Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-22
MELANGE.

Miss Oracle Clark, of Texas, has had
eighteen lovers, and yet she never saw
steamboat in her life.
Whenever a reporter finds policeman
asleep he considers 1t piece OF legitimate
police snooze and prints it accordingly.
New York goes back on Diedrich
Knickerbocker By refusing to teach Dutch
in her public schools.
"A young lady residing in Troy, n. T.,
is singing somnambulist. She doesn't
get up TO &c"
"A popular parlor magazine big ker-
osene lamp. They furnish reading matter
for the million.
Some Cincinnati schoolgirls have or
ganized mutual pawnbroker's shop, winch
makes the book trade lively.
Mrs. Darlington says that she never
had the sfnanpox-not she. She was lnoc-
ulated years ago by an oculist.
Kate Field says that the woman who
is shocked by the propensities OF the man
she loves was never intended to be his
wife.
Mr.. McGlynn, of Omaha, attempted
suicide by cutting her throat. She was SO
mad at the surgeon who sewed up the
wound that she stabbed him twice, and it Is
thought he will die.
Items are scarce in Richmond. A col
ored man fell in the street the other day
and before be c. uld stretch himself four re-
porters with note books and pencils sur
rounded him.
"A Worcester, Mass. man has found out
how to choke eff seemingly intermininable
sermons. He shouts "Fire" just as the
"seventeenthly" intervenes, and dismisses
the congregation.
The Memphis recorder disposed OF
twelve cases in sixteen minutes the other
day. They do not talk about the delays of
the law in Memphis.
1t was a Portland fellow who, alter
coming to railroad crossing the other day,
and reading the sign-"Look out for the
locomotive" climbed to the top, and on
gazing up the track, wanted to know
"wher'n thunder the old thiI g WASP"
A little boy was sent to shop for some
eggs. Before reaching home he dropped
| them. In answer to his mo-, her, who asked,
"Did you break any?" he replied, "No, L
didn't break any, but the shells come off
| ftom some of them"
"A Connecticut youth, whose mother
undertook TO spank him one day last week,
stabbed her in the arm with his pocket
knife, stole all the money she had in the
house, and went-where such a bad boy
might well expect TO go-to Chicago.
The Jackson Wing and Tribune tells the
following on couple of Madison county
lawyers: ga lawyer from one of the rural
districts took the wagon of the Hook AID
Ladder Company, at the fire last week, for
an engine, and in his excited imagination,
saw the engine playing Oh the flames. An
other rural lawyer ran up and eXcitedly
asked rural No. One, where's the engine?
Number One replied: 'There it is pointing
to the Hook and Ladder wagon, she has
been playing on the fire ten minutes"
--(By an Elderly Bachelor. "A wife
should &c amiable, affectionate, artless,
affable, accomplished, BIZ autiful, benign,
benevolent, chaste, charming, candid,
cheerful, complsisant, charitable, civil, con-
slant, datiful, dignifed, elegant, easy, eL-
gaging, entertaining, faithful, fond, fault
less, free, good, gracious, generous, gov
ernable, goOd-humored, handsome, harm
less, healthy, heavenly minded, Intelligent,
interesting, industrious, ingenious, just,
kind, lively, liberal, lovely, modest, merci-
full, lnsnnerly, neat, notable, Obedient,
obliging, pretty, pleasing, pure, quiet, right
eous, sociable, submissive, sensible, temp
erature, true, Virtous, well-formed and
young. When l meet W tn a woman pos
| sesseI of all these reouisites / will marry