Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-18
PARAGRAPHICAL.

Our musical crilicwlsiies TO know whetll-
er, in expressing regrets, it is customary to
send them G. o. ID.
A chap confined in our lookup Monday
on the charge OF vagrancy, whiled the dull
hours away by whistling "Home, sweet
Home"
sOwing 10 John Robinson's circus being
in town, the regular Thursday evening
PRAYER meeting has been postponed" said a
recent number of the Enterprise, OF Dallas,
Texas.
They celebrate the landing of the Pill
grims in Wisconsin. 1t is firmly believed
in Milwaukee that the Pilgrims originally
landed at that place with cargo OF lager
beer.-St. Louis Journal.
"A lady in Atlantic, Iowa, is on the war
path because she discovered piece Of an
ostrich plume in her husbands beard, and
she was not the fortunate owner of such a
bit of adornment:" Some married ladies
are so particular.
Here is the puff dramatic Of Miss +. II.
Churchill, a reader: ''She once read selec-
tionS from 'Hiawatha' to Mr.. Longfellow in
his own library, with the tears rolling down
his face" We have our own opinion as to
what he was crying about.-ErchdRge.
Josh Billings says: 81 will state for the
information of those who havn't had a
chance to lay in secret wisdom az freely az
| hav, that one single hornet who feels
well can brake up a whole camp-meeting."
In an account of Napoleon the Great s
Russian campaign, an historian relates:
The Russians were massed upon frozen
swamp. Napoleon pointed his artillery at
them, and twenty thousand bit the dust. .
1t must have bothered those warriors to bite
the dust in frozen swamp.
A Nashville juvenile Insisted upon his
mother telling him, yesterday, what she
intends to get him for Christmas present.
"Oh, something useful was the evasive
reply. But, mamma, don't want some
thing useful" said he, 81 can get that any
time, and L want something different
now"
Peter Van Dyke died in New IIamp-
shire the other day. While accumulating
his $4,000 he evidently absorbed good
deal of practical knowledge regarding hui.
man nature, as lie requested in his will
that no one SHOULD shuttle and shed crocO-
die tears at his funeral, but cover him over
and then hurry home to fight for his
money!
The COWier-JOmndl paragraphist has
this to say with reference to a matter OF
| considerable importance: 1t is said that
| there is a movement on foot in New \ orli
to suppress the practice OF going ont be-
| tween the acts al the theater. The move
ment is good one, but it will never sue
coed until every theater-goer is handed q
bottle of Bourbon with his ticket.
A middle-aged lady of this city, who
| ILL.,. l-pCu- tho ..rooSou Ix1,U'- for nVt1ry
thing, hunted up, in the London Encyclo
pwdia, yesterday, this definition Of the
word "Cplebs'' or "CelebS:" "A species
of cimex, of brownish gray color, with three
points on the Scutellum and a yellowisl
apex. First found in New Holland" We
have always suspected that it was some
thing of that SORT.
An exchange SAYS: Evansville, Ind
repudiat9s the idea that it has no first
class poets. Walter Scott works in a sash
door and blind factory; Oliver Goldsmith
| works on farm; Thomas Moore is fin
Sher, and Robert Burns is in the city Jail.
We know that Evansville is cOnglOmer
ate sort of village, but yet are somewhat
| surprised to find that she has farms within
her corporate ihaitS.
Possibly our ladies may be interested il
this clipping: The Empress of Germany
dresses very plainly. Her dry goods bill:
are less than thOSa Of the wives of the mer
chant princes of Berlin. The Queen o
| Denmark drives out in a calico dress, anC
Princess Bismarck, fresh and comely wheI
past sxey. superintends her farm wOrl;
goes about the house with great bunch o
| KEYS at her girdle, and her house is file,
with knitted quilts and curtains, the eyi
dences of her skill and industry.