Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-26
FACTS mi FANCIEs.

Aclnc coast
The sweetest mouth in the world is one
that says civil things pleasantly and
tslks nc scandal.
The last census of japan places the
population at 33. sOO,675, an increase Of
$4,000 in three years,
The naughty Centennial doorkeepers
will now take any kind of change, and
let two visitors in for a dollar.
A Connecticut man proudly exhibits
the bullet which was shot through the
head of his grandfather in 1912.
Rhode Isl 4 people never write let
ters to pie, thin the State. Wien
they wan they "holler.'
Steps At AIKEN in Melbourne
Australia, for the construction Of q ma
rine aquarium at a cost Of $4,000.
The Columbian Congress has voted
$780, 900 for the improvement of nsyiga-
ton on the upper Magdslena river,
A Maine widow was found in tears and
on being asked the cause, replied, ut is
soap.making time, and l miss my dear
husband SOL
By fascinating arts known only to the
female sex, an Omaha youth of twenty
two was recently induced to marry a
widow Of seyenty-6ve.
The Italians have no special fancy for
trees, like the English and Germans.
The only tree cultivated 10 Italy is the
mulberry, which has a great practical
value as furnishing food for silkworms.
Poplars are raised in Lombardy only.
Henry Ward Beecher likens money to
snow, which is a benefit so long as it
es evenly distributed over the ground,
but a plague when heaped up in drifts.
, There's a January thaw, too, about. the
beginning Of the year when the bills
come in.
Observe a method in the distribution
r Of your time. Every. hour will then
know its proper employment, and no
time will be lost. Idleness will be shut
7 out of every avenue, and with her that
, numerous body of vices that make up
: her train.
T Il have said you are honest, John,
with a clear conscience, but fear | have
stretched a point in saying You are
/, sober" "Shure, sir, if you have stretched
!, a point that fur, can't you stretch it a
little further, and say that I'm frequent
/ ly sobef2'
" The project Of removing Cleopatra's
3, Needle to England has been revived re-
Gently in that country. The monument
" was presented to George ". by the
Pacha of Egypt more than fifty years
ago, but every attempt to transport it
- has been abandoned.
", Some crazy Frenchman has gone to
writing for the New York Tribune. An
article in that paper says; In spite o.
doubter, cynic and materialist, there is
ne no heroic form in all history so pure
,ht beautiful and inspiring as that whitest
n lily on the shield Of France, Jeanne
ed Dare"
cb Dom Pedro speaks a broken English
10 bat always makes himself understood
~. although it often happens that he canno'
he understand the speakers. BE speaks al
an excellent German, however, and when
he ever a book in that language is showr
Jul examines it with considerable delight
ms Baltimore american.
las The grasshopper blossoms sweetly o.
'ur the edge Of the Minnesota snowdrift
it'll lie has already got SO he can sit IN hi
en-, elbow and lay half a pint of eggs in on
red forenoon. And while he lays he look
mes solemn and thoughtful, as if he WASH
+ a deing anything, and his mind was fxei
les on the sweet y ,%iscence Of his nativ
nts cline.
Jus A train W e a clergyman an
Nv FIVE or six $40 kept scofing a
vho religion and telling disagreeable stories
I'm, The good man endured it all, simply re
rus marking as he got out; We shall NEE
'i ;a again my children" why shall "
INST meet again. said the leader Of tn
ipe. band. Because l am a prison cha
ano lain was the reply.
bus The value of an eye in Califern.
ers, seems to range from $299 to $500.
too' man in Santa Clara recovered 1929 fro
a barbarian who carried his umbrella {
the his shoulder and punched out his ey
es- and q lecturer on chemistry in 81
, o. Francisco, who destroyed the eye of
| nm auditor by an accidental explosion, hi
ned been mulcted in the sum Of $500,
s'ly In Liverpool recently Mira Bon
b;ch came home intoxicated and beat h
usk, husband, a sober, industrious, respectful
'sus, man. He retaliated, and there was il
II mediately a case of wife whipping. No
onIa withstanding his good character and 6
!, IA his provocations, he was sentenced
ltary one month imprisonment at hard labc
rops, Such is human justice in this boast
nRta. a...A century,
IF of nlne'een'u 'enN"9
e on In spite Of the time devoted to she
e OF ping and dressmeking and conversati
"a oe over the back garden fence, our Anne
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