Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-22
FACTS AND FANCIES.

auctions speak louder than words
CCin. Saturday Night.
A classic topper calls his first glass in
the morning, Minerva"
Mr.. Pierce L.orillarl, Of New York,
has paid $50, 600 for nine acres OF land
at Newport, Rhode Island.
Many men arc killed outright. But
who ever saw a servant girl who knew
how to live out right2-[Graphic.
The idea of tie ching every girl to
thump a piano and everybody to be a
book.keeper, will make potatoes worth
"a per bushel in twenty years.
It is just ninety-nine years since the
first sermon was preached to white men
in Ohio, aud some folks wonder if it
wasn't thrown away.-[Free Press.
Mr.. John W. Garrett, of Baltimore,
has presented to the Peabody Museum,
Yale College, the skeleton Of his Ara
hian mare, which died some time ago.
The cargoes Of bananas, piue.apples,
lemons and olives arriving at this port
during the last six days aggregate a
value Of AS. 600 -[New York Tribune.
AT what age we're you married2'
asked she. ipquisitivyly. But the other
lady was equal to the emergency, and
quietly responded: AT the parsop.
age. Chicago journal.
Not Proven = Scotch Presbyterian
minister: Don't you know it's wicked
to catch fish on the SawbathG" Small
boy not having had q rise all the morn
ing: Who catchin' Gsh2p
Tom Thumb is said to be worth $780,
900. And this is a very small fortune,
considering that Tom, during the last
twenty-five years. has saved more than
half that sum in the size of his clothes
alone, LNorr. Herald.
A lecturer inquiries: " What shall we
do with our girls r. That conundrum is
easy, Give them three square meals a
day; teach them to help their mothers;
aud at last they may become really help
meets for husbands -Idraphic.
The Bartholdi fountain, for which $40.
600 was paid, is being aid away in the
Botanical Garden--an iDclosure in the
hear; Of Washington from which all
persons are excluded by locked gates ut
6 o'clock p IA, all the year round.
Surgeon" Your pulse is still very
high, my friend. Did you get those
loeches all right | sent you the day be.
fore yesterday Pslient-"Yes, sir, |
got EN- right enough. But mightn't [
have EN- billed next time2"-Punch.
At a wayside railroad station n great,
hearty, red-laced countryman enters IA
compartment car on an arriving train.
In the compartment are several travel
ers, three Of whom are ladies. He
makes himself comfortable, pulls out his
pipe, and is about TO begin putting, when
suddenly turning to his female com
pagnons de voyage, he remarks, 10 q
honeyed and soothing tone, docs
smoking annoy ye, lediesT' The ladies,
surprised at the unexpected bit OF gal
lantry, replied; We are sorry to say
it does. 1t annoys us extremely"
Then" says the countryman, gravely
opening his match box, then, ladies.
you had better git ready far to change
cars, for | 1 are a gwine to smoke"
Miss s., an American heiress and
quite beautiful, has been exciting much
admiration in London during the pres.
ent season, and is about to marry, it ia
said, the sou Of a nebleman connected
with the royal household. American
heireases are by no means summed
abroad; quite the contrary, for they ara
generally as well educated and in every
way as presentable as their foreign sis
tiers, aud do not accept the FIRST impecu-
NOUS scion Of nobility that has a coronet
about him. Some years ago the daugh-
ter Of an American minister in London
was much sought after by patrician
youngsters. She was one day discovered
writing letters, and observed, II am
writing my d%eclensions. This London
is a good enough place for %airtations,
but l mean to conjugaie at home"