Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-04
FACTS AND TANCIEs.

NAoi AN"' |iIH
The best band to accompany a lady
yocalist--a husband.
Fitting a ladies dress is called mere
matter of form" nowadays.
Is there anything in the world that
can beat good wife2 Yes, a bad hus-
band.
The latest mode of announcing a birth
is to call it cutting off a coupon from
marriage bonds.
A young lady who's "been there says
the only unpleasant thing at Saratoga
Springs is the mineral water.
A correspondent describes Winnie
Ream in her studio, with her arms bare
to the shoulders and ner ankles likewise.
A gentleman on Long Island has dog
which is 81 years old and retains ALI
faculties to perfection, except Install,
The judges of St. Louis have informed
the lawyers practicing in their courts
that they will not be allowed to practice
at two bars at the same time.
A paragraph is going the rounds that
Memphis has produced a girl full of
needles, which she pulls out of her flesh
with pinchers every morning.
The strongest propensity in womans
nature, says a careful student of the sex,
is to know what is going on, and the
next strongest is to boss the job.
New Orleans car conductors talk OF
organizing "club"-the railroad com
panies object, saying the conductors can
knock down enough without clubs.
Don't SILVER for last years snow" a
saying of Archbishop Wheatley, is par
ticularly applicable to those who make
themselves miserable over troubles that
are past.
The Welsh colony in Patagonia use
ostrich feathers as currency" They
pay no taxes, and have neither paupers
nor lunatics among them. Happy Pat
agoniansl
A clergyman was preparing his dis
course on Sunday, stopping OCCASION
ally to review what he had written and
to erase what he was disposed to disap-
prove, when he was accosted by his little
son who had numbered but FIVE summers
Father, does God tell you what to
preach2 Certainly, my child. Then
what makes you scratch it outY Il
A laughable thing took place at re-
yiyal meeting somewhere in Mississippi
not long since. The minister noticed a
seedy looking chap in one of the seats,
looking as though he needed religion or
a good square meal. So he stepped up
to him and asked if he was Christian.
" No, sir, said he, u am editor of the
Radical newspaper in this place.
" Then, in the name of God, let us
said the devoted minister.
At late picnic in Massachusetts there
we're present one grandfather and one
grandmother, two fathers, two mothers,
one son, one daughter and one sop-in-
law, one grandson, three husbands and
three wives, two sisters, two brothers-in-
law and two sisters-in-law, one uncle,
one aunt, one great uncle and one great
aunt, one nephew, one niece and one
grand nephew, and yet the party con-
sisted of but seven persons.
A clergyman was once endeavoring to
get subscription in aid of some chart
table institution out of close-iisted par
isbioner, who attempted to excuse him
self on the ground that he already owed
a great deal of money. + But, said the
minister, lyon owe God larger debt
than you owe any one else" That is
so, parson, but he amt pushing me like
the balance of my creditors"
In Wyoming tavern mountain
rough, enormously drunk, was praetieing
with his revolver at various objects in
the bar-room. An oX-teamster entered,
called for drink, and ball from the
roughs pistol shattered the glass at his
lips. Without saying word the bull
whacker put his hand behind his back,
produced his pistol, leveled it at the
rufiian' head, and remarked, as the body
dropped to the floor, That scoundrel
would have hurt somebody pretty soon.
He then filled another glass and drank
the contents, strobe out as deliberately
as he had come in, and with Whoa,
haw, there" started his oxen up the road.
The Lake City (Florida) Press ehron-
icles the following: A party of gentle
men in a saloon, disputing over the
question whether the American system
of treating or the European system of
not treating, was preferable, couldn't
settle the matter by talking, 50 they went
to work testing it by practice. First,
each man took drink by himself Then
each man invited a single friend TO
drink. After that each single friend re-
turned the compliment. And finally
each man in the party-there we're six
Of them-asked all the rest to drink.
When all that was accomplished, not a
soul in the room could tell where the
discussion originated or what it was