Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-23
FACTS AND FANCIES.


read your title clear to mansions in the
burned district2"
In too many lamentable instances, the
last scene of this strange eventful his
tory is-kerosene.
Three hundred dollars in gold coin
was used in gliding the ball on the dome
of the California Capitol.
Vagrant tribes must be the sanest OF
people, since they are pre-eminently &C.
counted as no-mads.
Eight thousand men are said to be
constantly employed in building opera
tons in Chicago.
One hundred and twenty-one and
three-fourths miles of sidewalk were de-
stroyed by the Chicago fire.
A new book, just published, asks;
Was she engaged?' Well engage it
was not her fault if she wasn't.
The Bohemian Diet, about which SO
much has been said Of late, is believed
by the uninitiated to be free lunch.
Thou rainest in my bosom, as the
chap said when q basin of water was
thrown over him by the lady he was
serenading.
Who is that foreign lady with the
low-cut dress?" asked bystander at
party. "That is Mrs. Chemisoff, a Rus
sian lady.
In New York a gentleman recently
celebrated his silver wedding, the invita-
tons being printed in silver letters on
silver-edged paper.
The Boston Post suggests that whilst
Japan is about it, it had better take our
whole Internal Revenue Department
officials, taxes and all.
A writer, describing the exodus from
Eden, says: The devil drove woman
out of Paradise, but he could not drive
Paradise out Of woman.
A very cayeful reporter, announcing
the discovery of corpse, with seven
stabs in the back, doubtfully declares it
to be an alleged probable murder
1t is said that while the Chicago water
works were out of order the milkmen
distributed to their customers the richest
milk ever enjoyed in that city.
A Georgia man has invented a ma
chine which takes in FIVE hundred eggs
per day, and turns them out chickens in
due course Of time.
The New York Herald, in moraliz-
ing mood, says: Those who cast their
bread upon the waters will have it re-
turned after many days with butter on
it."
1t is said that the New Bedford mer-
chants, who are rolling in wealth, are
greatly amused at the projects suggested
for their pecuniary relief in consequence
Of the whaling disaster
An Alabama paper, in a political edi-
torial, mildly adjures its readers to vote
for Judge So-and-so, and "rebuke the CO
horts of the arch ud'-which is rather
hard on the party of the other part.
Posted upon the gate leading to the
ground upon which is to rise the new
City Hall Of San Francisco, is the fol
lowing notice, verbatim ct literatim:
Positively no admition Except on Bui
seniss."
A Dutch justice not a thousand miles
from here, gives the following oath TO
witnesses: " You do awfully swore you
will tell the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth the best what you
can't"
A purely mechanical punster sug-
gests that young women have adopted the
masculine exercises Of boat racing be-
cause they think it's romantic. Moth
ing Of the sort It's because it develops
the chest and makes them robust
More badness among ladies has been
caused by the prevailing fashion OF
wearing heavy knots of false hair on the
top of the head, during the last two
years, than in a decade before This is
the unanimous testimony Of physicians.
A man being told that his father,
noted for his meanness, would tell lie
for six and a quarter cents, Indignantly
denied the allegation, but at the same
time admitted that he might relate six
teen for dollar
In the midst oflife we are in death,
is not in the Bible, as is generally sup
posed. 1t is found in the Episcopal
burial service, and taken from q Latin
antiphon, composed by a monk Of St.
Calls at Martisabel, in oil.
In speaking Of Intellectual Yagraney," /
the Churchman deprecates g" a deadly |
mental dyspepsia that has had its ioun-
dation laid in many Of our American
girls, between the ages Of seven and I
fourteen, by the gorging Of washy Sun
day-school books.