Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-20
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

they disturbed public worship by talking to
their "girls' at church. Young men of
Nashville, take warning from this terrible
example, and behave yourselves when you
go to church tonight.
What an infinitely sad and respondent
tone characterizes the following paragraph,
clipped from an exchanges; 1.-TWO idealisjc
youths, immersed in sentimental thoughts
and sicklied Ger with the pale cast Of poetry,
were walking past hous, on one OF our
retired streets the other day, and espied
young lady acquaintance in bay window
talking draughts of the balmy April air.
You look, said the gloomiest of the poet
ical twain, like Mariana in the moated
grange. And l am like her, she replied,
for / am looking athwart the gloomy fats.
They only said their lives were weary, ETC.,
and passed sadly along"
Nashville correspondents are "correspon-
dentS no longer; they are commissioners
The world moves.
A composition in this Office had occasion
night before last, to wrestle with conimu-
nication on the subject OF merging the
Nashville university. The writing was not
the plainest in the world, and when he
came to the words "this goat Methodist con
c3rn," he exercised bis own judgment as
to the meaning of the writer, and set 1t up
''this great Methodist can-can.n
Does it ever occur to the reader that the
feat 50 popular in the ballet, when line of
scant raimented damsels glide forward to
the foot-lights and simultaneously kick for
ward at the audience, is not particularly
graceful? A kick is rarely aesthetic; even q
mOther-in-law can't throw poetry into a
kick. Yet we visit the theater night after
night and rather enjoy being kicked at.
George Adolphus would be shocked were
bis Angelina to receive him on the occasion
of an evening call by shaking her number
two gaiter in his face Is it the drapery
that renders an ordinary kick unattractive,
and the want of it which makes the ballet
kick enjoyable. Will some married man
address private and confidential note to
the paragIaphist giving his opinion on this
subject?-St. Louis Journal, of curse.
The Boston Globe, marvel Of first class
journalism, shows excellent judgment in
frequently clipping from this column of the
UNION AND AMERICAN for its "Daily
Gossip" column.
Before the war an ambitious colored
woman married the coachman of Maj.
Blewett, of Mississippi. Some time after
this, she was giving white lady some good
advice relative to marrying off the daughter
of the latter, when she reached suitable
age. "Now, Mrs. c." she said, "you
find some good, industrious young man for
your Lizzie, and don't you pay no 'tention
to family nor position nor wealth. nor
nuthen of that sort, fur them things don't
amount to much after all. Here 1 married
into Maj. Bic Iett's family fur position and
wealth. but, laws bless you'll missus, that
hain't done me no good"
It was at the hop given at the Maxwell
Friday night by the Coelebs club, one of
the coeleoers took another apart for consul
tation Gle put him together afterwards
Said he: "Bob, I've got myself in muss,
and want you to help me to get out of it.
Here 1 was engaged to dance with Miss
u, and l declare forgot all about it
until half an hour afterwards. l know
she'll be rippin' mad, and what in the world
can say TO fix the matter up? "ADolo-
gise, Charley, apologize; of course you'll
have to apologize" replied the other. "Yes,
Pm willin' to apologize, but what can l
say?" "Why, tell her you made mistake
and put her down on your card for the
b1Iu uaUCc 6uCdu, AO0 10 % bAiSnt
Bob. That's the ticket exactly, I'll do it"
responded the delighted ce!eber. "This is
an age of inventioD," as Anna Dickinson,
or some one else, very truthfully observes.
Last Saturday night Nashville shoe
maker, contrary to his usual custom, took
something strorg in his lemonade, and this
he repeated so many times that lis mind
finally became somewhat clouded, so to
speak When be awoke, Sunday morning,
be had dim impression that he had been
on a spree, and determined to make up II r
lost time by a diligent attention to busl.
ness through the week. Thinking 1t was
Monday morning, he hurried off to the
shop, hung out his samples of work, put on
his apron, and was busily engaged in peg
ging away when kind policeman stepped
in and told him he wss one day too fast.
A very pleasant writer, in an article on
GLANDS and Feet" has this to say: Show
delightful the touch of blus-veined hand,
with soft, warm palm and rOsy-tipped fling
ers! How different the sensation expert
enced by the clasp of the cold, clammy
hand of the invalid! What a fascination
has the wavy motion of hand, whether it
holds needle or cigarl How pleasant to
receive from an open hand,o in sickness 10
be healed by its gentle touch There is an
indefinable charm in the neat handedness
of persons of either sex. The manner in
which flowers are arranged and tied, or
tray Of delicscies is prepared for the sick,
the way in which the pillows are smoothed
and made comfortable for the invalid, be-
token the character of the hands that have
accomplished these duties. To preserve
the complexion of the hands, they must, of
course, be kept covered when out of doors
It is at variance with every rule of pro- rie-
ty for ladies to appear in the rect un-
gloved. The habit that some women in
dulge in of leaving off the glove from the
hand that is crowded with sparkling gems,
and the display of these in omnibuses and
shops, is vulgar and Inbred"