Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-20
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

from Jne Guy mas eSiNS'"P
enjoying his vacation from iair 10
middling"
A we'll known Memphian is said to
have dislocated his arm yesterday while
putting on a clean shirt. BE was out Of
practice.
Gen. Butler says of Greeley: Now,
| think that President Grant is the bet
ter man, and ! don't go for the editor of
the Tribune, and so the editorof the Iri-
bune goes for me-
The San Francisco Alta says that the
crime of jerking the hair out of your
wife head is not so sinful as it formerly
was. 1t is just as ungentlemanly as
ever, but it dosen't hurt as it used to.
The results of success and defeat have
been immortalized in poetry by Moore;
but Miller, the California poet, gives it a
new phase:
"Success had made him more than king,
Defeat made him the vilest thing
In name, contempt or hate can bring!
So much the loaded dice of war
Do make man of character.
A Louisville paper says: 1.-The Chief
Justice of the United States is buying
up Rhode Island. He has already pur-
chased five acres, and is keeping a sharp
eye on the little remainder. Another
exchange says that by adopting the mar
row gauge system of railways the Rhode
Islanders can keep both rails out Of the
neighboring States.
An amateur put the following ques-
ton to scholar in country school;
How do you parse Mary milks the
cow2" The last word was disposed of
as follows; Cow noun, feminine gem
der, singular number, third person, and
stands for Mary" Stands for Nary
How do you make that out2' Be
cause" added the intelligent pupil, " if
the COW didn't stand for Mary, how could
Mary milk herr"
The Neosho Times of the l4th inst.
notices the death of General Stand
Waite as follows: "This prominent Cher
okee died at his farm on Honey Creek,
Cherokee Nation, on Sunday last, aged
about sixty-fve years There was no
Indian in the country better known or
more highly esteemed than General
Waite; his courage and integrity were
recognized even by his enemies, and he
eminently deserved the respect and ad-
miration of every one"
Standardization when it descends into
egotism is lamentable. How often do
you see an unfortunate who, on meeting
with an acquaintance, assumes patro-
nizing air, which expresses the idiotic
idea: "You are good enough, probably,
but what are you in comparison with
me. You are an intellectual and social
pigmy, while ] am giant Look upon
this picture, then on that, and feel my
importance and your own inferiority. "
And this is generally the internal rehec-
ton of little men possessing less brains.
Offenbach is at present busily engaged
experimenting the production of three
important novelties, two Of which are
opera houffe. The first, entitled Les
Papillons, is destined for the Boaffes
Parisiens; the second, which will be
christened lie Grand Lama, will make
another small fortune for the director OF
that lucky theater, Les Varieties; and
the third novelty, which will shortly be
given at the Gazette, is a grand fairy,
musical, fantastical burlesque amalgram
called lie Roi Carotte, wherein the can
can will probably reign supreme.
John B. Cough tells the following
story, though the joke be at his own
expense. Once, while on lecturine
tour through England, he wasintroduced
to village audience in these terms:
Ladies' and gentlemeH, ave the 'onoI
to introduce the distinguished lecturer
John B. Cough, who will address US or
the subject Of temperance. You know
that temperance is thought to be rather
dry subject; but tonight, as we listen
to our friend, the horator, from hover
the hocean, we may ope to ave the
miracle Of Sampson repeated, and TO be
refreshed with water from the jaw-bon'
Of bass.
. The origin Of "shoo Fly" the ma
tional song and dance of America, il
explained by Dan Bryant as follows:
Eyes; did We ever see anything rur
like that little hit2 1t beats my essence
of old Virginny, which / danced abou
four years. You see there were tive
chaps, like boys, you may say, who go
into my company, and that Shoe Fly
they fetched with EN-. The FIRST nigh
it got round. The second night it wa
called out. Says | to my manager
Why, that thing takes, don't III Wei
have to overhaul it. ! set to work anC
fixed II up, put the touches in it, and IL
got to be nationol infiictiOn."
The New York Commercial Advertise
joins the Standard in condemning pro
miscuous picnics. Although" it says
"picnics are ostensibly promoted unde
the cloak of a political or social reunion
in reality they they often degenerate int
scenes of drunkenness and debauchery
where the young and innocent portion Q
the community arc introduced to a Dc
lmoralizing exhibition, under condition
{ which are apt to prove only too alluring
The case, in so far as the numerously a
J. tended picnies are concerned, admits {
only one remedy, and that is 70 6iscou