Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-21

graced the shrine of learning, and their
presence en- nlGSSe here will be an attraction
for most any young gentleman of this city
to whom little Difference has been paid by
those enjoying leap year prerogatives.
EXCURSION PARTIES
from various places will be here before June.
The active hustle pervading every branch Of
business, the well filed hotels, and crowded
streets bespeak the stimulus given by the
induction of so many strangers to the city.
MOUNT oLIvET SCHOOL
of Wilson county numbering ninety stu
dents will visit the Exposition Thursday,
the principal Mr.. j. e. Lanius, was in the
city yesterday and made arrangements to
this effect. 1t is probable The male
school, located near the Mount Olivet Sem
mary, viii also come down at the same
time.
HANDSOME TOBACCO DISPLAY.
Messrs. j. & L. Whorley, the enterpris-
ing firm at No. Al South Market street, have
one of the most attractive displays to be
seen in the Exposition. This house is the
Oldest tobacco firm in the State, and the
manner Of exhibiting their goods shows
taste and desire to maintain their promi-
hence. They have on exhibition all the
fine brands Of chewing aud smoking tobac-
co manufactured in the United States, en-
bracing several new and already popular
marks, such as Tar Heel, Heather Chinee,
Hollands Extra, or Twenty Thousand Dol
lar Brand, Frazier's Pet, and even Dolly
Warden, enough to tempt the young la
dies to use the narcotic weed. The smok
ing tobacco is arranged in very neat style,
suspended so as to represent trees over
grown with moss.
The display Of foreign and domestic CT
CARS is quite large, embracing the finest
brands, among which we notice Jack Ma
Duchesse, etc. Tobacco is displayed in
every form and shape in which its manu-
featured, several fine samples Of the natural,
Virginia, and foreign leaf being exhibited.
The pictures grazing the show cases in
which is such variety of the fine weed, are
many of them beautiful, being designed for
j. & L. Whorley exclusively. On the top
of one of the cases we notice fine specimen
of the water fowl Brownies additiOn) which
is very attractive ornament for the show
case of the Oldest tobacco firm in Tennes-
see.
THE WHEELER sAND WILSON SEWING
MACHINES
of which there are five on exhibition, have
excited so much inquiry that we feel called
upon to answer our numerous friends. -Four
Of these machines are run by steam power
and one, located at the gallery steps, in rear
of the baud stand is run by water power,
supplied through wheel Of two by three
inches in size, it being the celebrated Am
erican Turbine water wheel of Stout, Mills,
q Temple, Of Dayton, Ohio. These
machines have each revolution OF from
1000 10 1000 per minute, and the amount
of sewing to be accomplished in one day is
almose incredible. The fact of running the
Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine by steam
or water power so gracefully, easily and
satisfactorily demonstrates their superior
merits in several respects and may account
for the popularity which has induced the
sale of 100000 of these machines in the
United States, there being upwards of five
hundred sold in Tennessee within the last
year. Although run by steam the attach
ments are not complicated and DO not in
any way impair the workings Of these ma
chimes which for simplicity and convenience
in construction and variety Of utility are
unsurpassed. Every lady visitor should eX-
anime these machines and see the ease with
which they are run.
THE AFTERNOON ATTENDANCE
was not overly large, yet embracing many
of our best citizens and fairest young ladies,
whose presence was cheering and encourag-
ing. The presence of ladies, especially
beautiful ones, and there are very, very
few ugly ones in Nashville or Middle Ten
nessee, is ever as some welcome sunlight or
laughing joy. Several young ladies and one
in particular delighted the visitors with
some
GOOD MUSIC.
The pieces played being mostly those of
a heavy character requiring what she pos
sesses a thorough culture and high degree
of proficiency for their proper rendition.
We are fond of music which serves many
happy purposes and is not unpleasant to a
large majority of persons attending the Ex-
position. When made by woman's hand,
it hss a splendid magic hardly short of
fascination.
A group of lepades is to be seen on exhi-
bition and create a great interest, it being
seldom any of us have an opportunity of
behOlding such a perfect specimen of
this rare animal. Its scientific name is,
Lipas Anatifera, a testaceous animal, in
habiting the sea. The group on exhibition
M6Ib It'll Nv bLC bluC VI Ol1O OCCdu
at Southwold, in the county of Suffolk,
England, in the year 1914. They are pre-
served in alcohol and are to be seen in a
vase near Calhoun's jewelry case. The
lepadite or lepas belongs to the order of
cirripeds, having long stem which is both
flexible and contractile, and fixed by its
base to some solid body. The principal
parts of tie animal are Enclosed in a multi
valve shell or coriaceous case. The cirri-
ped has a shell like a mollusk, somewhat
resembling the nudibranchiates, but with
pointed members or legs, as well
as a body, which makes it
crustacean. By opening the shell which
is closed by means of two valves, the ami
NAL shoves out group of curved legs, said
to resemble a delicate curl, which fact
gives the name, taken from the Latin
cirrus, lock of hair, and pes, foot. The
anatifera belongs to the same tribe with the
barnacle, from which it differs in several
respects, one being that of a heshy stem or
peduncle. The word is derived from the
Latin dnGS, duck, and .feTTe, to bear, the
name having been given to this animal or
group of the pedunculated cirripeds under
the absurd notion, originally entertained, of
their giving birth to ducks.
DEPARTED THIS LIFE.
The young alligator placed in the pool
by Mr.. Venable a few days ago departed
this life at an early hour yesterday morning
and is now on post norton exhibition in
the Horticultural Garden. The reptile did
not find the warm sunshine and the murky
banks of its own nature home-no water
grass or old decayed log, nor moss were
here to give it comfort and cheer. The
cold water and the perpetual shade, the