Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-17
FACTS AND FANCIES.

An expensive wife makes a pensive
husband.
Can al hoaest meal be made of a
boned turkey2
How to develop the imaginatioa-Get
the delirium tremens.
Two ways for Suuday-The way to
church and the way back again.
If a row of columns is a colonuads.
isa't a row Of lemons a lemonade?
Why is a billiard marker like a stage
pr0mpter? Because he gives the players
the cue.
Mrs. Boss, of Boston, will take the
lecture platform. Observe the conquer
Ing shero comel
An educated hog is said to be q good
mathematician. No doubt it excels in a
q" square root"
President Hayes manifests a warm in.
tere5: in the completion of the Washing
ton monument.
Anna Dickinson and Ammo Domino
have the same initials, but genius is not
a matter Of years.
You're very pointed, aud l feel it."
as the young lady remarked when she
ran the needle in her finger.
A party who bought a picture Of
dead duck at q recent sale, is now anxious
to have the seller take bis canvas back.
A young woman being asked by a pol
itician which party she was mosti in favor
Of, replied that she preferred a wedding
party.
John, what is the Chief branch of
education in your school?' WILLOW
branch, sir; master's used up nearly a
whole tree"
We're in a pickle nowl" said a man
in a crowd. "A regular jamP' said
another. Heaven preserve usl" said
an old lady.
The king of Siam, only tventy.four
years old, has MAE wives already,
though he has never SO much as heard of
the Rev. Collyer.
There is q church in Cambridge so
round that the committee eugaged in is
restoration find a great difficulty in
squariug the accounts.
Button parties" are popular in the
West. We don't know whence they de.
rive their name, unless it is because
they're always sure to come off.
The review of a young girls life is
frequently like any other review
quantity Of smoke and noise, with here
and there a red coat seen through it.
"A painter hard of hearing, at a spell.
ing.match the ether evening, asked the
captain to write the darned word down,
80 a fellow a tell what it ial'
Those who doubt the progress Of the
human mind should turn to the an.
nouncement that Is, 600 croquet sets are
to be made in South Bend, Iud., this
season
Chicago has seven hundred hackmen.
and if va ever 20 there you will wonder
how the whole seven hundred caa get
hold of your carpstbag ana boiler into
your left ear at once.
Within a stones throw of Wendell
Phillips Boston residence there are
twenty places where he could buy whisky
if ever he should relax irom his ste.n
cOld'wster principles.
You amt afraid to dep" said a cler.
gyman, toader!y mo" replied the
sufferer I'm only afraid. it | do, that
the old woman will 90 shootigg amopr
my private papers the irst thing
The invention Of the patent apol,.
worm brings on another moral problem.
The patent worm saves tbe ,ortpre Of
the harmless earih.worm, but the deceo-
ton praoiiced upon the fab b@eeoacs
two tod.
The Germans are a frugal people
says an American writer, Alter wishing
the Berlin opera house. "As soop ss
tue opera was over. tie man in front
took Tada of COTTON irqn bia pocket aud
stopped up his sara to save the music he
had paid for"
Madame Sc q. had just returned from
a tour ia Italy. well, and was il not
beautiful asked her friend. was not
Venice picturesque2" Mon Dieul"
said Madame de a., l had no chance of
seeing anything il Venice. an the
streets we're flooded whea 1 was there.
Come, Pete aaid a merchant 20
gentleman of the colored p%ersuasios,
whatH you put that load Of wood INTO
the cellar forY' I'm de fuss place. my
nam isn't Peter, sir secondly, Use a pre-
feshnsl carpet-eleauer aud whitewasher;
fcFdermo', l doesn't compete for such
jobs, sahT'
a yoangater, while warming his hand
over the kitchen FIRE, was demonstrated
with BY bis father, who said, go way
from the stove; the weather is not cold"
The little fellow, looking up at bis stern
parent demurely replied, II amt heat