Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-28
FACTS FOR THF PAIR.

A young woman exclaimed the other
day, II have excurted three times this
summer.
A Milwaukee lady who paid $50 to
have wart removed from her nose, now
wants to know what become Of the nose.
A nice and exquisite perfume is adver-
iised, called the Cardinal Bouquet"
Partaking, doubtless, Of the "odor Of
sauctity."
Marriages are said to be made in hea.
ven. This is, doubtless, the reason that
thoughtful people look down" as they
walk about
The King Of Spain has, by royal decree,
created a junta of ladies, whose mission
will consist in aiding the authorities in
the hospital service.
An experienced "coquette" once said
to young man who touched her foot
under the table: please don't; my heart
is old and my boots are new"
Commonly it is the husband who, dy-
ing, leaves business for a spirited wife
to continue, but in Boston, Henry G.
Badger is advertised as carrying on q
school founded by his wife,.
"Now let us talk about your business
affairs" said a sharp Connecticut girl to
a young fellow after he had proposed
marriage to her in long address filed
with expressions Of passionate love.
A Detroit wife refused to speak to her
husband for several weeks, because he
went away to his business one morning
without kissing her goodbye. The joke
Of the matter was that the poor man
didn't know in all that time how he had
offended her.
A Paris correspondent states that a
French woman considers it privilege, a
bit Of good fortune, to get husband,
even when be amounts to very little. She
is almost willing beforehand to support
him wholly or in part for the sake of be.
ing madame"
An old bachelor, upon reading that
two lovers will situp half the night with
one chair in the room, said it could not
be done, unless one of them stands or sits
upon the floor. And such painful igno-
rance pretty plainly indicates that he
has never been there. srt1
DR.. Eta Paine is the 1ame Of femi-
nine surgeon who did service during the
late war. She displayed from her win
dow, in, Westerly, on Decoration Day,
the shot.riddled flag from Sumter, which
Major Anderson had given her. and re-
ceived a sereuade from patriotic band,
The following excellent toast was given
by schoolmaster: "The fair daughters
of America-may they add virtue to
beauty-subtrac envy from friendship
multiply amiable accomplishments by
sweetness of temper divide time by so
cisbility and economy-and reduce scan
dal to its lowest denomination"
Rev. Phebe A Haunsford, pastor Of
the Church of the Good Shepherd, Jersey
City, on the last Sunday in May, changed
pulpits with her son, Rev. Howard Alcott
Hannaford, who is pastor Of st. Paul 8
Church, in Little Falls, New York. This
is the first pastoral exchange on record
between mother and son.
While the ladies Of Oneida, New York
we're working at the election of no-li
cense Board of Excise, one Of them re-
ceived the following note: my dear wife
i have washed the baby, put her to bed
and stirred the fire. what shall do next
Your loving husband, -" Such 9
man is handy to have in family, espe
cialy one in which the female head haI
a taste for politics.
The golden oriaamme of the day wa
sinking behind the western hills and glc
ryfying the landscape with its parting
rays, when she lifted her arms out Of thu
washtub, shook off the foamy festoons o
suds that clung to them, and gazing in
dignautly at a pile of her husband
linen, observed, 1.-TWO shirts week
That's more than | can stand. Now lie
him wash EN- himself"
Passing up Beaubien street, yesterday
a gentleman saw a man sitting on tn
steps of dilapidated old house, an,
looking so lonely and friendless, that h
halted and asked:
Anybody dead in the house2
Next thing to it, signed the man, a
he scratched his knee through hole il
his trowsers; "the old woman's got a
idea that she wants twenty.One wards /,