Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-28
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

oysters on the pearl banks of tn
' Madura coast.
: There are 1904 languages spoken II
the world, including that used by tn
: Communists of Memphis, whose fayorlt'
expression is turn her loose.
The killing epidemic is increasing Sc
rapidly in Memphis that the newspaper
men are gravely considering the pro
priety OF keeping Murder and Homi
eide as standing head lines on their
respective journals.
The Germans have tradition that the
first summer note Of the katydid is heard
exactly three months before the first
frost. Consequently the first piping OF
the musical katy is listened for with
anxiety.
The marriage vow in New York has
been amended so as to read, land we
further promise to love each other and
live in the same brown stone front until
we grow weary of each other, or see
some one we, or each of us, like better.
A South Memphis darky discoursed at
recent Radical club in the following
manner: Fellow-citizens-Ef | had
been eatin' dried apples for week, and
den took to driRkin for mont l
couldn't feel swelled up more dan am
dis mint wild pride an vanity at seem
such full tendance here dis e1enin'."
The big posters Of John Robinson s
circus and menagerie, on the patent
fence out on the bluffs, are the wonder
and admiration of the darby denizens of
our city. The darkies admire the pic
tured elephant and monkeys, regarding
the latter as kin.folks, under Darwin S
theory.
Mrs Cady Stanton says: 1t is
strange that material things should be
perverse when one is in hurry; but in
such emergencies breastpins invariably
hide, cuf.pins fall under the bed, but
tons fall off by their own weight, the fan
is caught in the net, and the new kid
glove splits down the back. At such
time my faith is very strong in the
devil. "
A Puget Sound paper sends its trum-
pet in favor of railroads in the following
reckless manner: "Then blow ye
winds; put your shoulders to the wheel,
We steam gods, and hasten on the time
for which we are looking, longing, dy-
ingl" After being in few railway ac-
cidents the Puget Sound man will call
on the internal gods to destroy that
for which he has been longing and dy-
ing"
The advantages Of manufactures to
city can be seen in the fact that the re-
moyal Of the Niles Tool Works from
Cincinnati to Hamilton, Ohio, added
twelve hundred TO the population Of the
latter town. -Four hundred men are en-
ployed in the works, which cost eighty
thousand dollars, and are spread over
two acres Of ground. AS an induce
ment to the proprietors of the works to
locate in Hamilton, the citizens pre-
scented them with the ground and a sulh-
cient amount of stone and brick for the
buildings free Of charge.
Grace Greenwood" in letter from
Denver to the New York Times, says
Nature did antelopes. an i'll turn origi-
nally, in afixingto them mark by which
they can be seen, and a bead drawn
on them at great distance. 1t rem
ders them especially liable to attacks in
the rear; which reminds me Of little
story. A small Colorado boy, who had
been out playing, ran into the house in
state Of great excitement, saying that
he had seen some antelopes in a gulch
near by. At his entreaty his mother
went out to look at them, but nothing of
the kind was to be found, She became
incredulous, and said at last: | don't
believe you saw any antelOpes; it must
have been your imagination, my child
To this the little mountaineer indig-
nantly responded; Humphl | guess
my imagination isn't white behind "