Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-30
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Those who visit a mountainous eoun.
try soon get used to the climb-it.
Nothing is more tedious than the pur-
suit of pleasure as an occupation.
1t is stated that no barber has ever yet
been an inmate Of a deaf and dumb
asylum.
We know a shrewd farmer who made
q fortune %cultivating weeds. They we're
q widow'S.-[N. @. Times.
The freshman class at the Yale had
l76 applicants for admission and 60
others for the scientific school.
English women make the best moth
ers. "-LExchange. OF course they do;
they come from the mother country.
Just as oon as a country town is old
enough to have grown a big hill, it is ad.
v%ertised as the Switzerland of Amer.
lea"
We see how much a man has and
therefore we envy him; did we see how
little he enjoys. we would rather pity
him.
Failure to provide causes most of
the divorces at Indianapolis. When the
grocer refuses to trust Love flies out of
the kitchen window.
There is a very thin man employed at
one of our leading dry goods stores.
They use him as a lay figure to show off
the various styles of umbrella covers.
The Worcester Press man thinks that
the average restaurant veal pot.pie close.
ly resembles one OF Shakespeare plays,
since it is much dough about nothing. .
After a boy is tired out hoeing po:a-
toes, nothing seems to rest him more
than to dig over a few square rods OF
green sward ia search of bait.-[Rome
Sentinel.
No she paid, aud the wrinkles in
her face smoothed out pleasantly, No,
do not remember the last seventeen
year %locusts. l was an infant then
Newark Call.
No circumstance tends so much to dis.
solve the authority Of the laws as their
lax administration, and therefore laws
should be in themselves mild but admin.
istered with severity.
A correspondent of the American Art
Journal says that the girls of Cashmere
make shawls worth 100000, and will
show 300 distinct colors or shades which
we cannot make or even distinguish.
Two ostriches bsrnessed to a wagon
can pull q load Of a thousand pounds,
and all the care they need is a pail Of
water, two or three old bones and a hod
of brick. Send in your orders cary
Free Press.
When General Howard kills an Indian
he halts the entire command and holds
religious services over the remains of the
extinct red. He has not had occasion
to hold service for some weeks. -[Indian.
apolis Herald.
It's curious, but it's true, that Ameri-
cans had just as soon Anniversary" q
battle in which they were whipped out
of their boots as one in which they maui
ed the foe till be couldn't holler.-1De
trci' Free Prnos
Where is Gail Hamilton2 Has she
fled to Some verdant isle Of far Cathay,
where, stretched upon the shining sands,
her brow barred to the spice,laden breeze
and her feet dabbling in the pelIucid
wa ers OF The auriierGus %rlvulet, shu toys
With the sheeny snakes that hide smid
the clustering vines, and echoes back the
call OF the variegRted paroquet2 Or is
she up in the garnet writing another
buster2-lPuek.
What ia called the social circle is gen.
orally a dull merry.gc round, which first
makes us giddy and then sick. What is
called the round of pleasure may be
compared to the knife grinders wheel.
When its rotations are duly regulated
and adapted to the end proposed, it gives
point to the wit, while it brightens,
sharpens and pOlishes the general sur
face of the mind and manners. But if
We whirl it round with an uuremitting
rapidity, it takes of the edge of enjoy
ment, and Don wears out that which it
was intended to refresh and r~enovate.