Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-25
FAcTs AND FASCIRS.


top to display pretty stationery.
Written Whiting cards ARE the most
fashionable for ladies and gentlemen.
A Russian proverb says; Love your
wife cs your own soul, and beat her like
yeur fur jacket"
The tune that the old COW died on"
must have been written in beeEaat.-
Whitehall Times.
A bathing club has just been ineor-
porated in Peoria. 1t will hold regular
meetings sem%i-annually.
Henry Ward Beecher will visit Cali
fornia next spring, lecturing about
twenty nights en- route.
1t is getting so chilly that ice cream
dealers have to set their f~reezers behind
the stove at light. Fulton Times.
The lady who wrote THAT Husband
of Mine" probably put her better.half in
a book SO that he could turn over a new
leaf TO- and then.
Whatever else may be said against the
Chinese, no n can truthfully say that
he ever saw one who parted his hair in
the middle, -[Chinese Herald.
Some folks find fault because the New
York Bible House is next door to a thea.
ter. Well, isn't the theater next door to
the Bible House2-[Free Press.
What with drawbacks on sugars and
pullbacks on '%lasses, the sWee things of
this earth would seem to have a difficult
time in coming forward. -[Norristown
Herald.
Cheer up; times will be easier when
the professional base ball players quit
Tor the season and begin to put their
boarded wealth in circulation .-[Wor-
cester Press.
One little grain Of sand in a goose.
berry tart may cause a statesman to
abandon for the time his defense Of the
best financial theory in the world
Rome Sentinel.
A Passaic man who belongs to a new
literary aud dramatic society, at which
only the plays Of Shakespeare will be
given, said proudly that they will begin
With the Merchant of Venus"
a farmer was asked why he did not
take the newspaper. Because" said
ne, my father, when he died, left me a
good many newspapers, and l have not
read them through yet. "-[Rome SEN
tinel.
Nature doesn't know much. If she
had made q mans head out of cork, see
how nicely he could have Aoated about
IN water, and kept himself from drown.
ing in case of shipwreck.- Il Chicago
Journal.
"A great battle pendingI' calls out an
exchange. Yes, something is always
pending. A fellow no sooner gets his
wood and coal for winter than the potato
bin shakes its emptiness in his face
free Press.
Naming horse cars after distinguished
men has its disadvantages. A prohibit.
DRY friend Of ours was shocked to hear
the remark made that Governor TALBOT
had just gone up Columbia avenue chock
full."-[Boston Bulletin.
Our friend Rattlebones told us the
other day that this cool weather brought
a great blessing to him. He owns q fire.
extinguisher which occupies a position
ia his hallway, and oil during the sum-
mer the visitors to his house have fooled
around the thing, installing it for an ice
water cooler.
Every barber in Denmark must pass
an examination in surgery. This is a
good law, and might be adopted With
advantage 10 this country. When a man
is getting his hair cut, and has a portion
of his ear scissored of, he likes to have
the whole job done in a neat and scien.
tiic manner. Nor. Herald.
Saleiman Pasha was formerly a. soa,
fat man in Baxter street, in .his city.
and dined at the free "soup houses"
He went to Turkey and registered an
oath that he would win fame and gold.
The attention Of tramps should be ur,
gently invited to this. Turkey is the
place to so to grow up with the country.
-[Graphic,
l was showing my watch to my nephew,
who was about six years old. He pointed
to the face of the dial and said, "Wby,
there is another little watchl" l said,
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