Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-25
MELANGE.

/ An ex-QuakeTess leads the ton OF the
| Prussian capital.
| People who prac'ic sea-haihing should
4 guard against surf fit.
| Whittier says that friendship is worth
more to him than fame. te.r
/ .-Aineriesn bellies are wild over the CON-
| ing of the Marquis Of Butte. 4Atf.
| One Of the indispensables at the India
ma picnic is wagon load of brickbats.
I - Photographer requested that bis sign,
"Taken from Life,r should be bis epitaph.
The pleasant prediction that the pies
ent will be good mosquito year is given
Out.rT sas7-s7rH ~ ~-f ssliLta4r
And now Chicago is Dragging because
Pauline Lueca procured divorce in that
city.
/ Aaron Burr's remains rest under al
elegant monument near the school of his
boyhcod, at Princeton, n. ].
The New Haven Journal and Courier
suggests In 1t in case of s0lemnizatiOn of
the rumored marriage of Winnie ReaHn,
music by the squire" would of course be
appropriate. FLag stA
"A leading New York insurance jour-
nal calls an agent to whom it is hostile a
capsule, fashioned after the likeness of .
man, and filed with the oil of a greasy and
rancid hypocrisy"
AT recent wOman's meeting in San
Francisco public ball, the lady in the chair
requested the audience not to make quite
so much noise in their applause, "as it
would scare the horses in the stable be-
low" las -ft
The salary of the female clerks en-
ployed at the ladies' window at the San
Francisco Postoffice has been reduced from
one hundred and thirty dollars to seventy
five dollars per month, this alternative be-
ing adopted il preference to dischargiDg
one of the two.
The young man who recently sent 10
this Office poem in which occurs the ex-
preston, "Her voice was Ike q NIGHTINGALE"
is informed that 1t was not accepted, the
idea being too evidently stolen from 81
dream l dwelt in marble halls" Two
''nights in jain" would be better for him
than one. s.r
"A woman quarrelled with her husband
at Hyde Park, near Chicago, last week, and,
being angered past endurance, went to the
depot and sat patiently on TIE platform till
an express train came along, and then threw
herself in front Of the engine and was in
stantly torn to piec S.
All iDSS1llOuS pcIcOu WlOy lCdSOlS
peculiarly his own, does not intend visiting
the sea-shore this summer, says that by
placing large sea shells about bis pillow be
goes to sleep with the sound Of distant
ocean singing in bis ears and wakes up re-
freshedas by plunge in the surf.
The youthful mind is observant and in
quiring, but it lacks experience. YouDg
Tomkyns borrowed gun to 60 sparrow
shooting, and not understanding the breeeh
loading system, began to ram down the
cartridge. he has since frequently observ-
ed how lucky it was that in an idle hour be
learned to write with his left hand.
"A great poet has remarked that the
course of true love never DIES run smooth.
Little Bigsby quite agrees With him. He
was taking quiet but surreptitious tea with
the fair Lucinda Pck6teur, when her faith
er returned Unexpectedly. Bigsby wishes 10
place at the disposal ofthe Statistical society,
the interesting information that there are
sixteen large and hard knots on old Pickle
tours holly walking stick.
"A woman in Middletown, Ohio, has
excited the indignation Of the town by
cruelty beating With whip her grown-up
daughter, because she stopped to converse
in the postofficc with a young gentleman
against whom the mother has an anti
patty.
Current para graph: "The two hundred
divorce lawyers of Chicago are in mourning
over the silver wedding that occurred there
inadvertently last week. They ask for
suspension of public opinion, since it is the
first time they have slipped up"
"A Pennsylvania woman, who has for
years been afflicted with cancer, and has
been treated by eminent physicians without
obtaining relief, dreamed that stranger
came to her house and gave her some medi-
cines, saying that they would effectualy cure
her. Next day, on going to the door and
looking out, she saw the identical man of
her dreams approaching the house. He Of
fered her bottle of medicine to cure her
cancer. She took il, followed his directions
and is now-as bad as ever.
"A celebrated comedian arranged with
green grocer, one Berry,. to pay him
quarterly; but the green grocer sent in his
account long before the quarter was due.
The comedian, in great warmth, called up
on the green grocer, and, .aboring under
the impression that his credit was doubted,
ssid: 81 say, here's a pretty null, Berry;
you have sent in your biH, Berry, before it
is due, Berry. Your father, the elder,
Berry, would not have been such goose,
Berry; but you need not look so black,
Berry, for don't care Strdr, Berry, aud
shan't pay you till Christmas Berry"