Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-07
FACTS AND FANCIES.
The early rissrs nowadays are the
thermometer and the house-fy.

fI NAS AulOlGuCd
ls-that he can preach better than
he can practice.
You cannot convince a dog with
a string of frecrackers attached to
his narrative that the American
republic is a complete success.
Ladies, without distinction of
sex" are invited to a mass meeting
at Dublin, with a generosity char
acteristic the noble Hibernian.
In the window of a shop in an
obscure part of London is this an
nouncement: Goods removed.
messages taken, carpets beaten and
poetry composed on any subject.
Excuse this bit of sarcasm
SAID Smith to Jones, "but | must
say that you are an Infamous liar
and scOundrel." "Pardon this hit
of irony" said Jones to Smith. as
he knocked him over with the
poker.
"GenPmen," exclaimed an old
Connecticut salt as he grasped the
brawny arm of a Yale College oars
man, and called the company's at
tention to its muscular develop,
ment, "GenPmen, thar's intelleck
for yer"
A man never really understands
the doctrine of total depravity till
he has worn a pair of white panta-
looms to a picnic and sat down on q
plate Of custard pie. An event of
this kind will simplify a whole sys-
tenn Of theology.
1t Is a grieyous scandal that Gen
eral Babcock still draws paw from
the Federal Treasury. He escaped
condemnation in the civil courts.
but the Judgment of the American
people is, that he should be dis
missed, in disgrace, from all public
employ.-BOStOn transcript.
Colonel Nicholas V. Smith, who
married Miss Ida Greeley, dipped
INTO politics at a Tilden meeting
the other night, and informed the
crowd that he came before them.
mot In a character Of my own, but
as a representative of that old il
lustrlous fellow : citizen, Horace
Greeley"
Perhaps there is nothing in this
world that makes a man so mad as
to pose when he sees that a land
scape photograph is to be taken.
and when it is printed, discovers
that he appears not like Washing
ton or Napoleon, but like a diIapi-
dated pinhead, with his right boot
on his left shoulder.
A Brooklyn deacon, who had
been approached to sign "a romon-
STRANGE against what some of the
members considered a heterodox
sermon of the pastor, gently eyaded
the responsibility by saying:
"Though l do get mad and cnss a
little sometimes, my wife always
says to me, You amt no man to
get into a church fight, jeremiah
and | think Hammers right"
Mrs. Swisshelm realizes the neces-
sity Of being vaccinated while tray
cling, but the other day, when a
physician trotted up a young
French woman, from whom to take
Q healthy article of incubation, the
old lady grew suddenly furious, and
out in tones of righteous in
dignation: What! l be vaccin-
ated from a French woman? not
IL and fled from the impending
ruin Chicago Journal.
Since the Centennial Fourth
away the demand for old
men has yisibly declined, and a
Revolutionary party, aged one hun
dred and fourteen years, who was
at twenty-five cents a peep
a month ago, has now resumed his
occupation as a w~ood-sawyer in
and attracts no more
attention than the alien who only
aOatod over day before yesterday
Hawkeye.
A venerable English divine, who
had been dining out the night be-
went into a BARRIERS shop one
morning to be shaved. He saw
hat the barber had been getting
more drink than was good for him,
It made his hand shake very