Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-05
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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Its objects have not been discovered, Blu
g its yelled members have been seen a
midnight seated in circle around blu
flame in the city graveyard. They ar
some Of old Rip Van Wrinkles friends
, the yolly fellows up in the mountain
The diptberia is prevalent among thu
children in East Tennessee. r
Nashville has its sensational homicid,
wherein officer Starkey fatally shot Thos
H Jetton with his six-shooter, in self
: defense. ..3 1851 rsa tfAa
The German physicians claim that the
superiority of beer as refreshing bev-
erage has been satisfactorily proven
during the late Franco-Prussian war.
] The carbonic gas contained in the beer
made it peculiarly refreshing to soldiers
after long march, and its use in hos
pitfalls and field ambulances for the
wounded was success. ss"
| AT sunrise this morning four steam
| bdats could be seen from the bluffs com
ing down the river in the midst Of smoke
and fog. They resembled huge water
/ m nsters; their size appeared to be won
derfully increased by the fog, out of
which they were just emerging, thereby
creating charming but wierd-like opti-
cal delusion. a
Many men pass fifty or sixty years in
the world, and when they are just going
out of it they bethink themselves, and
step back, as it were, to do something
which they had all the while forgotten
To- wit, the main business for which they
came into the world, to repent of their
sins, and reform their lives, and make
their peace with God, and in time pre-
pare for eternity.
Give your stomachs as well as your
minds a day of rest" and you viii
feel refreshed when Monday comes. Try
an early breakfast, light dinner and
chatting, social cup of tea for supper,
and you will be surprised to discover
what brilliant and profound sermons
your minister is preaching, and what a
blight sunshiny bevy of boys and girls
you have in yonr Sunday school class.
Above and beyond the first necessities
of good taste, let all adjoining of home
commence on the inside. As in heart
and life, inward good soon shows itself
optwardly, so in the home; the good
sense that will first attend to the living
and vital part will not long neglect the
outward adornings that please the eye
and charm the taste, inward forces for
good work from the center towards the
outside.
Archbishop Whately once wrote to
Mrs. Arnold: :" / remember one Of my
at Halesworth telling me
that he thought a person should not 90
to church to be made uncomfortable
| replied that thought SO too; but
it should be the sermon or the
mans life that should be altered, so as
to avoid the discomfort, must depend on
whether the doctrine was right or
wrong"
Vanity is rather a mark Of humility
than Of pride. Vain men delight in
telling what honors have been done
them, what great company they have
kept, and the like, by which they plainly
confess those honors were more than
their due, and such as their friends
would not believe if they had not been
told whereas, a man truly proud thinks
the honors below his merit, and scorns
to boast.
The $4,000 heather Chinese in Cali
fornia don't make much noise in the
world, but they own $4,000 worth of
real estate and 81 $4,000 in personal
property
The childhood shows the man, as morn
ing shows the day Milton.
He must be thorough fool who can
learn nothing from his own folly.
He hath riches sufficient who hath
enough to be charitable.-Sir r. BrOicn.
The8rays Of happiness, like those of
light, are colorless when unbroken.-
Lonlfelloic.
But Satan now is wiser than Of yore.
And tempts By making rich, not poor.-PoDe.
There Is lust in man no charm can tame.
OF loudly publishing his neighbours shame
Hurry.
When there is love in the heart, there
are rainbows in the eyes, which cover
every black cloud with gorgeous hues.
Ever the lesson of history has been
this: the recoil from Journalism is skepti-
cism; the reaction from superstition is
inGdelity.
Liberty is thesouls right to breathe,
and when it cannot take long breath,
laws are girdled too tight. Without
liberty, man is in a syneope.
1t has long been settled that there are
but two ways in this world by which
man can secure a living One is by
honest labor, the other through theft.
It's not the most demonstrative Of our
friends who care most about us. Scores
Of people wish us well who do not feel
impelled to stop us in the street and say
SO.
"Calumny," says Archbishop Leigh
ton, would soon starve and die of itself
il nobody took it in aud gave it lodging"
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