Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-17
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Moody aud Sankey will give camp
meetings and conventions q vide berth
this summer.
No mob assembled in Rome A stern
deputy sheriff stood Aady to pass around
the hat at a moments notice .-[ROms
Sentinel.
We may not all be artists, but we can
appreciate the difference between an
Italian sunset and q circus billboard.
-[0il City Call.
Three are a mob, according to law.
This is what a young fellow thinks when
he and another chap are counting the
same girl.-[New York Herald.
II you are goiag to slide down a plum
tree at this season of the year, you had
better carry your pants in a bundle under
your arm. -[Danbury News.
We judge from various cuts in the pic
torials that there were about q million
and a half lives lost in the late striking
unpleasantness. II Rochester Democrat.
Our grandmothers were slower and
more digni6ed in their dances than we
are. When asked to dance they said,
Wait a minuet. "-1[New York Herald.
Come TO Chicago, Patti. Come to
Chicago, Nicoliui. There is more than
n way TO get a divorce. In Chicago
you can purchase one for ten cents, or
three for a quarter. = Rochester Demo-
crat.
Placards containing life size portraits
Of the Colorado potato beetle in all its
stages of development are being printed
in Germany at government expense,
and will be distributed throughout the
country.
Prince Louis Napoleon was one Of the
most courted guests at q grand ball re-
Gently given by the Countess of Wilton,
at her mansion in Grosvenor square,
which the Prince and Princess Of Wales
also attended,
The first mosquito having appeared,
an uptown landlady has put up all the
pillows into sole leather cases, so the
boarders can bang them around as much
as they please without breaking the corn
obs.-[Newark Call.
A correspondent OF the Bulletin en-.
dearingly asks its editor, How can the
boys be kept of the streets at night?'
Simple enough Let every parent pave
his back yard with tasselated marble,
light it with gas, put a billiard table in it,
with a bar and cigar stand in one corner,
and the thing is done.-[Eureka SENT.
mel.
, At the last review at Paris one NJ. Du-
mont won 10000 francs by betting that
he would partake Of an ice not made ON
the ground and served by no human
: hand. At 2.55 his splendid retriever
} trotted up With, in bis mouth, a can con-
tanning a vanilla ice, with which thu
faithful animal had been intrusted three
? hours before.
} Ex-Governor Moses, of South Carot
!, lima, who is in the bands of a legislative
2 investigating committee, as we'll rs i'm
I Jail, has submitted some papers to tho
! committee which are said to show the,
participation Of Chamberlain in manv
Of the extensive official robberies thaA
have been perpetrated in South Carolina
under the carpetbaggers.
There was a moments lull in the de.
bate, aud then a member known as
Old Reliable spoke up: Why down
to Arizony, when | lived thar, it was so
/, hot that they used to have to splice two
!, thermometers together SOS to get any
idea OF the heat, and even then the
quicksilver would squirt over the ton of
the thermometer sometimes.-TAu.tin
(Nev. Rsveille.
They we're husband and wife, ard az
they stood before the Capitol in Wash
ington she asked: What's that figure
on top2" That's a goddess" he an.
Swered. And what's a goddess?" "A
woman who holds her tongue" he re-
piled. She looked at him sideways, and
then began planning how to make a
peach pie with the stones in it. for the
benefit Ct his sore tooth.
A man demanded a fresh glass of rum
in a Nevada %saloon, and did not get il.
Then he saiG he had never tried il. lint
1T had been the ambition Of his life to
klllA barkesper; but when the barkeeper
took ont two six.shooters and a club. the
man said be did not mean a polite. cen.
tlemanly barkeeper, but one of those
fellows who wore paste diamonds and
parted bis hair in tho middle.
When Tom Oehiltree, of Texas, was in
London he was introduced by a noble
acquaintance to the Prince of Wales.
6rssp'ng warmly the royal hand. he
said' Wales, old fellow, Tn deyilish
glad to know you; let's take a dEnk."
The horror of the noble introducer was
changed to amaaement when the prince
gave Toms hand a hearty shake, ana
replied Don't care if l do"