Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-03
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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tidy.
What man is mentioned before ADAM
Chap. lst.
The thermometer threatens to get as
high as gold.
Wisconsin tolerates town called
Packwaukee.
Pyrotechnical remedy for crying in
fants-Rock-et.
Music teachers are included among
people of note.
Is stealing march worse than
taking a walk2"
A woman who tells fortunes from
tea-cup is sauceress.
A man who is perfectly natural is gen.
orally perfectly honest.
Collectors should have easy times.
Their work is always dun.
Miss Lotta has purchased corner lot
in San Francisco for $4,000.
Methodism is on the increase in Eng
land to the extent of 1000 yearly.
Woman preachers for women; men
preachers for men. No more pastoral
visits.
A young Keokuk lady set her pas
house on fire because he wouldn't pay
her dry goods bill
Who is the LATEST man? The furni-
ture dealer-he keeps chairs and lounges
about all the time.
1t is we'll enough for a small boy to
wear striped or barber pole stockings,
because he is little shaver.
The man who went to sleep on the
railroad track found his rest was good
deal broken-and his leg too.
A missionary reports the dying words
of cannibal as having been: Speak
of me as one who loved his fellow-men. "
Some young infdel says that 10 put
your arm around a girls waist when she
wants you to, is heap better than reli-
gioH.
II wouldn't have left, but the people
kinder egged me on" said man who
was asked why he quit his Kansas home
in hurry.
The strongest propensity in woman's
nature, says a cynical editor, is a desire
to know what is going on, and the next
to manage the job.
A singular difference-Call girl
young witch and she is pleased; call an
elderly woman an old witch and her in
dignation knows no bounds.
A lecturer aptly demonstrates the
| theory that heat generates motion, by
pointing to boy who accidentally sat
down on piece Of lighted punk.
A New York judge recently prescribe d
ginger ale for female prisoner whose
conduct showed that it was dangerous
for her toindulge in spirituous libations.
A Detroit Judge keeps the small boy
i. something like subsection by threat
ening to have him pinned to the wall
with crowbar and held until he bleeds
to death.
In Iceland they have no titles-not
even the plain Mr.. or Mrs" A man
is simply Siguard, or. whatever else his
name is, and his wife or daughter is In.
gebord,
That was a strictly proper remark that
a young lady made recently whilst part
ing from her lover in her fathers pres
ence, when she said to the loved one,
Do write, and fear not.
Circumstances alter cases. For in
stance, when Virginian arose in church
and said Here's hundred dollar bill
for the old boss behind the pulpit" no
one thought Of putting him out.
Young ladies subject to nervous de-
! bility in summer ought to beware Of TAX
ing too much exercise, They should, as
much as possible. lie quietly upon the
sofa and suffer their mothers to fan
them.
An Illinois paper puts it in this man
ner: " Mr.. -, who has been in retire.
ment for few weeks, after marrying
and burYing three sisters, came up
smilingly to the altar again yesterday,
having begun on ID new family
New York gamins steal the hats or
the heads of the passe ngers riding in the
horse cars. They put their hand through
the open window, seize a hat, and be.
fore the car can be stopped, have disap-
peared round some convenient corner.
Mount Vesuvius is to have railroad
to the top costing 100000 The up
per station will be guarded by a pent
house, so as to protect it in case of erup-
ton, and the line is to be constructed in
such way that the utmost danger to be
apprehended is the loss of few hun
dred feet of rails.
A letter from the camp of the Japan
ese expedition against Formosa says:
There are two American officers here,
Commodore Cassell and Colonel Was
son. Such, at least, is the rank they
bear while serving the Japanese. They
seem to have had hitherto, in an unoffi-
cial way, the general direction Of the ex-
pedition.
Perkins, of the Cincinnati Times,
wants Vassar put in the next regatta,
because Vassar reasons that all fowls
should be male ones. Perkins, in his
passionate moods, is a bold, bad man.
As for us, so pure is our regard for the
Vassar girls that we pray there may
never be an o'er-weening puss among
them. Let them rudder excel as they
are.
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