Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-18

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Her long curly hair was the color of fax;
She walked and she talked, and her face was Of
wax;
And when she went out every sunshiny day,
The rest Of the dolls would get out OF her way.
Excepting the baby-dOlls-they were in bed
When down came this proud doll to ride in the
park,
Where stood the tin soldiers and big Noah's ark.
| So gIandly she went, with a sneer on her lip
When all of a sudden, the wheels gave tip,
| Was tumbled Miss Finery all in a lump
a wonder it was that the child was not killed.
| Her nose was unjointsd, some sawdust was
spilled:
She's very meek now to the dolls, great and
small,
Since pride and she had such terrible fall.
We had little of that same weather yes
terday-cloudy and rainy.
SD. Bruce, editor of the Turf, Field
and Farm, will be here to attend the an
nual sale Of stock at Bell Meade.
There will be a large supply of home
made Ice on the market this summer, the
quantity put up by our ice dealers being
much larger than usual.
The magnificent soda water fount of De-
neville 81 Co. at, our corner, was put into
| operation yesterday, and notwithstanding
the chilly atmosphere, many persons par
took of the always acceptable beverage.
| e IAN association of ex-Federal officers and
soldiers of this city is about to be formed
| for the purpose of taking up and settling
public lands in the Southwest under the
late act Of Congress.
Capt. Harsh, at his establishment on
Broad street, has memento of the war of
| 1872, in the shape of small cannon which
was then used for naval purposes. 1t is
| about the size of a common horse pistol.
Work has been commenced on a magnif-
cent residence OH Spruce street for S. L.
Demoville.
Our machinists are actively engaged in
getting their contributions ready for the APP
preaching Industrial Exposition.
We noticed yesterday in the windows of
Wheeler, Marshall & Bruce number of
| Photographic views of attractive points at
Beersheba Springs and vicinity. BY the
way our old friend Sam Scott, the prophet
or. has already commenced preparations for
the opening of this favorite summer resort.
Workmen were yesterday engaged in
taking out decayed timbers al the Suspen-
sion bridge, and replacing them with new
girders.
Capt. Thatcher last night received by Ex-
press from Cincinnati a contribution tor
the Exposition, beet that is the exact coun-
teapart of large-seized bull frog.
Gregg, the street railroad contractor,
with large force commenced operations
| yesterday on the east side of the Suspen-
sion bridge. Another track is being laid
from the bridge to Barrow street, and as
soon as this work is completed, the track
will be carried over the bridge.
Somebody broke the fish trap at the cul-
vert in Edgefield, Tuesday night, and the
expected haul is not now so promising.
A cook in a clearinghouse the other
morning emptied by mistake the contents
of bottle of Settler Aperient into the bis
cult dough instead of soda. 1t was a
harmless but rather ugly mistake.
Small advertisements, and plenty of them,
is a good rule. We were all babies once,
yet we made considerable noise.
A lady converted a gentleman to the fe-
male suffrage doctrine the other day. He
met her in the street during storm, and
lent her his umbrella. She has not re-
turned it, and he believes now that women
should have just the same privileges as men,
and no more.
A Philadelphia publishing firm are the
anxious holders of $1,000 for the author
Of "White Rocks" the manuscript of which
was left with them five years ago by boy
who has never been seen since the book
was published. The author was to receive
a royalty of ten cents per copy, and 10000
copies have been sold.
The Chicago Times says when man APP
plies for situation as switchman on the
Michigan Central Railway, President Sar-
gent shouts out through the tube to Tim:
"Any switchmen killed lately?" That set
ties the applicant.
The local editor of the Jacksonville Jour
nal wrote the other day an item to the
effect that "Winter was lingering in the lap
of Spring" but the managing editor "cut it
out" He said the idea was good enough,
and original, and all sort of thing, but it
would not do to publish, because the high
moral tone of the paper had to be main
tanned in town full of seminary girls.
1t is reported that a picture by Titan,
styled ola Vierge au VOle," has been dis
covered in an old house at Turin, where it
is said to have been removed soon after the
taking of Rome by the Constable de Bour-
bon, since which event it has been lost
sight of.
A new Iowa paper is called Tie GimLet.
1t evidently intends to bore the people.
Musical boxes are coming into fashion
again, and we find them concealed in chairs,
albums, cigar cases, work boxes, and all
sorts Of unheard Of places.
A resident of Boston brags of possessing
two ears of corn which he stole from Dan
iel Webster's field on the day the great
statesman was buried.
Miss Laura C. Redden complains through
the New York Mail that American women
eat too much horse raddish at lunch, en-
failing sharp elbows, thin calves and red
noses.
A Council Bluffs man has invented an ap-
paratus for the manufacture of gas from corn
stalks. An ordinary Western Congressman
will manufacture much of the same article
from whisky.
A Virginia City man thus describes his
method Of cOnJugal discipline: "When-
ever see she's got her mad up, if it is
dozen times day, L Just quietly say
nothin', but kinder humor her, and she |
comes round all right after while. Then |
when she throws things at me or gives |
wild slash for me with the broom or rollin' |
pin, l just lodges little, and she never
hits me the third time before get my eyes
on her and let her know that l disapprove
of such action on her part. Perhaps have |
to leave the house to show her this, but she |
sees the point. Then, by being careful not |
to irritate her, and letting her have her own |
way, manage to make her do as please"
CURIOUS CASE.