Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-30
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Starting a negro graveyard IS the
latest avocation of carpet-baggers in
Mississippi. 'A a s'
Barnum addressed Rochester Sun
day School, the other day, and invited
the scholars to his great moral circus.
Old "Pro Bono Publco" has turned
up in Mississippi as a newspaper CORE
spondent. "0ld Citizen" will soon be
heard from.
Brown, the other day, while looking
at the skeleton of donkey, made a
very natural quotation; "Ah," said he,
we are fearfully and wonderfully
made.
Wachtel, the eminent German tenor,
singing in New York, creates as great a
diversity of criticism as Fechter himself.
tbs agreed generally that he has great
merits and serious defects.
The wife of an eminent litterateur
thinks it very nice to have an author for
a husband. Whenever she feels restless
he reads her something he has written,
and in few minutes she is in sonnd
and refreshing slumber.
Some girls will never learn to restrain
the natural impulses of their nature.
A minister was baptizing girl at Ripon,
Wisconsin, and when he had submerged
her and came out of the water, he asked
her how she felt in her mind Her
answer was, "All hunkyr only little
wet"
Young wives contemplating house
keeping should make this axiom the rule
of life--that the best way to husband S
Heart is down his throat. A well-cooked
goose goes greater way than all the
dears," ducky darling" and other
pet animals in the vocabulary of the
affections.
A Scotch minister recently told his
neighbor that he spoke two hours and a
half the Sunday previous. Why, min
lister, were you not tired to deathY'
asked the neighbor. Jaw, nae" said
he, / was as fresh as rose; but it
would have done your heart good to see
how tired the congregation was"
If shall die happy" said the expir-
ing husband to the wife, who was weep
ing most dutifully by the bedside, "if
you promise me not to marry that OBJ
ject Of my increasing Jealousy, your
cousin John" MAKE yourself quite
easy about that, / am engaged to his
brother" said the expectant widow.
A lady, impelled by the demands of
fashion to seek recreation in the country
during the summer months, writes back
despairingly: Did you ever revel in
the gayeties Of halfgrown, torpid vii
lage, where a walk in the graveyard
was the only recreation, and where, If
you Indignantly refused to walk, you
were shudderingly reminded, All, poor
child, you may hare to go there soonl "
A young lady at an evening party,
some time ago. found it hard to use the
expression, Jordan is hard road to
travel" but, thinking that too vulgar,
substituted the following: Perambulat-
ing progression in pedestrian excursion
along the far-famed thoroughfare of for
tune cast up by the banks of the spark
ling river of Palestine is indeed attended
with heterogeneous conglomeration Of
unforeseen difficulties" ea'
A story is told Of professional col
lector who undertook to make a show
man pay bill. he called on the de
linquent for six months in vain, when
the debtor quilted the country. Two
years after the collector went to Egypt,
and while climbing the Pyramids, some
one above him said: Can help you OF
do anything for you2" Looking up, he
saw the Snowman, and remarked: Be
kind enough to settle that little bill. f"
The Snowman paid it on the spot.
Artemus had just lost his father, and
one day, at the store in his native vii
lage he met veteran drunkard, some
ninety years Of age, who had been con-
stantly ''eorned' on new rum for
about forty years. WALL Charles,
said the veteran, so you've lost your
fatherG" Charles assented. wall,
continued the veteran. I've neither
father nor mother" "And the old cuss,
Artemus used to say, Teamed up against
barrel Of No 2 mackerel and wept be-
cause he was an orphan"
Mrs. Bullard tells the following story
in the Golden Age: 4" Miss Burdett
Coutts, upon whom Queen Victoria re-
Gently conferred the rank and title Of
Baroness, is a tall gaunt, angular wo-
man, who more nearly resembles the
traditional and popular type of the
strong-minded female than any one Of
the prominent members Of the woman's
right party whom.I have ever met OF
course she is well-known and most
welcome customer at all the fashionable
shops in London, but she is not so ia,
miliar a habitue of the shops of Paris
During a visit to this latter city, not very
long since, she learned Of the death Of
a relative, and she went to purchase
mourning at the Trois Quarters, a large
dry goods establishment. She asked for