Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-10
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

ooh, what is the panic?" the little boy said,
As his mamma was tucking him snugly in bed
While tear all unnoted distilled from her
eye,
And she stiAed sob, at the risk Of her stays
sis beast that has cost me new polonaise'
1t is said that down ia Vicksburg a good
article of whisky is called "Old Velvet,
and the people delight in clothing their in
sides with it as with garment.
The editor of one of the exchanges COM
ing to this office is now a raving maniac
His assistant accounts for this sad event by
publishing in his paper last week this para
graph: In the communication Of "K.n in
Saturdays issue, 'sense" should be
"course," sembryored," ssemblazoned, u
''evil," "error," "Gossamer," "Gnomon."
Some children havn't particle of accom-
mediation about them. This fact is finely
illustrated in the case Of the little boy in
Georgetown, who ran into the house, the
other day, crying at the top of his voice be-
cause another little boy wouldn't let him
put mud on bis head with shingle.
An exchange tells Of little six-year old
boy who was asked by his teacher TO write
q composition on water, with the following
result: "Water is good to drink, to swim in,
to skate on, when frozen. When l was a
little baby the nurse used to battle me every
morning in water. / have been told that
the Indians don't wash themselves but
once in ten years. wish was an Ipjun.
In noticing 9 new play which has just
been brought out in New ork, the Graphic
takes occasion to observe: "Any one, with
out profound knowledge of Aztec, could
describe beautiful maiden, clothed with
the popocstapelt, her dark teotuclli loosely
caught about her izztaccihuati, and her
beaming huitzl fixed longingly upon the
petates of a neighboring nezahs1lpilti."
Perhaps the Graphic is right, but we trust
the habit of thus describing beautiful maid
ems will not be extensively INDUCED in.
Tomorrow the signal station on the sum-
NIT of Pixies peak will be dedicated with
appropriate ceremonies. The telegraph
line to the summit is already completed, and
when the station is fully established import
ant scientific disclosures may be expected.
The signal station is 14,2l6 feet above the
sea level. One observer and three assist
ants will remain on the summit all winter.
Richmond Dispatch: "Just after we left
bonneville, judge o., of Charlottesville,
commenced his Jokes and soon had all the
passengers 10 roar" "I'll tell you what l
can do" said the Judge to correspondent
ola New York paper. "You msy think of
any tune you please, whether l have ever
heard it or not, and by seeing you keep
time with your fingers can tell what you
are playing" The correspondent was
skeptical. After thinking 8 moment, he
commenced piano playing on the back Of a
seat in front of him, with thu grace of Leo
Wheat. "What am l playing now?" he
asked eagerly, and with an al: of triumph.
"You are playing the d-n fool" replied
the Judge.
The Memphis appeal throws out the fol;
lowing bundle of conundrums. A reply
from some well posted Nashville youth will
be in order: ave are advised that there is
in Nashville secret society bearing the
name of the Club of Rejected Lovers. This
association is composed, of course, ofyoung
men who have been, in colloquial parlsnce,
'kicked, 1. e., rejected by some young lady
What a jolly set of fellows these must be,
to be sure. Wonder if the sweet scented
notes, whose witchery fed the flame of hopes
never to be realized, are carefully spread
upon the records of the club as memento
and warning to other nice young men who
would WOO Miss Angelina in the summer
twilights yet to come? Has the club-room
the odor of faded flowers? Do the merry
youths transact the business of the club by
the light of summer moonbeams carefully
preserved and bottled for the occasion? Is
their hour of meeting the very witching
time when
soft stiffness and the night became the touches
of sweet harmony?
And how long may the club hope to retain
its members, since every discarded lover
finds another accommodating she, within
twenty-four hours of the dread catastrophe?
We pause for q reply"