Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-03-14
FACTS AND FAScIEs.

a hypocrlte is a man who tries TO he
plous and can't, with a prsponderance Of
cant.
a Chinese consul, with q salary Of sls
200 a year, is to arrive at San Francisco
this summer.
l have never known a reckond wife but
VINO was boss Ov the siluashin .-TJosh
Billings.
Senator Hanlin, who is sixiy.nine, has
enjoyed State and Federal honors for
forty three years.
General Buffers declaration that he is
q Sunday.school graduate is a blow TO
the Sunday-schoOl system. -[Worc
Press.
a curious candle used in Alaska is a
fish eight inches long, almost transpar-
ent, and very fat, the fat being pure
white and very sweet. The Indians dry
this hsh, then light it at the tail, aud it
burns with a clear, sparkling fame, which
the wind will not extiaguish.
The students of Trinity College. Hart
ford, Connecticut, the other night, re.
moved the clapper of the college bell
and nailed up the door Of the belfry.
Next day there we're no prayers or reel.
t%ations, and the students, after a march
through the park, went to a lager beer
saloon, where they spent The morning in
storytelling, speeches and songs.
A "parvenu had a son twelve vea,a
old. The child, who had been we'll
brought up, was in the habit of speaking
to the old family valet with a certain de-.
gree of respect. One day his father
took the boy aside and said to him;
George, you are now large enough to
be a little less polite to the servants"
The Portsmouth (do) Times cav.
that at a trial of a criminal casa in The
Supreme Court at saco recently. the
prisoner entered a plea Of not guilty"
when one of the jurymsn put on.his hat
and started for the door. The Judge
called him back and informed him that
he could not leave uutil the case was
tried. "Tried?" queried the Juror.
why, he acknowledged that he is not
guilty"
Adelini Patti had an unpleasant ex.
perience in Naples. She arrived there
in company with Nicolini, and was 70.
fused admission at the hotel where sbe
usually stops. The proprietor had a
large number of aristocratic families
among his guests, and was afraid of los.
ing them. She grew very angry, sulked
aud showed a disposition to break her
engagement. But ~fnaRcial feelings got
the better of her temper. She SANG a
few nights, and admirably, to the tune of
$4,000 a night.
The Graphic heads an editorial
Don't Get Rich" We are doing our
level best to obey this injunction, but
our labors are availing us little. Throw.
ing money into the river by the armsful
doesn't appear to lessen our pile a Bit.
send 1t to the poor by the CARLOAD.
the Sultan all be asks for. smash
our Water-pipes so as to give plumbers
something to do, never question the
butchers bill, and yet we literally roll in
wealth. Under such circumstances
a fellow to do2-[Ol City Derrick.
a mistake recently happened in a
church at Syracuse, N. Y, which has
'een much afflicted in its two last mas.
n Of whom has died and the other
become so detilitated that he has gone
to pass the winter. At a PRAYER.
Meeting one Of the brethren who had
ust received a letter from the absent
arose to report, but BY a sipgu.
intelicity got the deceased pastors
lame in the place of the debilitated one.
remarked; HE says the weather
5 very warm-indeed, unasuallg aud
Incomfortably warm in that locality
at the dinner Of the Romsey Agricul-
society, in England, a clergyman
aid that the records of Romsey Abbey
lrowed that bis predecessor in the liy-
ngs OF st. Leonard aud St. Lawrence
eceived in the north aisle their titnes in
lind. They received every tenth cow.
alf or pig, A rather pompous, tight.
aced clergyman was one day called upon
o chriSten a child, but GA asking its
Iame, the woman who brought it said.
| don't know, sir; its your child, sirY"
My childv' exclaimed he. "Yes. sir.
IS the tenth child, sir" replied the
Toman.
a well-known Oxford man, who was at
le same time fellow Of his college and
cad master of a prosperous grammar
chool, was once detected by a old pupil
eating on a Sunday afternoon. al
mink, doctor" was the not unnatural
bservation, you once Gogged me for
on a Sunday" Yes, my dear
oy," was the reply, and I did quite
ight. If a man really likes boating,
day to Kim is the same as another.
is entirely different. 1t NAV
hard on the Saturday night, and
thaw again before daybreak on
morning"
1t is related of Garrett Davis, when he
in congress, that one afternoon, as