Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-11-04
FACTS AND FANCIES.

IcnuoyiNhhio nus PaNHeJ y
keys this year.
Where there is so much light the
shadow is deep. Goethe.
Noble discomfort is the path to heav'
EN-. ". HigginsOn.
A book is letter to the unknown
friends one has in the world.
The recent rains have filed the rivers
of Maine with floating logs.
A MINNESOTA man has become insane
from excessive use Of tobacco.
A Connecticut girl has gone insane
from being kissed in the dark
1.-THE great American obituary pro-
voker," is the latest for kerosene.
Agassiz has decided that the eel is
neither a fish nor a snake, but an eel.
Baltimore never had so many oysters,
and prices we're never so low, as now.
II it wasn't for the law q man could
make fortune in half the time he does
now.
A New Bedford man has been fined
ten dollars for watching some men play
ball on Sunday.
Pottsville, Pa, brsgs that it pays out
more money for cigars, snuff and tobacco
than for bread.
A married man in Buffalo came near
being killed by spider. 1t was an iron
one, and his wife had hold of the handle.
Country Magistrate" Prisoner, you
are discharged this time with caution;
but if see you here again you'll get
twice as much"
A Chicago paper says that it is won.
derful how quick the blind beggars of
that city can tell the difference between
ten cents and quarter.
Siam is an ungallAnt country. There
the first may be divorced, and after that
every wife may be sold for cash or trad
ed for yellow dog.
The sardine fishery is said to be the
best this year for years, and everybody
who likes the taste of coal oil and scra p
iron boiled down will rejoice.
Would you believe the witness under
oath2" asked lawyer. No, sir" was
the reply; " if you should ask him the
time Of day he would lie about it"
1t costs the citizens of Brooklyn, N.
Y. who keep carriages, about fifty dol
lars year piece to pay for wheels
smashed in horse-csr tracks.
Augusta has romance of lOng-lost
brother, whe walked into the photograph |
saloon Of the brothe who wasn't lest at
all, and sat for his picture twelve times.
Then the artist grew impatient, and the
Subject" revealed himself.
Miss Shoddy-"'Taint no use prepcs.
in marriage to me, Mr.. smithsrs. When
q gals as risb'n as pOOty as be, faint
likely she's going to take no Amerikin,
when she kin 90 to Europe an git a
Principally, or at least German Bs.
rony or q French County for a hus-
band"
A while ago q farmer in the High
lands lost his wife. and out Of love for
her memory called his estate Glen.
mary" A neighbor having met with the
same affection, and equally DESTROYS of
keeping before him the image of bis dear
departed, followed bis example, and his
farm is known by the name Of Glen
betsy"
Pray, sir, Of what profession are
your asked Mr.. Edwin James Of . Wit
ness who bad come prepared 10 prove .
fact, and who was deemed not very re-
spectacle. Sir, / am a shesnAker and
vine merchant" A what, sir9' "A
vine merchant and shoemaker"
f" Then said NJ. James, Il may de-
scribe you a. = sherry cobbleri"
Mr.. Hardin, linen importer. died in
New York recently intssisis, leaving an
estate worth two million dollars.
His nspheus and Erand-nephevs,
Who have cone from Belfast Ire
land, claim the property. insisting
that Mr.. Hardin vas net married. This
seems, in several cases, to Be the latest
dodge 70 cousscsie . rich estate. The
relatives swear that The dead mans vifs
Vas oaly his mistress. II he cootsst
for = rieh mans soul IL he nstt vorld is
- boz - Il uS1allJ il fer he nossy IL
this, The rich are 70 Be truiy pitisd
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