Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-19
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the
sport of every breath of folly.-HaStiH.
Religion converts despair, which de-
stroys, into resignation, which submits
Lady BIessington.
Whetstones are not themselves able to
cut, but make iron sharp and capable OF
cutting. ng.-Isocrates.
How poor, how rich, how subject, how
august, how complicated, how wonderful
is mani Young.
Frank sincerity, though no invited
guest, is free to all, and brings his well
come to him.-Hdrara.
Vast, colossal destiny, which raises
man to fame, though it may also grind
him to powder. r.-Schiller.
It is the first rule in oratory that
man must appear such as he would per-
suade others to be- and that can only be
accomplished by the force of his life
Spit.
The more weakness the more false
hood; strength goes straight; every
cannon ball that has in it hollows and
holes goes crooked. Weaklings must
lie.-Ritchhng.
They that deny God destroy man
nobility, for certainly man is of kin to
the beasts by his body; and if he is not
kin to God by his spirit, he is base and
ignoble creature = Bacon.
The little mind that loves itself will
write and think with the vulgar: but the
great mind will be bravely eccentric,
and scorn the beaten road, from univer
sal benevolence. = Goldsmith.
One of the recently decapitated Off.
cers in the Boston Custom house is
writing a book with this rather startling
tile: 1.-TWO Years in the Custom. House;
or, a Cat in He'll Witout Claws"
A Chinese cure for hydrophobia is to
give the patient a decoction OF the leaves
of stramonium, in doses large enough to
keen him delirious for twenty hours.
1t is said that the hydrophobia symptoms
disappear on the appearance of dell
rum, and do not return.
A milk woman was attacked by foHr
highwaymen in Hamilton, Ontario, the
other morning. She fortunately carried
the bulk of her money in her stocking,
but had the presence of mind to offer her
captors an old pocket book containing
forty cents with which they made of.
An Irishmau found a government
blanket, and rolling it up, put it under
his arm, saying: "Yis, that's moine.
q for Patrick, and for McCarty; be me
sowl, but this learnin' is foine thing,
as me fayther would say; for if | hadn
an edication | wouldn't have been aftheT
fndin me blanket"
At Bahia, ia Brazil, the time-honored
Bahia sedan chair, carried by negroes
which for more than q century has been
the only means of reaching the upper
from the lower or commercial town-has
at length been superseded by powerful
hydraulic elevator. From 1000 to 5000
persons use this elevator every day.
An individual of tentative turn Of
mind determined to test the bossted pro-
bity of the descendants of the Pilgrim
Fathers, and accordingly fastened his
pocketbook to Plymouth Rock, with a
notice that the owner would call for it on
the following morning When he went
TO recover his treasure the next day he
didn't find it, but he saw several of the
descendants sitting on the neighbor-
ing fenee-rails, waiting for repetition
of the joke.-BrOokiyH Argus.
According to recent reports from
Switzerland, the Federal government IS
resolved to complete its work OF
strengthening the defensive resources ol
the republic by giving the reorganlzed
militia certain formidable points d appuii
partially entrenched, and roads for them
10 retire on or operate out of in case of
war. The neighborhoods of Zurich and
Berne are spoken of as the probable
sites for the chief OF these fortified
places.
An instance has happened at Gesse-
nav. near Berne, wherein man hanged
himself from being overwhelmed with
good fortune. The man succeeded in
smassipg a considerable sum of money.
Not long ago he was informed that q
legacy of $4,000 francs had been LEFT
him. A profound melancholy seized
him, and the fear of death from hunger
haunted him day and night. To avoid
this he went into a neighboring forest
and hanged himself TO pine branch
he left a fortune of 100000 francs.
A correspondent of the Alta Califor
MIA writes from the City of Mexico
"For many years Mexico has not en-
loved sueh perfect peace as at present
but it is not that peace upon which thl
welfare of nation is built-it is almos
the stiffness Of death. Everything i
paralyzed-no trade, misery amoni
most classes, and no political strife o
any kind, except the local excitement o
a few elections in which but little inter
est is taken. The only ambitious pee
Die in Mexico, apparently, ars the te'
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