Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-19
FACTS AND FANcIEs.

damaged more than three-iourths by Tue
late storm. l' 81.
In Memphis, when it is suspected that
persons brain is on FIRE, it is etiquette
to blow it out
When a Chicago girl falls out with her
lover she chronicles the fact by saying,
THAT she isn't on hugging terms with
that fraud anymore"
Sturgeon, having been offered SlO'eOO
to write life OF Christ, replied that the
best life of Christ that could be written
could be found in the New Testament
II saw Esau kissing Kate;
In fact we all three saws
saw Esau. he saw me.
~ And she saw saw Esau."
An Irishman having jumped into the
water to save man from drowning,
upon receiving quarter from the person
as a reward for the service, looked first
at the money and then at him, and at
last exclaimed: I'm oyerpaid for the
job" 81
A Nashville local editor, commercial
editor, a news editor and an attorney
are to engage in an photographed tour
nament in few days. The novel con
test is for purse of fifteen dollars, and
the excitement is so great that the Nash
Williams are frantically buying pools.
Thereducational interests of Tennessee
will be materially affected by the tourna-
ment.
IT has been discovered that Vermont
was never q slaveholding Common
wealth, as reported in the census of
1890. In the original census papers for
Vermont for that year, the United
States Marshals returned sixteen free
colored persons as inhabitants of that
State, but the clerk at the seat of gov
eminent in TRANSFERRING the papers for
the printer enormously placed them
under the column of slaves. This mis-
take being inserted in the histories of
that period, has been repeated in all
subsequent works. An examination into
the original records has discovered the
erratum.
A Washington telegram says; The
Women's Club here now propose to move
against the social evil in practical
manner. A commodious business college
is about to be built, wherein those desir-
ing to reform can be taught some useful
employment, either of an industrial or
domestic nature. Several thousand dol
lars have already been subscribed toward
the project. The Star announces that
the officess and members of the club pro
pose to receive those women who desire
it, into their families. One Of the officers
made arrangements to-day to receive
three, and others Of the club will take
one or more, according to their means
and accommodations"
The chronopher is the name Of the
instrument which supplies all England
with the correct time. 1t is in direct
communication with the Greenwich OBJ
servatory and with sixteen of the prin-
cipal cities of the kingdom, and pre-
cisely at ten o'clock am, the hour is
flashed not only to those stations, but
every postoffice in the country, so that
all time is regulated to the twentieth
part of a second. Time guns are fred
daily at one pm, at Newcastle and
Shields, by batteries connected with the
chronopher, and all the prominent
watchmakers in London receive the
exact second every hour from the same
instrument. Under such strict regula-
tons the uniformity Of time all over the
kingdom is as nearly perfect as it can
be made.
Among the many popular superstitions
the moon comes in for its portion. The
moon has much to answer for, in the for
tunes and misfortunes of superstitious
people. There are, in this day, those
who will not butcher pigs while the moon
is waning, lest the pork should shrink in
boiling; nor plant seeds in the down
sign" lest they should not come up.
People will look at the profile Of the
new moon, and pronounce oracularly
whether the month is to be dry or wet,
A certain magical importance is given
TO the state Of the weather when the
moon Changes" that is to say, when
the almanac marks the quarter, as if the
moon we're not changing all the time,
In small and primitive seaport towns, il
| is verify believed that while the tide il
rising a sick person cannot die, and that
life will not go till It GIBBS out With the
tide To revert again to the moon, the
word "lunatic," Of universal appliea
ton TO insane persons, is only a politei
form Of moon-slruck; the moon having
been once held answerable for all de
mentia.
The AntiOh (cal.) Ledger. of Angus
| 25th, says:
o. the northern side Of Twitchel
laid, near the bank Of the might
Sacramento, there has lived alone
without neighbor, kith or kin, for foui
years a man named Russell Easel
mated with the beauty Of the spot, thi
{ eccentric individual, who, by occupation
Is a trapper, built for himself a conye
Il nient and substantial house, surrounded
= II with an orchard, vineyard, Ornamental
trees. etc. and until recently, since tul.
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