Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-26
FACTS N FANCIES.

1t is absurd to be serious about triaing
matters.
Romantic death-a young lady drowned
in tears,
he that lends to all shows goodwill,
but little sense.
The memory should be a storehouse,
not a lumber Dom
Very few have sense enough to de-
spise the praise Of q fool.
Good nature, ike the bee, collects
honey from every herb.
Black swans and wise lovers are great
rarities in the world.
Fancy runs most iuriously when a
guilty conscience drives it.
A Baltimore young woman of twenty
Ave pays $40 for sending sc1rrilous
postal cards, The U. S. court did the
business.
Governor Williams, 4" Blue Jeans" Of
Indiana, is nearly seventy. and is tanned
as if he had spent the greater part of his
life in the hay field.
Five editions of the Rev. DR.. Wenin-
gers reply to Secretary Thompson's
book on The Papacy and Civil Power"
have been sold in less than three Weeks.
The Democratic editors Of Mississippi
held a meeting a few days ago, and pass
ed a resolution in favor of opposing any
attempt to form a new party in the State.
The great problem with lawyer Ev.
arts is whether he will send his Vermont
farm to the poorhouse or endeayor to
support it oR his salary of Secretary Of
State.
At midnight the blue sky bends over
us, dewy and soft, and radiant with in.
Vulnerable stars, like the inverted bell
Of some great blue flower, sprinkled with
golden dust and breathing fragrance.
General Hancock to the cadets:
Avoid the rocks of dissipation, of gam.
bling, of debt. Lead manly lives, and
you will find opportunities for great ser.
vice, when otherwise you would be pass
ed by"
A nan in Warsaw, Ark, has killed
four men on as many different occasions.
In each case be proved beyond question
that he acted in self-defence, and was
acquitted by a jury. he is not often
assailed now.
The committee having in charge the
selection of a model for the Byron statue
in London have approved the design of
Mr.. Richard Belt, which gives Lord
Byron seated, as he loved to sit, upon
the rocks watching the play Of the sun
light on the waves.
A gentleman not unknown in literary
circles was present at one of the pope's
receptions. The holy father approached
him and said: You're American, Are
you a Catholic or Protestant ?" Holy
father" replied our friend, II am neither
a Catholic nor a Protestant; I'm a jour
%nalist." His holiness laughed heartily
and moved on to some one else.
The delay of the Grand Duke Nicholas
to cross the Danube was owing chiefly to
his passionate fonduesS for fishing. It
was only when Adhem Pasha sent q
body Of cavalry to destroy his rods and
lines that the duke remembered that he
represented the sacred mission Of Rus
STA, and started off to help the Christians
skin Turks. -[Sarcastic Exchange.
The French city OF Chalon. .Sacne
is about to erect a monument to Niepee,
the discoverer of the daguerreotype. In
1929 he formed o co~partnership with Da
guerre, who had also been presenting
similar researches, but died 1901 after;
and his associate therefore became
chiefly known in connection with the
discovery. Niepee was born in 1865
Officers and criminals have'many ex-
citing encounters in Arizona, but few that
are more thrilling than that between a
sheriff 5 party aud four stage robbers
rear Eureka. There was a long chase
on horseback, an exchange Of aboat
twenty revolver shots, aud finally a hard
fight with knives. One officer and two
robbers were killed, aud wounds were
mum erous.
They get things awiully mixed up in
Ohio. They don't seem even to know
just who is exercising the Presidential
A correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer writes to that paper:
Who in hi is President Of the United
States2' to which the hesitating editor
answers: Stanley Matthews or John
Sherman; don't knew which, but hope it
is Matthews"
Advice is offensive, not becauseit lays
us open to unexpected regret, or convicts
us Of any fault which has escaped our
but because it shows that we are
known to others as we'll as ourselves;
and the ofioious monitor is prosecuted
with hatred, not because his accusation
is false, but because he assumes the
superiority which we are not willing to
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