Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-26

!, Why is the SUI, like good loafl be
cause it's light when il rises.
The price of milk is something We
should all like to chalk down.
i, Sentimental rot F" is what an unkind
critic calls Joaquin Miller's rhymes.
A barber is always ready to scrape an
acquaintance, and often cuts him too.
Gravity is no more an evidence Of
wisdom than paper collar is of shirt.
Miss Spaulding, NJ. D., of Sandusky
Ohio, amputated mans leg few days
ago.
Why do birds in their little nests agree ?
Because they would fall out if they
didn't.
Guppy says that although figures
don't lie, he was horribly deceived in his
wife's figure.
Woman's rights women mayyet aspire
to positions in the navy; Lots wife was
an old salt.
Grant has constantly gained ground
since he became President-hundred of
acres, in fact
Name the longest day in the year,
said Nashua teacher to young hope
full of FIVE summers Sunday re-
spondei the little victim of blue law.
Josh Billings says that large policy
of life insurance doesn't exactly make
mans corpse smile at his widow, but it
helps amazingly to get another fellow to
do it for him.
A strong mind is sometimes more
easily impressed than weak one. For
example, you cannot so easily convince
fool that You are philosopher, as you
can philosopher that you are fool.
Few parents like to be told of the
faults of child. The reason is obvious.
All faults are hereditary or educational,
and in either case to point che finger at
the child is, indirectly, to reprove the
parent.
A devoted " little wife in Lafayette,
Ind, seeing her husband blowing in the
muzzle of gun while holding back the
hammer with his foot, tripped down to
the milliners to ask about the cost of
full mourning.
The managers of the telegraph depart
ment of the London postolfice demand
that the clerks shall be either all men or
all women, as a mingling of the sexes
leads to so much flirting as seriously to
interfere with the business of the depart
ment.
Mr.. Joaquin Miller, the poet Of the
Sierras, was in New York city few
days since and dined at the Lotos Club
with small party of journalists. He
proposes to spend the winter in South
America, laying up a store of tropical
impressions, which we may enjoy in fu-
ture poems.
There is food for thought in this ex
tract from the writings of Madame Gui-
cot A woman who has reached the
end of youth must not suppose that she
has any further concern with passion
not even with vanquishing it. Her
strength must henceforth lie in calm,
and not in courage"
Two citizens were counting the daugh-
ter of Themistocles; one had money,
the other none, but was educated and
worthy. Themistocles preferred the
worthy man before the rich. In giving
his reasons, he says; " / would rather
marry man without money than money |
without man"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in her recent
lecture in San Francisco, said Goethe,
the great German, says: The destiny
Of great nation is settled by the opin-
ions Of the young men under twenty-one
years of age. came here to tell you
that the destiny of nation is settled by
the health and brains of yoang women
under eighteen years of age"
NJ. Saigey, a French mathematician of
ability, actually starved to death during
the supremacy of the Commune in Paris.
He had been liberal in politics all his
life, never having held a government Of
fee. The Bourbon authorities expelled
him from the normal school, on account
Of his political sympathies, at the age Of
twenty-four; and at the age Of eighty
four he died Of simple starvation.
The next eclipse of the sun which
will be total in England will occur on
the llth of August, 1899. So states Mr..
Hind, the astronomer, in letter to the
London Times The last one visible at
London occurred on May 3, l7l5. "II
greatly doubt" says Mr.. Hind, whether,
excepting the eclipse Of August IL, 1899,
there can be any total solar eclipse visi-
BILE in England for two hundred and fifty
years from the present time"
Here is specimen Of the good old
fashioned mode Of counting, as it was
done in Connecticut. Deacon Marvin, a
large land-holder and most exemplary
man, accomplished his in a busiuess-like
way. Having one day mounted his
horse with a sheep-skin for a saddle, he
rode in front of the house where Bette