Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-06
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Great is not great to the greater.
Grief alone cannot teach US what is
man.
Everyone can master grief. but he that
has it.
Partisan ladies have taken a fancy for
red parasols.
O'Donnovan. Rosa has collected over
$4,000 for the diminishing fund.-"
The Arcadian Club Of New York has
been dissolved. Cause-insolvency.
Some grief shows much of love; but
much Of grief shows still some want Of
wit.
All other knowledge ia hurtiul to him
who has not the science of honesty and
good nature.
Mark Twain says: 1T is q blessed
thing to live in a land of plenty if you
have plenty of land"
Now they say that Gail Hamilton us
a: jolly, plump and bouncing blonde Of
the Lydia Thompson makeup"
II cant undertake, wife, to crafty
your whims; it would be as much as my
life is worth" 20, sir, that's nothing. "
Henry V. belts are the latest feminine
freaks in that line. They are probably
so called because it costs Henry a V
every time his wife purchases one.
An Essex farmer is obliged to chalk
his nose every time he takes a walk
round his farm, to save himself from an
old bull which has streng antipathy Ia
red.
A Louisiana wife tried to poison her
self because her husband, in a prayer
meeting, had fervently said amen to the
petition OF a girl Of whom she was jeal
GUS.
Senator Bayard occupies a seat tina
has descended from his g~reat-grand
father through his grandfather, his uncle
aud his father to himself. This beats thl
Adams family.
The King Of Spain has conferred tn,
order Of Charles II on Mr.. Schaus, tn
New York picture dealer, as a mark o
appreciation Of his conduct in the affai
of the stolen Murillo.
Some things come by odd names. TIL
: most uncommon quality in man is Gale
common sense a paper half a mil
, long is a " brief" and a melancholy dut
devoid Of sense or meaning, is a " glee.
4 Those old topers never lack for arg
ment. Lately one replied to a tempe
ance lecturer by the following poser: "
water rots the soles Of your boots, VIII
effect must it have on the coat of yol
I stomachY"
A Western paper announcest the illne
! of its editor, adding: "All good payir
subscribers are requested to mentio
y him in their prayers. The others nee
not, as the prayers Of the wicked ava
nothing"
A little boy coming home from churcI
lr where he had seen a person performir
on an organ, said to his mother, %
"a nanny, l wish you had been to churC
w to day to see the fun; a man was pun
ing music out of an old Cupboard
N A little girl out on North Hill, on
i nine years old, has developed a wondt
full talent for sculpture; she chiseled
c%arbuucle on the side Of her brother
w head with a screw.driver so neatly tn
" her friends think of sending her to Ror
to have her learn to maDgle marble
the Italian language - aUkeye.
- A simple mode of roughing hor'
praetioed in Russia, consists in punch
a square hole in each heel Of the shl
n which, in ordinary weather, may be k
closed BY a piece of cork. When
ke ground is slippery the cork is remoV
as and a steel spike inserted. If this st
be made to fit the hole exactly it
to mains firm in its place, and is not liaI
he to break of short at the neck, like Sol
or. OF the screwed spikes.