Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-27

ness. The old gentleman thought she
had been praying and was glad, as he is
pious man; but instead the wicked
lass had been kissed by her lover in the
unlighted hall
The Washington correspondent OF the
Louisville Courier journal writes as fol-
lows concerning the appearance OF the
faithful Penelope at recent reception:
Mrs. Grant is neither handsome nor
stylish, but she has quite plump shout
ders and round, shapely arms and hands.
They have spunky woman in Evans
vile. Her husband said some words to
her the other day, and, in the evening
when he came home from work, she
greeted him with loaded and cooked
revolver, and demanded Of him to take
| it back" or she would enlighten his
mind by making an opening in his crani-
UNI. HE took it back in the most ar-
proved style, and she forgave him.
The applause with which Mayor Hall,
of New York, was greeted at the Frank
lin statue dedication, was on account OF
his wit, and not his wickedness. You
are not willing he said, to discharge
an old compositor because he has mixed
his type little in his form, nor to wholly
ignore an old compositor because he has
slept while the devil ran away with his
copy"
Mrs. Bradley OF Tomah, Wisconsin,
found baby upon her doorstep the 9TH
er evening, with card pinned to its
clothes which read: :" commend my
little darling to your care, Mrs. b.
Please call her Madge Armilda. Please
never give her stimulating drink of any
kind in her food, for that came near
killing her, and cold water was all that
saved her. Please let her food be
made of cream, loaf sugar and boiling
water.
The Rev. George Moore, Of Edinburgh,
was riding, one snowy day, muffied up
in Spanish cloak, and with u woman's
shawl tied around his neck and shout
ders. These garments huttering in'the
wind, startled the horse Of CONNER
cial traveller" who met the divine, and
who, irritated at the plunging of his
steed, exclaimed: You would Brighten
the devil, sirl" May be-" answered
Mr.. Moore; for it's just my trade
A fashionable lady in Chicago, dis
gusted with her ugly nose, the shape of
which is combination of Roman, Gre
clan, aquiline, and pug, inharmoniously
blended, has had rubber one made after
the Grecian style of architecture. 1t is
beautifully tinted, and so life-like, that
with a prodigal use of toilet powder, it
would trouble stranger to detect that
it is a counterfeit bugle.
A Milwaukee girl has it bad. She
writes: "Out of the glare and heat and
WEAKNESS of the great ball given by |
Milwaukee to the Duke Alexis, brought |
a picture for my shadow gallery. The
gaslight and rouge and pearl powder and
dollhouse perfume that surrounded it,
have all fallen away, just as the dark
calyx that hides the beauty and fra
GRANGE of the rosebud shrivels into
nothingness under the unfolded petals,
and left me flower as sweet and simple
as ever bloomed in the summer wild
wood.
The Louisville Ledger man wrote the
following:
oh the snore. the beautiful snore.
Filling the bed room from ceiling to floor.
Under the coyerlet, under the sheet.
Soft, and low, and full, and sweet;
Now rising aloft like bug in June.
Now sunk to the wall Of cracked bassoon,
Falling,
Then rising again,
Is the beautiful snore Of my Liza jane
A clergyman in endeavoring to explain
the warming, vivifying influence of genu-
inc love in the heart of man, at last
said: "Why, love is the elementary prin-
ciple of warmth and life, as may be seen
BY the fact that on the coolest winters
day loving young couple will all be
aglow in a room in which frosty old