Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-16
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Jupiter is getting in bad way. An
astronomer notices the rosy protuber-
ance" now visible on his face.
After long experience of the world,
affirm before God never knew rogue |
who was not unhappy .-Junius.
Mcdonald says of one who had suf-
fered: Patience had messed her over
and made her warm soft and sweet.
. A noble Iowa woman drove the reaper
all summer for her husband and then
ran away with one of the farm hands
Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the |
everything, ever-working universe; it is
a seed grain that cannot die.-Carlyle.
/. Josh Billings says that opera music
don't have any more effect upon him
than castor oil has upon craven image,
The extreme pleasure we take in talk
ing of ourselves, should make us fear
that we give very little to those wh o listen
to us.--Le Rochefoucauld
The Marshall Qowa) Republican con-
graduates a religious society in that vi
cinity on having secured pastor who
will knock tue lukewarmness out OF
them"
An old lady was admiring the beauti-
full picture called Saved" -" 1t is no
wonder" said she, that the poor child
tainted after pulling that great dog out
Of the water.
A pretty girl says: If our Maker
thought it wrong for Adam to live single,
when there was not a woman upon earth,
how criminally gsilty are the old bache-
Tors, with the world full of pretty girls.
How shameful it is that you should
fall asleep" said dull preacher to a
drowsy audience, while that poor idiot
is awake and attentive" =" would have
been asleep too, said the fool, if / had
not been an idiot
Some men are very entertaining for a
first interview, but after that they are
exhausted, and run out; on second
meeting we shall find them very fiat and
monotonous: like hand-organs, we have
heard all their tunes.-Colton.
The following epitah, in a cemetery at
Oswego, New York, shows that the be-
reaved parents had rather mixed notions
on the subject of dual ez istence:
Here lies my two CHI ildren DEAR,
One in Ireland and the other here"
Mr.. Brooks writes from Japan that the !
national food is fish There is not an
ocean nor river creature that the Japs
do not eat And most of the fish sold
are not dead fish, but living, jumping,
wriggling fish. So much is thought of
the swimming creatures, that on a GER
tain festival day, every family that has
had a boy born during the year hangs
out a great painted fish to boast of it.
A landlord recently going round to
collect bis rent sent his servant ahead
to prepare his tenarlts for the visit. On
reaching the first house, and seeing his
servant apparen tly endeavoring to gain
admittance, he inquired, What is the
matter, John2 Is the door boltedT Il
don't know, sir, replied John; but the
tenant evidently has F"
A cotton picker velocipede has been
inv ented in South Carolina, by means of
which man may sit on a cushion, I'M
der an umbrella, with his cotton basket
carried to his hand, and gather his crop.
When his basket is full, by simple re-
version he can transform his velocipede
to wheelbarrow on which he can carry
his cotton to the place Of deposit with
out even the labor of lifting it to his
shoulders. The same machine may be
used for pulling peas.
The London Crystal Palace aquarium
is FIVE hundred feet long and seventy
feet broad, and the total capacity Of all
the tanks is 100000 gallons Of water,
weighing million pounds. Of sea
anemones alone there are already in the
aquarium over three thousand speci-
mems. These hower-like animals being
deprived in their captivity of the ocean
currents which bring them their food,
have to be fed at frequent interval S, each
having giyen to it a morsel Of fool suit
ed to its size.
George Alfred Townsend furnishes the
following slanderous gossip Catacazy
is a little whiffet Of Teutonie Tartar,
married to a stunning fine blonde, with
little head and luxurious appoint
ments, such a woman as runs princes
crazy. but never sensible people Gaia
cay was prince, or something, and
had TO fall in love with another mans
wife. They eloped together. The d.
yorce hanging fire in Russia, tn ~ bought /
next years almanac moved forw, I'd /
the clock, and formed a patrimo1iA!
syndicate until such time as the CA
should forward the marriage certificate"
The operate chorus at one of Ii e
theaters in New York, says the Tri-
bune, is composed Of Germans, Ital-
ian, English, Dutch, Swiss, French, Bo-
hemians, Chinese, Tartars, Mexicans,
Patagonians, Portuguese, Welshmen, sol
diers, sailors. ex-Governors, Wallets, dry
goods clerks, reporters, longshoremen,
undertakers, lawyers and clam peddlers,
with few cigar makers. Two Of the
female members Of this chorus have
sung in Italian, English, French, Ger
man and Russian opera in this city, and
have successfully appeared in every en-
tertainment since the first opera was
given in 1876