Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-25
pACrs AND FANOIES.

get honest
spirit-rappers are again on the iapp'
at Rochester.
A man is as old as he feels; womar
as old AS she looks.
A Wisconsin girl has saved the lives
Of seven boys this year.
Aherthe Tigress, whatS Another yes
sci 10 search for her.
The Boston policemen are allowed two
weeks vacation each.
In Texas ice costs five cents pound
and beef costs three cents.
Pennsylvania aeronauts take their
wives out riding in balloons.
A Nevada sheriff locked up neigh
Dor and eloped with his wife,
81. Paul has opened luneh-house
with oatmeal porridge aud milk.
A hotel one hundred and seventeen
Years old is being demolished in Residing,
Pa.
Surgeons sermons are said to be
written by students whose studies he
directs.
The present must be good season
for pantAloon makers, humanity gen
orally is painting.
A Milwaukee professor undertakes to
prove that Christopher Columbus was OF
German ancestry.
A Cincinnati man who is going to get
married next month sits around boiler
shops to get his ear trained TO 1t.
The potato bug has reached Quebec,
aud the great question with the habitdnS
is, does the striped little cuss eat onions1
A gentleman OF Greeley. Colorado,
lost the train, the other day, because a
grasshopper got into his massive cronom-
eter.
A Cincinnati paper says that only one
outof forty men in that city would re-
fuse 10 take drink at q strangers ex-
pense.
Young fellows on limited salaries, who
desire to marry, should emigrate TO Ja-
pau, where one can live in luxury Tor
fiya oausg a dow
A young lady wrote home short note
from a place where she was visiting with
the p. s.: you will see by my sigma
ture that | am married.
Fine carnelians are found among the
pebbles on the beach near Pescadere,
Cal Some of them are said to be worth
from $25 to SIS apiece.
Gold is worth about eighteen dollars
an ounce, but golden hair Of the finer
kind is sometimes sold for as high as
thirty dollars an ounce.
Lake Champlain's sAurian ambition is
gratifed by the discovery Of living am
phibious monster twenty feet long, Of
which the local press takes scare.
The Catholics have 365 churches in
the city of Rome, one for every day in
the year, and an almost perpetual service
is maintained in many OF them.
Rev Mr.. Hugh Miller, editor Of the
Church Journal, New York. is of opinion
that most churches and most men need
reformation, especially in Chicago.
An Illinois girl has died Of grief be-
cause her new spring bonnet was ruined
by falling into the water. A bed Of arti-
fetal roses will be planted upon her
grave.
A New Hampshire woman who was
accidentally imprisoned in a cave for
four days didn't want nothing in par
ticnlar except pinch Of snuff when
taken out
The Utica Herald says men will never
know what effect it would have had on
Job if eleven little girls lad called on
him, one after another, and tried to sell
him Sunday school picnic tickets.
The descent OF man. Figurative
party" So long as l am man, SER,
what does it malther to me whether me
grest-grandfsther was an anthropoid ape
or not, sorr2" Literal party" Haw
wsther disagweesble for your gwste-
grandmother, wasn't it2'-PHnch.
Rev Mark Wilks once introduced his
text in this manner My hearers, did
you ever see a cat2 Did You ever see
cat walk2 Did you ever see a cat walk
upon the top Of a wall covered with
broken glsss2 How carefully she lifted
each footl How slowly and cautiously
she set it down again So would the
text from which | am about to speak
have you act. See that you walk cir
cum-spect-ly.
A Philadelphia newspaper says that
the schools Of that city do not stand as
high as those OF some other cities and
that this is owing to the inferior charac-
ter Of their teachers. This is explained
it declares, by the Indifferent personnel
Of the School Boards, which are com
posed chiefly Of either ignorant men or
mere ward politicians, and also by the
system Of certificates and the poor sala-
ries that are paid.