Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-08
FACTS AND PANCIEs.

and the Weather the town was, the
higher his taxes would be.
The most recent effective result OF
amateur administration of quack med-
cine is reported from Iowa, where an in
censea gentleman killed a burglar with
a shotgun loaded with Prof Somebody's
patent pills.
People laugh at the "New York Cen
trail Womens Suffrage Organization
for making a man chairman of the
standing committee" That's all right;
everywhere, especially in ferryboat cabins
and street cars, men form the standing
committee, while the women sit.
Columbus, Ohio, has quite unexpect-
eddy gained great honor. The officers
engaged on the Scientific Survey in its
neighborhood have discovered that that
city is three miles nearer Boston than
has hitherto been supposed. The peo-
pie of Columbus are, of course, jubi-
liant.
A San Francisco journal says: "As
a rule, it is not a good plan to visit the
house of recently married lady to col
lect money loaned her while you were
counting her yourself. We have reason
to believe that we are supported in this
opinion by Mr.. Edward Kelly, of this
city; but as Mr., Kelly is at the hospital,
suffering from FIVE gashes with bowie
knife, we have forborne personally to
consult him"
1t is stated of the Chicago conhagra-
ton that the heavy Mansard roofs in
vited fire and added material to it. This,
we hope, will check the passion for
Mansards which has controlled the ar
chiteetural mind of this country for sew
eral years, and which has resulted in the
most astounding medley Of building
denominations conceivable. In certain
class of very large edifces, with sufficient
stretch to warrant them, these roofs, if
proof against FIRE, are slightly; but when
it comes to a Mansard for everything,
from a church to woodshed, the gene
raj effect is rather tedious.
A Chicago paper records an incident
of the fire which it thinks shows the
hight Of impudenee. 0rrington Lunt
Esq, one of orr oldest and best citizens,
had dragged his piano from his resi-
dence, on Michigan avenue, and was
toiling along with it, when two men
with dray accosted him and asked him
to whom it belonged. He replied that
it was his own, and received the aston
ishing information that they would like
him to prove it. Without another word
they placed the instrument on their We
hicle and drove of. OF course remon-
STRANGE was useless. He has not seen
the piano since.
The Washington Chronicle prints a
letter from a young lady in Chicago to
her affianced in the former city Here
is an extract: ave expect to have a
new house built in few weeks, just
around the corner from where we form
erly resided ] am very glad you did
not come to this city when you intended,
for then you would be as the rest of us,
half scared to death. Father was up at
the time aud saved two suits of clothes
the one he had on and another-but
we, that is, Mar, Jeneatte and /, were
less lucky. You would be surprised to
see me, the morning after we were driven
ont of the house, with pair of Jim's old
pants on, one slipper, one shoe, and a
waterproof cloak. This was, indeed,
my complete outfit, aud it was not till
yesterday that ] received some other
clothes from my cousin Mary, who sent
them from Cincinnati. That would have
made a splendid wedding suit, wouldn't
it2' /
In Pekin a newspaper of extraordi-
nary size is published weekly on silk. II
is stated to have been started more than
thousand years ago. In 1927, pub
lie officer caused some false intelligence
to be inserted in this paper, for which
he was put to death. Several numbers
of this paper are preserved in the Royal
Library of Paris They are ten and a
quarter yards long. But silken news
papers are not confined to the "Flowery
Land" The editor of the Journal de
Brest, in France, during short stay Of
the Prince de Joinville in that town,
after cruise, in the reign Of Louis
Philippe, presented the Prince with a
copy Of his paper on white satin. Like,
wise, in April, 1889, copy of the Chel-
tenham England Chronicle, printed on
the same material, containing an ae-
count of the proceedings, in that town,
on one occasion Of presenting her Ma
jesty with a gold medal, was transmitted
to the Queen.
Some ladies in Texas were DESTROYS OF
doing honor to the editor Of a local jour
nal. So they presented their hero with
an embroidered shirt, which contained
splendid history Of Texas, and also pic
lures Of the fruits and creeals Of the
State, all worked in red worsted. Now
this particular editor had never worn
shirt and supposed the brilliant speei-
men before him TO be banner for an
approaching temperance procession. In
bis speech Of thanks hepuzzled the LADY
donors by declaring that he would fling
it out forever to the breezes of heaven,
that they might kiss its folds, and till his