Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-06
FACTS AND FANCIRs.
The sweetest songs are those
That few men ever heard,
And no men ever sing.


The cost of Pullman palace car is
$4,000.
A recipe for rosy cheeks-Double-
soled boots.
A little boy defines snoring as let
ting off sleep"
Crosses for the neck are more fashion
able than lockets.
woman's rights in leap year-the
rites of matrimony.
Much Adieu About Nothing-Some OF
our farewell dinners. Judy.
The Chinese catechism says:
"Au man nj birth are good alike at root.
But afterward they differ much in fruit"
Two Wisconsin women have earned
$4,000 the present season by the care OF
bees.
Gail Hamilton is called by the Spring
field Republican the Weadell Phillips OF
her sex.
A corset is on exhibition at Dubuque;
Iowa, which has squeezed three females
to death.
Some one describes a wedding as
grand mixture of tears, toasts, trunks
and trousseau.
Lager beer explodes. A cask of it at
Louisville recently blew up severely In
juring several persons.
"Going to press" about to call on
ones sweetheart. Locking-up, put
ting ones arms around her.
A Keokuk woman who was sent to the
druggists for bottle of hair remover,
inquired for hair manure.
Mary Harris, WHO shot Burroughs,
the treasury clerk, some years ago, has
become raving maniac again.
interviewing has reached its hight.
A Philadelphia editor announces for
lecture, IAN Evening with Shakespeare.
Minneapolis and St. Anthony having
been made one, the Boston Traveller
SAYS the former is now only Mrs. Min
neapolis
The Evansville, Ind, authorities think
the hogs have eaten children enough,
and propose to do something about it
pretty soon.
The ninety.ffth anniversary of the
birth of Henry Clay will be celebrated
by the Old-line Wings on the 18th of
April, at Atlanta, Ga.
What is the difference between the
entrance to barn and loafsr in
printing Officer One is barn door and
the other darn bore.
A Cincinnati policeman was dismissed
from the force because he refused to
turn out at the funeral of colored Off
Ger attached to one Of the stations.
archaeological: will breakfast
soon be ready, mammal Mamma:
"Yes, my dear" Hopeful: well,
papa, you might say grace just now, to
save time. Punch.
A jealous prohibltionist, on being
asked why he signed every pledge that
was presented to him, gave as a reason
that if he broke one, he would have
the rest to fall back on.
A eurate having been overhauled BY
his bishop for attending ball, the for
mer replied: Ny lord, wore a mask"
"Oh-welll" returned the bishop, that
puts q new face on the affair.
A New York bride tainted away at her
wedding reception on discovering that
she lad lost the pendant of her diamond |
necklace on the way home from church.
A glass Of the ruby" restored her.
The idea Of respectable employ
ment is the rock upon which thousands
split and shipwreck themselves and all
who depend on them. All employments
are respectable that bring honest gains. |
The poet Thompson, the author Of
" The Seasons" wrote to his daughter,
on the eve of her marriage: The
economy and gentle management of
family is woman's natural province, and
from that arises her best praise.
As stout old lady got out Of a
crowded omnibus in front of the Astor
House, the other day, she exclaimed:
" Well, that's relief, anyhow" To
which the driver, cycling her ample pro-
portions, replied, I" So the 'osses think,
mum"
Some jealous scoundrel attempted to
poison an expoctant bride in 0swego
the other day by means Of a package Of
cake favored with arsenic, which was
sent to her room the night before her
with the request that she would
dream upon it.
The pen may be mightier than the
sword, but if you take two swords and
rivet them together near the center, you
will find that in many newspaper Offices
they are far mightier than the pen, as
they have to do about four.Giths Of the
work Danbury Nelos
A japanese gentleman connected with
the embassy went into a seed store in
San Francisco to make some purchases,
but because the storekeePer called him
=" John" he left in high dudgeon, in