Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-16
FACTS AND FANClEs.


England spends Annually on her rub.
lie schools about $40, 900, 900.
Father nyacinthe is in London, suf-
fering from a severe attack of conges.
ton of the lungs.
Mrs. Ira Mead, Of Greenwich, who is
one hundred and six years old, avs:
Few people die alter they get to be a
hundred"
The young lady who vowed she'd
never marry a man under five feet ten
IN stature, has not as yet been led to the
altar Of Hy.men.
Another conscientious man is opposed
TO opening the Centennial Exhibition or
> Sunday. He says Sunday is the only
day be gets time to go fishing.
Happiness comes and goes like the
flowers of spring, and a boy no sooner
hnds where the preserve jar is hidden.
than his mother totes it away to another
corner.
a oma in a Western city recently
fell out Of a seeond-story window and
struck on her head She said she didn't
know when anything had made her so
mad before.
Mamma" said little Nell, ought
governess to fog me for what I've not
dOueP' mo, my dear; why do you ask2'
TCause she logged me today when /
didn't do my GUNS"
II could kill you for two cents
shouted an enraged man to an offending
neighbor. 1t was an ugly threat but it
sounded we'll. II shows that we are get.
ting down to ante bellum prices.
The unhappiest woman in Washington
just now is one w~hoappeared 10 company
in a calico dress, expecting to hear
everybody praise her economy. All she
did hear was; Good graciousl what's
your husband been doing2"
SCene-A Philadelphia market, Mon
, day morning. man buying straWber-
ries. Suddenly a thought strikes him
aud he says; II hope these berries we're
not picked Oh ~Sunday2' Market man
No, sir; but they grew on Sunday"
Mamma" asked a precocious young
b ster at the tea-table the other evening,
! after a long and yesnring gaze toward a
plate of dOughnuts, Mamma, do you
think could stand another one of those
I fried hOles2' She thought he could.
A capsize-" What size do you wear,
sirT' blandly inquired the halter. al
think" said the customer, about"
O Just then, in backing toward the mirror.
he stepped on a piece of orange peel and
!, sat down suddenly" about q cap size, 1
: think"
The biblical critic Of the Alta Califor-
man sheds new light on scripture history
'' by informing his readers that it was Gid
con who caused the walls of Jericho to
tumble down. Next he will tell us that
i it was Jonah who built the ark, and Co
Hath who climbed the tree, his lord to see.
a fascinating young widow having
married again, annoyed her second hus.
g band by frequent references to her first,
q whereat he finally demonstrated. II
dare say, replied the foud creature,
pouting her pretty lips, that you'll be
glad to have me remember you when
you are dead aud gone and I'm married
again
The motion brought before the House
OF Lords by the Earl of Granville, May
10, which called for such an amendment
OF the burial laws as would give dis
%seniers the right to bury their dead with
their " services in the parish church.
yards, was rejected by a vote of l4S to
80. Bishop Temple was the only Bishop
who voted in its favor.
At the celebration of the Fourth of
July in New Haven, Conn, there will DO
a gathering of two thousand children
n carrying small flags and singing national
b songs. The girls are to be dressed in
! frocks representing the three national
%colsrs, and will be SO grouped on a large
platform as to represent the appearance
y of an immense national flag.
= They were a gushing young couple,
and they we're doing the Chinese de-
partment in the Great Exhibition. She
was gazing curiously at the almond.eyea
natives, and be was admiring the won
e derful goods on exhibition. DO you
know" asked he, that the Chinese are
more than six thousand years old2'
"Why no. returned che with asionish-
ment, They don't look to be over thirty,
do they2"
Scene-a Paris street corner. Gent
looks about anxiously for a commission.
of aire, and addresses a smiling lady con-
10 cierge who standsiwatching in a door
d way; do you know, madame, where
y. commissionaire ISL With a smile:
lie "Perfsitement, monsieur "Wll be
be back soon2' Still smiling: "Proba-
% bly,; it ought all to be over by this time"
.. Where has he gone then2' With a
beaming smile; ITO my husbands fun
IN eral."
~ In Georgia a sick negro believed that
/, be had been bewitcbed nv q ~na;obhor;,o