Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-30
FACTS AND FANcIEs.

: cat and brought down a child. al
aim was too high,
, Miss Ella Few, as fddleress, is ex
celled by few. She flourshes her boV
fewriously in Leavenworlh
Carlyle is down on Disraeli He call
the willy politician one who has The con
sciousness of being charlatan.1 ~ a'iT
On receiving the decoration of the
Order Of St. Stanislaus from the Gear ol
Russia, the artist Bierstadt simply re-
marked, "Huz-Czarl"
General Samuel H. Cary, of Ohio, il
lecturing on temperance in Virginia
He does better in that line than in the
role Of a laboriDg man"
A Newfoundland dog is good thing
to have, only one must get one or two
children and pond before he will be Of
any use.-[ j osh Billings.
A youth of ninety-one recently led to
the altar charming bride of one hun
bred and six, 1t is reported that they
were married without the consent of Their
parents.
The Detroiters are wearing sheet-iron
pantaloons. They don't believe that
hydrophobia can be absorbed from strich-
nile carried in the weskit
Always put your ashes in highly
combustible box or barrel; then, when
your house burns down you will have the
melancholy satisfaction of knowing
where the fire started.
A colored waiter in Milwaukee, who is
careful Of his reputation, has sued
paper for libel in charging him with
being a member of the Georgia Legisla-
ture.
The English anti-tobacconists are
shocked at the conduct of Professor
Newman, who, having been deputed to
try smoking and detail its horrible eff
fects, thinks he will try another pipeful
before deciding.
When Charles Lamb visited the Litch-
field Cathedral, his guide told him that
three men once dined upon the top of
the steeple. They must have been very
sharp set" said Lamb.
A young lady was looking at picture
representing a pair of lovers in boat,
with the arm of the lover gently enfold-
ing the waist of his dulcenia, when she
innocently remarked, " How natural ?"
The passage of the planet which
Homer described as \
Hesperus. the fairest star in the Heavens
across the disc of the sun, had been pre-
dicted and awaited for more than cen
tury"
A Boston girl being asked if she had
not once been engaged to party by
the name of" Jackson, who was at the
time Harvard student, languidly re-
piled, Il remember the circumstance
perfectly, but am not certain about the
name"
The father of Miss Clara Louise Kel-
log was, while at Wesleyan University,
well known as a remarkable hutist and |
singer, and her mother was employed as
organist and singer at the Episcopal
Church in Middleton, Conn, for many |
years.
A thick headed squire being worsted
by Sydney Smith in an argument, took
his revenge by exclaiming: If had
son who was an idiot, by Jove L make
him parson" Very probable" re-
piled Sydney, but see your father
was of different mind."
A lady who was very submissive and
modest before marriage was observed by
friend to use her tongue pretty freely
after There was time, he remarked,
" when | almost imagined she had no
tongue" Yes, said the husband with
a sigh, but it's very, very long since"
Bismarck has displayed good sense in
ordering the release of Westerwellen, the
youth who planned a murderous attack
on the Prince. Now, let Queen Victoria
act as sensibly in setting free the crazy
fellow who attempted to shoot her with
an unloaded pistol
The late Mexican Buchanan, the
actor, was a nephew of Admiral Blu
chanan, who commanded the rebel ram
Merrimac in Hampton Roads He twice
visited Europe professionally, played
in Australia, but never
made hit in America.
0fFenbach, the composer, has daugh-
ter whose grace and sprightliness makes
her iavorite everywhere One of his
friends recently said to her: II l bad
a son l should confscate you for him.
What a present l should make him I"
To which she replied, You make me
blush as il he we're present
Mr.. John Smith, who was standing in
the parquet Of the Michigan Theater,
with glass of beer in his hand, and
watching Mile Lemoine dance, became
so excited by that artiste's gyrations
that he hurled the glass at her in an
ecstacy of admiration, striking her in