Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-31
FACTS AND FANCIES.

ANN9Ay OmSAhl1 IAu-ttl
bonds, why don't they sell themP,-
lGraphic.
"How's your husband this evening,
Mrs. Quaggs?' No Improvement,
doctor, one way Or the other"
An intelligent German thus expresses
his preference for a quack doctor: II
wouldn't call him ov mine cat vas deadl'
Since this thing started there have
been seventy-three different kinds of hell
discovered, with several theological sem.
%inaries yet to hear from.
A Paris journal gives this as the Nor
mans prayer: Kind Heaven, l do not
ask for wealth; only to be placed within
arms length Of the mau who has it,"
A counterfeit s. note was reported
circulating around the town of Attleboro
the other day, and as a consequence
business places we're generally closed
Boston Globe.
Pleasure is manifested in different
ways but we believe nobody ever heard
a man sing when he had dropped a scut-
tie of ashes on the back stairs. -IBridge.
port Standard.
Upright L9gislator-"What sirl You
take me for n who can be bribed2 You
insult my sense Of honor-but in case I
really we're such man, how much would
you give me2'
10 ancient days the precept was.
Know myself" In modern times II
has been supplanted by the far more
fashionable maxim, Know thy neigh
Dor and everything about him"
John Young, inventor Of the clothes.
wringer, died at Amsterdam, N. Y, re.
Gently in poverty. He sold a condi-
tlonal right to a Boston firm for $4,000.
when he might have realized 500 900.
How's this? We are informed that the
sale OF liquors has been stopped at The
capitol restaurant, and the next piece Of
news is that the senate is full for the first
time in over a dozen years.
Press.
a Boston paper calls Mr. A. Bronson
Alcott a wandering Socrates dropping
seed thoughts. A bean is one of ma
lures seed thoughts, but ii takes several
crooks full to get a specimen of the Bos.
ton kind Cincinnati Commercial.
Time 3 am -Irale practitioner: How
dare you, sir, come ringing me up at
this time Of the morning for no reason?'
Inebriate one; mo reashonl l sure
you I'm YER i'll. Those COMPOUNDED bic.
cups come back which aheized me last
weekl'-[Funny Folks.
Young wife-"My dear, don't be eter.
nGlly finding fault With the fashion. Ie
you don't like the style of my hair, don't
dress yurself in that way, thst'a all. If
we're to follow your example I should
have to wear my hair baldheaded." BUS.
band collapses. PUCK.
"a baby in the house is a %well-sprinr
OF pleasure" Please cut this out and
paste it pa the goose.grease bottle, 50
that you may be gently a~dmonishsd 20
take a correct view of the situation thu
next time you have to get up at Il p.m.
on account OF the weIl-spring showing
croupy symptoms .-[Puck.
What is a veranda2" is now being
discussed by foreign architects. A YER.
snda, gentlemen, ia a place where, with
the right kind of a companion, you'll find
the moon shines brighter and the hours
fly aWifLet than in any other spot on the
earth's surface. Try i! once.-[Cou.
mercial Advertiser.
Small Girl-"Mamma, give me SOM.
more PIE. Mamma (who wanta the
small gill to soy "please")--'T don't
hear you, my child" Small Girl--"Givs
me some more pie" Mamma-"I don't
hear you, my child" Small Girl-"Oh.
mamma, you must be nearsighted in the
ears. "-[New York World.
Coming back from a little trip to aavra
a Partisan bewails his misfortunes to hig
railway companion. zone thing is Ger.
tain: you won't catch me on any more OF
these pleasure excursions. l lost my wife
and my cane" And then he ADDS with
tears in his voice, "a new cane, too"
Nov" sobbed a devout North Caro-
lima fisherman, as q passenger packet
came crushing ashore in the storm aud
darkness. "NoW," he exclaimed, raising
his hands to heaven aud falling on his
kusua, nov, thank heaven, my wife and
daughter can have good clothes and
jewelrv to wear IN church +"