Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-20
FACTS AMI FANCLEs.

gest train'wrecker a lady knows Of.
/ Philadelphia Bulletin.
Childhood is the sleep of reason IN.
T. Mail. And alasI how too frequently
it never, never wakensl
Some childrea are in .he habit of call.
ing their father simply pa" but a happy
parent of twins should be called papa"
The Arkansas Industrial University
can accommodate 800 students. It il
said to be the largest and most elegant
structure in the State.
A set of thieves in Mexico have does
trained to steal handkerchiefs in the
cathedral and other churches from the
kneeling worshipers.
People used to say of Mrs. Grant when
she was first married: Poor Julia
Dent Her husband ian never make a
living. -[Cincinnati Commercial.
The Boston policemen's clubs have fol.
lowed their belts into retirement, by
order of the mayor. Moral suasion.
probably, is to bring the unruly citizens
in"
Anne Brewster, of Philadelphia, the
Well'known author and correspondent.
has lived twenty years in Rome, and
cannot be persuaded to live anywhere
else.
Hugo's last work, The Art Of Being
a Grandfather" affords encouragement
to parents. And yet it is the art Of being
a father which costs. The other is sup.
Elementary.
Alexander thinks of sending over a
fleet to wound some of those paragraph
ers who are all the time getting puns off
at him. He jests at Cars, who never
felt q wound"
Captain Warberg and Lieutenant
B%jorliir, two officers of the Swedish
general staff, have left Stockholm and
are proceeding to the headquarters of
the Russian army.
l%mpecunlous persons do not talk about
making q raise" as they used to.
They now speak Of doing something to
remonetize their breeches poekets.-
Worcester Press.
Some one said to Hugo once upon a
time; ut must be very difficult TO
write good poetry" mo, sir" replied
the poet lit is either very easy or
utterly impossible"
Russians marry very, very young"
LEX. We suppose it is no uncommon
sight to see a young Benedict, some
eighteen months old, being toted around
in the arms Of his wife.
An indiscriminate slaughter OF dogs is
threatening. All right, but remember
that every dog killed leaves several hun.
dred teas to be cared for and amused.
-[DAnbury News.
just as The minister was about to tie
the knot at q Hartford wedding last
week, the groom said: THE times are
50 hard that | must give it up" and be
skooted. -[Boston Post.
The season is just getting along far
enough to make a man begin to wonder
If the soda-water at the drug stores this
summer will taste as much like whisky
as it did last year. -Hawkeye.
London Assurance" was PLAYED by
an amateur company in a New England
village recently, and the boys laughed
because the schoolmarm was down on
the bills as Lady Gay Spanker.
This is the season when a woman lifts
up her hands and wonders how so many
things could c%ontriVe to get hid away in
the water cooler during the six month";
retirement. -[Eaton Free Press.
How to tell a mad dog" is the title
of an article that is going the rounds.
We haven't anything tc tell a mad dog
that we couldn't send to him on a postal
card. -LCiucinnati Saturday Night.
By the laws of Florida, any man WHO
has lost an arm or a leg, no matter how
or when, or from what cause, caznot be
taxed fer any business be may enter
into, always excepting the liquor bust.
ness.
Sir Stephen Washington, late ~lieuten,
a%nt'governor of Greenwich Hospital, the
admiral who commanded the British
naval brigade in the trenches before
Sebastopol, died May 18th, aged seventy
three.
Colonel John Hay, late of the New
York Tribune, seems to have wholly re.
tired from the business Of making MSS.
He resides permanently in Cleveland.
Ohio, and is in partnership with his
father.in-law, AmOSa Stone, the Western
railway magnate.
A Paris Snowman, whose daughter
was recently married, presented to his
sonin'law, rs her fortune an elephant
that danced a f~andangO, a camel that
went down on its knees with its head 10
the east at sunset, a dog that reckoned
up accounts and two eauaries that
played cards.