Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-28
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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Dobbs said when he swallowed dose Of
salts.
The Boston milk companies are said
to have grown enormously rich by wa
tering their stock.
Maggie Mitchell has not, left Long
Branch, nor win she do so for some
weeks. 1t is boy this time.
Nilsson has recently lost one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars by fire, equally
divided between Paris and Chicago.
Some advanced" young women in
Bangor amuse themselves by going
around the streets at night and ringing
the door bells.
A clergyman of New Bedford, last
Sunday, preaching on the horrors OF
Chicago, mentioned the shrieks of the
dead and dying as filing the air.
The Chicago Times of Sunday says;
At the latest advices the subscriptions
throughout the world for the sufferers by
the Chicago fire amounted to nearly five
million dollars. II too much Of this
does not wear of by friction in the
course Of transmission, the poor Of this
city should be pretty well taken care Of"
An ex-Communist was lately arrested
in Paris under peculiar circumstances.
He had been a police magistrate under
the Commune. Being drunk, he made
his way to his old office, and finding the
magistrate absent took his seat, and, as
of old, commenced to hear and decide
cases The officer Of the court humored
the joke, recognizing their man, and
when the magistrate arrived the unfor-
tunate usurper was apprehended and
transferred to Versailles
A splendid story is told Of Mcmahon
when colonel, During the parade he
had an alteration with an officer in the
ranks, who refused to obey him. Nc
Mahon finally threatened the offender,
and the latter drawing pistol, took de-
liberate aim and fred. Fortunately the
cap snapped. Without the slightest
sign of fear, cool and impassionate, Nc
Mahon said, GIVE that man fifteen
days in the guard-house for having his
arms out of order
There is hardly another sight in the
world says Hawthorne in one of his ro-
mances, so pretty as that of company
of young girls--almost women grown
at play, aud SO giving themselves up to
their airy impulse that their tip-toes
barely touch the ground. Girls sre SO
incomparably wilder and more efferves-
cent than boys--more untamable and
regardless of rule and limit, with an
evershifting variety breaking continually
into new modes of fun. but with har-
monious propriety through all. Their
steps, their voices appear free as the
wind, but keep consonance with a strain
of music inaudible to us.
An Austrian surgeon has got into
trouble in singular way. A burgo-
master named Klym was gored in the
| left side by a wild bull, and the doctor
who was summoned to attend the injured
man wore a gold ring, which slipped of
his finger during the operation and re-
mained in the wound. The loss was not
noticed until after the wound had been
dressed, and it was not thought proper
to put the unfortunate in greater danger
by endeavoring to recover the ring. The
burgomasier died, and the surgeon has
since been arrested, on the charge that
death had been caused not by the
wounds, but by Inflammation produced
by the ring.
Dunning, of the Denton House, in
Marysyille, California, handed one OF
his boarders a Bit Of paper, on which
were some cabalistic figures. What is
this?" asked the boarder. That, sir
is your bill-two weeks, ten dollars" re
piled Dunning. "You don't let man
leave unless be pays upT' asked the
boarder. " No, sir, ] do not, said Dun
ming. "Well, then, I'll stay with you
forever" replied the boarder, as he sat
himself back comfortably in his chair.
A few seconds aferward a sore-headed
individual was seen walking up the rail
road track, and the Ghbinet-maker was
called in to repair some furnitnre be-
longing to the Denton House.
Rev. DR.. Chaplin is not only man Of
brains, but he has an ear for music, ano
his heart is moved by concord O.
sweet sounds. In one of his addresses
he said: IL love to hear the rumbling Of
the steam power presses better than the
rattle and roar of artillery. i lis silently
attacking and vanquishing the Malakoifl
OF vice and the Redans Of evil and it
parallels and approaches cannot be re
sisted. / ike the click of the type il
the composing stick Of the composite
better than the click Of the musket il
the hands of the soldier. Il bears
!; leaden messenger Of dcadlier power, Q
: sublimer force, and Of surer ain
which will bit its mark, though it is
thousand miles ahead.
The following paragraph is from th
description Of a scene witnessed in th
north Of Norway, from cliff one thor
sand feet above the sea: THE ocea
stretched away in silent vastness at on
feet; the sound Of the waves searcel