Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-29
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Whoever makes thc uutn ePPe"'
pleasant, commits high treason against
virtue. Miss EdgeTOrth.
Says country parson, After much
reflection have come to the conclusion
that the soul is in the shape OF a rignl-
angle triangle, and is situated IN tne
small Of the back"
A merchant who has a class IN Sun.
day-school asked, What is solitude Z
and was yisibly disturbed when a mise
rable boy answered; The store that
don't advertise" iaft
The General Assembly of Connecticut
at its late session, passed an act allow
ing anybody and everybody to catch isn
in East Hampton pond through the ice
each month in the year.
Just nine months after the great Bos-
ton fire a heap Of burning leather, which
had been smouldering ever since No
vember, was found in the ground in rear
Of the postofIice, on Congress street.
Not in the sky, not in the sea, not II
we enter into the clelts of the noun
tains, is there known a spot in the whole
world where 3 man might be freed from
an evil deed. -HiRdoo Properb.
The Theological Seminary OF the Re
formed Church in Lancaster, Pa, has
copy off first complete edition OF the
Swiss. German Bible, published at Zu-
rich BY Christoffel Froschauer, in 1881.
The Baptist Waterman and Reflector
approves the responsive use OF the
psalms in public worship. Responsive
reading between the minister and peo-
pie the editor considers the primitive
apostolic custom.
The Albrights, or German Methodists,
make good showing in their statistics
for 1873. They report SO, members,
and 1921 churches, valued at s., 39l ,O47.
There has been an increase in every de-
partment during the year.
A Wisconsin paper says; "Trouhng
this season is about over, nearly all the
streams being Gshed out. Unless these
streams are better protected, but very
few years will elapse until they will be
numbered among the things that were,
There seems to be good authority for
the statement that the Pope will not
create any additional Cardinals at the
approaching consistory. This may dis
appoint the expectations Of the friends
of Archbishop McClosky, of New York
Only four members of the original
Anti-Slavery Society are now living
William Lloyd Garrison, of Boston;
BENJAMIN C. Bacon, of Beverly, New
Jersey; the Rev. Moses Thacher, OF New
York. and Oliver johnson, editor of the
Christian Union.
The University Press, at Madison,
Wisconsin, in publishing the course OF
study at the State University, printed
g comic lectures in the list OF studies
for the first term Of the Sophomore year.
where the professor had written " comic
sections.
At Sunday school concert the other
evening the following occurred: Little
fellow Erecting his verse)-" | am the
Bread of Life" Superintendent (ques-
toning him as to his knowledge of the
Bible)-" Who said am the Bread of
Life?'" Little fellow lin surprised
81 said it,
There is Troy woman who has hor-
ror of profane language. She was called
upon to testify in police court of that
city, but she refused to take an oath.
" Something" said she, II was never
guilty Of doing, and what is more, thing
never will do. will tell you the
truth, Judge, but | will swear to nothing.
An actie volcano has been discovered
within few miles north Of Central City,
Colorado. If the Colorado newspapers
are Trustworthy, there seems to be no
doubt Of the fact. The volcano smokes
quietly, with an occasional spasm, but
pieces of lava, evidently of recent origin,
Indicate that there has lately been an
a
NJ. Coudor, French artist, who died
recently at Paris at the age of eighty
FIVE, is known to all Americans who
have visited the galleries of Versailles
by picture of the surrender of Corn
wallis, in which Lafayette almost fills
the foreground, while George Washing
ton stands in an obscure corner in the
background. rnn3
There was a deacon in New Hamp-
shire by the name of Day, by trade a
cooper. One Sunday he heard a num-
Der of boys in front of his house, and
went to stop their Sabbath-breaking
a grave countenanee, he said
to one Of them: Boys, do you know
what day this isl" Yes, sir" replied
enc Of the boys, Deacon Day, the
cooper.
A man was recently arrested in one
of the St. Louis cemeteries under
suspicion Of being body-snatcher, but
he was discharged When it tFanspired
that he was only directory man, can
wasting the tombstones for assistance in
getting up a directory that shall lay
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