Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-04
FACTS AND FASCIEs.

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FACTS AND FANCIES.
A ieeting show--A horse race.
People grow sharp in dull times.
The last CUP of froic-hic cup.
Pluck proves to be the best luck.
A dreary waste-That Of faded
widow.
Never miss kiss, even if you must
kiss miss
A business air comes from the trade
winds.
Trance.migratiOn of sOles-sleep
walking,
~snppedhis grip" is California for
dying,
A dreary waist-That of faded
widow.
TIE Oldes, Western settler-The even
ing sun.
Echoes speak all languages under.
standing none.
A Georgia lady has been doing Gene
Sal Lee in wOrsted.
Every good sculptor is bound to make
= statue or bust.
Maggie Mitchell still treads the stage
With her Little Barefoot.
Conscience may be an inward monitor,
bat it may not be ironelad.
THERE'S much pulling and hauling for a
living in the dental profession.
A man with too many law suits gener-
ally has but few suits of clothes.
For divers reasons man does not
like to stay too long under water.
An armless Milwaukee woman boxes
her husbands ears with her feet.
A client is never certain about a law
yer, and generally takes him on trial.
A, in his honeymoon, calls his wife his
saint; B, ten years married echoes, his
amt.
A slumbering Detroiter snored so loud
that the police thought it was horse
groaning."
Texas has a town called Lovelady.
Old maids are inquiring about the eli
mate there.
Young ladies who wear the new felt
hats come as near to the boys as pos
sible-in dress.
President Tyler's daughter figures as
q public reader, and one of his sons as a
Methodist minister.
so far, so good" as the boy said
when he finished the first pot of his
mothers preserves.
How many days has the year OF its
own2 Three numbered and twenty-five,
because forty are Lent.
1t is reported that Isabella Of Spain is
going to sell her diamonds, which are
said to be worth $2.5OO,OOO.
The troublesome visitor who has been
shutting the doors after him all summer
now begins to leave them open.
The approaching marriage is an
nounced of a granddaughter of Feni-
more Cooper to granddaughter of Wash
ington Irving.
The Emperor Napoleon had at last
some genuine friends. for it is said floral
tributes frequently arrived at Chiselhurst
10 be laid on his tomb.
A Chicago clergyman sstonished his
the other Sunday by the
business-like speech: II
should like to continue as your pastor
another year, and will stay if you will
pay me $4,000. cannot stay for less,
and would like an answer right away"
de was engaged.
Diphtheria has been very prevalent in
Australia. and one of the most successful
remedies is said to have been few drops
If sulphuric acid in a tumbler full Of
water. The result Of this mixture is said
% be a coagulation Of the diphtheritic
membrane and its ready removal by
coughing
On the last Lucia" night at the New
York Academy of Music, when Albani
rang, Annie Louise Carey entered the
Academy attired in rich Russian man
lie. trimmed with the most costly furs,
md wearing a magnificent pearl silk
lress, heavily barred with black velvet
She, with two other ladies, sat at the per-
'ormsnce spplauding her sister artistic
With much feminine enthusiasm.
A Club for Ladies and Gentlemen.
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