Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-11

| III appears ulLlCult " W. out OOHSIcSo-
men must catch the speakers eye before
they make motion.
The Texas Medical College won't pay
but So piece for subjects, and it isn't
much of an object to kill man.
Thou shalt not be found out, would
be. more popular commandment than
the old one about stealing.
A young man who was disturbing a
revival meeting, discovered that the
preacher could cast out devils.
A French chemist has discovered that
vanilla may be made from resin; and
the proposition is not Unreasonable.
His name was Rath, and when he asked
his girl to marry him she gave him the
soft answer that turneth away Rath.
Miss Cary says that she is engaged to
Max Strakosch, but that it is a musical
engagement pure and simple-or rather
not simple.
The holidays are within the sound of
the small boys whistle and let no man
tell what happiness is until he becomes
a child again.
Better than paying the doctor. A
Cleveland man reminds his wife that she
is red-headed, and then she cures him of
the rheumatism.
A Tuscumbia cat was carried four
miles by the late tornado and left in
corn field, and the fright turned her into
a gray cat So stated.
We observe that muffs are in fashion
though why should they walk at the side
of their owners, instead of covering their
hands, is a question of some Importance
A gushing poet asks in the first line
of recent effusion: How many weary
pilgrims lie we give it up, but ex-
perience has taught us there are good
many.
Force of habit. A man who always
dog scared a page of book in order to
remember passage, invariably used to
turn down a street so as to fix it in his
memory.
A funeral procession at La Crosse
was delayed fifteen minutes the other
day in order to allow the widow of the
deceased to look around the house and
find her snuff-box.
They tell of an Infatuated person who
has followed Clara Morris from place to
place for some years He probably
knows before now, if he never did before,
that rolling stone gathers nc. Norris
Rochester Democrat.
All the preachers in New York and
Brooklyn have been led lately to talk of
Sunday amusements, and many of their
remarks are quite as amusing as they
are convincing. We trust never to see
the time, however, when the pulpit shall
be abolished from either of those places. |
Detroit Free Press: We never get
excited in reading of the mysterious dis
appearance Of "a handsome young lady |
about eighteen years old" They are
generally heard from in about a week |
asking the old man if he will forgive and |
forget, and if they may bring Charles
Henry homer
Burlington Hawkeye: When the Ouch
ess Of Edin6urg wants to talk nicey-
nicey to her boy baby all she has to say:
And was it its own muzzy's blessed
little Albert Alexander Alfred Ernest
William ?" And then that overburdened
infant goes into commissions that would
.wist the backbone right out Of plebeian
1aby.
According to Mrs Livermore, the wives
Of the East India Brahmins are the mere
slaves of their husbands, and servilely
attend them at meal time. But the day
is not far distant when British civiliza-
lion will have introduced fat irons and
potato-mashers into India, and when the
now tyrannical Brahmin will be glad
enough to crawl up outside Of the door
and sniff the dinner through the Key J
hole.
The Herald OF Health is of opinion
that the simple color Of ones surround
ngs has a marked influence on his
health. 1t says. Yellow on the walls
Of our rooms has a very depressing eff
feet on the mind. Violet is worse. A
man would 90 mad in a violet papered
or painted room Black rooms, or rooms
heavily draped in mourning, produces
gloom or foreboding. Never wear
long, unless you wish TO be-
come sad and sorrowfal beyond what