Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-30
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
Ernperor Dom doesnIt smoke.

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which is laid out for domestic comfort.
Married men aocked in great numbers
to see the unwilling of the statue of
Silence in New York = Courier Journal.
They have apron aud necktie parties
in New Hampshire. We can see the
need OF wearing an apron, but what's
the use Of a necktie2- Boston Post.
A Cheyenne editor says the only way
to treat the Indians there is to boot them
out Of town. Pshawl you wouldn't
Kickapo-r fellow FOR nothing. would your
Globe Dem.
The Prince of Wales is said to have
increased his royal abdominal adipose
considerably by his Eastern trip. His
desperate battles with liens and tigers
probably fattened him.
1t is remarked that with an Ulster in
winter and fall and and a duster in the
spring and summer, it makes compare.
lively little difference to the philosophers
how p%antaloons are cut.
A petition to the Texas Legislature is
being circulated, asking the passage of
a law to punish horse thieves as follow:
First o%ffense, whipping post; second,
whipping and branding; third, hanging.
A Calhoun Ky man, who lost the
power of speech by lying cut of doors
drunk one. cold, stormy night, five or six
years ago, regained it when his house
caught fire, and nearly burned him up,
the other night.
1t is said that George Washington did
not know what fear was. True enough;
but he never passed along the platform
Of q railroad depot while Jeremiah S.
Black was squirting tobacco juice out of
the car window Globe Democrat.
William Waigli, who came to this
country with Kossuth as his private Sec
T Rotary, died a few days ago at Milwaukee,
where he had been for some time OBJ
tanning a precarious living by painting
window shades and teaching drawing.
In splitting open a hickory tree at the
New York Central railroad shops in
Rochester, the other day, a horseshoe
was found imbedded in its center It is
supposed the horse dropped it in pacing
through the ree.-NorristoUn Herald.
An exchange says: New York ladies
wear nothing but the gypsy hats" And
unless the brim Of the hat is at least
. four feet deep, and turns down all around,
we should think a modest man would
want to leave that ity.-Norristown
, Herald.
The Woman's Journal inquiries where
q wite's influence begins. Around here
it usually begins about midnight and
= lasts frem two. to twelve hours. 1t is
!. hard to lay down general rules, however,
as all the saloons do not shut up at the
same hour. -NorUich Bulletin.
The whirligig of fashion may bring
around the most sudden and dazzling
changes, and the duties Of the toilet may
multiply like leaves in Valambrosa, but
there is nothing that will make a woman
. stand before her l~ooking.glass so long as
a sunburnt nose. Brooklyn Argus.
A Westerly man put one of bis shout.
ders out Of joint while tying to meet
I his fingers" around a tree. This should
be a warning to young men moi to try to
tamper with the great principles of eter-
nal fitness which provide summer even
ingS and front doorsteps aud an article
that they can get their arms around
e without straining -Norpich Bulletin.
When the late Judge Underwood
t. reached q small mountain stream which
had been swollen by heavy rains, he hes
! itated to cross in his buggy, and was
= asked if a good Ctristrian like himsel
was afraid to attempt the fordP II have
read in the Bible" he said, THAT to
every mans life there ia an appointed
= > end, but don't want it said of me that
| was drownedin q creek called 0onche-
e %kefoono,"
What New York city needs is a large
/ aquarium such as that at Brighton, Eng
II land. No study Of animal life is more
interesting than that of fishes. Even San
d Francisco has al aquarium. Our city is
backward, and yet complains because its
youth resort to crime for entertainment.
| -New York Herald p. Imam. All
0 right, Give EN- an aquarium, or any
: thing to Brighton EN- up. Aquaria, as
%preveAtives Of crime, have long been
recognised by scientists,
I, Roberts, the man who killed and de-
d capitated the California bandit Chavez
has o cheerful relic on his hands. He
has to wait for the next Legislature to
= authorize a reward for the head Of the
4 noted villain, and all the time he has to
d keep by him, and preserve the head. AS
N Roberts is not a literary man, he cahnot
D. utilize it as a paper-weight, and unless
be falls in with some enthusiastic phre-
nologist he may never get a cent for his
re trouble.
e. Field Marshal Won Moltke, the man
70 who is silent in seven languages, re-
: Gently delivered au elaborate grafton at
ID the banquet Of the Lincei at Rome.
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