Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-26
PARAGRAPHICAL.

The CoafieT-.Jouundt man clamors for a
law prohibiting hotel walters from using
peTfumery. If he secures this object, he
will then demand the passage of law
prohibiting hotel clerks from wearing
diamonds larger than a walnut.
According to the report of Gen. Myers,
of the Signal Service, there was greater
quantity Of rain fell at Nashville, during
last month than at any other point in the
United States. This fact speaks '.volumes"
for Nashville, and shows what steady per-
sistence will accomplish.
The Brownsville Bee says: "We noticed
a large buckle going down the street the
other day with little woman strapped on
in front of it. How peculiar are the fash
ions.-
The exchanges tell of Jail bird who, in
attempting to escape from confinement at
Hampstead, Ark, sreceiyed three bullets,
each probably fatal" In order for that man
to do justice to all those bullets, be should
have one-third as many lives as cat.
In speaking of certain Whiteriver steam
er, river editor remarks: walker Outlaw
is the polite purser" This statement is
rendered interesting by the fact that polite
ness is not Characteristic of outlaws gen.
orally.
One of those fellows who are always med
ding with things that don't concern them,
has estimated the exact weight of a lady's
apparel, and finds it to be eleven pounds,
thirteen ounces and eight drains. This in
cludes everything worn, from the inner
most receSses outward to the parasol.
A Lebanon, Tenn, youth, whose 'Esweet-
ness" went back on him, was so seriously
affected by the young lady's conduct, that
he tells his neighbors all about it through
the medium of half a column of bewitching
verse, which he publishes in the Lebanon
Herald, and in the course Of which he re-
marks:
viii not weep as you thought
Would when YOU gave me lift;
You'll repent, long ere yOu are forty,
And regret that you e'er made the shift"
We admire the spirit the young man eX-
hibits in refusing TO weep, but cannot I'M
derstand the last line. If the girl really
needed the garment referred to and could
afford it, we see no reason why she should
ever regret having made it.
The man who lives Just back of us,
Chubb, has yellow tom-cat whose intelli-
gence is almost human. Chubb's cat pos
sesseS a voice like Tuscarora Indian, and
when he gets out in the yard on a moon
light night and meets a cat with different
political views, and reasons with him and
INDUCES in animated conversation and lifts
out handsful Of fur, you can hear the de-
bate for a mile and a half. Chubb used to
be much annoyed by the continual dis
turbance, and he would disperse the meet
ing with bullets and other projectiles. But
at last he noticed that his circumstances
had no effect. The more soap cups and
boots he fired into the yard the louder his
yellow tOm-cat would screech; and when
he would bang away with his gun, the eat
would send out a wild, unearthly yovl,
which would wake people within fifteen
squares and set eight or ten thousand dogs
to barking. 1t seemed SO queer to Chubb
that his cat always refused TO move on
when hit, that he determined one night to
watch it. Just at dusk he observed that
cat drag about twelve inches of old stove
pipe out from under a bush and crawl into
it. Then the cat inserted its legs through
four holes that had been punched in the
iron, and with its head projected through
the end, and its body clad in armor, it
winked az Chubb, and rambled OFF to at
tend the mass meeting.-Md1 Adeler.