Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-19
FACTS AND FASCrEs.

No man is happy who does not thinl
himself so.
Confucius says: Humanity is the
equity of the heart
Fine manners are the mantle OF fair
minds.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in
one name.
The Koran says: Haste is of the
devil"
Love sacrifices all things to bless the
thing it loves.
The devil is most devilish when he is
respectable.
A smooth sea never made a skillful
mariner.
Monogram earrings are becoming
fashionable.
No one breaches better than the ant,
and she says nothing.
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Love is precisely to the moral nature
what the sun is to the earth.
Lay silently the injuries that you re-
Give upon the altar of oblivion.
Never have a wooden leg made of oak,
because the oak is apt TO produce corn.
When an impecunious person has ex-
hausted his resources at his "uncles,
he generally resorts to out-of'the-way
places.
Ar Italian in San Francisco went at
ter s marriage license, but got into the
wrong Office, and procured dog license
instead.
The Garden of Eden is to be hunted
up once more. but not by the New York
Herald. 1t is to be staked of into house
lots as soon as discovered.
A Georgia rooster was recently killed
with his craw full of vest buttons. The
experiment paid better than going min
ing in the hen that laid the golden egg
Hopes are entertained that in course
of time Oregon will supply the tea con-
sumed in this country. Experiments
are now being made in that State in the
cultivation of the tea plant
The English rivers are to be stocked
with American black bass, a quantity of
the young fry from Saratoga Lake having
recently been despatched to England
for the purpose Of trying the experiment.
Smart Connecticut conductor-Aren't
you fourteen yet? ImpecuniOus big boy
No; Tm only thirteen. Smart c. c.
We'll, pay full fare then; we charge
full fare for all passengers over twelve.
A line in a medical advertisement
reads: Babies, after having taken one
bottle of my soothing syrup, will never
cry any more" Nor laugh either-it
might have added.-NOrristOrn Her
aid.
A newly-married couple on their bridal
tour were walking along the edge OF
cliff at Charleston, West Virginia, a Few
days ago, when they both suddenly lost
their balance, and were precipitated be-
low, and instantly killed.
The Marquis of Lorne and other Eng
lish nobIemen take turns in preaching to
the masses in Agricultural Hall, Isling-
ton, where over two hundred persons can
be accommodated, and the hall is gen.
orally crowded.
LET that pudding alone, therel
That the dessert" exclaimed waiter
to a countryman who was deyouring the
tapioca at an early stage Of the dinner.
81 don't care if it is dessert" testify
said the countrymsn, I'd eat it if it
was wilderness.
1t is said that farmer in Western
New York has cleared $500 by burying
wooden Indian cigar signs for a few
months, and then digging them up and
selling them to colleges for petrifed
Mohicans. The rascal should be kicked
to death by an Infatuated saw.horse.
If there is anything wrong in this story
the St. Louis Globe is responsible for it:
I" Montana grasshoppers are more raven
Gus than usual this season. They eat
wagon-tires, and have been known to
tickle mule in the ribs until be kicked,
and devour his shoes while his feet we're
10 the ali"
my dearest uncle" said humorous
writer, was the most polite man in the
world. He was making a voyage on the
Danube and the boat sank; my uncle
was just on the point Of drowning. He
got his head above water just once, took
off his hat and said, Ladies and gentle
I men. will Won please excuse me2' and