Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17
FACTS AND FANClES.

Odo. VI. DtuuoJb mas PtViO III uOlso-
flesh.
An Atlanta firm sold 100000 oranges
in December.
The bluntest men frequently say the
most cutting things.
Hard heats are apt to grow harder,
and soft heads to grow softer.
Prof. Proctor says the moon is dead.
1t occupies mansion in the skies, too.
If winter doesn't come soon somebody
will want to finish that Northern Pacific
railroad.
Why doesn't the author OF Beautiful
Snow" step up and offer to write the
Centennial poem2
Stephen Pearl Andrews assumes TO be
the great original free-love chieftain."
Is he trying to get Colonel Blood
placer
A man in Virginia goes to school to
bis wife. It's needless to say that he
catches more lickings than any other boy
in school.
"Ah, well; !" truly hath some poet said,
Wine is morocco and strong drink is
razors, and whoever is wise thereby is
not deceived"
Marian Harlapd, successful writer
of iuterconvertible 65 cook-booka and
novels, has an income Of $4,000 per an
mum from her trashy writings.
Lucy Larcom, the well-known maga.
zine writer, has accepted the position Of
teacher in a private school in Boston.
Literature is not paying profession.
There is considerable complaint in
London and Paris that all the good-look- :
ing ballet girls have been welded off the
stage and ugly ones only left to hold it.
A huge petrifaetion, formed almost en-
tiSely of serpents in varioua positions,
but making a solid mass, has been found
near the line Of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad.
"0h, we don't mind the fourth story"
said an Ohio Congressman's wife in
choosing Washington lodgings the other
day; I'VE can go up and down stairs in
the ventilator."
The swagger of the average st.
Lousian is worse than ever. The more
he reflects that in one hundred years from
now his town will be a gest city, the
more he betrsys the swell of his feelings.
| A Michigan paper says that man in
Saginaw recently chopped off three Of
his fingers while splitting wood, There
is scarcely man in MichigsS but will
say that it served him right for meddling
with . womsn's work.
A new dish is grape leaves fried in
egg batter; it is called French dish.
An exchange remarks: I'VE cant think
of anythingthatwould be more delicious
than fried grape leaves, unless it is
circus poster on toast"
| A respectable woman wishes.te take
baby to bring it up on the bottle. This
is poor Ssusiness for a respectable woman
to follow II Is had enough for q person
to take to drinking afte.s being raised.
Now is the time for the crusaders to get
in their work, while the thing is in the
bud.
Good nature is the best feature in the
finest face-wit may raise admiration,
judgment may command respect, and
Iknowlege attention. Beauty may inasme
4 the heart with love, but good nature has
a more powerful effect-it adds thous-
and attractions to the charms Of beauty,
and gives an air of bene6cenee to the
most homely face.
A young poet in Missouri wrote:
Dear Lucy, for single smile from
thee, I'd dare the worst, thou gentle
guileless dove; list to my prayer and do
not bid me fee, for, obi / cannot quell
my raging love-" And this is the way
it came out in the paper: Dan Lucky,
but q single mile from thee, I'd damn
the world, thou yellow, guilty dog; list to
my.prayer, ehIdo nothide aes, for obi
l cannot squeal my ragged love" For.
tnnately, Ethe compositor didn't leave