Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-11-12
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Mnen time SNAIL unbS UP 49,
be will be no mower.
DR.. johnson defines a ship as a prison
with chance of being drowned.
A prudent, matchmaking mamma
gave the following candid advice to her
daughter: 30 marry the man you love-
girl. if he is as rich as Cresus."
Heine said of the elder Dumas; His
head is an inn where good ideas often
enter, but where they never remain over
night. Very often it is quite empty.
"You exhaust my patience" cried
doctor, who was engaged in a quarrel
with his wife. You exhaust your pa
tents worse than i do" was the retort.
The Richmond Wing thinks that if
Kosciusko" is properly pronounced
Kotschewshko," freedom must have
sneezed instead of shrieked when the
hero of Poland fell.
The action of the soul is oftener in
that which is felt and left unsaid, than
in that whichis said in any conversation.
1t broods over every society, and men
unconsciously seek for it in each other.
Emerson.
A man stopping his paper writes to
the editor as follows: Il think folks
ottent to spend thur mummy fur paypers,
mi dad diddent and everybody sed he
wus the intelgentist man in the country
and the smartis family uf boyze that
ever dug taters.
The question of accomplishments
seems to me to depend on the individ-
ual woman. OF two equally beloved
and amiable women, one looks better in
an evening, the other in a morning,
dress. 1t is Just as it suits, and so with
Accomplishments. - Coleridge.
A man is known to his dog by the
smell; to his tailor by the coat; to his
friend by the smile; each o. these know
him, but how little or how much, de-
ponds on the dignity of the intelligence.
That which is truly and indeed charac-
teristic of the man is known only to
| God. -Ruskin.
The Chicago Inter-0cean notes re-
markable display of economy in the
erection of public buildings. Stone was
hauled from Cincinnati to build Chicago
custom-house, while to build a Cincin-
matt custom-house it was thought neces-
sary to bring the stone from New Hamp-
shire.
One of the jailers at the Tombs is
said to nave expressed great indigna-
ton at the Stokes verdict. " Why, be-
fore now" exclaimed the wrathy Off
cial, Il have seen man taken from
this place and sentenced to five years
Imprisonment for stealing money to
keep his family from starving.
Advices from China say that it has
been intimated that the Peruvian Min
lister will not find favorable reception
in Picking. This grows Of the recent
determin alton OF the Chinese govern
ment to stop the Coolie trade, Peru
having hitherto been the principal des-
tination Of the unfortunate Coolies.
Mr.. Deveraux, Of Charleston, South
Carolina, offers TO the Centennial Com
mission at Philadelphia, as his eontri-
button to the enterprise, ten thousand
feet of lumber, to be used in construction
for the exhibition or otherwise as tue
committee at their option may deter
mine.-SaraHnah, Georgia, NeUs.
Give q man the necessaries Of life aud
he wants conveniences; give him the
conveniences and be Graves for the lux.
uries; give him the luxuries and be
signs for the elegancies; give him
all the elsgsncies and he yenrns
for the follies; give him al together and
be has been cheated both in price and
quality Of the articles.
Young ladies with masculine attach
uents will, on Sunday evening next,
turn down the lamp in the front parlor
and rapturously hug the NJ. A. sfore-
said, blessing the J. P. Of Guthrie
county, Ia, who has decided that court
ing is necessary, aud plaintiff had no
right 70 enter the sans, aud amerced
the old man in costs.
The explorers experience on the
Electric Mountains high and much
exposed range separating San Luis
Park from Wet Mountain Valley ia
C0lorado-vas most amusing They
coald scarcely handle their insiru-
ments, sparks being elected At every
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