Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-06
PARAGRAPHICAL.

A Vermont debating club is now strug-
Cling with the question, (which eats the
most chicken, ministers or owls? 2"
They are talking about tearing down the
bridge at st. Louis, because it holds out
to weak-minded people who
are disposed to commit suicide by drown
ing.
1t is somewhat depressing to the mind to
read in the COtTier-JOundL, under the
heading "CorTespondence of the Courier
Journal" a New York Fashion letter which
aupeared in the So. Louis Globe OF the day
previous, headed, "From our own Cores
pondent."
The Coluier-JouTRdl man had to return
an umbrella, lately, that he .'bcrrowed
three wears ago, whereupon he wrote hall
column of vigorous English abusive OF uIr-
brellas, saving they were of no earthly use,
and calling upon inventors to provide
substitute. "The grapes are souri," observ-
ed the fox.
A boarder at a Nashville hotel called for
boiIed EGGS one morning. The waiter re-
turned from the kitchen after a few mo-
ments' absence with the information that
fine eces were not good enough to boil, but
that they were first rate scrambled. The
nOdrleT SuuUClllN lDob liz AAtANANSe - 49,
As a Spruce street car was being rapidly
driven south yesterday, countryman, eyl-
IDENTIFY under the influence of benZine, beck
oned the driver TO stop, which he did Win
some difficulty. "DOes this ere train run
to Lebanon?" drawled the man alter the
car had been brought to full stop. The
driver offered up silent prayer Tor patlence
| and forbearance and started on.
A Colorado paper has this graphic de-
scription of recent game OF poker NH.
| Graves held king full and Mr.. walker
re;oiced in three aces, and raised It to 1our
aces, claiming the stakes, whereupon
| Graves drew six-shooter and rechoned
his hand was the best. Walker supple
Inented the four aces with 3 bowie-knlfe-
There was enough in the pot to purchase
two handsome cOffiAis."
| A graduate in the science OF loailnS
writes: s.If YOU will watch squad OF men
who are standing on corner, or iounglne
about public entrance, you Will soon Cd
serve one of them carelessly put his hand
| in his pocket, keep it there amoment While
he sweeps the horizon with an abstIacteo
glance, and then drawing it forth wipe his
mouth with the cuff When his hand comes
down again chew of tobacco is in hi:
mouth, and those about him who have nc
tobacco are none the wiser"
Huntley, of the 50. Louis Gt0ce, dis
courses thus learnedly with regard to fash
ionable society: s.Society does not lacl
heart. but it needs brains. Abstractly con
sidered, it knows simply nothing, or if II
does. its greatest care is 10 disguise the eX
istence of its knowledge. Society people
are very pleasant to meet. They have hC
asperities, no edges; there are no rough cor
ners; everything is polite and charming
but 10 any one hungering and thIrstln:
after information they are perfectly useless
affording nothing. There is a prevailing
impression among polite people that socla
contact should be productive
the same effect that follow
the placing Of the magnet unde
the paperof iron filings-a general bopbinls
around. Where three or more person.
meet. under a roof, one will evolve music
and the rest will hop up and down, ant
that is-sOciety. PoliteneSs to-day is 10
Gated in tie Ices, and to him or her wh'
cannot 'dance'-that is, jun.p up ana drol
down. slide backwards, forwards and side
ways-there is no society; the world IS V9ll
and withou, form. To all practical In
tents and purposes the ladies and gentle
men q the beau monde might as well b
deaf and dumb as endowed with power o
speech. The art Of conversation seems :
have no attraction for them. TO them 1
is lost. A gathering to them represents s.
much jumping up and dropping down
sliding backwards, forwards and sideways
They don't seem to appreciate that mutua
improvement should be az incident, II no
an object, and that they are falling IN
duty if each does not do something to ben
eft at least one of the rest"