Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-31
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

to pleasc-ourselves.
Wise mothers try to husband their re-
sources and their daughters.
Great works are performed more
through perseverance than strength.
The proper way Of saluting a writing
master is to say, How do you flourish ?"
A female mind reader" guessed
that her lover was going to kiss her.
Right again.
There is something very friendly about
a man who tells you to call again with
your little bill.
A Chicago man claims to have discov-
cred an honest gas metre, Understand
Chicago man claims it.
The emotional Miss Tennie c. Clahin
is reported to have become the prepon.
derating moiety Of Mr.. John Green.
People viii talk about something, and
in Philadelphia they are discussing the
style of monograms for horse blankets.
"He provoked me to loving him" was
a Rochester girls excuse for engaging
herself to a man whom she had always
protested to hate.
In the village of Sheridan, Oregon,
they utilize the church on week days by
taking out the seats and using the floor
as a croquet ground.
An Ohio farmer who hasn't brass
rooster swinging on the top of his barn
as a weather-vane can't expect his
daughter to move in good society.
Fanny" writes from Brooklyn to ask
why it is that all the young men who
have donned new" overcoats this
winter smell so of benzne. --Neo York
Herald
Tons Of postal cards without address
ses are destroyed in the Dead Letter
Office, because people write their mes
sage first and then forget to address
the card.
This would be a sandy desert of lone
someness if women were not privileged
to attend auction sales and pay more for
an old bureau than new chamber set
would cost.
A burning building at Ira, N. Y, was
saved the other day, in the absence of
water, with whey from a neighboring
cheese factory This is new whey Of
extinguishing fires.
In nearly all cases the natural capacity
and area of the chest are sufficient for
all the uses of respiration. But the
capacity of the chest may be diminished
by the habit Of stopping.
Julien Hawthorne relates that his
father advised him to earn an honest
living in any way rather than be an
author. But the young man, like other
young men, didn't take advice.
Some time ago an enterprising au-
tumn wasp started a nest over night in
Joyces trowsers, and when he thrust
his leg through next morning, the whole
town wasn't big enough to hold him.
There is nothing half so sad in life as
the spectacle Of at aactioneer attempt
ing to sell fifteen thousand dollars worth
Of goods to an audience whose aggregate
and tangible assets foot up thirty cents.
A Fitchburg, Mass, conductor stopped
his train the other morning for woman
who was rushing wildly after it. She
thanked him warmly, casually remarked
that she had forgotten to kiss her hus-
band, made good the omission, and then
strolled home again.
Robert Dale Owen freely admits that
if he could have seen Katie King exca-
waiting pile Of buckwheat cakes only a
f2w hours before going into the cabinet,
he would have known that such an ap.
petite could never have been developed
in the atmosphere Of Paradise.
December in his icy bonds
The stifed landscape locks ana blanches'
And shtieks across his frozen ponds,
And whistles In the naked branches"
Heaven bless you" said John Henry,
1T was the prettieSt fight you ever saw.
She punched away at the ivory keys like
mad, and the piano forte nobly."
1t is all right for the girls to initiate
gentleHens fashions in dressing their
hair, in the pocket on the hip, in the cuff,
collar, lappels, hats, coat tails, etc, but
when they adopt the slouchy habit Of
walking around with their hands stuck
10 their jacket pockets, isn't the imita-
ton rather too closer
The laws Of Paris are so framed as to
constitute strong persuasive TO honesty
on thel part Of tradesmen. jewelers. are
obliged to distinguish plated from gem
uiue ware by the word limitation"
placed where the customers cannot fail
Of seeing it, II a grocer is detected sell
ling adulterated articles he Is heavily
fined; bis name and place Of business is
published at bis own expense in the
official journal, and be isaompelled to eT-
pose in his store for specified time
plseard stating that be has been fined
for selling adulterated goods.