Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-23
FACTS AND FANCIES

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Better slip with the foot than the
tongue.
No cards" is what gambler at
tached to his wedding notice.
Dark eyes show power, light eyes gen.
tleness. and gray eyes sweetness.
All who advertise do not get rich, but
precious few get rich without it.
1t has become quite the correct thing
for ladies to wear silk stock ngs.
Pie parties are the latest novelty in
social circles in the Middle States.
Omelettes made of turtle eggs are
delicacies which Florida has taught US.
Mrs. Swisshelm never darns anything.
Such a term is too mild for her fiery ma
ture.
If you want to get the drift of
things" 90 into the room where your
wife is sweeping.
A Delaware Millerite went up the
other day without having set the time.
Powder sent him.
Olive Harper, a gossipping American
newspaper correspondent, has just been
married to French marquis.
Victoria Woodruff is seriously sick,
but she can be sick long time without
the public missing her much.
A horse jockey bought pamphlet,
The Question of Races" but couldn't
find anything in it about horses.
A girl of eighteen, living in Alabama,
will climb telegraph pole any day for
money enough to buy calico dress.
Ladies are said to wear their street
costumes trimmed with bugles, because
they assist them in making their calls,
You often hear of man being 10 ad-
vance of his age, but you never hear Of
woman being in the same predica-
ment
A lady in Paris has had her baby's
face all torn to pieces by parrot jeal-
GUS of the csresses the mother gave the
child.
Steadiness of nerve is illustrated by
the case OF the man who can sit and
hold skeins of silk for his wife for a
couple OF hours at time without NOV
ing his legs.
The BARRIERS in Syracuse gave ball
and banquet recently; but the man who
looked in at the door and yelled, Is
this barber-cue?" was chased eleven
blocks before they lost track of him.
A Helena (Montana) divine, who has
spent the beet part of the summer in
Outstanding Chinsman, thought he
was getting along nicely, until John
made proposition to him the other day,
to put il" with him and start faro
bank
An old Frenchman, very rich, was
about to cut off his nephew with shil-
ling" as a good for nothing; but upon
learning that in five years, during which
they had not met, the nephew had sue
ceeded and grown very rich, be left the
dear boy his whole fortune.
The Oregon Legislature has passed a
bill enabling any person who loses money
at gambling game to recover double
the amount so lost, and the result is that
professional poker players deal the worst
possible hands to themselves, and four
aces to their verdant opponents.
An Auguss hen pecked husband closed
his testimony in his action for divorce
from his wife as follows: Il don't want
to say anything again the woman, Judge,
but wish you could live with her a little
while, you'd think / had told the truth.
The earnest sincerity Of this appeal won
for the poor man the decree he desired
In the scene in Jayne Eyre" in which
the lunatic wife kindles the curtains Of
Rochester's" bed. the event became a
reality at a theater in Worcester, Mass 4,
and the FIRE communicated to fat and
the stage carpet. The audience, with
mof5 sense than usual, sat and watched
the progress of the flames until thew
were extinguished. The curtain was
rung down for few minutes, when the
play proceeded as before.
Two very remarkable incidents hap
pened recently in the village Of Fairhs-
ven, opposite New Bedford, Mass. Two
aged sisters, whe inhabited houses at
opposite corners, died at the same time.
Each matron was the head Of q large
family; each funeral was appointed at
the same hour. The hearse containing
the body Of the eldest sister passed on
FIRST TO the cemetery. when the family
Of the other sister fell into the line Of
mourners With their burden. A few days
later two young ladies' living in the same
neighborhood died, who we're engaged TO
two cousins. Their Wedding dresses