Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-25
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

FACTS AND FANCIES.
Heat travels faster than cold. You
can catch cold.
What is worse than raining guns
Hailing omnibuses.
Henry Ward Beecher asks God to
bless the theaters.
A dogs tail is novelty, because no
one ever saw it before.
The "bus' that has found room for
the most peopIe-Columbus.
Why is your nose in the middle of
your facet 1t is the scenter.
An omnibus strap is like conscience,
because il is an inward check on the
outward man.
"A great Western critic says of List:
"He can snatch a piano colder than any
man living ~
Ten apples were eaten in the Garden
of Eden by Adam and Eve-Adam ate
(eight) and Eve too (two.)
A reason why piano was not saved
at fire was because none of the fire
men could play on it.
A great many sermons on the Chr
cago fire have treated it as having been
sent as a punishment for the sins of the
city.
TBen Wade does not sw ear as hard as
he used to.-Marietta Times.] We pre-
sumo not. 1t must come easy to him by
this time, says the Napoleon Northwest.
"Gerty, my dear" said a teacher to
one of her pupils, you have been a
very good little girl to-day" Yes m,
couldn't help being good had a stiff
neck" said Gerty with perfect serious
ness. 3a
The Cincinnati Enquirer's Deutsch
poet is shocked at the nude small boy on
the Davidson Fountain: adf
der Shmall Poy stands on der Fountain.
Und he don't got any close.
Und dem young girls dey all plush, ana say
Vat he means by such conduct as dose =
An Irishman who went counting when
drunk was reproached by his sweetheart
for his conduct, but he excused himself,
saying: "Och, Peggy it's treat en-
tirely to see two of your purity faces in
stead of one.
"In the midst Of life we are in death
is not in the Bible, as is generally sup
posed. 1t is found in the Episcopal
burial service and is taken from Latin
antiphon, composed by a monk OF st.
Calls, at Martistabel, in Oil.
Very small dogs are the latest favor
ties as fashionable pets for young ladies',
the growth Of the ahimals being stuhted
by feeding them daily on large doses OF
laudanum and keeping them in warm
oven.
Hungary is proud Of her pigs, and,
thinking that the world at large was not
sufficiently acquainted with their beau
ties, they recently had "pig show at
Pesth, where not less than 10000 prime
porkers were exhibited.
OF daily newspapers there are one
hundred and twenty in the United King
dom, of which eighty.eight are in Eng
land; one in Wales; eleven in Scotland;
nineteen in Ireland; and one in the
| Channel Islands. Sixty-one are penny,
and thrirty-four are halfpenny newspa-
pers.
Chinat Rohn, Hindoo, was indicted
in New York on the 10th for stabbing.
The prisoner stated that he used the
knife in self-defence. He disdained to
kiss the Bible, but swore by the water,
meaning, as he said, that if he teld the
court lie he could not escape drowning
the next time he yentured on the water.
He was ACQUITTED.
An American tourist was informed the
other day by the superintendent of Prince
Metternichs celebrated vineyard at
Johannisberg that, so far as this super
intendent knew, not single bottle Of
the famous Johannisberger wine had
ever been sent to this country. A simi-
lar statement might be made of seven
tenths of the so-oalled champagnes,
clarets, and other foreign wines which
our connoisseurs, on slipping them, de-
clare to be of full flavor, and of the best
quality. Truly is ignorance sometimes
bliss.
Marriages with deceased wives sisters
were formerly considered incestuous and
contrary to public morality, but are now
legalized in England. Such marriages
are not incestuous or invalid by the mu-
nicipal law Of New York, though not
lawful in some of the States. As to
whether such marriages are desirable
must depend on circumstances. The
Rev. DR.. Matthews, Of New York, in an
able argument in favor Of such mar
riages delivered before the General
Synod Of the Dutch Reformed Church
in June, ls43, says that in every State
except Virginia such marriages are law
ful.
A eurious trial has lately been held in
Rome. The prisoner, Teresa Politi, was
accused Of having stolen a set Of dia-
monds from a French lady. In the evi-
dence it appeared that the the prisoner,
although of very low birth. had married
when young a son Of the Duke Sforza
Cesarini. Soon aiierward she emigrated
to Egypt with her husband, where they
remained twelve years. Her husband
dying, she went TO Paris, and thence TO
Madrid, where she became the secretary
Of Queen Isabel. Being arrested and
sent out Of the country Cor peddllng with