Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-01-22
C AND FANCIES.

lucy seem.
The Dutcb," says a critic, wer
born engineers"
Princess Louise is said to have de
signed tue Arctic medal.
A mar may weaken himself b. always
porting over his own weakness.
St. Paul Despatch; Let US have a
fair count if we have to guess at it."
Miss Mile Christine, the two headed
ni1htiOgalp, is in Manchester, England.
Beecher on Vanderbilt: We don't
ws1t to give God the fag-eud Of our
lives"
Gle Bull would rather break his favor
lite fiddle than give any encouragement
to Wagner.
About fifteen thousand dollars has
been received in Richmond for the Lee
monument.
Boston shows her appreciation of the
hue arts by putting eleven saloon.keepers
into her common council.
NJ. de Marcere, the French minister of
the interior, has been chosen president
o; the group of the Left Center.
President Eliot says that the question
of admitting women to Harvard had
never been discussed by the faculty.
When a man is called by his friends
" brilliant but erratic," it means that he
will get drunk occasionally .-Bufalo
Express.
The peculiarly Of a Dayton elopsment
was that the man was a member Of a
first family" aud the woman was a
Beautiful mulatto.
Last complaint against Vanderbilt that
he wiIled nothing to his doctors. Re-
wArded divinity and snuBbed medicine.
The doctors probably got their fees.
Yellow stains, commonly called iron
mold, are removed from linen byhydro.
chloric acid or hot solution Of oxalic
acid. Wash well 10 warm water after.
ward.
A candle box placed on a pole eet
where two roads cross, and two miles
from human habitation, constitutes the
pOstOfice of West Belknsp, Clay county,
Texas.
Mime. Ferron, an old lady who lately
died at Paris, ~bequeathed 5000 francs to
the municipality of Marssilles, for found.
ing an asylum for unfortunate dogs aud
horses"
Morality iS generally keeping up ap.
pearsnces in this world, or becoming
suddenly devout when we imagine we
may be shortly summoned to appear in
the next.
The New York Sun says that Blaine
pronounced Don Csmeron's nomination
for secretary Of war as the most ras-
cally appointment Of this rascal.y admin
istrstiQq,"
With every exertion, The BEST man a
do only a moderate amount Of good; but
it seems 10 the power Of the most con.
temptible individual to Do inealeulable
mischief.
Il is mach more easy to initiate a bad
example than good, because il has our
natural inclination on its side. Perverse
natures fad a natural qualification in
doing wrong.
Mr.. Sankey, the evangelist, has a son
Harry, who, though only about twelve
years old is engaged 10 evangelical work
in Chicago, among boyS-work ssid to be
very successful"
Most people have their f~avorite physi.
clan, their f%avorite lawyer and their "a
vorite vice; and to these may be added
their %fayorite virtue, which they princi.
pally keep to talk about.
There are A.. 900 clergymen in the
United States, bu. ever this number has
not succeeded in working the morals of
the community ap to that paint where
all will pay on a crowded horse car.
"A Mexican woman says a CORE.
%spondeni, can cook beans in q dczen
different Ways, while all Boston, on d
Sunday morning, With its intelligence,
couldn't discover more than two ways"
One Of the haltinch plate glass win
doWs IN the top Of the stone lighthouse
at 0swego was shattered in a recent
gale By a piece Of ice cast up by the
waves. The lighthouse is sixty feet
high.
It is alleged that John Boyls' o'Roilly,
tho wellknovu Irish post, who bought
the Boston Pilst a year ago, has setually
made a success Of it and has begun to
pay of the debts which the paper incur
red under the honest but unfortunate,
Patrick Donshus. He has already de-
clared a ten per cent dividend on a debt
for which he is not legally 10 any way
responsible. 10 this the millennium, or
is human nature played cutf