Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-22
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

joaquin Miller says we are u race o.
clowns. Wen, the country is full o.
rings.
You are always justified in picking the
pockets of a chrome man, because he
has pict-ures.-N. O Times.
The late frosts in the West have curled
the gtasshoppers up till they cant enjoy
a rail fence with any sort of appetiten
Swearing-of time will be here in six
weeks more. "Thrse cigars a day fol-
fifty years is-' and so forth. But it is
a good thing to swear off.
At Monterey, Cal, great quantities Of
whalebone have been thrown upon the
beach, and a local press wants to know
if it is useful. OF corset is.
1t is not true that in America girls
have the same advantages as the boys.
They have not their educational advau-
tages, and they are not so practically
trained.
The women in Ohio are taking steps
to graduate as surgeons since the recent
admirable operation by one of their
number in cutting off the leg of her
drunken husband with a common saw.
Cleveland was the theater of this philan-
thropic deed.
There is a piece of soap in Albany
supposed to be one hundred years old"
And it might lie around loose in the Al
bany Legislature and not be used for
one hundred years more. One who en-
tiers there leaves soap behind. -Alabama
State Journal.
A Dubuque youngster, learning that
tannin could be used to make the skin
so hard and tough in exposed places that
chatting aud blistering would not occur.
acted accordingly; and now any amount
Of the parental mind and single has no
terrors for him.
Mr.. Doze, Of Milwaukee, awoke the
other day to find his wife had run away
with a sewing machine teller" At FIRST
Mr. Doze thought he was dreaming, but
when he discovered that she had really
gone, he could not help feeling sympathy
for the sewing-machine agent.
A Brooklyn man, who had the toes Of
one foot cut off by a horse car, sued the
company for $4,000 damages-$lOOO per
toe. The company denied responsibility
in toto, but the jury awarded the plaintiff
$500 as a memento Of the affair, and the
company had to foot the bill.
An 0sceola pa woman went out to
hunt her drunken husband, and found
him lying in the gutter. She gave him
several raps with a piece Of board before
she discovered that she was correcting"
another woman's husband. She takes no
pleasure in having the subject mentioned
now. :
All Americans appear to an English
mar to write precisely the same hand,
whether on the same principle hat makes
all negroes alike to a white man and all
sheep alike to every one but a shepherd,
or whether there is a greater uniformity
of writing. We are inclined to think
that the last is to a great extent true
Saturday RecieD (LoHdon).
At the police station: Judge Ito the
prisoner)- You were arrested at the
very moment you we're taking the port.
mOnnaie from the gentleman's pocket"
The prisoner" Yes, sir; but | was GO
ing to put it back. Ny first thought is
often bad; my seconds often good. The
policeman who arrested me should have
waited for my second thought"
Two women have started a barber.
shop in Titusyille. We saw one woman
start a barber-shop once. She came in
with a cowhide in her hand, aud said she
was going to horsewhip the mar who had
been talking about her; and eight men
with towels under their chins and lather
on their faces hustled out of their chairs
and started for the back door on a run.
When a man with a craving for other
peoples horses is supposed to be in a
Texas city, the three men who ara look
ingforh him don't trouble the Authorizes -
They ride up, armed TO the teeth, de-.
mand admittsnce to the wagongards,
and do the policing for themselves.
Though they do not always find the
person they are in search:of, the contem-
plation Of what would happen to him If
they did is almost as satisfying as the
corpse itself woald be.