Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-20
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

FACTS AND EANCIEs.
The night has come, but not too soon;
Westward the course of empire takes its way
Ie banks and br9es of bonnie Doom;
Blue spirits and white, black spirits and gray
Rockedin the cradle of the deep.
Old Casper's work was done;
Piping on hollow reeds to his sheep,
Charge, Chester, charge: On, Stanley, on.
There was sound of revelry by night,
On Linden, when the sun was low;
A voice replied far up the height,
Tall oaks from little acOrns grow.
What If a little rain should say,
1 have not loved the world, nor the world me;
All; well day
WOodman, spare the tree!
Ny heart leaps up with joy to see
A primrose by the waters brim;
Zaccheus he did climb the tree;
Few Of our youth could cope with him.
| The prayer of Ajax was for light
The light that was never on sea or shore
Puddings and beef make Britons fight
Never more!
| Under spreading chestnut tree,
For hours together sat
/ and my Annabel Lee:
! a mans man for a. that.
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
In thunder, lightning, or in rain,
None but the brave deserve the fair.
! Tell me not in mournful numbers,
The child is father of the man;
| hush, my dear, lie still and slBmber,
They can conquer who believe they can.
A change came DER the spirit of my dream.
| Whatever is, is right;
And things are not what they seem;
My native land good night.
The Assessor of Edgefield has returned
his tax book for the present year, which
viii be open for inspection until the first Of
April. Taxpayers will find the Assessor
at the City Hall from to L each day until
the first of April.
That ETHEREAL mildness mentioned by the
poets has arrived. The weather Yesterday
was made up Of genial sunshine and balmy
zephyrs. About night, however. the
zephyrs were decidedly Marchy.
Our young friend David Laws, for a long
time in the house of Furman 81 Co., has
accepted call from Selma, Ala, to which
place he left yesterday. Success attend
him.
The Burksville, which arrived Yesterday,
had over five thousand dozen eggs. The
old hens on the upper Cumberland have
been doing a good business lately.
A new sewer is made at the northwest
corner of the Square and College street,
much to the inconvenience Of Wallowing
swine.
The most attractive photograph gallery in
the South is that of c.. G. Giers, on Union
street. We doubt if it has its superior any,
where.
Gennett & Co., the great peanut kings,
will put up handsome business house on
their present site this spring.
A man recently broke off a marriage be-
cause the lady did not possess good CONVEX.
sational powers. He should have married
her, and then refused her new bonnet, to
have developed her power of talk.
A college student called on young lady,
and being asked by the servant what name
she should give her mistress, replied, "Ami-
GUS" (the Latin for a friendly The girl
hesitated for moment, and then asked,
"What kind Of CuSS did you say, sir?"
The cOllegian then gave his name, and re-
solved to stick to English hereafter.
cts sweet to court,
But, OH how bitter,
To court a gal
And then not git her"
Some young men prefer blue-eyed maid
ems, and others prefer dark-eyed ones. But
of late years the mon-eyed girls have had
the call over all others.
''If you do not give me a dime" said a
young hopeful to his mamma, 81 know
boy who's got the measles, and I'll go and
catch them"
The greatest run of luck en- record is that
of Baltimore cigar dealer, who withinthe
last three months has inherited fortune,
drawn big lottery prize, found $1,000 bur-
led in the cellar of his house, and lost his
mother in-law.
Of all disagreeable habits the world was
ever tormented with, scOlding is most an
noying. To hear a saw fled, to hear pea
cock scream, or an Indian yell, is music
with it. Throw hot ashes in our
face, tread on our cOrns, but don't scold
near US.
care you an Odd FelIow?n '.No, sir; I've
belong to the order of Odd FeIlows?" ssNo,
no; belong to the order of married men,
''Mercy, how dumb! Are you Mason?''
''NO; I'm carpenter by trade" 'Worse
and worse. Are you a Son of Temper
ance?" "BOther you, no; I'm a son of Mr..
John GOslings." The querist went his
way.
Some soldiers were digging well. When
they came to the water, the commanding
officer went to inspect progress. "Well,
Kelly said be to the Irishman at the bot
tom of the well, ''you have found the water
at lastw "Ab, kurnel," replied the other,
lit all dipinds upon knowing how the
hing ought to be done. Any other man
but myself would have gone 40 feet deeper
without coming to IT,"
A Washington writer felicitates his read |
RS with this poetic sparkle:
cone by one the green leaves wither,
One by one the roses pine,
One by one, the Pension 4 gents
Steal the funds, and then resign"
Ladies are having the front breadth of /
heir Overskirts, with two small fancy pock-
IS, trimmed with lace and bows of ribbon.