Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-11
FACTS AMI FANCIES.

LINES.
Good for the Murphy movement Pc.
tatoes are plenty, excellent and cheap.
-[Boston Post.
"Deplorubus unum" is the way a
Chicago proofreader let it go through
the other day.
Queen Victoria has all her daughters
taught swimming" By a knight of the
Bath, probably. -[Boston Post.
Dress fringes are now colored with
" madden" This makes a sort Of deli.
rum trimmins Of them, you know
Boston Transcript.
A boy in Vermont put a blue glass
crystal on his ivl-dolllr watch, and in
three days he had a three hundred.dcllar
movement and a gold case.
What is the difference between I" Ro-
meo and a great naval commander?
One was lashed to the mast and the
other was mashed to the last .-[Cincin.
natl Commercial.
A Michigan farmer writes to the fac
ulty Of Yale: What are your terms for
a year? And does it cost anything
extra if my son wants to learn to read
and write as well SO row a boat?'
A Frenchman engaged in studying the
English language declares that, mas
much as a number Of COWS are called
cattle, why a number of eats are not
called cowtle, is a thing he cant under
stand. -[Exehange.
Have the railroads struck" asked
an excited man, bursting into the sane
tum like a Russian torpedo. They
have" we replied, gently and firmly,
" lots Of it; you'll find the railroads
truck over at the baggage room"
The statement that the coal fields Of
the world will be exhausted in two thou
sand years brings no permanent solace
to the man who has to carry the present
daily supply for the family up three pair
of stairs. : Bridgeport Standard.
The strike on James street yesterday
morning was promptly quelled. The
old lady marched upon the scene With a
broom, and the boy took the saw and re.
turned to work on the wood pile at old
rates. -[Rome Sentinel.
Private Dalzell is in o critical condi.
ton, and it is doubtful if be will recover.
During the strike he was captured by the
rioters, who chained him to a post and
kept him from writing a letter to the pa
pers for nearly five hours. -[Hawkeye-
TEN.
A grocer being solicited to contribute
to building a church, promptly sub.
scribed his lame to the paper in the fol-
lowing eccentric manner John Jones
(the only place in town where you can
get eleven pounds of sugar for a dollar,
25c. "-[Exchangs.
A Boston paper says that at the Pa.
vilion, Revere Beach, the other evening,
a thirsty individual, tramping the CORR,
doris round and round to find the bar.
exclaimed: 1T pears to me there's the
most piazza and the least rum here Of
any house on this beach,
The Brooklyn Eagle says of the theft
Of William Cullen Bryant's clothes: Let
the thieves keep the clothes for a few
years. 10 doing this they may run some
risk, but as a speculation the risk will be
justified. A coat stolen from Bryant
will certainly bring more after his death
than one obtained in the commonplace
way. What would not a coat stolen
iiom Shakespeare or Burns bring OF q
curiosity shOp?'
When a housewife stirreth a fruit cake
the wicked fly rejoiceth and is exceed
ingly glad; yea, he crackelh bis heels to.
gether and winketh his left optic, for he
knoweth the hour Of his exaltation is at
hand. He secreteth himself amidst the
c%urrants, and as he smothereth in the
batter his heart is at peace, for be know
eth that soon he shall be a neither mill.
stone Of indigestion in the stomach Of
him who unwarily d~evoureth the cake.
Jetfersoniau.
The doctors Of Detroit don't take a
joke as kindly as they might. The other
evening, a citizen of Woodward ave
nue. went a block out Of his way tC
put his head into a doctors office and
call out: Man at the corner of Wood.
ward avenue aud Elizabeth street got
bad fiji" The doctor put on bis hat and
fastened to the corner indicated, hoping
that he might not be too late to save
human life. There was no crowd ant
no excitement, aud as the NJ, D. leaned
against the lanppost to catch bis breath
he saw q man sitting on the curb ston,
bathing his foot with cold water. Thu
boot which he had drawn of stood besid,
him, and the man was saying: "Blas
that shoemaker; blast that boot-ah
yes, blast theml" 1t was a bad fit
, After two or three minutes the docto
saw that it was. What bis thoughts werI
no n will ever know, but as a boy cam
= near running a velocipede against hin