Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-03
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FACTS AND FANCIES.

hangs by slender thread.
Rachel, the great French actress II
said never to have received a higher
salary than $1,000.
The old-fashioned open fre'places
with iron dogs, are being largely intro
duced into the houses of Iowa City.
A teacher in Iowa has been discharged
for obeying St. Paul, who says; Greet
one another with a holy kiss. he
kissed schoolmarm.
He was good man, says an Iowa
paper of deceased citizen, but then
he sometimes bet on the wrong horse,
the same as the rest Of us"
A New Orleans justice has decided
that where two families occupy house
one can't sing Captain Jinks' over
thirty times in succession without being
liable to fine for disturbing the peace
Butler never misses a chance to hi
the newspapers, and for one we mus
say that we have ever taken great pleas
ure in working over the story Of BeDJa'
min and his stolen spoons.
The last match in the box generally
fails to burn; so he who walks in the
dark all his lie, and strikes for light
only on his death led, is in danger Of
awakening naught but strong odor Of
birthstone.
An instance of the tyranny OF mer
was exhibited at a woman's meeting II
Titusville, where a gentleman entered
and told his wife. one of the officers Of
the meeting, to come home quick, as
the baby had the collie. She went,
An immense deposit of shale, filled
with oil, has been discovered on the
line of the Union Pacific railroad about
three hundred miles west of Cheyenne
Wyoming. The shale burns freely, and
can be used as fuel in manufacturing
the oil.
A man sixty years of age, residing
near New Haven, rises every day at |
o o'clock in the morning, walks about ten
miles to his work, which ke begins at A
o'clock, and leaves at ] o'clock in the
afternoon, when he walks home. He has
followed this practice for years.
A young man at Austin, Nevada, the
other day made a serious mistake. He
bought handsome dress pattern for his
sweetheart, and a pair Of red flannel
drawers for himself. He delivered the
wrong bundle to the young lady. Result
"a broken head and ruined frying
pan.
An old, rough clergyman once took
for his text that passage Of the Psalms,
Il said in my haste all men are liars.
Looking up apparently as if he saw the
psalmist standing before him, he said:
You said it in your haste, David. If
you had been here, you might have said
it after mature deliberation."
A young beau, at his sisters evening
party, began to sing " Why am / so
Weak aud Weary" when a little brother
brought the performance to a sudden
close by yelling out, Aunt Mary says
it's because you come home so late, and
drunk most every night
At a rhtrch fair in Troy a ragged
colored man and woman entered the
crowded rooms and pleaded for aims.
They said they were starvicR, and their
pligh. touched the hearts and wallets Of
the crowd. After collecting good sum
Of money. the colored couple wiped the
burnt cork from their faces, and two Of
the pillars Of the church were revealed.
A St. Louis Globe reporter has been
writing up the highly instructive and
narrowing details Of " body-snatching, "
and just because the medical students
Of that burg got rumptous he an
nounees his Office hours from III o'clock
one morning until ? o'clock next morn
ing, and offers to snatch them bald
headed into the bargain.
Sturgeon, writing Of Prayer, says:
Let us nc; employ prayer with a view
TO our own work alone. for narrow
minded applications cannot be &C.
csptAble with God. Some prayers re-