Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-11
FACTS AND FANCIES.

pAO1D AND EANClESs
Unrequited love sent 243 persons to
Warehouses in England last year.
Shop girls in Belfast are provided with
chairs, and a sit down when not busy.
Ask your uScle to remember you in his
prayers if he is good; ia his will if he is
only rich.
Did you ever notice how surprised you
we're when you put your foot on the next
stair and found there wasn't n there2
[Hawkeye.
Omaha has noticed that when her river
10 muddy her milk and beer is the same.
and she calls it curious ~dispensation of
Providence.
An intelligent farmer in Kentucky de.
votes the yearly product of one acre of
his farm to purchasing reading matter
for his family.
DR.. Perry, of Exeter, N. H., now over
ninety, is one of those who rode down
the Hudson with Robert Fulton on his
frst steamer.
1t produces melancholy ip the East to
learn that Edison, the inventor, has "a
parceptible Western twang in his
speech" and we are really sorry that he
cdews tobacco.
Maine is getting up a reputation for
easy divorces which will soon put it
ahead. There were four hundred in
1874, five hundred in 1877, ard in 1880
there will be six hundred.
A Wisconsin man has secured 6s4O
names to a petition for a State law to
prevent any Wisconsin female who bas
taught school for three years from mar.
rying any resident Of that State.
Nervous lady passenger on the train
after passing the temporary bridge at
New Brunswick-"T Thank goodness. wa
are how on terra irma." Facstious gen.
tleman-"Yes ma'am; less terror and
more frmer."
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett, if be takes
care of his health and his money, ought
to become one Of the richest men in the
country. He has some expensive tastes.
but he is not q spendthriit by any means.
He is now verging on forty, and is IN.
married.
A pretty and stylish young lady called
in a store the other day and requested to
see some lavender kids. She was shSwn
a variety Of shades; but, unable to choose
from SO mady different shades Of color.
she asked: Which of these pairs are
the lavenderest."
A Nyack man heard that faith would
remove mountains. Going to his preacher
be was informed that faith would do it.
And there he sits on the Nyack hillsides
while his less religious neighbors are
breaking up ground for early potatoes
Buffalo Express.
A while ago, it is stated, the author.
lied agents of the Russian and Turkish
governments met in the Office Of a man.
uiactOry at Bridgeport, Conn. Their
interview was sfable, though one or.
dered 10000 and the other 300, 600 bay.
oSetS for their respective armies.
Latest advices state that the fetal of
carloads OF goods received at the French
Exposition is 636, of which England has
lao, Belgium 100, Russia 40, and
China 1900 packages. It is supposed
that by the middle Of the month the
total of carloads received will be 24OO.
Peter Cooper, Of New York, recently
entered his SSlh year in the full posses.
sion of all his faculties. His fortune ia
estimated at $40 600, 900. He began life
as an apprentice to a coach maker.
After several failures in business he in.
vented a glue that made his fortune.
When there is a barking dog in the
front yard, the house is always the homo
a slOuch. The biting dog is a very
respectable blast. The barker is desest.
able. The bitter runs out, maneles the
person passing, and thus follows ont his
noble nature, besides making busin.ss
for that large and intelligent class. the
doctors, bat the barker is a mere battery
of vexatious noise. His fury is the mora
exssperating because he Is behind The
out oftho reach Of punishment.
The barking dog Of the front yard ougb.
to be squelchad, and the aoddypols who
owns him ought to be locked up -[cou.
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