Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-27
FACTS n FANCIES.

age somehow to worry through life With
the commas they find in their news
papers.
And now comes a Boston girl who
wants the new undergarment called
prima," because it is the first to be
put on.
If you want to exterminate a family,
don't get up a vendetta t o do it. A.
recipe for making mince pies will do the
business for you.
The indianapolis News las found in
the Cincinnati Gazette two advertise
ments " such as no man would care to
read to his family"
The GhicagO Tribune says it's sham
pooling which makes so many men bald
headed. The occasional handsfuls lost
in family disturbances are provided for
by nature.
A church sexton OF Watertown, New
York, has oficiateG at 1898 funerals,
aud cried at every one of them, and he
has teaIs enough for as many more
funerals.
Rev. DR.. Begg, the eminent Scotch
divine, who has a perfect adherence Of
theaters, has a son who is now acting on
the London stage under the name of
Walter Bentley.
If Colonel Forney will explain, in one
of his letters to Europe, his connection
with the prosecuted Mr.. Irwin, We prom
Use to break in on our custom and read
it Chicago Times.
No further trouble need be expected
in Louisiana, A lot of thcrough-going
worm lozenges, carefully wrapped in the
Northwestern Christian Advocate, have
arrived at Sheridan's headquarters in
New Orleans.
By judieiously scattering the French
expression, CT devant, through his col
umns, the local editor of the Detroit Free
Press has gradually built up for that pa
per a reputation which is rarely to be
had west of Boston.
a French paper states that quite an
alarming proportion Of the number Of
private houses burned down is to be
traced to the thefts Of mice, who are
particularly fond of wax matches, which
are chiefly used in Europe.
The Boston Globe the
arrival in its mailing room of the colony
of cockroaches which recently left this
efice for Boston. They do not find that
they have bettered their condition much.
On the night they got in the principal
c%olonist mounted a paste bucket and
took q look around the room, remsrking
with no little chagrin, "Hayen'ty you got
but one Of them FASTING machines2"-
Courier Journal.
We have always had a very high opin-
ion of the producing powers of the State
Of Texas, but now that we read in the
New Yerk Bulletin that the 400 hogs
recently shipped from Austin to St.
Louis were fat, smooth and averaged
225 tons each" and that 5000 or 10000
of the same sort are to be shipped, we
feel a depressing consciousness that oul
Correspondents have not been giving us
all the information to be had about
Texas.
A youth Of nineteen winters, on his
way to Illinois from New York State
tsrried here awhile yesterday, and hi
exhibited to a police officer his means o
defense against Western roughs and rob
bers. He had a %horse.pistol as long al
his satchel, loaded with shot, a hickory
club, a short bar Of iron, q two-edgeC
dagger, a big jsck.knife, and a slung
shot, and as he laid them down on
bench he smiled and remarked: I'm
jist a-thirsting to have some one climb OF
to mep'-Detroit Free Press.
What becomes of all the French tina
is taught in the United States? For the
number Of our home. educated country
men and countrywomen in Paris who
can order a dinner, make out a wash-lis'
or settle a coachman's farein the French
language is represented as iniinitesimal
, The funny stories that occasionally stuC
/; the humoristic columns Of the Partisan
. journal. respecting the misconstructior
Of French words by our country people
abroad are said to be more than sur
/; passed by the reality. The French
D language is only half taught, where it i
taught at all, in the United States; and
j as a consequence, the American who
visits Paris nowadays wears q placard OF
, which is inscribed; Don't know thu
language. Fair game for all sharpers.
One consolation, however, is ours
I. American travellers know but littN
; French, the English who visit Pari
. know no more.-B0ston Post.
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