Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-31
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

To remove stains from characteristics
rich.
A bad blow for the sailor boy-a spank
ing breeze.
The phosphoresceut matter in fishes is
asserted to be merely fat
In England, fleet captain is not re-
garded as necessarily fast man.
A young lady recently betrothed says
that &C. O. ID. means Call on Dad
A street railway car in Germany is
known as NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
wagon"
A citizen Of Lowell announces that "a
fue borders or meallers can be comdated
hear"
An ugly old bachelor suggests that
births should be published under the
head of New Music.
A faro dealer is not necessarily
"broke" because you happen to see
him gathering chips.
An Indiana preacher evolved a terrible
persuasive and personal sermon from the
text, d" You know how it is yourself.
The inhabitants of Cecil county, Md,
900 miles away, claim to have seen and
smelt the smoke of the Chicago fire.
Man is the law OF the world At the
creation he was the principal question,
and woman was only side issue.
A merchant of our acquaintance
wonders why he is obliged to go so
often after money that is coming to
him.
In New York city they call red hair
Schenectady color Schenectady be-
ing, as every one knows, little beyond
Auburn"
Some one entities Miss Anna Dickin-
son the chief of the lecturing phalanx;
whereupon some one else responds that
she's the mischief thereof.
Bad Pennsylvania boys ask the usher
for a seat in church and while he is
solemnly marching down the aisle they
silently steal away"
II never could bear children " said
rusty old maid to Mrs. Partington. Per
haps if you could you would like them
better" mildly replied the old lady.
LET us remove temptation from the
path of youth, as the frog said when he
jumped into the water, upon seeing a
boy pick up stone.
The fact is revealed by post mortem
examination of Mr.. Grote's skull, that
the great historians brain was far below
the average in size and weight.
A French widower says that when a
Frenchman loses his wife, it is first a
duty to cry over his loss, and then it be-
comes habit, and finally pleasure.
An eminent surgeon says that spirit
ualism is disease that can be cured by
tincture Of iron and stryehnine. We
should think that stryehnine alone would
be sufficient
A reader Of an article in an evangeli-
cal weekly on converting United States
five-twenties, says he longs to be a mis-
sionary in that field, and thinks he should
cleave unto his flock
Upside Down" described as an
original, philosophical, and mytholog-
ical comedy, in FIVE acts, with appro-
pirate tableaux, by Peter Sparks, Cen
tleman," comes from New Orleans.
An exchange says that resolutions
of thanks to God and the city police
were lately passed at an Indiana meet
ing" The most surprising thing about
it is that they didn't put the police
first.
Some evenings since the performance
at the fremont Opera House, Galveston,
was broken up by severe storm, which
raised old ocean to such a pitch Of fury
that the tide surrounded the opera
house for several hours.
The season for shooting mothers-in-
law in Indiana has opened auspiciously
The way to do the thing is to mistake
the old lady for a bear or burglar, and
perforate her with a shotgun. No. 6
shot is generally used.
Thomas jefferson said he would rather
live in a country with newspapers and
without government, than in country
with a government but without news
papers. The press, instead Of being the
fourth, is the first estate in the realm.
We are told that Baltimore has
clergyman who claims to have snatehed
seventeen thousand children as brands
from the burning within year. of
what great service such a man would |
have been at the Chicago FIRE.
A stroug.minded thus relieves her
self Marry marry marry That's
mans eternal cry. Marry and settle !
down. Settle down into a house-two-
story back room perhaps-settle down in a I
kitchen, eook-stove, wash-tub, a
cradle and so keep settling, settling
into a weary, worn, faded woman-on
whom the male importuner, after five or
ten years Of his exclusive companion.
ship, may look and congratulate himself
on having accomplished a successful
ruinl