Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-02
FACTS AND FANCIES.

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Punch says he has observed that the
unfortunate mans friends live long
way off
Clergymen are as much troubled to
find them as medical students are to
find subjects"
In Chicago's version of Hamlet "
the drowned "ophelia" is rolled on a
barrel to revive her.
1t has become question whether a
phrenologist can tell what barrel con-
tains BY examining its head.
Most men like to see themselves in
print Ladies like to see them selves in
silk and velvet,
Cicero said, The pursuit of all things
should be calm and tranquil" How
about capturing heas2
On the gate of cemetery in Nor
mandy is written: This cemetery is
only opened for those who live in the
village"
A. 7. Stewards private house on Fifth
avenue, New York, is taxed for $500, O0O.
The estate is estimated to be worth
$780, 900.
According to Kansas decision hus-
band and wife can enter SD ow on a
ticket reading Admit one" Most
righteous judge.
We learn from an exchange hat mr..
George Sand writes very like a woman,
though we have suspected something of
this kind before"
A punster and admirer of fine SC emery
has wittily and truly said that the best
time to read the book of nasure is when
autumn turns the leaves.
A young lady of sedgwick county,
Kansas, advertises that she will give two
hundred dollars for a young man who
viii love her in kind and gentle man ner.
Julius, what part of the ceremo ues
do de ladies most admire when dey e.oes
to church," Well, Pompey, can't
tell dat What is it? well, OBJ coui Sc.
it's de hims."
4 Vermont preacher has found chap
ter in the Old Testament containing
fall description OF iron-clads and the
method of using. It's pity that he
didn't find it before the war
Sally, what have you done with the
cream? These children cannot eat skim
milk for breakfast" "Sure, ma am, it
isn't meself that would be afher giving
the scum to yez. took that and give it
to the cats.
The following quaint epitaph may be
found on one of the tombstones in the
old cemetery at 0xfc I'd, Ohio:
Thus ended the strife.
That bore him to Heaven,
The years Of his life was r."
There was something lovely about
them, even in death. 1t was on a Kan
sas prairie, and they lay side by side.
Toms thumb in Jacks left eye, and
jack revolver pushed into Toms right
ear. They had fit it out.
a Richmond paper is informed that a
operator ofSussex county, Va,
can with facility write two letters on diff
ferent subjects, one with the right hand
and the other with his left, at the same
time
Faith, and why did yer cut hole in
me ticket?" said Wicklow home ruler
recently on his first trip by that novel
invention, railway. Well" replied
the ticket porter, it was in order to let
you through"
Melancholy people rarely have well
arranged white teeth" says philoso-
pher Such talk is all rot The saddest
people are not those who sing, but those
who have just received bill for set of
well arranged teeth.
A contemporary suggests the title OF
Prince Of FIJI as the most fitting one
for the Duke of Edinburgs little son,
inasmuch as the annexation of the Fiji
Islands to the British crown was almost
Simultaneous with his birth.
An exchange can't see why fashiona-
bic people should not allow the congre-
cation to use opera glasses. Next we
shall have some worldly minded editor
clamoring for the services in fashiona-
Bile churches to conclude with farce.
Prince Louis Napoleon, who will COM
plete his studies at Woolwich Academy
in February next, stands at present
eleventh, and not twelfth, in the first
class; but, despite all statements to the
contrary, he has not yet decided upon
the course be will take upon leaving the
institution.
A Sunday-school teacher in this city
had for his lesson one Sunday the sub
jact Of miracles, and on being asked,
What is a miraoleY" replied, You
know Jesus turned water into wine at
Cana. That was a miracle. " Poohl"
exclaimed one Of the boys; my father
does that every day"
II young lady has a brother. and
that brother wears brown felt hat worth
TN dnllara ard he shnrll cana hnna