Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-20
FACTS AND PANCIRs.

: those men we nave aouseo' -" -
Derenant.
Our acts make or mar u.s. we are the
: children Of our own. deeds Victor
Hugo.
r There is long and wearisome step
between admiration and imitation. =
; Richter.
Adversely borrows its sharpest sting
from our impatience. Bishop Horne.
Loving souls are like paupers--they
live on what is given them. = Madame
Soitchine.
X Age makes us not childish, rs some
say-it finds us still true children. =
Goethe. go
He that is not open to conviction is
not qualified for discussion Whately
1t is the end of art to inoculate men
with the love of nature. --Beecher.s
Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek
and Roman gods, bnt omnipresent.--
Bartol
Men blush less for their crimes than
for their weaknesses and vanity
Bruyere
There are calumnies against which
even innocence loses courage. NdPo'
leon. o
Secondhand cares, like secondhand
clothes, come easily off and on
Dickens. ybl
Censure is the tax q man pays to the
public for being eminent.--Deaa Sscif.
Some men, like pictures, are filter for
corner than full light. -Seneca.
Characters never change. Opinions
alter; characters are only developed
Disraeh.
Awoman who wants charitable heart
wants pure mind. Halliburton.
It's position, and not possession, that
renders us happy. AontdigHe.
The secret pleasure of generous act
is the great mind great bride. Dryden,
The measure of choosing well is,
whether man likes what he has chosen.
Lamb.
Christianity commands us to pass by
injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.
Franklin.
Girl boot-blacks flourish in Boston.
An Illinois legislator ordered veal
culver"
Judge Davis, the Labor Reform can
didate for President, weighs 256 pounds
An old Detroit man has played 10000
games of draughts during his chequered
career.
Emigration from Alsace to Algeria is
increasing, and is encouraged by the
French government.
Vice President Colfax sars that the
happiest days Of his life were when he
was printer.
John A. Dix and Thurlow Weed drew
their pensions at New York last week
for their services in the war of 1872.
The Russian language has, in itself,
what the savants of other countries sigh
for, an alphabet and spelling perfectly
phonetic.
England is to have another Dooms-
day Book" 1t viii show actually the
number Of proprietors Of land and
houses in the United Kingdom.
The Brooklyn Common Council
adopted resolution THAT no railroad
company ia .he city of Brcoklyn shall
require any passenger to pay fare unless
such passenger shall be provided with a
seat
An English publisher states that the
circulation Of Tennyson's poems is
larger in the United States than in Eng
land, while that Of Longfellow's is
larger in England than in the United
States.
A happy pair made choice of the 10Th
of February as their marriage day, and
were reminded by the officiating clergy
man that their silver wedding could be
celebrated in just one hundred years,
A Southern editor describes rival as
a waspish traducer who subsists on
ginseng. sssafras and goose eggs. and
wears sprigs of pennyroyal in his boots
in summer to keep off the seed ticks"
The Partisan newspapers chronicle
the death Of the woman who, in ls4s,
personated the Goddess Of Liberty in
the popular PROFESSIONS. She kept an
eating house, and, at the time Of her
death, weighed four hundred and sixty
two pounds.
A Washington correspondent says the
members of the japanese Embassy in
that city wear gloves two sizes too
large, and boots two sizes too small, and
that they walk up four fights of stairs at
the Arlington Hotel, in order to ride
down in the elevator
The San Francisco boys play with
slings made Of wire and rubber, with
which q buckshot can he driven
through hslfineh plank. The sports
Of children satisfy the phiId,' and any
one else who gets In bis way.