Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-30
FACTS AND FANCIES.

should employ domestics to relieve his
better hall Of the work in the house
hold.
Some of the more enterprising of the
intellectual papers OF Boston think Of
printing a dictionary on the last page.
1t would be a great help to the average
reader.
The Burlington Hawkeye man rust be
credited with this awful one: 'The wo.
man who made a hustle out Of a dozen
newspapers was we'll supplied with the
latest wore news.'"
How strangely things turn out some.
tlnes,-lEx. Yes. they do. For in.
stance, a young man took his girl out
carriags.riding the other afternoon, and
both we're turned ont.
Where do women get their queer no.
tons" asks a writer in . contemporary.
Well, we suppose they get them, while
out shopping, at some Of these notions
and dry goods stores.
The new dog law adopted in Missouri
only U untaxed dog to each
This has every appearance Of
unjust discrimination in favor of the
rich Worcester Preas
a Pittsburg paper says Kate Clayton
may feel perfectly safe in n hotel here.
after by registering her name, on reading
which oil the other boardsra will sit rn
to put out the fire, Restquietkate in
peace.
How wise is the tramp who slseus in a
fence corner aud has no fear Of hotel
1res and ~six-story leaps to stone pave.
ments. Go to the tramp, thou architect.
consider bis ways and be se.-TDetroit
Free Press.
No, ma she said, Charles can
be anything to me more. He came
out this spring in his last fall overcoat;
and, OH ma, if it only matched nv new
wouldn't care SO much; but IT
doesn't, and we've parted. LEX.
a celebrated Judge had a very ,tipgv
On nj occasion she received bis
in the drawing room With a single
Be pleased, my dear" said
his lordship, ito let us have a second
candle that we may see where the other
stands. lex.
No wonder Germany is said to be such
4 clean place in which to live. We read
N a German exchange that "Bismarck's
detectives are securing the country"
Dur detectives wouldn't do that, no mat.
Ter how dirty the country was getting for
Of cleansing.
II may be that General Joseph E.
Johnston will become president of the
Tennessee University. He likes
and its people, aud would
rave gone TO Nashville at the close of
he war it it had not been for better
financial prospects in Savannah.
We think that the Reverend" DR..
of the Park street church. Bos.
on, cannot be called a very reverend
nan tor he lately referred in a public
'eligious address to the fourteenth chap
of the Gospel of St. john as our
'%aviour's After dinner speech. 1.-THE
]hurchmaa,
An exchange thinks that women are
quail in point Of endurance to men. but
women demonstrate their ability to
Undergo the fatigue Of chewing a tooth.
'lck on a corner half the day and cit up
billiards all night, the question
seems worthy of Argument
Norwich Bulletin.
There are two periods in every mans
lie when be feels, deep down in his
cart that If the earth was to open aud
wallow him up it would be a pleasure
hlm-one is when he steals up stairs
nth the old mans razor to take his frat
have; and the other is the first Sunday
a a high hat -[Yonkers Gazette.
In a recent lecture on Boston" Mr..
'nerson said; The words which one
Oy speaks to another in the street, I'm
$ good as you areT enbody che princi.
lple of the Massachusetts bill of rights,
.hlch lie' at the bottom of Plymouth
Jock and Boston s.ona. Moral values.
nder this system, became money
a question Of right: Lady-So you
'ish to leave, cook. May l ask whyP
ook-Certainly, min, You see, there's
My one p'liceman in this ole Of a place
begin the parish's parding-and he's
up with the hupper housemaid.
Which it's no concern of mine who
axes up With who; but it's we'll beknown
S the plicemsn is the cooks parkisite.
funny Folka.
When You see a man Juggling away at
is mustaehe with wrinkled brow, and
q look of superior wisdom gem
ally, don't imagine hat he is ponder
e the evolution theory, or even the
of 40 Eastern war; be is ooly
ordering if that house Ne went to see
'out yesterday had any closets up