Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-09-01
FEW REMARKABLE THINGS FROM LAST
WEEKS DEMOCRAT.


Messrs. Brandon & Barksdnle are
good newspaper men, and kind and
,curteous to their other brothers of the
press.-Democrdt.
No one would deny that the gentle
men spoken of are kind and courteous
TO everybody, but the insertion of the
word "other" in this sentence leads MS
to inquire if each of them is brother
to himself?
If the Democrat will persist in pub
fishing Chinese puzzles. why don't it
put them under some appropriate
heading, and not have them sand
wiched all about among its editorials
and other articles. We will give
chrome for the solution of the follow
ing, which occurred in the prelimina-
~ remarks to the report of the farm
eris reunion, in last weeks Democrat:
@Never did the time arrive around
would allow plenty when the crowd
that gathered of room for dancing"
&c, &c.
The German Chancellor was mas
querading in the Democrat last week
as @Bismarch," and Mrs. Langtry APP
peared in the same paper as the Jer-
sey Dilly."
Such thing was not expected by
the Tennessee boys, and they claim
that ii should be without insignifi-'
cance-DenaOcrat
Well we suppose itshould, or signif-
canoe either.
There were very few accidents to
happen on Tuesday last TO the large
number of vehicles which went to
the cave. Mr.. A. II. Hall suffered a
slight accident, but has recovered
Democrat.
What kind of vehicle is Mr.. Hall
Way before this stock had been
carried there and given over to the
proper persons appointed by the exec
utIve cammittee.-DeBeOcr 81.
This is a complete sentence in the
middle of an article without any con-
nection with anything going before.
another one of those puzzles, we sup
pose. What does, sway mean, as used
here ? ..-...,-..'' ....r
The Democrat last week spoke of
@the melstrom of organization" We
suppose that is what you might call a
paradoxical metaphor. We always
considered that big whirlpool off the
coast of Norway very disorganized
affair. 1t certainly has the capacity of
disorganizing objects that get within
its range. a. 4..s
The Democrat gave report OF the
condition of the growing tobacco crop
last week and amongst the information
given on that subject was this: zone
thing we are proud to notice the alb
sence OF complaint from any quarter
as yet of the fly" That sentence, like
a great many others in the Democrat,
is little mixed in its construction. or
faulty in punctuation; but what we
want to say Is, that while we haven't
heard much complaint of the fly, his
destructive progeny, the worm, is said
to be distressingly numerous, and we
argue from that fact that the fly must
have been around too.
THEY have wild goose scheme
down in West Tennessee to open
canal between jackson and the Ten
nessee river.-DenlOcrat
That would indeed be big under
taking; it is over fifty miles from
Jackson to the Tennessee river through
Il hilly country. But the Democrat is
mixed, as usual; the scheme is to con-
meet the Tennessee with the South
prong o. the Forked Deer river, which
would require a canal ten miles long.
The idea has so far materialized only
in the DeLesseps like brain OF Mr.
Louis Brooks, editor of the West Ten
nessee Wing.