Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-15
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

per in Texas, damages were laid at
$4,000, and the jury awarded sixty
cents.
An Indiana village is situated on the
line between Clay and Parke counties,
and the postofice has been determined
to bo in Clay county by a majority OF
about six inches. 7a
Miss Parkinson, at one time patient
in San Francisco hospital, sued ply
stefan for damages in publishing a history
Of her disease and its treatment in
medical magazine, and has lost her case.
There is clearinghouse in Twelfth
street all the inmates of which, landlady,
boarders and all, have red hair. The
landlady is of serious turn of mind,
and her favorite text is, I'VE must all
dye"
Dumas, the younger, has written a
new piece, called Visite de Noces, which
is denounced as profoundly immoral,
even in Paris. Everybody cries it down
after taking care to read IT, Just
once" you know.
At Null, messenger having requested
Londcn clergyman to announce that
if DR.. Leach was among the audience
he was urgently wanted, the clergyman
added from sympathy, land may God
have mercy on the poor patient.
According to Marco Pole, the Tar
tars, before they were converted to the
religion of the Buddhists, never prac-
ticed almsgiving. Indeed, when poor
man begged Of them, they would tell
him, go with Gods curse, for if He
loved you as He loves me, BE would
have provided for you"
The secret of addressing children well
is to help them to think up toward your
level instead of trying to talk down to
their level. As to language, | doubt
whether minister ought ever to use a
word in any of his sermons which an
average lad of twelve years cannot I'M
derstand. The Great Teacher never
used big word Theodore Chyler.
The Indian who lassoed the locomo-
tive and was thereby transported to the
happy hunting grounds, has lately had a
rival in lrother red man, who, af-
ter free indulgence Tin fre-water,"
built his wiiswam on the railroad, near
St. Paul, Mimi, but had most disas-
trous luck in attempting TO stop the
freight train.
The Hon. Reverdy johnson is to 60
to Columbia, South Carolina, to defend
the Ku-Klux prisoners to be tried there
at the November term Of the United
States Circuit Court. 1t is singular
fact, in this connection, that Louis John
son, the son of the Hon. Reyerdy John
son, is the United States Marshal of
South Carolina, whom his father charged |
in recent speech with making arrests
" without warrant
There are two ways of looking at the !
same thing, aud what provokes profan-
ity in one man is conducive to pious
thankf illness in another. Here, for in
stance, is dispatch from Troy to the
New York World, the morning after
election, saying Everything gone to
hell; Senator and three Assemblymeni'
whilst the same news in the Buffalo
Commercial Advertiser is headed Ju-
bilatel Praise God from whom all bless
ings fowl"
In pamphlet entitled "a Minister of
War of Twenty-four Days" General
Count Palikao frankly admits that he
was the originator of the fatal flank
march to Sedan, which terminated in
the surrender of Mcmahon and his
army. He claims that daring flank
march saved France in 17l2, and he
thought the best line Of defense was to
attempt a repetition of Marshal de Vii
lars feat.
A curious circumstance has been no
ticed by Mr.. Maddox. at the Harpeth
Shoals, in Cumberland river, the fact
that in taking out many of the rock 1t
has been found that almost all of those
that offered any projection have been
scooped out, as it we're, by the keels OF
steamers which have dragged over them
from time to time. Their removal will
have the effect TO give tine steamers
better channel, with less probability Of
obstruction from this source.
What is wheeze2" Mr.. E. /.
Blanchard supplies meaning which will
be new TO most persons. A "wheeze,
he says, is that playful dialogue which
occurs in circus between the clown and
the riding-master during certain inter
walls in the several acts of horsems nship,
and which is very useful in enabling the
equestrian TO recover breath. 1t gem
orally begins with, "Oh, l say, Sir
and usually ends with ID ont be fool"
accompanied by smai t crack Of the
whip in the region Of the clowns pie
bald stockings. The "Vfhe exc" is not, IT
seems, a happy inspirat ion of the
moment but, like many other impromp
tus, is always written end re-hearsed be-
forehand.
A German workman, is entiilt q to all
the credit which he gill receive for hav-
ing invented rems rkable pauacea for
social ills. He holt is that the great i'm
pediment to prog cess is personal ambi-
ton and the possi Jiliiy of mans name
carrying with it a sort of authority to
which his person al character or abilities
may not be entitled At all events this
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