Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-12
FACTS AND FANCIES.

paper 1t is stated that 1T will be quite the
thing for society gentlemen to wear socks
this summer"
The %phonograph is like the small bro.
Their of a young lady. 1t will repeat
everything said in it's presence without
regard to bushes.
a correspondent is informed that the
regular sea. serpent season does not cora
mence until late in the summer, when
business at the shore resorts is getting a
little dull.
Miss Emma Thursby says that it is a
great mistake for a lady artist to marry
while she is engaged in her profession,
Tor either the profession or the husband
must suffer.
Item: A m passed another on
Lake street to-day and didn't look around
to make any remarks about her new
spring hat-the woman was blind.-1El.
mira Gazette.
What is the meaning Of a backbiter2"
asked a gentleman at a Sunday school
examination. This was a p%uzzler. 1t
went down the class until it came to A
simple urchin, who said " Perhaps it is a
flea"
The days grow longer and the sunsets
are beautiful. Along the Western hills.
where robins fly in the dark green cedarg,
the sky is all broken with yellow, like
the wreck of a Fourth venue car
Buffalo Express.
Seeking information Of a German
friend, we asked him: My friend, how
long have you been married?' "Vell.
dis is a ting dat ! seldom don't like to
talk about, but ven l does, it seems so
long as it never 7as."
A Jersey widower who had taken an.
other partner was serenaded on his we'd
ding-night. The parties brought a pho
nograph, in which were preserved some
of the objurgations of his first wife, and
when they set it going under his window
the happy bridegroom crawled mp the
chimney on a bridal tour. -[Asdrews'
Bazaar.
MI. Labouchere declares that he re.
Gently went to church, which is hardly
credible, and that being there he was
edited by an eccentric exhibition of cler.
ieal pronunciation. The ~well.known
text, He that hath ears to hear, let him
hear" was so successfully disguised by
a Rituulistic priest" as to sound some
thing like, He that hath yaws to yaw
let him yaw."
General Joseph E. Johnston is short
and slight, but erect; has a short gray
beard and a neat style of dress. He
thinks that Sherman, in his reports, had
a marvellous way Of covering up his
losses in a way not consistent with the
cemeteries; ard he puts the Western
Union soldier as a fighter above the
Eastern man. General Johnston will
probably 60 to congress.
A Milwaukee man, who deposited 500
in a bank, and was told the interest
would be FIVE per cent, came promptly
at the end Of the year with IS in small
currency to pay the interest. When
told that the IS went the other way, be
looked up in astonishment, and went
away wondering why a man should pay
him for being allowed to take care Of his
money for a whole year.
About this time of year look out for
lions to escape and eat a few
beautiful girls; live frogs fouHd in solid
stone a hundred feet " Ter ground; old
women blown by fierce hurricanes into
the tops of trees; small boys tossed
distances by cow With erumplsd
horns; the river monster appears; a
hard and killing frost i~ncases the infan,
peach bud calves born with seven
heads; giants walk the earth and exhibit
themselves in side shows; sne weird.
scream Of the ice.cream nan breaks on
the morning air; q Wild man found in
woods Of Texas a body servant Of
Washington dioss Benediets excited over
prospect Of a summers bachelor
hood fashionable preachers locking Ee-
ropeward' the ground hog peeps out;
the goose bone idiot is bard from.