Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-13
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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A shilling dentist must be man OF
low extraction. rii
Is it possible for garret window to
suffer room attic panes2
A somnolent Staten Island bridegroom
oversight his marriage hour.
The Indian chief, Spotted Tail, is
called variegated Appendage, for short.
Why is an, umbrella in wet weather
like WORKOUT horse2 Because IT IS
used up.-Judy. st si
"a lady was lately Rugged to death in
Minnesota another illustration OF the
power of the press"
A Providence man is informed by
suffering neighbor that his snore would
answer excellently as fog-horn.
Another poor girl has died ia Virginia
from the use of tobacco, at the age OF
one hundred. She was an orphan.
Female agitation is going beyond civil
suffrage AS the winter ball season APP
proaches, she insists on her right to bare
arms. ......-of.
Theodore Til.on, in his life of Victoria
c. Woodruff, says; She can climb
tree like an athlete 1t is probable he
meant to say, like an elephant
A Western mans love suit always
leads to law suit. If be don't marry
he is sued for breach of promise, and if
he do he is sued for divorce. 81
The Louisville Ledger eloquently says
of Chicago, "a harmless mich COW lifts
her foot--and To- the most wonderful
city of modern times is swept out of ex-
istence" or % as
A Mississippi editor in describing the
face of contemporary, says: His
countenance is an obituary notice, that
if anything good ever existed in his
heart, il has long since been dead.
Beware Of any undertaking which is
announced with flourish Of trumpets.
The instruments on which the subsequent
performances take place are too often
penny whistles. 4 20
An Indiana paper touchingly remarks
concerning the death Of an old subscri-
Der: I'VE are sorry to hear Of the death |
Of any of our subscribers who are prompt
about paying us" 6 sm
Mr.. William Ink, Of New Hampshire,
is now 1903 years old. If his parents
had even dreamed that he was going to
be SO hard to rub out, they would doubt-
less have named him Indelible.
why do you set your cup of coffee
upon the chair. Mr., JonesY said a
worthy landlady at breakfast Tits so
very weak, nam, replied Mr.. Jones, Il
thought l would let it have a rest
at is the type of eternal truth, says
John Ruskin, that the souls armor is
never we'll set to thy heart unless wo-
mans hand has braced it, and it is only
when she braces 1t loosely that the honor
or manhood falls" sutY
A man from Dandy entered one of the
Rutland, Vermont, clothing stores last
Saturday and desired to look over the
girls in order that be might select a
wife for himself and one for his
brother. The request was granted.
The World makes mention Of "Colfax,
the great American smilor, who gets up
every morning to- retire from politics,
as some men take cocktail before
breakfast, in order TO prepare him for
having no opinions during the day" /
A prominent railroad conductor of
sedate habits attracted much attention.
in one Of the churches in Portsmouth,
N. H., while INDUCING in a slight nap
during sermon time, by exelaiming,
Change cars for Gloucester BranchHi
A cheerful sayant has discovered that
mosquitoes are proyidential guard
against disease, upon the supposition
that in summer the human system Is pc
culiarly liable TO fever, and the insects,
by depicting the quantity Of blood, get
up CONCENTRATION.
DR.. johnson ogee sienced a notorious
female backbiter, who Was eobdemning
some of her friends for painting their I
cheeks, by the remark that IT is far
less harmful thing for lady to redden
her own complexion than TO blaeken her
neigbbOF's character. a" f
The French journals say that the
Parisians are lubilant sseE the late dis j
coyery Of DR.. Bernsie for the relief Of J
red noses By means Of electricity be
has restored lady Of rank to happiness
and changed her nose, blooming rose,
into delicate lily.
The Earl Of SALISBURY, sometimes /,
called by irreysrent Englishmen the q
Protestant Pope, has found ont why the /
German arms were victorious in the late !,
war. u vas because the German soldier !
makes practice Of singing one or two I
hymns before turning in for IT, night
Punch gives the following as a case Of
reasoning BY Snslog Cecil lwho is in !
the habit Of surroptitiously disseeting !
his sisters dolls. "Oh, annty / declare .
if here isn't great big 'nOrmOus heap Il
Of ssEdustl How very, very dreadfull' ?
Aunt. Dreadful Why, darling, Why"
Cecil. why, the lots Of Gen and women
that must have been killed here, .you
knog." n
A sslf-ingsfing liis-preserver has been
devised in Belgium, consisting Of q belt Il
containing carbonate Of soda and iartaric
acid, so arranged that when the wearer :
falls overheard the two substances are