Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-02-18
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

The hardest kind OF chasu to get over
sarcasm.
Woman proposes aud man gifts up aud
gifts this year.
Kansas keeps nobly in the van Of
civilization. Her State treasurer is in
jail.
Don't swear or ask for postage
stamps is a Boston druggists placard
OF admonitioa to his customers.
An English woman advertises herself
as corn-cutter to the royal family. She
practices on the light fantastic toe"
One Of the Oldest families in Roxbury,
Mass, have just laid the remains Of their
colored servant girl in the Family tomb.
A member Of the Georgia Legislature
asked the meaning Of the word geology.
They told him it was a species Of vac.
ciuation.
The friends OF a Boston lady tele-
graphed from Paris that she was n
worse" and the cable said no more"
She was mourned as dead for nearly
two days.
A correspondent being in the private
Office ofa Washington p~awnbroker, saw q
f%ahionable lady com in and pawn a dia-
mond cross worth $1,000 for $3.50. He
dosu't state what he was doing there.
Halt the people who are making this
uprosr over the exclusion Of the bible
from the public schools couldn't tell on
their own responsibility whether the book
Of Genesis was written by St. Paul Or
Hamlet.
The momsnt Of the greatest agony in
a managers life is when he must ask a
mature leading lady to take an old
wOmsu's part. The only way to do it is
to write the note aud leave town for six
month";.
Philip Dean, ffty.6ve years old, the
oldest active hunter in Utah, and who
boasts Of still being able to bring down
a crow on the wing with his rife at one
hundred yards, has, during his residence
in the Territory, killed 1850 deer, besides
~in5umerable buffalo.
Obituary eloquence is not always vast
ed, even in Congress. Emma JAM"
says 10 a letter to the Cleveland Herald
81 write this from the gallery of the
House, and have held my pen poised in
mid.air for ten golden minutes, while
General Garfield has been pronouncing
his beautiful tribute"
A wedding occurred at a Boston
church the other evening, and at the con-
clusion OF the ceremony the bridegroom's
groWn'up daughters saluted their new
fstep mother by making a charge in full
force, and we're only prevented from
tearing all the clothes from her back by
the interference of a policeman.
Wendell Phillips said, in a lecture 10
Philadelphia, Thursday night, that the
only way to prevent a recurrence of the
civil war and to secure justice to the
negro, is to place in the Presidential
chair q man whose name would make
New Orleans tremble, and in the Vice
Presidential chair Frederick Douglass.
A very respectfully dressed young wo-
man entered a music store at Newport.
R. l., several days ago. and bought a
concertiRa, for the purpose, she said OF
earning a living by playing it on the
street, to be accompanied by her sister,
Fwho car sing. She said she had q sick
mother to support, and could not obtain
employment.
A very singular accident happened to
a boy in Fulton county, ILL.,, a few days
ago. While wipiHg himself with q rag
ged towel he inserted his head through a
hole in the cloth, aud while in this situa-
ton be was suddenly taken with q fit and
fell, and the towel closing around his
throat, he was ~strspgled to death before
be was discovered.
A monument to three Waterloo rele-
brities is to be erected at Cassall, in Not
tiughamshire, where they we're born. The
giants" we're Shaw, the Life Guardsman
who defended the British colors till be
fell; Wappington who took the colors
from Shaw, aud was 1901 after slain;
and Wheatly, the Light Dragon, who
finally saved the aSg and escaped un-
scathed.
One Of the novelties Of a new hotel in
Jacksonville, Florida, is a crystal chan
delier, in the bridal chamber. By touch
ing q button it is lighted; at the same
moment out springs a little Cupid, who
strikes with a hammer a chime Of bells,
which peal out in the sweetest melody,
Rest in this tosom, Let me kiss him
for his mother" etc.--Bostoh Globe.
Kit Carson, that grand old Pathfinder
who showed and told Tom Benton, Ere
mont aud the Government all they ever
knew about this trsus-Missouri empire,
now lies chucked away in a coyote patch,
under the shade of a couple of cotton
woods. on the Arkansas Southern Col.
orado), without even a piece of picket.
railing to protect his grave from the
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