Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-25
FACTS AND FANCIES.

A doubtful customer-The man WAC
told the barkeeper to charge his mem.
DRY"
The thermometers are getting high ne
tons now, just because people look At
them SO much.
The Phillips Academy at Exeter, N.
IL has received an anonymous gift OF
Eve thousand dollars.
A family almost white, who claim 10
be pure Sioux, is one Of the %curiosities Of
Crazy Horns camp.
The crossing OF the Danube by the
Russians has made the Turks cross
they feel very mad about it.
How the years jump" says a West
ern editor. Yes, indeed; especially the
leap years. Il Commercial Advertiser.
The Oldest man who graduates at Har.
ward this year is thirty.one, and the
youngest eighteen aud a half years old.
Soaking the bait in whisky is a new
fishing device. Smidgkins remarks that
the old way vas to soak the fisherman in
the same liquid.
The King of Holland has offered to
send 10000 tulips to the Paris Exposi.
ton Of 1878. He will also seud some of
his gin to keep the two lips moist.
Miss Julia A. Gsrretson, formerly
State lecturer for the Iowa oranges, is
nov Mrs, B F. Pratt, of New Jersey.
She doesu't lecture any more-lor the
Iowa oranges. Hswkeye,
The spirit Of belligerency seems to
take possession of everything in Maine.
Two cows in that State recently fought
each other until both were dead.
"How Shall We Help ourselves2' was
the title of a recent lecture by a Boston
lady. We should say with a spoon or
fork, if handy; if not, and nobody is
looking, take your fingers.
a spinster lady of fifty remarked, the
other day, that she could 90 alone at ak
months old. Yes" said her hateful
brother, aud you've been going it alone
ever since, and never euchered anybody. 4"
The sanguinary incubation Of military
de9potlsms on multitudinous millions of
passive aud u~nchronicled oerfs presents
a somber canopy .-[Boston Globe. How
you'd you like to cone cut here aud
write up a FIRE?
The other day a father said to bis five.
year old boy, who came in late to dinner
from school, Robbie, Why are you so
late? Didn't you hear the bell2" Yes,
father" replied Robbie, but | couldn't
hear it plain"
1t was in one Of London's transport
tine theaters that tAe ever famous criti-
cism was delivered by o sweep in the
gallery: I've don't expex grammar,
and We doa't expex hsctiug, but yer
might jiue yer fats"
1t took six lawyers, forty witnesses, q
judge and a jury to discover that o Vim
ton county (0hio) Widows broken heart
was only worth SCI so. The widow
thought the gay deceiver ought to pay
her about 1892 so more.
Niagara hackman who was prospect.
ing around for early victims. the other
day, fell into the river just below the
suspension bridge and was swept over
the falls. He waded ashore, however,
changed his clothes, went back to his
hack, found a stranger looking at it, aud
charged him eleven dollars on the spot.
- Burlington Hawkeye.
A physician says mo one can suffer
much pain and perform satisfactory
work while so suffering which shows
there is one medical man in the world
who never noticed how suddenly a nan
a hurry of With halfa.dozeu healthy
hornets under his coat collar. and yet
when we come to think Of It we are not
sure the work is entirely satisfactory to
the nan after all, for he seems to feel
disappointed il he makes less than a
mile q minute bridgeport STANDARD.
A little girl who sat on the front steps
Of o house on Montcalm street yesterday
was asked by a strange girl why sic
didn't have on q better dress. 81 can
wear silk if / want to" quietly replied
the little one. Your folks amt as rich
as them folks over there" sneered the
big one. "Yes we are, and q good deal
richer. They was beating their carpets
yesterday, and we was beating ours, and
we bad twice as much dust as they did"
That settled the big one, and she moved
IN. -LDetroit Free Press
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