Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-24
FACTS AND FASClEs.

Maggie Mitchell is going to throw her
whole sole into Little Barefoot this win.
ter.
About half the fashion plates sent out
from Paris are colored at the prisons by
female convicts.
Preacher Moody is running a farm at
Mortified, Mass, and arranging for his
regular winter crusade.
mo" she said, and the wrinkles in her
face smoothed out pleasantly; mo, l do
not remember the last seventeen.year
%locusts. l was an infant then.
San FrauciscO's new reading: "Eter-
raj ~vigilants is the price of liberty"
There is a little disagreement between
the verb and its ~nominative, but that
does not affect the truth of the axiom.
DO you understand the nature Of an
oathT' a juryman was asked in a St
Louis court. "0f course l do" was the
reply. DO you mistake me for a men,
Der of congress2'
A ring displayed by a Broadway jewell
Ter, and intended as q present to a young
lady about to take the veil in a convent,
represents the Bleeding Heart" 1t is
a gold circle, so delicate as to be thread
like, bearing a heart of rubies one-third
of au inch in length. The gems are so
set as to show no gold.
When the bridge fell at Bath, England,
the other day, a Somersetshire yCkel,
who was one of the first picked out Of
the water, edited every body by Shrek
ing in accents Of anguish, as he pointed
to q woman who was still in the stream:
There's my wifel I'll give sixpence to
the man that saves her"
A professional man, returning to his
Office one day, after a substantial lunch,
said complacently to his assistant: " Mr..
Peetkun, the world looks different to a
man when be has three inches of rum i n
him" Yes" replied the junior, with.
out a moments hesitation, land he
looks different to the world"
THE difference" said the professor Of
natural history, between these fossil re-
mains, which l show you here, and the
lap dogs which those ladies' in the audi.
ence are now fondling, is this: These
fossil remains are petrifed bones, and
those lap dogs are bona fed pets
(Great cheering by the students.)
If you cannot lift as much as YOU
wish, cut of your arm. II you are no
as smart as you wish you we're, blow
your brains out. II there isn't enough
stuff produced to divide up and give you
as big a share as you want, destroy what
you can, SO there will be still less to TAXI
wages from; in short become a rioter.
The careless cuss rusheth through tn,
darkness toward the door ard stubbetI
his cigar against the panel thereof
whereas the prudent man cautiousl,
paweth on each side Of the open doc
, and knocketh his store teeth into th,
bottomless pit of his stomach by coming
! into sudden contact with the doors edge
Worcester Press.
A contemporary says 10 a recent article
' IF you wish to know whether a man i,
superior to the prejudices of the world
ask him to carry a parcel for you" A
fellow tried this plan a few days since
upon a well-dressed man he met al 0
railway station. The well-dressed mar
| took the parcel, and the other was salts
fled that he was superior to the preju
dices Of society, but he has not seen thu
parcel since.-LJudy.
Doctor" said an old lady to bel
family physician, kin ye tell me how
it is that some folks is born dumb?'
Why, heml certainly madam replied
2 the doctor; lit is owing to the fact tina
! they come into the world without tn,
power Of speech La, mel" remarked
the old lady; Now jest see what it is Il
have a physical eddication. I've axe
my old mar more nsr a hundred time
that same thing, and all that l coul
ever get out of him was jest this, Kas
= they is"
: Mr.. r. A Dana, jr., told the followin
little story at a dinner party in Bostot
not long ago: He was passing a negr
church at the North End one night, an
! took it into his head to look in After
c few moments observation and listeninG
: he was quietly retiring, when one of tb
official members stepped up and es
pressed regret that they could not offe
him more attractive preaching. MI
Dana remarked politely that it was YER
good, but the colored brother insisted o.
apoloGizing, Not much in de way O
preachin', sir, only a New York mani
The other day a lady was deplorinI
the death of al acquaintance with ON
Of the latter's most intimate friends
/ During the course of the conversation
the son Of the deceased gentleman en-
, tered the room, and conversation becam,
general. On his departure, however
free and ~personal comments wore nasse1