Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-18
FACTS AND FANOIEs.

To keep fish from s-meliug-cut eff
their noses.
Half the truth is oftentimas es bad a
lie as no truth.
McolOsky stands thirty-sizlh on the
list Of cardinals
Abby Sage Richardson is going to en-.
LIST as a preacher.
To find out what is in a name put il
on the back Of a note.
1t is rumored that Judge TAFT, of
Ohio iS going to study law.
Prof. Tice predicts a dry summer, and
advises farmers to pillow deep.
The safest way is to eulogize a person
you don't know. -[Mark Twain.
a very malignant type of measles il
prevailing in the Cherokee Nation.
Miss Won Hillern has walked fifty
miles in twelve hours, in Providence.
a county jail out West has a sign
over the gate, God Bless Our Home
A dog is still seeking for his master in
the ruins of the burnt Brooklyn tbeater.
The Governor of New jersey has ap-
pointed his fatherin'laS to a judgeship.
Are you fond of tongue, sir2' Il
was always fond Of tongue, and / Ike it
still"
a baby, says a recent French writer,
IS an angel whose wings decrease as Tia
legs increase.
Ninety.nine out Of a hundred people
make a great mistake when they cut Of
a dogs tail in throwing away the wrong
nd'-[Bluegrass (Ky) Clipper.
A punster was once thrust into q closet
with the threat that be would not be re-
leased until he made a pun. Almost in
simultaneously ho exclaimed, 20 pun the
doOrl'
A happy Chicago maiden afirms that
by placing a lover in the rays Of a blue
glass wiadow he can be made to propose
at 4 sitting. She has tried and proved
it herself.
On a small island in Louisiana are a
dozen lockwood trees, the only oues in
toe United States, aud are supposed to
have been planted by coasters in the
Spanish reign.
Those were merry old daya when it
was accounted tke proper thing for a
gentleman who took snuff from a young
lady's suua-Ooz Immediately to ezclaim,
with a bow; "I.kia.syou"
Captain Burns0y was assel BY his
Turcoman guide which al Englishmsn
loves best, his horse or bis vile. Bat
the author answered dipiomatioally,
" That dependson the woman"
Several e~xohouges copy the p,,e ,,snb
that Mccullough, Of P~ittsburr. died
rather than aka brandy 10 save his lie.
It IS net true. He vas sensible to the
last and took ii -[Pntsbprg Dispatch.
a.
Eternity, past aud future, flashed be.
fore my eyes" he said, aud | saw
where the crack Of doom began and
ended" This was his experience the
first time a baseball struck him in the
stomach.
The Boston papers tell Of a ~loye.sick
girl who married against her fathers
wishes add went home after the FIRST con-
jugal tiff. XIII the prodigal. ex-
claimed the old gent, THE calf has re-
turned"
When a London medical Journal wants
to describe a healthy man, it simply
says; Clean tongue, good appetite,
slow pulse, cool skin, clear head, steady
hand, good walking power and light, re-
freshing sleep"
Peter the Great wos the ar,t editor in
Russia, and we have an uncommonTy
large amount Of respect for the late Mr..
Great He never copied one Of our
items without giving US proper credit.
ana never sent us his paper printed only
on one side. -[Norristown Herald.
Do you know what bulldoziDg is asked
a mar Of an old farmer. IL thought
did" laid the granger but the bull
wasn't doing, He was only making
believe, and, being in the middle Of a
forty'acre lot, | naturally had to make
pretty quick time to reach the fence
ahead OF him"