Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-13
FACTS AND FxNCrEs.

See dc glory-eate unbarred- A ~
!, Walk in darkeys. past de guard
Bet yer dollar He wont close III 0-
"walk in darkeys. troo de gate.
Hank. de kullered angels boiler;
GO away, white folks. you re too late
Yves de winnin kullerl Wait fU.
; Till de trumpet blow to foller
"Halleloojah tanksto praisei gsli s.
Long enuf we've borne our crosses
Now ives de superior race, arllI
And. with Gorramighty's grace.
We'sgwine to hebben afore de bosses
] Enosburg, VT, has a bridge aged
twelve.
AYankee runs a steamboat on the
Gauges,
! Cash DEMONSTRATION TO a rich
widow. r
"Bogie paint" is the concentrated
slang for frontier whisky.
Silas Wright, chief of the Cherokees,
is Presbyterian clergyman.
Indiana constabes enforce the game
law by arresting card players.
Josh Billings says: There is CRATE
deal oy raw bliss in Citing tired"
Tin kettles and oyster cans will soon
commence chasing dogs through the
streets again.
Amherst, N. H., is not q large town,yet
Quohquinapassahessananagnogh brook
flows through it.
The King of Siam wears paper col
lars and clawhammer coats since Sew
ards visit
A poetic individual who visited Nj
agara not only heard the food, but saw
its wild fierce smile
Stone, of Savannah, has attempted
suicide six times within a month. he
can't rock himself to sleep.
Michigan University female sopho-
mores haze good-looking freshmen by
blindfolding and then kissing them.
A tailor who in skating fell through
the ice declared that he would never
again leave a hot goose for a cold duck.
A Boston widow wears with becoming
pride massive gold ring made from the
plate of her departed husbands teeth.
Two young girls, sisters, have run
away from Berlin, Prussia, for Salt Lake,
to marry young man they are both in
love with.
Come, come, Spring, if this is your
idea of ethereal mildness," you are a
fraud, and deserve to be kicked out of
the calendar.
Many people think just now that Ma
sert Casabianca, the boy who had a
burning deck all to himself, was not so
badly of after all.
Probably with the intention of stock
ing" the vicinity with farm implements,
an Atlanta man advertises garden and
plantation hose
The reason why SO many railway
trains tumble over "giddy" Preeipices
is probably because all locomotives are
rightheaded "
A man died suddenly from intemper-
ance, and a Western jury found that
the deceased came to his death by
drinking between drinks.
A lovely Japanese princess is going to
Vassar College. She can balance her
self in a wash-tnb on a telegraph wire 10
seven Oriental languages.
Utah has two-horse. back-ac ton,
selfadjusting, patent gearing machine
for exterminating grasshoppers Those
who have tried it prefer the grasshoppers.
A sentimental chap intends to petition
Congress for a grant to improve the
channels of affection, so that henceforth
the course of true love may run smooth.
An editor, abiding to the demand for
female suffrage, female doctors, and fe-
male clergmen, remarks that another
want presents itself - that Of female
women.
An Augusta, Georgia, ghost wears No.
10 shoes. The most inyeterate scofer
must acknowledge that here is an I'M
questionable instance Of sole reyisiting
the earth.
az pant for redress Of woman's
wrongs; pant for freedom calculated
a female woman's wrong Fighter. "A
pair of pants" muttered her husbandi
" and wish you would return them"
Enthusiastic lady at Music Hall
" Oh, see those cunning little guinea
pigsl They must be worth their weight
in gold" Indifferent Escort-"Ya-as,
worth their weight in guineas, dare
say"
Revenge is sweet A widow won $780,
900 from German gambler in Baden
Baden, and a French general. whose
hatred Of Germany is unaying, married
the avenger Of his country and the $780,
900.
Some robbers having broke into
gentleman's house, went TO the bed Of
the servant, and told MIN if be moved
he was a dead man. That's lie"
said he, for il move I'm sure that
| m alive"
q" We shall not open to morrow said
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