Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-24
FACTS AND FANcIEs.

Old hats are safer than new ones in
hall passage ways. so,i &
Never set an unhealthy looking child
to watch a mince pie. % .lea o
Murderers are great readers; they are
always looking for the moose eaA
Lucca receives one thousand forms
per night at the Vienna Opera Comique.
1t is estimated that eleven million
women in the United States wear calico
dresses. This is the estimate of blind
man.
Mrs. Rousby is now ON her way over;
she is engaged for one hundred and
twenty-five nights at four hundred dol
lars night. ass.s- ys
Dion Boucicault takes great care Of
his splendid health. AN he asks is to
live long enough TO dramatize Webster's
Dictionary.
America has one physician to- every
eight hundred inhabitants. That's, they
begin on that basis, but after that there
are not so many inhabitants.
The resolution to do or die is
never given to anybody so lavishly as to
the young man who bursts a suspender
button in the midst OF the Lancers.
There is Connecticut widower who
declares that nothing reminds hin OF his
poor dead wife so much az to live within
ear shot of saw mill during busy sea
son. lrt.5,. .ao,.slt Yrt,f- 4s
The people of Leith, Scotland, had
become very profanein their language,
aud the aid Of the police was invoked to
abate the evil. The result was that du-
ring one week recently, eighteen persons
were arrested for profanity.
Gambling does not pay the banker.
M. Dupressoir, former lessee of the
gambling tables at Baden Baden, offers
the Spanish government 25,000,000
francs for permission to establish gamb-
ling tables in the principal cities.
The Norristown Herald: The slang of
Mark Twain's new play has reached
Norristown. A gentleman returned a
pound Of cheese he had bought OF
grocer, with the remark that it was too
Lively > for his use. The grocer, some
what offended, examined his cheese, and
replied that it was worth as much as
any other cheese. "Yes," returned the
customer, there's millions in it,.
An honest farmer came to Chicago,
and vainly endeavored to sell his horse
for seven dollars. On his way home,
the animal at railroad crossing came
in contact with locomotive, and, ere it
had fairly risen over the telegraph wires
beside the track, the agriculturist had
valued him at $llO0, and was convinced
that If he had lived he could have shown
2:3O on any track. The railway COM
pany, he says, will have to pay him.
A young lady in a neighboring village
accepted an invitation from a young
gentleman to ride, and when the gentle
man came with his horse and buggy the
lady found it impossible to get in, so
closely had she adhered to the prevail
ing fashion of drawing her dress tightly
about her. She asked to be excused,
and going into the house, let out two or
three reefs in her dress, when she was
enabled to get into the buggy. Troy
Times
There is a student attending the Cen
ter College this session, says the Dam
ville KY, Advocate, who is the citizen
Of an adjoining county married, and has
two children. BE can be found promp-
tly at his post on Monday morning with
a wallet of provisions sufficient to sup
ply him until Friday evening, when be
returns to his home. The only expense
be incurs is a small fee for q bed in the
dormitory during his stay from Monday
till Friday, which is a mere triae, the
college generously furnishing tuition
free. he is determined 10 have an ed
ucation, and wehazard nothing In saying
such a spirit will win distinction in any
profession he may select when he leaves
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