Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-04

When a colored minister leans up
against q hen-roost on a dark night, the
star.psved courts of the New Jerusalem
seem further off to him than ever
And now they say William Penn would
sit down under a tree with Indians about
him, and telling them Of the better land
beyond the sea, deal himself four aces
every time and win the game.
A lady went into a carpet store re-
Gently, and, pointing out a carpet, asked
the proprietor what it was, Brussels"
said the proprietor. Brussels" quoth
the lady. passing her hand over it.
Seems to me the BRUSHES don't stick up
much"
A French manager has adopted an
excellent plan in responding to encores
No piece is repeated until the entire
programme is given, when, after those
who wish to retire have left the audito-
rum the numbers redemanded are given
a second time.
Mrs. Partington is in New York. She
went up from Boston as soon as she
learned by telegraph that gold was rap
idly falling in Wall street, but after sew
eral unsuccessful attempts to get into
the shower, ia going back q disappointed
woman.
The man who invents a successful
type-setting machine will amass untold
riches. But it will be an insignificant
sum in comparison to the wealth that
will accrue to that individual who dis
covers a method by which a baby may
be made to consume its own cry.
II is to the interest of missionary
societies to diffuse the statement by NJ.
Mocha, a French savant, that the flesh
Of the Caucasian is bitter and salty,
while that of the negro is OF finer flavor,
and will keep much longer"
While on her way to leap into the
river a Minneapolis girl met a man who
proposed marriage, and she turned back
and was happy. Almost any day now
one a count four or FIVE Minneapolis
girls wandering alcng the river banks.
When a Chsrlestown woma is going
TO the opera she ncy puts on her gloves
until after she gets into the street car,
and after her escort has buttoued them
she lets her hands lie on their backs
in her lap with the fingers ard thumbs
standing up. Thus everybody knows
where she is going.
The thought that Katie King, Of whom
he sang with the others in the Philadel.
phis seances: 10
Flowers. rare and of'rings bring,
Praises loud and long we'll sing
Till the air with them shall ring
VI our Queen. sweet Katie King,
lived in a cheap boarding house, and
perhaps ate hash, must be just a bit dis.
tasteful to Mr.. Owen.
Figaro reports a nice little game Of
the Paris %tailors. The tailor says to his
customer, "Sir, / had the honor to see
you at the marriage of Mr.. so-and so.
The coat ! made for you needs a little
change" Naturally the gentleman sends
the coat, and a few days after the tailor
returns it. but 10 change has been made,
only it had been worn by a gentleman
who had to have q coat that night, and
there was no time to make one.
A gentlemen in a Western city sitting
in a pew with a lady with whom he had
formerly been on terms Of intimate &C.
quaintance, handed her a bible with a
pin stuck through the following verse
And now ! beseech thee, lady, not as
though | wrote a new commandment
unto thee, but that which we had from
the beginning, that we love another
After reading it she stuck the pin
through the following verse and handed
the book back to him: Having MANY
things TO write unto you, ! would no,
write with paper and ink; but l trust tt
come unto you, and speak face to face
that our Joy may be full"
A moonlight wedding was recently
celebrated on the banks Of the Mantle
river, in Connecticut, under peculiar cir
cumstances. The bride and groom, with
their friends, called on the dominic o.
Mantle village late in the evening, anc
desired him TO unite them. When b,
looked at their certificate Of publish
ment he discovered that it had beer
made out in the neighboring town o
Waterford. and was yalueless in Mantle
There was a fiutter Of CONSERVATION fol
a moment. and then the bride pluckil,
suggested that they should walk oyer I,
Waterford, a mile distant by the r%ailroa,
track, as it was too late for a train. II
that town no suitable place could b
found for a wedding ceremony excep
the hotel, which was vetoed at once, a
the party we're Good Templars. Again
the bride came to the rescue and dc
clared that an open.air wedding woul'
be decidedly romantic. Aud by the edg'
OF the quiet stream, WITH the bridal com
pany standing around in The moonlight
the couple we're made one.