Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-14
FACTS AND FANCIES.

tiyes; "blood will tell
A book has just been published with
the startling title Satan in Society.
Turin him out
An Irishman not long since solllo-
quized rs follows: Be dad, what
waste O. money to buy mate with, when
you can spend it for whisky that hasn
q bone in it.
Bolivar Tenn calls for Moses or
any other man, to cool the parched
tongues of her citizens. The driven
wells fail to supply the town with water;
hence, they call for Moses and rock.
"Tell all you know" said a Memphis
Justice to fair but garrulous female
who appeared as witness. Then, TAX
ing a thought Of the verbal avalanche
he had invoked, he added about the
case, mean"
Celia Burleigh, in neof her sermons,
SAYS al have known folks who have
never committed blunder, whose hearts
are as dry as dust; and others who have
constantly transgressed, whose sympa-
thies were as warm and quick as those
of an angel.
Related by marriage.
4 Al. 10.
Stood watching a man with monkey,
A cart came along with broth of hoy,
Who was driving stout little donkey
To my wife | then spoke, by way of Joke,
There's Q, relation of yours in that car
To which She replied, as donkey she spied.
All. ,Yes-a relation by marriage'
Mons. Martin, in paper recently read
before the Therapeutic Society of France,
asserts that the common sunflower pos
sesses the faculty of freeing the atmos-
phere from the miasma which produces
fever and ague. If Mons. Martin would
take trip to the Mississippi bottom, he
would not " feel just as happy as one OF
his big sunaowers."
Goyerness-" Now, May, you've got
two things to look after" May (who is
eminently practical IAN right; band
box and carpet-5agl" Governess-"And
you've three things to take care of,
Charlie. Now, what are they2" Charlie
{ a dreamy and absent boy)--" Three
things to take care OFF OF OF Yesl The
world the flesh and the d"
A citizen of Colorado having been ar
rested on a charge of stealing forty
mules, the Wicheta Vidette
says Indignantly: 1--WE think it is time
that stop was put to this sort of BUSH
ness. If our citizens are to be arrested
and dragged off to jails by United States
simply for stealing few Gov
eminent mules and other minor ohenses,
why, it is time we we're having a change
Of administration.
A harmonious ladies society,", in
not long since, was progress
ing finely and peacefully--notwith-
standing the fact that seventeen babies
the meetings regularly-when
some male rufiian threw an apple of dis
cord into the quiet circle by Offering a
prize for the handsomest child The
society broke up much in the same man
ner as did that scientific conyocation
held upon the Stanislaus."
A New Orleans paper comments upon
Prof. Agassiz prophecy on the tidal
wave, as follows: 1t is a sad but an
imperious duty to warn the inhabitants
Of all our Gulf and Atlantic coast that
it is time to begin to prepare for the
great tidal wave, which, according to the
calculation of a profound astronomer, is
to sweep over the whole ocean coast from
Hatteras to Bahia, TO the hight of fifty
leet or more, on the night Of the fifth Of
October, or in the morning of the sixth.
That tidal wave will not disturb Memphis,
as she sits on the Chickasaw bluffs.