Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-27
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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were: "henry. II you marry again, re
member that il only takes a cupfnll o.
sugar to sweeten quart Of gooseber
ries."
A lawyer named Taylor undertook te
bully female justice in Wyoming but
She stabbed him in the ear with a pa''
of shears and her dog Fixed him so thai
he csuldn't sit down for month.
Thirty years ago Mr.. William Allen,
OF Ohio, used to say that the Gull oil
Mexico was the mouth Of the Missis'
sippi river; that Cuba was its tongue
and that every mouth had a right to its
own tongue.
The Toledo Blade, Nasby's paper, has
been Offering a book premium on sub
lscriptons, with the following result; VI
2669 new subscribers 200 have chosen
Josephus works, 1885 Shakespeare $ aud
l22 Byron works
Anxious and aimless fishermen, who
look melancholy over the state OF the
brooks where no trout appear, are adj
yised to "go West" In the Minnesota
lakes they use hay forks instead OF ordl'
nary fishing tackle.
Some of the Western papers can say
almost anything, and not offend. For
instance, Carson City sheet says; Our
county clerk can boast of q wife with
the biggest feet and the longest nose Of
any female in the territory"
Sarah DeCamp was laughing and gig
Cling in church at Grand Banks, Neb.,
when the preacher said The devil has
his eyes on Sarah DeCamp." The next
day Sarah DeCamp's body was hauled
from the river, her sensitive nature hav-
ing impelled her to suicide.
A youth OF Salisbury, Connecticut,
four years old, anu his young sister, saw
a rat hasten into a hole in the barn
floor. Said he, Sis. the Bible says
Watch and pray You pray while !
watch the hole, and I'll swat him across
the snoot when he comes out.
A lady who lost her husband by ship
wreck used to 60 down on the beach
and wait his coming hours. Lately,
however, gay old bachelor goes down
and waits with her, and now she stays
longer than ever. But she does not
seem near as sad when she returns.
That was an awkward predicament OF
the ex.Queen of Spain. Upon leaving
Florence recently, because of her i'm
mense size, she experienced much diff
Guilty in getting into the railway car
riage. No one could assist her, because
Spanish etiquette forbade any one to
touch the Queen.
In Yeddo, Japan, the imperial ma
rines have a band of musicians, who a
few months ago had never had foreign
musical instrument in their hands. but
who now play with accuracy some Of the
best known marches and quicksteps per
formed by British regimental bands. Its
members are under the instruction of a
British band-master.
"What a nuisancel" exclaimed a
gentleman at concert, as a young fop
in front Of him kept talking in loud
voice to lady at his side. Did you
refer to me, sir2' threateningly demand
ed the fop. 20, no; meant the must
clans there; who keep up such a noise
with their instruments that | can't hear
your conversation, was the singing
reply.
90" gasped fat Mrs. Weighty, as she
assembled the second fight Of stairs to
her new residence, / really cannot run
up any more stairs "Of course not, /"
answered her husband; but if the stairs
were made of dressmakers bills you
could run them up very easily" | do
detest puns," exclaimed Mrs. Weighty
the next day, recounting the converse.
ton to a friend.
Books, wrote Oliver Goldsmith, who,
having worked for one Grifiths. and
for the ingenious Mr. Newbery of St.
Paurs churchyard, knew well what he
was writing about, have their time as
well as cucumbers / would no more
bring out new work in the summer
than would sell pork in the dog-days
Nothing in my way goes off in summer
except very light goods indeed" Times
have not much altered. July, August
and September are still, perhaps, the
dullest months in the year in the book
market.
A correspondent thus describes the
female deceptions practiced at Cape
May: The ladies, finding it dangerous to
trust 10 nature for their charms, even
during the brief time they spend in their
daily dir" in the briny waves, have re-
sorted to the witcheries of art to help
them out where natural loveliness falls
short / allude to the padding of bath
ing dresses that has become quite fash
ionable. Not only are the bathing
dresses for private use made in this man
ner, but also those for hire at the public
bathing houses. The breast, arms. shout
ders, and even the calves, are so neatly
and symnetrieally padded, that every
fair bather you meet appears TO be per-