Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-23
FACTS AND FAscIEs.

! He whom God hath gifted with the
love ofretirement possesses, as 1t were,
m extra sense. Buiper.
People seldom improve when they
have no other model but themselves to
copy after Goldsmith.
Some reserve is a debt to prudence as
freedom and simplicity Of conversation
is debt to good nature. --Shensfone.
What is birth to man. if it shall be a
stain to his dead ancestors to have LETT
such an offspring2-Sir r. Sidney.
| A just and reasonable modesty does
not only recommend eloquenee, but sets
of every great talent which q man can
be possessed of.-Addison.
A brave man thinks no one his supe-
rior who does him an injury; for he has
it then in his power to make himself
superior to the other by fOrgiving it,
Pope. sAs
1t is no disgrace not to be able to do
everything; but toundertake, or pretend
to do what you are not made for, it is not
only shameful, but extremely trouble
some and yexatious. PlHtarch.
Those who retire from the world on &C
count of its sins and peskiness, must
not forget that they have yet TO keep
company with person who wants just
as much watching as anybody else.-
Billings.
Silence is in truth the attribute Of
God, and those who seek him from that
side invariably learn that meditation is
not the dream, but the reality Of life;
not its illusions, but its truth; not its
weakness, but its strength. Martinedu.
If to do were as easy as to know what
we're good to do, chapels had been
churches, and poor mems cottages
princes palaces. 1t is good divine
that follows his own instruction. | can
teach easier twenty what were good to
be done, than one of the twenty to fol-
low mine own teachings. Shakespeare.
1t was Christianity that first broke
down the barrier between jew and Gen
tile, between Greek and barbarism, be-
tween white and black. Humanity is a
word which you look for in vain in Plato
or Aristotle, the idea of mankind as one
family, as the children of one God, is an
idea of Christian growth. Mar. Muller.
Long. slim eggs are males; short,
round eggs are females. @
A woman in St. Louis has invented q
machine to extinguish fires. ~
Politeness looks well to me in every
man except an undertaken.
Some young Paris snobs have actually
started the fashion Of wearing bracelets.
Nov is the winter of our discon-
tent" as the old maid said, when turn
ed forty, she found herself without
sutton.
A woman rights-woman, says that the
only decent thing about Adam was a
rib, and that went to make something
better.
What is the difference between the
cradle and the grave2 The one is for
the first born, and the other for the last
bourne.
A skunk park is projected in Sandy
ston township, Sussex county. New Jer-
sey. to propagate this odoriferous animal
for the value Of his fur.
One horse drew thirty-seven members
Of the Salem society for the prevention
Of cruelty to animals, to meeting OF
the society, one muddy evening recently.
We don't believe that story in the Sa-
wanna News about the swain who swan
the Ocenae to meet his lady love. who
stood on the bank, and shut her eyes
while he resumed his clothing.
One Of our largest dailies makes a
shift to pun in the following: Mean
while the public must make q shift with
the Msjiltons and the coryphees-mAny
Of whom, by the way, seem to need one"
0at West the new synonyme for re-
firing" is Colfaxing." Parents no
longer admonish their children that it
is time 10 go to bed, but tenderly OBJ
serve, my darlings, it is time you Col
faxed"
A devil is said to have taken posses
sion Of Miss Jenny Kurtner, OF Crazy
Corner, Fountain county, Iowa. It
makes her swear ike trooper and
laugh at the prayers offered for her BEN
eft.
One Of the best definitions OF incon-
sistency we have ever heard was from q
Teutonic orator, at a recent town meet
ing near Boston, who said 1T is Won
derful, shentlemen, how elastic some men
are in dere brainsl
1t was a brilliant Fond du Lac boy
who, seeing dog with muzzle on for
the first time, exclaimed: Mamma,
mamma, bet FIVE cents the dogs are
going to wear hoop-skirls; there goes a
dog with one on his nose, now. "
The musical cricket Of Western
paper, says of Missions appearance in