Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-13
FACTS AND FANCIES.

" - eHNe nc 70 ho iOnBer handsome.
Camden Post: We can't all be born
in Ohio, but we can cuss those who are.
General sheridan's twins were bau-
tised at bis residence, in Chicago, on
Friday, by Right Rev. Bishop Foley.
They are named Irene and Louise.
A. T. Stewart left $4,000 to William
Armstrong, but there are two William
Armstrong;, and the one who didn't get
anything says the executors paid the
wrong Bill.
"Templeton says When a woman
is so awtully smart as is Gail Hamilton,
and SO thoroughly conscious of her
smartness, it is more difficult to stop her
than to set her going"
Gladstone has prepared a paper on
Nursing" 1t will be interesting to
learn whether the veteran statesman
regards nursing as more entertaining
than round the.table shots.
A youth refused to take a pill. His
crafty mother thereupon secretly placed
the pill in a preserved pear aud gave it
to him. Presently she asked, TON, have
you eaten the pear2' he replied, yes,
mother; all but the seed"
The New Orleans Democrat learns
that Packard has accepted an offer made
to him to lecture through the North and
West, the subject of his lecture being
the Louisiana question, and the compen-
sation secured is to be $4,000.
A radical Danish divine instead of
using the regular prayer for the king, al.
tered it a few Sundays ago to petition
that God would enlighten the mind of
the king and turn his heart so that he
might again deserve the affections Of his
people"
The iron which covered the Confede.
rate iron-clads destroyed in Charleston
harbor in 1865 is still being recovered,
and the other day a large section of the
bow of a gunboat, with forty pieces of
bar-iron plating weighing several tons,
was fshed up.
a young man went to see his sweet.
heart in an adjoining town the other
night, and the family were not inclined
to let him in, Grieved at so cold a re.
ception, he pressed them to know the
reason, but did not linger when in.
formed, We've got the smallpox"
Public opinion in Germany is thus re.
lected in a conversation between two
good burghers of Berlin, taken from a
Berlin paper; sFirst Burgher-"S So we
are likely to have another war with
France" Second B~urghsr-" Let us
pray they may thrash US, so that they
may be ns poor as We are"
"0h, cut it shortl cut it shortl" ex.
claimed the victim OF a Fulton street
barber, who, while shaving him, beguiled
the passing moments with an uniater-
rupted flow Of weariseme conversation.
All right, sir" he replied; some likes a
close shave, and seme DON'T" and as he
resumed the thread of his discourse the
victim groaned in despair. -[Brooklyn
Argus,
One of our Pittsburg exchanges com.
plains that a certain guardian of the poor
in that city took fourteen Of his personal
and family friends to the City Home,
paid their railroad fare with tickets Dur.
chased by the city, and furnished them
all with decoration day dinners at the
expense Of the taxpayers. This, says
our exchange, may be all right, but It is
decidedly a new way to cars for the
poor.
The Ragged School Union of London
has l52 school buildings, in which %. 900
tstterdemalion little L%ondoners are
taught the rudimeuts of learning. The
British child is attracted by such a name;
but the American boy of the street,
however torn his trousers or sleeveless
his jacket, would 60 without an educa-
ton all his life rather than 90 in quest
Of it to a place over whose door was the
sign Ragged School"
Private Dalz.ll neve wrote but one
under ten pages in his lie. II was
to Ben Butler, when the spoon scandal
was at its height. 1t read: Gen Benz.
Butler; Are you a thief? An early
will oblige, Private Dalzell." The
General Endorsed on the back Of this:
t. You are an impertinent s~coundrel,"
and returned it. The Private Reimbursed
il; Respectfully returned for q fuller
explanation" He has never heard from
It. -[Detroit Tribune.
A Kentucky physician was on the wit.
ness stand the other day, and was bad
gered by the defendants lawyer for a
long time, being compelled to 90 over
the same ground repeatedly. At length
latter asked him il it we're not true
hat some mems skulls we're not thicker
han others. The doctor looked straight
1t his interlocutor for o moment, and
hen replied with vehemence: Eyes, sir;
think some mems skulls are much
than others"
What a food of "reminiscences il
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