Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-28

VIII you co-c0-cOme, anu II sAV" yOu INC DuO-
Apdthe lions and the tit-tit-tigers at fur-fur-
feed.
1 know where the co-co-eockatoo's song
Makes mum-mum-melody through the sweet
vale;
Where the mum-monkeys gig-gig-grin all the
Or era aS fully swing by the tit-tit-tail.
You shall pip-pIay, dear, some did-did-delicate
With the bub-bub-bear on the tit-tit-top of his
pip-pip-pole;
But observe its forbidden to pip-poke
at the bub-bub-bear with your pip-pip-pink
pip-pip-pip-pip-parasol'
You shall see the huge elephant pip-pip-play.
You shall gig-gig-gaze on the stit-stit-stately
And then, did-dear, together wen stray,
To the cage of the bub-bub-blue-fsced bah
bab-boon.
You wished II r-r-remember it well,
And 1 lul-lul-loved you the m-m-more for the
To witness the bub-bub-beautiful pip-pip-peH-
Swallow the i-l-live little fur-fur-fsh.
Observant farmers from Williamson
county state that the stand of wheat is the
best known for years, and it is believed that
half million bushels will be raised in that
county this season.
A large number of country merchants
were in the city yesterday, and trade was
lively.
Yesterday was delightful day, bright,
cool, and just right for moving around live
ly.
The track of the North Nashville Street
Railroad is being removed few feet at the
corner of the Square and North College
to 10 NJ 6af
point.
Cowan & Co., the wholesale dealers in
notions, yesterday shipped large bill Of
goods to Texas. They had a fifteen hun
bred dollar customer yesterday among
good many smaller ones.
Capt. Stocked, chief Of the Fire Depart
ment, received a letter yesterday from the
| Sillsby Manufacturing Company, Seneca
Falls, New York, advising him that one Of
| the steam engines from that mandatory
would be sent to our Exposition for exhi-
bition. Here is a chance for country towns
| in want of fire engine.
A prominent merchant of Columbia ar
rived in the city on his way East to pur-
chase stock of goods. He looked through
some of our jobbing houses, and was so
well pleased with the general assortments
and the prices, that he concluded to go no
| further.
a lady who has been married but a short
! time went to market yesterday for the first
! time, and purchased as she thought, fine
fal turkey. Upon her return she was hor-
riied when her husband discovered that
the purchase was very tough goose. She's
| quit marketing.
| The stationhouse recently destroyed by
fire at Fort Station, on tho Edgefeld and
Kentucky Railroad, will be rebuilt imme-
diately-Col. E. A. Fort, Sugg Fort, and
| Josiah Fort having contributed of their
private means an amount sufficient to make
| the improvement.
Another tobacco sale at the Capitol Ware
house by j. NJ. Carsey, Son & Co., to-day.
| We understand there will be over forty
! hogsheads sold.
| A CALIFORNIA OBITUARY.-"Tbe de-
ceased was talented man of a romantic
| nature. He placed the butt of his gun in
| the fire while he looked down the muzzle,
and departed hence spontaneously"
Coquettish little white swiss aprons, with
futed ruffles and saucy ribbon bows, are in
| great favor with young girls for home wear.
They are lawfully stunning"
An Illinois editor thus sarcastically speaks
| Of the marriage Of professional brother in
| Indiana: "He stepped upon the bymeneal
platform, adjusted the fatal moose, and was
swung off into that unsilent bourne whence
be can never return save by the Indianapo-
lis or connecting lines"
A handsome and aristocratic young lady,
| in reduced circumstances, has been appoint
ed keeper of toll bridge over the Neuse
river, in North Carolina, whereat an editor
| down there says, "There will undoubtedly
be more young men than ever tolled over
that bridge, and many love story will be
told over it too"
A fashionable youth of New Orleans was
making call upon two young ladies, when
the tete-d-tete was brought to a sudden
end by the explosion of some gun-powder
| in the young mans coat-tail pocket, which
| had become accidentally ignited.
A ''medium" In London was caught up
by spirits, carried half mile, and taken
through wall into a dining-room. She
says she can hardly credit what happened.
Neither can the public.
An honest country parson, whs in the
time of great drouth was desired to pray
| for rain, answered: "I'll willingly do it to
oblige you, but it is to no purpose while the
wind is in this quarter"
Here is what they sing at public schools
| in Vermont, to the tune of Yankee
| Doodle" visitors and all joining in the
| chorus:
If any thing on earth can make
| A great and glorious nation,
1t is to give the little ones
A thorough education.
CHoRUs-Five times five are twenty-five,
Five times six are thirty,
Five times seven are thtrty-fve,
And five times eight are forty
The following was picked up:
| "My eyes with tears is red and dim,
Cause he loves she and loves him;
But they'll be better by-aRd-by,
When she cuts him and he loves 1.
A State Superintendent of Schools, in a
recent address at high school examina
ton, said: "Now, young people, lay aside
all feelings of embarrassment, and try to
restrain, as far as possible, that difdence
almost necessarily arising from your knowl-
edge of the fact that the great eye of the
State, in my person, is looking upon you"
A young mar, on being asked by his
sweetheart what photography was, took
out his pencil and wrote the follow
ing: telling her that was photography,
az R A B U I L N" (Your are a
beauty, Elem
N, Theirs was a printers devil in 1925,
and now he is at the head OF the French
governmental nondescript engaged in the
suppression of newspapers. This is So
lem warning to all who contemplate aban-
doning the journalistic profession. They
may get into as tight fix as Theirs.
A minister asked tipsy fellow leaniUg
up against fence where he expected to go
when he died. off can't get along any
better than do now" he said, 81 shan't
go anywhere
The other day, one young girl asked an
other to dance with her. "Indeed WON'T"
was the reply, "what do 1 want another
girl hugging me for?" A gloriously sensible
girl that.
A respectable citizen of Boston who par
took of laughing gas at public exhibition,
while under the Influence, shouted "Keno!
sixty-six that's my game p to the digniied
disgust of Deacon street.
A German writer In late work defines
woman as being something between a
flower and an angel.
''Youngster, spare that girl!
Kiss not those lips so meek
Uuruffied let the fair lock curl
Upon the maidens cheek!
Believe her quite a saint;
Hnrh nfv has No