Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-18
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

A French Able apostrophizes as his
ideal of perfect bliss, zone of your
charming sinecures, with nothing to do
but believe in God.
Over the door of cobblers shop in
Savannah, Ga, appears this legend;
Boots and shoes is made hear-ladies
and gentlemens repaired"
A Tennessee editor named Figures has
subtracted himself from the staff Of his
paper, and his late patrons cipher his
departure from the town.
The Golden Age newspaper referring
to the increased call for school books in
Brazil since emancipation, says that
liberty and the spelling book are one
and inseparable."
A certain Edinburgh professor once
pronounced upon a student his severe
opinion: Ounce you are, and Ounce
you will ever remain. That student
was Sir Walter Scott.
A clergyman at Council Bluffs charges
by weight in marrying couples, the rate
being four cents a pound for the groom
and two for the bride. Why this distinc-
ton on account of sex2
The following notice is stuck up on
bridge at Denver, Colorado: No vehicle
drawn by more than one animal is al
lowed to cross this bridge in opposite
directions at the same time.
A country editors sole editorial in
one weeks issue was that If anything
will make man feel juicy about the
heart, it is to talk velvet to pair of sky |
cOlored eyes, by moonlight, in clover
field"
A fellow feeling; Indignant Old
Lady" Guard, do you allow smoking
in this compartment 0bliging
Guard" Haw, weel, if name O the gen.
tleman object, ye can take bit draw o
the pipe"-Punch.
New York bellies fear their new ball
dresses will be out Of style before they
Alexis. IN. B.-The French pronunci-
alton is necessary. Aleck see, the same
as Parree. All who have been to Yur-
rup will understand it.
You have lost your right arm, said
George the Ill to Lord Nelson, at his
first interview after the accident But
not my right hand" replied his lordship
as / have the honor of presenting
Captain Berry to your Majesty"
E. H. Morgan, jr., thus addresses Miss
Mollie, in the New Orleans Times Of the
9TH inst:
And thou art minel l never could have
That one so poor could win so rich gem;
For in my wild imaginings l seemed
Too mean to even kiss thy garments hem.
Miss Mollie ought to be ashamed Of
herself.
Brigham Young thus interprets the !
Chicago FIRE: 1--WE are Gods chosen
people. He is working. A few weeks
ago Chicago was destroyed. This is but
as a drop of water to what will soon
happen. We we're driven from that
State, and God, through his prophet,
said they should not live there"
One of the Amherst sophomores has
devised a new way of telling bad news,
He writes to his father 81 came near
losing thirty-seven dollars last week"
Anxious parent writes back that he is
thankful that the money was not lost,
and wants to know how near" By
return mail, Game within one of it
lost thirty-six."
AnEnglishman writes home to his news
paper that in hight the Australian gum
trees are confessedly pre-eminent beside
their American rivals in California. He
also states that in the Yosemite boots
are not cleaned, and it is difficult to get
the means ofcleaning them. The Royal
Geographical should keep this man
travelling.
In Belfast, Maine, Judge Kent, at the
recent opening of the term of court,
said that the abominable practice of
wearing hair on the upper lip is repre-
hensible.' Whereupon the Belfast Jour
nal remarks that there are a great
many ladies who agree with the learned
Judge, aud set their faces against them
constantly"
Grant" said George Francis Train
on Tuesday night is a small man, take
him as you may. Approach him on the
subj ect of tan-yards, and you eaa't get
him above a sheepskin; try him on to-
bacco, and he may have something to
say Of short sticks; take him on stock,
and all he knows is something about
common plug horses
1t is said that Detroit girl, standing
up to be married the other day, had to |
have her corset strings cut before she
could take this man TO be her welded
/ husband IN the aruculate terms neces-
sary to the completion Of the ceremony.
She was laced up to the last hole, and
when the knife was applied, the crack Of
the parted lace was like the explosion Of
a kerosene lamp.
A doctor lately informed bis friends
in large company, tina; he had been
eight DAYS in the county. Yes, said
one Of the party, " it has been an
nounced in the papers All, said the
doctor, stretching his neck Importantly,
pray, in what ierms2" Well, as
well as / can remember, in the follow
ing: There were last week seventy-fve
deaths less than the week beforel 80
Prentice milford, who is lecturing on
the Coming Woman" at San Fran
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