Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-09-24
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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is Detroit sign.
When you marry, take the daughter
of good neither.
People who get to high words often
use low language.
Street railroads are being constructed
in the City of Mexico.
Carpets, though bought by the yard,
are worn by the foot.
1t is easy finding reasons why other
folks should be patient.
Room for Improvement is probably
the largest room in the world.
During the last ten years nearly l5O,-
900 houses have been built in London.
Colleges are numerous and cheap in
Missouri, and when man wants one he
buys it,
Mrs. Stowe says that women go into
the country to get breathing spell from
their servants.
How to make a nice jam-Crowd
thirty fashionably dressed ladies into a
street car.
Colonel Higginson says there is moth
ing that so debilitates as the habit of
being protected.
Five-eighths of note are as good as
the whole for the purpose of redemption
at the Treasury.
Men who have articles for sale to
milkmen will do we'll TO paste their
posters always on pumps and hydrants.
The Iowa girls turn out in torchlight
professions and Ell the midnight air
with shrill shrieks for their favorite can
didates.
An old lady thinks the bonds must be
a family of strong religions instincts,
because she hears of so many being
converted.
One hundred thousand dollars have
been subscribed toward home for inhrm
Episcopal clergymen, to be situated near
New York city.
A wise man looks upon men as he
does upon horses-all their caparisons
of title, wealth and place he considers
I,t bornaea
The only way to be sure you never
will tell anything to your own disadvan-
tage is to know nothing to your own dis
advantage to tell.
The Japanese utilize their condemned.
Two Yeddo policemen, sentenced to
death for murder were set ur as targets
on the Yeddo rife range.
The Mikado of Japan has had his pho
tograph taken, a large number Of copies
of which have been bought by his loving
subjects at fifty cents each.
A wag, in what he knows about farm
ing, gives a plan to remove widows
weeds; he says a good-looking man has
only to say wilt thou, and they wilt.
Moving water is said always to possess
peculiar fascination, and a sentimental
individual thinks that in no form is the
influence of the fluid so potent as in that
Of woman's tear.
A French railroad company was re-
Gently mulcted to the extent Of $4,000,
in payment Of damages to eleven fami-
lies, members of which were killed or
injured by train running off the rails.
1t really requires more delicacy Of
touch, a better acquaintance with the
inner emotions of the heart, and
grander pathos Of sentiment to make
declaration of love THAI it does to put up
a stove.
English journals state that pawnbro-
kers are greatly multiplying in Great
Britain. In twenty years the number in
Scotland has exactly doubled itself; in
London the increase has been from $50
to 523, and in the rest of England from
l4ll to 2666.
General Sherman is reported TO have
said to a Duluth interviewer: We will
pass over any land we please, and it is
only a question of time when the red
devils will be forced further and further
back, and / will make that time come as
early as possible"
Henry Corners, Of Rutland, Vermont,
engineer on a locomotive, recently saved
the life Of a little child at the risk Of his
own. The father Ia poor man, worth
only $75, 0OO), it is said, asked the cour-
ageous man TO take a glass Of soda, as a
reward for saving bis child.
Jones and Brown were talking lately
Of young clergyman whose preaching
they had heard thatday. What do you
think Of him p asked Brown. / think,
said Jones, he did much better two
years ago" Why, he didn't preach
then" said Brown. True, said Jones,
that is what mean"
That bed is not long enough for
me, said a very tall, gruif Englishman,
upon being ushered into bis bedroom By
an Irish waiter at one Of our hotels.
Faith an you'll find it's plenty long,
sir. when Won get into H." was the replv