Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-17
FACTS AND FANCIRS.
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The Mayor of St. Louis says the citi-
zens shant erect any more shanties.
Mexico is said to be like the earth, in
that it has a revolution every twenty-four
hours.
An Ohio man leaned out of window
to look at pretty girl, but fell out and
broke his neck.
Mrs. Laura Fair, during her imprison-
ment has dramatized Owen Meredith
poem, Lucille
A trunk factory was superseded by
saloon. The proprietor only changed
one letter of the sign-T to d.
1.-THE census, it is said, embraces sew
enteen million women. Who would be
a censusg- Providence Paper.
An Indianian, who thought to correct
his better half was dissuaded by the
vigorous entreaty of pile of kindling
wood.
1t is stated that the leading Poles of
France supported NJ. Theirs. The lead
ing poles in this country don't. They
support telegraph wires.
If small girls are waits, are large girls
wafers2 We don't know, but it is said
young men sometimes apply them to
their lips in sealing the VOWS.
MRS. Joaquin Miller is at Albany,
Oregon, arranging for publication the
poems she has written from time to time
over the signature of minnie Myrtle.
Mark Twain is described as slenderly
built man, with keen eye and regular
features, set off to good advantage by a
heavy black mustache and an abundance
of hair. MIMI,
The choir cash box of the Cathedral
at Cincinnati was recently broken open
by a thief and robbed Of forty dollars.
The sacrilegious wretch left only the
coppers.
When a lady tainted at Wisconsin
party, gentleman thought he could re-
suscitate her by biting her ear. She
recovered promptly. He is going around
with poultice on his eye.
An astronomer of St. Etienne, in
France, has made the alarming discov-
cry that fall of the moon to the earth
may be anticipated. But this event will
not occur for 592 years A hours ID
minutes.
DR.. Farr, Of the British general reg
lister Office thinks gluttony the growing
sin of our age, and states that more peo-
pie die nowadays from govt and kim
dred diseases than from delirium ire
mems.
At a New Haven church, an intoxi-
Gated man in the gallery listened in
tently while the soprano sung solo,
and after she had finished he stood up
on the seat, waved his hat, and shouted
Bully for youl" to the CONSERVATION
of the audience.
A little girl was told to spell ferment,
and give its meaning, with sentence
in which it was used. The following
was literally her answer Ferment, a
verb, signifying to work, | love to fer
ment in the garden.
A Western editor was serenaded, and
in the next issue of his paper compli-
mented the serenading party on their
judieious selection Of pieces" He was
informed by listener, after the publi-
cation, that they had played the Rogue $
March.
At an Indiana railroad breakfast table
few days ago, traveller from the East
handed 10 one Of his fellow travellers a
plate Of sausages, whereupon the ques-
I ton was asked, lis it safe2" To which
. it was replied, This is a prolific hog
country, aud it is safe to eat sausages
wherever hog is cheaper than dog.
The Louisville Commercial says an
clipping couple from Amo were married
by Mayor Thomas, at Terre Haute, Ind
last Thursday, and can now return to
Amo and conjugate itin all moods ant
lenses. 1t would be difficult to imagine
/ Amos felicitous combination Of circum
stances.
A newly married couple having coca
d sion to economic by moving to poor
|. house in Kentucky, are deeply indignan
4 because the keeper thereof assigned
: them separate wards in the establishment
]. and have brought suit against him 70
II violating the marriage ceremony by put
y ting those whom God had Joined
The last instances in England Of tb
execution Of so-called herotics occurre,
in 1912, when Bartholomew Legate wa
4 burnt at Smith6eld, for holding opinion
similar to those Of the Unitarians of on
own day-a ike punishment being give
that same year to Edward Wightnan, a
J. Litchfeld. The name Bartholomew u
remains in the hospital and close q
D. Smithfeld
AT Carlisle, England, recently, r
spectacle looking youngman deliberatel
climbed on to the parapet Of the bridg
:. Jumped into the river EdeR, and wa
drowned. In memorandum which b
had left behind him, addressed to th
= chief constable, the suicide gave as
reason for selfdesiruction that the Da
|, win theory having proved men to be d.
scended from monkeys, he did not desir
to live any longer.
The first part Of Scots nature. a.
s. cording to Charles Lever, was the gran
heroic spirit, that trumpet-stop in b
organ, which elevated even commoi