Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-09
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

A crying boy ought to be able to keep
cool with his bellows.
Russian generals feel utter con.
tempt" for Turkish generals.
What a pity some sort of truss can't
be invented to cure these bankruptcies.
Girls drive the "mules" in wooden
factories, and do all the kicking besides.
London masons have struck for in
crease Of wages and decrease Of hours.
THE Sweet Bye and Bye" has too
much sugar in it, aud begins to pail on
the taste.
One of the pashas Of the Turkish army
was formerly in the chrome line in
America.
George Alfred Townsend writes: "You
can make a Philadelphia girl blush by
staring at her"
India has the Isle of Dogs, and St.
Louis has a man who manufactures the
"ile" Of dogs into glyeerine,
A fashion reporter writing from Goth
am describes the prevailing style Of
garters. That young man is getting
above his business.
1t was at Cincinnati. She was dressed
to be q bridesmaid, and she sought to
improve the fire with "oil from the can"
The wedding was a success without her.
mice growing weather, this" says an
exchange. "All the farmer has to do is
TO sit on the back stoOp, smoke his pipe
and hear the vegetables quarreling
among themselves about being crowded"
Constantiuople is o good place-to
leave, and the outside residents there
have perceived the fact, and are leaving
With O degree OF forthwithness that re.
minds one of a flock of sheep going over
a pair of bars.
my mamma has got o chatelaine on
her watch, said a small sojo1rner at the
seaside to her playmate. Hob! that's
nothing" responded the challenged
scrap, my papa has got u cbattel
mortgage on his watch"
A Bridgeport doctor is trying to cure
a woman OF e queer habit Of eating
CASTLE soap. She ought to swallow the
family washing and copious draughts Of
water. 1t would save much confusion
and annoyance on washing day.
Hippopotamuses are down as low as
$4,000 apiece, and Il %meDAgerie man says
this is DIRT cheap. But until they come
down to 81 so they will be classed among
the luxuries in poor families, who will
continue to worry along with two or
three dogs.
Probably the only coffee Tree in New
England is Que growing on Eagle Island
at Newburyport, Mass which sprung
from coffee struggled during the time of
the embargo. The tSee bears, but the
berries do not ripon, and have very little
of the coffee taste.
The Yankees know how to get busi-
ness. The chamber of m of
New Haven is publishing a displayed adj
vertisement in leading journals, calling
the attention Of manufacturers every.
where to New Ravens low taxes and
other advantages.
Some amusement was caused not long
ago, in an English court, by a female
witness, who, on the saith being admin.
istered, repeatedly kissed the clerk in
stead Of the book. 1t was some time be-.
fore she was made to understand the
proper-or, OF least, the legal thing to
do.
Professor Swings paper, the Alliance,
says Of the Rev. Joseph Cook, Boston's
sensational preacher, hat he combines
the theories Of the philosopher with the
egotism Of an old father talking 10 his
children, and seems a rare combination
of Sir William Hamilton and Peter
Farley,
A Minnesota judge is having a rather
. unpleasant career, They call him the
" Minnesota Jefreys," a vindictive,
, pestiferouS creature, a "despot and a
bully" q a" terror" a ~cold-hearled
devil, a base, i%usolent %tyrant," a man
q that ought to be i~mpeached and ridden
out Of town on a rail-"
s Scene in New York: Big fellow with
e a cowhide, lashing a small man, who
D dances about in great agony, shrieking,
e "0ul oul oul' Mr.. Bergh appears Of o
k window, nearly bursting with rage.
Bergh-"Hil bill therel What are you
d doing down there. you villain2 II you
don't let that dog alone I'll fill you full
& Of bullets right herel" Scourger-''Ol
IS Mr.. Bergb, is that your Why, this
g isn't a dog I'm a lArrupin' its only a
human beiugF' Bergh--"0b, we'll,
a then, just 90 ahead. Ny ears deceived
10 me. Let him have it again, nov, and
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