Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-08
FACTS n FANCIES.

Sheep are selling at from sixty to
cents a head in California.
The Bank of France has about FIVE
hundred tons Of gold in its vaults.
Eleven young ladies have just been
made Bachelors Of Art at Elmirs, New
York.
Gold, like the sun, which melts wax
and hardens clay, expands great souls
and contracts bad hearts.
Two hundred and fifty women will be
graduated as telegraph operators from
Cooper Institute this year.
Good qualities are the substantial
riches Of the mind; but it is good breed
ing that sets them of to advantage.
Commerce has set the mark of selfish
ness, the signet of its all.enslaving pow
err, upon a shining ore and called it gold.
Gold, worse poison to mems souls,
doing more murders in this losthsome
world than these poor compounds that
thou msyest not sell,
Venerable to me is the hard hand
crooked, coarse-wherein, notwithstand-
ing, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably
royal as of the scepter of the planet.
The happiness of man depends on no
creed and no book; it depends on the
dominion of truth, which is the Re-
deemer and Savior, the Messiah and
King of glory.
So scanty ia our present allowance Of
happiness, that, in many stations, life
could scarcely be supported if hope we're
not allowed to relieve the present hour
By pleasures borrowed from the future.
The nice, calm, cold thought, which in
women shapes itself so rapidly that they
hardly know it is thought, should always
travel to the lips via the heart. 1t does
so 10 those women whom all love and ad'
mire.
If our Creator has so beautifully pro
vided for our existence here, which il
but momentary, aud for cur temporal
wants, which will soon be forgotten, how
much more must BE have done in the
everlasting verdi
Lobster packers in New BrunswicB
and Nova Scotia report an unusually
good catch this season. At one station
in the lower province rs, 900 Holsters wer,
taken in one day. ALI the packing estab
lishments are kept busy.
The French Chambers Of Commercr
are planning for a grand canal between
Havre and Msrseilles. One Of the plan
is for a ship canal 10 feet deep, 100 fee
wide, across the Isthmus of G%uienne an
Languedoc, shortening the sea route b
800 miles.
The First Lord Of the Admiralty o
his first voyage down the Thames, i
rather a leaky vessel, observed the me
working the pumps. Dear meI' b
said, II did not know you had a we'll o
board, captain, but l am really YER
glad, as | DO deteot river water"
Mary-"These's such a rude gentlemar
dining up stairs to-day" COok-"Why
what dye mean; he amt a bin sayin
nothing to your Mary-"No, bless yer
, but misses was a talking about the akka
/ DENY, and if he didn't tell her as b
a., could see she painted, and so she d
every night; Lut be needn't have said s
afore people"
She had been fishing for trout yer
5 long and patiently without catching an.
when her husband espied her, and aske
her what sort of flies she used. "0h,
? she answered, some nice ones that
, bought in Paris on purpose" but.
exclaimed the husband, pulling out b,
. line and looking at the flies, these Ait
/. will never catch trout" Who evt
d heard Of anybody fishing for trout wit
flies OF this colorP' why" reptile
the wife, they are all right-they mate
}, my dress, you seel"