Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-01
FACTS N FANCIEs.

Strawberry short-cake this year will be
berry short.
Ahal Mr.. Jack Frost, the corn wasn't
green enough to come up.
Benton, Maine, has a School Board
composed entirely Of women. Its Ben
ton style.
Massachusetts, has started still another
inebriate asylum trophy to prohibi-
ton.
Bismarck's sixtieth birthday wa not
half as pleasing as some # the earlier
ones.
The man who said be proposed to live
in the present and work in the future was
a philosopher.
In the Place Vendome, Paris, they
have set up a column advertisement for
the Bonaparte family.
Bessie Turner received one vote for
constable in the Fifth Precinct, Third
District, Jersey City, recently.
Reading, Pa, has q novel drinking as
LOOM where nothing but milk is sold. and
the cost of a drink is only three cents.
The Historical Society at Buffalo has
in its possession the tomabawk presented
to Red Jacket by George Washington.
Two new words, minimizing ana max
imizing, have just appeared. They are
the offspring of minimum and maximum.
DO you think there is any danger"
said a Plymouth Churchman, of that
Jury's being biased by the evidence2'
The answer was a solemn silence.
The first spring flower has blossomed.
A little girl in Delaware, Pa skipped the
rope 300 times, and is sleeping under the
willows.
And why should the rhymsters be so
puzzled about it2 It's easy enough to
find a rhyme to Lexington when the
theme is forever "%vexing one"
."Ah, my child, if / hadn't raised you
| should not SO deeply deplore your loss
moaned a disciple of schenek, as the pot
was swept off the board.
A French court has decided that a
landlord who fails to have his guests
awakened in time to catch desired trains
is liable for damages.
A skillfulF French surgeon lately patch
ed the broken parts of a patients body
with the skin of a new.slain lamb, and
that's how the latter comes to have wool
in the place where the wool oughtu't to
grow.
A candidate for Office in Mississippi
informs his fellow.citizens that, at the
earnest solicitation of my wife and daugh-
ters, | have consented to become a can
didate for County Treasurer"
The idea of putting a raven on Poe's
monument is that of a raven %lunatic. A
bird Of ill-omen may do in a poem, but
not on a tombstone, However, no one
will take a white bird for a raven, unless
it's labeled.
Two Cleveland daneing masters are to
try for a wager who can dance the long
est. 1t is to be hoped that the gentlemen
will remember the deathless glory of the
Kilkenny cats, and dance till naught is
left but the tale Of their adventures.
a Milwaukee chap kissed his girl forty
times right straight along, and when he
stopped the tears came into her eyes,
aud she said, in q sad tone of voice:
"Ahl John, | fear you have ceased to love
me" mo, | haven't replied John,
but I must breathe"
Is it becoming in the Philadelphia
Ledger to pause in its chaste elegiac
reveries to hurl an epithet at a clergy
man? A reverend gentlemen in Eng
lasd, on taking the chair at a SOman's
education meeting, referred to the FIVE
hundred thousand old maids in Great
Britain as "superauous women" The
Ledger calls the speaker "a venerable
bungler."