Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-11
FACTS AND FANCIES.
II. WHITMORE,
Publisher and Proprietor


shorter in front
1t is said that lawyers houses are
built on fools heads.
A man may love wisely, but he can
not love two very well.
Hugging set to music is what some
person is pleased to call waltzing
To turn the heads of whole congre-
CATION 90 to church late with new pair
of boots.
Ben Butler is worth two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. The wicked
prosper for awhile.
The Brooklyn Argus has advices to
show that there is not as much trimming
on nightpowns as there used to be.
Chicago has a rich young lady who
has a strange mania for buying dogs.
She has invested $1,000 in them so far.
Mr.. Beecher continues to preach splen-
did sermons.
''And not wave Of trouble rolls
Across his peaceful breast
Miss Nilsson has been decorated by
the Grand Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha
with the Order of Merit for Art OF
Science.
DR.. Mary Walker assumed female
habiliments for a few moments so that
she might write: 81 consider Mrs. Til.
ton disgrace to my sex.
We do not adore the woman who is
homely and thinks she is beautiful; bat
| if she makes no fuss about it she is
nearly as good as the best Of them.
An enthusiastic admirer of Goldsmith
Maid has pulled two hairs from the great
trotter's tail, and intends to have them
woven into ring. He needsia plug hat
to stow his ears in. ..,.l 3.
Professor Tyndall proposes to set up
his science against our religion Sly
man, the professor He knows he can
prove his theories directly, while ours
take time not to say eternity.
Since Brigham Young proclaimed that
he had but one lawful wife he has had
his head shaved, and now appears in the
bosom of his family surrounded with an
impenetrable coat of cast iron.
It's awful lonesome in Mexico just
| cheeks ss he takes his son on his knee
and tells him how the country used to be
blessed with a revolution about every
| two weeks.
Monkeys have not been generally sup.
posed to be influenced by the sweet
sounds produced by their travelling asso-
ciates Yet it is noticed every day, after
the grinding ceases, that the monkey is
carried away with the music.
When man stands for half an hour
on street corner, waiting for a signal
lantern, which is hung over a ditch, to
come up on the horse car track and take
him home, there is something the mat
ter with his reasoning faculties.
Milwaukee Sentinel: Notes of the
storm still come in. A visitor from
Louisville was struck by the wind and
as he flew up Wisconsin street with his
ear unfurled, gentleman remarked: |
knew that wind would fetch the circus
| tent.
A lady teacher in public school was
amazed the other day by seeing per.
feet forest OF juvenile hands Ay up in
| the air, and shake and gesticulate with
violent agitation What do you want2'
queried the puzzled instructress. Cho-
rus: Yer hair 8 fallin on.
One of the wretched luHaties confined
in the poor house of Milwaukee is a tel
egraph operator, and she spends her
time in telegraphing to her husband in
Ireland, her finger being worn down to
the bone in her constant tapping against
the wall, in her imaginary dispatching.
did not give you a Jogging the
other dsy2 said a schoolmaster 10 a
trembling boy. Yes, sir," answered
the boy. Well, what do the Scriptures
say on the suhject3" 81 don't know,
sir, said the other, except !, is 10 the
passage which says, it is more blessed
TO give than to receive.
The public analyst Of Sheffield, under
the food adulteration act, lately testified
before committee Of the House Of
Commons. In describing authorizations
of tea, be said (amidst much laughter)
that he had found Chinese toe nails IN
tea, but be did not consider or rule that
to be an sdulteration.