Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-24
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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Mrs. ex.President Tyler has become
Catholic.
There are twelve Protestant places Of
worship in Rome.
Wise men have but few conhdants, and
cunning men none.
Search other zen Tor their virtues, and
thyself for thy vices.
A failure in good cause is better than
a triumph in bad one.
Marmots are the newest delicacy
among French epicures.
The literature of nations begins with
fables and ends with romanees.
The test of mans honesty is in the
sacrifices he will make to preserve it.
Genius makes its observations in short
hand-talent writes them out at length.
Napoleon's mustache was removed in
order to facilitate the taking Of plaster
cast.
Boston is the happy possessor Of a
lady who is the exact image of Pauline
Lucca.
Italy is subscribing literally to the
fund for the erection Of a monument to
Napoleon.
Mrs. Snidkins says her husband is a
three-handed man-right hand, left hand
and little behind.hand.
It is whispered in Boston that Bunker
Hill monument is settling down on one
side so that it must soon topple over.
Brigham Young is under the impress
sion that polygamy is good for one
thousand years yet in the United States
The Newfoundlanders are contem-
plating with admiration cuttlefish with
arms twenty-five feet long captured of
the coast.
St. Louis has q young woman who pre-
diets a bloody religious war, to take
place shortly in this country. She is
Spiritualist.
The will of Napoleon appoints the
Empress, Cardinal Bonaparte and NJ
Rouher guardians of the Prince, now
Napoleon ~.
Intelligent women make the best wit
nesses, says Hon. Emory Washburn, in
his new volume on "The Study and
Practice of Law"
The young ladies of New Haven never
say "As thick as leaves in Vallambrosa;"
they substitute, AS thick as photo
graphs Of Yale students"
Trying to define love IL like trying tew
tell how you cum tew brake thru the ice
all you know about it il, you fell in
and got ducked.-Josh Billings.
A paper gunwad with writing on it
convicted four Texans of murder. Moral
use cloth wadding. And don't tear it
from the tail of your shirt, either.
The woman Leroy, mistress of Urban,
the Communard, has received permission
to be transported to New Caledonia. Ur-
balm is said to have promised to marry
her.
The drunken heir to the Hawaiian
throne has taken himself out Of the gut
ter, disguised himself in a clean shirt
and new hat, and applies for the success
sion.
A country paper in Minnesota wants
to know who swindled the Indians out OF
" such an internal country as Minnesota
is, and who deluded the white people
into it.
A New York correspondent cruelty
insinuates that in fact Lucca has become
80 thoroughly American. that she has
learned to make as well as drink morn
ing cocktail.
A gentleman, who had been arguing
with an ignoramus until his patience
was exhausted, said he didn't wish him
lead, but he would be glad to see him
know more"
A Chinaman who had become snow
blind while working on the Central Pc
,ifc railway applied at San Francisco
police station on the Sd inst. for permits
ZION to have himself shot
That inimitable joker, Josh Billings,
gives as one of his twenty-second Good
Rezolushuns for 1875" THAT wont
advise ennybody, uRtil kno the kind ov
advice they are anxious tew follow"
Love is expressed in one Of the abo-
.iginal dialects Of this continent by the
,oft polysyllable schemiendamourtche-
Tager." That would be rather difficult
% be scanned in the middle Of verse |
Or tagged to the end Of one.
The Boston Herald asks what sort of
! Christian is he who makes early pray
ITS and neglects to sprinkle ashes on
lis side-walks2 Verify. he is no nearer
he kingdom than he who scatters
orange peel about in the summer.
A celebrated physician having said to
Lord stowell, rather more aippantly
han beseemed the gravity Of his cloth,
Oh, you know. Sir William, after forty
! man is always either a fool or a ply