Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-02
FACTS mi FANCIEs.

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You ought to acquire the faculty of
being at home in the best society, said a
fashionable aunt to an honest nephew.
manage that easily enough" rejoined
the nephew, by staying at home with
my wife and children"
Mary, my love" said a not very at
%tentive husband to his wife at the dinner
table, shall l help you to a piece of
hearth" =" believe" she SAID, that a
piece OF heart was all hat l got" There
was a commotion among the dishes.
Emerson says: An eye can threaten,
like a loaded and leveled gun" He
means when cooked, Of course. This has
no reference, we trust, to the strabismal
defect in the orb of a famous LAWYER.
general. -[New York Illustrated Weekly.
A lady entered the famous Temple
place establishment the other day and
asked, rs this the store where so many
girls have been married. Yes, ma am"
Well, | wonder il l could get a situation
here for my daughter. "-[Boston Adyer-
tiser.
When a fond wife decides to accom-
pany her husband to q soda fountain.
and while he says "~Sarsaparilla and
ne leans over to whisper to the attend.
ant, the syrup he takes comes from un-
der the counter and looks like thin mo.
%lasses.
The Mexican name for a kiss ia tele.
namequizel; and when a pair of Mexican
lovers are caught elenamequizeliug over
the front gate at night, they appear not
a bit more confused than if a kiss was
spelled with only one syllable. MORRIS
town Herald.
ne was making a call, and they we're
talking OF literature. The Pilgrims
Progress" she remarked, " always sesms
TO me painful. OF course you have read
BnnysnY' BE. said he had one on each
loot, and they troubled him a good deal.
Norwich Bulletin.
A Michigan washerwoman who has
been in the business for thirty.one years.
has never yet put out q line of clothes
and had them rained on. If sbe would
only put professor before her name
she'd soon have an observatory on a
hill, Detroit Free Press.
a Western editor, in an uncarded
moment, recently wrote; THE good
husband keeps his wife in wholesome
ignorance Of ell unnecessary secrets"
The next day his wife laid the r%ollipe.pin
down on the table under his nose three
or four times, ard in italicized syllables
inquired what he had been up to nov
The linen collars are still smaller than
last season. They are now only a mar
row band round the neck and tiny turned
down corners in front. A pretty model
is entirely composed, for both collar and
cuffs, of open.work insertion, divided bv
narrow loops of plain stitched linen.
Silk or lace ties still hold their own as
iavorite neck garniture.
A great number Of Russian ladies in
st Petersburg have pledged themselves
mutually neither to rear silk nor satin
nor costly ornaments, nor to give balls,
nor to indulge in other Injuries daring
the present war, but to devote the money
which they would otherwise have spent
upon such objects to the nursing OF the
sick and wounded Of their country.
One Of the historic paintings in the
Old South attracted the attention Of a
party Of the spect.auditors last night.
Whose picture is thstY' inquired one.
1t says William Pitt the Elder, re.
piled his companion, reading the inscrip-
ton. "0h, yes a kind Of deacon, I
suppose, of this church in old Revolution
times. Dent know as l ever heard of
him before. Boston Traveller.
Some one observing, in a time Of pub.
lie calamity and danger, that the inbab-
itants OF a certain district crowded the
churches as they had not done be!ofe.
said ut reminds one of the old Scotch
lady at sea in a storm, who asked tho
captain what the chances were. Mad.
am, said the seaman. solemuly, we
must trust in God. 'Ech, sir, an has
it come to thaty cried the frightened
dame?"
The inexperienced young man should
never attempt 10 get into a hammock in
the presence Of young ladies'. Thess
nettings have an annoying habit OF sud
denly becoming conspicuous for their
absence from the exact position in which
they are when one starts to jump into
them, and a p~recipitste deseent to the
ground is not at sll conducive either to
dignity in ones self or gravity IN the
lookers.On. Il Buffalo Express,