Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-26
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

town, N. y.
Graveyard inhabitants are apt to be
quiet neighbors.
Memory is an excellent thing, but SO
often inconvenient.
Hans Anderson is reported again to
be at deaths door.
The Saracens brought arithmetical
figures into Europe.
A miser is prodigal in one thing-ex-
cusing his stinginess.
Dry goods are worshipped more in this
world than the Lord.
A Kalamazoo barber has been fined
So for shaving on Sunday.
A Dubuque firm had New York con-
tract for 10000 turkeys.
The Brooklyn Eagle protests against
the popularity of funerals.
An army does not necessarily fly be-
cause it moves its wings.
Brick Pomeroy is in Europe and
means to stay there year.
Sliced onions in a sick room absorb
all the atmospheric poison.
Four thousand sheep day are boiled
down for tallow in Australia.
Bugle bags" are the names given to
nose protectors, in Minnesota.
A Missouri paper says that wisdom
was a specially with Solomon,
Sixty-6ve per cent. of the male popu-
lation of Spain neither read nor write.
An English machine, it is said, will
make hay when the sun doesn't shine.
A parvenu's origin is forgotten, If he
remembers it, but remembered if he for
gets it.
Wedding invitations in the far West
are printed on the jack of diamonds and
ueen of hearts.
Demesthenes thought that the quick
est way to rid ourselves of censure was
to do our own correcting
1t is very wrong to use slang phrases
unless they are better for your purpose
than any other-as they frequently arel
The object of legislation is said to be
the greatest good to the greatest number
and the greatest number is number one.
"Oh, for an hour Of Andrew Jackson J"
shrieks the New Orleans Times at the
close of an editorial on the Cuban ques-
ton.
The city authorities of Rockford re-
quire saloon-keepers to post conspicu-
ously over their bars the names of all
habitual drinkers.
The hard times are severely felt at
Port Huron, Michigan. A family takes
dinner of a table cloth more than one
hundred years old"
A Boston Court decided a question
which was long ago solved by many la
dies, that when a woman lends money
to her husband she cannot recover it.
The Siamese twins have finally re-
tired on their income, in earnest this
time. They still adhere to their old de-
termination TO live near each other, how.
ever.
Animals are well protected in New
Orleans. A car driver carelessly ran
over a dog recently, whereupon the ami
malls owner calmly shot the driver Oh
the spot
Old Grimes is not dead, but has re-
Gently appeared in the roll Of plaintiff,
to recover his share Of spoils in the po-
liueal imbroglio in the otherwise placid
town Of albion.
The clergy Of Sheboygan are becom'
ing unbearably independent. One Of
them recently refused to accept bushel
Of potatoes as compensation for tying
a matrimonial moose.
The hackmen Of Washington have
qusrreled with the uldertakers, and the
result is that in future people can hire
hacks for funerals at three dollars each
instead Of four dollars as heretofore.
Il A sympathetic Tennessee reporter
writes up an aceoSnt Of the shooting Of
man, and says: The bullet pene
trated bis stomach, whence it was recov-
cred BY he sse Of Al enetic, hence the
lead vas not lost"
TIE principal Of the Norwich Cver
mosD academy recently stated to IN,
school that those Who wished 10 attend
the dancing school must leave tb,
academy. He considers the two incon
sisteut with esch other.