Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-30
FACTS AND FANCIES.
X. WHITMOBE,
Publisher and Proprietor.

ndI tue ulVll going on mere via
such a .bangin' an roarin' p said an
Irishman who had just landed at Castle
Garden. "Wisht," returned a naturalized
citizen; they're cilebratin' the disagray.
mint av the jury"
At the Fantasies Parisiennes, a thea.
ter ia Brussels, smoking has always
been permitted during the performances.
Now a notice is posted in front Of every
seat: No smoking is allowed during
the engagement of Mile Roussell." "
A foreign lady recently seld kiss for
10000, while a lady passenger who sued
q Western conductor for kissing her only
got $1,000. This shows how much better
one can do by individual enterprise than
depending on a tariff that is regulated
by law.
For want of water / am forced to
drink water; if had water would
drink wine" This speech is a riddle,
and here is the solution. II was the com
plant Of an Italian vineyard man, after
a long drought and an extremely hot
summer that had parched up all his
grapes. H
DR.. johnson once dined with Scot
tish lady, who had hotch-potch for din
per. After the doctor had tasted it, she
asked him if it was good. 1T is good for
hogs, ma'am," said the doctor. Then,
pray" said the lady, "let me help you to
some more atao0
Bessie Turner alleged brother, Bucks
burg McDermott, drives hack at Long
Branch, and is said to be regular brick,
making himself very agreeable to visit
ors, although he bores them little by
talking about Sister Bessie 1t is
said, however, that Bessie does not yet
acknowledge Bucksburg to be her
brother. led
At school examination in Connecti-
cut the other day girl Of sixteen step
ped forward and began to read her com
position" 1t was headed The Beecher
Trial." and she was going on to say:
Adam and Eve partook Of the forbidden
fruit-"when the lady principal rushed
forward and led the astonished pupil to
seat, thus depriving the world OF what
no doubt would have been valuable ad-
dition to the scandal literature.
Lake Tahoe, in the Sierra Nevada, is
6,22O feet above the level of the sea. Its
greatest depth is raised at 1925 feet by
Government engineers, but it is claimed
that recent soundings have given over
1000 feet. 1t covers an area of some
200 square miles, and is surrounded by
high mountains. 1t never freezes during
the severest weather, and its winters are
unequaled in the general serenity and
blaudness Of the atmosphere, and its
brilliant clearness and purity.
1t is said that Plato once defined man
as "a two-legged, featherless animal,
whereupon Diogenes threw a living
plucked rooster into his school, saying
Behold Plato's man" A point equally
amusing and trivial was made in one o.
President Hopkins lectures on "Tht
Scripture View Of Man" before the Yale
Divinity School, recently, If reporter
may be believed Herbert Spencer puts
on his philosophers cap, and with the
dignity of an owl defines thus: Life il
the continuous adjustment of interna
relations to external relations.
Whereupon also, | put on my philoso
piers cap. and, with the dignity CT al
owl, likewise defined thus; The boiling
Of water in tea-kettle is the continuous
adjustment Of :asc:na! relations to exter
nal relations"