Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-21
FACTS AND FANCIES.

nounced for an early appearance at Tony
Pastors. She was a danseuse before her
marriage.
In Wilkesbarre the city lampIighter
discharges his onerous duty on muleback,
requiring only about.fve seconds of time
for each lamp.
A New York eating-house furnishes
dishes at n cent a plate, and the pro.
prietor declares that there is a profit in
it at that figure.
Lover Tin FRENCH: Angelina je
tadore." Concord girl (who hasn't
studied parley-voo): Shut it yourself;
you left it open"
The Emperor of China is in favor of
subsidies, aud has advanced 81, 500, 900
to a steamship line which is to employ
none but Chinese sailors.
In Spain at a dinner party the oldest
lady is always seated first. In other
words she is the senior eater Of the oc.
casion. -[New York Commercial.
They have a new way of killing beeves
by dynamite in London. We don't like
it. Couldn't dynamite on such beef
Think of seeingit fly, blown all to pieces!
Ughl
John Morrissey is sick and able to cot
nothing but a porter.houss steak, better
done than usual. He huns in bed:
There's a land hat is fare than this
[Hawkeye.
70 for some n%ew.coined name by which
to call himl o fJr some name no other
lips could givs!' was the prayer of Violet
Fame until she married him. Now she is
content to call him Old Beeswax.
He gave her a hearty smack. Don't
kiss like that" she said. II want a
sweet, tender pressure when I'm kissed.
l don't want any fireworks" he left
out the explosion in the next act.
A Western girl visited a music store
and asked for The Heart Boiled Down
with Grease or Care" and when l
Swallowed Homemade Pies" The clerk
at once recognized what she desired.
A good book and a good woman are
excellent things for those who know how
to justly appreciate their value. There
are men, however, who judge of both
from the beauty of their covering
Inter. Ocean.
English is the court language of Ger
many. The Cincinnati Commercial says
it is a proud moment when a Briton or
American, visiting the palace, is saluted
with Dot vas a pooty schplentit morn
ing, ain'tit2'
The ancestry Of Senator Voorhees,, on
his fathers side, was Dutch; on his mo.
theirs side, Irish. He had Indian fighters
and Revolutionary soldiers for his grand
fathers and great-grandfathers, and is
fifty years old.
Among a lot Of unavailable matter at
the Williamsport pa postofice, is an
unstamped newspaper wrapper directed
to a Philadelphia lady, and bearing the
inscription, &C. 0. D. Haint got no
postage stamp"
The Presbyterian church has just de-
cided that women cannot be permitted
to preach in its pulpits. But the Pres.
byterisn, OF any other church, hasn't the
power to prevent women lecturing in bed
at unreasonable hours Of the night.
Our trade with Brazil is said to have
picked up remarkably since March, when
the new line of steamers from New York
began their trips, The export thither in
watches being particularly notable,
American being preferred to the English.
The number of letter. carriers employed
in the free-deli7ery service of the United
States is 1865. OF this number 1913
we're born in the United States, 931 in
Germany, 25S in Ireland, 80 in England,
and 76 in France, Scotland, Prussia and
other foreign countries.
A Lowell firm recently sent a lot OF
bills West for collection. The list came
back with the result noted against each
name, one being marked dead" Three
months after the bill got into a new lot
that was forwarded, and when the list
came back the name was marked still
dead"
Worth, the mar milliner, is said TO be
growing poetical. When demonstrated
with by a blonde for whom he had Sc.
lected a yellow silk, he quoted her ap.
prehensiou by remarking that she
might as we'll say That . blonde couldn't
sit in the sunshine" The yellow silk
was a success"
R. H. Stoddard has taken up once
more the study of the life of Keats, and
in some papers called After Many
Days" which will appear in the Decem.
Der and January numbers of Scribner,
he argues strongly in favor OF raising
Keats into a much higher position in
English literature than has been hitherto
accorded him.
Uriel s. Hari, a graduate of the law
department. of the University of Iowa,
who was injured by falling walls at a