Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-07
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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A wag, speaking of a blind wood-saw-
yer, says that while none ever saw him
see, thousand have seen him saw"
A Wisconsin girl swallowed forty per
cussion caps to spite her ma. The old
lady didn't whip her, for fear shed go off.
Since Mr.. Ashbury's Livonia has been
beaten, the Washington Star is of opin-
ion that Britannia rules the waves no
longer"
Hercules is said to have been model
husband; rather than stay out late at
night, he invariably carried his club
home with him.
During hunt in Kentucky pointer
dog came to point on railroad track,
just as train was approaching, and his
instinct cost him his life.
New York's famous oysterman Down
ing is invested by the New York Herald
with the honorary initials F. r. s.
fried, roasted and stewed.
Offenbach, Strauss, aud Gungl, the
celebrated musical composers, are said
to have lost more or less Of their wealth
in consequence of unfortunate specula-
tons into which they ventured.
The Penny Dickens is an enormous
success in England. More than one
hundred and fifty thousand copies of
"Oliyer Twist" have been sold. The
price is two cents a number or sheet.
Jem Mace and his trainer, James Gu
sick, are at the Shady's House" near
Longview, Cincinnati, Mace will train
there for couple of weeks, and then
start for New Orleans to fight Coburn.
Many fashionable young ladies are
adopting the French fashion of appear
ing on promenade accompanied by a
maid. 1t is thought to convey an inn
preston of genuine aristocracy, you
know. sf $3.50 i.lsraI
People laugh at the New York Cen
trail Woman's Suffrage Organization"
for making man chairman Of the
standing committee That's all right
everywhere, especially in ferry boat
cabins and street cars.
The sale of certain illustrated Ameri-
can police papers of vicious morals has
been prohibited in Prussia by the Prus-
sias Minister of the Interior,an exam
pie which our authorities might wellheed
and follow.
Somebody read aloud the other day
the announcement that two well-known
Connecticut politicians were delivering
addresses on temperance. An enthusi-
astic individual exclaimed: I'm glad
of it" but checked himself for an in
slant, and inquired, which side
thought"
In his literary prime no French nov
elist wos more popular among certain
class than Paul de Kock. Since 1860,
however, it is stated, his.copy-rights have
not been profitable. and at his death, a
few weeks ago, he left three manu-
scripts, for which he was unable during
his later days to find publisher.
The London Court Journal says it is
that Lord Walter Campbell,
who has for some little time been en-
gagged in commercial life in the United
States, is about to marry the daughter OF
one of the wealthiest American citizens,
I" the proprietor of some Of the biggest
of those monstrous establishments the
New York hotels
A curious impostor was not long ago
exposed in Austria in the person Of a
tailor named Gustav Ludwig, a native Of
Saxony, born in ls4s, who has been vic
timizing a great many people by passing
himself of as son Of the Duke Of
Reichstadt. He has just been sent to
prison on a charge OF fabricating false
passports.
The Communists condemned to de
portation-Assi, Jourde, Billioray, Pas
chal Grousset, Regere and others-haye
been transferred from Versailles to Fort
Boyard, at the mouth Of the Charente
river, there to take ship for New Gale
donia, whittier they are ordered to be
sent, in consequence OF their sentence Of
transportation.
More than $4,000 will be needed to
repair the damages done by the Com
mune to the Paris churches Of St. Au-
gustine, La Trinite, Belleville, La Made
leine, and Notre Dame de Lorette. This
sum does not, of course, include the
value of the decorations injured, or the
sacred vessels of silver and gold stolen
by the pillagers Of the Commune.
The Chicago Republican says that
:" when a man calls at an insurance Office
to purchase a policy he is regarded as a
visitor, and treated ae-
cordingIy. When he returns to the
same establishment after the FIRE TO
collect what is due him, he is regarded
as a poor relation; his questions are an
swered with insolenee, and he is given
pretty loudly to understand that he is a
good deal Of an intruder, anyhow"
In one Of the Ohio towns a citizen
had rendered himself obnoxious to the
rest Of the community, so he was placed
IN the hands Of a vigilance committee
for treatment The chairman Of the
committee made the following report;
d We took the thief down TO the river,
made a hole in the ice and proceeded to
duck him, but he slipped through our
hands and hid under the ice. All our