Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-01
FACTS AND FANoIEs.

4 The St. Louis girls have pro6ted by
the experience Of one of their number
who dislocaled her neck while resisting
a kiss
Mr., Francis Bret Harte, the literary
mushroom, has written a brief but
classic poem upon the destruction OF
Chicago.
| At the time Of his death, in 1919,
Cardinal Mezzoianti could write elo-
quently, and converse auently in more
than seventy languages.
A correspondent wants to know
whether. considering the great utility Of
the ocean, poets are not wrong in cali
ing it waste of water"
An English pamphlet on University
Reform begins with quoting a saying,
that man ought TO know something of
everything and everything of something
Albmoism is by no means confined to
animals, as it is common enough to find
albino specimens of flowers. Sometimes
the whole plantis white, and sometimes
only few flowers of the plant.
Vicky Woodruff swears that by u
if Congress does not give suffrage to
women, they win secede, and erect a
government of their own. (The table
that she brought her fist down upon is
now kintHing-wood.)
Mrs. Parton says there is a tradition
in Virginia that Mrs. George Washing
ton was a little tart in her temper, and
favored the General, occasionally, with
a little nocturnal discourse, too much in
the style Of Mrs. Caudle.
The most extensive preparations are
being made for taking observations Of
the total eclipse of the sun on the 18th
of next December. The expeditions
will be better provided with instruments
than on any previous occasion.
A man who has been arrested as a
vagrant has protested that he had reg
ular trade or calling, viz; smoking glass
for total eelipses of the sun; and, as
these foecnr only a few times in CEN
fury, he was not to blame for being out
Of employment a good deal.
The following is told of young So
ciety gentleman, who graduated from
Harvard Mr.. -, what planets were
known to the ancients2r " Well, sir,
he responded there were Venus and
Jupiter, and" after pause, think
the Earth, hut I'm not quite certain"
A life insurance agent winds up his
appeal for patronage in the following
comforting style:
Come oil ye generous husbands With your
Insure round sum on your precious lives.
That 70 your comfort. when you're dead and
Your widows may be rich when you're forgot
ten. oN p.
A Baltimore paper gives the follow
ing recipe for making oyster soup,
which can be sold at a profit at five
cents bowl; Take five Baltimore oys-
ters--the smaller the better-photOgraph
them; to each photograph add five gal
Ions of water and a teaspoonful Of milk;
then season to suit the taste.
A very curious mode Of trying the
title Of land, is practieed in Hiadostan.
Two holes are dug in the disputed spot,
in each Of which the plaintiffs and de-
fendants lawyers put one Of their legs,
and remain there until his client is de-
feated. In this country it is the client,
and not the lawyer, who puts his foot in
it.
Professor Agassiz hit the nail on the
head when he said that in our modern
education too much is made of the
memory and too little of the mind A
great many of our Scholars are merely
intellectual rag bags, full Of the shreds
and patches Of knowledge, bits Of his
tory, poetry, science, ethics and law, Of
no sort Of use to anybody.
The Grand Duke Alexis is accompa-
MED on his voyage to the United States
by his tutor General Bossiet; two Coun-
sellers Of State, NJ. Machine, and NJ.
Wesley; Count Olsonaow, Lieutenant
Of Artillery and Aide-de-Camp to The
heir-apparent, and Count Sehouvalow,
Ensign of the Body Guard of the Gar.
A young lady sitting at front window
in Danbury. Mass, tossing in her hand
what might have been ball Of white
yarn, attracted the attention Of middle
aged chap on the street, whose gallaniry
prompted him to hold up his hand for a
catch. She accommodated him. The
article proved to be an egg, and alighted
on his.nosei but il is not to be supposed
that the lady knew it was bad one.
"A weary traveller halted at Cum
berland tavern aud asked for some ba-
con and greens. The Landlord remarked,
we are out ofbaeon have sent to Zanes-
VILE for some. Why don't you raise
your own pork and cure your own ba-
COMP replied the traveller. Raise our
own pork--raise he'll, said the landlord,
why, half a shoat would glut the mar
ket.
An exchange paper quite pithily re-
marks: Men eat too much, fret too
much, exercise too little, and then drink
whisky. Let them turn themselves into
the fresh air. eat simple food, sleep
enough, and they viii be more healthy.
Says DIR. Guthrie: II you want TO keep
a dead man, put him in whisky; il you
want to kill living man, put the whisky
into him.
Mr. Moffatt, a selfmade antipodian
millionaire, died recently in London. A
few years ago he built a vast mansion IN