.
good nursery man-the father OF large
family.
1t is only honest farmers in Iowa who
fill ducks with water and then let Them
freeze before taking them to market.
The nick of time-wrinkles.
A prudent clergyman, unwilling to &C
cuse a citizen of lying, said he used the
truth with penurious frug&lity.
What is the difference between Jew and
a LAWYER? The one gets his law from the
prophets, the other his profits from the
law.
Why did not Washington's sister 60 with
him to cut the cherry tree? Because she
had not got her little hat yet.-BOston
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Fashion is rarely useful. 1t scorns utili-
ty. That of wearing the hair loosely down
the back is now going cut just as dy-.ime
begins to dawn.-DGnbUTy NelCS.
The fol owing sentence Of only thirty
four letters contains all the letters in the al
phabet. "John quickly extemporized tive
tow bags"
| LADIES' head-dresses have become such
structures now that the hair-dressers have
TO petition the city government for "per-
mission to build" before they can get
ahead.
"Your children may never have wealth, v
observed a neighboring clergyman to his
congregation, "but when they grow up il
will be something for them to boast Of that
| their fathers were not members OF the For.
ty-second Congress-"
| The Black Crook company promise to re-
turn to Danbury in two months. 1t is s
| long while to wait, but the crossings are
pretty ymuddy-Ddnbury Ne1cs.
The Nebraska Indians are allowed tC
ride free on all trains they can jump on
| while the latter are in motion. The tribe
is being reduced very rapidly.
They have an ingenious and truly Yam
kee way of "raising the wind" in little
Rhody. The city marshal of Providence
bets stranger that the latter can't yell so
as to be heard five blocks. The man about
bursts his lungs in the attempt, and is theI
arrested and pays s. fine for disturbing the
peace.
One of the most eVentful epochs in boys
history is when he first addresses his father
as the sold man." 1t is patriarchal term,
and if the boy is rightly treated afterward
by the family physician he lives q great
many years to enjoy it.-Ddnbury Ne'oS.
The spring styles of bonnets are certain
ly superb. The ladies are showing increased
excellence of taste, and they are to be COM
mended. The latest bonnet Is a trifle higher
than freights on our railroad, and as grace
ful in proportion.
A ADanbury young man out of employ
ment and health desires to act as a suhsti-
tute for some pensioner of the war Of 1872.
No objection TO going into the country
DGnbuYy NelrS.
The Danbury NelgS is "inclined to be-
lieye that women are going for the polls
in dead earnest, from the fact that, of sew
en- married men talking politics in a Dan
bury grocery on Saturday evening, nine
were entirely bald"
An old bachelor said: "There's sight
more ieWelry worn nowadays than when
was young; but there's one piece that /
always admired that l don't see now."
0What is that?" asked a young lady. "a
IuiiiUiSJ heNS 6uO ACPiy' 1O was AO oAuCN
with contempt and scorn by every lady in
the room for the rest Of the evening.
That model debating society, the st.
Louis Farmers Club, is at it again. Tie
topic for discussion at the next meeting
| will be, ''How to roast turkeys with the fur
on" A venerable cd fossil, who is con-
| tinually on the lookout for fresh agricultu-
raj news, new varieties of worms, etc, says
the subject of roasting turkeys with the fur
on is about as ''fur" on toward practical re-
suits as the club usually gets.
81 had more money than be bad to
carry on the suit" said very mean indi-
vidual who had just won a lawsuit over a
| poor neighbor, ''and that's where had the
| advantage of him. Then had much better
counsel than he, and there had the sdvan-
tage of him. And his family we're sick while
| the suit was pending, so he couldn't attend
| to it, and there had the advantage Of him
| again. But, then, Brown is a very decent
sort of man after ALL" eyes" said his
listener, sand there's where he has the ad-
vantage of you."
| While there are about 10000 men who
think they know all about the perpetual
motion principle, it is safe to say that there
is not solitary soul in this universe who
can explain why railroad engineer blows
bis whistle as he shoots by a passenger
train. People who have popped up from
their seats and clut( he'd their scalps on
the Sc occasions are somewhat interested in
an explanation Danb1Ty Ne1us.
| A chap who in some mysterious manner
had received bid to large and fashion
able party was somewhat disconnected on
| finding that he was not acquainted with a
single person present-nor double one
either. Finally he perceived an elderly
| gentleman of disconsolate mien looking
| over a Photographic album. Our hero
made for this party of the second part and
said: 81 say, you and L don't seem to
know anybody here. Let's go home !" 1t
was the head of the housed
I Old Squire Henshaw, of SlawsoDs, a.
ways favored the idea of the village young
men that they could do better in the city,
and always stood ready to help them with
| his counsel. He said: "You go down TO
| New York, young man and watch the
newspapers pretty closely. Pretty soon
| you'll see an advertisement of an earring
lost, and then you look around till you find
| il, and take it to the owner and get the
money. In the country here there's no
such chances" II is little singular, bat
there is not even street in New York to-
day commemorating the name of Mr.. Hem
shaw.
A farmer living several miles out oftown
came up to Danbury recently to trade, ac-
companied by little dog. The Danbury
dogs never saw this. dog before, and went
for it. Every once III while, despite the
owners surveillance, the pup was pounced
upon. Toward night the farmer departed
| for home with what was left of the animal
! done up in brown paper.-DdnbTy Necs.