Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-14
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
JUNE.

To bring below the air of Paradise.
A civil act costs nothing.
An expensive wife makes a pensive
husband.
The lower California pearl beds have
been exhausted.
Two free public baths we're opened the
other day in New York.
The Mammoth Cave Of Kentucky il
offered for sale, together with the hotels
and other property.
The Trade List asks, Are greenbacks
coinT' and Murat Halstead asks, lisa
cabbage leaf a mineral2'
Two Baltimore police sergeants and
roundsmen are accused of a series of
thefts, extending over several years.
During the passage of the Scraps
home to England from India, one Of the
Prince Of Wales tigers bit a midship-
mans hand.
Poole, the fashionable tailor Of Lon
don, who died lately, had about 10000
customers, the majority of them being
French and American.
A Georgian has sued the Atlanta Sur
gical Institute for $4,000 damages, as
serting that through neglect at that in
stitution his heel was burnt of.
A boy, when asked by his schoolmaster
to give an instance of inverse ratio, re-
piled, "In proportion as the sun goes
up this morning, SO does your collar go
down."
A case was recently decided in Eng
land which frs: commenced is the year
1912. The amount originally in dispute
was $400. 900, but at the conclusion Of
the case all the money was gone.
A robust countryman, meeting a
physician, ran to hide behind a wall.
Being asked the cause, he replied: ut
is so long since have been sick hat 1
AN ashamed to look a physician in the
face"
Nothing" says a recent writer, can
form a more delightful study for the
physiognomist than the light of hope
and expectancy on the %countenance of a
maiden awaiting the coming of her be-
loved"
The Boston and Providence Railroad
Company are strewing a part OF the
road-bed of their line with oyster shells
for the purpose of laying the dust. The
experiment has thus far resulted sue
%cessfully.
ut is better says a placard in a
store in Seabrook, N. H., Ito wear a
calico dress without trimmings, if it is
paid for, than to owe the shopkeeper for
the most elegant silk, cut and trimmed
in the most bewitching manner"
A robber who was recently arrested
for breaking into aud entering a city store
told the officer that it amused him to see
folks put two or three strong locks on
their front door, and then fasten the
back door with a single button.
{ A Scotch gentleman of fortune, on his
; death-bed, asked the minister whether, if
) be left a large sum to the Kirk, his sal
walton wsuld be secured. The cautious
minister responded: II would not like
to be positive, but it's weel worth trying"
During the evening services in Mr..
; Moody's new church in Chicago recently
the r%evivalist announced that only four
thousand dollars were needed 10 liqui.
date the debt on the building. In tho
collection which was afterward taken
. there were found a gold chain, a pair of
earrings and a breaatpin.
We are indebted to the Graphic for a
t group of portraits of the Cambridge and
] Oxford crews. Next to a group of base
! ball players the most expressive types Of
the villainous cast Of countenaDce ar q
!. to be found in the photographs of a col
. lege boats crew. As a means Of warn
ing the u%nsuspecting public, the picto-
= rial press is useful.
A Canadian Senator of French ex-
traction has resigned his seat for a pecu-
I liar reason. He has never been willing
e to trust himself on a railroad train, and
e last winter Travelled from Quebec to OF.
tawa in his own sleigh to attend the SEES
sion Of Parliament. The ~fatigues and
hardships of the trip were so great that
he will not encounter them again, and so
he has determined to retire from public
life.
/. 1t is said that a button has been in
vented and patented in America that is
n infinitely better than the one described
y in the D~ressmaker and Milliner, as re-
quiring no sewing on. The American
Of self.attaching button can be set on in
lie two seconds and removed in one, will
hold more firmly than any other button
> > can hold, and is fastened by a much
more simple arrangement than a fast.
ener and spring like that of the English
lselfattsching button.
General R. NJ, Cana, well known
throughout Kentucky, has had an ad-
, venture. While buffalo hunting on the
/, Texas frontier, after killing seven fine