Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-27
FACTS AND FAScrEs.

The New York World calls Congress
the Cave of the Winds" xxx,
Frauds on the public treasury are now
known as the Tammany grip"
The London Times thinks three men
ofwar could capture that city.
Mr.. Mustard, Of Virginia, lost all his
strength by fall from horse.
Lady Mordaunt has again been placed
under the charge of her physicians.
Bridgeport, Connecticut, has produced
chicken pie nine feet in diameter.
The French Government has refused
to sell its crown jewels to private per
sons. altng ~
In Nebraska courtships are said to
average three hours and halt in
length.
John G. Calhoun's plantation in South
Carolina has been bought by a wealthy
colored man. 9
The British Museum has an anvil
which, it is said, belonged to one of the
Pharaohs. ear
The first carriage that ever appeared
in the Yosemite Valley, appeared there
last summer. CA
The Office of Collector Of Customs at
New York is said to be legitimately
worth $4,000 year.
In New York the Cruelty to Animals
Society has laid down the rule that one
ton is all that horse should draw.
Colonel James Montgomery, an old
leader in the Kansas struggles, and
personal friend of John Brown, is dead.
The Sun says that Fisk has compro-
missed with Mansfield for 5000, and
the wicked woman has agreed to let him
alone ise a'F'Hifr
A Western paper mentions twenty
cords of dressed hogs" as portion Of
the contents of warehouse in Mime
sofa.
The Boston Transcript speaks Of an
itinerant cologne merchant there who
publicly a commends his chemical dish
water" +a8ra atrr.f ,J
A runaway locomotive in England
dashed through fifteen gates and ran
eight miles without doing injury to any
one or itself
A St. Louis clergyman has found q
text from Montgomery Blair's next let
ter; Their strength is to sit still.
Isaiah XXX, I.
The authorities Of Yassar College are
so highly moral that they won't allow
any reference to be made in essays to
the sword of D--oeles. ss ~
An Italian newspaper laments that,
after the liberal subscriptions made
there FOR monument to Garibaldi, that
agitator will not take the hint.
He lived in Chicago and was named
Hinckley. He was bitten about two
years ago. He frothed at the mouth
and barked like dog. He died.
A Connecticut woman's grief for her
husbands death is said to have been in
creased by the thought that the parlor
curtains were in the wash.
The initiative quality in mems nature
is aptly illustrated at the theater when
so many % out on the lowering Of the
act drop to take drop themselves.
One Of Fisks costumes consists Of
lavender pants, blue coat with brass
buttons, violet velvet vest, cut very low,
lavender gloves, and white tie. He
sucks bis gold-heAded cane by way of
noufishment. a0
An Indianess, discovering that her
marriage ceremony had been illegally
performed, fourteen years ago, has COM
menced a suit against her husband for
services rendered him as an employe
during that period.
The Menashe Press, Wisconsin pa
per, says that recently its editor was as
tonished at seeing 1.-TWO young ladies
with shotguns on their shoulders and
pouches by their side, striding off to the
woods on general hunt"
During the year in which the marriage
Of the Prince Of Wales took place about
fifteen hundred female children. in Eng
land, received the name Of Alexandra,
and nearly three thousand boys we're
registered Albert Edward.
A proposition to light the streets of an
Indiana "eity Was opposed by the
Common Council. on the ground that
thieves would be enabled to see when
they we're watched, and consequently it
would be impossible to catch them.
tits rumOred that NJ. Henri Roehefort
will be confined in the island Of Saint
Marguerite, on the coast Of Provence.
and that he is to occupy the cell in
which the famous Man in the Iron Mask
was imprisoned for several years.
It seems Chicago snubbed the Milwau-
kee fremen sent to her relief, and an
indignant Milwaukee poet thus goes for
the doomed city;
The tears that pity she'd for thee
Are dried IN indignation's fame.
/ And sips that uttered highest praife.
With cold abh0rence speak thy name.
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