Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-21
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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man wept herself blind. VHt
Spurgeon. has received ten offers of
marriage within year.
Chicago thieves steal the money-boxes
off the one-horse street cars.
Marthas Vineyard Juan Fernandez
Kumler is an indianapolis woman.
No one has been lynched in Clark
county, Indiana, for over week.
That heir to an immense English es-
tate has turned up in Wisconsin.
Grant will be glad that Christmas is
coming, for it is the time for presents.
Room to Rant" is the verbatim copy
of sign on Memphis lodging house.
A heartless mother left the dead body
of her infant in Pennsylvania railway
train. acaft
Mr.. Moffat, of Ohio, tried to melt a
bullet out of his gun He succeeded.
Aged sixty-two.
Tennyson and Sylvanus Cobb, jr.,
now write for the same paper-the New
York Ledger.
The Lord bless your soul, honey-the
little Ohio boy who husked corn enough
to buy his ma piano.
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Henry Ward Beecher, it is said, has
been offered fifteen hundred dollars for
one lecture at the West.
Mr.. Lake, of Des Moines, stabbed
himself because Mrs. Lake refused to
get up and light fire.
Persons at Red Oak, Iowa, are buying
corn at fifteen cents per bushel to use as
fuel, corn being cheaper than coal.
A Californian, convicted of assaulting
a Chinamgn, was released on payment
of costs, as it was only his third ofense.
The last time Mrs, Ruth played euchre
previous to the death Of her husband,
she turned black trumps all the time
mostly spades.
Query for astronomers Is the stimuli
taneous advent of so many comets ex-
planesory of the recent startling mete-
geological phenomena?
An Indiana man was serenely playing
billiards when his wife spied him through
a window and interrupted his game with
a well-directed briekbat. a
A writer in the College Courant be-
walls the abolition of the Wooden Spoon,
and attacks the "prurient prudes who
object to the presentation Of the Glass
Cup.
Mr.. William Stack, Chicago gentle
man who carved friend in eight parts
of his perturbed body, has been asked to
try his hacking hand at clipping Joliet
stone for ten years.
The first batch of Communists are
about to start for New Caledonia via the
Suez Canal Their prison is an island
within about six days voyage of sgd
ney New South Wales.
All St. Paul, Mimi, including an ex-
pectant coroner, gathered before a sa-
loon in which sat countryman eating
two dozen hard-boiled eggs. The ooro-
ner was disappointed, however
Agriculture is encouraged at the Sell
ma Fair. The "prettiest man has re-
ceived set of shirts, and the author
of the best essay on working and repair
ing roads has been awarded diploma.
Oregon is, according to some, from the
Indian oregon, river of the West."
Others consider it derived from the
Spanish, oreganoo," wild majorum,
which grows abupdantly on the Pacific
coast.
His precise age is one hundred ana
four years, aud he lives at Council Bluffs
this time. But being an eccentric cen
tenarian, he does not walk twenty miles
and saw three cords of wood daily; on
the contrary, he begs.
In a dialogue between two Georgia
colored men named Wooten and Cook,
the former beIted Cook with his black
embrace with such earnestness that the
services Of six palI-bearers had to be
secured on the following day.
A want of faith and trust was shown
in that man who sold load Of wood to
one Of our city churches last Friday, and
unloaded all but one tier, and then
waited the arrival Of one Of the trustees
for his pay, before unloading the balance
Of the load.-IndianapoHs american.
A rural editor has lost all faith in the
luck Of horss-shoes He nailed one over
his door recently, and that mosaing
there came by mail three duns and seven
stops, and a man called With a re-
volver to ask who wrote that article.
A speculative traveller, telling how his
own beard, silky in London, became
curly in Africa, declares that such being
the case temporarily with his hair, he
believes the atmosphere alone RESPONSE
bic for the curly locks of Ethiopia.
In New York several complaints have
been made before police justices re-
Gently against persons who keep parrots,
on the ground that ths birds are public
nuissnces, and that It is the duty Of the
municipal government to suppress them,
The St. Paul Press Of the 3Oth ult.
says: Z" Ice boats are nov plying on Lake
Minnetonka, two Of them being now
ready for business. One Of these boats
yesterday few before the wind at the
rate Of fifteen miles in fourteen min
utes.n