Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-01
FACTS AND FANCrEs.


Pretty New Jersey girls are facetiously
called sandwiches.
The London Pantechnicon, DESTROYED
by fire last year, has been rebuilt.
The new Shakespeare controversy is at
an end. Cincinnati has decided in favor
of Bacon.
An Irishman returned from his travels
calamity compared his landlady to
Vesuvius, because she was fine old
crater" IS
Always acknowledge courtesies. If
you have no flowers or refreshments to
offer cats serenading you, throw out a
brick or bootack.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is wrangling
over the forms of marriage. AS no
manageable man likes her form no
change will be made at present.
1t is said that Bazaine has engaged
the apartments in London which were
formerly occupied by Louis Napoleon
when he was a refugee in the city.
Dumas pere having noticed that in the
English language there were good many
words of French aspect, wrote this men,
orable phrase: English 10 only French,
badly pronounced"
According TO Miss Lille Edgerton, a
new female lecturer, the chief end Of
man is to serve God, keep out of the
penitentiary, make good investments,
and have hne obituary"
wipe your feetl'' is an invitation in
large letters, on door-mat six feet high
in front of carpet establishment; and
the legend Informs us that country
girl, anxious to observe all the rules,
read the words and remarked determin.
eddy, Il won't do It'll / won't climb that
stack of things for anything"
A music teacher remarks in the Chi
cago Tribune, Music certainly is the
fine art that makes home pleasant.
More than that, it is the fine art-I
haven't the least doubt-that will event
ually break up the boarding house mode
Of family life On every hand you can
find families driven to housekeeping in
selfdefense, to avoid the piano nuisance"
Jerome Bonaparte, the second son Of
the deceased American nephew Of the
first Napoleon, has been recently ad-
mitted to the bar at Baltimore, and his
first plea is pronounced to be an admir-
able effort. He is described as fine
looking young man of grave aspect,
with an admirably formed head and
face full of intellectual expression.
A young lady remarks: IF our Ma
ker thought it wrong for Adam to remain
single when there was not woman on
earth, how criminally wrong are the old
bachelors, with the world full of pretty
young girls?' And an old bachelor
might, retort that, in Adams time, wo-
men did not wear such expensive clothes.
AS soon as Mrs. Eve thought about dress,
then there was trouble for Adam.
For white man to sell anything in
the Indian Territory is forbidden by law,
though the fact is not generally known |
in the West. A deputy United States
Marshal was recently riding through |
Cherokee county and overlook an emf
grant wagon bound for Texas, He rep
resented that he was in need of food |
and asked the emigrant to sell him fifty
cents worth of flour. The emigrant sold |
him the -four whereupon the Marshal
took the man a prisoner. Grant ought
to write the Marshal a complimentary
letter.
An English swell, who attended a
stallion race last week, took occasion to
remark on the poor happearance hof
the hequipages, saying that " the place
to see that sort hof thing was at hour
DARBY, you know" and finished by say
ing that he had frequently ridden to the
course in a certain lords carriage.
T" Did you, in all your experience, ever
ride in a Black Maria2" asked by
stander. 81 don't ave the pleasure to
know it by that name, my fine fellah,
but Hi ave no doubt Hi ave hoften rode
hin hit, you know"