Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-04
pACTs AND FINCIES.

luz tatc AuApcfol VI Nhlho AOAe a
widow only sixteen years old.
People who dance never pay the i'd
dler. 1t is those who get up the ball.
The number Of "drummers' eu~
ployed by the Wholesale jobbing houses
of the country is estimated at consider
ably oyer $4,000.
Conclusion of Colfax's lecture on
Lincoln: Having reached the top.
most round Of the ladder of fame, he
stepped into the skies"
There is q vile hypocrite iu Bethle-
hem, Pa. he actually entertained a
company in honor of the anniversary Of
the birthday Of his mother.in-law.
The young man who resolved 10 com
NIT suicide because his sweetheart mar
ried an undertaken owes his life to the
second sober thought that he might be
furnishing his rival a job.
A new edition Of Sheridan's Works
has just been published in New York,
but the publishers very judiciously re-
frain from including his latest work in
New Orleans. 1t would injure the sale.
A woman in Virginia City, Nevada,
recently attempted to obtain a divorce
from her husband for RIO other reason
than that the spirits desired her to do SO.
The case was promptly thrown out Of
court.
A Boston paper remarks that the New
Workers are adopting the fashion Of hav-
ing ones door bell answered by a small
boy whose principal feature is buttons
and whose most conspicuous popularity
is stupidity.
The New York Evening Post advises
Butler that in his approaching retire
ment be ought to try to get the better Of
his luminosity tos vvd journalism and
journalists-which is 10 his case q sort
Of insanity"
I'VE measured the riotous baby
against the cottage wall" is the begin.
ming Of a poem in a Milwaukee,, paper,
This is certainly an improvement on the
old plan Of sitting down on the refrac
tory squaller.
Ayoung lady of Michigan avenue dis
missed her lover because he kept her Sc
long on the steps to say goodbye ONT
night that she took cold. Love tina
might outlive a fever will often sueeuml
to a cold in the head.
The Georgia negro has no more faitl
in banks. He lays his money out il
store clothes and hair oil, and the new
of q bank suspension causes him t.
exclaim: Bust away wild We, but yol
can't hurt desc lavender pants"
Friendship has steps which lead up t.
the throne Of God, though all spirit
come to the infinite; only love is satia
Bile, and like truth admits of no thre'
degrees Of comparisoni and a simpl,
being fills the heart.-Jean Paul.
The Common Council Of Boston bel,
a long debate the other night on a prop
o%sition to provide a badge for each mem
Der. The Hub has 30 many great mel
that unless some of them go markel
they are liable to be overlooked in
crowd.
A San Francisco court reporter re
Gently saw Laura Fair mount the vii
ness stand with the gleeful skip of
light-hearted school girl" In the cours
of her testimony she said that sheowne
$685. shares "a the Silver Column mimi
Company.
The Russian consula at Athens, Greece
who died recently, lived to be a hundre,
years. And yet, he was addicted to tb
drinking of vine, the smoking Of Il
bacco, to the name Of John Paparrhe
gopoulas, and we don't know how man.
other vices.
The expenses Of the Modoc war shoi
that it costs Uncle Sam about $4,000 t
kill one Modoc. If the Louisiana bar
ditti are to be exterminated on the sam
plan, Mr.. Bristow needn't fool away an
time in waiting around this Office for
government loan.
A new compound verb--sudden AZ
parition-"Papa, dear, you know this
mamma said that il we had butter wit
our toast we weren't to have anythin
else. Well, George has not only buttere
his toast, but he's actually been an
Liebig s-extTact- Of beefed it as we'll"
, A French baron was married the othe
day to a Syracuse carpenters daughter
He is said to have =" plenty of money
which he throws about with no niggardl
$ hand" We are not surprised to hes
/. that he doesn't care much for his monel
for we never knew a barber in disguis
that did.
"A cattle thief WAS arrested in Detroi
a few days ago, and the Sheriff, o
searching him, found pasted inside
his hat the following maxims, cut frol
a newspaper: Remember that truth
; a jewel; do not ooyet; respect old age
be content with what you have; live a
. that men will take your character for a
example" This will enable the owner {