Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-25
FACTS AND PANCIEs.

MIS-. lHtOh mas once more pat on gay
colors and is as happy as a bobolink on
q pump handle.
The cost of the Paris exposition Of
1878 is estimated at 25, 3l3,O 900 francs, or
about Sc. O62, 800.
The young man who boosted he could
marry any girl he pleased found that he
couldn't please any.
A cynic describes marriage as an altar
on which man may lap his wallet and
woman her affections.
A little boy went to his father crying
the other day, and told him that he had
kicked a bee that had a splinter in its
tail.
Lager beer has commenced to disap-
pear in Japan, 1t disappears the same
way as in Germany and America .-[Chi-
cago Journal.
Not long since $50 applications we're
received in one day, by the Metropolitan
railroad, in Boston, for positions as con
ductors and drivers.
a Western editor, who has heard THAI
Grant eats with bis knife, Indignantly
asks it a man is expected to eat with
his fingers" -[Tribune.
A leading Swiss paper announces the
hanging of Miss Mollie Mcguire, of
Pennsylvania 1t omitted to state that
Mr.. Schuyl killed her.
A woman's skeleton sells for more
than a mans in Philadelphia, but it's a
weeks extra work to wire the jaws, o
see. i Detroit Free Press.
At the cattle show-Geutleman, with
'olemnity; Miss Florence, do you love
beasts2' Lady, with vivacity: Am l
10 consider that as a proposal2"
The famous Kentucky natural bridge
over Caney Creek, in Elliott county,
broke in the center Of its arch a few days
ago and fell in magnificent ruins.
Go, my son, and shut the shutter"
This l heard a mother utter;
Shutters shut the boy did mutler
Il can't shut it auy shutter"
Housekeeper is informed that the
Balkan range, about which she has heard
so much, was not exhibited in the stove
department of the Centennial exhibition.
1t is reported in Texas that 1000 immi.
grants from around Scranton, Penn, are
coming to that State this fall to organize
a colony in the vicinity Of Fort Concho.
Several of the women, all Protestants,
who were pupils at the Ursuline Convent
at Somerville, when it was burned by the
mob on the night of August IL, 1884,
propose to have a reunion at Cambridge,
Mass.
Me-. Cough and Mr.. Murphy say we
must not drink malt and spirituous
liquors; Dio Lewis says coffee and tea is
/, poisonous; the Herald of Health eau.
tons US against drinking ice.water.
What can we drink, anyhow
3 The cornerstone for a new hospital.
which is to be erected by the German
Benevolent Society of San Francisco,
has just been laid in that city. The
whole coat of the buildiAg, when COM
pleted, will be about 500, 1000.
An old citizen in a country village, on
having a subscription list handed him
toward purchasing a new hearse for the
place, thus excused himself: | paid IS
for a new heArse forty years ago, and
me and my folks hain't had the benefit
of it yet.
Two men going through the VermiI-
lion river bridge, the other evening.
were overheard discussing the strike.
Said one: But doesn't the bible say.
Strike till the last armed foe expiresY >
That's a fact" said the other; IL
didn't think of that"
Concerning the word lady a woman
writes as follows: IF | belonged to the
medical profession and an editor called
me a lady DOCTOR would prescribe for
that literary light gratuitousIy, and Ad-
minister a dose which woull purify him
of bis vulgar gentility.'"
Animals may think, but sometimes
they do not think very fast. A COW got
into q James street garden and it took
her halt an hour to make up her mind
where to go cut. A mar and dog were
flooding her mind with information all
the time, too .-[Rome Sentinel.
} The Oldest man on the Pacific coast is
; Major Sterling, a retired army officer,
and perhaps the oldest on the list. He
crossed the bar at the mouth of the Col.
umbia river, July 8, 1920, being thea
twenty-six years old, He has been
familiar with the coast more than fifty
seven years.
General Malone, unsuccessful candi-
date Ur the Democratic nomination as
governor of Virginia, was wounded dur
ing the war. He weighs a little over
loo pounds, and his wife was much dis
tresSed when she heard of his misfor-
tune. Friends assured her it was only
a flesh wound. II know better" said
the wife; "if Billy Malone has been