Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-16
MELANGE.

ssKiss me, dear maid, to seal the vow
B 1sDt loyethat ta0u hast Mate,@ So
81 have no right to kiss thee nSw,"
The modest maiden said.
ar thou canst find it in thine heart
MY first wish to refuse,
Perhaps 'tis best that we should part,
Ere we our freedom lose"
"Although to kiss you demur,
Yet please to recollect,
That If you choose to kiss me, sir, &c
or course i can't object
The next worst thing to raining pitch
foIks-Hailing omniouses.
"A panier-A s'waist basket" for back
numbers of old newspapers.
Two parties have gone to law In the
Sioux City Courts over q basket of chips.
According to the census there are near
ly half a million compulsory bachelors in
the country. gfEsze
"A Tennessee jury complimented a
judge on his good attention during recent
trial.
The season is approaching when drink
ing men, as well as drowning men, will
catch at straws. A& Lass
People don't black their boots in T. It's
burgh. They hang them cut of a window
over night and they are black enough in
the morning. rv = @y-
"A Utica paper speaks of an insane
woman who, when in her right mind, is
"retiring and taeiturn." No wonder she
became insane.
Three years ago one grain of wheat
was planted by Florida farmer, and from
it he now has three acres of grain. g
A Pittsburgh dry goods dealer has the
portraits of fourteen female thieves whom
be has caught pilfering from his store.
"A boy at North Adams has detained
sOn Linden when the sun was low" $40
times, and expects seen to be promoted to
prose, and take !. When my eyes shall be
turned to behold for the last time the sun
in heaven"
Wien a preambulating photographer
backs his cart into Denver, the following
is sample of the epistolsry effects on the
community "Dear -: Will you please
lend me a waterfall or something 1 can
wear ON my head, am going to have q
picture taken and pair Of earrings and
oblige Mrs. -"
--@Half pound of shot judiciously admin
istered to sympathetic cats at this season of
the year, will bear fruit in increased hours
of slumber throughout the summer, and
u6N0 q tOuuOlCI PiCNChO q OOlACI III bl1O
chicken market" Or, bag, brick, and q
piece of rope judiciously "fxed" will pro-
duce the same result
That Albany drug clerk who has been
missing for three long weeks, and whose
friends feared he bad taken ratspoison,' be-
cause bis masters kitchen girl wouldn't
have him, has been heard from in Cleveland.
He presumes his sudden disappearance
produced sensation, but prefers Cleveland
to corene.'s inquest.
"A young man in Bean Hill, Connect
cut, was wanted as witness in a liquor
case. He saw the constable coming for
him, rushed into tannery, andhid himself
in the sweating room, WHARF, the hair is
leosened from the skins by steam. The
engineer innocently let on this steam, and
the CONSCIENCE is that the unwilling wit
ness is now as bald.
AN epidemic which prevails to great
er extent than the ro-spinal-mening-
tits and the smallpox combined is the got.''
Grsmmsrians call it the imperfect tense of
get, and allege it is spread most every
where but where it should be; for instance
81 have got" where 81 have" would do
the business every bit as we'll
Under the title of ssLays of Gosing-
hood" a literary gentleman of New York,
has prepared for the press q volume of
verses written by lovesick youths and
maudlin sentimentalists engaged to be mar.
ried or DESTROYS Of being SO. Many Of our
grandfathers and fathers, as well as some
who are now or lately have been in the
s'sighing like furnace" condition, are rep
resented in its pages. The editor sbo wed
the proof sheet of "Song to my Della" to
its author (written by him sixty-two years
ago, before he was married) and was edi-
fed with the following, "Bahl what fool
l was then! Who'd believe it?n