Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-18
FCTS AND FANCIEs.

4 NC Olueeb AOIg nlbIOry.
Roll call-the bakers visit
A bad position-imposition.
"a regular beat-the heart beat.
A comic song is an absurd-ditty.
A court for hot weather-justice.
A popular brand of cigars-contra-
brand.
How to get along in the world-never
get short
Comfortable quarters-tweuty five cent
pieces.
Hotel keepers are people weEhave to
put up with"
Fish and game are remarkably
abundant in Southern Florida.
The Chiliau government contemplates
the introduction of salmon iuto the riv-
ers of Chill.
Some elderly young ladies have dl.
clared, during the hot weather. thatIthey
wished they we're on the shady side of
forty.
A mourning widoWer declares that
nothing brings him such affecting mem
ories Of his dead wife as to tumble over
Aatiron.
A gentleman in Jackson, Tenn, has
bed-bug preserved in alcohol. 1t was
caught in bed which the Hero of New
Orleans slept in.
The Prince of Wales is trying to re-
vive the fashion of swallowtailed coats
and brass buttons, but the boys follow
him around and yell, "Shoot that coatl"
Chicago during the year ending July
! drank 100000 glasses of lager beer,
enough to have put out the great fire, if
properly applied.
Great interest was created in Fort
Dodge, July l4th, by the sermon of a
native Sioux Indian, the Rev. Luke c.
Walker. A crowded audience Of whites
listened to him.
Hast thou ever loved, HenriettaYl
| sighed. Il should rather imagine |
had" she replied. "0h did not my
glances my feelings betray, when you
helped me to pudding the third time to-
day."
The death of one of the English COM
pany of revisers of the authorized YER
sion of the bible is announced
Rev. Benjamin Davies, LII. D., Classic al
and Oriental tutor of Regents Park
Baptist College.
A boy recently found a pocketbook,
and returned it to its owner, who gave
him five cent piece. The boy looked
at the coin an instant, and then handed
it reluctantly back, audibly signing, as
he said-"T cant change it."
A new Presbyterian Chapel was dedi.
Gated in Toxic, Japan, on the 10Th of
June. The society was formed in 1873, |
and consists Of sixty-eight members. 1t
employs two native preachers and sus
tains eighteen preaching places in the
city.
A Presbyterian minister, while marry.
ing couple of his rustic parlshioners,
felt exceedingly Disconnected on his ask. |
ing the bridegroom if he we're willing to
take the woman for his welded wife, by /
his scratching his head and saying,
Aye, I'm wullin' but I'd rather hae her
sister,"
! DR.. Dollinger has issued general in.
vitation to the next Old Catholic Con.
ference, which is to be held at Bonn, on |
August II, and the two following days. |
Upon the preliminary mutual recogni- |
ton of Nimitite Truth, the Conference
will endeayot to base confederation and
intercommunion among the separated
churches. 1t is hoped that a reciprocal |
recognition is not impossible, which
without going SO far as actual fusion or |
sacrificing national or traditional pecu-
liarities of doctrinal phraseology, church
constitution, or ritual, may yet enable
each church to admit the members of
other communions to those privileges in
respect of divine worship and the Chris.
tian sacraments that are secured to its
own.