Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-09
MELANGE.

Brooklyn wants to battle in public
baths.
Bouquets of trailing arbutus are now
in order.
"A handsome thing in shawls-A pref
ty girl.
Bedford that be missed the morning train.
New York theatre-goers have been re-
quested not to bring their dogs with them
any more.
For red-striped vest a California youth
transferred his betrothed to rival, and all
are happy.
You often hear of man ebeing in ad-
vance of his age" but you never heard OF
woman being in the came predicament.
-"No cards" was great success. "No
speeches" viii be still greater one. Your
regular speech-maker Is, at best, what
Carlyle calls ',spoutiDg wretch"
"A secondhand furniture dekler on
Michigan avenue, Detroit, hung out card
last Thursday, inscribed: "Buggyi For
Salel'' and inadvertently hung it upon a
secondhand bedstead on the sidewalk,
where it attracted much attention.
"A selfish California minister recently
refused to perform the marriage service for
8 couple whore the bride was his own abb
seconded wife. And that aggrayating wo-
man said that he "was Just as mean as he
always used to be-"
"A New York female who read that the
Hoosac tunnel cost 5000 per yard, said she
would have 8 dress pattern off from that
piece, if the old man did not lay up cent
for the next two years.
MIR, Bessemer says lie can produce a
gun capable of throwing shot weighing ten
tons. This will be good news to the am a.
teur sportsmen of the country who cannot
hit the side of barn with the present style
of guns and missiles.
-"That duck, sir, is a real canvas-back,"
said Jones' landlord at dinner. "Canvas-
although l should think!' muttered
JONES'" as he laid down his knife in des-
pair after trying for the third time to saw
through section Of the ancient fowl.
"A Peoria man, whose daughter insist
ed on going out evenings rather oftener
than he with his old fogy notions thought
advisable, put gentle opiate in her tea, and
when slumber's chain had bound her,
shaved her head as smooth as billiard ball.
She will now tarry at home till her hair be
grown.
Sarah Walker, u years OF age, reached
Lowell, the other day after twenty mile
walk, in search of work in the mills. She
said her object was to lay up little money
against the day when old age should render
her unable to perform hard labor.
Josh says that there is no more rom
ance in taking willing kiss than in max
ing bouquets out of daIdelions. The pre-
else force of the comparison we fail to get,
but the sentiment at least is a comfort to
fellows whose only chance of getting kisses
is to steal them.
An indianapolis woman has notified
several soda water vendors not to sell her
husband any more of that seductive COM
pound of sugar, water and wind. His Or
gaLism is so sensitive (she says this) the
promise of a drink of whisky intoxicates
him, and two glasses of common soda
causes him to step higher than horse with
the string-halt, and his spirit to soar amid
the stars.
The society formed by the girls of the
San Francisco high school for the suppress
sion Of slang has been dlsbanded. The
secretary wrote thus to leading clergy
man concerning its failure: 81 knew the
thing'd bust before they'd run it a week.
There was too much 'chummiug' going on
curing the sessions. Besides, it would
soon have cleaned us OUT it was so ex-
pensive. l, for one, am glad it is played