Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-10
FACTS I'M FANCIEs.

More advice to Ohio: Pnll down your
West.
Blessed is the man who never says his
mothers pies we're better than bis wife's
are.
A Kentucky gentleman who owns a
Longfellow colt thinks of calling him
Poems-by Longtellow.
oalvauic electricity was discovered by
a woman, Madam Glvani, but her hus-
band gets all the credit o. it.
Mr.. Losing, the artist and historian,
is now passing a green old age on a fine
estate in Duchess county, New York.
A man in Ohio. who attempted to
hang himself recently, was cut down by
his mother.inlaw. She wasn't through
with him yet.
An enthusiastic miss exclaimed, as
the sun broke through a shower, What
an elegant trimming that rainbow would
make for q white overdress."
Mrs. Julia A. Tevis, more that fifty
years principal of a girls academy at
shelbyville, KY, has ready for the press
a book called Sixty Years in the
School Room"
a Danbury man describes a church
festival for raising money as an opera
ton wherein one-half the church buys
berries at fifteen cents a quart, and sells
them to the other half for a dollar.
Jonas A. Emery, a Green county
Qnd.) boy, rode forty miles sn horse
back to attend a competitive examine
ton for the West Point cadetship in Con-
gresham Cobb's district, and got it.
War rumoes-Artful assistant: "Yes.
mum, these are real Turkish towels;
can't get any more when these are sold,
mum. All the towel makers have been
called out now to fight the Russiansl'
At the wedding of a London surgeon,
he knelt with his bride, unconsciously
exposing to thu view Of the congrega-
ton the soles Of his new boots, which
were marked in large black figures,
Z" l5s Cd"
a member Of a church in Vermont
desiring a man from the Lord, prayed
in this wise: Send us not an old man
in his dctage, not a young maa in his
%gOslinboodi but a man with all the mod.
ern Improvements"
Rev. Father AccoIti, Of San Francisco.
says that he has no OBJ .ctiou to what are
called square dances" provided the
square be not rounded by cutting OF the
corners, by introducing into them the
WRITINGS Of the detestable waltz.
An old German buried his wife, and
was telling a s~ympathizing neighbor of
her sad d~eceaae. His friend inquired if
the late lamented was resigned to her
, fate" Resigned exclaimed the hon
est Teuton, mine Colt, she had TO be-"
The Baltimore News says: "a bit of
ice on the pulse will cool the entire sys-
tenn" We'd try it if we knew where to
get the pulse, but like as not il you
t asked the bar-keeper for it he'd lust
t shove out the same old drink. II Hawk
eye.
The woman's congress of the United
I States is to BE- held this year in Cleye-
land, beginning October 10th. Among
the topics to be discussed is " Woman's
work in the arts and industries" This
will be the ffth annual congress Of
women.
An old darby fishing on a wharf at
Galveston was heard talking to the fish
he saw swimming around his line in this
fashion; Give me q bite, honey. De
children i'm crying down to my house.
and tell you its fish or nothing in dat
establishment"
1t knocks oil the prayer out of a reli.
gious editor to 90 into his sauctum and
find eight or ten cjckroaches at his table
shutting his private deck, and ~wrangling
among themselves whether il shall be
whisky poker or California Jack -lOl
City Derrick.
A Chicago clergym IN, having inquired
} about it, reports that God never intend
ed that any man should be worth 1000
OO0." This is a little indefinite and I'M
satisfactory, because it leaves the proper
maximum in doNbt, but $3.50, 900 is prob
ably about the cheese [Graphic.
C%onstantinople has a circumference of
about thirteen miles. Its harbor, the
Golden Horn" isa long capacious in
let Of the Bosphorus, running along the
northeast side of the city, with sufficient
depth for the largest vessels, and capable
of receiving 1900 sail Of the line.
l.. When q woman wants to kill a tramp.
she is always sure to take the brickbat
that keeps the Kitchen door open, or
some other old thing that ia of no par
t%icular value or consequence; but when
she gets mad at the man Of the house,
! she is just as liable to throw the best
china sugar bowl or the nickel plated
I cake basket as not.