Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-04
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Five young men have lately taken
prizes in cooking in England.
The Chinese laborers employed at the
works at Beaver Falls, Penn,
have all left.
1t is proposed to observe July I'd in
Canada hereafter as the anniversary Of
confederation.
A cargo Of canned Holsters, valued ct
S75, 927, was shipped from Halifax for
London n day last week.
The Liberians (South Africa voted
down an amendment to the constitution
allowing white men to own land and be,
come citizens of the republic.
A colored doctor sent in an applica.
ton to be made a city physician of At.
lanta, Ga. He was strongly indorsed
by a couple Of white physicians.
The Prince Imperial of France ia said
to love, even to the verge of matrimony
an the abyss of domestic life, his royal
cousin, the I~nfanta Dona Pillar, Queen
Isabella's eldest daughter.
A youth never feels so happy asduring
that stage in the growth of his mu0tache,
in which, when he is walking against the
wind there is a whistling through the
hairs not unlike the music of an EoIian
harp.
There's a light dswning in the East"
remarks the war editor of a contemporary.
For the sake of preserving the dignity Of
the newspaper business, we advise that
young man to get home earlier. -IRhine.
beck Gazette.
Mrs. Grant says that she has been very
happy in the White House, because she
has had plenty of money. She has no
ambition to be the mother of her coun.
try, but she was willing to be its wife or
sister-in-law.
When a foud son starts forward in life
he sometimes turns round to caress his
friends, but a mule never turns round.
Heis the only affectionate one Of his
species who a strike out in life both
ways at once. -[Herald P. I.-man.
What q grand, noble, self. sacrificing
emotion is sympathy. 1t is sympathy
which lifts attention bodily, and takes it
from the eloquent divine out through
the church window to the babe which is
exercising its lungs ia the adjoining
house. = Washington Nation,
The Tichborne claimant, hearing that
his wife was about TO appeal to a certain
authority in reference to the treatment
her husband receives, writes learue lly
to say that she might just as we'll ap.
peal to one of the idols worshipped by
the Anthropophsgi OF Tongataboo."
The young ladies of Newark, N. j.,
who belong to temperance organizations,
pledge themselves not to associate with
young men who use intoxicating drinks.
These youRg ladies belong to wealthy
families, aud their influence is being felt
by the young men, some of whom have
signed the pledge rather than lose the
society Of the fair temperance advocates.
a resident Of a Pennsylvania village,
named Jonathan Stump, has hoe which
ia nearly a century old, ard has always
been in the hands OF the Stump family.
1t has been handed from generation to
generation, Jonathan Stump having r.
ceived it from his father, William Stump;
the latter from his father, Daniel Stump,
and Daniel Stump from his father, BEN
jamin Stump. 1t has been entered Tor
exhibition at the next centennial.
The millennium has come" said n
lion to a lamb suppose you come out
of the fold aud let us lie down together,
as it has been foretold we should.
Been to dinner to day2' inquired the
lamb. Not a bite of anything since
breakfast was the reply, except a few
lean swine, a saddle or two, and some
old harness" 81 distrust a millenni-
um," continued the lamb, th~oughtfully
which consists solely in our lying down
together. However, you may 90 over 10
yonder sunny hill aud lie down until
come. "-LBoston Globe Philosopher.
Purely French: The Marquis de So
langes, who lost his leg at Solferino, finds
a stranger at the feet Of his fancee. The
stranger draws his sword. mo matter,
exclaims the marquis, mine was left ia
: the body Of an Austrian g~eneral--nu
matterl' and he unscrews his wooden
} leg, with which he strikes his adversary
} dead, crying "Vive la Francel" while
the orchestra strikes up the "MarseiI
laise," and the fsncee, touched BY mi,
q act of patriotism, substitutes the support
OF her arms for hat Of the missing limb
and leads the marquis back to the che,
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