Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-07
PARAGRAPHICAL.

aLook around, Mr.. MCool, and keer
'em as still as you can," said Judge Ferri:
yesterday to the bailiff of the County
Court, as the members of that body cavort-
ed around the room like troupe of wild
mustangs.e
Speaking Of the County Court. At its
last session Billy Trafford the clerk, was
met by ruralist just as he was leaving the
Court house with the interrogatory: 'Say,
mister, kin you tell me where the circus
court is?" sits up in the third story
replied Traford, '.you'd better go up at
once for they're performing now"
Julia Ward Howe says that ''there is
nothing but dumb submission for the
women" There isn't, eh? She ought to
meander through this State and look upon
the splintered rolling pins and battered
potato-mashers.-DetrOn Free Press.
A Georgia paper furnishes this: "Person-
ally appeared before me-who, on oath
saith that to the best Of his knowledge and
belief Syrus Virgins, Henry Castalow,
Jim Yorke and John Bagley did commit
the ofense of larsney or missdemeanor by
sitting dead falls to catch cOons but catches
hogs, in said county of Bibb,n etc.
This clipping from a Cleveland paper
will be read with interest by some Of the
young bloods in this city: Many of the
billiard-room proprietors in the city have
permitted their patrons to chalk over their
shirt bOsoms, as well as cues, without
extra charge. This act Of generosity en-
ables many young man to sport a white
shirt bosom, who. would otherwise be I'M
able to afford the luxury.
Rehearsing marriages, in order that all
may be in correct style when the time
comes, is an old story, but there is an i'm
provement on that which is said to be
greatly in vogue just now. This is nothing
less than rehearsing the baptism of babies.
Fond parents, it is most Enthusiastically
related, deluge, sprinkle and shower the
heads and brows of their tender offspring
in order that they may not disgrace the
family by shrieking at the font.-St. Louis
Democrat.
The jack rabbit is so called on account OF
his resemblance TO the game of singh, low,
jack" His movements resemble the ups
and downs of that slippery science, and to
''catch jack" requires great strategy. His
ears are elegantly adapted to wearing the
present fashionable style of earrings, but
being an inhabitant of the plain, he always
dresses plain, except when he becomes a
victim to mans cupidity, when he is gener-
ally dressed in butter sauce, with a little
-four thickened with cream. The gait of
jack rabbit is neither run nor hop, but
closely resembles the perambulating style of
fashionable young ladies innumber one boots
on numbertwo feet. The manner in which
he humps himself when mad was the origin
Of the expression about 'fgetting your back
up" The late style of s'Grecian bend" was
undoubtedly taken from the attitude of the
jack rabbit, who generally sits bumped up,
casting furtive glances over his shoulder,
on the lookout for a man. Here
his resemblance to the fashionable girl
ceases, for the jack rabbit instantly wants
to 'tgit up and git" While the fair dansel
just shakes out her hustle and calmly waits
for the man to approach. The usefulness
of the jack rabbit is subject for specula-
tion, and we prefer to have every man do
his own specializing in these panicky times,
so We will pass this part of our subject by.
The ingenuity of the jack rabbit in avoid
ing his pursuer is only equaled by the
length of his ears, which sometimes grow
to great length, giving him the appearance
of country editor. His countenance is
open, and his expression ''childlike and
bland" After a hearty meal in the after
noon, he generally makes a.cushion out of
bis tail, and may be seen sitting down in
some sequestered nook, seriously engaged
in deep study about how to pay for his
next winters board.-Loup City Ne'rs.