Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-21
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Envy is the baneful admission of self
inferiority. 800 fit YNA
In order to be a ripe scholar must a
man get mellow tl~
Pennsylvania produced 5,755,O57 bar
rels Of oil in 1871.
A $4,000 bond robbery is called petty
larceny in New York. ar
1t is better to forget ones misfortunes
than to talk about them. 7il- so.i
The misfortune Of a shoemaker-he
cannot call his sole his own. 'o'
When kettle just begins to boil is ITS
music that Of dull simmerf M
Lawyers should sleep well. It's i'm
material on which side they lie.
God gives every bird its food, but
does not throw it into the nest. f
Is musician who does not keep his
engagements a truthful lyreS
A ten-year old Chicago boy is in the
penitentiary for life for murder.
A man may be ashamed of the fashion
of his nose, although he follows it.
A Delaware hen has laid an egg in
scribed War with England, 1872"
Othello smothered Desdemona with a
charge of buckshot, down in Georgia.
The widows mite The little chap
who married the dead mans big, bounc-
ing wife.
The Japanese make strong string OF
paper, and we have seen very good
cord of wood. [But not lately
The Hon. Horace Greeley celebrated
his sixty-6rst birthday by reception a
few days since in New York.
A fashionable young lady lately re-
ceiyed eight elegant family Bibles
among her wedding presents.
Mrs. Hooker supports the Connecti-
cut Democrats, and they hope to carry
the State by Hooker by crook.
In England, Just like Roger" has
succeeded to, Would it surprise you to
Learnt" as the latest slang term.
Miss Young, of Elyria, Ohio, who is
no longer young, can walk thirty miles
a day with no inconvenience from the
effort.
The amusement season is at its hight
in Augusta, Ga. They have a big woman
there, learned pig and an organ
grinder.
The reason why so few marriages are
happy is because young ladies spend
their time in making nets, and not max
ing cages. sm
An Ohioan has had the extreme felicity
Of boarding his mother-in-law seventy
years. She is still quite vigorous at the
age of los.
A happy smile runs thus: "A CO
quette is rose from which every lover
plucks leaf-the thorns remaining for
her future husband"
The correspondent who wishes to know
when Fast Day is, is notified that the day
in which we live is about as fast day as
any the world has known.
A maniac at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
proclaims himself as follows: 81, Pot
ter Christ, do hereby proclaim myself
the acting Savior of mankind.
When woman can faint and has a
capital opportunity for fainting, and yet
doesn't faint, you may be sure that she
has some other feint in view.
"We have no room for all this, said
a night editor, glancing despairingly at
a two-column obituary, " it must be cut
down to proper die-mention."
DIR, Helmbold, Of New York, has been
from the medical restraint under
which he was placed in Paris through
the action Of member Of his family.
A Michigan lady named Dinkelspell
said she couldn't liye with such horrid
name any longer. She, therefore, the
other day married Mr.. Gusdoferchen.
Butter was first made for cosmetic,
and was once used for Illuminating pur-
poses. 1t was not known as an assistant
in dispatching bread much before the
Christian era. 'i.e tnt
The passengers on train near Sioux
City, one morning recently, saw beau
tiful mirage, fifty feet from the ground,
which entirely obscured the sky and
lasted long time.
Had it not been for the meddlesome
doctors, a beautiful Fort Wayne, Ind,
damsel would now be waving a palm
leaf fan on the other side, through the
Of chloroform.
Queen Victoria has presented Mrs.
Scales, of Toronto, the mother Of trip
lets, with e3 sterling. This gift, com
mon in great Britain, has never before
been made to Canadian subject.
This is a significant commentary on
NJ. Theirs by one of his old newspaper
compatriots: He wants the purple,
but be can't reach it by the blood that
flows over his flannel waistcoat."
An Iowa paper informs US THAT Miss
Ella Noe Of tuscaloosa, is the coming
Winnie Ream." The public will be sim
cerely grieved to learn this fact. They
were in houas that Vinnia was the only