Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-10
FACTS M FAEClES.

an album oil Oeh-s recently
sold for $4,000.
Look out for burglars. Indiana
NeUs. Look in for burglars.
The Hartford Times says Mr.. Pierre
points real name, when he lived at home
in Connecticut, was Pierpont.
Crusty says that the list Of marriages
in the newspapers ought to be put under
the head of Ring Frauds"
The entire assets of a recent bankrupt
were nine children. The creditors acted
msguanimously, and let him keep them.
A Chinaman spoke all the English be
knew in Indianapolis the other day, and
was fined 81 for profanity. -New York
Graphic.
Two Halifax IN. S men have found
a lot Of lions teeth embedded in the
earth near hat city, and nobody knows
how they came there.
The idiots who walk through the Ex-
position, jsbbing their canes and umbrel-
las at pictures and other works Of art,
are now called Jabber-walks.
"Py schininy, how dot poy studies de
languageI" is what an elderly German
said when his four-yesr-old son called
him a blear-eyed son Of q saw horse
San AntoniO Herald.
St Louis bellies care more for the Tex
ternal fitness of things" than for "the
eternal fitness of thing" and that is
why they wear shoes a size too small for
them. The Republican says so.
/. "Ah, you don't know what muthieal
enthuthiathm ithl' said a music-mad
miss. Excuse me, madam, y replied q
wit, " but l 10. Musical enthusiasm is
like turtle soup; for every gallon of real
, there are ninety Of mock, and calves
head in proportion"
The new cook ION receiving "short"
notice to leave, with a hint that she has
given a false character)-"Au is it me
false. character ye're afther casting in
e me teeth As if I'd be bringing ne
e thrue character wild me, to lose it in
! your dirty servicel'
Is The newt lawn game is called "vexillo."
As it is said to resemble croquet, it is
= supposed that the way to play is for one
player to make a mis.stroke, and then
s. tell the other that she cheats, after
D, which they both pitch their mallets over
q the fence and 20 into the house.
Miss Maria Sedgwick once tried franz
&c tieally to stop the Black Maria in Rome,
ne supposing it to be an omnibus. There
~ is something in a name after all; and
when the bystanders told her it was the
on Black Maria she was after, Maria Sedg-
zee wick suddenly desisted from her efforts.
y. The political situation in Kansas:
he Republican candidates are so thick in
to the rural districts that country editors
inIy are kept in a state Of frenzy about
choosing words and sentences of a com.
yer p%limeutary nature. The footsteps of the
lad politician are heard in the Second dis
trict.'
While a burlesqoe opera troupe we're
playing at Cheyenne last week, one o
on' General Cooks wild Indian scouts
of crowded past the doorkeeper and took
ate seat, but when the curtain arose and tn,
ose prima donna began to sing, the ssvsgI
'ne gave a terrific war-whoop and bounde,
me into the street.
u Master (snifing)-"There q most ez
traordinary smell, James; I've noticed
ent it several" Hall Porter-"I don
was wonder at it, sir; I've spoke about
ION down stairs. The butler, sir, you see,
ned Ugh Church, which he as fit up a hora
ac tory in the pantry, and burns hincensG
pre- We could stand that; but the cook is th
N Low Church persuasion, aud she burn
and brown paper to hobviate the hincens'
east It's perfectly lawful on saints day.
, in sirt' +.
reat Adonis latter his grests have departed
nom -" By Jo7e, Maria, what a handsou
mile woman Mrs. Jones isl She looks bettl
than everl" His wife" Aheml We
it may be my bad taste, but l own | ha,
Is, hitherto failed to detect the beauty
d Of Mrs. Jones. Now, Mr.. Jones is goo
ing looking, if you likeI' Adonir-"Jon
Ss,I5 goodlookingl Come-hang it, Mari
ious Jones is a very good fellow, and all tha
lent. but l must say I've never perceived h
'esiS good looksl'
-dict A country gentleman was strolling O
was with a %coekney iriend-a genuine COG
me %ney-when they finally approac
i meadow in which was standing q 81 d
. ais crop Of hay. The cockney gazed at
cor wonderingly. 1t wasn't grass, it VAST
the wheat, it wasn't turnip.tops. IVY, We
SaSS ever does you call this stuff p said he
ct IN his companion Ihat why, nay, 10
from SURE" was the reply. "Hayl' exclaim'
tute he, Come, that's cutting it little t
y oe thick. If that's hay, just shew me t
days hay-corns-come now
nae Of n L.on wbo,bor q o.,dor bos ~,
,cond NnO" 0'
ears. planted or ho', Hu eAchahee gives
held following rule: If one forgets whetl
lired' beds are planted or not, a good way