Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-17
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Don't marry a woman who bumps her
head against the floor every time she
sneezes.
Elogging is said to be quite common
in young ladies schools in Great Britain.
A tour of Europe on velocipedes is
shortly to be undertaken by a party oil
English excursionists.
Toast at railway dinner Our
mothers, industrious tenders, though
they often misplaced the switch.
MIR. Marrowfat defines fashionable
church as place from which people
go to heaven for wearing good clothes.
The Worcester Massachusetts, Palla-
dium is edited by two sisters, daughters
Of the former editor Of course it is a
gossippy sheet.
"Gimme a rest is the way south
Sixth street young ladies stave off the
marriage proposals of their lovers
Terra Haute Erpress.
The hangmen in California, having
heard that a Frenchman in that State
has been saved from drowning by his
dog are keeping an eye on him.
A Massachusetts, man and his sweet
heart had themselves married under an
old elm because number of witches had
been hanged from it in the early days Of
the Commonwealth.
The tomb OF those loving sinners, Abe
lard and Heloise, in Pere la.Chaise, is
undergoing repairs, and -Abelard will in
due time have new nose in the place
of the one knocked off ~ communist s
bullet.
The New York Tribune says the ladies
of Noble county, Ohio are out of work.
They have crusaded so admirably that
there is not single spirit or beer shop
left there, and they are thinking of start
ing one just to keep their hands in. g
Not long since lady called at the
Bloomfield, Iowa, postoffice, ard asked
for some three cent stamps. The usual
green ones were handed to her. She
handed them back and asked for some
pink ones, as she wanted them to match
her stationery which was all Of that
color
The boy problem will never be solved
as long as the training of children is left
to women. What history there is in
the words of the honest-faced man who
yesterday stood in doorway and said
to neighbor solemnly and half conf
dentially, That woman has done her
est to. raise her boy right, but she
can't do it.
A Chicago clergyman relates the fol-
lowing anecdote II once married a
handsome young couple, and as took
the bride by the hand, at the close of the
ceremony, and gave her my warmest
congratulations, she tossed her pretty
face, and pointing to the bridegroom,
replied, l think he is the one to be con-
graduated.
An amorous young gentleman in
Thompson, Georgia, under the impress
sion that the sweet voice of his beloved
was calling him, lately walked in the
night out of his second story bedroom
window. When he struck the ground
and broke his ankle, and pain and an-
guish we're wringing his whole leg, he
was forced to get along without any
ministering angel, for there was none to
be seen.
A New York judge deserves the
especial thanks of women. To a boy
brought before him the other day for de-
Tending his mother from the brutality of
his father he said: Young man, / am
proud to see that you love your mother
and are anxious to protect her, but your
violence toward your father has been of
very vigorous character. Try and
keep your hands off your father, but in
any event protect your mother from
injury. You may go.
The following dialogue, which took
place in street car few days ago, is
tso good to be lost One Of a couple of
Teutonic gentlemen, sitting in one end
of the car, seeing fashily dressed fell
low come and take his seat at an oppo-
site end from where they we're sitting,
asked: "Who ish dat, Hans2" "0h,
dat ish sport" "Vot you call a sport,
heyY' "Ton't you know No; vat
is heY" "Vel, be is one Of der fellers
vot shaves all de hair of pig and cover
him all over NIT soap, and pet a green
Dutchman s. he can't catch him. -
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