Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-27
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

1t has been said that pantaloons OBJ
tanned on credit are brooches of trust.
1t is queer woman that asks no ques-
tions, but the woman who does is the
querist.
When a Newport girl becomes engaged
she says, "She was wooed by man and
won by the sea"
A young scamp, who keeps a collec-
ton of locks of hair of his lady friends,
calls them his hair-breadth escapes.
"Mr. Postoffice man, 1 want to pay
the postage on this letter" Single or
double, miss2" Double, sir" with a
courtesy II was married last week"
The wise King Alfonso said that all
things are bawbles besides old wood to
burn, old wine to drink, old friends to
converse with, and old books to read.
The New York Tribune asks a conun-
drum: (Which is the largest room in
the city of New York;" Answer:
The room for improvement at the city
hall"
The Rev. Sabine, who didn't care to
hold funeral services over the body of
George Holland, has engaged an opera
singer and an actress to sing in his
choir.
The neatest rebuke of coldpess we
have seen for a long time is that of
musical critic, who says Miss Kellogg
sings Home, Sweet Home as if she
boarded at hotel.
We learn with regret from the Grand
Rapids (Michigan) Times that sundry
popular poems of the day lack the
divine afflatus of the true bard-the re-
dolent ichor of true poesy."
Why is it that the moment of popping
the question is so terrible to young fell
lows that they frequently cannot utter a
word2 Because just then they love the
fair one beyond expression.
A child of this world, no doubt wise in
her generation, says: II never dress
much for the play, because every one is
looking at the stage, but no one is more
particular about their dress at church.
The Prince of Wales, on the death of
Queen Victoria, will be known as King
Edward the VII. The English people
fear his accession because they know he
resembles that royal debauchee, his
grand-uncle, King George the ~.
Squabbles, an old bachelor, shows his
stockings, which he had just darned, to
a maiden lady, who contemptuously re-
marked, Pretty good for man darner.
Whereupon Squabbles rejoins, Yes,
good enough for woman, darn her"
The Alaska Herald assures its read
ers that sea-lion and whale meat will
make a man virtuous and woman
corpulent." Ii intimates, however, that
such dainties are not easy to digest I'M
less washed down by an aromatic
draught of whale oil. -
The prohibitionists of Boston are much
pleased that small boy has been in
jured by the bursting of a key of lager
beer in that city The occurrence en-
ables them to point to the physical as
well as the moral evils produced by this
pretendedly innocuous beverage.
Gambling has been suppressed in
Spain and at the different German wa
tering places, much to the disgust Of the
Russian and Polish mobiles, who have an
inveterate fondness for games of chance.
To break the Baden or Hamburg banks
was regarded as kind Of semi-immor-
tality.
The phenomenon known as milky
sea is confined wholly to the tropics,
and almost entirely to the East Indies.
1t occurs at night, the sea appearing
vast surface of snow, rather than milk,
and being partially luminous. 1t is very
rarely seen, but its occurrence is well
An enterprising phrenologist once
wrote polite note to the late Charles
Dickens, asking permission to make an
examination of his Uranium. Mr. Dick
ems replied: Dear Sir: AT this time |
require the use of my skull, but as soon
as it shall be at leisure | will willingly
place it at your disposal"
The babbling of brooks, the murmur
of streams, and the constant roar Of the
ocean, are not to be attributed to the
mere forcible contact of water with
water, for although TO some extent pro-
duetive of sound in these cases, it is a
subordinate cause only, the principal
one being the bursting of the bubbles of
the agitated water
A colored preacher at Georgia camp
meeting is said to have told his hearers
they could never enter heaven with
whisky bottles in their pockets. and
urged them to bring EN- up to de pull
pit" and he would "ofler EN- a sacri-
fee 10 de Lord" 1t was done; but the
preacher was found incapable when the
hour for evening service arrived.
A newspaper correspondent recently
visited Lookout Mountain, Ga, and was
much struck with the fact that fine jet
Of water was thrown up above the emf
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