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


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OF all those entered for the spelling
match 70 come OF at Masonic Hall to-mOr-
row night, the man who can spell every
word IN the appended cratic article will
be the most apt to take of the prize. Let
each one have friend TO sgiTe cut" to
him all the polysyllables below, before
reading the piece and he viii have some
idea Of bis abilities as a spelleF:
\ yigilant gazetteer, with the sObriquet
OF "COlonel," who had combate6 the rail-
lery Of The plebeians and the euphuisms
and schlsms Of they aeiIliating, idi0syncrat-
ic, erudite patficians, received, with IN
paralleled exclamation, a challenge 10 an
photographed competition.
To his transcendentsJupris the preferred
prize was, daguerreOtypes Of MendelssOhn,
KOsciuskO, and Rensselaer,, OF, if the con-
queror preferred, copies Of the Septuagint,
ApOcTypha, and Westminster catechisnn.
de thought, with debatably admissible
egOtism Of the gratuitOus applause Of the
populace, and the appearance Of his name
IN bourgeois the next day, and his choice
was discernible in his hilarity, and the
hierogl yphical acknowledgements which he
transmitted TO the embarrassed and stupe-
fed gypsy, VINO left with a rough courtesy.
He changed his apparel, dOnned his
Nassau, Ulster, and his worsted gauntlets,
and travelled toward the trysting-place. He
stopped at a druggists to obtain a dose of
choral and a dozen trocaes. Here he
found physician who was purchasing a
dram phial Of ipecacuanha and an ounce Of
lieOrice for a cOlicky patient, who not only
had the collie, but rheumatism, neuralgia,
bilious erysipelaS, and was threatened with
hemOnhage, cerebrO-spinal meningitis,
pneumonia, and huniplegia.
He met a surveyor and an architect who
were gau ling the width of Eighth street
for a crlss- cross trestleWOrk bridge. A fe-
reOus derrick almost mauled his Uranium,
and he bawieds aloud. His elamOr brought
an ally from neighbOring alley, who ad-
ministered a draught. Of rectifed whisky,
and teaspOOnful Of paregoric mixed with
chlOrOfCrm. At the same time this thief
with colsunmate villaiDy purloined his
chrOuometer and the balance of specie in
his pockets. He committed this piece Of
rascality with impunity, and it went I'M
punished, for our punctiliOus friend was
harasSed and perplexed at the lateness Of
the hour.
He next met a sibyl, who wore a de bege
pOlonaise with cuirass basque, and a
shiTred .tablier, all deliberately trimmed
with bias pleatings and paSsementerie,-
and carried a sachel, pOrtemOnuaie, and re-
ticule. She smilingly offered him tempt
ing bouquet Of fuchsias, lilies, mignOnette,
and phlox in a conch-like basin. But he
saw caterpillar costly enscOnced among
the pOsies, and refused the nOsegay.
A grOceryman tried to in7eigle him into
buying 4 supply Of peas, potatoes, celery,
caulifOWer, or kerosene, but he thought Of
his embeZZled funds, and passed on. A
TeutOnic tenant Of q tenement-house, for
getting the tenet Of the law, was bastinadO-
ing the soles Of an incOTigible stripping
with a surcingle. The mumur of the
parental haTangue, preceded by a volley OF
Virulent imprecati0ns, filed the auditory
meatus Of our friend, and he proceeded to-
ward the goal. A flaming advertisement
Of recent discoveries Cf auriferOus and
argentiierous deposits in the argillaceOus
country Of the Black Hills now CAUGHT his
eye. lie did not stop TO criticise the tall
eized statements, but he saw several sala-
bic specimens Of cinnabar, more precious
than bdelliUm, onyx, or beryl.
When he reached his destination he was
exceedingly rolled 70 find that the gnOmOn
Of the dial indicated that he was delin-
quent. An OsteEtatious pedagogue, with
feruls or gavel in his hand, was endeayor-
ing to mystiiy his audience with The appel
latives that emanated from his la,ynx-
"Refutable," 'igoSsamer,' '.medie7al,"
Kaleidoscope" and smnemOnics,7 dismay-
ed some, and 'hymn7 was plaguy word
to the Colonel, for he spelled it with an
'i.7 Feeling symptoms Of phthisicky
Catarrh, he left, amid the ridiculing clap
ping Of hands Of his competitors.